[You harvested Immortal Rice, Quality E. Received small experience. Immortal Rice recorded in your shop]

  [You harvested Happy Carrot, Quality G. Received small experience. Happy Carrot recorded in your shop]

  [You harvested Exploding Potato, Quality G. Received small experience. Exploding Potato recorded in your shop]

  The copper sickle performed its duty. Jinyo used it swinging to harvest rice plants the ancient way. Actually, he wanted a harvesting vehicle to help save time but probably couldn't drive it into the mountains. When knowing harvesting produce gave experience points, Jinyo ordered Naho to stop working and harvested everything alone himself.

  Sunlight didn't weaken Jinyo. It made Nature Synthesis Technique work better. Just had to carry a two-liter insulated water bottle hanging on him often. Just breathing in and out, cultivation power increased. When under 27.2 spirit, Jinyo's planar surged until near breaking through Common Stage 7. His progress speed terrified Rina and Naho.

  "Don't need to rush harvesting. Spirit this size—what a waste."

  "If not harvesting, can't plant new batches. These produces, if not harvesting, are wasted." Jinyo spoke to his sister making sullen duck faces. Relaxed atmosphere—even if hot, not tired. Results from spirit affected everyone, not just Jinyo. If he harvested, produced spirit would return to original. Very regrettable that for spirit to increase to 27.2 required several more months.

  But Jinyo didn't have such narrow vision. If harvesting now, when transplanting seedlings and sowing new seeds, plants would grow fast and accelerate spirit production. Though not high as 27.2, would be more than 11 anyway. The faster acting, the faster getting spirit.

  To solve future problems, Jinyo intended to plant crops with different harvest periods. When harvesting, would leave crops in other plots to continue nourishing spirit. Naho stayed watching her brother just a few minutes. She led niece and nephew to the training hall. The young woman scooped water, picked cloths soaked in water. Cleaned the training hall spotlessly.

  When hearing her brother would reopen the school, Naho got up early morning. Picked hammers and wooden boards to repair. Painted like new. Today she brought grandchildren to help decorate the training hall back to ready use. The training hall wasn't important just to Jinyo alone.

  Naho lived at the mansion much longer than Jinyo. Jinyo during middle school went to military school with Rina. Naho didn't go but chose to study local schools. Returned home every morning and evening. She spent time watching school disciples practice. Carried lunch boxes and water bottles serving them. For her, the sword school meant more than anything else.

  Naho said she'd quit hunter work if Jinyo reopened the school. Jinyo didn't object because schools needed constant supervision. Jinyo alone couldn't manage both sword school and Garden of the Sword.

  Rina disappeared since finishing discussing business with Jinyo. Don't know where she went. She left saying she'd go catch dogs that escaped cages. Hearing it, knew that dog couldn't be ordinary stray dogs. At the Garden of the Sword, only Jinyo remained alone during afternoon when sun was strongest. Jinyo sat under trees beside the hut. Sucked cold water from insulated bottles until empty. Two-liter water bottle capacity wasn't enough for Jinyo's body needs at all.

  Jinyo was thirsty nearly four times more than usual. Without water, he'd have no strength and be weak and limp. He had ideas to go up mountains getting water to fill copper watering cans storing 1000 liters. But don't know if worth the lost time.

  He opened systems checking items in boxes. Then two tickets caught his eyes.

  [Servant Spirit Random Ticket. Use 1000 spirit coins. Random 1 servant spirit from Mother of Spirits. Chances: N 70%, SR 29%, SSR 1%]

  "Random servant spirit." Jinyo pressed to use tickets. Spirit coins flew away, disappearing from accounts almost entirely. He looked up at the sky. Small meteors moved from horizon edges. Scenes as if escaping from gacha games sprouted in Jinyo's head. Stones released white auras. Aura changed from white to bronze, lunging down on the Garden of the Sword.

  Areas near the Garden of the Sword became small meteor craters. Jinyo ran to look. Meteorite stones broke open. Living beings inside stepped out facing masters. White fur, red eyes. Long ears on both sides with short legs designed for running.

  "Hora!" It greeted Jinyo with smiles.

  [You received servant spirit, Gardener Rabbit (N) Level 1 [Harvest Expert 1 star] [Garden Care Expert 1 star] [Agricultural Equipment Expert 1 star]]

  "Oh, so cute. You'll help me manage the garden, right? Please take care of me." Jinyo warmly welcomed new members with smiles. Gardener Rabbit looked at carrot plots. Its eyes sparkled seeing big carrot heads sprouting like mushrooms. It lost to instincts attracting toward carrots. Jumped in, then pulled carrots up from soil.

  "Not allowed. That's my job." Jinyo's face soured when Gardener Rabbit started digging Happy Carrots. Jinyo couldn't collect experience through fighting monsters. Don't know how long until could harvest again. But what happened defied expectations. Because small experience number values bounced up a bit.

