Steward's Room.

Jiucai Rong was flipping through the booklet Magical Artifact that the old steward had left behind, and the more he read, the more shocked he became.

He felt like vomiting blood.

—Is this dog planner trying to drive us to insanity?

These hundreds of thousands of pages, don't think I don't know they're AI-generated Heavenly and Earthly Treasures.

Nowadays, techniques, Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, martial arts names can all be generated with a single AI click.

What's the point of creating so many?

I bet only a few are actually usable.

But Jiucai Rong also knew this production team's nature—they are ridiculously obsessed with "authenticity."

Previously, entering the game resulted in pants wetting, then building dormitories for toilets, showing how seriously hardcore they are.

"This is truly defying nature."

Su Yuniang's pupils dilated fiercely, and she bolted, "I can't take this. My trypophobia is acting up."

Jiucai Rong frowned: "Actually, it's not that difficult. We have classification pages, whatever treasure we want, look for that category... Of course, I suggest we all look through everything to better understand the worldview."

"We'll each distribute tasks, each person looking at one category..."

Nearby, a few people overheard.

"The kitchen should also prepare dinner."

"The clinic has a few girls preparing for cosmetic surgery."

"Wait for me, I want cosmetic surgery too." Shao Chaikun bolted.

Medical Fairy laughed coldly: "What cosmetic surgery do you want?"

Shao Chaikun: "I just cultivated the second body's arm, see if you can chop it off and transfer it to the sixth body."

Medical Fairy: "Wait, are you seriously ill?"

"What do you know, just swapping the second body and the sixth body. Being poor can't let the spirit be poor; I want my arms wrapped around my waist."

Medical Fairy visualized the scene, instantly feeling horrified: "Shao Chaikun, scram! Even ghosts would run away from you!"

They spoke while running away.

Jiucai Rong: "..."

These airheads, they actually ran so fast.

They all just assumed I'd handle the paperwork.

I still have a huge pile on my desk that hasn't been sorted; suddenly came hundreds of thousands of pages?

Jiucai Rong flipped through briefly; they truly were hundreds of thousands of pages—never this defying nature when writing papers and researching materials.

Without workers to help him, Jiucai Rong could only find workers on the forum.

He flipped through page by page, letting the audience view and take screenshots and photos.

Would it be difficult for one person on the forum to read a hundred pages?

But after flipping for quite a while, he was utterly exhausted.

Even just flipping and screenshotting, when would he ever finish these hundreds of thousands of pages?

"Where are my Embers?"

Jiucai Rong looked up and sighed deeply but couldn't find anyone for a moment.

Recently, Embers treated Jiucai Rong like its baby.

Born rebellious, a capitalist with severe sickness, also exploiting this "baby" to work.

Making him so angry that his head felt dizzy and eyes blurry.

Finally, an agreement was reached with everyone rotating daily work shifts.

...

Ning Zheng watched dancing in the prison—a group of ladies dancing, much more stylish than listening to songs at the tavern.

Traveling during the day, watching dances at night, he suddenly felt like it was an emperor's immortal life.

In the previous summer, he was addicted to fishing.

Now in winter, he's obsessed with watching dances.

Su Yuniang is simply a witch, always finding ways to seduce people, disturbing my Tao Heart, ruining my cultivation.

Turning the prison into a tavern.

"No wonder immortal cultivation demands cultivating the heart, being pure and desireless, too many worldly temptations."

He silently appreciated a dance and returned home to start with serious business: opening the forum.

The forum is already a giant tool for him to manage the manor.

Just like right now.

He can effortlessly get others to preliminarily select a batch of usable merchandise for him.

Just like choosing concubines, he makes the final selection himself.

Sure enough, their actions are very swift, even professional.

Turning photographed pictures into text using some high-tech-looking image recognition software, quickly transforming into one-page documents.

Because there are categorization pages, every category is very orderly.

People on the forum start initial screening, first kicking out Pill Medicine, Talismans, etc., and directly choosing weapons, Spirit Roots, treasures that expand knowledge.

These blacksmiths quickly listed information.

The whole process took just five hours.

