Chapter 998 - 91: The Blacksmiths’ Wild Imagination
Release the Ember Virus!
Transform the Immortal Venerate Tomb into a Nine-State Tomb!
A pile of prehistoric civilization embers... acting as NPCs here, constantly resurrecting, and allowing us to strategize against these living logical husks...
Previously, it was a mural, a 2D mode.
Now it’s turned into an Ember Tomb; isn’t it a 3D, moving storyline RPG mode?
Someone murmured:
"This seems to quite fit the Space Immortal Venerate, turning them from two-dimensional murals into three-dimensional tombs!"
With these words, it seemed as if a Pandora’s box had been opened, making everyone itch with excitement.
It feels incredibly thrilling.
We may not have experience dealing with these mysterious living zombies, but we have tomb raiding experience for dealing with embers!
Convert the opponent’s tomb into one that we are familiar with, and then use our rich Nine-State tomb raiding experience to raid it.
Of course.
The premise is...
The patrolling soldiers, who we don’t know if they are dead or alive, would be infected by the Ember Virus.
But whether they will be infected by the Ember Virus, needs to be tested.
"Brothers, I think we can give it a try?"
Shao Chaikun looked at the patrolling soldiers outside the dungeon and shared his thoughts,
"Let me say a few words, ahem, first, where did the Immortal Venerate’s corpse go? I seriously suspect that the Manor Master took it to become embers!"
"Makes sense."
The Food God quipped, "Who knows, in a while, we might see the Manor Master bringing an ember of the Space Immortal Venerate to our manor as an NPC."
Beside him, Su Yuniang blinked, "Do you think there is a possibility that the Space Immortal Venerate was always in the manor?"
No-Life Whale was taken aback, "Are you saying the Manor Master himself is the Space..."
"Exactly the old steward beside the Manor Master!"
Su Yuniang spoke with absolute certainty as if she had seen it with her own eyes, supplementing her imagination:
"Based on my years of gaming experience, twist after twist, the old steward must not be a simple character, possibly the ember corpse of an ancient Immortal Venerate!"
Hiss.
Everyone drew a cold breath.
Damn... it makes sense.
The Manor Master’s clandestine raids on ancient tombs are likely more than one.
Every tomb, without touching the traps on the periphery, directly carries away the tomb owner’s corpse and magical treasures...
Even if the old steward is not an ancient Space Immortal Venerate, he might be a corpse stolen by the Manor Master from another tomb, resurrected as an ember?
According to the tyrannical style of our sect, stealing from others.
The Manor Master has always led by example.
Always outside, stealing from people’s tombs.
Just like us, naturally doing a little heist on people’s historical murals, the Manor Master surely does the same.
They used petty minds, overthinking Ning Zheng’s intentions.
?
Ning Zheng, seeing them discussing, was speechless.
These people, what kind of nonsense are they fabricating?
Associating me with the scumbag Manor Master?
However.
Ning Zheng looked at their eager faces, couldn’t help but check his current Qi Fortune Value for risk assessment.
25.8 billion Qi Fortune Value.
...
226.7 billion Qi Fortune Value.
...
0.1 billion Qi Fortune Value.
...
425.8 billion Qi Fortune Value.
...
The Qi Fortune Value fluctuated, indicating blessings and misfortunes interdependently.
At its lowest, it was close to zero, indicating a crisis of death.
At its highest, it could jump to 600 billion, a figure akin to an Immortal Venerate level opportunity.
"The risk is quite significant."
Ning Zheng pondered, "However, with blessings and misfortunes interdependent, it’s worth a try; no one rises to prominence unchallenged, benefits and crises coexist."
The change in Qi Fortune Value can indirectly reflect many things.
The appearance of a crisis indicates that something in the tomb could become infected with the Ember Virus!
It might not just be these golden-armored patrolling soldiers; it could be something else that gets infected by embers.
And those infected by the Ember Virus must be living beings for it to take effect, then they perish 50% and produce embers.
In other words, is there a living person in this tomb?
No.
Ning Zheng’s gaze fell on these patrolling soldiers.
Sensing a complex aura of decay and vitality, uncertain of what method eternally traps living beings here to guard the tomb?
Although he wasn’t sure what ancient technique this was, perhaps living dead, barely hanging on could qualify for ember infection?
That ancient prehistoric civilization was capable of cultivating life spiritual roots, perhaps with spells to bind life?
He kept pondering, analyzing:
"First, I don’t believe the current version of the Ember Virus could affect those Immortal Venerate level experts."
"At most, it could affect some of the burial elite in this tomb, at worst, guess, maybe Ember Celestial Immortal? Ember True Immortal?"
"Moreover, this tomb is isolated."
"Sealed within some unknown area, so even if an accident happens, it’s within controllable bounds; the virus can’t leak out."
"A sealed laboratory?"
Ning Zheng continued weighing the pros and cons.
The most critical factor is:
Even if I don’t conduct this experiment, surely others from the Nine-State would try.
Like the Painter.
This person would definitely not pass up an ancient Immortal Venerate tomb, engaging in his art collection.
The Painter’s cultivation speed is very fast.
Perhaps soon he will quietly reach the True Immortal level, searching for such ancient tombs.
He will surely try to release the Ember Virus in these tombs.
Moreover, he has an even better choice than releasing the Ember Virus: painting.
His painting subjects are the ancestors of embers.
These Terracotta Army, ancient funerary troops, may not fall to the Ember Virus...
But, his painting is certain to work!
He paints one ancient being after another; the resulting scenes are absurd.
The value of the Painter is still rising.
So, what kind of terrifying monster have I unleashed in the Nine-State?
If the Painter were allowed to grow, and he drew a truly significant [Chronicles of Time], looting ancestral tombs, summoning ancient bosses one after another, what then?
The Immortal Venerates would have to fight ancient bosses too?
In other words, the Painter indeed is a great demon capable of obliterating worlds.
Once he grows, the Immortal Venerates would all tremble before him.
The best approach is to eliminate him before he fully matures.
Otherwise, it might cause catastrophic devastation.
"Though, the Celestial Immortal Cultivation Laws."
"He, the Painter, must paint a Celestial Immortal by rendering not only its external structures and civilization system but also its internally cultivated Divine Power Laws."
"The Painter must understand these Laws to draw the Celestial Immortal of that Law."
"But, the Painter, with his long lifespan, abundant knowledge, and possession of Firewood, helps him burn people for knowledge; by burning an Immortal, obtaining their structure, he could draw that Immortal."
"Therefore, depicting an Immortal’s internal rules isn’t difficult; Firewood and Mask are Divine Techniques evolved to assist his painting over history."
Firewood burns people.
Mask replicates.
It allows him to quickly understand an Immortal’s laws, then paint them.
In conclusion,
The Painter is destined to target these ancient tombs, so why shouldn’t I preemptively try?
If one does not plan far ahead, they will face imminent worry.
Considering this, Ning Zheng decided to take the initiative!
"I can start an Embers Disaster in the tomb."
"I may not dare to release the Embers Disaster in the Immortal Realm, but wouldn’t I dare during an Immortal Venerate’s tomb experiment?"
"Unable to deal with living Immortal Venerates, then let’s experiment in their tombs."
"Create a new type of Ember toxin capable of infecting Immortals."
Ning Zheng felt the need to fully utilize this tomb raiding dungeon.
The mind needs to be flexible!
Therefore, he paid little attention to the blacksmiths’ actions.