Ning Zheng pondered over the matter repeatedly and finally reached a conclusion.

——Send someone to sneak through the teleportation array outside Xinyi Continent City to take a look.

He was naturally a person who liked to join in the fun.

According to common logic, countless people are coming and going in Xinyi Continent City every day.

It can't be that the day he goes is the one day something suddenly goes wrong, and rebels make a ruckus in the city, right?

Currently, he constantly holds a Qi Fortune of 1850, with tens of thousands in savings, making him increasingly confident. If he doesn't cause trouble, trouble won't come to him.

To hide aimlessly, without purpose, now that would be foolish.

The tides of the world rise and fall, with heroes vying for supremacy, but what does that have to do with him?

He just needed to do business, very luckily, and observe coldly, watching the fire from the shore, maybe sell some weapons, make some war profits...

This was Ning Zheng's ideal life!

He didn't like war.

But if war absolutely must be fought, then war profits have to be earned by someone. If others earn them, why shouldn't he? He'd rise rapidly!

People must learn to adapt.

If he could sell all sorts of divine weapons from the Divine Weapon List, be an inside man, pass some information to himself, and keep his manor's news well-informed, that would be ideal!

In troubled times, one must have the ability to survive and protect oneself.

He was a skilled worker; no one would offend him for no reason.

Provided, of course, that others can't find the exact backing of his "Hidden World Swordsmithing Manor."

But can they find it?

The high-tier eternal divine weapons in the mysterious holy land, and our Blood Separation Flower family's low-tier painting card magical artifacts, are completely unrelated families.

One is a star in the sky, the other is dust underground.

Even if people don't believe it, even Ning Zheng wouldn't believe it was that group of chattering fools unless he saw it with his own eyes.

Take Zhang Huaping, do you think she believes it? Zhang Huaping thinks they're a bunch of perverse demon cultivators.

Do you think the city-bound families believe it?

Although the painting card craft is fresh, when they look at the various forging details, they can tell it's rather poor, probably thinking the Blood Separation Flower family has a bunch of newbie blacksmiths just entering the trade.

This is quite misleading!

"However, our ironworking growth speed is still too slow!"

Ning Zheng glanced at Daojiu in the blacksmith shop and shook his head:

"If possible, go to Xinyi Continent City, and see if there are spiritual roots that could help accelerate the blacksmiths' advancement."

"Misleading outsiders is one thing, but we can't even mislead ourselves. We're so wasted we don't even have a middle-tier blacksmith."

No matter what.

Finally, a normal blacksmith appeared, with one head and two arms, which is the normal basic configuration.

Believe that such blacksmiths will become more numerous.

Even after a death and revival, the experience from cultivating stays, similar to great power reborn and re-training, the next time they revive and cultivate back to this "one head, two idiot" realm, it definitely won't be slow.

A group of people murmured in the distance.

"Why'd the old manager come up today?"

"Came to see our realm breakthrough, right? Indeed, the one head, two idiot realm, terrifying! Even such great powers are paying attention to such geniuses!"

"The old manager climbed the mountain maybe because we've completed the prison tomb raiding dungeon, and he came for the rewards selection?"

"Let me guess: is it a choice between Jiao Blood Human Race and 100 blacksmith spots?"

Someone beamed.

But some still shook their heads in denial:

"Impossible, the final boss of this dungeon hasn't been killed, just 80% exploration rate, clearly not here to settle rewards."

"Then why come here?"

"I don't know either."

"What's the point of your analysis!"

"You guys don't understand. According to rumors, he's here for the ribbon-cutting at the Superintendent's room."

"What ribbon-cutting?"

A group of people chattered while shoveling snow in the distance.

At this moment, Jiucai Rong arrived:

"Welcome, Lord Superintendent, just in time, we're starting a new project today, please observe and cut the ribbon."

"What project?"

Ning Zheng asked.

"Please look down the mountain," Jiucai Rong said, leading Ning Zheng to the rooftop of the Superintendent's room, standing on the tower.

Surrounding them was a modest ribbon-cutting ceremony.

A large canopy was set up on the rooftop to block the wind and snow, with food like chicken and duck.

Jiucai Rong took out a painting card, communicated with the prison warden below, Su Yuniang: "You can begin now."

"Old Superintendent, please cut the ribbon!" Jiucai Rong handed over the scissors.

Ning Zheng took the scissors and looked at the large red cloth above, which read:

[Demon Suppression Tower Phase One Project Officially Completed!]

There it was, this damn ceremonial feeling!

Snip!

He had just cut the ribbon.

As Jiucai Rong inputted signals on the painting card, a huge figure appeared in the prison below.

"Did a superlarge giant god rise in the prison?"

"Damn!"

"Defying!"

Everyone looked, as if a huge human-shaped bubble was rising and gathering in the area of the prison down the mountain, continuously increasing.

Whoosh!~

As if the shadows leaped from the ocean surface, a shadow overlapped the entire earth, grandly illuminating the world in a dim light.

The brilliance of the shadow illuminated a massive figure, as if a divine being ruling over darkness had descended.

Su Yuniang was also a spiritual root of shadow rice wine, yet dead she was still useful, borrowing Ning Zheng's power, borrowing the virus to cut ten blades and summon a shadow.

And so she was down the mountain, cutting people.

Two thousand or so prisoners, hacking from the start to the end of the prison, rivers of blood flowed without blinking.

Then using special methods, merged with the bubble shell.

The huge figure formed a tall, shoulder-length hair, flowing like black flames, youthful silhouette.

Boom!

In the next second, the silhouette exploded, the fusion unsuccessful.

Jiucai Rong was not surprised, and explained while pointing down the mountain:

"From now on, every day, we will conduct nuclear experiments! So, when such prison anomalies occur again, it will be very normal,"

"Nuclear experiments in prison?" Ning Zheng pretended not to know.

