Ning Zheng: I'm Going to Ambush!

Thanks to the manor's abundant special clay and stones, along with a good amount of rebar, these brick-carrying strongmen, who possessed immense strength, found building houses as easy as eating and drinking.

They dug up mounds of earth to create their team's monster-slaying base.

There were courtyard traps with circular walls.

There were guillotine-style trigger traps; as soon as a bird flew through, it would pull the lever and the blade would fall.

Even by dusk, as the vigorous construction work progressed, some people spotted business opportunities and began selling semi-finished building materials:

"Selling earth blocks, just like in Minecraft! Make building your fortress even easier!"

"Selling iron doors with peepholes here! A safe entrance and exit are crucial!"

But no one was fighting over territory to build towers. After all, the construction area for a mere hundred people didn't take up much space.

The blacksmith shop was also bustling with activity, churning out all sorts of bizarre-looking weapons.

Some people even went out to study trap designs and ancient military fortresses, cramming hard!

Indeed, passion was the best teacher!

Online, a group of armchair generals offered advice, and various blueprints appeared, helping them create the miracle of one hundred child-like loli soldiers defeating tens of thousands of flying units!

The manor was too lively!

Heave ho!

Heave ho!

A group of people shouted while driving piles for the foundation, their faces flushed with excitement from work. They even had more energy to eat dirt, shoveling handfuls into their mouths!

Meanwhile, Jiu Cai Rong was busier than a bee.

Iron plates filled with spikes became the most practical basic components for various traps.

As for the sword-forging master, Dao Jiujiu, they were tasked with crafting more high-quality magic artifact blanks.

When the war began, they could directly forge them into proper magic artifacts using the crows, which might help shift the tide of the war.

Su Yu Niang also started practicing archery.

However, despite her skill far exceeding that of ordinary people, her accuracy when shooting at fast-moving targets at a distance was disastrous.

Even well-trained modern snipers might not hit a flying bird.

Could she only ambush them when they landed to preen their feathers?

The effect was clearly not great.

At noon, Ning Zheng finished eating.

He decided to check what was happening in the manor, wondering if things had gone wild the moment he left. Did they usually put on an act in front of him? He felt a strong sense of curiosity and a desire to sneak a peek.

Of course, he wouldn't go himself. Didn't he have the viewers from "Queuing to Log In"?

Ning Zheng forcibly logged in as one of them, giving himself a very simple username: "Flower Blooming Rich." After all, opening the three flowers and becoming a cultivator would surely bring wealth! "Flower Blooming Rich" held a beautiful meaning in this world.

When he logged in and saw these things through various perspectives, he was dumbfounded.

At this moment, people were also chatting about various things.

"Wow, I really want to play! This is too challenging!"

"How did that idiot build that trap? To trap a crow, then sneak up and stab it? That's a tool for ambushing crow airdrops! How much resentment must he have accumulated! (laughs)"

"Envious, so envious. Sob sob, when will we who are queuing get to log in? (pitiful.jpg)"

"The old steward mentioned the Manor Lord's appearance before he left. Is a new NPC about to show up? What if, when we can't beat the crows, the Manor Lord appears and instantly kills them all with a wave of his hand!"

"Wait, didn't they say he was in seclusion and couldn't come out?"

"Can't the Manor Lord create an external avatar and come out to instantly kill everyone?"

"That would be awesome!"

Ning Zheng looked like an old man looking at his phone.

As an older youth, he couldn't keep up with the times and just found this place where he could switch perspectives and chat quite interesting.

This way, he could monitor the entire manor's situation.

He hadn't chatted online with anyone in a long time. He remembered secretly going to internet cafes to play QQ back in the day, and the first thing they'd say was "Are you MM or GG?" It felt very nostalgic.

So, he typed out a message to communicate.

[Flower Blooming Rich]: "Hello everyone, nice to meet you all."

"Rich lady, adopt me."

Ning Zheng: "???"

Rich lady? What rich lady? Where did that come from?

He glanced at Ning Jiaojiao beside him, whose cheeks were puffed out from eating. That one looked more like it.

Someone messaged him: "Sister, do you know the flower language of steel wool?"

Ning Zheng couldn't hold back his curiosity.

"Flower Blooming Rich": "What is it?"

"Endurance and Flower Blooming Rich."

?

He didn't understand any of it.

Ning Zheng felt he wasn't on the same generational level as them. Though he found it interesting, he didn't say much, merely switching perspectives one by one.

He observed from various angles, his peculiar, dark expression likely a digital representation of: secretly observing.jpg.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

For the next two days, Ning Zheng largely ignored external affairs, only occasionally taking time to see what strange buildings the manor was constructing, and then focusing entirely on his breakthrough.

After all, they were all working so hard to prepare for battle.

Ning Zheng, the sole combatant in the manor, had to buckle down as well.

He was infected by their passion and fervor.

Just right.

Ning Zheng needed to break through to the next realm and enhance his combat power these few days.

If the crow leader appeared, and he was in the middle of his breakthrough, it would increase the success rate of a sneak attack.

At this very moment.

He had reached the final stage, with magic coins piled high, filling the entire room.

The stored spiritual energy was being continuously drawn out, strand by strand.

