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The forum discussion was intense.

Everyone was talking about the two Immortal Spirit Roots: [Shining God] and [Sun and Moon Creation Furnace].

Everyone believed that after completing the holy orders' mainline task, this was the new [system function] in this manor management game.

Groups of people were chatting crazily, reasoning, and exploring new gameplay elements.

Ning Zheng watched for a while, browsed dozens of posts, feeling amused.

"But, it really does seem quite similar to the [synthesis] and [spiritual medicine] functions they mentioned."

It has to be said, this is quite a coincidence.

These two top-notch functional divine artifacts, if any landed in one's hands, could cultivate a powerful family!

After all, these things were among the Sun and Moon's alternatives.

Nowadays, Ning Zheng has basically learned many fresh internet vocabulary through posts, no longer as clueless as a few months ago.

Simultaneously, the collection of meme types has become quite extensive.

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On the morning of the next day.

The blacksmiths just rising from their dormitory beds started a new day of hard work.

They gathered one after another in the square, ready to take on the day's tasks.

The garbage, debris, and even the snow from last night's bonfire party on the square had all been cleaned up.

"Looks like our Embers baby worked hard."

"What baby? That's called the night blacksmith."

"This refers to the replicas, clones, working while we sleep, got it?"

"Hehe, in a few hundred years on Earth, humans will also clone themselves to do work."

"Sounds dark cyberpunk, doesn't it?"

...

Everyone suddenly sensed the fun of "game cultivation."

Previously, it was them doing the sanitation, cleaning, washing, reminding them of high school classroom cleaning days.

Now, the entire manor carries its own cleaning service.

The reason is that Jiucai Rong publishes [night tasks] every night before going offline, for those night "blacksmiths" to work, clean, and mine.

There's even Embers who go to forge!

Talking about Daojiu.

In these few days, Daojiu's Embers also emerged.

Now the blacksmith shop resembles an assembly line in a factory, a round-the-clock shift, the Forging Furnace never extinguishes, used until worn out.

It has to be said, their current technology is quite advanced.

At this point.

"So the holy orders are just over like that?"

"What should we do now?"

Looking at the empty square, everyone suddenly felt a bit at a loss, a void following excitement, feeling confused.

"Well, what do you expect, our manor's work is done; the rest depends on the Capital City team."

"We finished it in just four or five hours, such a massive National Guardian Divine Artifact, are we just a formality?"

"What do you know, even 1% of cooperation in work is cooperation; we were responsible for creating the Artifact Spirit, and that's it."

They whispered among themselves.

The entire morning was, as they predicted.

The blacksmith shop was engaged in studying those two divine weapons, a new function was about to launch, countless people were waiting at the blacksmith shop doors, ready to witness a historic moment.

The remaining people started routine work, laboring, mining.

In the bookstore.

The refined urbanite blacksmiths drank tea, read books, wrote love letters to female prisoners down the mountain, chatting online from afar.

At noon, Jiucai Rong was seen carrying a notice board, inserting it in front of the square.

[Official Announcement: This time the [Sword Casting Competition] will usher in a major update without going offline, update log for version 0.8 is as follows.]

[Sun and Moon rise, we who are renowned worldwide, what kind of commercial orders will we receive?]

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[In the major update, the following items are optimized simultaneously.]

[1. Added new function [synthesis], including but not limited to synthesizing pets, game login characters, etc., please blacksmiths explore on their own.]

[2. Fixed a few bugs.]

[3. Optimized several known issues.]

[4. Added new [Shining God] Spirit Liquid, please explore its specific efficacy.]

[5. Added 1,000 new female prisoners.]

[6. Added the "Yin Yang Corpse-Slaying Sword" youthful version divine weapon construction blueprint.]

[7. New Manor Master Embers Three Flowers launched, fixed camera angle.]

[8. New hidden Immortal Martial World setting—Chronicles of Time, what plot will unfold with Jian Xin, Jiao Wuyu? You are all encouraged to explore.]

[9. Added new tomb boss, the Shi Family indicated the tomb they looted contains ten tomb owners, awaiting to manipulate the new Manor Leader Missile for attack.]

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A crowd of blacksmiths gathered eagerly around the update announcement.

Jiucai Rong wrote down all the recent events in the update, organized quite clearly.

"Manor Master Embers's Three Flowers, recently seems like Su Yuniang from prison is responsible for the nursery visit every day."

The Food God pondered for a moment:

"However, it seems after random nursery visits, dynamic scenes appeared in the Capital City, fields, riverbeds, Desolate Mountain, Ancient Tomb... and did not encounter friends from No-Life Sect able to blend in."

"I estimate that without the Sword Fairy's insider intelligence, our chance encounter is very low." Shao Chaikun followed up with analysis, "But if it's exposed that she's secretly in contact with the No-Life Sect, big trouble will be on the way."

"Whether we meet the No-Life Sect or not, isn't it just determined by one word from the planners? The planners can tweak the data from behind the scenes."

