I Can Reap Qi Fortune from Players-Chapter 522 - 17: Manor Rewards, Pick Three out of Five!
Ximen City, Xirong Academy.
Ning Zheng seemed to leap over the threshold upon entering the world, she earned a fortune and left with a wave of her sleeve, but the storm she left was tremendous.
The Sword Fairy and Dizzy prepared early, receiving wave after wave of guests.
Xinyi Baisan, Doukou Hong, Tri-Colored Cloud Rainbow, Lan Zhou, Man Tianshou... These top representatives from various professional families of the Nine-State arrived one by one.
"Ah, you’ve arrived."
The Sword Fairy invited them to tea in the reception room. She was skilled at playing Tai Chi, not a single truthful word came from her mouth.
In essence.
Even if they wanted to pry, they could extract no information.
Ning Zheng has already minimized contact with the Sword Fairy, even the half-awakened Dizzy, Embers Jiucai Rong, and Erya have not been sent as veteran stewards to meet.
"Everyone, no need to panic."
The Sword Fairy painted grand plans, "We’ve sealed the mountain for a hundred years, not just because the Manor Master has fallen and we need to re-elect a new one."
"Also because we’ve used up most of our previous Soul Artifact Spirits."
"This time, as we emerge, we’ve prepared many powerful Artifact Spirits that can open Celestial Spirit Roots, we can cooperate with you all, please look forward to it."
"Moreover, in the shadows... we’ve already made moves, those who understand will understand, those who discover have already discovered."
The Sword Fairy dodged, "For those who cannot discover, some domains are somewhat substandard, the waters here are too deep, better go back and practice some more."
Everyone: "..."
If anyone else were to speak such a thing so earnestly, they might believe it.
But what kind of person is the Sword Fairy, they understood too well!
This was clearly the sales pitch used previously during auctions to deceive people.
Just then, suddenly a piece of information came in.
Someone claiming to be the Vice Manor Master of Xirong Divine Craftsman, Ark, is swiftly sailing and rapidly gathering followers, and the Shadow Crocodile insignia has appeared.
Everyone was shocked, she wasn’t lying? Their attention was shifted.
Even the Sword Fairy appeared bewildered.
...
...
Next morning.
Mudworker went online early, heading straight to the Spirit Farmer zone after leaving the dormitory.
He looked at the Blood Separation Flower, still slowly growing and mutating, and heaved a sigh of relief:
"Human God Upper Grade Spirit Root, feels like it’s about to succeed! Really changed the probability!"
Amazing!
His heart was secretly pleased.
We’ve struggled for so long, as long as we produce an Upper Grade Spirit Root, we’ll become Upper Grade Spirit Farmers in the future!
As for the Upper Grade Spirit Root obtained by secretly adjusting explosion rates?
With a little bit of luck, it’s unlocked.
I’m just a genuine Upper Grade Spirit Farmer!
He turned his head, looking at his Embers Mudworker: "Last night, nothing happened, right?"
"No, I’ve been watching all along." Embers Mudworker said, eating a Takoyaki, its tantalizing aroma highly enticing.
"Where did you buy this? From the manor’s big canteen?" Mudworker was taken aback.
"Nowadays in the mountainside city, there’s a bunch of beautiful No Life mermaids, their culinary skills are quite good, many people have opened shops now." Embers Mudworker said: "A lot has happened over there in these hundred years, right!"
"Always eating, never getting me a portion." Mudworker watched with a pang of heartache.
On the mountainside, previously tens of thousands of Four Viscera Realm female ghosts lived there, now five thousand base-level female ghosts have settled in, it can be said to be a small town!
These days, the Embers Adventurer Team has been selling seafood there.
And the female ghosts also opened shops themselves, using these raw materials to make Takoyaki, grilled scallops... and other new street foods.
Originally, they were quite wealthy.
But those unscrupulous little blacksmiths, engage in various businesses, squeezing money from them.
Rendering them to have lost all the dowry jewelry they brought with them, they have to start shops themselves, exporting backwards, to earn money from the manor’s blacksmiths.
But the manor’s little blacksmiths are wealthy, willing to spend, instead they also earned quite a lot.
Nowadays, often you see Embers little blacksmiths climbing the mountain, bringing up various specialties and snacks from the mountainside prison.
"They are truly enjoying, every time they pass by, they can chat with beauties..."
Mudworker couldn’t help but envy his Embers.
Mudworker could only eat breakfast at the big canteen, hadn’t even sat down to eat half when he heard someone spreading word.
"Mudworker, the veteran steward is in the steward’s room having a meeting, hurry and finish eating to go over."
"Alright."
Quickly gobbling down breakfast, Mudworker arrived at the steward’s room, finding they just started the meeting.
"Hmm, everyone’s here."
