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To gain experience in the Extraordinary Stage I, one needs to portray that identity.

Chen Xi is indeed cultured and knowledgeable, with strong learning and practical abilities, but acting is not just about putting on a show or simply growing things out of the ground.

This performance needs to be authentic.

It's so real that you need to get as close as possible to becoming that identity.

Chen Xi had checked and found that only those with rural household registration could own farmland.

He is not a rural resident and it is impossible for him to become one now; this is an unchangeable fact.

So it's a pity that Chen Xi couldn't portray the identity of a farmer in the most authentic way.

You can't just plant it by force, because that's illegal and against regulations, and it's considered a crooked or unorthodox method.

Even if you cultivate a field full of fruit, the experience gained is only 1% of what it would normally be.

If we take a hard line, based on the current progress, it would take several decades to reach the Transcendent II stage.

That makes no sense.

Therefore, we must follow the proper channels.

Just like Zhang Heng, he keeps playing matches.

Although the league he plays in is not at a high level and his exposure is limited, it is still a regular professional competition.

As long as it's a professional competition, it involves professional players, and the entire process is legal and compliant, so naturally, you can gain experience points.

However, due to the limitations of the competition scale and his personal abilities, he did not gain much experience points, and therefore did not reach the Extraordinary II stage in 6 years.

Of course, being killed later is another matter.

Under normal circumstances.

If your identity and your actual situation are a good match, you may have the opportunity to advance to Stage II within a year.

Zhang Wanyi is actually one of those people, or rather, her status as a school beauty is very special, and she will awaken her powers for a specific type of target.

This means that the status of a school beauty is destined to correspond to the actual situation of the person. Once awakened, it is very easy to level up, but the downside is that the awakening probability is too low.

It requires personal talent, the disappearance of familiar people, and the beauty of a school beauty.

The reason Zhang Wanyi didn't rise to the status of a witch within a year was because she didn't make full use of her status as the school beauty.

A school beauty needs to have men falling at her feet, the more the better.

Zhang Wanyi's personality isn't suited to doing that kind of thing, so she just stays at school as the school beauty, leveling up in a very slow way.

It took her a full six years to upgrade to the status of a witch.

This information came from a conversation Chen Xi and Zhang Wanyi had on their way home a few days ago.

If the situation is just so-so, it usually takes 3 to 5 years.

Take Chen Xi's homeroom teacher, Li Jibin, for example.

The other person wasn't a teacher at first; it was only after realizing this identity that they took the teacher qualification exam and became a teacher.

Excluding the time he spent as a teacher, he worked at Yancheng No. 1 Middle School for a total of three years.

That is, the year Chen Xi entered high school, he became Chen Xi's math teacher.

I recently completed my upgrade, transforming from a teacher into a mage.

Excluding the preparation time for becoming a teacher, Li Jibin took a little over two years in total, which is considered fast.

Zhang Heng's style falls somewhere between a very good fit and a fairly good fit, which could be described as a "relatively good fit".

The reason he didn't rise as quickly as Li Jibin is due to his career path.

There are countless professions, but Zhang Heng chose the path of a professional e-sports player, a path filled with "monsters".

Chen Xi later checked and found that Zhang Heng actually played the bottom lane marksman position.

The bottom lane marksmen in the Chinese server are known for being very strong, such as peak-level Zao and JackeyLove, who can't even compete with him in lane!

This is the fundamental reason why Zhang Heng, even though he is more suitable for this role than Li Jibin, finds it difficult to advance.

If the fit is very poor, it will take at least 10 years to advance to Stage II.

Take Yang Wei's identity as a lawyer, for example. Passing the bar exam was an extremely difficult task for him, a vocational school graduate, and it required a great deal of personal effort to achieve it.

Passing the exam is just a prerequisite; you might not even have the experience points yet, which you'll need to accumulate as you become a real lawyer.

The problem is, even if someone with a vocational school diploma manages to become a lawyer, who would want them?

Therefore, under such a mismatched situation, it is very difficult to advance to stage II; 10 years is just a very optimistic and conservative estimate.

But that's not the most difficult identity to deal with.

The most difficult identities to deal with are those like serial number 404 (dead person), which are almost impossible to detect.

The time required for the upgrade is roughly equivalent to a life sentence.

Chen Xi's current situation falls into the second category.

In other words, it fits just so-so.

However, Chen Xi's personal situation is worse than Li Jibin's.

