"The main thing is that there's progress. We'll move forward gradually from here; these things don't happen in a day. It looks like in the future, when implementing new ideas, I'll have to rely on Wangcai!" Thinking this, Shen Xingyan nodded in approval and gave Wangcai the command to train the others.
Under Wangcai's guidance, all the little skeletons began to take their first steps toward more meticulous cultivation.
If other professionals saw Shen Xingyan's actions, they would surely consider him too demanding. The fact that the little skeletons helped to work the land at all was already remarkable, and he was still making such strict demands—a true trial for the poor skeletons!
While Shen Xingyan worked without a care alongside his skeletons, the recent record announcement in the Star Source world had caused all farmers and related people to focus their attention on wheat.
The first record could be written off as chance—after all, the Star Source world never lacked for lucky people. Each profession, just like combat specialties with their gear-drop mechanics from killing monsters, had a chance to receive a critical bonus from the Star Source upon harvesting. It was just that the probability was very low.
Especially for farmers, who harvested once every few days, unlike combat professions, who constantly killed monsters. That's why a critical success for a farmer was a true rarity.
In the Star Source world, there were countless farmers, but the daily number of critical successes remained limited. There was nothing that could be done about it; all one could do was envy that professional's good fortune.
While the first record could be attributed to the actions of an experienced professional or an extremely lucky critical success without arousing much suspicion, and the reward was acceptable even for high-level professionals, the second record, set just five days later, gave many pause for thought. Especially considering that the reward was a cultivation privilege—an extremely alluring and important thing for high-level farmers.
They couldn't even imagine that the reward for breaking a record could be so generous. There had been cases of records being broken before, but the rewards were limited to ordinary items and never included special privileges.
But now, the last two wheat records had brought privileges, which made many wonder if level one wheat possessed some kind of special properties.
However, they had no idea of the real situation. Shen Xingyan had broken the record while having an extremely low professional level, which made the task much more difficult than for high-level professionals.
Moreover, unlike others, he didn't increase his time spent in the Star Source world to improve the quality of his harvest.
Under such conditions—a low level and a lack of additional privileges—it was virtually impossible for ordinary people to break the record.
Given this, the Star Source's rewards were indeed more generous than usual.
But others didn't know the specific reasons. Without additional information, they reasoned only from their own point of view. Almost all high-level professionals set aside one mu of land to grow wheat, hoping for an unexpected surprise.
However, as could be expected, they were met with disappointment commensurate with their expectations.
Some tried to find out who had set the record. Instead of researching ways to break the record themselves, they preferred to appropriate the ready-made results.
They tried to find a connection between the two Star Source announcements, speculating about what organizations or groups could have been growing wheat, dividing them into categories, and checking them one by one.
While this was like looking for a needle in a haystack, what if they got lucky, and that person turned out to be somewhere nearby? Then they would hit the jackpot.
This was precisely why Shen Xingyan, despite his accumulated money, tried to remain inconspicuous and not reveal his real name. In such moments, human hearts became particularly unpredictable.
Unlike the domestic professions, combat professionals were far less agitated by this announcement. Especially beginners like Chu Wei, who had recently awakened their combat professions, saw such news as just an amusing anecdote.
At that moment, Chu Wei's team had just defeated a level five giant flying bat. As the monster vanished, trophies and experience appeared.
Chu Wei checked her experience and, finding that she had reached the threshold to level up, unhesitatingly clicked the arrow, successfully raising her level from four to five.
Looking at her new level, Chu Wei felt a fleeting moment of excitement, but upon seeing that she needed another hundred experience points for the next level, she sighed:
"After these ten-plus days of hard work, I've barely reached level five. The higher the level, the more experience is required and the longer you have to kill monsters. It looks like it will be good if I reach level ten by the trial in twenty days!"
Her thoughts were consistent with the opinion of most professionals. As a mage, she had good destructive power but weak defense. In the early stages, without a team, it was not easy or efficient to kill monsters alone.
Not everyone could be like Shen Xingyan, who leveled up three times after a single harvest. Moreover, by starting to grow higher-level crops, he had significantly increased the experience he would receive.
"I wonder how Shen Xingyan is doing? He's probably just had his first harvest. He should have told me. Hmm, he did promise to treat me to the grain he grew himself. I'll have to talk to him when we return to reality."
Thinking about Shen Xingyan, Chu Wei smiled faintly, her usually impassive face softening.
Even though that's what she was thinking, she was actually happy that Shen Xingyan was able to have a harvest and get out of a difficult situation.
It was obvious from the fact that the first thing she thought of after leveling up was him.
"Boss, I've brought the monster!" a teammate's cry echoed from a distance.
Chu Wei was jolted from her thoughts, composed herself, and replied. Quickly adding two free attribute points to her Spirit, which strengthened her professional skill, she immediately entered the fight.
With a quiet incantation on her lips, she launched a fireball, noticeably larger than before, that streaked toward the giant flying bat!