[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-vegetable-growing-skeleton-s-foreign-land-re":3,"chapter-the-vegetable-growing-skeleton-s-foreign-land-re-the-vegetable-growing-skeleton-s-foreign-land-re-chapter-29":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Vegetable-Growing Skeleton's Foreign Land Reclamation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2351510,4600,"Chapter 29","the-vegetable-growing-skeleton-s-foreign-land-re-chapter-29",29,"\u003Cp>In an era without industrial sugar production, sweetness was a luxurious sensation, delivering high calories while prompting the brain to secrete more hormones that suppressed negative emotions like sorrow and pain, which is why some people overeat after a breakup—mainly to consume sugar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without sugar, the main sources of sweetness were honey and certain natural high-sugar crops, such as sugar beet—a crop with up to forty percent sugar content, making it a vital sweetener.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unfortunately, the Undercity and even this world struggle to grow sugar beet; it’s not just a matter of whether there’s enough food, but that the Undercity cannot provide the light conditions sugar beet requires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sugar beet needs prolonged high-light exposure for its starch to convert into sugar, and neither the Undercity nor this world has such conditions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Ang is a skeleton who grows vegetables—growing vegetables is his main occupation; growing grain is secondary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The farm originally had sixty skeletons, each responsible for fifty mu of farmland, some growing vegetables, others grain; when the undead souls vanished, Ang was left alone, and seeing the crops in other fields gradually wither, his instincts could no longer be restrained—he did what he could to tend to the other fields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, three thousand mu of farmland was far beyond his capacity, even if split in two, so he could only tend to a few crops, leaving the rest to wither.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sugar beet happened to be one of Ang’s primary crops, its scale slightly smaller than grain but with higher yield, and its storage in the granary exceeded that of grain—it was even less valuable than grain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forty jin of sugar beet for forty jin of grain? Ang took out forty jin of sugar beet, only to discover that under the effect of Xirang, the beet had dehydrated and now weighed only seventy percent of its original mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Too much, too much! Equal exchange—sugar beet is worth more than ten times the price of grain; four jin is enough.” As Eske stared at the pile of sugar beet, his eyes gleamed, yet he reluctantly refused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sugar beet was worth more than ten times the price of grain, and even then, it was unavailable on the market—there was none to be sold; even four jin would make Eske rich.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Ang’s sudden display of forty jin of sugar beet made him envious, he dared not take advantage—he assumed this rule was set by Ang, and only when Ang followed it did it become a rule; if Ang broke it, he had no right to bargain at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, if you lack the ability to uphold a rule and have no right to bargain, never, never break it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Equal value? Ang tilted his head. The granary held more sugar beet, and it was easier to grow, yet its price was far higher than grain’s—wouldn’t growing sugar beet be more profitable?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having received his payment, Eske rolled up his sleeves with renewed vigor and diligently carved the magic array for Ang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Carve it here—this angle is perfect, covering the largest area,” Eske gestured, finding a suitable spot midway up the cliff wall, where he had to climb to reach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sizing it up, Eske awkwardly said, “I’ll go get a rope—it’s too high, hard to apply force.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ang tilted his head and asked, “You can fly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eske replied, ashamed, “I can’t hold it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a mid-level mage, Eske could briefly levitate but not sustain it—he could scramble up walls in emergencies, but couldn’t hover steadily to perform the delicate task of carving a magic array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ang extended his hand and cast the pollination spell on Eske, lifting him off the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eske was startled, but realizing Ang had done it, he relaxed, clenched his fists, and resolved to give his best to repay Ang for the sugar beet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An hour passed, two hours passed, three hours passed… Eske kept glancing back in dread, silently screaming inside: “No way, no way? Can someone really sustain this long?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three hours had passed, and Ang still held him steadily, showing not the slightest sign of strain—it was simply unbelievable; even a Grand Mage couldn’t possess such endurance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, Eske had only inferred Ang’s power from Phelin’s attitude toward him; now, he truly, genuinely felt the unfathomable, boundless, endless, cyclical power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though lifting him required only a level-one wind spell, such sustained, stable output was far harder—anyone can stand on one leg, but try standing on one leg for three hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was surely the level only an Art Master could achieve; considering Ang was merely a projection, he must possess at least Truth Mage power—something divine. This Ang might very well be the projection of the Undying King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eske instantly understood why Phelin treated him with such profound reverence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shocked as he was, Eske never imagined that in this world, someone had spent three hundred years practicing only a level-one spell—just to water crops. What a massive misunderstanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It took a full four hours to complete the illumination array, mainly because Eske wanted to impress—its larger area required more time and effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing, Eske picked up four jin of sugar beet and happily went home, completely unaware of Negrilis’s mockery inside Ang’s soul:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This array is terrible—magic runes are too convoluted, too many redundant loops, low conversion efficiency, high energy cost, no stable structure; once activated, it starts bright then fades—initially blinding, later dim enough to not even illuminate an ant. Pathetic.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Without formal array training, it’s easy to make these mistakes. For a simple light spell, inefficient magic loops aren’t fatal, but if you treat it as a stable array, the problems are severe.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ang tilted his head: “Oh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t just say ‘oh.’ Fly up—I’ll show you how to fix it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh.” Ang flew up, modified the magic array according to Negrilis’s instructions, infused it with mana, and the array flickered briefly before emitting a steady, bright glow that illuminated the entire sinkhole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bathed in the bright light of the illumination array, Ang suddenly had an idea: “Rain spell—can it be carved into an array?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can carve it, but your crappy rain spell is self-created—you’d need to convert its magic runes into a flat, combined form, and you’ve never studied arrays—how would you transform it? Just use a ready-made water ball array,” Negrilis said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ang shook his head: “Water ball—doesn’t water the land. Rain—waters the land. Teach me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Negrilis was used to Ang’s speech style—he understood immediately, and sighed in exasperation: “You’re oddly obsessed with farming. What’s the difference? It’s all water. If someone’s dying of thirst, can’t your rain spell condense water to save them? If you want to learn, go ahead—you’ve got nothing better to do…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ang stopped hearing the rest—his mind was filled with one thought: Can the rain spell save someone dying of thirst?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It reminded him of the man who activated the teleportation array—he had died of thirst because there was no water. Can the rain spell save someone dying of thirst?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed it could. Why hadn’t he thought of that before? Ang cast a rain spell, watching droplets fall gently into his palm, lost in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A surge of wind elements—Eske flew back through the only passage, urgently saying: “My lord, it’s bad—your farmland has been burned.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The farmland has been burned! Ang’s soul trembled violently, turning to face Eske, his hollow eye sockets blazing with a fire that made Eske’s heart quake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hand hovering in the air—its droplets turned into sharp ice shards, piercing the ground with a hiss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recommended—please vote and tip.\u003C\u002Fp>",1261,"2026-06-21T03:18:43.177Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","7429eeb82c122aa7fbf460b0b1358030dd95e28af6023c35f8605f899510c089","the-vegetable-growing-skeleton-s-foreign-land-re-chapter-30","the-vegetable-growing-skeleton-s-foreign-land-re-chapter-28",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-vegetable-growing-skeleton-s-foreign-land-re-cover.jpg"]