He was destined never to become a true farmer; he could only try his best to fit that identity in order to gain experience points.

As for killing the fake person, that's also an option, but the mysterious tennis ball can only be sensed at very close range, and it's impossible to determine exactly who it is.

Therefore, Chen Xi needs Yang Wei's extraordinary qualities.

However, Yang Wei's truth also has a drawback: Yang Wei himself is a Stage I superhuman, so what he sees can only be Stage I.

This makes it impossible for Chen Xi to distinguish the strength of the fake people.

But there is one advantage: it allows you to see what the other person's innate talents are.

This is important because, like superhumans, pseudo-humans also possess auxiliary abilities that don't offer much combat capability.

For example, the truth about Yang Wei.

This type of fake human with these abilities is the target Chen Xi is looking for.

However, suitable fake humans are not easy to find, and even if you find them, they may not be easy to kill, so farming cannot be ignored.

Chen Xi now sees it this way.

Zhang Wanyi sent her to find Gu Yi not only because he was a good person, but also because he ran a flower shop.

Flowers, too, are grown.

This means that Gu Yi must have experience in farming.

As for the fruit farmers Zhang Wanyi mentioned, Chen Xi didn't consider them.

Logically, farmers should have the most experience points from growing rice and corn.

He's no longer in a state that best fits the identity of a farmer, and if he goes on to grow some strange things, he'll only reduce his already limited experience points even further.

"Second sequence... peasants..."

"Your identity is truly surprising. No wonder the school beauty sent you to find me."

"Don't worry, I can help you, and I'm a good person, so I will definitely help you."

After learning about Chen Xi's identity and that Zhang Wanyi was the introducer, Gu Yi immediately understood what was going on.

"I have a rural household registration and own several plots of land in the countryside. I use some of these plots to grow flowers to reduce the store's costs."

"There happen to be two vacant plots of land right now, and I was just wondering what to plant. You can use them now."

"I'll give you the keys to a storeroom and a dormitory later. Inside are all the tools you need for farming, as well as rice and corn seeds."

Sure enough, Gu Yi also believed that the crops that gave farmers the most experience points were rice and corn.

"In addition, you will have to sign a contract with me. This contract is absolutely legal and compliant. You will manage this land as my employee."

"On the contract, my job title will be 'farmer,' so that you can be as close to that identity as possible."

"Thanks."

"You're too kind. This is a mutually beneficial arrangement."

There's no question of anyone taking advantage of anyone else.

Gu Yi laughed and said that although he was around 50 years old, he was still decisive and efficient, and quickly finalized the contract.

The contract drafted by Gu Yi consisted almost entirely of general terms, with only a few special terms, all of which emphasized the farmer's identity.

Chen Xi quickly glanced through it and was very satisfied. He immediately signed and pressed his fingerprint on it.

"The two plots of land are located in a place called 'Jiangcun,' which is a village under Fucheng. It's quite far; it takes about five hours to get there by car."

"There's a direct bus from the bus station, only one a day, departing in the afternoon. You should have enough time to make it to the bus station now."

"If you need anything later, just call me. My number is on my business card. I don't like using a mobile phone and I never chat online."

Chen Xi nodded, thanked them, and left the flower shop.

Gu Yi stood at the shop entrance, smiling as he watched Chen Xi leave.

Watching the other person's figure gradually recede into the distance and disappear.

His smile, like a sharp edge, was gradually worn down, slowly revealing a hint of gloom.

Then, as if unable to be suppressed, this gloomy atmosphere slowly transformed into a sinister and cruel expression...

"Second sequence..."

"Farmers..."

"nice one!"

"You've arrived at the perfect time!"

......

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Chen Xi headed straight to the bus station.

After having a quick meal of Shaxian chicken leg rice nearby, I boarded the special bus to Jiangcun.

Jiangcun is indeed quite remote. Besides Chen Xi, there were five other passengers on the bus.

Judging from their dark skin, these five people should be locals from Jiangcun.

Chen Xi used their incomprehensible hometown dialect as background music and took a half-awake nap in the car.

After gradually regaining my composure, I habitually took out my phone and discovered that we still had an hour to go before reaching our destination.

There are two unread messages on my phone.

One belonged to the parents, and the other to Yang Wei.

The parents were asking about her safety, and Chen Xi would naturally give them a reassuring answer.

Yang Wei then uttered a pointless statement:

[Yang Wei: Boss, are you there?]

I have something I'd like to ask you.