  [Your servant spirit harvested Happy Carrot, Quality G. Received small experience]

  "Huh?" Jinyo's experience increased. Though reduced by half, not a problem. Because it saved Jinyo much time. Conversely, lost experience went into Gardener Rabbit. When it harvested 100 kilograms Happy Carrots, its level changed to 2. Its harvest skills also increased. Jinyo wasn't heartless, not sharing precious experience with cute little rabbits.

  Jinyo named Gardener Rabbit Pop. Pop was very diligent and hardworking. It helped Jinyo harvest carrot gardens until finished, then immediately dug Exploding Potatoes. Jinyo who thought even using three days couldn't finish, managed all produce in half a day.

  Jinyo walked back to the hut. When huts upgraded to level 2, besides wider size, three convenience items were added: old bulky round screen TV resembling escaped from the 80s era, catalogs and mobile phones.

  Jinyo picked catalogs to open and look. Consisted of product names orderable through mobile phones. 12 slots of purchasable products per page.

  [Martial Technique] Complete Breathing Technique (Wind Element) 100,000,000 spirit coins [Martial Technique] Hanuman Boxing (Wind Element) 50,000,000 spirit coins [Martial Technique] Knight of Rain Sword Song (Water Element) 26,800,000 spirit coins [Medicine] Ten Thousand Poisons 10,000,000 spirit coins [Medicine] Immortal Subjugation Medicine 1,200,100 spirit coins [Weapon] Magic Rope 800,000 spirit coins [Weapon] Dog-Beating Staff 20,000 spirit coins [Seeds] Immortal Rice 500 spirit coins [Seeds] Happy Carrot 200 spirit coins [Seeds] Exploding Potato 200 spirit coins [Equipment] Rice Mill 100 spirit coins [Building] Rice Mill Building 0 spirit coins

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  "Complete Breathing Technique? So expensive, really curious what kind of technique. But someone like me now anyway probably can't afford buying." More than half the list wasn't touchable prices. When clicking to check seeds, what differed from seeds Jinyo had were dominant genes and recessive genes with slightly different details. As a botanist, he used knowledge and Bloodline Deduction to develop Immortal Rice varieties for next generations to have better yields.

  He picked the phone up to his ear. System windows appeared with messages but no one answering at the other end.

  "Order rice mill, rice mill building, and Immortal Rice seeds, Happy Carrot and Exploding Potato. One bag each."

  [1,000 spirit coins. Confirm spending. Thank you for using services]

  Large money deducted from accounts. Beside the hut, one building sprouted from emptiness. Consumed radius covering 12X18 meter areas. Painted red with white stripe lines. Another time the system created miracles beyond physics, stunning Jinyo. He stepped running in—a large rice mill controlled by computer systems. Made from advanced technology, don't know how expensive to possess. Jinyo used systems connecting and commanding it directly.

  Jinyo transported husked rice to pour into rice mills. Machinery roared sounds immediately receiving commands through systems. Polished rice flowed through conveyor channels to burlap sacks Jinyo drove to buy from community agricultural equipment shops. Not just rice but other things left from polishing conveyed through other channels like husks, rice bran, rice tips.

  [Immortal Rice, Quality: E] [Status: None] [Properties: Energy recovery 2 stars, Slow aging 1 star, Cleanse impurities 1 star, Increase cultivation speed 1 star, Fill stomach 1 star]

  Details: Rice varieties immortals ate as meals. Gives high energy, fills stomach long. Slows aging, extends lifespan. Increases cultivation speed and recovers injuries.

  [Immortal Rice Bran, Quality: E] [Properties: Nourish body 1 star, Increase growth rate 1 star] Details: Leftovers in rice milling processes. Take to grind as animal feed or make oil.

  [Immortal Rice Tips, Quality: E] [Properties: Nourish body 1 star, Increase growth rate 1 star] Details: Leftovers in rice milling processes. Take to make supplements for eating.

  [Immortal Rice Husks, Quality: G] [Properties: Fuel 1 star] Details: Leftovers in rice milling processes. Trash usable only as fuel or fertilizer compost ingredients.

  "That's why rice mills profit well." Rice was plants where every part could be useful. Its husks bought for biomass plant fuel. Rice bran with rice tips processed as animal feed. Not counting rice straw taken to sun-dry making many other things. Rural farmers didn't own rice mills. They had to pay mills to polish husked rice changing to white rice.

  Farmers got only 50% weight polished rice. While husks, rice bran, rice tips left for mills to use. Because anyway, ordinary farmers couldn't use them anyway. Big mills liked exploiting blind farmers. Besides getting rice milling fees, also got usable parts for further profits.

  Jinyo returned to eat dinner. Waiting for Rina, ran back to rice mills. Managed 2500 kilograms husked rice neatly within that night. When the sun bid farewell to horizons, the moon appeared greeting. Darkness covered the sky. Jinyo didn't hear wolf howls or any animals foraging at night in Phantom Night Forest at all.

  Moonlight status helped nighttime training efficiency increase 100%. Jinyo didn't feel sleepy at all. Energy recovery rates more than daytime even. When watching rice mills, he'd sit meditating using Nature Synthesis Technique. Rice mill buildings opening roofs for moonlight to shine down hitting Jinyo's body closing eyes cultivating. He entered combat reverie realms.