A large amount of spiritual energy poured in from the Heaven and Earth Bridge above his head, flowing along the Spinal Dragon and meridians, gradually infusing into his left hand.

Five Bodies Realm.

The head and four limbs are collectively known as the Five Bodies.

Once each body is formed, that limb becomes indestructible and can regenerate.

The first body formed in the Five Bodies Realm is always the head, as the "head" is the beginning of the Immortal Path. Opening the three flowers on the crown, connecting the Heaven and Earth Bridge, and drawing qi into the body, is thus called the Five Bodies.

Now, Ning Zheng was about to form the second body.

"I'm afraid the breakthrough might be unstable. I'll use luck value to assist. Good fortune makes accidents less likely."

With his thoughts withdrawn, Ning Zheng sat cross-legged. To be safe, he spent another 300 luck value, bringing his current luck to a soaring 800. His mind became utterly clear, and he began to attempt the breakthrough.

Whoosh~

Spiritual energy surged in the air, converging above his head, then entering his brain. It flowed down the spine and into his left arm, clearing the meridians and integrating into his flesh, bones, and blood, which were being reorganized.

Half an hour later, Ning Zheng slowly opened his eyes.

"Done."

He picked up his sword, and a cold glint flashed.

His left hand fell off in response.

The severed arm thrashed on the ground.

"Come back."

Strands of spiritual energy seeped from the severed joint, slowly drawing the detached hand back to his arm.

He clenched his left hand, satisfied.

For others, a breakthrough was a perilous event, but for him, it was effortless.

After practicing the Five Bodies, the head, limbs, and the outer periphery of the body would form a complete, regenerating circle, like a donut.

At this point, your weakness would be your chest cavity, the center of the donut: your abdomen.

Cultivators of the same level would specifically target the enemy's abdomen.

This part was still fragile mortal flesh, unrefined and lacking any real defense.

Even a mere injury could easily lead to the loss of organs, an incomplete physical body, making it impossible to break through to the next realm.

At this point, one could only seek legendary heavenly treasures to reshape a complete physical body, but how difficult would that be?

After the Five Bodies Realm comes the Four Organs Realm, which addresses this deficiency.

Therefore, the Five Bodies and Four Organs are sometimes collectively referred to as the Nine Grades of Physical Body.

"It's still okay. Another hand can live for another eight hundred years." Ning Zheng clenched his fist. After a hundred years when his body decayed, he wouldn't just have his head left, but also an extra hand.

This was a significant difference.

At the very least, with an extra hand, he could pound the ground with one hand and hop around.

"Time to start practicing archery."

Ning Zheng took a deep breath and retrieved a bronze bow and several bundles of wooden arrows from under his bed.

His only current method of attack was to draw his bow and shoot arrows!

This was the awkwardness of lacking a proper inheritance and complementary cultivation techniques.

At the Five Bodies Realm, others had all sorts of spells, like true cultivators, but he had nothing, as clumsy and foolish as a mortal.

The wooden arrows were made by Ning Jiaojiao in the courtyard in her spare time.

The material was wood strips, with only the arrowheads made of Magic Bronze. The craftsmanship was very crude, and their lethality was unlikely to even pierce the skin of a beast with slightly thicker hide.

Of course, Ning Zheng didn't rely on the arrowhead's lethality; his magic power could inflict spiritual damage, parasitizing and splitting the opponent's soul to create his own clones.

Each clone created consumed the opponent's soul power, their essence, energy, and spirit.

It was a case of one's gain being another's loss.

The more his clones split, the weaker the opponent's soul became, making them less able to resist.

That's why it was called spiritual poison, spreading and propagating, beyond any cure!

After all, at the Five Bodies Realm stage, one didn't cultivate the soul, only the physical body. The soul was very weak in this regard. Ning Zheng's supplementary soul attack was a perfect counter, giving him a unique advantage in the early stages!

This was also why he was confident in his plan to ambush.

Whoosh!

An arrow was shot.

"Go get it."

"Okay."

"Get it back."

"Sure thing."

By noon, after practicing archery, Ning Zheng was a little breathless.

The wooden arrows on the ground were single-use; after one shot, their shafts had already cracked. Ning Jiaojiao was remaking arrows beside him.

As he practiced until noon, the sky suddenly grew gloomy.

Dark clouds gathered, churning and surging from all directions.

"Caw caw!!"

With boundless fury, flocks of crows flew towards the mountain, emitting sharp, cawing cries.

"They've already provoked the crows? How so quickly?"

Ning Zheng put down his bow, tilted his head back, and watched the swarms of crows flying towards the manor.

"It seems they're ready to fight. Why didn't they prepare for a bit longer? This is too reckless."

Once battle commenced, it would be a fight to the death.

Ning Zheng quickly formulated a combat strategy.

He absolutely could not engage in close combat. It would be best to hide in a small corner at the foot of the mountain and find opportunities to shoot sneak attacks from afar, offering covert support.

He was confident in his tactic of hiding at the foot of the mountain and shooting sneak attacks. The demons had been ambushed and killed by him in this way before. Once the crow leader appeared, a well-timed ambush might even be enough to kill it directly.