Sword Casting Manor.
After dinner, a group of people sat around.
Someone loudly sang around the campfire, with a voice echoing throughout the manor; someone else was hiding in a corner telling ghost stories by torchlight; someone was drawing blueprints; and some were secretly selling film, delighted and carefree.
Su Yuniang and Jiucai Rong chatted in front of the campfire.
Su Yuniang was understanding and tactful, never mentioning Jiucai Rong's affairs.
After all, everyone knows that friends who have been cheated on are the most sensitive about face.
The two of them had their own opinions on the game's main storyline being officially launched today — the blacksmith shop — now preparing for the campfire banquet before going offline at night, finally able to chat happily.
Su Yuniang poked the campfire with a wooden stick, the tiny sparks dancing in the air:
"Today, when you weren't around during the day, I explored the world background a bit, and read some books. Indeed, cultivation has many problems, it's tough, even if barely entering, the subsequent realms are impossible to cultivate through."
Jiucai Rong pretended to be calm as if nothing had happened in real life, "I just said, without grinding monsters to level up, if you honestly cultivate, we can't compete with the natives."
"Although unable to cultivate, I now have some opinions on the cultivation system!"
"Oh?" Su Yuniang was curious.
Several players nearby also pricked up their ears and quietly came over.
To play a game, you must learn to find tricks; personal game insights are crucial at this time, saving many detours and rushing up the combat power leaderboard faster.
After all, "Sword Forging Competition" clearly has a combat power leaderboard in the future.
It's just that the first season hasn't opened yet.
Jiucai Rong smiled, appearing confident:
"The cultivation system doesn't make us advanced cultivators but barely lets us enter the door, plant a spiritual root, and have divine techniques... then let us commit suicide as materials, putting our spiritual roots into weapons."
Su Yuniang's eyes gradually brightened, "So that's how it is, the cultivation system is for serving the main line blacksmith!"
Yes!
It's unrealistic to expect cultivation, the game name already indicates it's not about leveling up through cultivation.
With this spiritual root, simply entering is enough!
You can become forging materials, transferring your innate divine techniques to the magical artifact, becoming the divine techniques within it!
You are akin to a small demon beast.
"Hahaha! Why look for demon beasts? I will surpass demon beasts myself!" Su Yuniang's smile widened, already envisioning a bright future.
The mountains, the waters, the trees, everywhere are spiritual roots...
At that moment, all the manor's trees and flowers in her eyes transformed into C, B, A... SSR Cards.
Although most of these spiritual roots are wild grass, requiring the nourishment of spiritual qi to barely count as the lowest-tier spiritual roots, even dogs wouldn't want them.
But they don't hope for too much now.
Shennong tasted a hundred herbs!
They want to test the divine techniques of each spiritual root, plant them within themselves, and try iron forging with these demon beasts, observing the spells in the forged weapons!
This setting invites exploration!
Infinite combinations, an endless card pool... of weapons!
Jiucai Rong said: "But this should be an advanced gameplay. Without buying or selling, there's no harm. Each forging must grow a blacksmith's life with spiritual roots; this 'forging failure' probability might be very high! After all, it's a demon artifact that walks a unique path!"
Su Yuniang nodded heavily.
Who doesn't know weapon forging systems are a bottomless pit?
Each attempt requires a lot of preparation.
Jiucai Rong continued: "I suggest specifically training a batch of talented scholars! Not to forge, just focus on cultivating!"
"I call this profession 'Enchanter'!"
"Their task is to study in the Sword Casting Manor, open Three Flowers, transform into cultivators, then enchant weapons with their spiritual root divine techniques, adding various attributes and effects."
Su Yuniang nodded frequently as she listened.
The cultivation story thread in her eyes should be this.
Yet, this profession of Enchanter is even more noble than a Blacksmith!
Also more rare, with a high threshold!
Not everyone can plant spiritual roots.
Reviving a player once costs magic coins, and that's a huge sum!
If you sacrifice your life and heap various materials in, yet 'forging failure' happens, you can't recoup the cost at all.
Of course.
If successful, you forge a levelless magical artifact, soaring high instantly.
"I guess this path won't work short-term. For now, the probability of opening Three Flowers is very low, only resulting in pointless deaths, can't afford such high stakes."
Su Yuniang considered for a moment and said: "I do want to try it. After some time, I'll lead to open Three Flowers, connect with the Bridge of Heaven and Earth, comprehend spiritual qi! Then use my corpse for iron forging."
To be honest, she tried today too.
Found she had no talent for forging.
The weapons she forged were messy and crude, and with her temper, she's clearly not cut out for this.
She does have a passion for cultivating, tried reading today, and felt her perception made her still quite a talented cultivator.
Even if her cultivation talent is exceptionally high, it's impossible to truly cultivate, but being a noble Enchanter would be nice.
"We've pretty much deciphered the game's forging rules now." Su Yuniang grew proud.
"Indeed, the blacksmith shop's basic gameplay logic is just like this." Jiucai Rong replied.
It was them leading the team.
Otherwise, average players might play for weeks and still not be able to extract information tactfully from the old steward and piece together the reasoning.
"We're really good at playing!" Su Yuniang exuded pride.
Jiucai Rong said: "Now, we need substitute materials for practice; the crows overhead are just right."
"Just unsure what innate divine techniques crows have, what their bones and demon blood impart when forged into magical artifacts."
"Honestly, even Money Child should be a kind of demon beast; without planting a spiritual root, it should still be possible to craft magical artifacts, just with poor cost-effectiveness, its divine techniques must be quite trashy."
Su Yuniang chuckled, "Indeed, using Money Child to sacrifice is a big loss; sacrificing as a cultivator gives better value."
Jiucai Rong also found their chat progressively clear, laughing heartily, "Of course, can an uneducated Money Child fetch a good price? It should be an educated high-achiever to sell for a good price!"
This systematic breakdown gave everyone a refreshing, clear sense, as if the clouds cleared to reveal the moon.
Like completing a reasoning storyline.
This approach of exploring the forging mechanics is quite fun, revealing their dedication.
"Let's set a small goal, catch a crow tomorrow." Su Yuniang stood up, "I've always wanted to get it, clear the manor sky."
But unsure whether crow behavior matches reality.
Otherwise, prepare some food, set a birdcage as a trap, wait for it to come down.
Meanwhile, archers must be ready; if traps fail, just shoot it down live with arrows.
Come to think of it.
She had some research on archery and firearms.
The fun of a rich girl includes this; she has a fondness for violence, frequently visiting shooting ranges.
"Archery might not be very skilled; tomorrow, when the bow's ready, I must practice accuracy." Su Yuniang said, "Shoot down that crow, craft weapons for the brothers."
"Good!"
"Good!"
"Go sister! I've never liked those crows!"
A group of people gathered around the campfire, shouting loudly, genuinely happy.
This step-by-step development sense of achievement, this is the joy of farming.
Jiucai Rong also nodded, "Then tomorrow, I'll ask the old steward for detailed dharma methods on magical artifact forging, strive to get the first magical artifact done tomorrow."