I Can Reap Qi Fortune from Players

Nighttime.

The blacksmiths’ forum was incredibly lively, with all sorts of flashy posts.

"Blacksmith Battle Plan a Big Success: Today We Jumped into the Forging Furnace and Successfully Performed as Blacksmiths in Front of a True Immortal!"

"On Development: Did We Take Off by Tricking a True Immortal? Will We Get Smashed by the Big Boss?"

"Main Storyline: How Will Jiao Wuyu React with Meme-Worthy Expressions After Ascending to the Immortal Realm and Becoming a Celebrity There?"

...

Ning Zheng browsed through the posts.

The forum’s activity tonight was at its peak since the public test began.

After all, for Sword Casting Manor, it was a historic moment.

——A True Immortal entered Sword Casting Manor.

Whether in terms of gameplay, potential, or various playstyles, everything had crossed a threshold.

And the opening of the Immortal Venerate Ancient Tomb map outside would see this batch of free laborers make a grand entrance to earn resources for us.

No one knew how the future would change.

Even Ning Zheng himself didn’t know; anyway, if anything unexpected happened, Ning Zheng would just close the server and run away.

Opening a loot box off him? Not simple at all.

The outside Tribulation would block divination, and Ning Zheng’s server with tens of trillions of Qi Fortune Value of an Immortal Venerate would also block divination, as would his own daily Fortune Value of a billion or so.

Night Mad Cultivator, as usual, posted:

"Sword Casting Manor Development Talk: We Are Merchants."

"Hello everyone, I’m Night Mad Cultivator. Today, the legendary True Immortal entered the game. We finally realized the theoretical gameplay: We are the NPCs, and the natives are the players who pick up quests, work, explore new maps, and fight monsters."

"Reversed Celestial Gang! Experience the excitement yourselves; it’s not open to you anyway."

"At this stage, only a few blacksmith NPCs are allowed to go to the map below the manor to host the True Immortal as potion merchants, blacksmith shop merchants, inn merchants, canteen merchants... so you guys don’t make a mess."

"Starting tomorrow, most blacksmiths can hold telescopes and watch the bustling market of True Immortals below the mountain, becoming the new background scenery of the manor."

Seeing this, quite a few players were a bit annoyed and spoke up:

[We can only watch from afar? It’s like scratching an itch through a boot?]

[Bastards, you’re only letting high-end players play on the new map?]

[Damn, I also want to suck up to the True Immortal.]

But unfortunately, Jiucai Rong just loved watching them make trouble and definitely wouldn’t let them go.

Shop NPCs need to have class!

Fawning back.

What’s the big deal about that?

Sycophants have no future; being industrious is the spirit of the manor.

After a few days, the Newbie Village below the manor was almost fully constructed.

All NPCs in the Newbie Village officially took their posts, and were former leaders from each area.

And new monster maps of various levels outside the Newbie Village were also constructed, along with a mural passage leading to a super Secret Realm world.

This had a very traditional MMO vibe.

Night Mad Cultivator’s post continued:

"Based on today’s True Immortal exchange, it’s enough to prove our core development idea is right: Make lots of friends, and fewer enemies!"

"Deceiving a True Immortal is a foolish move; each True Immortal is a wise old monster, capable of emerging among billions, sly and cunning—tricking them would be like hanging an ancient being."

"But now, these old monsters would rather use their incredible wisdom, scheming and cunning, to protect their and Xi Rong’s interests."

"——Friends, you wouldn’t want Xi Rong to be discovered by the Immortal Venerates, right?"

"Deadly move!"

"This is the best battle plan for Pure Love Manor."

"They’re more afraid of being discovered by the Immortal Venerates than we are; in fact, there’s not much more to say about it. For specific gameplay and game development content, please log in tomorrow and experience it yourselves."

"A major update is here, but since we just updated recently, we won’t write a patch note this time (*^▽^*)"

...

The post ended there.

Ning Zheng stretched lazily; the blacksmiths were very enthusiastic because their dreams had come true.

And hadn’t Ning Zheng’s own dream come true?

Recruiting native players was a wish he had long ago.

In fact, he had wanted to recruit local players like Li Youzhu and Jiao Wuyu.

But plans couldn’t keep up with changes.

These changes turned out for the better; his native players turned out to be even better!

Recruiting blacksmiths was exhilarating!

Exploring new maps was exhilarating!

To celebrate today’s initial victory, Ning Zheng decided to strive to break through a Realm.

After all, facing a True Immortal, being at the First Layer of Celestial Immortal was not quite enough.

Being prepared for danger in quiet times is necessary!

"After easing in for a week, I’ve basically adapted to this Realm; tonight I need to continue enhancing my Realm."

"After all, officially welcoming True Immortals to join the organization, having a higher Realm is always good."

Ning Zheng was always hardworking and diligent in his cultivation, which made his rhythm of leveling up very consistent.

Using the convenient Dharma Aspect switch, he switched to a Dharma Aspect position in the Immortal Realm, heading straight to the high time flow rate Cave Mansion in the Immortal Realm.

"Welcome, guest, is it you?"

In the silence of the reception host, Ning Zheng chose a Lower Grade Cave Mansion and entered directly.

He had now become a Celestial Immortal and could choose a Middle Grade Cave Mansion, which could help in comprehending the Power of Law.

But Ning Zheng didn’t want to attract attention.

After all, not long ago, he was still a Human Immortal; switching Cave Mansions might cause people to notice a tiny bit of an issue with his breakthrough speed.

Inside the Cave Mansion.

Immortal Qi drifted, with various supportive Arrays running perfectly, Ning Zheng sat cross-legged on the meditation mat and opened the Qi Fortune Gambling Table.

[Current Qi Fortune Value Savings: 645.9 billion]

[Daily Earnings: 350-102=249 billion]

[Daily Qi Fortune Value Consumption: 223 billion (112 billion Destiny + 111 billion Tribulation Qi)]