"Congratulations, you have successfully used your professional Skill, Farmer experience +1."
"Skill successfully used, rewarding one sickle. You can harvest the agricultural product once it matures."
Two consecutive Star Origin notifications appeared in Shen Xingyan's ears, but he seemed not to hear them at all, just standing there in a daze.
"This… what's going on? When did the professional Skill become so effective? Is a 10% growth speed increase really that exaggerated?" Shen Xingyan looked at the scene before him in surprise, these questions began to pop up uncontrollably, and for a moment his mind seemed to crash.
After a while, Shen Xingyan came back to his senses and immediately opened his attribute panel to check the status of his professional Skill.
The attribute bar clearly displayed:
Professional Skill: 1. Consumes a certain amount of Original Energy points to increase the growth progress of agricultural product within a specified range by 10%. The larger the range, the more Original Energy points consumed. There is a 10-hour interval, and the Skill cooldown is 24 hours.
After Shen Xingyan read the description of the professional Skill word by word, he easily discovered something different from what he remembered!
Shen Xingyan's jaw dropped in surprise: How did the 'growth speed' in his previous professional Skill turn into 'growth progress'? And the '10-hour duration' also changed to a '10-hour interval'?
What exactly is going on? Shen Xingyan, who thought he had found the reason, became even more confused by this discovery!
'Growth speed' turning into 'growth progress' – although it's only a difference of one word, the meaning it conveys is completely different.
Taking the current wheat with a 10-day growth cycle as an example, a 10% increase in growth speed, with a daily duration of 10 hours, would be equivalent to one hour of acceleration time per day.
For 10 days, that would only be 10 hours, which is less than half a day when calculated.
However, a 10% increase in growth progress is completely different. As long as the Skill is successfully used, for wheat, it is equivalent to gaining one day of accelerated time.
This kind of improvement, compared to the previous effect of less than a day, undoubtedly represents a fundamental difference. This alone was already a highly desired outcome for Shen Xingyan after Awakening the Farmer profession.
But even more terrifying was that the two words 'duration' in the original Skill description had been replaced with 'interval'!
One must know that his current cooldown is 24 hours. A 10-hour interval before he can cast the Skill again has no impact on him right now.
This clearly means that the 'duration' in the professional Skill has been removed, which is why such a spectacular scene just occurred!
Does that mean he can use the 'progress +10%' professional Skill on these agricultural product once a day? Wouldn't that mean that no matter how Advanced the agricultural product is in the future, he would only need a maximum of ten days to make them mature?
Thinking of this, Shen Xingyan's lips began to tremble with excitement.
Currently, because his professional Rank is still Rank 1, he can only plant Rank 1 seeds. The full potential of this Skill has not yet been utilized.
But if his professional Rank increases in the future, allowing him to plant more Advanced seeds, the effect will be completely different.
One must know that Advanced seeds do not mature in a simple ten or twenty days like wheat.
Their growth period could be a few months at the shortest, or even several years at the longest.
At that time, this professional Skill would truly show its power. Imagine, you painstakingly cared for agricultural product for a year and a half, and Shen Xingyan only needed a mere ten days to successfully surpass you.
This would drive anyone crazy.
Shen Xingyan stared blankly at the Skill description, his mind already envisioning scenes many years into the future.
By then, if he casually planted some agricultural product, their value would be comparable to the daily gains of Combat Professionist fighting hard. How satisfying would that feel?
As he fantasized, his originally dazed eyes became increasingly bright, the light in them slowly transforming into a scorching small sun, causing Little Skeleton beside him to turn and look.
Afraid to continue thinking, Shen Xingyan quickly exhaled deeply, as if expelling all the previous depression, and also as if forcing himself to calm down.
"Getting carried away is a major taboo!" Shen Xingyan kept repeating this phrase to himself.
After all, no matter how powerful he becomes in the future, that is a matter for the future. For now, it is best to act discreetly. The changes in this professional Skill must be kept firmly in mind and absolutely not spoken of.
Otherwise, in this world where martial prowess is revered, he might suffer unimaginable treatment.
Years of life experience told Shen Xingyan that human nature is too unstable. Do not easily test human nature. When you engage in the act of testing human nature, you are destined to lose miserably.
Calmed down, Shen Xingyan still couldn't figure out why his Skill had undergone such a sudden change. What was the fundamental reason?
However, no matter how much he analyzed it, he remained clueless. He couldn't think of a reason, and in the end, he could only attribute it to his luck, having received the favor of Xingyuan World!
Putting aside the thoughts in his mind, Shen Xingyan then remembered the two Star Origin notifications from earlier. He immediately checked his attributes:
Name: Xinghuo Liaoyuan (Shen Xingyan)
ID: 118120431-9527
Profession: Farmer
Professional Skill: 1. Consumes a certain amount of Original Energy points to increase the growth progress of agricultural product within a specified range by 10%. The larger the range, the more Original Energy points consumed. There is a 10-hour interval, and the Skill cooldown is 24 hours.
Rank: Rank 1
Experience: 2 / 100
Strength: 10 points
Agility: 10 points
Physique: 10 points
Spirit: 10 points
Health: 100 / 100 points
Original Energy: 13 / 18 points
Stamina: 10 / 10 points
Physical Attack: 10 points
Spell Attack: 10 points
Defense: 10 points
Speed: 10 points
Talent: Summon Skeleton --- Summons a Skeleton monster with all attributes at 1 for combat (24-hour cooldown).
Money: 0 Gold 0 Silver 10 Copper
Looking at the Rank and experience bar that appeared in his attributes, Shen Xingyan had already anticipated it. Before coming here, he knew that this was unique to Xingyuan World, where one could increase professional Rank by gaining experience, thereby boosting attributes.
At this moment, his experience had reached 2 points, which was the initial 1 point plus the 1 point gained from using the Skill just now.
Although the experience gain was small this time, it marked the beginning of his leveling Dao.
He then checked the sickle in his inventory.
Item: Sickle
Attribute: Attack +1
No Rank requirement, no durability limit, an essential tool for the Farmer profession.
Seeing that the sickle's attribute still had no durability limit, his heart felt even more joyful.
Ever since he deduced the immense potential of his future profession, Shen Xingyan's personality had become much more cheerful. Now, everything he looked at seemed wonderful.
Looking at the wheat seedlings before him, and the field filled with many strong weeds due to the powerful effect of the Skill, Shen Xingyan was still able to happily move with Little Skeleton, cheerfully beginning the weeding operation.
While weeding, he hummed an unknown tune, making anyone who saw him feel that this Farmer was in a very good mood, unlike other new Farmers who looked worried and as if someone owed them money.
To reach the weeding stage on the very first day of planting, Shen Xingyan was absolutely the first person in history. However, such an achievement could not be revealed, only known to himself. One can't help but say, "How lonely it is to be invincible, how lonely!"