The Starfield Farming Sovereign (Elizabeth Schofield) novel Chapter 11

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The command post fell completely silent. The joy and curiosity that had lingered on the officers‘ faces vanished, replaced by a uniform mix of shock and indignation.

Cristian, however, simply shut off the file on the holographic screen with detached indifference, as though what he had just seen were nothing more than irrelevant data.

To him, it made no difference whether the woman was a princess or an exile.

Any woman was the same.

A nuisance.

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At the first hint of dawn, Elizabeth slowly opened her eyes after a night of meditation.

The dejection in them was impossible to hide.

The innate talent of this body was truly abysmal. After cultivating through the entire night, she couldn’t sense the slightest improvement.

Even worse, the body felt like a sieve with a hole in the bottom. At most, it could retain the spiritual energy equivalent to a single low–grade energy stone. Anything beyond that leaked away immediately, impossible to hold.

The only advantage, perhaps, was that circulating spiritual power did strengthen the body.

For example, the full–body soreness from reclaiming land the day before had already vanished without a

trace.

Well, perhaps there was another unexpected benefit.

Her gaze drifted to the potato plants beside her. Their growth was clearly faster than that of those elsewhere.

Potatoes went through five stages: sprouting, seedling, vegetative growth, tuber formation, and harvest.

The others were obviously still in the seedling stage. At this pace, they would need at least four more days before maturity,

But the few nearest her had clearly reached the harvest stage.

Elizabeth couldn’t wait. She pulled one up.

Between the roots hung clusters of fist–sized potatoes.

“Hahaha! It worked!”

She laughed out loud. The gloom that had weighed on her because of her poor cultivation aptitude dissipated in an instant.

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The entire night spent continuously running the Life Growth technique had not been in vain.

Life Growth was the exclusive cultivation method of the spiritual botanist lineage. Practicing it not only refined one’s own cultivation but also fed a constant stream of vitality back into surrounding plants, accelerating their growth.

That Divine Essence Root, which had once shaken the cultivation world, had been quietly nurtured during her everyday practice.

Her current cultivation level was barely different from that of an ordinary person.

But these were only ordinary potatoes. With spiritual energy and the technique at work, growing them to maturity overnight could hardly be called a miracle.

Yet these utterly ordinary potatoes made her more excited than harvesting any high–grade spiritual fruit.

This was the first crop she had produced since arriving in this unfamiliar world.

It marked the moment she had truly taken root in the barren wasteland.

In high spirits, she hummed an off–key tune, picked up her homemade sheet–metal hoe, and carefully dug into the soil beneath the plant.

The cluster pulled up with the stem was only the vanguard. The real bounty was still buried below.

Sure enough, as she gently turned over the earth, more potatoes emerged. Before long, they piled into a small mound at her feet.

She counted carefully. This single plant had produced 46 potatoes.

At this rate, harvesting over a thousand potatoes from this small plot was no stretch at all.

“Hahaha, over a thousand potatoes!” Elizabeth’s eyes lit up. “I’m rich!”

In the interstellar era, what food was the most expensive?

Without question, pure, natural food.

She hurriedly opened her device, connected to StarNet, and checked the price of potatoes.

Product: Name Potato

Family: Solanaceae, Genus Solanum

Description: Member of the nightshade family, related to tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers. The edible portion is the tuber, a modified underground stem.

Nutritional Value

Carbohydrates: High in starch, an excellent energy source

Vitamins: Rich in vitamin C, especially when fresh, as well as B–complex vitamins

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Minerals: Extremely high potassium content, helpful for maintaining fluid balance and stable blood pressure; also contains magnesium and phosphorus

Dietary Fiber: Especially abundant in the skin, promotes digestive health

Protein: Low in quantity but higher quality than most plant proteins

Fat: Naturally very low fat content

Reference Price: 100 stellar coins per 100 grams

Elizabeth stared at the price on the holographic screen, her eyes widening until she nearly suspected she was hallucinating.

She instinctively rubbed her eyes once, then again.

100 stellar coins.

And the unit that followed was written clearly as 100 grams.

Not 500 grams. Not 1kg. Just 100 grams.

“Is this world insane, or am I?” she muttered, a wave of absurdity washing over her.

She scrutinized the nutrition table again. No matter how she looked at it, it was nothing more than ordinary carbohydrates, vitamins, and fiber, not even as comprehensive as the nutrients in a single low- grade liquid supplement.

A low–grade liquid supplement that could sustain a person’s daily energy needs cost only 100 stellar coins, even on Garbage Planet, where prices were inflated.

But what could 100 grams of potatoes do?

It wouldn’t even be enough to wet her teeth, let alone count as a real bite.

With the sky fully bright now, Elizabeth looked at the lush green potato field before her, her heart filled with a sense of security and anticipation.

She dug up the remaining three mature plants in one go.

In total, she harvested 218 potatoes.

Whether due to the potato variety itself or the effects of spiritual energy, each of the 218 potatoes was the size of her fist.

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