  When Jinyo opened eyes at 4 AM, he got good news.

  [You leveled up to Common Stage 7. planar capacity increased to 7000 units]

  Spirit reduced to 11, then stopped preventing Jinyo from crossing boundaries. From Common Stage 1 to Stage 7, ordinary people required years. Jinyo succeeded in just days after receiving systems. But it still wasn't enough. His goals were greater. Because enemies he faced called themselves [Heaven].

  Even ascending to the highest boundaries humans could reach, still not enough.

  I must be more ambitious. I must... go farther than anyone.

  Rina returned during dusk. The young officer she contacted was delighted, overjoyed helping solve troublesome problems. Rina joined operation teams tracking Chimera Wolves escaping transport vehicles. After hearing from Jinyo's mouth that Unknown possessed Chimera Wolf, became clear why vehicle security systems malfunctioned. Regrettably, though she joined help operations, only hunted four Chimera Wolves. Still one left unfound.

  In the blink of an eye stepping through mansion doors, indescribable sweet scents floated into nerves. Rina accelerated footsteps faster without realizing.

  Bright cheerful laughter pleasing to ears alternated with screaming sounds from annoying yellow chicken toys. Interspersed with phone sounds playing famous variety shows she didn't know. The huge desolate mansion, lonely and solitary, had more liveliness than Rina ever encountered.

  Pressures at military schools. Command centers reeking of gunpowder. Battlefields littered with corpses and red blood stains. Nowhere would she see life's sparkling lights as much as here. The young woman reached out pushing into dining rooms. On worn red wooden tables, dishes of food.

  Stir-fried mixed vegetables. Teriyaki sauce grilled fish. Three-flavor fried fish. Soy sauce braised meat. Clear tofu egg soup. Sweet and sour pork. Funny was baked cheese potatoes. Thin crispy spiral potatoes and french fries. Left side had nutritional diversity but right side was potato festivals. White rice cooked full in pots. Hot steam wafted, blowing blessed scents from lands Earth granted to humanity masses.

  Jinyo wore black aprons with rabbit patterns, looking at doors meeting her eyes just crossing doors. Smiles so gentle waiting to soothe minds. Like divine sons from heavens helping heal her weary minds.

  "Welcome back, Rina." Jinyo spoke that simple sentence to her.

  "Mama Rina came! Come quickly!" Ryse held spoons looking at fresh crispy fried potatoes. Not even turning to look at newly arrived women.

  "Brother Yo said if Mother doesn't come, we still can't eat. Ryse is very annoying. Called Mother ten times, wouldn't answer." Gretel immediately tattled on Mother when Rina returned.

  "Gretel took Ryse's phone to call. Don't blame each other!" Ryse made sullen faces.

  "Hey girlfriend, why make dumb faces? Or must I carry you? People are starving to death. Can't let me taste even one bite. Geez." Naho's mood was completely gone. Though delicious food lay dazzling eyes completely but couldn't taste. Like treasure hunters seeing gold mountains but dragons guarding treasures vigilantly forbidding. And that dragon was her brother.

  "This meal is special. Though a bit late, I wanted to celebrate the occasion we're together again. Celebration banquets must start when assembled, right?" Jinyo swept gazes looking at children, younger sister and childhood friends. Five chairs same as before but people changed faces.

  Rina looked at room corners. Food arranged in bowls and cups. Seemed that wasn't food prepared for humans. She smiled, taking off black coats draped on wooden racks. Moved to sit at the only empty seat beside Jinyo. Opposite side had Gretel stuck with Ryse. Finally, Naho at the furthest back corner next to Rina. Jinyo sat at the head as chairman position.

  "Every rice dish, every food, is precious. Don't eat wastefully." Jinyo spoke mottos, then started picking spoons. Celebration banquets began. Rina reached grabbing sweet and sour pork to scoop onto plates with heaping white rice. Jinyo scooped stir-fried mixed vegetables with carrots, shredded cabbage and diced potatoes. Both spooned rice into mouths together.

  Both eyes widened. In blinks when rice entered mouths, intense rice flavors punched brains as straight punches. It enhanced flavors with rice prominently until chewing nonstop. Rice ground thoroughly, swallowing flowing down to stomachs. Decomposed into starch for absorbing nutrients.

  Immortal Rice transformed into energy and nourished meridians. Tired hearts received relief. Relaxed and refreshed. Vanished life force started recovering. As if her years of risking life difficulties received healing.

  Rina couldn't explain. It was the most delicious rice ever eaten in life. Clear tears fell from ruby eyes. Stimulated forgotten memories from childhood.

  "Delicious." Short words embedded with many meanings. She turned looking at Jinyo meeting her eyes perfectly.

  "Thank you, Jinyo." Deep inside ruby eyes had smiles within. So beautiful, no matter how much looking, never enough. Until Jinyo wanted to see this image throughout life.

  [Rina Erindel, your concubine, feels impressed +100 affection value]

  [Rina Erindel your concubine's affection value reached 10,000 [Love Greatly]. Heavenly Orchid seeds recorded in shop]