Chapter 966: Chapter 59: Ancient Historical Civilizations
Ning Zheng’s luck is really quite good, the 20.3 billion made his trip to the Immortal Realm smooth and he had quite a decent experience.
It’s almost like a culinary journey, roaming around the marketplace indulging in street food, also successfully securing Jiucai Rong’s local player [login quota], becoming the second batch of local blacksmiths after No-Life Whale and others.
"Lastly, some people even gifted things before leaving, they’re really too polite."
Ning Zheng returned to Nine-State, did some quick sorting of earnings in his room at Sword Casting Manor, then headed straight to the mountain top.
Walking onto the square, the blacksmiths were gathered by the task board, discussing, bragging.
"Wow, shops in the Immortal Realm are really interesting."
"I wonder if I can work as a waiter at Jiucai Rong’s shop in the Immortal Realm, assist the Immortal Jiucai Rong."
"Golden Core, it’s so cool!"
"Over there, Jiucai Rong, that’s the second merchant we’ve seen."
"He tricked a girl into being free labor?"
"No idea if we can trick this girl into coming here to log in! She looks like a professional chef, our manor needs her."
"Yes, come to our Sword Casting Manor, I’m craving soup dumplings, glowing cuisine, a bite of freshness, even seeing beautiful illusions, it’s like a food show come alive."
"Grown sick of eating Food God’s dishes."
"Ugh!~"
...
The players are absolutely people who care about food a lot.
Because they hold bonfire parties every night, enjoying food, they’re extremely demanding when it comes to gastronomy.
Most people move bricks, make money, and are willing to spend a lot on food afterward.
Food has always been the second biggest expense for blacksmiths.
The first expense is of course training and leveling up, Daoists, job transitions, cultivation, adding buffs... it’s already a complete system.
The third expense is pet raising.
Spending more on food than on raising pets shows they’re all old foodies.
Ning Zheng arrived at the manor and heard all the people fantasizing about the future, smiled slightly.
Those delicacies, even Ning Zheng, who has no demand for food, praised, let alone them?
"Everyone, quiet down."
Ning Zheng said: "This time, you guys have managed to persuade the fake Jiucai Rong from Adventure Town [Sword Casting Manor], achieving great accomplishments."
He delivered a speech, saying loudly:
"Everyone knows, before the other side always had the advantage, we were always at a disadvantage, even a bunch of counterfeits were made to replace us, were banished to Celestial Destiny World."
"Now, this is our first great victory against the Imperial Mausoleum Adventure Town!"
"The Manor Master is quite pleased, decided to give you some rewards."
As soon as he said this, everyone immediately became excited.
They were cheated once, a bunch of counterfeit goods appeared, now they’ve managed to cheat those counterfeits back, into Sword Casting Manor...
It’s indeed satisfying, a major victory for the blacksmiths!
Do we have another three-choice reward?
Earlier, during closed beta when the 1000 quota was filled, they didn’t provide options as rewards.
After all, in closed beta, once the quota is filled, not giving rewards is understandable.
But public test...
It has been restored.
Joy is back!
Everyone rejoiced, becoming noisy, saying all sorts of random things.
...
Ning Zheng didn’t pay attention to those noisy voices.
Not just Ning Zheng, even No-Life Whale and others are already familiar with their eight hundred ducks street noise mode.
Once accustomed, they find the noise quite interesting, giving off a lively and warm feeling.
Doesn’t the neighboring Painter Jiucai Rong miss the old days of eating dirt and talking about everything in the manor?
"The fixed reward is the corpse of Zhongluan people for your research." Ning Zheng took out several corpses killed by Tribulation Cultivator, along with some random specialty materials.
Then, Ning Zheng displayed three options.
[1. An average reward of ten lower-grade Immortal Stones per person.]
[2. 500 blacksmith invitation quotas.]
[3. Invite Chongshan Fang to become a blacksmith, enter Sword Casting Manor.]
...