Ning Zheng looked at everyone sitting upright with a glance, "Now it’s time to vote on the future development of the manor."
The reason was that the Crocodile-headed Cultivator hadn’t come these few days.
Originally Ning Zheng thought her tomb secret realm would welcome more grave robbers wanting to muddy the waters.
Yet no one came.
Clearly, it seems that Xirong Divine Craftsman has attracted everyone’s attention, even those who raid tombs are no longer entering the instance.
At this time, Ning Zheng was holding a meeting, contemplating whether to relocate the manor.
After all, with the Ark now open, we must keep up with the times. Others are sailing the seas extensively, frequently relocating their bases. How can we stay rooted in the same spot?
On the coastline, it really isn’t ideal—after all, it’s a busy trade route with frequent visitors entering the tomb instance.
But all the truly good resource sites are already inhabited!
For example, the previous mineral vein was occupied by the Jiao Family Stronghold; the Blood Separation Flower, Pingchang City, and three major families have been fighting over this resource site for hundreds of years.
It shows how valuable these resources are.
If we want a resource site, we’ll have to seize one like the Blood Separation Flower family did with the Jiao Family Stronghold back in the day.
"What do you all think?" Ning Zheng asked.
Everyone expressed their opinions and began discussing.
"I suggest we relocate."
"Exactly, let’s choose a site rich in resources."
"Yes, backed by various sea resource zones, ideally with a tomb as a neighbor."
"I think near Sea Race cities would be perfect, occupying the Jiao Family Stronghold’s previous geographical location, blocking the city gate, and then attacking Sea Race as Tribulation Cultivators."
"Ugh, isn’t that tiresome! We should definitely find another tomb as a neighbor."
...
Ning Zheng unfolded the coastal map and hung it on the board.
This map was given to them by that Cultivator with a crocodile head, covering nearby sea domain resource points.
It even includes various Dragon powers.
The Dragon Race is very prolific.
There’s shark hybrids, crab hybrids, shells, corals...
There are many hybrid sub-species.
But they are not recognized by the Dragon Race, and their potential is very low, belonging to the largest low-intelligence species within the Sea Race.
Generally ranging from the Five Elements to Four Viscera levels, at most reaching the Three Elements before exhausting their potential!
In summary.
The combat power level and number of Sea Race territorial cities can be entirely compared horizontally to a thousand local human cities like Pingchang City.
Nine-State and the ocean each occupy one side of the sky.
"We will discuss and select a resource point near a city!"
Jiucai Rong thought for a moment and quickly said, "Moreover, we plan to create a Sea Race meat barrel, log in Sea Race characters, and mix into these cities."
"But it can’t be too high-end—Divine Beasts are too conspicuous. Choosing mid-to-low end ordinary species is better."
Jiucai Rong is quite clever.
They have numerous Divine Beasts within the manor, and even Human Gods, which are too eye-catching.
It’s fine to play with them in the manor, but for external appearances, using normal low-end Sea Race is essential.
Upon hearing this, Ning Zheng couldn’t help but say, "Have you forgotten we still have the Merfolk Human Race meat barrel?"
"Of course, we remember... but we generally wish for a new Sea Race character," Jiucai Rong cautiously replied.
After all, the Merfolk Human Race is too ordinary. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
Since we’ve come underwater, characters like hippocampus, Clam Race, Mermaid, these themed roles have more appeal.
Ning Zheng paid them no mind, "Just use the Jiao Family Stronghold’s Jiao Blood bloodline for now; you can create your own meat barrel afterwards."
No one dared to complain.
Alright then, the main storyline is not letting them take advantage, huh.
They still have to fight monsters and level up to gradually change Sea Race species.
Next, Ning Zheng’s other words made everyone extremely delighted.
"This time’s War of Man and God performance wasn’t very satisfying, even our Manor Master died in battle."
"However!"
"You will still receive some reward options: choose three out of five."
Ning Zheng originally thought their inability to impact that battle was quite normal, but since they bore the responsibility, he would acknowledge it and incentivize them a bit.
Sure enough, the small blacksmiths in attendance felt deeply moved.
They felt this was so good for them—clearly it was their responsibility, and they were overconfident...
They didn’t expect that despite the main storyline collapsing, there would still be rewards.
A strong sense of guilt swirled in their hearts, making them feel invigorated, and they began preparing for this time’s true battle for the manor, determined not to achieve a bad ending again.
"It’s good that you recognize your mistakes."
Although Ning Zheng didn’t know what they did wrong, he was satisfied with their attitude of admitting mistakes.
He then presented the five options.
[1. Option for Merfolk Human Race login]
[2. 100 blacksmith slots]
[3. 100 blacksmith slots]
[4. 1000 Magic Coins voucher]
[5. Open a second login character slot, allowing existing characters to be stored in dormitory storage, enabling login switch to new race characters.]
