I Can Reap Qi Fortune from Players-Chapter 523 - 18: Version 1.1 Update Log

The previous options are too plain and unremarkable.

Option one is the long-discarded Jiao Blood Human Race option, now coming back into use.

The second, third, and fourth options have basically appeared before.

The only highlight is the fifth option.

Log in character switch!

This is a feature in every online game.

In today’s online games, which login page doesn’t allow switching to an alternate character? Warrior alt, mage alt...

This feature is quite eye-catching.

Currently, everyone’s Divine Beast characters are very precious, dying would be a huge loss.

But now, they must switch characters, facing outsiders as ordinary Sea Race!

This problem is solved now!

You can log out the Divine Beast main character and log in with the Sea Race alt.

A group of Sea Race blacksmiths rush to welcome the Sea Race, even engaging in combat externally.

These little characters aren’t afraid of death. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Once things are finished, they can log back into their Divine Beast main character!

"So cool."

"This is a must-choose option."

"The planners are adding more and more features, it deserves a thumbs up."

"Whoa, a bottomless pit, one character already costs a lot, two characters, how can this be sustainable?"

"That’s the fun part, don’t you get it? One temporary alt for instant suicide blacksmithing, one main character for combat power training!"

...

Everyone is overjoyed.

Almost instantly, they selected the fifth option.

They began to eliminate the other four options.

"Although option four, with 1000 Magic Coins per person, is great, it can now be excluded."

At this moment, Immortal Aunt was the first to give her opinion:

"Previously, we were still accumulating, so we could select it, but now we are prosperous, successfully forging a youth version Divine Artifact has a 1% commission, easily thousands of Magic Coins."

Everyone agreed with Immortal Aunt’s words.

The fourth option was excluded.

Now not forging the youth version Divine Weapon that costs 980,000 Magic Coins, even forging a Lower Grade Immortal Artifact isn’t affordable for ordinary people!

As long as the production line is running, money will undoubtedly pour in.

The only controversy is whether to select the first Jiao Blood Human Race option or not.

It seems to give them an optional branch.

Choosing it allows them to quickly login as Jiao Blood Human Race and attack some force externally!

Not selecting it requires them to figure out how to use a Sea Race character to attack a force.

In short, they can’t attack as Human God, Qilin Child, or other Divine Beast identities.

Switching to a new Sea Race character is inevitable.

"Should we take a risk?" Night Mad Cultivator said, "Instead of choosing that Jiao Blood Sea Race character, why don’t we create one ourselves?"

Everyone’s eyes lit up.

The Jiao Blood Dragon Race will be discarded sooner or later; even if not, there are too many substitutes.

Now saving it, choosing the second and third gives us 200 blacksmith slots!

"We can pull off a job." Jiucai Rong decided.

"Then which force should we attack?" Shao Chaikun asked.

"Attack an external Demon Cultivation Manor, or a place like a small ancient tomb." Night Mad Cultivator said, "Ideally, find some bandit dens for black-on-black robbery."

Robbing the robbers has significant benefits.

Firstly, there’s no moral burden; secondly, those bandits are filthy rich.

"Then let’s consult the map tonight, prepare a bit, decide on the victim... Sail and attack tomorrow!"

"Alright!"

Jiucai Rong also discussed with everyone, and soon posted an update announcement in the plaza:

[Official Announcement: This session of the Sword Casting Competition is receiving a major update with version 1.1. Update log as follows.]

[A glance of a hundred years, reminiscing, Xi Rong has become mythical, Firewood Saint ascends the throne, humanity entering an Immortal Path flourishing era! Dragon Race, Ghost King, all on the rise in this grand era, as we blend into the Sea Race heartlands to showcase our skills.]

...

[This major update also optimizes the following items.]

[1. Adding new facilities: Ocean Rice Fields, Ocean Enchanter, Ocean Blacksmith Shop.]

[2. Fixing minor bugs.]

[3, Optimizing several known issues.]

[4. Officially opening a new blacksmith branch: Ocean Blacksmith.]

[5. Adding new manor dynamic sea water background.]

[6. Increasing 50,000 members of No-Life Sect Female Ghosts.]

[7. Immortal Artifact forging function officially online.]

[8, Increasing 200 blacksmith slots.]