The long-lost three-choice reappearance threw the blacksmiths back into discussion mode.
Immortal Aunt watched the bustling scene outside the medical center, pleasantly said: "Seems all quite valuable."
An average reward of ten lower-grade Immortal Stones per person.
Immortal Stones are quite useful, advanced energy, considered a small fortune per person.
And the second option, 500 blacksmiths, is equivalent to several billion Qi Fortune Value.
Moreover, it’s not random, they can actively direct the invitation quotas.
This makes it quite valuable.
Directed invitation letters mean some wealthy people might spend money to buy them to enter the game earlier...
"The third one, natives entering our Sword Casting Manor?" Medical Fairy murmured, "A brand new mode."
"I feel choosing option three is a good idea." Immortal Aunt’s eyes suddenly lit up.
Soon, a group of blacksmith executives quickly held a meeting.
Jiucai Rong looked around the circle, "New three choices showed up, public test returned to the original reward phase, any thoughts from everyone?"
"Choose three."
Night Mad Cultivator directly said: "There’s no doubt about it, don’t think it’s just adding one blacksmith, we almost have no gain, actually, it’s the start of a new mode."
"Moreover, this is a genuine culinary cultivator, not like that scammer Food God."
"From observer perspective, seems their lineage’s Food Immortal, after becoming an Immortal, indeed can let people experience various illusions, a myriad of life states, it’s the highest enjoyment."
"Inviting this person to join can help us modify Golden Core precisely!"
Everyone nodded, feeling the analysis made sense.
Now they’re researching variant modes of Golden Core, trying to incorporate some food-used environmental runes onto Golden Core.
Inviting such a professional technician who’s covered head-to-toe in food runes can accelerate their progress.
Moreover, they really want to taste the true culinary arts of the Immortal Realm!
The Food God’s dishes have truly become tiresome.
Whether from a strategic development perspective or for personal enjoyment, they all lean towards this one.
Soon, after some discussion, the group found the old steward and said, "Sir, we choose number three!"
Ning Zheng smiled and nodded, "I understand."
He looked at the current Qi Fortune Value.
"I really don’t want to make another trip to the Immortal Realm to pull Chongshan Fang into the team, it’s too troublesome."
"It seems the server still needs enhancement, to add the ability to pull people in from afar."
Ning Zheng felt that creating a fully-fledged top-tier Immortal Artifact would be a massive expenditure.
After all, think about it.
Which Immortal Artifact in the hands of an Immortal Venerate isn’t a result of consuming vast resources and eons of upgrades?
Some ordinary worlds were even emptied because of it!
His "Sword Casting Manor" server is his own core Immortal Artifact, nurtured step by step by himself, and the core of his power, so of course, it couldn’t just stop.
[Current Qi Fortune Value Savings: 1,135.7 billion]
[Daily Income: 350 - 102 = 249 billion]
[Daily Qi Fortune Value Expenditure: 203 billion (102 billion Destiny + 101 billion Tribulation Qi)]
Now, after lying low for a little while, he had money again.
[Anchor Invitation Letter: Blacksmiths have the ability to generate invitation letters, inviting nearby people to become blacksmiths voluntarily, 50 billion.]
[Anchor Enforcement Letter: Blacksmiths can generate invitation letters, coercively hypnotizing some blacksmiths to "voluntarily" become blacksmiths. The strength of the hypnosis depends on the cultivation ability of the Immortal Artifact owner, 200 billion.]
Forced hypnosis, forcibly inviting someone to become a blacksmith?
Decided based on the cultivation of this owner?
The shadow behind Ning Zheng shimmered slightly, and a shadowy, twisted box appeared within it.
He reached out and grabbed it.
It was precisely the server of the Sword Casting Manor.
In fact, the server, with the various divine techniques of numerous Immortal Weapons infused, had long become a Seven-Colored Immortal Weapon.
The divine techniques within were mixed, and of extremely high grade.
Among them were seven divine techniques, including expanding range, perception blocking, sea of consciousness encryption... and so on, and also possessed a special capacity for evolutionary accommodation.
