Tap, tap, tap.

The entire mountain was covered with a thick layer of white snow, the trees wrapped in white attire.

Ning Zheng descended the mountain, left the manor, and no longer had the intention to visit the prison.

Down the mountain, Ning Jiaojiao and Su Yuniang were organizing building with great enthusiasm, and "bewitching" the inmates inside.

No need for his help.

Between girls, the sense of vigilance is always a bit lower.

He chose to cross the teleportation array and returned to the camp in front of the tomb raiding hole.

After all.

Shi Youxing invited him, so naturally he had to come and take a look.

...

In front of the tomb raiding hole.

"You're here." Shi Youxing glanced at Ning Zheng and smiled, "We're wrapping up, erasing the traces of our tomb raiding."

"Hmm, I'm here to see how it looks after it's been emptied."

Ning Zheng glanced ahead.

The sky here wasn't snowing.

A group of Shi Family women were systematically dismantling the temporary camp and using special methods to remove the traces of their tomb raiding.

Eliminate the aura.

This is the tomb raiding family's shared experience.

Do you think it's just a wild grave, so there won't be any follow-up danger?

Who knows, suddenly a descendant from some generation rises up, finds this grave, discovers the ancestral grave has been dug up, becomes furious, and tracks down a tomb raider to hunt them down.

Some of their tomb raiding colleagues met their end in this way!

Wandering the martial world, they've always been engaged in the most unscrupulous work of digging up ancestral graves, causing the ancestors' graves to emit black smoke.

Most afraid of being confronted by the victims.

Some storybooks often feature this kind of plot.

Starting off, a scholar travels for exams, falls into a tomb, gains the beauty ancestor's recognition within, and by chance obtains a Celestial Spirit Root, accompanied by a cultivation technique, breaks through along the way outside, then returns, triggering a new event:

Finding his beauty ancestor's tomb has been raided and the beauty ancestor is missing.

Thus, a new storyline begins.

At the scene, furious.

Chasing a tomb raider, after chasing the tomb raider, finds the beauty ancestor has already been bought by an ancestor of a holy land's tomb to be a buried attendant...

Continues to be furious at the scene, continues to chase the holy land.

Goes to a holy land to dig a grave, saves the beauty ancestor, then forms a vendetta, kill, kill, kill....

In the process, helps the beauty ancestor awaken... Then, the beauty ancestor turns into a living person, finally able to be together... Living a shamelessly happy life.

They are the demon tomb raiders who must appear in the tomb raiding fortuitous event stories, always the slapped villains!

Could the Shi Family not be afraid?

Truly think people don't read storybooks?

Ning Zheng listened and thought it made a lot of sense.

Being a Demon Cultivator is really tough.

Looking at this colleague, then himself, Ning Zheng also felt a bit afraid.

His Demon Cultivation Manor has quite the villainous potential, might accidentally provoke a genius protagonist with great Qi Fortune.

No indeed, it has already provoked one.

Look at Jian Xin, this living protagonist in the storybook style among the populace.

How many times has he provoked him already?

Once a month.

No, this is the third time in the third month now.

Jian Xin, now being crazily hunted down by Jiao Wuyu leading a group of people, each time worse than before.

Hmm.

Three times in three months.

Ning Zheng shrank his neck, thinking in the storybook, he's a Demon Cultivator lurking in the shadows about to be slapped in the face.

Would it really be like that?

A bit worried.

"Why did you pause? Actually, as long as we carefully clean up traces, we won't provoke those geniuses." Shi Youxing kindly reassured.

"Naturally, we won't provoke anyone, we focus on harmony and prosperity, always giving people a hearty praise." Ning Zheng nodded.

Shi Youxing also thought their family is all slippery old hands now, won't provoke anyone.

Ning Zheng asked, "By the way, about Jian Xin being hunted down, any recent developments?"

Shi Youxing paused for a moment; although he didn't know why the other was so concerned, he still replied:

"Heard he might be escaping to Xinyi Continent City soon, but seems like there was another blockade?"

"Such a big deal?" Ning Zheng was curious.

"Hehehe, of course it's big, the entire Xinyi Continent is watching the excitement."

Shi Youxing was also ignited with a fiery passion for gossip:

"You probably haven't been out much lately, you don't know how big it is, Jian Xin's secret whereabouts are almost universally known now, everywhere people know about it."

"They've suffered heavy casualties, definitely an insider."

"But, probably won't be long stopped, in my opinion, Jian Xin is about to enter the city, through the teleportation array, enter the capital to face the Emperor, it's practically certain."

Ning Zheng exclaimed in admiration.

...

Shi Youxing cleared the outer traces of the tomb, eliminated the aura.

There was no spell aura left in the prison, as it was purely digging and dismantling.

After preparing a bit, they planned to pack up and leave.

"By the way, are you really planning to attack this grave later?" Before leaving, Shi Youxing suddenly said, "Want us to assist a bit?"

Ning Zheng didn't answer, "There's no hurry now, let's see how it goes."

"Then, when the time comes, I'll send Shi Youyou over to connect with you as a merchant for weapon business." Shi Youxing smiled,

"We're also taking over the weapon deals for the other three families, after all, sending representatives from all four to your manor wouldn't look good."

Ning Zheng pondered.

After Zhang Huaping the merchant, now there's another Shi Youyou merchant?

In Ning Zheng's mind, the image of that bear-riding girl flashed.

Merchant Zhang Huaping would be afraid.

And this merchant, coming to stealthily learn?

Ning Zheng's expression stiffened, inexplicably felt a bit afraid.