[9,, Opening a large Sea Race map, starting main quests, attacking and occupying a force.]

...

The coastal weather where the manor is located is quite peculiar.

Due to being at a national border junction.

The Human Race’s sun and moon can’t reach, nor can the Sea Race’s sun and moon.

Thus, there’s a perpetually shadowed coastline, with a line of shadow outlining both territories.

Of course, the Sea Race’s sun and moon are divided into several areas.

The Sea Race’s Sun Moon Saints, divided into Qilin, Dragon Race, Black Tortoise, Phoenix... these Divine Beast great clans.

As for why even a Phoenix is part of the Sea Race?

Because the Human Race drove them into the sea, the Phoenix living in the endless ocean became Sea Race.

Living anywhere makes you belong to that race, isn’t that reasonable?

Splash!

The ship has already begun moving.

"Su Yuniang, stop shining your sun, we’ve already sailed into the coastline, we have our own sun now!" Jiucai Rong grumbled about the sun overhead.

"Huh?" Embers Su Yuniang looked up.

A sun hung high, it’s the Dragon Race Saint’s sun.

"This sea view is truly beautiful!"

Rays of sunlight piercing the waving azure sea, Night Mad Cultivator looked up, "Won’t we be discovered by passing forces?"

"Would they dare notice us?"

Ark Embers Yan Shuangying said, "Ark, it’s an Immortal Artifact! Top-tier forces qualify to have it, Great Power of One Heart Realm can discover it!"

They’re now firing cannons at mosquitoes.

Any small local force, like the Blood Separation Flower family, is easily wiped out with a swipe.

The Night Mad Cultivator nodded, "Let’s head near that Bone Demon Stronghold, then disembark and start our charge!"

Bone Demons are a type of exoskeletal fat-headed fish.

Similar to scavengers, with bony fish scale armor, not much flesh, and extremely tough.

They have a notorious reputation, belonging to the Sea Bandits that plunder various Sea Races.

"They should be a middle-grade power at the Shi Family or Blood Separation Flower level, with several Three Elements Realm Patriarchs, Living Elders, and the current Sect Leader is at the Four Viscera Realm."

"Although this level is quite easy to kill, our current Divine Beast form isn’t suitable for the expedition."

"First, we’ll ambush one of their Bone Demon underlings, turn it into a meat vat, and crossbreed with a Human God to land as mixed-blood Sea Race characters, and just charge in!"

One has to admit, the Human Race is the all-purpose component for creating meat vats, adaptable to any race, resulting in half-human, half-demon beings.

Moreover, the Human God is the ancestor of the Human Race, the most versatile of the all-purpose components synthesized by the Yin Yang Creation Furnace.

With a Human God and Bone Demon, a birth is comparable to a Divine Beast cub, a Five-Body Realm Great Perfection mixed-blood Bone Demon Sea Race.

This level of minions, each equals Zhang Huaping, enough for a charge!

Experts of Four Viscera Realm and Three Elements Realm level can be handed over to the fusion Manor Master bubble.

The fully formed Manor Master Embers is at the Two-Phase Realm.

Of course, you can’t act at the Two-Phase Realm; it’s too ostentatious.

Split the bubble into several Three Elements Realm, enough for soldier-to-soldier, general-to-general combat.

Clatter!

They kept approaching that stronghold.

A great mountain from Sword Casting Manor silently drifted above them, yet they were completely unaware.

Because the array would block all perceptions, what they saw was just a vast blue ocean above.

"There’s a subordinate leaving over there. Based on the distance, a thousand meters away, just take him out," Jiucai Rong waved his hand.

Clatter.

Yan Shuangying was waiting, seizing the right moment to control the Embers bubble and shoot an arrow.

One arrow.

Puchi.

A sudden explosion.

With the fleshy remains swiftly turned into a simple meat vat, it merged with the all-purpose Human God, quickly producing a new Sea Race landing character:

Mixed-Blood Bone Demon.

"It’s almost nine o’clock. According to previous patterns, it’s time for two hundred new blacksmiths to land."

Just as the words ended.

The manor’s two main respawn rooms, one a technology-style bio-cloning pod, and the other a mysterious ancient array, quickly surged, generating one Sea Race character after another.

One by one, small children holding small bone clubs and with hard heads appeared before them.

"Ah, ah, ah! I finally made it in!"

