The Might of Field Industrialization!

The item in this flower pot was naturally not a real tree, but an extraordinary item forged from idealistic materials such as thousand-year-old tree wood, Emerald of Life, and azure raw stone.

"Esteemed human friend, this should be a Function Tool, correct? What does it do? Forgive my ignorance." An elder of the Hongxiang Clan swayed his long trunk.

As a diplomat from a powerful civilization, he had no interest in inferior-grade weapons or armor. He only wanted to buy high-quality items that could strengthen his civilization.

"It is indeed a Function Tool!" The craftsman named Huang Fusheng took deep breaths, still not fully recovered, yet his spirit was extraordinarily excited. A smug expression appeared on his face. "Just put in a little Extraordinary Tinder energy, and you'll know what it does! Hurry up, I'm not lying to you."

Several Hongxiang people exchanged glances, their enormous ears flapping.

One of them lumbered forward and poured Fire Seed Energy into the little tree.

At once, the jade-like leaves began to glitter with specks of light.

The firefly-like lights shone on people—yet there was no sensation at all.

"Does it only emit light?" The elder of the Hongxiang Clan was somewhat puzzled, his trunk curling up.

"Where are your plant affinity users? Don't you have any plant affinity users here?" Huang Fusheng shouted. "What about your Appraisal Ability Users?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" A Long Hair Clan diplomat who had been watching reached out and touched the green light, carefully savoring it.

Then, in the very next second, it was as though he had been struck by lightning!

He froze where he stood!

After several seconds, urged on by those around him, the Long Hair Clan plant affinity user's fur stood on end as he quietly muttered a few words to his leader.

"What?!" The leader also stiffened all over and immediately asked Huang Fusheng, "What... what's the range of this thing? How much does it cost? Don't make it too expensive—we'll buy it outright! How about 10 Spirit Rhyme?"

"My crafting skill isn't all that good. It can only cover a radius of around 300 meters."

"But I can't decide the price, haha. This is a matter of civilization, so go discuss it with Green Field City's diplomats." Huang Fusheng looked thoroughly pleased. This was the Ninth Era's unique path, appearing for the first time in the Northern Frontier and even across Pangu Continent.

It would have been strange if they weren't shocked.

"Wait, I can raise the price!" The Long Hair Clan leader gritted his teeth and took a glittering golden ore from his backpack. "11 Spirit Rhyme, how about it? 15 Spirit Rhyme! I have money! I intend to buy this thing!"

The Spectators at the scene were all dumbfounded.

The dwarf inspectors watching nearby felt sour inside. The feeling was truly a mix of sweetness, bitterness, sourness, and spice—impossible to describe.

The most expensive item we sold was only an Earth Vein Compass worth 5 Spirit Rhyme!

Our craftsmen painstakingly forged thousands of little trinkets to prop up a transaction volume of 220 Spirit Rhyme. Several old craftsmen had even exhausted their inspiration for this wager and might need one or two years to recuperate!

Yet the things the humans made were being chased after by other races, and the humans did not even seem willing to sell them rashly?!

Several dwarves could not help but feel a pang of bitterness. After all the effort they had put into preparing for this, what exactly had it been for?

"Don't be in such a hurry. If you want something better, you'll have to wait for my senior brothers. They'll be finished soon as well." Huang Fusheng pursed his lips and slumped in his chair. "Do you have any extraordinary plants? Bring over some plants and test its effects on the spot."

The Long Hair Clan leader bared his teeth and began making calls. "Hurry and bring our... Hurry!!"

He practically roared as he issued the order.

This cryptic behavior left everyone baffled.

"The humans aren't selling it for now... They won't sell even for 15 Spirit Rhyme?!" The surrounding races were all stunned. They also began frantically making calls, notifying their civilization's Appraisal Ability Users and plant affinity users to come over.

This enormous turn of events made Ta Gang and the others ecstatic and terrified at once. They discussed it quietly, "What exactly is that flower pot?"

"Why do I feel like it's some kind of field? A relatively weak field, without much offensive capability."

"Fields are supposed to be on people, aren't they? How did one become an item... How much would that cost?"

"It must be very expensive. The manufacturing cost might exceed 100 Spirit Rhyme?"

"If they sell it cheaply, they'll definitely suffer a huge loss. But surpassing the dwarves' transaction volume will be effortless. There are still quite a few wealthy major races here."

After a while, Long Hair Clan soldiers hurried over.

They had transported a crystal-like plant by car. It stood around seven meters tall and weighed 1,300 kilograms. Each fruit looked like a translucent bead of ice. It was the renowned Crystal Winter Grain!

The Northern Frontier was rich in ice-elemental energy, and most plants grew slowly there, some even having their growth suppressed.

Crystal Winter Grain was a relatively common extraordinary plant capable of absorbing ice elements.

