Chapter 1130 - 213: Possessing Jiumu Qing Is the Mark of a Powerhouse

Chapter 1130: Chapter 213: Possessing Jiumu Qing Is the Mark of a Powerhouse

Very soon, True Man Danding was invited over by Jiucai Rong, and couldn’t help being a bit surprised: "You Xi Rong guys have a new project again?"

"Let me take a look." She logged into Celestial Destiny Village No.1, at the foot of Sword Casting Manor’s mountain, and was led out of the village to the outside.

She saw the ten giant fortresses hanging in the sky—each one had a third of a great province’s area—suspended against the sky-wall, utterly jaw-dropping.

Her whole being was shaken, and she cried out:

"How did you get your hands on this thing? That raid that’s been causing a huge stir these past two days, was that instigated by you Xi Rong again?"

Jiucai Rong fell silent, then hurriedly retorted, blushing:

"Slander, that’s slander. What do you mean ’again instigated by us Xi Rong,’ making us sound filthy, like we go around stirring up wars everywhere? We’re merchants. This is loot we acquired; other people sold it to us."

"Oh, so that’s how it is." True Man Danding perfunctorily nodded.

Who’d believe that.

Originally, the war between the two realms hadn’t even officially begun.

Then you Xi Rong people went everywhere sending Heaven’s Chosen to scam insurance payouts and bereavement compensations...

And the soldiers on the side put on a show of frenzied slaughter, causing massive casualties and escalating the war, making both sides’ Immortal Venerates think the other side wasn’t playing by the rules, and directly detonated the whole situation.

They were so pissed they dropped four spatial bomb tombs on the Immortal Realm—also your Xi Rong’s fault.

After that.

Even though the war had started.

It was originally only cultivators at True Immortal level going onto the field; both sides were still restraining themselves.

Then you went and messed with Bottle-Storage Immortal Venerate, doing a crazy dance, provoking that one, and got Immortal Realm Immortal Venerates to kill him, completely sharpening the conflict.

The war had barely begun, and an Immortal Venerate was already dead—who could swallow that?

That led to Immortal Venerate Dharma Bodies descending one after another.

The brutality of the battlefield, right at the start, has already hit the peak levels of previous great wars of the myriad realms!

How is this not deliberate? It’s only been, what, a bit over a month? And the war blew up to this extent?

"Ahem, we’re just buying up goods now, making money off the battlefield, that’s all."

Jiucai Rong paused, "So, how is it, can you do it? These War Immortal Artifacts have to be fully overhauled; they must look completely different, unrecognizable compared to the original design. Ten Halls of Yama, and if we can add some industry Nether Lamps... Treasure Lotus Lamps hanging along the palace routes, that’d be even better."

True Man Danding nodded: "Of course I can, because I was one of the designers of this fortress model to begin with."

"You designed this thing?" Jiucai Rong was also taken aback—so they’d gone straight to the original creator?

"What did you think?"

True Man Danding rolled her eyes:

"You think the non-combat profession circle is that easy to get into?"

"Safe, hugely profitable, and with way more competition than combat cultivators. Ordinary cultivators can’t compete with us; only after realizing they have no talent do they go be combat cultivators, become cannon fodder, and make money right on the line between life and death."

Don’t look at how her combat strength is inferior to True Immortal Mo Mei.

Her "gold content" is way higher than her bestie True Immortal Mo Mei’s!

You think the shares she holds in hundreds of businesses are a joke?

Her net worth is hundreds of times that of True Immortal Mo Mei’s sect!

Especially now that war has broken out and orders are up—her net worth is already charging toward 100 billion Upper Grade Immortal Stones!

After listening to True Man Danding’s self-introduction, Jiucai Rong was a bit speechless, "You’re basically advertising your own value, telling me you’ve got tons of orders right now, so you’re going to mark up the price for refitting this stuff?"

"Obviously! This is my standard commercial intro. Value is something you show off yourself—being shy about it is what idiots do."

True Immortal Danding just glanced at those ten fortresses, then quoted a number, "For our relationship’s sake, I’ll give you a 30% discount, and round off a digit. Refitting one unit, I’ll only charge you 1 billion Upper Grade Immortal Stones."