But however miraculous this Immortal Weapon may be, it still relied on the owner to control it.
The higher the spiritual power of this owner, the easier it was to hypnotize and draw people into the server.
"This is not bad. With this, Chongshan Fang by Jiucai Rong’s side can be directly hypnotized and pulled in."
Ning Zheng pondered, looking towards the next one.
[Point Space Turbulence Function: Has Anchor Enforcement Letter function and uses blacksmith as anchor to transfer materials and treasures. The larger the space distance, the higher the cost, 1,000 billion.]
This was clearly the luxury version.
According to Ning Zheng’s calculations, 800 billion was the power level of an Immortal Venerate.
This artifact even exceeded that by 200 billion, proving that what he was holding was no simple item, even among the Immortal Venerates, it was top-notch!
It even came with space turbulence transmission, allowing for the remote delivery of some resources. Although the expense wasn’t small, it would undoubtedly be of great use in the future.
"I haven’t even become an Immortal yet, and I’m about to enjoy the treatment of an Immortal Venerate’s artifact, a child wielding a giant spear, unable to exert even one percent of its power, bearing a weight I shouldn’t bear at my age..."
Ning Zheng had a brief moment of bragging.
He realized that with the Destiny gambit, which was the top-tier Destiny Supreme Treasure even among the Immortal Venerates, as long as he didn’t squander it, relying on this mundane-looking [Delivery Function], he could stealthily acquire the inheritance of the big shots... basically ensuring he reached the Immortal Venerate level.
But not necessarily.
Having money does not equate to strong combat power.
Take Bai Xingling for example, isn’t this protagonist rich? Has good Qi Fortune, right? Lots of opportunities, right? Every time they delve into a tomb, they earn heaps of money, various treasures, frighteningly rich.
But what was the result?
Having money without combat power still makes one a fat lamb, no protagonist is anything but a plump pork trotter.
With money, one must be cautious, else this fat lamb could be slaughtered by the Immortal Venerates.
Still that old saying, opportunities that can’t be guarded against are a disaster.
[-1,000 billion]
A terrifying number leapt sharply.
Ning Zheng saw a section of space turbulence tear apart, and a silhouette floated on the throne, seemingly a prehistoric shadow from untold billions of years ago.
The voice carried an ancient desolation,
"Space, time, life... these divine techniques have all been taken by It, heading beyond the distant chaos."
"The order of the world is solidifying, future generations can no longer easily leverage the three supreme laws like we did, reversing the firmament..."
Ning Zheng seemed to see an ancient, unknown civilization.
Just a glance already made his spirit feel assaulted, as if seeing the gods weeping, all things in decay...
"But the ultimate greatness, the colorless, formless, shapeless source, the Destiny Divine Power above the three mighty forces, has thus manifested in the post-cosmic era..."
"The solidification of the world is also a form of evolution, the future era of myriad heavens will see more incredible miracle powers."
His ancient figure seemed to carry all the principles of the world, containing attributes Ning Zheng had never seen before.
In the words of the Nine-State, it is the Space Spirit Root.
"Now, is the Space Spirit Root no more?" Ning Zheng showed a thoughtful expression.
Ning Zheng’s luck was very good.
This prehistoric figure wasn’t a riddler...
It seemed to want to convey more information right before its death.
After all, leaving riddles even after death only happens in storybooks, most people leave last words to pass on more information...
According to the other’s description, it seems in some ancient era, there were special spirit roots like space, life, and time.
But as times became solidified and completed, these three rules became hard to leverage.
Later generations could only cultivate Yin, Yang, Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, these secondary divine technique spirit roots.
But there were also benefits. With the world becoming solidified and perfected, mysterious laws stronger than space, life, and time also surfaced before the eyes of the world.
"Fate... is it?"
Ning Zheng seemed deep in thought.
So, in our era, people can clearly feel the fate within their bodies, the fate of all things...
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