Shi Youxing directly led the team to retreat, disappearing into the teleportation array, leaving Ning Zheng alone in front of the tomb raiding hole.

Ning Zheng just circled around, not daring to go inside.

Though it was silent inside, no one knew if the City Guard realized he was screwed and was cursing furiously in the mud pit.

Checking the Qi Fortune Value:

[800]

[700]

...

It's been dropping continuously.

Alright then.

They've already noticed and are angry.

But being an Earth-bound Spirit, and can't step outside, all he can do is stay furious all day in extreme anger.

How about you come to the manor to hit me?

Ning Zheng felt he had already mastered that obnoxious flair of a blacksmith.

Su Yuniang wasn't wrong; happiness indeed is built upon the suffering of others.

He was a bit upset hearing about Jian Xin earlier, but after seeing this city guard, his mood was instantly uplifted!

After receiving the intel, he directly returned to the manor via the Teleportation Array.

The courtyard at the foot of the mountain.

Opening the door, the well had already been covered with a layer of snow.

Ning Jiaojiao and Su Yuniang were indeed not there.

Returning to his room, Ning Zheng supervised the blacksmiths from several perspectives.

He found that the blacksmiths were still joyfully moving bricks, fervently building the manor, and Ning Zheng felt very pleased.

This tomb raiding was perfect, nothing happened throughout, and the enemy could only rage impotently.

Indeed.

With good luck, how could there be any accidents?

Those so-called accidents, nine deaths and one life, desperate counterattacks, last-minute breakthroughs, those are for the likes of Jian Xin and Gui Pu, main characters who get to enjoy such fates.

Look at how much fun they're having fighting next door?

As for me, just being a passerby A, lying down comfortably is enough.

A life of lying down leveling up is so pleasant, simply too enjoyable.

"But honestly, I really do want to see the battle scenes of Jian Xin and Jiao Wuyu."

Ning Zheng had a thought, and said to the Qi Fortune Gambling Table:

[I want to give Embers the ability to have a player identity in "Sword Casting Manor".]

As long as Embers are turned into players, like this Sword Fairy Embers, he could watch from her observer perspective at her location.

Jian Xin's battle scenes, I could spy on.

In fact, Sword Fairy is just the beginning.

In the future, with every magic weapon of Sword Casting Manor, I could spy on what their owners are doing.

These people are all my informants!

With the widespread use of the Divine Weapon List, every divine weapon's perspective is everywhere!

Without stepping outside, I could know all the secrets of the world.

No longer would I have to rely solely on a small Five-Body Realm loose cultivator like Zhang Huaping as my source of information.

Or rely on coaxing information out of the Shi family.

And having Sword Fairy and other ghosts become players... the benefits don't stop there.

I could even reap their Qi Fortune Values!

After all.

The Qi Fortune Value of Embers is very hard to reap.

Before there was no Sword Casting Manor server, I had to treat the manor's ghost villagers like living people, to defraud and trade with them.

This process was extremely tedious.

Here there are tens of thousands of villagers, I spent a day, only able to reap the Qi Fortune Value of a few dozen.

And this was after countless selections, picking out the easiest-to-fool group of ghosts.

Running from place to place, getting up early and working late, scamming them one by one, knocking on doors and running businesses, repeating daily scams for transactions, it took countless years to save up that 200,000 from the hands of fellow villagers.

You can see how difficult this starting capital was.

After having this server, logging in equates to agreeing to "trade".

Blacksmith group: -2.

Simplified a million times.

Now.

Ning Zheng only occasionally reaps Ning Jiaojiao's daily Qi Fortune Value.

The other villagers are too few, not even worth reaping, too wasteful of time, with small return.

But now?

These villagers, Sword Fairy, Ning Jiaojiao, the over two thousand prisoners in the prison... If they could be harvested like the blacksmiths on the server, wouldn't I be raking in the profits?

So, Ning Zheng checked how much Qi Fortune Value it would take to let ghosts also enjoy the various welfare benefits of blacksmiths.

Words slowly emerged.

[Population reaches the limit, extra server expansion for 1000 people limit requires 100,000 Qi Fortune Value.]

[Adding ghost entities' login permission requires XXX of heavenly descent, Qi Fortune Value 10 million Qi Fortune Value.]

Ning Zheng: "..."

That seems like a bit much.

But indeed, if I could collectively reap ghosts, just this village of people, I'm afraid I could earn tens of thousands of Qi Fortune Value in a day.

"It's still not feasible."

Ning Zheng sighed.

But following this thought, Ning Zheng came up with a brand-new possibility.

Ghosts live according to their logic from life, have their own thoughts.

If you sell them luck like a charlatan, they'd only think you're a conman, an idiot...

This is also why Ning Zheng cannot easily make a move against the villagers.

But!

Those female prisoners in jail, perhaps they are easier to fool than the villagers!

"There's potential!"

"Their logic is unified, unlike those villagers where each scam is different."

"By gathering the believers together to accept the Sect Leader's blessing [baptism], reap their Qi Fortune."

"This is executing a unified scam."

"Two thousand people, running a prison trip every day, conducting trades and reaping individually, should be manageable."

His heart suddenly heated up.

Disciples.

This term unlocked led Ning Zheng to think of new scam techniques.

"No, this plan must be thoroughly researched again."

A gleam of light flashed across Ning Zheng's eyes.

He suddenly glanced at the forum, to see what plans or ideas they had regarding the prison, to seek some inspiration.

After all, how to scam ghosts, it's the blacksmiths who are the real experts!

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