Chapter 340 - 143: Selecting Personnel, Shifts in Qi Fortune
As a young cultivator who has just entered the Three Elements, Ning Zheng showed no stage fright.
Ning Zheng glanced at the experts from various academic fields sitting in the Capital City opposite, and said:
"In the past, we wouldn't mind discussing Tao with you and exchanging insights."
"But now we are here to reshape the Sun and Moon, which is a major event concerning the world's well-being, and cannot allow any personal considerations."
"Some people might be eliminated next, not because we do not recognize your strength, but because your techniques may not be compatible or might overlap with our team's."
The top academic figures across from them listened silently, nodding occasionally.
It's best to get things straight first, separating personal and public affairs.
If people get eliminated later, they wouldn't feel too bad.
"You have been summoned to the capital, which means you are among the top in various academic fields across the Nine-State."
"If you are not selected for our team, please understand, and believe that other Sun and Moon Casting teams might have a more fitting place for you."
After Ning Zheng finished speaking, he picked up the list that recorded self-introductions, his expression indifferent.
However, his heart was filled with a myriad of emotions.
Four months ago, he was just a small cultivator in the Five-Body Realm, hiding everywhere, hiding under a villa, not imagining he could have such a day.
The pinnacle figures from various high-tier fields of the world are lining up, waiting for him to make a choice!
Even a group of Shennong have also paid a huge price and are willing to make good with their Xirong Divine Craftsman faction.
It's like a dream.
A legendary kind of rise.
Suddenly, a sense of unimaginable achievement spread in Ning Zheng's heart, and he smiled inwardly:
"I can't get arrogant; I'm just borrowing power. Essentially, we are a very weak small power outside Pingchang City."
"Don't mention our hard skills not being up to standard, even if they were, without followers and guardians, we cannot protect ourselves and need to tread cautiously."
Every large non-combat professional force, like the Shennong, Divine Craftsmen... specializing in one vein, earns gold daily. Don't other forces covet them?
Over countless years, they have slowly risen, nurturing some guardians, followers, and making many friends... so no one can hit on them!
But Ning Zheng?
He hasn't nurtured any enforcers to protect these "Divine Craftsmen"!
This is the issue of rising too fast, leading to a lack of foundation.
If one day there is no corresponding strength, no guardians, it's like a child carrying gold in a bustling market, everyone wants to secretly rob you, enslave you!
If their villa is discovered, they might have to return to the previous era of being slaves, exploited, and even facing more tragic unknown situations.
"First, look at the list of those who want to cooperate with us."
He walked to the back where the projection couldn't reach, sat down calmly, and looked at the list.
Among these Shennong, the most famous belongs to the Doukou family.
One of the Nine Kings of Nine-State.
Doukou Continent is a renowned Shennong continent.
It's said that during the uprising era, the spiritual root supplies for various armies were provided by the Doukou family.
The Doukou family hardly cultivates combat power, each being a spirit farmer, yet they won the rights to parcel out land and establish territories. It speaks volumes about their status back then!
In a war, do you fight with the powerhouses?
You fight with logistics!
At that time, if your army wanted to replenish numbers, you had to find spiritual roots, beg the Doukou family!
Know this.
In the era of the innate spiritual roots of the old dynasty, spirit farmers were one of the weakest professions, the kind even dogs wouldn't care about.
But with the advent of the postnatal spiritual root era, everyone's spiritual roots had to rely on spirit farmers to nurture, giving spirit farmers an epic level boost. The Doukou family soared with the tide of the times!
Became the new elite of this era.
And now, the Doukou family sees another new wave coming towards their spirit farmers!
The spirit farming industry is facing another takeoff!
Weapons will also rely on spirit farmers in the future, so all spirit farmer professions have high hopes for this new technology.
"The Doukou family is almost a must-choose."
Ning Zheng mused.
Beside him, Jiucai Rong and others were also frantically sorting data, and even the audience perspectives were trying to find the best solution.
After all.
The spirit farmers are actually the core of their team!
Because celestial spirit roots are not synthesized randomly!
Can we ourselves guess the synthesis formulas for those celestial spirit roots?
The goofy little blacksmith is self-aware.
Their middle-grade spirit farmer mudworker researching the synthesis sequences of celestial-grade spirit roots is a bit too advanced!
Previously, they just researched the spiritual root atlas of mixed spirit roots like goosegrass.
You have to let professional Shennong, these bosses who understand the characteristics of celestial spirit roots, study these celestial spirit root syntheses...
This involves synthesis formulas.
What exactly the final synthesis divine technique of Sun and Moon looks like depends on their help.
In short.
Shennong remotely command, blacksmiths are responsible for mortifying, synthesizing, and organizing data repeatedly...
As Sword Fairy said:
"Our team is researching the Sun and Moon Divine Artifacts together."
Another person said: "Then what are you responsible for researching?"
"I'm responsible for being researched, harvesting spiritual roots, collecting data for the synthesis atlas."
...
Of course, this also requires some artistic processing to not reveal that our blacksmiths are just trash.
You have to pretend it's an equal partnership, not showing that you are the one being researched.
While the goofy little blacksmiths brooded over their melancholy, the internet exploded.
"Are they starting selecting people?"
"So cool."
"This is a classic segment of simulation management games, setting up a management research project, starting interviews, and selecting a batch of researchers based on NPC portraits and introductions to complete the project!"
"How do you choose? This is the moment that decides the manor's fate!"
"This isn't the interview stage, isn't it giving us a recruitment NPC entry without attribute panels? Don't NPCs generally have traits like 'Narcissist', 'Craftsmanship Spirit', 'Serious', 'Timid', 'Pessimistic'?"
"Bold! Daring to compare these super experts in various fields to workers hired by our manor as Paru!"
"Haha, they are just one link in our Sun and Moon casting!!"
"The game has entered a super fun stage; our little blacksmiths pick a batch of top-notch professionals, other teams pick a batch of top-notch professionals, see everyone's selection level, everyone competes..."
"This relies too much on insight!"
...
Ning Zheng glanced at the list a few times, then glanced at the masters from various fields sitting in the hall, and quickly picked out several names with a pen.
The action was so decisive, it seemed almost unthinking!
"Whoa!"
"What is this?"
In the shadows, those little blacksmiths were dumbfounded; how could the old steward decide so easily on such an important matter?
Someone felt something was off and whispered:
"Whoa, should we stop this, is he selecting while squinting?"
"We're done for; if we don't choose well, how can we pretend?"
"Oh my, we can't compete with other teams now."
"Fool, did you forget about the planners cheating, secretly tweaking draw probabilities?"
"Are you suggesting?"
"Oh my, the officials are cheating, so loving to us."
"Sigh~ Oh, oh, oh, I love you, hurry tweak the rates, hurry, I love this so much."
...
While a group of blacksmiths lay by the steward's window peeking, sneaky and whispering, Ning Zheng had already finished selecting from the list.
He beckoned the Immortal Aunt to come over and then handed over the list.
The Immortal Aunt quickly ran over, glanced at the list, exchanged a glance with Jiucai Rong, nodded, and then ran back to the camera to announce it directly.
Ning Zheng didn't mind either.
Previously, how did he interview the new manor steward—Jiucai Rong?
It was also just a quick glance before finishing the interview.
Which people are most suitable? Just a glance at the increase in his Qi Fortune, and it's clear.
Moreover, Ning Zheng put the remaining ten thousand Qi Fortune Values on it, selecting people again, considered better than nothing.
"Xinyi Baisan."
"Doukou Hong."
...
Several names were called out and eventually finished reading.
"The train of the times."
The Shennong who weren't selected couldn't hide their envy in their eyes.