Jiucai Rong couldn’t help complaining out loud.

We thought we were good at fleecing people, but in the end it’s still you!

billion Upper Grade Immortal Stones—wasn’t that the total assets of a top True Immortal sect like True Immortal Mo Mei’s, before all this?

Refit a single fortress, and you’re charging Mo Mei one entire sect?

"This thing counts as a super-large Magical Treasure; it’s way pricier than the average weapon in a True Immortal’s hand. The materials are at least ten times that of a standard True Immortal Weapon. It’s not something ordinary cultivators can work on."

"Ten units, 10 billion Upper Grade Immortal Stones—this is just my pure labor fee. You provide the materials yourselves."

True Man Danding guaranteed it, full of confidence: "Once I personally refit them, I guarantee no one will recognize their original identity."

Jiucai Rong hurriedly asked Ning Zheng for instructions.

Ning Zheng was also secretly observing, and knew that her quote was reasonable.

She was already showing a lot of sincerity.

After all, this person is in the first echelon below Immortal Venerates!

Any higher, and they’d have to go invite the boss of the Refining Cauldron Domain—Refining Cauldron Immortal Venerate—to personally help with the refit.

But how could an Immortal Venerate stoop to personally forge Standard Weapons at True Immortal level for you?

Top-tier Immortal Venerates spend all their time making peak-level Immortal Venerable Supreme Treasures, and taking forging commissions from other Immortal Venerates.

After all, an Immortal Venerate without a weapon—what’s the difference from trash?

Ning Zheng’s expression suddenly turned odd:

"Immortal Venerable Supreme Treasures are all forged from Immortal Venerate-grade materials—and where do those Immortal Venerate materials come from?"

"Speaking of which, previously Bottle-Storage Immortal Venerate was besieged and killed—the Bottle-Storage Immortal Venerate’s true body was a Treasure Bottle... so they harvested a huge pile of materials. Each Immortal Venerate got a share, and I bet all the Immortal Realm Immortal Venerates went and asked Refning Cauldron Immortal Venerate to personally forge for them."

He showed a trace of envy. "I wonder how many Immortal Venerable Supreme Treasures they got out of it."

Those are way better than the Immortal Venerate furniture I picked up!

A handy weapon is genuinely hard to come by.

No wonder we Xi Rong just nudged things a bit, only cut down one Law Avatar, and those Immortal Venerates saw the opportunity, got bloodshot eyes, used all kinds of secret means to lure Bottle-Storage Immortal Venerate out of the Netherworld, then mobbed him...

Turns out it was for Immortal Venerable Supreme Treasures.

How can you blame them?

I’m a sword-using Immortal Venerate—after breaking through to Immortal Venerate, I don’t have a sword in my hand. You think I can sleep? A Swordsman without a sword feels incredibly insecure!

At this moment.

Jiucai Rong’s general line of thought was the same; she and Ning Zheng were thinking along the same track.

Bottle-Storage Immortal Venerate did not die unjustly!

In the future, won’t the Immortal Venerable Supreme Treasures of our Sword Casting Manor also need Immortal Venerate-level craftsmen to forge them?

Jiucai Rong’s gaze fell on Jiumu Qing in the distance:

"Once this lass has awakened, becoming an Immortal Venerate blacksmith, then we’ll be able to forge Immortal Venerate-level Supreme Treasures and live up to the name of our Sword Casting Manor!"

"No wonder the old steward just sent a message, telling them to set up Jiumu Qing’s Ghost King awakening—have a bunch of people put on a show, build a stage, stimulate her..."

So it was a main story quest!

We have to push True Immortal Great Perfection Jiumu Qing into becoming the first Immortal Venerate-level blacksmith.

Otherwise, if we keep lining True Man Danding’s pockets, wouldn’t that be a huge loss?

"Both Immortal Realm and Netherworld have their own Jiumu Qing fallen down their respective timelines, to become blacksmiths on their side and forge Immortal Venerable Supreme Treasures for them."

"We Xi Rong, if we want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those two Immortal Venerate powers, we have to have one as well."

Jiucai Rong was totally on board and sighed: "Jiumu Qing is the standard configuration for Immortal Realm powerhouses!"