Chapter 330 - 134: Sun Moon Forging Plan
According to normal reasoning.
They should be able to complete more than half of the progress by producing the artifact spirit, since the core is the artifact spirit.
However.
A Sun Moon-level artifact spirit...
This is a bit terrifying.
It requires a Yin and Yang Celestial Spirit Root, stacked together?
Moreover.
It likely needs to include the Five Elements attribute?
This century-level National Guardian Divine Artifact must not be taken lightly—if we do it, do it to the best.
But their technology in fusion ghost artifacts should be far ahead of peers.
Because peers simply don't know.
But merely this Middle Grade blacksmith-level lead is far from reaching the level of forging Sun Moon.
Still need to practice!
Still need to research!
"I will strive to become an Upper Grade blacksmith!" Daojiu said earnestly.
"None of your business." Jiucai Rong shook his head, "One more Upper Grade, one less Upper Grade makes no difference. Our main focus is the artifact spirit... what's it got to do with you, a blacksmith?"
The Sun Moon artifact spirit is just pure card drawing.
Technical content is very low!
Ask the Saint over there to bring budget here.
Bring a pile of Celestial Spirit Roots, let the foolish blacksmiths Three Flowers... reaching Ember level with Celestial Spirit Roots, getting one Yin and one Yang.
This purely relies on luck!
What's it got to do with technology?
"However, the fusion of two Celestial Spirit Roots in the artifact spirit might rely somewhat on the physician."
"Low Tier artifact spirit fusion is simple, but it's not necessarily so at High Tier."
Jiucai Rong thought for a bit, "Immortal Aunt alone isn't enough; need to summon back the Medical Fairy from the neighboring shop, have the two research new soul technology together."
This is currently the highest level the manor can produce.
Immortal Aunt, Medical Fairy, these days have also reached Middle Grade physician level after consuming the Experience Book.
But it may still be somewhat insufficient.
However, their Blood Separation Flower, Soul Separation Flower, are originally Yin Yang Spirit Roots, having some advantage in soul medicine.
"I will work hard!" Immortal Aunt said proudly.
"Me too, me too!" The Sword Fairy on the opposite Communication Token spoke up, "Did you all forget, that I'm also a skilled physician!?"
"You?" Jiucai Rong looked skeptical.
The Sword Fairy's stubborn streak emerged: "You look down on me? Jian Xin looks down on me, but even you guys look down on me?"
"I am not just passing by; using the sword is just living, medical skills saving the world is the dream!"
"These days, I've blended with the Divine Doctor team, furiously consulting various Divine Doctors, participating in studying their diverse Ember fusion technology. Though I didn't succeed, during the research learned a lot of soul fusion knowledge."
Jiucai Rong suddenly brightened: "What research are you mainly responsible for?"
The Sword Fairy said arrogantly, "Being researched."
Jiucai Rong: "..."
Alright.
The Sword Fairy is also a powerful physician, having secretly learned quite a bit of Divine Doctor techniques, likely usable.
Daojiu on the side, face changing and changing, "What's up with the blacksmith shop? The Saint's blacksmith order, how come it ends up in someone's medical clinic?"
Is his blacksmith shop just eating idle meals?
Where is the dignity of our blacksmith shop!
Jiucai Rong glanced at him: "You're a Middle Grade blacksmith, currently lacking the skills to participate in such high-level tasks. However, Low Level Divine Weapons are still possible."
"The 'Yin Yang Corpse-Slaying Sword' in the youth series of Divine Weapons, your blacksmith shop still needs to work overtime and do them, everyone is waiting for the next auction."
"We want to solidify the reputation of mass-produced Divine Weapons; now we've only put out eight pieces, people likely still don't quite believe."
"That black Magic Copper, need to use sparingly; it's one of the raw materials for forging Sun Moon Divine Weapons."
Daojiu donned a mask of pain, in the end, could only express understanding.
After all, now the Ash Artifact requires multiple professions' collaboration, none can be excluded.
Blacksmith: crafting weapon body.
Enchanter: card drawing, self-destruction.
Spirit Farmer: planting Spirit Roots for the Enchanter.
Physician: technology for soul bubble fusion.
These four form a supply chain, only then can produce a finished product.
In the afternoon, Jiucai Rong discussed the detailed plan with Sword Fairy; the various Analysis Emperors online were also researching, would thoroughly organize the best plan.
Still mainly about opening Celestial Spirit Roots.
But how to reduce consumption... is a problem.
Though it's estimated the whole Royal Family's stock of Celestial Spirit Roots might not be that many.
10%×10%=1%, a 1% draw rate means, mathematically expected value for opening two Embers is 100 Celestial Spirit Roots.
But realistically, it might require several hundred Celestial Spirit Roots.
And this is still Yin Yang...
If adding Five Elements?
Difficulty super multiplied.
Actual mathematical expectation might be thousands of Celestial Spirit Roots, even tens of thousands.
What kind of exaggerated concept is this?
Look at their Manor Master, with one Celestial Spirit Root so heaven-defying, then you know how precious it is.
Know that a top-tier Holy Land might not have much stock, anyway.
Because cost is extremely high, requiring ten-thousand-year-old Celestial Grade Spirit Plant Liquid, these are only found in those ancient Emperor's Mausoleums, tombs, Secret Realms.
Moreover, even with Celestial Grade Spirit Plant Liquid, chances of cultivating seedlings are low.
