Just when the entire Nine-State and Four Seas were shocked by the hidden forces, and started doubting themselves, Ning Zheng, the instigator of it all, was happily slacking off at the villa.

"This fish is put together like this."

"Ah, like this?"

...

A jigsaw fish lay before Ning Zheng.

Since yesterday, he had been playing the most popular jigsaw fish game.

Yes.

Since yesterday, the most popular game—Embers Puzzle.

Officially led by the Xin Dynasty, it involved teachers in city schools and scholars in major academies for a "handcraft class," piecing together Embers.

This move was meant to quickly dispel the public's fears.

To let people gradually adapt through games.

After all, the days of stepping on worms, killing a chicken, chopping a fish, and making a dish that explodes with Embers 50% of the time mean every household will be accompanied by Embers... If not adapted, the dynasty is bound for chaos.

This has to become a daily routine!

But fortunately, the people of this world are used to hardships. Embers are everywhere, with ancestral graves forming walls for protection. They've seen it all and, now half a month after the shock, have fully adapted.

Not only was this "handcraft class" popularized, but an official announcement was also posted.

[Starting today, funds will be allocated, and every household will receive one Lower Grade Soul-Calling Banner according to household registration, to collect Embers, with classification based on obsession, and official Ember recycling!]

This was a big action.

Each household receives a Soul-Calling Banner, and 50% of kitchen waste goes inside, then gets sold for money!

However, in Ning Zheng's eyes, sending a lower-grade magical artifact to each household, even if the national treasury was ample, was quite a bleed.

This was clearly an effort to encourage the people to turn the disaster of the times into an opportunity of the times.

Everyone according to their obsessions' type does garbage classification, assembles Embers, and earns money.

—This is a new way to earn a living.

After all, the matter of assembling Embers can be popularized, as long as the rarity of [the offered flesh] is understood, otherwise, what's assembled is just a semi-finished Demon Ghost King.

These actions made Ning Zheng feel that Xin Xichen's governance response strategies were commendable.

Although the smiths next door started madly complaining, with a version of the Elf Ball, the era of the Giant Pocket Monster has come, with a 50% capture rate: Level one god ancestor, level two god father, level three god siblings...

Ignoring the smiths going crazy, madly complaining about the new version's fun, Ning Zheng now seriously doubted.

Was Xin Xichen on the other side struck hard by the Tear Stone's money-making operation?

Is he envious of our Sea Race people making big money?

So he called their Human Race to collect Ember materials and make money?

"Who cares."

Recently, Ning Zheng hasn't been fishing, continuing to assemble the fish in his hand, researching his handcraft class,

"After all, our Sea Race Bone Demon Dynasty here will also rally the people, collecting Embers, and grant loans for the people to receive a Soul-Calling Banner for Ember collection."

"Then next, our Sea Race's first magical artifact factory will be producing Lower Grade Soul-Calling Banners."

Tear Stone + Soul-Calling Banner, future people will make big money, economic benefits will directly take off.

Obviously.

The new era of the Ember economy is still a completely untapped market.

In the words of the smelter, the Eye of Identification, equipment guide, pet guide has already been drawn.

A factory for capturing pets with Soul-Calling Banners will be launched, welcoming a monster capture, nurturing, synthesis type of Paru Sea Race world.

Regarding this, Ning Zheng was still too lazy to bother with their passionate business plans.

Ning Zheng finished assembling a few fish, looked at his own skills, slowly shook his head, stood up and revealed a thoughtful expression, "I should start breaking through to the third realm!"

In recent days, he again secretly took a wave of resources from the Sea Race Dynasty's tax revenue.

After all, loans are truly profitable.

Now, who doesn't have a loan in Bone Demon Royal City? Mortgage loan, Eye of Identification loan... It's equivalent to cashing future resources into now.

The Sea Race people are indeed very poor, but when the numbers grow, they can still gather a lot of wealth.

This wave of collected resources makes breaking through a small realm effortless.

Invest points!

Ning Zheng took a deep breath.

[-5 million Qi Fortune Value!]

With a crash, his body trembled dramatically, and immense power quickly circulated and spread.

Because of previous breakthrough experience, this time the breakthrough was quite easy, showing no signs of fire and demonic.

Half a day later, when Ning Zheng reopened his eyes, he'd completed the Three Elements Realm circulation, breaking through to the third Heart Acupoint.

"Three circulations, not bad."

Ning Zheng felt his Three Orifices Exquisite Heart with satisfaction.

Growing like this, it wouldn't be impossible to enter the Self-Transformation Realm in a few months.

"Nice."

He smiled, stretched lazily, walked out of the room, and looked at the seawater teeming with fish above the garden, "The bait has been cast, hopefully, there are no hidden forces."

"No hidden forces would be ideal."

"I'll snatch a wave of resources, steal their ancestors and run away."

Every ancestral grave accumulated by each family over millions of years, every super fused life of the graves, saying it doesn't tempt is false.

Doing a big job is most satisfying.

No choice, he lacks resources after all.

As for truly triggering an ultra-ancient mysterious big fish? No hurry, his income from Bone Demon Royal City has stabilized significantly now, plus Ximen City, daily income is only about 1.5 million Qi Fortune Value.

And he spends directly 500,000 Qi Fortune Value daily, investing as fixed fortune.

Spending 500,000 huge wealth a day.

With a little more caution, can they catch his true form?

...

It was early morning, the sun brightly shining.

And there were as many as ten moons cyclically illuminating above the East Sea.

As the most bustling royal city in the East Sea, today it continued to be lively as always.

Hippocampus carrying goods dragged carriages on the streets, stopping occasionally to deliver goods to roadside shops.

City guards in armor loyally patrolled the streets, Eye of Identification in their eye sockets occasionally flickering, collecting street data, conducting human recognition, and citizen portrait collection.

Children enthusiastically went to find roadside shop owners marked with question marks[?], joyfully joining hands to help complete some urgent temporary tasks.

The entire street, warm and harmonious.

Currently, most Sea Race people wore expressions of happiness, a waterless city—their dreamt-of happy home.

And there's no racial discrimination here.

They personally witnessed kids from the Steamed Fish clan going to work as a waiter for a carnivorous restaurant owner marked with a question mark[?], serving plates of fish meat to those tall and burly fierce Sea Race men.

Nothing happened either.

Every fish firmly believes that if a murder case occurs, Detective Yan Shuangying will, like in the stories, peel back the layers to catch the evil murderer.

Moreover, many now wear the Eye of Identification, equivalent to countless cameras monitoring each block, road, making it easier to catch lawbreakers.

On the street, the people were lively.

Jiao Wuyu and Li Youzhu strolled along the streets, walking around, watching, listening to the voices around.

"Why are there a few more suns today."

"One, two, three... three, three, that's seven suns!"

"It's ten, you can't even count numbers."

"Why so many suns."

"Now there are too many dead Embers, reportedly the Red Sun's cycle has accelerated its outbreak, so they increased the sun's number to cleanse the muddy qi and remnants between heaven and earth, lest unclean things appear."

"Bone King is so good to us!!"

But after a while, a voice suddenly echoed on the street: "They say a new selling point has opened, Soul-Calling Banner, only 100 Magic Coins, limited sale."

Jiao Wuyu raised an eyebrow, showing curiosity.