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After finishing the meal and leaving the tavern, Ning Zheng headed to the market and also visited the old shopkeeper's store.

Inside the shop, Zhang Huaping was showcasing the manor's new product, inner armor, which made the old shopkeeper constantly display expressions of excitement, evidently very satisfied.

"Master, what brings you here?" Zhang Huaping quickly stood up.

"Nothing, just came to take a look." Ning Zheng glanced around; the shop wasn't very large, but the items displayed were very neat.

The inner armor held great value in the old shopkeeper's eyes.

Unlike Painting Cards, its advantages were straightforward — fine quality at a fair price, relying on advanced forging fusion technology to dominate the low-end market directly!

Ning Zheng was dumbfounded listening: "Our 'advanced technology', have we already become a force showcasing muscles and foundations??"

Shao Chaikun whispered beside him, "Technology changes life."

The Food God whispered, "An assembly line is the real way. My cafeteria will also have to implement an assembly line in the future — a culinary machine cooking up gourmet dishes nonstop."

Shao Chaikun grew more excited as he spoke: "This is the main line of the Sword Casting Manor, after all, Divine Artifacts replacing all techniques is far superior to the Experience Book."

The more they spoke, the more excited they became, as if they saw the truth.

Creating assembly line factories, foolproof Divine Artifacts as machine managers, this is truly cool.

...

...

Around four or five in the afternoon.

Ning Zheng wandered around, regrouped at the city gate, and through the Teleportation Array brought this group of joyful little blacksmiths back to the manor.

The Embers borrowed storage bags from some wealthy individuals in the manor when they went out, and they were now packed full.

Various antiques, vegetables, and street foods.

A group of blacksmiths excitedly gathered around.

"Wow, the prices outside are so cheap."

"It's mortal goods, indeed the purchasing power of Magic Coins is quite high."

"Indeed, our horizons are too high, it's always Divine Weapons, Great Cultivators above the Three Elements Realm, only then does Magic Coins seem worthless."

...

Looking at the happily smiling Embers, those blacksmiths felt they themselves were Paru.

The ones enjoying it were the Embers.

The Ember Shao Chaikun showed strong enthusiasm, detailing the textual adventure in the manor blacksmiths' eyes.

Everyone was greatly stunned after listening.

Is it another process plot?

The entire Pingchang City is in white?

The Saint has collapsed?

No wonder, at the manor, they also saw a sun rise.

Thinking of this, they quickly messaged the Sword Fairy.

Sadly, the Sword Fairy on the other side was also perplexed, "I'm not sure either, I just received the news too."

"The Nine-State has Sun Moon; I heard our Sun Moon is favored, serving as Sun Moon in the Nursery."

"However, the people of the Capital City have mostly evacuated, and now the city is empty, very strange."

...

Even the Sword Fairy had little information.

It could only be said that the secrets at this level were too high, even the Divine Craftsman circle couldn't access them.

At this moment, Ning Zheng returned to the manor and instantly discovered that all the living blacksmiths at the Sword Casting Manor had their Qi Fortune Values dropping.

"So we're going to have trouble here too."

Ning Zheng's expression finally changed drastically, feeling that if it were only Pingchang City, he could at least try to save them, but now even his side...

Suddenly, he froze all over, slowly looking at his own Qi Fortune Value, which also started to drop.

[Qi Fortune Value: 50231]

[Qi Fortune Value: 50229]

...

"Including myself, I'll also die." His heart sank unstoppably.

This wasn't like before, facing the Crow King or Adoptive Father's ancestral event crisis that led to his fortune dropping; this was genuine terror.

The whole area of Pingchang City is going to be extinct.

Ning Zheng thought, "Have I been discovered? Those ancient existences in the tombs have come to obliterate us."

"Not necessarily!"

His expression subtly changed, suddenly having a bold idea.

He directly activated the Teleportation Array in the State City, heading to the city.

Through the array, he visited the Scaly Gate's auction, where he saw the female shopkeeper and her maid.

"The Saint has passed." The female shopkeeper sighed at the counter.

