I Can Reap Qi Fortune from Players

Sword Casting Manor.

Wild monster map outside the gallery tunnel.

A coastline, where a group of blacksmiths are diligently tackling a dungeon boss, a giant sea dragon with its claws out, causing massive ripples.

"A little faster, we're about to win."

"Retreat, keep retreating, the front line step up."

"He's not gonna make it!"

"Charge, bosses!"

"No wonder they are bosses, I should find them offline sometime, you seem to live in Zhongluan Domain?"

On the beach, the sea is overwhelming.

A group of blacksmith players and a group of native Celestial Immortal cultivators are fighting the boss.

Recently, players have been flying high, finally playing a proper online game, grinding tasks and strategizing dungeons here day and night.

Over these dozen days, these external cultivators have also found the blacksmiths a bit peculiar, but they do have their advantages.

They speak quite pleasantly.

Most importantly, they lack the arrogance of Celestial Immortals.

They want to experience the fun of combat cultivators and actively help carry luggage, scout paths, camp, and cook meals.

It's not bad to be teammates, and besides, they've been praised to high heavens reluctantly to leave them behind thick-skinned.

After all, it's an illusion realm, just take it as upping the difficulty a bit.

And the blacksmiths gradually got familiar with the Celestial Immortals, joking around as they learned various experiences from the cultivators.

After all, although the blacksmiths' combat is automated.

But many choices in combat, advance and retreat, tactics, still require them to use their heads.

At the ocean's edge.

On a high summit, Ning Zheng and Jiucai Rong overlooked the dungeon battle below.

"In just a dozen days, they've already blended into these places, their adaptability is really strong." Ning Zheng laughed.

Jiucai Rong chuckled and replied, "No, this is the everyday structure back home, returning to the fantasy world of this combat structure."

During the dozen days Ning Zheng was in seclusion.

The entire Game Manor online game underwent the greatest change.

The game version was massively updated.

With the assistance of NPC Jiumu Qing, the landscape of the whole tomb was slightly adjusted.

It became various large and small towns, each town having millions, even large cities having hundreds of millions.

And there were nearly ten thousand of such cities to accommodate the population of 300 billion bought back.

And from now on, players starting from Newbie Village - Sword Casting Manor can establish guilds in various cities.

And blacksmiths everywhere will complete Ning Zheng's main task: preaching, worshipping NPC statues.

Thus, the sandbox world of [Sword Casting Manor] officially opened, and there's also the built-in radar map of the Eye of Identification.

The map also bears various sects.

[Jiumu Sect], [Heart Water Sect], [Kong Country Imperial Palace], [Holy Spirit Sect], [Lunmu Temple], [Rongming Mountain], [White Bone Sect] and other forces.

And marked are secret realms, various valleys, oceans, mountain ranges... all meticulously marked.

It shows how diligent Jiumu Qing and Jiucai Rong have been during Ning Zheng's absence.

In Jiumu Qing's words: "The boss says one word, the employees run their legs off, damn capitalist!"

But Ning Zheng expresses: This Immortal Venerate cub seems to have been led astray by certain vibes of Sword Casting Manor, now speaking with a bit of whimsical style.

You say she has no learning ability as an Ember, stuck in her moment of death, yet she can still learn a few catchphrases from you...

At this moment.

Jiucai Rong said: "Master manager, every day more than three thousand Celestial Immortal level Xirong members enter the illusion realm of Celestial Destiny Village at the foot of Sword Casting Manor."

"They take here as a relatively free training ground, after all compared to other illusion realms, what we offer here is precious for its realism!"

Ning Zheng finds this normal.

After visiting other black market forces' illusion realms, he also realized creating a realistic illusion realm requires very strong computation power.

Especially combat, this kind of computation is very costly.

Ning Zheng's real yet relatively inexpensive... well, a hundred Upper Grade Immortal Stones a day is a tad pricey.

But pricey in its realism, worth every stone.

Ning Zheng smiled: "The Immortal Realm is not big, the Thirteen Domains, only thirteen Nine-State vast, but they are quite big indeed, many of their areas are within illusion realms."

Jiucai Rong nodded:

"In the Immortal Realm, illusionary training is prevalent... According to Jiumu Qing's information, in the past, they achieved enlightenment by personally descending to the mortal world for training, with many reincarnating a strand of divine sense. Unlike now, where Enlightenment Pills and illusionary books make it so convenient to train within the illusion without stepping outside."

Jiucai Rong pondered.

The civilization development in the Immortal Realm is highly advanced, just like a massive super internet.