"I’m a bit cute, huh."

"This scene is so realistic, and the air is filled with the salty dampness of the ocean."

Two hundred newbie little blacksmiths were utterly astonished.

They finally could enter; they had waited for so long, soaking up experience in the forum, and now it was finally their turn to have some fun.

We also want to jump into the Forging Furnace, hold a gourmet bonfire party, write letters with beautiful women, show off to Nine-State bigwigs, and also head to the sea for adventure.

"So real!" "Really tasty!" "I feel all stiff," the newly logged-in ones said as they touched and felt everything, even licking to taste.

All curious little explorers.

Of course, they knew that the welcoming event was meticulously prepared by the other side.

The two hundred newbies logged in and could immediately join a tribal war, attacking a stronghold.

Before they could adjust, they saw five hundred more little blacksmiths also create Bone Demon accounts, appearing one after another.

"Brothers, let’s go for a surprise raid, start charging!"

They shouted loudly, leaping headfirst, charging into the stronghold below.

...

Inside the central hall of the stronghold.

On a white bone throne made of various fish bones and fish spurs, a tall and mighty Bone Demon clad in spiked armor suddenly reacted: "Enemy attack, who dares to attack us?"

"Such audacity!" His voice rolled up waves.

"Daring to attack, it must not be simple." The Bone Demon Commander immediately notified the neighboring Fish Wine City, as he was the black glove of the city’s three major families.

On the surface, they raided caravans, an arch-enemy of the city’s families, but in fact, it was just a show of black face and white face double act.

...

Fish Wine City.

Ning Zheng had already turned into a fish demon mixed-blood, striding through the city gate.

"Stop!"

Two fish-headed soldiers blocked Ning Zheng, holding knives and forks.

Ning Zheng casually threw two Magic Coins, and the fish-headed soldiers moved aside, letting her pass.

Ning Zheng sometimes felt the influence of Jiushui was a little overwhelming.

Previous dynasties used Spirit Stones, while Jiushui changed the Spirit Stone Vein to Earth Vein and replaced it with Magic Coins.

To her surprise, the Sea Race followed suit, creating Sea Race Earth Veins, and Spirit Stones disappeared, replaced by Magic Coins used by the Human Race.

"In the future, this city and we will be neighbors." Ning Zheng looked around and found it was really no different from Pingchang City.

Even heavily influenced by Human Race culture.

The Sea Race residents here were basically of two types: the exceptionally prolific mixed-blood Dragon Race and the exceptionally prolific mixed-blood Half-Demon Human Race.

The reason for their abundance in the city was one for their reproduction rate and two for their early wisdom at low tiers, making them excellent labor resources.

Otherwise, traditional pure-blood Sea Demon Beasts only gain Essence and transform into shape and reach higher intellect at the Four Viscera Realm, so their numbers were relatively rare.

Along the way, Ning Zheng saw brothels and red houses.

His expression immediately turned strange. Did the Sea Race also have such places, with Sea Race beauties inside?

He thought for a bit, planning to take a look at the Red House to see the local customs and culture.

At this moment, orderly armored troops appeared in the streets, quickly leaving the city.

A voice came from beside:

"What are they up to?"

"I heard they’re going to suppress bandits."

"Ah! Finally suppressing bandits, after donating so much money, they’re finally starting?"

...

Ning Zheng secretly furrowed his brows, leaving the city to suppress bandits was fake, but going out to assist bandits in resisting invasion was true?

He vaguely guessed some possibilities, "Seems like the Sea Race here plays just as dirty."

His initial intent was to take over a small stronghold, bide his time, with his main target being the Ximen Metropolis, running back and forth to harvest Qi Fortune, coming forth repeatedly until he accumulated enough for a formal debut.

This was just a hidden spot.

He planned to be just like in Pingchang City before, not communicating with the city, staying low-key, being an ordinary and mediocre power.

But now, the city’s aristocratic families are all out to help!

"I just wanted to find a place to lay low, how did this stir up trouble as well?" Ning Zheng sighed.

From this perspective, the Sea Race’s filth and corruption might be far greater than the Human Race Dynasty’s.

They only learned the surface-level courtesy of the Jiushui Dynasty, adopting the scholarly elegance of literati, while the inner officials and various forces were filthy beyond measure.