Only core disciples of a Holy Land, Saint Child, Saintess, are fit to open Celestial Spirit Roots.
A great sect in the contemporary era also only has a few people!
Thousands, tens of thousands Celestial Spirit Roots, likely not available.
Even if there were, do you think they'd deplete the entire national treasury for you to use?
You're just one team among those forging the Sun Moon, not necessarily successful yet.
What makes you think you deserve so many resources?
And that's just the consumables for the Artifact Spirits; your Sun Moon Artifact Body creation requires another huge investment.
Getting the Court to foot the entire bill is way too challenging.
A group of people is frantically discussing plans, trying to optimize costs.
"We need to increase the output of Embers."
Night Mad Cultivator said, "Surely there are some high-tier treasures that can increase the probability of Ember birth."
"The lower the life form, the higher the chance of Embers appearing. We apprentice blacksmiths have low realms, so maybe it's not just a 10% chance of output."
With a higher probability, the consumption of Celestial Spirit Roots decreases!
Any large-scale construction plan can't escape the process of cost optimization.
While they were discussing, on the square, the team including the enchanters also gathered.
They are about to launch the "Artifact Spirit Youth Training Camp" project.
Immortal Aunt raised the Communication Token.
From the token came the voice of Su Yuniang, the enchanter leader from Xinyi Continent City:
"As enchanters, we are born to serve as materials, born for the Artifact Spirits."
"To offer guests better user experience after we change professions and to boost our brand awareness, we are gonna undergo the following training."
"First is bungee jumping."
"Overcome your fear of heights; you must conquer it while you breathe."
A tall jumping platform has been set up, connected by a rope twisted from numerous River Demon sinews.
An enchanter shouted from below, "Sis, is this rope safe? Will it break? When do we inspect or replace it?"
"Never inspect, only replace it if it breaks."
Su Yuniang answered the question, "Besides overcoming the fear of heights, we will have speech training."
"Three sentences to make the owner spend thirty thousand Magic Coins on us."
"How to subtly point out the owner's shortcomings, carrot and stick approach, CPU the other, like before any criticism say: I know you've done XX very well, but XXX still needs improvement... That kind of sentence structure."
"Since we are the youth version, almost always bought by young people, how to get the young, passionate owners into 996 routines, supervise their studies, classes, make them avoid romantic distractions."
"The content of 'Quit lust, buddy,' you all should recite it fluently; only when the owner becomes stronger can we ride in Jaguars! Oops... Ride with the owner!"
"It's a human pet cultivation guide."
"How to please the owner's parents is also a mandatory course, even the chicken parenting has to be learned."
...
Everyone's eyes lit up.
Studying textbooks and learning subjects, I'm barely interested.
Learning this kind of in-game strategy, I am tempted to pull all-nighters.
What's more, is about how to be a capitalist, a teacher, to harshly educate "students" about schooling.
Transferring the pain you once felt onto someone else, just the thought makes you ecstatic.
Pain doesn't disappear, it just transfers.
...
Time arrives the next day.
In the enchanter area.
The enchanters' training is already showing some results.
They are all striving hard to be better commodity materials.
In the manager's room.
The Jiucai Rong folks are still frantically discussing plans. After a night of rigorous discussion, with advice from various netizens to fill in the gaps.
A complete plan to fool Divine Craftsmen has started to form!
During the process.
Zhang Huaping, who hadn't come for a while, also made a visit.
After all, the old blacksmiths in the shop are dealing with middle-grade Divine Weapons, those newly arrived beginner blacksmiths with lackluster skills naturally need lower-grade Painting Cards for practice.
The sale of Painting Cards naturally has to be maintained!
This time, Zhang Huaping was again greatly shocked after coming.
As soon as she entered the main gate of the manor, she saw several blacksmiths, pretending to be aloof, stringing thousands of Magic Coins into money strings and swaying them at their waists.
Wow, so rich! What are they trying to do?
She didn't quite understand.
She also saw on the square, a group of people holding a rope, queuing up to jump off a high platform.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
They plunged straight down.
Although the person in charge, Immortal Aunt, kept explaining: "This is our fun activity, very safe, mainly for joy, to relax, and experience the high-tier cultivator's feeling of sword control soaring."
But Zhang Huaping was very shocked.
The more explanation, the more it seemed like a cover-up.
Directly beneath the rope, patches of fresh red bloodstains seemed to forebode it wasn't so "safe," with many creepy stories having happened.
She walked to the square.
And saw a small mountain sorted out to a fair extent.
(Because it was sorted out fairly well and wasn't massive anymore, the blacksmith felt it reasonable and lazy to take it away.)
The moment Zhang Huaping saw the mountain, she also found it reasonable!
She instantaneously even felt tears welling up:
Boo-hoo! Months, after months, you're finally showing scenes a Tribulation Cultivator should have!
That's normal!
Compared to those bizarre actions, this pile of looted cultivator "heritage" clearly aligns with the manor's normal Tribulation Cultivator style.
Within ten minutes of arriving at the warehouse route, Zhang Huaping saw several places of great horror.
"How long has it been since I last came? The style is getting weirder."
She hastily finished fetching the goods, handed them over to Jiucai Rong, and then quickly left the manor.
"So jump."
"Don't be afraid."
"It's unpassed, mainly for excitement."
The bungee jumping continued behind her.