The layers upon layers of various loginable illusions, covered by various frequencies, spread throughout the Immortal Realm.

Just like future technology in movies.

Celestial Immortals and cultivators guard their sects, logging into various tea parties, secret meetings, illusionary cities... laboratories, and conducting research with their peers.

Every day is quite busy.

After all, conducting research in reality requires spending on various expensive materials.

And these research powerhouses have long since moved their laboratories into the illusion realm to conduct research together...

For instance.

The Yin Yang Creation Furnace in Celestial Destiny Village has attracted three batches of experienced life research True Immortal organizations: [Strong Life Mountain], [Yang Body Thirteen Immortals], [Life-taking Seven Fiends].

The latter two are underground dark organizations, operating black markets in certain areas, specializing in human body research, causing various harm to life...

Abandoning their own evil research to come to me for inspiration from the Yin Yang Creation Furnace leaves Ning Zheng somewhat perplexed.

The various login forces under Sword Casting Manor are becoming increasingly mixed with dragons and fishes.

Nonetheless, in some sense, they have successfully infiltrated a group of illusionary black market forces, which seems quite normal, doesn't it?

A large illusionary gathering place is not something anyone can establish.

Someone must vouch for you to issue your "network," which is why Xirong Golden Core has various backers, True Immortals as sponsors, emerging in the Immortal Realm to legally own their "network."

In the eyes of outsiders, Ning Zheng's Xirong Golden Core Business Alliance, developing to such an exaggerated extent in just a few months, True Immortal membership, large-scale illusions...

Joining the ranks of numerous old True Immortal sects, is literally a miracle in the Immortal Realm!

And actually, Ning Zheng, the leader of this True Immortal force, is merely at the Seventh Layer of Celestial Immortals, though possessing combat power equivalent to the early period of ordinary True Immortals.

Jiucai Rong patiently explained:

"Regardless of the situation, we've accomplished the task you assigned, getting Celestial Destiny Village preliminary on track."

"Next, we'll continue macroeconomic regulation... moreover, the land is prepared to start selling, and also inviting some True Immortal top figures in the illusion to help us research new types of Golden Cores..."

Jiucai Rong counted on his fingers, "Indeed, the model of the Immortal Realm is very mature; the illusion, serving as a secret organization, can hire a batch to help with internal research."

He truly is busy but finds joy in the struggle.

Because previously, they had many fantastic ideas for magical artifacts but lacked the ability to achieve them.

And now?

True Immortal top figures, joining the laboratory.

Forming commercial alliances similar to Doukou Hong and Xinyi Baisan, aiding their various researches.

Even the automated AI combat headbands, under their promotion, were updated a few versions by True Immortal's involvement.

This is the friendship of True Immortals!

If it weren't for the Golden Core industry, and having money, True Immortals might not even accept your orders and research these magical artifacts.

Ning Zheng chuckled lightly, "How is our blacksmith's combat training going lately?"

Jiucai Rong's expression turned serious: "Our training mainly involves AI training, training in the Nine Chapters, collecting combat data from their Celestial Immortals."

"Currently, the main logged-in character here still uses the Iron-skinned Child. Here, the Celestial Immortals brainstorm continuously to develop corresponding spells, and our Iron-skinned Child's idle combat mode has been basically perfected!"

"Moreover, our current blacksmiths have themselves undergone over a ten-day battlefield training, continually overcoming instances, and with free-follow training by Celestial Immortals; their experience isn't bad."

Ning Zheng smiled, "Well done."

Ning Zheng never intended for most of the blacksmiths to follow the path of individual power.

After all, that's unrealistic.

Even a Demon Charm Sect in the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain could only cultivate one True Immortal Momei...

And Ning Zheng spends even more resources on this alone!

Not even he has enough for himself; what does Sword Casting Manor have to nurture a second individual soldier expert?

The blacksmiths don't have the qualifications.

The pyramid of his own power, having Ning Zheng is enough.

And the pyramid's middle and lower layers are taken by these fearless Celestial Soldiers and Celestial Generals.

The second combat power tier is currently filled by Sun Moon Su Yuniang and Ning Jiaojiao, who barely have the qualifications but currently can't be fully nurtured, only semi-free-range.

Of course, there are also wild Night Emperor, Emperor Zangwu, Jian Xin types... fostered externally, developing on their own; Ning Zheng doesn't bother with how they grow.

The players' bodies are definitely meant for mass production.

With his server cooperation, it surely must be suicide players to maximize advantages.

Therefore, automated mass production of idle Celestial Soldiers bodies + the cunning minds of the blacksmiths is precisely the perfect form Ning Zheng envisions.