The Shrimp Catcher complained, "Maybe next time during the Three Flowers opening, when we go to the nursery, we'll encounter the main quest of the No-Life Sect."

Jiucai Rong also joined in, saying, "Instead of this, why don't we use the Manor Leader Missile to hit those tomb bosses for which the Shi Family provided the coordinates earlier?"

Everyone agreed on this point.

The ten tomb bosses of the Demon Cultivator Shi Family were mentioned by the old steward before.

They had originally planned to conquer the tomb of the city guard and then move on to the next tomb to collect the contaminated spirit plants.

But then they got too busy.

After the battle at Xinyi Continent City, they immediately faced the Capital City incident.

Plus, after the raid on Xinyi Continent, they acquired a large amount of Spirit Plant Liquid, so they weren't tempted by the small amount of spirit plants in the tombs anymore.

But now, with some free time, they could indeed challenge these bosses!

The Spirit Plant Liquid from the manor will eventually run out.

It's good to deal with the contaminated spirit plants from those tombs while we're at it.

And with our Manor Leader Missile now upgraded to a more advanced Three Elements Realm, it's just perfect for dealing with those tomb bosses.

"The most crucial thing is [Urging Virtue]," Jiucai Rong said, "It can consume five of the Five Elements Embers, isn't now the perfect time for these bosses to appear?"

Jiucai Rong wrote this update with this intention, apparently.

The Manor Leader's embers belong to the Yin attribute.

They wanted to try letting Sun Moon Su Yuniang control and absorb these embers but couldn't; they could only control the Five Elements.

If not, they'd dare to make a move against the Manor Leader.

Hopefully, one of those ten tomb bosses has a complete set of Five Elements Embers.

Of course, it may not be possible to absorb it, so perhaps start with the low-level embers first? Then gradually level up, absorbing upwards?

"Ready to take on the bosses?"

"Is this a celebration?"

A group of blacksmiths overheard, somewhat happily.

We finally have something to do again!

Jiucai Rong felt relieved seeing this scene, "As a steward, it's important to reasonably arrange directions and goals, so they don't fall into a state of confusion."

He was responsible for pointing out the development direction of the manor.

At this moment.

They quickly got back into the state of things, researching how to tackle the ten Three Elements Realm bosses.

Jiucai Rong didn't say much, just sent a communication to the Sword Fairy in the Capital City, asking how yesterday's task was going and what the follow-up situation was like now.

The Sword Fairy responded after a while, "What's up? Are you holding the third weapon sale already?"

"It's not that fast," Jiucai Rong complained.

The Sword Fairy said, "I've been crazy busy from yesterday till now. That group asked if we are selling any remaining Immortal Spirit Root Artifact Spirits to craft and sell weapons? They're willing to pay a high price."

"We're not selling, no matter the price."

In Jiucai Rong's eyes, this is a [new feature] of the game, how can we sell it?

But this game is extraordinary.

The [new features] of the main interface can also be sold.

How is this different from the game interface where you sell the [Synthesis] or [Spiritual Medicine] to NPCs?

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"Alright then, I'll just decline them," the Sword Fairy thought, maybe using them herself might work, "By the way, they also asked if we'd take on a commercial order for Celestial Spirit Roots, as they want to create an Artifact Spirit too."

"Explain in detail," Jiucai Rong said.

Actually, it's simple, each force is envious and wants to do Celestial Spirit Root synthesis.

But they won't use their family's Celestial Spirit Roots, as they're their roots and won't be allowed to circulate in any form.

What they can offer are some wild Celestial Spirit Roots encountered during adventures and Celestial Spirit Roots acquired from hunting other forces.

Jiucai Rong thought for a moment, decisively shook his head, "Not accepting for now."

"You've changed your tune?" the Sword Fairy said.

"Accepting too many will expose us."

Jiucai Rong said, "In outsiders' eyes, having forged Sun Moon has consumed much of our essence, using up the resources we accumulated over thousands, even tens of thousands of years, tons of twin-born or even above twin-born Soul Bubbles."

"Now they're placing orders with us, it's actually a form of probing."

"After all, we just showed the Saint how difficult and painful it was, only to turn around and joyfully take on orders here and there? Indicating we still have a lot of Soul Bubbles?"

"It's not just a slap in the face but could also leave a bad impression on the Saint."

Jiucai Rong isn't foolish.

This is too inconsistent.

The manor's resources haven't been fully utilized yet.

These high-end requests need to be flatly turned down.

Put on a cold, mysterious facade and refuse visitors.

Imply we're almost out of essence, the cultivated split Soul Bubbles aren't enough, needing regeneration before we can take on another order.

But it's not absolutely refusing orders.

Just that one phrase:

Add money!

Things are precious because they are rare.

High-end divine weapons aren't widespread if they act foolishly.

For now, the situation calls for stability, and we can seize the chance to raise prices a bit, occasionally taking an order and that's it.