Its yield was also fairly good. A single Crystal Winter Grain plant could produce 100 to 200 jin of "winter grain" each year, worth roughly 0.5 to 1 Spirit Rhyme.

The Long Hair Clan had gradually become a major race over time by relying on more than a dozen extraordinary plants.

"How is it? Is there any effect?" the Long Hair Clan leader asked anxiously.

The glowing green firefly-like motes slowly gathered on Crystal Winter Grain's glass-like branches, causing it to emit a green light.

"Why hasn't it changed at all?"

"Elder, how could it be that fast? Do you think it's a balloon that can be blown up with a single puff?" The plant affinity user closed his eyes and patiently sensed the changes. Only after several minutes did he open them again.

His face lit up as he said, "My lord, although it can't compare to cultivation by me personally, it truly has a powerful effect! Its growth rate has increased by around 150%, and with a coverage range of 300 meters, it can grow several hundred plants..."

He did not dare continue, fearing that revealing too many secrets would provoke a scramble from the other major races!

Several Long Hair People began feeling through their pockets and pooling money.

Crystal Winter Grain was an extraordinary plant that could be cultivated and propagated, but it consumed a great deal of manpower and resources.

A plant attuner would have to tend a Crystal Winter Grain with painstaking care for a full thirty years, nurturing it until it flourished, before it might reproduce a reasonably healthy offspring through division—regardless of whether the propagation succeeded, the Crystal Winter Grain would remain weakened for quite some time.

One had to know that any given civilization only had a handful of plant attuners. Even if they worked themselves to the bone day and night, they could not possibly support the needs of an entire civilization.

But now, with this "Spirit Plant Field"...

So what if its effects were slightly weaker?

It was equivalent to having every Crystal Winter Grain tended by a rookie-level "plant attuner"!

And the propagation rate of Crystal Winter Grain would increase drastically as well. This was practically a foundation for ten thousand generations!

The Long Hair Clan was so excited they nearly went mad. Eyes bloodshot, they began raising their bid, piling out all their ores. "Please, you must sell it to us, Master Huang! Sell it to us! Twenty... no, thirty Spiritual Essence! This is everything we own—we only brought this much! Please sell it to us!"

Huang Fusheng had never faced such a scene before. He kept scratching his scalp. "This is civilization property. I don't have the final say. But don't panic, really, don't panic..."

By then, the other races had also finished their appraisals. They stood there like statues, each contemplating what kind of changes this thing could bring!

The discussions grew increasingly fervent.

"Where are the human diplomats? Who is handling this matter? We want to buy them—there's more than one field here."

"This is simply unbelievable. How could this be possible?"

"The price must be very high, right? The highest price my civilization can accept is..." This Alien Race member forcibly swallowed the rest of his words.

"It's strange. Fields should be high-level items, but this thing's Extraordinary Level isn't high."

The dwarves' upper ranks had also heard the news and hurried over.

The leading Bronzebeard Dwarf was also an artisan. Seeing the inspectors on his side looking utterly lost, he said in a deep, muffled voice, "Don't get worked up yet. The Long Hair Clan has never gotten along with us!"

"I'd like to see what tricks they're playing. Could they be acting as shills for the humans?"

He took out a pair of red glasses and put them on the bridge of his nose.

The scouting glasses emitted a faint glow, and a great deal of information flowed into his mind.

Miracle Tree. When a human artisan created this item, he incorporated the fantasy of dreams and reality.

He used an entirely new forging technique. This marvelous sculpture appeared to be merely an ordinary sculpture, but it contained profound mysteries within. It was a first-generation product developed and promoted by "??"&...￥...#

Ability: Activate a spirit value field*(&*(...*%)))

Extraordinary Level: Suspected to be Rare Level.

"Why is there a whole pile of garbled text?" The Bronzebeard Dwarf was stunned. Appraisal was an underlying ability of Pangu Continent.

The results it had revealed were a complete mess, most likely because the information was incomplete.

What did that mean?

It took him a long while to recover from his dazed state. He muttered under his breath, "A field... is only Rare Level? Why? Isn't this a... terribly useless thing?"

He was not unfamiliar with fields. After all, he was a Level 7 combat master.

Many documents unearthed from Civilization Ruins recorded relevant information.

But under normal circumstances, it took an artisan struck by inspiration to custom-make a field for someone. It did not necessarily require an Artisan Master; an artisan who had worked diligently for several decades would suffice.

In other words, the value of a field was at least equivalent to Excellent Level!

If it was an especially complex field related to God's Skill, then only an Artisan Master could possibly create it, making it equivalent to Legendary Level.

Yet this tree was merely Rare Level, lowering its rank by one—no, two entire levels for no reason.

How had they done it?

Wait, could the other human artisans also be creating the same kind of thing?

