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PM.

Logged out.

After anchoring a wave of Embers Earth-bound Spirit, Chaotic Yellow Immortal Venerable opened his eyes.

"Today was an adventure, encountering many wondrous and strange tales, impossible things, truly a worthwhile journey."

"Many of me, various selves..."

"The timeline shattered, the many selves of the Immortal Gods fell into the River of Time, the dying gods of different timelines self-buried, transforming into numerous identical tombs, there are dozens of Space Immortal Venerate tombs alone."

"Now the River of Time is difficult to rebuild, perhaps forming these various selves in this manner... But what about the timeline? How to forge it? Or maybe not creating a timeline at all, linking worlds to achieve multiverse connection in another way?"

"Were they intentional, or was it an unintended coincidence, not intending to recreate the era of eternal myths of yore?"

He sighed softly, eyes carrying a smile, recalling today’s events, apparently amused by his own Embers.

This elder has always been kind, living for millions of years, with a broad mind, not petty.

Playing with his own Embers is also an amusing affair, watching another "self" speak his own words, quite entertaining...

That Sword Casting Manor truly is a place of boundless opportunity!

Even for him, an Immortal Venerate, it is beneficial.

Indeed, that Yin Yang Creation Furnace is of little use to someone at their realm.

At their level, most things that seem heaven-defying are not lacking.

But the Embers have great use.

An artist brought forth treasure medicine capable of nurturing Embers after an Immortal Venerate’s death, overturning the hierarchy among Immortal Venerates, allowing those slumbering and near death to "live" a second life.

And this Xi Rong brought forth a way for Embers to be nurtured while the Immortal Venerate is alive.

Ultimately...

These two brought forth Embers.

No wonder that person recommended Xi Rong, truly extraordinary.

From the Immortal Venerate’s perspective, Chaotic Yellow Immortal Venerable acknowledged, respected, and treated this force equally.

At this moment, his disciple couldn’t help but ask, "Master, today you explored, how was the situation?"

The celestial old man stroked his beard, smiling, "Cannot say, cannot say."

The disciple’s eyes flashed with a hint of surprise.

Cannot say, meaning even our master cannot break through that restriction, unable to speak, only conveying information indirectly?

You must know, their master is a powerful Auspicious Beast primarily cultivating Luck.

This rare independent Auspicious Beast clan: Chaotic Yellow Thieving Sky Rat.

One of the few Auspicious Beast clans not captured by the giant heads of the Immortal Realm’s Thirteen Immortal Venerates to befriend.

After all, the existing Auspicious Beast clans, 90% are recruited by the Immortal Venerates of the Immortal Realm.

In those days, their clan also had good fortune, escaping to find a hiding place outside the Immortal Realm...

And this clan specializes in breaking these restrictions, divining across space, dealing with others’ "patents."

It’s akin to Xin Xichen’s type of "hacker" route, stealing your knowledge.

Specializing in breaking the signed "contracts," leaking them using various methods to one’s own company.

Therefore, the Immortal Venerates sent this expert, Chaotic Yellow Immortal Venerable, to investigate.

Yet even the master says: Cannot say...

Clearly, not even their master can easily handle the opponent alone; if action is needed, they’ll have to find other Tao Companions.

Now, both sides openly and secretly contend, how many Immortal Venerates have the spare time?

The disciple added, "Then, master, should we invite other elders for a journey together?"

"No," Chaotic Yellow Immortal Venerable said,

The disciple understood internally, though it cannot be broken, no need to invite other giants to join the battle, "Then master, do you see me..."

"No need to go," Chaotic Yellow Immortal Venerable said.

There is opportunity at that place, a marketplace even a singular Immortal Venerate cannot break into, it must be extraordinary, but now there’s no need to go? Is it unsuitable for him?

This True Immortal Great Perfection revealed a hint of surprise.

You must know, he is the heir of Immortal Venerate’s direct lineage as the current Sect Leader, revered by True Immortal Momei’s class.

A class where only after fierce contest among a group of Wan Luanfeng Saint Children can they emerge as the current Sect Leader.

Yet he doesn’t qualify to go?

Chaotic Yellow Immortal Venerable waved his hand, "Dismissed."

"Disciple takes leave."

Chaotic Yellow Immortal Venerable watched his disciple depart, eyes slightly focusing.

The disciple is not unable to go, but just cannot go now, because he lost some face today.

Few people went online today, if the disciple enters, he definitely will realize.

Wait until there are more others like him before letting the disciple in.

...

...

Seven o’clock.

The blacksmiths are off work, Heaven’s Chosen logged out.

All living people in the manor have left, but rather it’s the beginning of nightlife.

"Oh my, work is finally over today, I’m dead tired!"

"Finally off work, I’m going to have a good meal to reward myself."

"Me too!"

A group of NPCs walked out of the shop, stretching, shaking off their shoulders.

On the street, street cleaner — Su Yuniang — already started using a Storage Bag to absorb trash and clean the streets.

If the streets aren’t cleaned, how can the traditional pay-to-win online game, Chongshan Town, receive guests the next day?

We also need to talk about civilization, promote new customs, and establish a civilized city.

Along the street, each NPC shopkeeper Jiucai Rong began to clean the stores, inventory goods, and take out the ledger to calculate today’s profits.

At the front desk, an NPC shopkeeper Jiucai Rong Embers sighed:

"Today, I sneaked a peek at those Heaven’s Chosen in the blacksmith shop, and they were making a move against their good friend Wood City’s True Immortal, it’s ridiculous, each one of them had a big smile on their face."