Of course, Jiucai Rong suffered the most, flipping through book page by page.

Though some things might be missed, three key items for the manor's development have been found.

1. Divine Summoning Plaque.

Originating from one of Nine-State, Other Shore Flower Continent's specialty, Muddy Artifact.

Xinyi Continent, which here grows Xinyi Flower, Wine Rice.

All with golden braids, wearing silver ornaments or crowns maintaining Spirit Rice atop their heads, extravagantly adorned, similar to the previous life Miao Race.

Other Shore Continent, which over there grows Other Shore Flower, Yellow Spring Grass.

Other Shore Flower is the officially widespread Yin Spirit Root for loose cultivators, the best choice for the poor.

Yellow Spring Grass is Water Series Spirit Root, rumored not to be simple.

The name suggests it's gloomy, but that continent claims to be the most beautiful continent.

Other Shore Flower is the most beautiful type of flower, colorful and charming, one by one opening colorful flowers on hair tips, far prettier than our side's wheat head hair.

Hair like flowers, resembling a Flower Fairy in a colorful forest.

Local cultivators are mostly women, the entire continent being Yin prevailing over Yang.

And they are close to nature, living deep within forests, in cities where Other Shore Flower and Yellow Spring Grass bloom.

Other certain continents have Yang Spirit Root as the official widespread bottom Spirit Root, primarily men.

In short, some large continents due to diverse customs create extreme situations of more women than men, or more men than women.

They often engage in mutual marriages annually.

Other Shore Flower Continent's cultivators, crowned with Other Shore Flowers, communicate with Muddy Qi between heaven and earth, and Divine Summoning Technique is popular there.

That's what we call Muddy Artifact.

Of course, pretty different from those black-hearted blacksmiths' garbage Muddy Artifacts.

Blacksmiths will only use heads as bait, crude trap methods, people there attract Muddy Qi using a special Soul-Calling Banner.

This results in almost none of what you'd call folks in heaven and earth there.

So, it's truly a paradise of birds and flowers, with the air being incredibly clean and fresh.

As the saying goes.

The Yin and evil muddled qi of heaven and earth, once entering the Other Shore Continent, can no longer leave.

Over there is the real Women's Country.

The Other Shore Flower Continent is also one of the great continents that countless cultivators from the Nine-States visit for travel.

After all, it's abundant with beauties, a sea of flowers—who wouldn't want to take a look?

Ning Zheng glanced at Jiucai Rong's introduction:

"Everyone, while we're still researching muddy artifacts, those people on the other side have already mastered it."

"Their muddled artifact Divine Summoning Technique is excellent. I suggest buying a few 'Summoning God' plaques to let the old grandfather possess us and memories pour in."

"Hmm, although this seems like trafficking people, selling the local folks of the world, but since the authorities don't care, we shouldn't bother either."

"Even though the side effects are significant, we're not afraid."

"What does this even mean? Memories and experiences flood in, equating to profession experience books in games! Medical skills, alchemist, blacksmith... crazy grinding of profession experience books, frenzied in-game purchases, and I am the big shot!"

Divine Summoning Technique = Profession Experience Book.

They truly love the local folks of the world.

Ning Zheng thought it over and felt it might be worth buying.

Possession and thought infection—these messy side effects are all bearable.

Living again should be able to resolve it all.

He glanced away from the Divine Summoning Technique and looked at the second option.

2. Seeking Knowledge Grass.

Middle Grade Yang Spirit Root, paired cultivation technique "Brain Knowledge Technique."

This kind of spiritual root possesses an extremely fast learning ability, dozens of times faster than an average person.

Even most sects' saintesses and saint children cannot compare to the cultivators with this spiritual root divine technique.

Of course, the strength of a genius lies not in learning ability alone. Purely learning fast makes one a bookworm; a genius is innovating, nimble of mind, and supremely wise...

Besides, opening this spiritual root only makes you learn fast.

No combat power, taking up a slot for a spiritual root divine technique... generally, it's used for non-combat professions.

Jiucai Rong commented:

"Even if the upper limit is low, it's still a very good thing."