"Yes."

Jiucai Rong said with a serious face:

"Firstly, they are all ghosts of the No-Life Sect, splitting their soul body once a day. They might think they are giving birth and slowly awakening."

"Secondly, the Giant God is our core combat power, although a nuclear reactor experiment is not so easily successful."

"But we have a professional analysis team, bubble induction, particle acceleration, chain fusion duration, collision conditions..."

"Our goal is the successful launch of a nuclear bomb!"

"The Demon Suppression Tower is symbolic of suppressing an earth-shattering Great Demon. Once the fusion nuclear bomb is launched, heaven and earth will collapse, unbeatable!"

They have treated it as a missile research launch platform.

Their goal is to become a "nuclear state", relying on courage and perseverance to develop their first "Manor Master's Atom Bomb."

"As for why it's called the Manor Master's Atom Bomb?" Jiucai Rong earnestly spun nonsense, "Atom, in our dialect, is called 'child', and bomb is attack, so it's 'child attack'..."

Ning Zheng listened and was momentarily speechless, don't assume I don't know what an atom bomb is.

However, they indeed have quite the setup.

"Lord of the Manor, rest assured, we have ready targets, experimental grounds."

"We cross the teleportation array, that mausoleum's tomb is our test firing range, the nuclear explosion site!"

"That City Guard boss is the perfect target!"

"Each day, fire one at him."

"He'll have to defend his dwindling prison while protecting his spirit plant area stubbornly."

"He can only rage impotently, standing by to take the hits, daily enduring one attack."

"But this isn't just for experimenting; it's also to confuse the enemy!"

"Yet our real goal is that once we've thoroughly developed the weapon, we'll suddenly unleash full power in one shot, catching him unprepared and defenseless, killing him in one blow!"

"Only with a one-hit kill can we prevent damage to the remaining spirit plant areas during the fight."

...

Ning Zheng hearing this thought, treacherous!

In their eyes, this dungeon run is definitely not a team boss battle, no prolonged battle.

At least, not like before with the Bottle Ancestor, slowly wearing down with scattered archers.

This time, they want a one-hit kill to obtain resources.

With a bigger requirement, they're going all out.

Jiucai Rong chuckled and said:

"Of course, this is the first teleport array blast site."

"If it's not enough, today we got a second temporary teleport array coordinate from the Sword Fairy, we could use that as a blast site too."

Ning Zheng: "???"

What are you saying?

Shooting at the City Guard's tomb is already something,

you also want to target: Xinyi Continent City?

Such audacity!

"Of course it's a joke."

Seeing the manager's sour face, Jiucai Rong awkwardly rephrased:

"Mainly, the teleportation array to Xinyi Continent City has opened; I've heard it's the center of Xinyi Continent, with specialties sold there regularly, auction events, even Divine Weapons on sale. I wonder when you'll take us there to broaden our horizons?"

"We'll talk about this later." Ning Zheng deflected.

Actually, Ning Zheng was quite interested too.

The core area of a continent!

It's indeed a temptation, he even contemplated neighboring Yunshan City, so he had the Shi Family help find out about the market.

As for Pingchang City underfoot?

Ning Zheng truly didn't want to get involved.

Just earn some money and be done with it.

One doesn't eat the grass around the burrow.

Creating chaos near one's doorstep is too easy to trace back to oneself.

After all, Jian Xin discovered twice that the starting points for the Sword Fairy, Jiao Wuyu were in Pingchang City; would he dare to mess around?

He's not that stupid!

So now Pingchang City still has internal strife, the remaining two major city families under siege, he doesn't want to interfere.

They have alive Three Elements Realm ones, attacking is tougher than the easily fooled City Guard.

Ning Zheng is strong outside but weak inside.

Unless he contacts some demon cultivator circles of the Shi Family next door, only then he could meddle with inner city forces.

Though currently the Jiao Family is also muddling in the mix, seemingly rising too.

Ning Zheng is still secretly observing.

They have some ties with the Jiao Family, Ning Jiaojiao's maternal family, if the other side does manage something decent, Ning Zheng won't mind lending a hand.

If too useless, he'll keep watching from the sidelines.

At this moment, Ning Zheng watched the failed nuclear test explosion—Manor Master cracked on the spot.

A bit shocked at their imaginative designs: "So why say it's the first nuclear test?"

Jiucai Rong said: "Because our goal for the first phase is a successful launch."

"And the second nuclear test, is the new fusion experiment!"

"Our manor's Soul Separation Flower, the core weapon is the Manor Master's 'Soul Shooter'."

"Our manor's Blood Separation Flower, the core weapon is Hidden Vein's 'Incarnate Bodhisattva'."

"These are two giants."

"One soul, one flesh, Soul Separation Flower and Blood Separation Flower slightly fused, this will be the new strategic weapon."

Ning Zheng listened in a daze.

You're clearly addicted to playing with Yin Yang fusion, aren't you?

Blood Separation Flower, Soul Separation Flower, Sword Fairy is doing this set, they're doing this in person too.

If they hadn't mentioned it, Ning Zheng would almost have forgotten the treasure of the demon cultivator family at the Meat Field lady ancestor's place, a heavily injured Blood and Flesh Giant waiting for repair.

A bunch of Hidden Vein disciples' heads, all inserted into that body for cultivation.

If the two were to fuse, his shadow soul body would gain a flesh form too.

Ning Zheng rubbed his chin, "Seems promising, this nuclear test could be worth investing in."

He thought he should be prepared for any eventuality.

Once the world descends into chaos with rebels everywhere, rebel armies will surely target various city clan families, pillaging for military funds.

If they target his manor to plunder, he'd also have the ability to defend.

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