The world is bustling with activity, all driven by interests.

Previously, the Sword Casting Demon Manor and Pingchang City coexisted without conflict.

After all, the manor sold Magic Copper Coarse Embryos, and the real profit from Magical Artifacts remained in the hands of the great noble families within the city.

At most, the other party was just a refining laborer.

But now, they've set up their own Forging Workshop, gradually reducing the supply of Magic Copper Coarse Embryos and directly selling finished Magical Artifacts.

Who can bear this?

They even came up with a Painting Card.

The old shopkeeper spoke up:

"As the largest Magic Copper mine outside our city, not selling Magic Artifact Coarse Embryos is the most critical!"

"In the future, what will happen to the city's Magical Artifacts? With a 60% reduction in production capacity, most blacksmiths won't be able to forge and will face unemployment. If they want to forge, they'll have to obtain Magic Copper from farther away, which is unacceptable to the important figures."

"Weapons are the lifeblood of a city's cultivators!"

The old shopkeeper sighed.

It's not just a problem of weapons. Without Magic Copper, what will the city's blacksmiths do?

They might leave the city, choosing places where they can realize their value.

This is a talent drain, a production decline.

Eventually, Pingchang City might turn from an exporter of Magical Artifacts to an importer, forced to rely on others, with enormous chain effects.

To the extent that.

These blacksmiths might choose to join the Demon Manor in the hills.

Yes, join the Demon Manor.

Do not underestimate those stubborn blacksmiths. They work beside the furnace for years, with tempers as fiery as the furnace and persistence as solid as iron.

They'll go wherever they can forge.

A collective blacksmith rebellion is something all the families in Pingchang City cannot bear.

"This is strangling Pingchang City's forging industry! It's killing them!" the old shopkeeper's tone was rather irate at this point, but more than that, he was afraid.

Zhang Huaping said, "Do the Demon Cultivators on the manor not know they're courting death? They're more aware than anyone that after the Red Sun, the city families might enter the hills again, launching a second siege on the Sword Casting Demon Manor after a century, so the Demon Cultivators struck first, forcibly weakening the city noble families!"

You encroach on someone else's interests.

They'll fight you to the death, it's as simple as that.

The old shopkeeper sighed: "The Demon Cultivators will likely come to attack the city soon; things are about to get chaotic here."

The Sword Fairy watched silently.

The plot has begun to unfold.

The conflict between the city and our manor is well explained.

The next plot is very clear: city siege!

Our manor's mysterious current Manor Master will personally strike, hitting them hard!

Of course, not openly. A single family can't withstand an entire city.

The vast noble families within the city are bloated, mutually hostile, and will secretly attack each other one by one.

It's a pity; it's nighttime now, regular players have logged off to sleep, only us Second Transformation players can continue our usual activities.

Otherwise, I could have secretly used the Painting Card to communicate and livestream with them.

The old shopkeeper pondered, sorting the miscellaneous items on the shelves: "Let's hope it doesn't affect the innocent."

Zhang Huaping nodded, also sensing the impending storm: "Unlikely, the Great Cultivators in the city seek reputation, they won't target unrelated merchants like us, and the manor's Demon Cultivators also need us as a bridge."

Now, with the Immortal Path widespread, scholars dominate the world, and everyone emphasizes the importance of starting with a reputable teacher.

Everyone adheres to principles!

Otherwise, you'll be looked down upon.

In this world, an adoptive father is truly an adoptive father, and a master is truly a master.

If you are naturally rebellious, you'll be scorned by all, no one will take you in, believe you; reputation is crucial.

Moreover, legitimate cultivators, after opening the Three Flowers and knowing who they are, basically understand themselves as law-abiding scholars, at worst, most are ordinary people without grand ambitions.

What is an ordinary person?

A member of the multitude, not purely black or white, capable of good deeds and competing for resources, scheming.

But in the end, they have their own boundaries.

If you cross those boundaries, become a pure, perverse villain, lose sight of yourself, and your Tao Heart shatters, you'll fall into Fire and Demonic.

Therefore,

Ordinary people and scholars have their concerns.

Only those Demon Cultivators, inherently wicked, know when they open the Three Flowers that they are actually evil people.

No matter what evil deeds they commit, their Tao Heart remains intact.

Hence, Demon Cultivators are the most loathsome and the most lawless!

From this, we can see.

This world promotes cultivating study, establishing various private schools, academies, teaching them from a young age how to be people, to prevent the world from falling into chaos.

Studying to know right from wrong reduces the emergence of Demon Cultivators when opening the Three Flowers.

The old shopkeeper said: "The Demon Cultivators on the manor are too twisted; one wonders what kind of education they received from a young age, only to realize how distorted they are after opening the Three Flowers."

Zhang Huaping solemnly respected: "Their education suits Demon Cultivators well; likely, Demon Cultivators from all around would go to learn from them to educate their offspring."

The Sword Fairy: "..."

They misunderstand us too deeply.

What kind of Demon Path education did we receive?

It was clearly nine years of compulsory education!

What has been taught are just us, this group of sunshine-filled, lovely students.

The old shopkeeper sighed and chatted with Zhang Huaping a lot. In the end, Zhang Huaping sent the Sword Fairy back to the Red House.