"We can open this spiritual root, enhance learning progress... once we're proficient, we can take our lives, exchange for the Soul Separation Flower, wouldn't the side effects disappear?"

"And it's cheaper, a one-time purchase, a lifetime buyout!"

"Middle Grade Spiritual Root + matching cultivation technique, only a mere half a million Magic Coins, we can plant spiritual roots ourselves later to reduce expenses."

"The adjacent Divine Summoning Technique, experience books burn money, buying those 'local folks' shipped from the Other Shore Continent, each a book of experience, it's a bottomless pit... allowing them to wildly profit from us? Too costly!"

"Still, this method of learning cultivation techniques offers the best value."

Ning Zheng felt a headache.

Mere 500,000 Magic Coins, high cost-efficiency?

You all take me for a money printer.

Ning Zheng felt that if he were to develop a force, 3 million wouldn't suffice.

The various aspects of a force consume too much money.

He now somewhat understood why the Shi family was so poor, with such low cash flow.

It seems he might soon follow in their footsteps.

3 million Magic Coins about to be spent, soon entering the impoverished ranks.

Ning Zheng hesitated and looked around, "Even though this saves money long-term, 500,000 for purchasing a matching spiritual root, it's too much for me right now."

Ning Zheng glanced at the third option.

3. Soul-Planting Secret Technique.

Shade-loving Grass, Middle Grade Yin Spirit Root.

Paired with some evil path secret technique to implant false memories and backgrounds in certain people, achieving control over mortals and developing secret agents.

Of course, this method is very cruel!

Memory implantation will cause soul disorder, a small chance of sudden death, a moderate chance of insanity.

But mere side effects, insignificant.

"This is actually easy to understand."

"Cultivators use this evil method to implant memories, why can't we implant a blacksmith's forging memories?"

"For example, Daojiu, open this spiritual root, become a profession mentor, implant their forging experience and memories into other blacksmiths."

"This is a profession mentor, and wouldn't Daojiu make a fortune?"

"In the future, when our manor develops, with guilds for each profession, it's going to be so cool!"

"We're pioneers, and when newbie blacksmiths come in later, they'll directly look for profession mentors like Daojiu to learn!"

This statement landed.

Many people started discussing.

After all, skill books and profession mentors will revolutionize the structure of the entire manor.

Influencing the next version's profession strength.

"Woo woo woo woo, we are building the manor for them."

"This is called the ancestors plant the tree, the descendants enjoy the shade. If you envy them, you can wait for a few more batches to enter."

"No, I have beta test advantages, and when they come in later, I'll make them learn from me, draining their Magic Coins, becoming a capitalist Jiucai Rong."

"You're all thinking about this? With the emergence of profession books, the in-game purchase system is officially online, Magic Coins are going to become more valuable, and the big shots will inevitably collect money, purchase experience books, and rush to become high-tier professionals, starting to rank up."

"Hehehe, there's more motivation for grinding."

"This broken game is probably starting to milk money, starting to give the big spenders cheats, while the average player will suffer."

"Who are these complainers? Without making money, do you really think the developers would make the game for free?"

"Exactly, in this kind of management leisure game, the gap between big spenders and average players isn't that huge."

...

...

Everyone was discussing enthusiastically.

Indeed, no game can be without skill experience books and skill mentors.

This truly sped up their learning progress, ignited their enthusiasm, giving them a chance to narrow the gap with the natives.

Ning Zheng saw this, silently closed the forum, putting on a thinking look.

Indeed, this world is too flourishing.

All sorts of bizarre immortal cultivation methods exist.

[Soul Possession], [Accelerated Learning], [Memory Implantation]... these indeed exist.

But it's also normal; techniques like these are classics in storybooks, with many protagonists defeating opponents unexpectedly by using them.

Moreover, side effects don't matter.

The only advantage of these blacksmiths is: they are not afraid of death.

And now these things are merely a rough glance at the list, tens of thousands of seasonal products from various places in the Xinyi Continent, even products from other continents.

I estimate there are still some relatively obscure, overlooked methods afterward.

"However, the learning of blacksmithing techniques can be accelerated, which should solve a major issue."

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