He turned his head, doing his best to calm his pounding heart as he observed patiently.

Some of the human artisans were creating all manner of great trees, while others were seriously studying a "gourd."

Some were creating "Flower Buds," while others were creating plump "fruits." In short, everything was related to plants.

"The second creation is finished!"

"Quick, test it!"

"A field! It's another Spirit Plant Field!!"

The commotion around them grew louder and louder. The various races became increasingly excited, and those pairs of eyes could not help but shine!

Their expressions were complicated: disbelief, anticipation, and a faint, subtle hope intertwined into an intense longing.

Perhaps, at this very moment, the poor and backward Northern Frontier had undergone a new change.

Every race would have a chance to rise!

This thing would bring about an enormous turning point for the era.

The Long Hair Clan's leader was practically beside himself with excitement. "Could it be that Green Field City has developed a method for mass-producing Spirit Plant Fields?!"

"It must be!"

"Buy one! Even if the price is higher, we have to buy it! This is a foundation for ten thousand generations—we have Crystal Winter Grain too!"

The Bronzebeard Dwarf's head buzzed. He called the rear command, his voice trembling. "We lost... a crushing defeat... The inspection results show there was no cheating whatsoever. They truly forged them on-site, with countless eyes watching."

"We... ah, we worked so hard to make some small items." He was so depressed he could barely speak.

"Don't panic. The clan elder and council chairman are on their way back by car," the voice on the phone reassured him.

This Bronzebeard Dwarf looked up at the falling snow. Craftsmen had to possess a sincere heart; one could even say this was a gentleman's pursuit founded on intelligence, experience, and character. If one reversed day and night, it would be impossible to become an outstanding craftsman.

He had forged Fields for his own people before and understood full well how difficult they were to create.

What kind of concept was it to create a Field using Extraordinary Materials?

Nobody knew.

Even the great Gear Codex contained no record of it!

What was more, one chapter of the Gear Codex considered tailoring Fields for intelligent life to be a pointless endeavor.

Rather than use that inspiration to forge a Field, it would be better spent comprehending deeper knowledge...

"They must have used high-grade materials! If they sell them cheaply, they'll definitely be taking a loss!"

"Stop making excuses. A loss is a loss. We never studied this stuff at all."

"And how many high-end materials could they possibly have?"

Several companions discussed it in dejection and shock. No matter how they looked at it, the fact that so many human craftsmen could all forge "Spirit Plant Fields" was just fucking outrageous.

One Field was equivalent to a Level 7 Great Grandmaster—and one with the God's Skill of Plant Affinity, at that.

In less than seven days, they had suddenly gained a hundred Great Grandmasters with Plant Affinity. It truly surpassed all imagination.

More and more races heard about the matter and noisily rushed to the humans' forging grounds.

At once, the dwarves' forging site became deserted. Only a small number of customers with custom orders remained, waiting anxiously.

The dwarf craftsmen who were still forging were utterly baffled. "Why did everyone run off?"

"I heard the humans have come up with something incredible."

"Our legendary item is about to come out of the forge, and no one's watching?"

But duty bound them, so they could not go join the excitement. To keep them focused on forging, the other dwarf workers did not deliberately inform them either.

They could only grit their teeth and continue forging, racing against time to complete their tasks.

At that moment, another uproar broke out among the crowd.

Human Artisan Master Li Datie had completed the Extraordinary Item in his hands—a lifelike cactus!

Its Field effect was already close to that of someone with Plant Affinity, and its coverage radius had reached an astounding five hundred and eighty-two meters!

"..."

When Li Datie completed this work, two muddy tears could not help but roll down his face. He collapsed onto the ground.

Field Industrialization could produce Fields simply by following a formula.

But as idealistic items, they still required one's own understanding and life experience.

Li Datie came from the Shali Clan and was a true first-generation resident of Green Field City.

That homeland filled with sandstorms and oil was his childhood memory. The arduous journey they had taken remained vivid in his mind.

Perhaps life truly was getting better and better now, but the childhood he had lost would never return.

"I... finished it!" He gently stroked the flower pot at the base of the cactus. Pride filled his heart, yet he murmured to himself, "If only the Shali Clan had possessed something like this back then... In those days, we fought hunger every single day."

"Fortunately, it has not appeared too late."

This was an Outstanding++ Extraordinary Item, just a step short of Legendary.

The surrounding races anxiously began asking questions, and every one of them was a powerful race frantically inquiring.

"Master Li, do you really have a hundred of these Field items? Can you produce a hundred at once?"

"Have you invented a new forging method?"

"What's the price? Master Li, we're willing to offer 2 Fortune for your Outstanding item. How about it?"

This time, the entire venue was truly thrown into an uproar. Fortune, a higher-level idealistic unit, had finally appeared.

