I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

Lu Ban asked again.

"I live alone, why should I cook for myself? It's too much trouble."

Qin Tiantian answered decisively.

"By the way, what did you say you needed my help with?"

"It's no longer needed."

Lu Ban answered seriously.

"?"

Qin Tiantian looked at Lu Ban suspiciously, but after thinking about it, she didn't ask any more questions.

This guy has a lot of secrets, so it's best not to know too much, lest he silence me later.

"Speaking of which, I felt a bit of neck pain and chest tightness when I was doing my live stream at night before, so I went to the hospital for a check-up."

Qin Tiantian and Lu Ban chatted casually as they walked towards their building.

"I told the doctor that I had various problems when I worked at night, and the doctor asked me what kind of work I did at night. Well, I didn't want to tell anyone that I was a 2D anime streamer, so I just gave a vague answer and brushed it off. But the doctor actually gave me an 'uh-huh' look like he understood. What did he take it for?"

So what was the final diagnosis?

Lu Ban echoed this sentiment.

"I'm just too tired. I still have a lot of live streaming hours left this month, and there are several collaborative events. I really want to slack off..."

When Qin Tiantian said these words, she seemed like a corporate slave whose heart had been worn down by society, full of vicissitudes.

Life is not easy.

Lu Ban echoed the sentiment.

Although he already has millions in assets and may become tens of millions in assets at lightning speed in the future, he can still feel the bitterness of life.

After dropping Qin Tiantian off downstairs and making a brief promise to cook hot pot together at home sometime, Lu Ban returned to his own home.

He has fully mastered his new ability.

The new ability of "Last Words" is ultimately just about repeating a grade.

However, the previous repetition was a repetition of sound and words, while this repetition is a repetition of state and action.

For example, Lu Ban can record the clown's ball-throwing motion into his revolver, and then use it on himself to replicate the clown's ball-throwing motion and perform high-difficulty acrobatics.

For example, Lu Ban can record the movement of a car into his revolver. When he uses it on himself, he can move forward at the speed of a car. Furthermore, when he fires a corresponding verbal bullet into another person's body, he can make that person repeat the corresponding state or action.

However, this repetition has a very short time limit, and can only record less than ten seconds of the state. Furthermore, this verbal bullet can only be used once when it is applied to other people.

Of course, Lu Ban could keep giving Qin Tiantian a blow from behind, which would cause her to accelerate and move forward at the speed of light, like a car.

There's a slight delay between the hit and the effect taking hold, probably because it's an old car that keeps stopping and starting.

"I can record a dance and then shoot the enemy, forcing them to dance, thus achieving a control effect."

Lu Ban muttered to himself.

He felt that there were many other ways to use this ability that were yet to be developed.

As mentioned during the conversation with Sia, there is no weakest spell, only the weakest mage.

Lu Ban's ability looks like a repeater, and it is indeed a repeater, but if used well, it will definitely have amazing effects.

After testing his abilities, Lu Ban opened the essence interface of [Last Words].

As expected, after this stage, the [Last Words] can be refined again.

【Essence】

[Sublimation and Qualitative Change]

[Sacrificing resources for a miracle]

[Recommended to try]

[Required Silence Points: 200000]

[Required Material: Lucky Charm]

[Required material: The Legend of the Crane's Ascension]

[Required Material: The Pale Heart of the Winter Wolf]

As is customary, Lu Ban first clicked on the description of the first material.

[Lucky Amulet]

[An amulet blessed by the shrine maiden of Wajima Taisha Shrine]

People are accustomed to praying to the gods for blessings, and the shrine maiden is there to convey the gods' will.

As for how to interpret it, that varies from person to person.

Chapter 195 Building a Cinematic Universe

"Does the product of Wajima require contact with the shrine maiden of Wajima Taisha Shrine?"

If Lu Ban had known he needed this earlier, he should have asked Hongye for one no matter what.

However, since it's a talisman or something similar, you should be able to get it just by going to the island, making the material much easier to obtain.

Lu Ban originally thought that with the increase in the quality of the [Last Words], the difficulty of obtaining materials would also increase, but now it seems that this is not the case?

He looked at the second piece of material.

The Legend of the Crane's Ascension

[Adapted from the script of the legendary ascension of the Taoist Crane Cry in broad daylight]

[Having performed multiple times at the Grand Theater in the ruined capital, receiving countless accolades]

The reason for the interruption of the performance remains unknown.

