Filthy Cultivation: I Pierced the Heavens with the Merit System

Bai Suifeng felt his heart pounding like a drum.

The boy's innocent and budding affection was subconsciously suppressed by his raised hand, but it was revealed again from the tip of his cheerfully swaying tail.

His face flushed, he looked up at the little girl by the second-floor window, and stood there dumbfounded in the courtyard until Li Fuyao jumped down from the building and ran up to him. Only then did Bai Suifeng come back to his senses as if waking from a dream.

Li Fuyao excitedly took the fragrant crispy spirit beast meat from his hand, and seeing Bai Suifeng staring at her blankly with a red face, she asked somewhat inexplicably:

"Brother, what's wrong?"

Seeing that he was still slightly open and silent, Li Fuyao stuffed a hot fried pork strip into her own mouth, chewing it noisily, and then reached out to touch his forehead with her cheeks puffed out:

"Why did you become so silly after just going out? Your face is so red, are you running a fever?"

"I don't have a fever!"

Bai Suifeng shuddered at the words, grabbed the warm, soft little hand off his forehead, and rushed into the second-floor bedroom as if his bottom was on fire, yelling "Don't worry about me!" He was so fast that he even scraped off two bits of grease from Li Fuyao's hands.

"Brother, if you don't come out, all this fried pork strips are mine, aren't they?"

Li Fuyao looked up and shouted towards the second floor. Seeing that she didn't hear a response from her younger brother for a long time, she shook her head and sighed in a pretentious manner, while chewing on a crispy snack and walking back to her room.

"Tsk, I really don't understand these kids nowadays. They're so weird, they don't even crave snacks, so this old man has to take advantage of them, haha~"

"You know, (chewing) this snack made from fried spirit beast meat, how come it's so delicious (chewing)?"

Li Fuyao, feeling quite pleased with herself, strolled leisurely upstairs. After slowly satisfying her cravings and washing her hands, she realized she seemed to have forgotten something:

"Wait, did I forget to check my farm space?!"

Following the feeling of using the storage space, she had a thought, and the next moment she felt a sudden flash before her eyes. When she opened her eyes again, she found that the place she was in had changed.

Li Fuyao saw that the area in front of her was about four acres in size, with a pond in the center shaped like a yin-yang symbol. Li Fuyao appeared right next to the pond.

In front of us are two areas separated by a canal: one is fertile black soil, and the other is a breeding area separated by fences or wooden houses.

She turned around and saw two buildings made of bluestone standing behind her. One was a warehouse that looked quite large, and the other was a research institute with a small courtyard. Because of the bond between space and soul, she could sense that everything in her ten-cubic-meter space was currently in the warehouse.

Looking around, the sky and the surroundings were shrouded in a mist that emitted a faint white light. Although the environment was slightly oppressive due to the enclosed space, it did not feel dark when standing in it.

Li Fuyao, as if guided by a searchlight, turned around and looked around before finally lowering her gaze to the ethereal pool at her feet.

The Lingquan Pool is not large, with a diameter of only about three meters.

The pool wasn't deep either. Li Fuyao estimated the water level with her shallow eye and felt it was probably barely a meter deep.

Yet this small pool of water is so rich in spiritual energy that it can condense into wisps of spiritual mist.

She simply knelt by the pool and took a deep breath, and saw her experience bar on her panel suddenly increase slightly.

"Wow, no wonder it's a standard feature in the protagonists' personal spaces!"

Li Fuyao let out a comfortable sigh, and while praising it, her eyes shone as she scooped up a handful of spiritual spring water and drank it down in a few gulps.

The spiritual spring water was refreshingly cool upon entering her mouth. As soon as it entered her stomach, it transformed into a powerful surge of spiritual energy that coursed through her body. Li Fuyao gasped as she was struck by the spiritual energy. Forgetting everything else, she immediately sat down and began to meditate and circulate the Heavenly One Technique.

As the cultivation technique was activated, the originally wild and chaotic spiritual energy began to be gradually refined by Li Fuyao, merging into her body bit by bit. This not only refined the original spiritual energy in her body but also greatly nourished her physical body and soul.

If Li Fuyao could see her attribute panel at this moment, she would find that all of her attributes are starting to increase little by little at a considerable speed.

After she had fully digested those mouthfuls of spiritual spring water, she slowly withdrew from meditation. Her cultivation level had jumped from the very beginning of Qi Refining to the mid-stage of Qi Refining. If others knew that she had jumped three levels in less than two hours, they would probably be so shocked that their eyes would pop out.

"This is outrageous! This speed is almost like riding a rocket!"

Li Fuyao took a deep breath and stood up from the ground, looking at the pool of spiritual spring at her feet with mixed feelings of joy and worry. Although she was still somewhat unsatisfied, she still restrained her desire and did not take a few more sips.

"If your cultivation level increases too quickly, your foundation will become unstable. It's better to wait until you've fully grasped the essence before trying again."

"However, while such a cultivation speed can be concealed by the reclusive family for a while, it will definitely attract attention in the long run. Before accumulating enough points to buy items from the store to conceal one's cultivation level, it is best not to advance too quickly."

While pondering various matters, Li Fuyao strolled around, carefully examining all four areas. After completing her tour, a system notification sounded in her mind:

[The system has detected that the host has completed understanding of the space farm. A farm upgrade task is now being issued to you. Please check your inbox.]

[Task Name: The Farmer's First Steps]

[Remaining time for the mission: one year]

[Task Rewards and Penalties: Completion of the task will reward the user with an upgraded farm space and a divine-quality seed; failure will result in the loss of farm space.]

【Task Requirements: 1. Harvest 100 crops in the planting area, with no fewer than 100 different crop varieties.

2. Harvest only organisms in the breeding area, excluding crops, and the number of species shall not be less than 100.

1. Develop any 100 new items in the experimental area and sell each new item to the system store, ensuring that you receive at least one item as a result.

2. The host's cultivation level has reached the early stage of the Golden Core realm.

[Note: You reap what you sow; if you sow in the wrong way, you will reap nothing.]

To express our encouragement and expectations for the host, this system would like to include a short, humorous poem:

Diligent cultivation yields abundant harvests; wise exploration creates brilliance.

May the host work diligently and achieve fruitful results! Keep it up!

“I’ll just work hard instead of slacking off, you don’t have to make this so awkward…”

Li Fuyao gripped the insole tightly with his toes, sighed, and rubbed his forehead:

"Tongzi, if you do this to my contacts again next time, I'm going to ask for a refund!"

Tongzi remained silent. Li Fuyao shook her head helplessly, just about to say something more, when she heard Bai Suifeng knocking on the door.

"Little sister, are you free right now? Senior Brother Zhang Ze needs to talk to you!"

Shouldn't Zhang Ze be selling that intelligence right now?

What does he want from me? Could something have happened?

Upon hearing this, Li Fuyao frowned slightly, and with a thought, she left the space and walked towards the bedroom door.