Red House.

The Sword Fairy is still in her internship period, but she walked around in the chambers of the Red House, mingling with sisters everywhere, and got to know a few good sisters next door.

It's just that she doesn't have many clients.

However, this time when she just returned, she welcomed the first client of her life.

It's a young man wearing a ghost mask, holding a folding fan, followed by two bookboys silently waiting at the door, standing straight, with a refined aura.

The Sword Fairy came to the front of the chamber and opened the door, glanced, and then said, "Why are you wearing a mask?"

The young man was startled, then smiled, "Not convenient to show my face."

The Sword Fairy opened the door, inviting him to sit down.

The young man smiled and said, "You can call me Gui Pu. May I ask if you have any talents?"

"I'm in a good mood today, so I'll perform a Shaking Flower Hand for you."

The Sword Fairy directly performed a Shaking Flower Hand for him, then sang a few love songs, picked up her self-made guitar, and played a few tunes.

That Gui Pu youth felt curious, very interesting.

But the skills were quite average. If someone more proficient came, it would definitely have a different flavor.

"Why did you come to me?" the Medical Fairy asked.

Gui Pu was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke, "I heard you're very resentful towards the Demon Cultivators on the manor."

The Sword Fairy suddenly understood what was going on.

No wonder he came looking for her. She knew well her own level.

Just a KTV karaoke star, slightly better than ordinary people. If she was truly talented, she would have been streaming for profit by now.

So among these well-educated ladies from noble families, she was just a wild girl, who wouldn't get any clients at all.

Turns out they wanted to use her identity to stir up trouble.

But she was drawn and boned out, escaped from the manor, all for the sake of the plot!

Has the big fish taken the bait?

"What do you want me to do? What can you give me?" The Sword Fairy said coolly.

Gui Pu saw she was straight to the point and didn't hide it anymore, "I need you to cooperate with me on something. Of course, I can meet your requirements."

Embers, all have obsessions before their death.

Forcing them isn't done.

Treating them like a living person for trade makes cooperation easiest.

The Sword Fairy stared at him, "I want a group of blacksmiths to build me an Iron Man, can you do that?"

Gui Pu was stunned, then said slowly, "I don't know what that is, but I can get a batch of blacksmiths to forge as you require."

The Sword Fairy smiled, "Then tell me first what you want me to help you with."

"We need to use your Blood Separation Flower trait." Gui Pu said, "Help us disguise as the Demon Cultivators from the manor to attack some people, and do some things in the city."

The Sword Fairy's smile slightly faded, "Did the Jiao Family tell you?"

After all, she came here quietly, only Zhang Huaping and the Jiao Family knew she had this Divine Technique.

Even the old shopkeeper didn't know she possessed the Blood Separation Flower.

Because the Blood Separation Flower is an extremely precious inherited Spiritual Root, very rare, even among Demon Cultivator families, only a few direct descendants have it.

No one thought the Sword Fairy was an inherited Demon Cultivator disciple, after being tortured like that, this must be a disliked and pitiable branch.

"Indeed, it's them," Gui Pu said.

The Sword Fairy realized the Jiao Family couldn't help but join the game.

Didn't heed the advice from Jiao Wuyu before she left.

"I understand," the Sword Fairy said. "What exactly do I need to do? What's being framed to the manor?"

"Your weapon isn't up to standard, dismantle it."

Gui Pu took out an Upper Grade magical artifact, a treasure sword, a top family heirloom:

"Your Embers Void Bubble absorbs this sword and attaches to it, it will make your power terribly scary."

The Sword Fairy witnessed this and already sensed she was drawn into the vortex, saying, "It seems I won't be able to see Zhang Huaping again. I'll leave her a note for peace of mind."

"No problem." Gui Pu nodded, "You've realized yourself, you're not suitable for the Red House. Come to me, and you can get many things you want."

This night, Pingchang City was not peaceful.

In one division, within the Zhang Family area, one of the three great families in Pingchang City, angry roars echoed, and the whole land suddenly became tense, many cultivators silently died.

"The traces on this corpse are from the Blood Separation Flower!" A powerful cultivator navigated through the air, his face solemnly looking at the heap of flesh.

"Those Demon Cultivators are bold! They've started infiltrating and attacking within our city."

"Damn it! Especially at this time, the few senior figures in the family..."

"They came prepared! We have internal spies! It's the Demon Cultivators from the manor outside the city!" "This is abominable!"

After this night, many cultivators saw the tragedy within this family.

Although they urgently contacted the Three Elements Realm cultivators suppressing the old ancestor in the tomb area at the city wall, unfortunately, when they returned, the other party had retreated.

The land was stained with blood, countless clan members melted into blood water, many of the young generation Five-Body Realm, Four Viscera Realm cultivators experienced a gap.

This caused severe damage to the whole Zhang Family.

The resources taken didn't matter, but the gap appeared, one generation caught short, unable to produce a Three Elements Realm cultivator in the future, they would face extermination.

"Bandits from the manor entered the city to rob."

The Sword Fairy felt dazed, sensing the scholars in this world were rotten to the core:

"But who is the real bandit after all?"

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