In the manager's room.

"I'll take you outside to sit for a while, to kill some time." The Medical Fairy smiled.

After sending off the Mature Businesswoman, Daojiu, Su Yuniang, the Food God, and Jiucai Rong started huddling together, discussing what to purchase.

The joy of online shopping is simply exhilarating.

Every time you look at the shopping list, it's like exploring the adventure zones of the outside world, unveiling the mystery.

Gathering all this information, little Embers will have an easier time exploring in the future!

Furthermore, this is a business simulation game.

The prices of goods purchased will often fluctuate, and this "buy low, sell high" is the core of the trading mechanics.

First, there's the daily resource page.

Mortal Rice, Spirit Rice, various Demon Beast materials, all skyrocketing.

The Embers page.

Continuing Ash Talisman, Paper House, Storage Ash Pearl... and other resources assisting Embers, fell to a low point.

Exorcism Talisman, Exorcism Spell, Saint's Home Guardian Map... these strategic resources for attacking Embers rose significantly.

"How come Spirit Rice and Spiritual Flesh have increased by 80% so quickly? This is too immoral, is there going to be a war?"

Daojiu felt something was amiss, "Resource prices for dealing with Embers are skyrocketing... could this mean a surge of Embers is expected?"

"You mean the classic gameplay, monsters besieging the city?"

Su Yuniang thought for a while and shook her head, "No! It might not be a monster siege! Where would so many monsters come from? I think it might be... internal power struggles among the city's factions!"

Daojiu's thought process got stuck, unable to turn around, "Internal struggles? How would the living use Ember resources for internal struggles... Damn!"

Jiucai Rong patted him on the shoulder, nodding:

"The families in the city using their ancestors, rising from their graves, of course, are to deal with Embers!"

"Perhaps, there's an even deeper reason in the city; otherwise, the fall in Ember resource prices wouldn't be this drastic."

"No matter what, something big is happening, the price of rice and meat in Pingchang City is skyrocketing, we'll skip buying winter reserves, tighten our belts, and just starve a bit."

Nearby, the Food God, looking confused: "Huh? How will we survive the winter without food?"

Jiucai Rong was indifferent: "We'll talk about winter later. The new expansion pack, sponsored by Bear Grylls: the winter wilderness survival show, is officially online...."

"Written in the update announcement, it's the dog-cheating production team's main storyline, not that our manor can't afford food, but starving is more challenging."

"The Human Race blacksmiths on the mountain can just dig some wild greens, eat some crow meat, and if it really doesn't work, suicide to become a Money Child, eating earth for winter is even more delightful!"

Jiucai Rong's words left Daojiu silent, with the nearby Food God already in tears, "Without ingredients, my canteen can't open, I won't make money."

But Su Yuniang nodded, agreeing, "If this game wasn't challenging, I wouldn't want to play it. Must get through winter without warmth, without stored grain, gathering the two major negative winter BUFFs."

Instead of worrying about feeding the blacksmiths, she got excited: "Moreover, with the outside fighting, weapons certainly will soar in price, we must seize the opportunity to make a profit!"

"Our dog-tail series doesn't have strong combat capabilities, can't make this wartime fortune, we need to create a practical low-tier Magical Artifact to break into the wartime market."

...

Daojiu felt a bit lost.

Watching these two talk back and forth, they completely disregarded humanity.

They just know about profiting from weapons, ignoring the winter survival!

Updating a round of the main storyline survival in the wilderness, just trying to brush off the fact that they don't want to spend money on food?

On the contrary, Jiucai Rong felt that moving bricks requires suffering.

Blacksmiths having three meals a day eaten on an empty stomach, is that hard?

If it comes to it, eat some meat from the dormitory meat field.

Seeing others make money feels worse than losing money myself!

Spit!

Profiting off my Lord of the Manor's money?

No way!

"Everyone, I must remind you!!" Jiucai Rong, facing his fellow committee members, spoke with a serious expression: "If the blacksmiths starve to death, only a life is lost, but the manor loses box after box of Magic Coins!"

Clap clap clap!

Su Yuniang clapped forcefully: "Listen to the applause!"

In a daze, Daojiu felt Jiucai Rong was like a great orator, exuding incredible personal charm.

Clap clap clap!

Daojiu also silently clapped, only the Food God was still in tears.

Not only not spending money, but Jiucai Rong even planned to sell high-priced weapons, profiting hugely from the situation.

They weren't even considering being affected by the internal struggle war.

The establishment of a city requires cooperation from several Major Sects, families, noble families, using the ancestors to "encircle the city," creating a safe zone.

Of course, the city requires official residence too.

From this point, it's evident that Sword Casting Manor surpasses any single noble family in the city.

No need to huddle for warmth, relying on three ancestors from their own family, they can carve out a small safe area deep in the mountains.

Moreover, once they start fighting, they will have less time to mind the manor in the mountains, not going to the city to loot some wealthy gentry by following the adoptive father's bandit lessons is already good enough.

They turned another page.

The Spiritual Root page.

"The price of Spiritual Roots seems to be plummeting rapidly!" They looked at each other, filled with excitement and joy.

It's understandable, though.

Prices for materials that directly increase combat power are skyrocketing; those that can't directly increase combat power are falling.

New cultivators who just opened Three Flowers are clearly useless, while city families might need to sell a batch of Spiritual Roots at low prices to exchange for liquidity to face the war.

So, our manor will try to buy some low-priced Spiritual Roots while we can.

The more we buy, the more we earn.

We'll profit so much they won't even have boxers left.

"Let's not rush to buy Spiritual Roots, hold off, then buy at the bottom."

"Once they fight, run out of money, lack logistics, the families near extinction will surely sell off their assets urgently, exchanging Spiritual Roots for money, estimating it will fall further, and then we'll buy a batch of lower-grade Spiritual Roots."

Jiucai Rong kept analyzing.

Careful calculation, that's real economic strategy.

Su Yuniang was slightly surprised, listening to his analysis, "This old fox is shearing wool from a distance, even started speculating and buying at the bottom, no wonder he's an old Jiucai exploited by capital for years."

"I must inquire about his previous stock trading records."

...

...

The Medical Fairy brought the Mature Businesswoman Zhang Huaping to the medical center.

Zhang Huaping frequently glanced at the Mature Businesswoman Medical Fairy's impressive features and hesitated, clearly, there was an issue with the elasticity.

Inside the shop.

A short, cute Money Lolita "Medical Fairy" dressed in white was researching the River Demon, surprised to see guests arriving and quickly made way.

"It's a bit messy here, please sit."

The Medical Fairy smiled, "Recently, our medical center has been researching the River Demon."

Zhang Huaping sat down and glanced at the River Demon.

Still alive, it seemed they were doing some kind of micro modification.

The female physician in the medical center clearly seemed to be a direct descendent of the manor's Demon Path lineage.

Because her blood energy was noticeably of this mountain manor.

Studying the River Demon seems quite normal.

It's a bit different from being an Alchemist; treating diseases still needs a Physician.

Because even though there are those medical oddballs with experiments, she is quite serious and upright as a person.

"Knowledge about Demon Beasts? Of course."

Zhang Huaping sighed with relief; she knew a lot about human and demon beast knowledge.

The Medical Fairy was very productive, continuously taking notes during the discussion.

Two Medical Fairies studying together, asking questions, discussing, these are extremely valuable experiences.

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