Those dwarf inspectors were so envious and jealous that they nearly ground their teeth to pieces.

They had painstakingly squandered their inspiration to forge a pile of trash, all so it would be easier to sell. After selling bits and pieces here and there, they had only earned 220 spiritual resonance.

Yet with one move, the other side could directly obtain Fortune!

Even the dwarves themselves wanted to buy one, because they too wanted to figure out how the humans had made this thing.

"As long as the price is right, there's nothing wrong with buying one to study it."

"Hmph. He still hasn't named a price. The forging cost must be extremely high."

After a while, Council Chairman Storm Lie Jiu and the outsider leader Rock Fist Shen Lu also arrived at the scene.

"Why do you all look like the dead? What a disgrace!" Rock Fist Shen Lu scolded.

The dwarves dejectedly pointed at Li Datie's creation. "Clan Elder, this thing caused a huge sensation... We've been utterly defeated."

The red-haired otherworlder frowned. He did not care all that much about winning or losing.

But seeing the Dwarf Civilization he had personally cultivated get utterly crushed still left him somewhat displeased. He wanted to see just what the humans had come up with.

He stared at the cactus for a long while, his eyes gleaming.

God's Skill—Sage's Eye

It allowed him to see supernatural fluctuations and all manner of specks of Idealistic Elements. It even possessed a certain degree of x-ray vision.

This skill was exceedingly rare. It was also the foundation of his rise as the leader of the otherworlders and his forging of the Immortal King!

"It is indeed a Spirit Plant Field. The ice-attributed elements in the air are being organized in a peculiar fashion."

"The plant's internal activity has been greatly stimulated... Hm? Is this the plant's emotion... Crystal Winter Grain may be very happy."

His vision became abstract and dazzling, as multicolored halos flashed through his mind.

Then, he pushed the Sage's Eye to its limit.

"The internal inscriptions are quite complex. They are not from the Gear Codex... I cannot quite make sense of them."

"Hm? What is this?" Rock Fist Shen Lu furrowed his brow as he spotted those strange motes of light and began searching his memories for information.

Reverse Entropy Element? So that was it!

"I knew it. Could youngsters of this era really create some great new path? If they used Reverse Entropy Elements, the cost of forging this thing must be extremely high."

"Though it can still be considered a decent invention, it is only decent."

With that thought, the old man gave a haughty snort and explained, "I saw Reverse Entropy Elements inside that cactus. They are most likely producing this thing at a loss. No wonder they have been so slow to announce a price."

"What are Reverse Entropy Elements?" those nearby asked curiously.

"A type of Idealistic substance found in anomalies! They are the main reason anomalies are long-lived and powerful, and they have considerable research value," Rock Fist Shen Lu said. "I did not expect them to use it to forge a field. In any case, it counts as an excellent invention. But the cost is certainly not low!"

"But they created a hundred fields. How can that be called expensive?"

Rock Fist Shen Lu snorted coldly. "How would I know? Perhaps that dragon produces an especially large quantity of Reverse Entropy Elements, or perhaps they are merely putting on a brave face to save face."

Upon hearing this, the many races were somewhat disappointed. It seemed they would not be able to replicate it themselves.

Still, as long as the price was right, who cared how it worked? Being able to use it was enough.

They would still buy what needed buying, right?

A craftsman of the Hongxiang Clan asked respectfully, "May I ask, Senior, how much do Reverse Entropy Elements cost? What Extraordinary Level are they?"

The Hongxiang Clan also kept an anomaly, though it was still in its juvenile stage.

They began entertaining the thought of imitation.

Rock Fist Shen Lu said, "Heh, this thing is simply an innate element. It has no level. Do fire elements and ice elements have levels?"

"But even the strongest anomaly has limits. If too much is extracted, that dragon will suffer premature aging, and its future combat potential will be greatly weakened. So tell me, what price should it have?"

The crowd immediately sucked in a cold breath.

The cost truly was not low.

"Of course, if they sell these fields off cheaply, then our Dwarf Clan admits inferiority!"

"We simply are not rich enough to fiddle with research projects that offer such poor value for money! We concede this round. There is no need to continue competing."

"Humans, you have won."

Rock Fist Shen Lu directly characterized his competitors' behavior as throwing money around.

The Dwarf Clan had lost, but not because their skills were inferior. Their opponents were simply selling at a massive loss!

Given how precious Reverse Entropy Elements were, even using them to create "Excellent-grade" equipment would be somewhat extravagant.

Yet the human craftsmen had used them to create a whole pile of Rare-grade items. Was that not simply a waste of materials?

The many races fell silent, feeling that... it actually made some sense.

But no matter what, if two powerful races were tearing into each other, it was good enough for them to pick up a little benefit.

In any case, they would definitely be buying these Spirit Plant Fields.