"It's Daoist Heming again. This guy has a very high presence."

Lu Ban had seen traces of Daoist Heming in the descriptions of many items in the ruined capital. This Daoist who sought immortality seemed to have glimpsed the truth of the world through meditation, and eventually attained enlightenment and ascended to heaven. He also left behind many notes for future generations to refer to. If it weren't for the fact that most of these notes contained knowledge that could cause pollution, this Daoist would have been quite kind.

This material appears to be a script, and it used to be a very popular play. In the previous mission, Lu Ban could choose the theater in the ruined capital. It seems that a certain theater troupe in the theater encountered trouble. I wonder if it is related to the script of "The Legend of Crane's Ascension".

"Since it's a script about his ascension, the plot itself might be corrupted."

Lu Ban pondered for a moment, then looked at the third piece of material.

The Pale Heart of the Winter Wolf

[The third of the twelve demonic tides in the Black Forest, the instigator of the frost is Winter Wolf]

[The earth is frozen, and amidst the pale, falling snow, the silhouette of a wolf emerges.]

That howl is the death knell.

Good guy.

Lu Ban exclaimed, "Wow!"

The first two looked pretty normal, but the third one was completely different.

"The Black Forest of the Night Kingdom is home to many monsters. The Demon Tide is probably a monster invasion? I think there was some mention of a Blood Moon before. It's possible that when a red moon rises in the sky, monsters will emerge from the Black Forest in large numbers and attack nearby villages and towns, or even cities."

The Grey Tower therefore established the Proxy, a type of mage who walks along the border of the Black Forest to monitor the condition of the forest.

Xia is one of them.

"If it were just an ordinary monster, it would be fine, but this winter wolf looks like a minor leader. We'll have to wait for the demonic tide; it might require a trigger."

Lu Ban deeply felt how difficult it was to produce such a masterpiece.

He searched through these materials and quickly found the [Lucky Amulet] worth 200,000 Silent Points and the [Crane's Ascension] worth 250,000 Silent Points. However, he couldn't find the [Winter Wolf's Pale Heart] anywhere, which meant that it was a higher-level material and its price was definitely over 500,000.

"I can't afford it."

Lu Ban felt that he was really too poor.

Based on an income of over 10,000 per attempt, even if Lu Ban frantically completed the [Erosion] difficulty missions, it would still take him hundreds of attempts.

He set his sights on "alienation".

After his trip to the island, Lu Ban had already unlocked the [Alienation] difficulty level for missions. However, the mission at Nanhua Private Renji Hospital was locked at a certain difficulty, and there was no [Alienation] option available in [Nameless City], so he had not yet experienced this higher difficulty level.

According to the previous pattern, the point reward for the [Alienation] difficulty should be four times that of the [Mortal] difficulty. However, seeing the expensive items in these shops, Lu Ban felt that the Silent Land was not so reasonable. The multiplier for [Alienation] might be even higher. Otherwise, who could afford to buy items that require dozens of high-difficulty missions?

"Next time, we'll choose the [Alienation] difficulty. That's settled."

Even if it's just out of curiosity, Lu Ban plans to choose the [Alienation] difficulty level later.

Bringing his thoughts back, he looked at his career development tasks.

With his previous films winning awards and making a good box office, Lu Ban was already considered a somewhat well-known director.

Not to mention that "The Crying" will be released in theaters nationwide at the end of the year, and the movie might be able to reach 100 million yuan at the box office, which is already a very good result for the horror and thriller genre.

Therefore, Lu Ban was somewhat curious about what other tricks he could pull off.

[Career Development Tasks]

Those who stick to the old ways and remain unchanged do not deserve success. Try new fields and respond to doubts with diverse creations. The door to a new world is opening for you.

[Task Requirements: Build your own cinematic universe and gain millions of followers]

[Establishing a cinematic universe: 0/1]

[Number of followers: 0/10000000]

"A new century money-grabbing plan, launched!"

"?"

Lu Ban was stunned when he saw the task requirements.

"Building a cinematic universe?"

As we all know, movies used to be standalone films. A small number of big hits would have sequels, but the quality of the sequels was usually not as good as the first one. There were also those that, because they had made too many sequels, had nothing left to explore in the story, so they simply resurrected the characters who died before and continued making the film.

Later on, the film company also realized that they couldn't just keep targeting one person to exploit. If they always made movies with the same one or two main characters, they would eventually exhaust the value of the characters, leading to the collapse of their character designs and the plot retconning the source material.