Another shopkeeper walked out the door:

"Exactly, that’s so heartless! That was their friend; at the very least, they should knock the wooden fish and see him off."

"People in the Immortal Realm are really cold-blooded, unlike you and me."

"Of course, we are still young, while they’ve lived for millions of years, becoming more and more heartless as they age."

"Exactly, Wood City was also a good friend of ours before, ID: Wood City, and I even went on dungeons with him."

"Life is unpredictable, but he happened to be our boss."

"Who knows, today those cultivators who joined in on the dissection task might find themselves becoming the boss one day, with a lot of people taking on the task, storming their lair, the Sect, and fiercely attacking them, all to fix their feet."

"Ah! So, knock the wooden fish and pay respects, otherwise when it’s your turn to be sent to the blacksmith shop, no one will see you off."

"Don’t say, it’s quite comical."

"Ah, this True Immortal material from Wood City’s True Immortal Divine Beast, I wonder how powerful the resulting magical artifact will be?"

"This is True Immortal level, very rare even in the Immortal Realm."

...

Ning Zheng took Jiumu Qing for a patrol around the streets, looking at each NPC shopkeeper, each NPC patrol officer, all looking the same, chatting and boasting.

The current NPC group under Ning Zheng’s leadership had undergone rectification, training, and normalization!

Now the NPCs are a large group under him, outnumbering the players, and are one of the core foundations of his sect.

By day, NPCs interact with the living.

By night, NPCs play freely, eat, and have their own fun.

Beside the street, Jiumu Qing, accompanying Ning Zheng on the first day of Chongshan District’s server launch, smiled, "These NPC shopkeepers, Jiucai Rong, all look alike and have become a tribe of shopkeepers."

"His bookkeeping is quite good, very fitting." Ning Zheng paused in front of a potion shop and picked up a potion to examine it.

Jiumu Qing’s recent days have been quite good.

Although there are many NPCs,

their similar personalities make management very convenient.

Currently, Chongshan Town only has these three:

Guard Squad: Su Yuniang

Medical Squad: Medical Fairy

Shopkeeper Squad: Jiucai Rong.

Each has over 300 people, quite enough to manage a large marketplace.

And as for making other blacksmiths like Embers into NPCs?

There is no immediate need.

Even regional leaders like Daojiu, Mudworker, and Lin Meimei are somewhat behind the times.

So, in an attempt to catch up with the times, they started living off others.

As a result, their objects of dependency, leading a batch of dozens of Tao Companions, are being evaluated for their potential to be mass-produced NPCs.

Currently under observation.

For instance, Mu Xi might become the fourth squad, Mu Xi’s Farming Squad, in the future.

After all, someone has to farm, right?

Preliminary experiments are already underway!

Speaking of this, Jiumu Qing, as the dedicated secretary, opened the Eye of Identification glasses, displaying a projection of Sword Casting Manor’s Spirit Field area.

A group of Mu Xi Spirit Farmers are tirelessly farming day and night.

Mu Xi herself hid in a room, extremely joyful, chatting with her sisters: How joyous, I realized I don’t have to do anything, just cultivate.

On the Spirit Field.

Mu Xi Scarecrow No. 1: "I, Mu Xi, have been clever all my life, but I bet it all and lost big this time, I married the wrong person, boo hoo hoo, this is a scam, a scam, tricked to come here to be free labor!"

Mu Xi Scarecrow No. 2, gasping for air: "The workload for a day is terrifying, huff, puff, I’m going to die, Mudworker you scum, you and your Demon Sect!"

On the farmland, a group of Mu Xi, complaining furiously, faces as black as coal, weakly farming.

This little schemer...

is rather pitiful.

Ning Zheng watched with some surprise but understood:

"She is indeed somewhat pitiable; in the eyes of Embers, she is the true Mu Xi who got married and ended up being tricked into picking cotton here, getting a hundred free draws upon logging in."

The treatment between people varies.

Mu Xi herself: Logs into Xi Rong, gets a hundred free draws upon login.

Her Embers army: Logs into Xi Rong, gets physically beaten a hundred times upon login.

However, little schemer Mu Xi understands and is quite satisfied with her sect life, isn’t it just about making her Embers suffer a bit?

She instantly accepted the Sword Casting Manor’s concept: Embers babies are meant to suffer for her!

She originally intended to get married, but it turns out her nominal husband sticks to pure love, needing only to provide emotional romance value spiritually.

She and Mudworker also manage the Spirit Farmer profession area together, becoming responsible, life as a high-level manager is quite nice.

"Mu Xi’s Embers baby quality isn’t high!"

Jiumu Qing mimicked the blacksmiths’ actions, thoughtfully pushing up her glasses, "They only work twenty hours a day, constantly slacking off, so we haven’t yet confirmed them as the fourth quantifiable army."

"At the moment, they are not as industrious as Su Yuniang, Medical Fairy, or Jiucai Rong in the three positions."

Ning Zheng seems to offer an explanation for Mu Xi: "The other three armies are pretty happy, but indeed, she has it tough with farming, normal people wouldn’t accept it."

She seems a bit cunning, but which Celestial Immortal isn’t a bit wily? It’s their protective color.

Mu Xi can surely endure hardships; she’s been a Spirit Farmer all her life...

But ours is perhaps a bit too tough, working 20 hours a day...