Chapter 373 - 172: Newbie Blacksmiths Arrive, Princess Xin'e Cultivates Three Flowers_2
"Defying the heavens! I'm going to fuse pets now."
"Where did you get the money?"
"Hehehe, I've been monitoring a few thieves stealing scallions in the [audience perspective], recording Magic Coins. I'm going to collect it as startup capital."
A group of new young blacksmiths stood at the entrance, curiously looking around with excitement written all over their faces.
Someone took the lead in pretending to eat dirt, lying on the ground gnawing, trying to deceive others...
Everyone else gave him such looks, as if looking at an idiot, their eyes saying: Go ahead, eat, hurry up and eat.
???
Why aren't you deceiving others with me?
Great, I've become the clown.
The newbie blacksmith who tried to deceive others became the new fool instead.
Ning Zheng skillfully opened the villa's main gate, letting the blacksmiths in.
The group surged in, with a few sect blacksmiths holding signs that read [Guide for newbies, 2 Magic Coins per session], ready to welcome them.
Soon everyone was settled in the dormitory building.
The villa's dormitory now consists of two buildings housing five hundred people, not small in size, and is equipped with dormitory management and hot water pipes.
There's also a laundry Magical Artifact developed by the blacksmith shop, costing 1 Magic Coin per use.
If people from Pingchang City saw this, 1 Magic Coin for a laundry, even Zhang Huaping might be eager to come to the villa to be a laundry lady. These scallion blacksmiths' money is really easy to earn.
After watching them get settled, Ning Zheng asked them to assemble in the square and gave a speech:
"Everyone, our villa is currently launching a new [Yin Yang Ark Series] weapon. Please collaborate to create a bright future together."
"Additionally, to welcome newcomers, our villa has a special Easter egg today. Please work hard to uncover it."
Upon hearing this, everyone started speculating.
"Easter egg?"
"Shh, I think I've got a guess."
"Could it be a higher drop rate today? I'm going to try fusing pets."
"I'll go explore blacksmithing."
"I'll go draw a Spiritual Root."
Hearing the sounds behind her, Ning Zheng smiled knowingly. The Easter egg was naturally the side storyline of Xin'e's Secret Realm route.
One hundred thousand Magic Coins opened a Divine Technique.
In the past few days, we've accumulated an additional forty thousand Qi Fortune Values.
We can give them +20,000 Qi Fortune Values and ourselves +20,000 as well, to go to Xin'e's Princess's Mansion for a stroll.
This was the main storyline for the female blacksmiths.
As for the male blacksmith storyline?
Sorry.
The male blacksmiths' combat storyline, with ten boss side quests, had been released for them a long time ago.
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Nursery, Emperor's Tomb.
Inside Xin'e's Princess's Mansion.
The pond was surrounded by spiritual mist, smoke rising, and Xin'e was bathing.
It was apparent that her actions during her lifetime were very logical, even monotonously so.
A well-bred young lady's daily life.
Reading and writing, bathing and chatting, occasionally going out to provide relief to the people, to accumulate Yin virtue for her father, who was called a tyrant by the public.
To the people, she was a gentle, graceful, and kind princess.
To Cultivators, she was just a Mortal, even with Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, she'd live only a few hundred years and would age and die sooner or later, no more than a minor ripple in her long-lived father's ocean.
A closed-door cultivation, and she might pass away.
She had only seen her father a few dozen times in life, and the benefits she received were no more than what the Royal Family should have.
"Perhaps my only value in life is to be buried alongside him."
That was what Xin'e used to think.
Courts' princesses and Princes throughout history, and even Crown Princes who didn't successfully ascend... were mostly not having their own tombs.
Royal Family members shared one tomb, that of the Saint's Emperor's Mausoleum.
Only a few Princes who were given fiefs in different lands were buried in Continent City they governed.
To be buried after death, entering the Emperor's Mausoleum, had been the fate Xin'e Princess could imagine, but with the arrival of "transmigrators."
Her fate changed.
The future turned topsy-turvy, Postnatal Spiritual Roots appeared, and she, a mere mortal, was able to start cultivating and even took over the renowned No-Life Sect.
"But didn't they say they went out to explore? It's been over ten days, and they're not back yet. Could something have happened?"
Xin'e Princess felt anxious, stood up, draping her bathrobe, and sat down by the pond, "Yu, any news lately?"
The maid Yu wiped the princess's back, speaking: "Recently, there's no news in the mortal world. That group of transmigrators disappeared, only left behind the cultivation Techniques for opening Spiritual Roots, causing quite a stir among the people."
This tomb contains descendants of those buried alive back then; many of them don't have Spiritual Roots and naturally fight over gaining one.
"However, there's nothing about the transmigrators, but the Emperor seems to have a major event." Maid Yu said, "The Emperor seems to be planning to move the Capital back to the Nursery to the Capital City."
"Ah?" Xin'e blinked in surprise: "Moving back? Then Father must be very busy."
"Princess, we're moving the Capital back to the Capital City." The maid was somewhat worried.
After chatting for a while, and having nothing better to do, Xin'e said: "Let's play Landlord."
Last time, those transmigrators' believers taught them to play Landlord, saying it was the No-Life Mother of the future's favorite card game.
It secretly reflected on overturning the world, overthrowing innate Spiritual Roots, and the courageous spirit of the peasants rebelling against Immortals.
And wouldn't you know it.
Xin'e found it quite fun.
She, Xin'e, the maid, and Three Flowers, the three of them played several rounds, getting familiar, and those believers politely let her win.
In no time, the two maids began to play Landlord with her.
Swoosh.
At that moment, a fresh flower suddenly blossomed, and countless whispers of the No-Life Sect came, intermingling with nonsense from thousands of voices, shouting, "To No Life," "Praise Be to No Life."
But there was some odd noise mixed in too.
"A wonderland on Earth."
"To No Life," the No-Life believers shouted fervently.
"Sister is so beautiful, sister kill me."
"Can the newbie who just appeared really participate in such a large activity?"
"Praise Be to No Life!" The No-Life believers shouted in unison.
"Ooh, ooh, this small foot, so delicate, so domineering, come step on me."
"Who, who's speaking, did a male blacksmith sneak into our crowd?"
"No way, there's no gender change login function yet, all are girls."
"Which sister is defying the heavens like that."
...
Numerous voices of the No-Life Sect, mixed with inexplicable shouts came forth.
This made Xin'e quite delighted, ecstatic.
"My Lord, on this return journey, we found for you a Spiritual Root of Three Flowers." Embers Su Yuniang shouted.
"Praise Be to No-Life Mother!~"
"Once the Spiritual Root is opened, let's play Landlord! We must use this kind of activity to swear our determination to fight class struggles!"
The nearby group of Hairpin Ladies and Embroideresses cheerfully echoed.
These community activities were fun; the scenery, the pond, the beautiful legs, the beauties, so much to love.
With that said.
A Three Flowers plant sprouted nearby as well.
With the help of the Hairpin Ladies and Embroideresses, Xin'e Princess quickly plucked that Three Flowers plant and began meditating to cultivate.
After a while, Xin'e followed the process in the Three Flowers, opening the Immortal Sect.
A surge of vast Yin Qi rose from her body, her eyes shone brightly:
"I did it."
"Remarkably, I, a mortal, really stepped into cultivation."