"Sigh." The maid's face was also filled with worry, "The world is unstable, luckily we're in charge of a branch in the Continent City, it's considered safe."

Even their Qi Fortune Values were declining.

"Are you here to buy something?" The female shopkeeper noticed a big client arriving.

Ning Zheng's expression was heavy, and he left the selling event directly.

Walking down the street, he carefully searched for taverns and shops that entertained mortals.

All the living in Scaly Gate had Qi Fortune Values dropping.

Eventually, he saw a few cultivators who seemed to be from noble families, only without fortune drops.

"After seven or eight laps, the whole Continent City, are just a few alive?"

At that instant, Ning Zheng seemingly realized.

Pingchang City, extinguished.

Xinyi Continent City, extinguished.

The entire Xinyi Continent had fallen, a barren land stretching millions of miles, without a single living person? This update ıs available on noⅴelfire.net

Or perhaps, not just Xinyi Continent, but all living people in the Nine-State are going to perish?

Only a few are alive, because they came from Great Noble Families, whose family defense arrays are robust enough to withstand the calamity when they return home?

This suggests that here will embrace a mass extinction affecting over 90% of the population.

In a daze, he came to a tea stall at Scaly Gate.

Earlier, he and Jiao Wuyu chatted at the tea stall.

She spoke of the reason for plotting against the Saint, that in the moment of the Saint's death, their ghost Sun Moon might kill everyone, we'd die in the previous second, but we'd have logical flaws, not knowing we were already dead.

The whole world quietly transformed into a supermassive tomb.

"Two months later, the mass extinction of life in the Nine-State might be when the Saint's eyes reappear."

"That means the Saint should be faking death now, their true death will occur after two months."

This news, probably except for the Saint themselves, no one else knew.

But now Ning Zheng knows, yet he couldn't be happy at all.

According to logical inference, now is when the Saint fakes death entering the tomb, truly passing away after two months.

But the Saint sealing the tomb clearly indicates fear of becoming the biggest ghost, annihilating all beings. What unforeseeable changes occurred, allowing this unprecedented Great Calamity to emerge after?

What caused even the Saint to miscalculate the consequences of their death?

A terrifying thought swirled in Ning Zheng's mind:

"I seem like a true Transmigrator, because I saw the countdown to the end of the world."

...

The extinction of Pingchang City was almost destined, impossible to withstand.

Xinyi Continent City also extinguished, logically unlikely.

The extinction calamity might have come too abruptly, so Xinyi Continent City couldn't react to initiate defense, resulting in numerous casualties.

But the heritage and core region of the continent must be safe.

Then what about our manor?

The continent can endure, hidden Great Noble Families can endure, ancient Secret Realms can endure...

Why should our manor's defense be able to endure?

Sun Moon shining down, all are dead.

"No, regardless of future changes, whether it's Jiu Shui Saint's extinction or some other event causing extinction... This great calamity is bound to come; heightened defense and concealing the manor must be the right course."

"Seeing those few people from the Great Noble Families at Scaly Gate surviving, offers me a chance."

"If it doesn't work out, we just retreat first, and later hide in the Great Noble Families' core region of the continent... Then emerge after surviving this wave."

"Scaly Gate is actually a great hiding spot; now we're responsible for building Scaly Gate, taking the opportunity to set up a shelter, so I can hide there when the time comes and return after things settle."

"As for the little blacksmiths... Their safety issue is ultimately irrelevant." Ning Zheng thought, directly going to the bulletin board in the square to write.

[The manor is facing an impending extinction crisis, with the great extinction tribulation approaching; please expedite the manor's defense construction to help it overcome the upcoming extinction calamity.]

Everyone's eyes brightened.

The old manager personally took up the pen, indicating a new main storyline had indeed emerged.

The Saint collapsed, Nine-State in chaos, extinction initiated, it was indeed a classic among classics!

Someone murmured: I knew that Pingchang City plot animation would surely pull out a new main storyline.

Someone speculated: Red Sun's 150-year cycle minor calamity, what causes this extinction event?

The current main storyline truly lived up to their expectations.