Infinite Professions

Chapter 329 - 174: Development (Part 2)

Little Huang Village has 320 acres of land, of which 50 acres are fertile fields, 70 acres are cultivated fields, and the remaining 200 acres are uncultivated fields.

Fertile fields have the highest yield, cultivated fields come next, and uncultivated fields yield the least.

Right now, Shen Hex is using the Fertile Land Technique to enrich these 200 acres of uncultivated land, converting them into cultivated fields.

If other Village Land Gods knew that all the more than 200 acres of uncultivated land had been turned into cultivated land, they would certainly scold Shen Hex for being wasteful.

For a village with several hundred people, there’s no need for so many cultivated fields; ensuring basic subsistence with thirty percent would suffice.

Fertile land with such volume, even if it can increase the village’s population and attract more incense offerings, the divine power consumed cannot be replenished in a short time.

What’s more, this Fertile Land Technique can only be maintained temporarily and cannot last permanently. When the fertility is exhausted, it has to be replenished again. After all the hard work, at most it’s just a break-even or a slight gain in incense.

Why go to such trouble? A land god is a divine being, not a beast of burden; why would one work for the villagers without collecting incense?

It’s sheer foolishness!

Conventionally, it might be thankless indeed.

But Shen Hex is not conventional.

His profession as a land god possesses the talent of Divine Dao Food Fragrance, allowing him to absorb and utilize incense far beyond ordinary deities.

Therefore, his extravagant use of divine power for land fertilization is not as unprofitable as it seems. As long as Little Huang Village’s population increases and the Song family’s strength grows, his current efforts will yield enormous rewards, far beyond just a little gain.

This is only a Tier One Profession and Tier One talent. When the experience accumulates fully and he advances again, his managing of Little Huang Village during this period will ensure he acquires a more powerful developmental profession or talent, enhancing Little Huang Village’s "farming" effect.

Where there’s land, there’s grain. Where there’s grain, there’s money.

With these in hand, the Song family and Little Huang Village can gradually grow, until they thrive.

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Half a month passed, Shen Hex spared no expense and finally converted the more than 200 acres of uncultivated land in Little Huang Village into cultivated fields.

Once the uncultivated fields turn into cultivated fields, crop yield can increase by at least thirty percent.

This is the application of Divine Dao Skill.

After some time, once the situation stabilizes, Shen Hex plans to impart in dreams the methods of making some fertilizers to Song Wen. It doesn’t need to be exceptionally good, nor at the level of chemical fertilizers, just slightly better than the current organic fertilizers.

After all, as said earlier, this world’s circumstances are like stagnant water, with shallow roots and weak strength; one cannot make too conspicuous moves, or it will invite great disaster, even catastrophic calamity.

Deities are immortal, enduring long and invisibly. Shen Hex, with the flow of time on his side, doesn’t plan to endure thousands of years but can still proceed gradually, avoiding rash contests.

Build tall walls, hoard ample grain, and bide one’s time.

With divine art to fertilize land and nourishment from fertilizers, there’s no worry about money and grain for now.

Next is to build tall walls, to improve the strength of both himself and Little Huang Village, handling both the Underworld and the Mortal World with equal strength.

After all, Yin and Yang are separated, and even deities find it hard to interfere. Not to mention, as an unknown Village Land God, even a County City God, or a Fourth Grade Prefecture City God, would be helpless if someone in the Mortal World destroyed their temple unless daring to violate Celestial Rules and using divine power to kill mortals, which would result in backlash from Wish Power.

This is a major shortcoming of the Divine Dao, where achievement by incense is also limited by incense.

To prevent future threats in the Mortal World, engaging in human-led deity slaying, destruction of temples, Shen Hex must ensure that Little Huang Village and the Song family possess a certain degree of martial strength.

He is already working on this. Among the nine sons of the Song family, Song Wu, the third son, and Song Ying, the fourth son, have a penchant for swordplay. Although their qualifications are average and their comprehension ordinary, they suffice for the early stages.

In dreams, Shen Hex has taught them some Mortal Martial Arts from the Martial Dynasty World, not reaching the level of Imperial High Martial, to avoid drawing attention.

Though these are Mortal Martial Arts, as long as the resources are sufficient, they can cultivate True Qi at most, becoming Second Realm Martial Artists.

In this world, nine-tenths of the cosmic essence resides within living souls, which is why the incense-supported Divine Dao thrives while the spirit-based Immortal Dao Martial Dao lacks prospects. Shen Hex estimates that a Third Realm Gang Qi Martial Artist is practically a peak Martial Dao Grandmaster in this world.

Given Song Wu and Song Ying’s qualifications, Shen Hex doesn’t hope for them to cultivate Gang Qi, nor requires them to cultivate True Qi. The ability to cultivate Inner Strength is sufficient to protect the area and maintain peace, as it’s unlikely for Little Huang Village, in its remote poverty, to face any grave dangers, at most harassment from bandits or robbers.

And so...

Several months passed, and it was already mid-autumn.

The sun set in the west, smoke curled from cooking fires.

Outside Little Huang Village, fields of golden crops, swaying like waves in the autumn breeze.

They were fully ripe rice paddies.

Jinyang Prefecture, belonging to Jiangnan, considers rice as the staple food, known as a land of fish and rice.

The Song family moved to Little Huang Village several months ago. Just in the nick of time, they planted a season of rice, now ready for autumn harvest.

Song Wen stood on the field ridge, looking at the golden rice paddies and dozens of laborers and tenants busy in the fields, filled with the joy and satisfaction of a bountiful harvest.

Over several months, he had transformed from the previous pampered official’s child into a slightly rugged farmer, tanned beyond recognition.

But he was unconcerned, walking among the fields, lifting a stalk of rice. The grains were full and distinct, exuding a faint rice aroma.

This was the fruit of months of hard work with the villagers and the foundation and hope of the Song family and Little Huang Village’s development.