Chapter 754: Announcement of Price
The history of Jiuzhou's cultivation world is too long. For example, Ma Tianyi, the greatest leader of Wuliang Sword Sect in history, is actually the uncle of the current leader Mo Yunlan. However, it was more than a thousand years ago that Ma Tianyi succeeded to the position of leader of Wuliang Sword Sect.
If compared to Earth, for ordinary Jiuzhou mortals, Ma Tianyi is already an ancient man from the Tang Dynasty.
As for the great catastrophe of heaven and earth "Second Heavenly Crisis" that changed the history of Jiuzhou seven thousand years ago, for ordinary mortals, it is more like the myth of the emperor and Yandi.
Because of this, the earliest history of the cultivation world is almost impossible to verify. For example, no one can tell when the magic of leaving a shadow was invented.
However, one thing is certain, in the ancient and medieval vernacular novels of the cultivation world, there were already records of the magic of leaving images, but the magic of leaving images in the early years was a tool for immortal masters to show off and slap their faces: a lucky person dug out the magic secret book recorded by his ancestor through magic from his ancestor's tomb; a certain auction used the magic of leaving images to show the finale products to VIP customers...
As Yang Lu has commented many times:
The ancient cultivators of Jiuzhou seemed to have surprisingly small patterns, and many great inventions that could change social productivity and production relations were used to show off and slap their faces, as if showing off and slapping their faces was the first productivity of the ancient cultivation world.
And the real large-scale industrial application of the magic of leaving images was also after the second crisis of heaven.
Like He Mingyuan, using the image-retaining magic as a means of commercial espionage is already a relatively serious application. Yang Lu has even seen dark films such as "The Fall of the Female Sword Fairy" and "XX Goddess Record" recorded with the image-retaining magic in the Xiuzhen Market. It is said that the fairies of various sects personally starred in them to make extra money.
If the heroine can still perform a few killing moves of the Wuliang Sword Sect with righteousness before being defeated, the price of the film will be even more expensive.
This also made Yang Lu sigh:
No matter what industry in Jiuzhou, everything is inferior, only cultivation is high!
When the stock exchanges under the seven major sects of the cultivation world were established one after another, the image-retaining magic tool "Image-retaining Wall" used to display stock quotes quickly spread to every city with a cultivation sect and became the standard infrastructure of every cultivation city.
At the official opening of the Lingshi Reserve Bank's listing ceremony, with the assistance of Pan's Business, which is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the photo walls in various parts of Jiuzhou, all the photo walls used to display stock quotes temporarily stopped displaying stock quotes and started live broadcasting the most important "reality show" in the world of cultivation.
If the world of cultivation also has ratings statistics, this live broadcast, which has been jointly promoted for several months by many super organizations such as Lingshi Reserve Bank, Wuliang Sword Sect, Haiya Chamber of Commerce, Pan's Business, and even Tingheyu Pavilion, should be the most watched photo show in the history of the world of cultivation. Almost all the cultivators who have not been in seclusion, as well as countless mortals who are watching the fun, are watching Chen Ming's "swipe card to buy" the Merit Golden Wheel through the photo.
When Chen Ming's Merit Golden Wheel successfully advanced, the breathing of all the cultivators in Jiuzhou paused at the same time!
The times have really changed now!
While all the cultivators were still thinking about the impact this change would have on the future of the cultivation world, Wang Ziwei had already begun to introduce the specific rules of merit through the image retention spell. When Wang Ziwei said the last sentence, the entire cultivation world exploded on the spot.
"...Everyone already knows that the merits purchased through the Merit Bank have narrower uses than ordinary merits, but the exchange rate between merits and spirit stones is still difficult to grasp, so the Merit Bank will be in trial operation for the first two years. According to the "Interim Management Measures for Merit Bank", during the trial operation of the Merit Bank, the total amount of merits exchanged by each person shall not exceed 10% of the first merit gold wheel in principle, and the total price shall not exceed 500,000 spirit stones. And I would also like to remind you that during the trial operation, the exchange rate between spirit stones and merits is not fixed. We may float the price of merits in real time according to the situation of everyone's purchase of merits. At present, we only accept transfers from the 76 sects in the southeast plain of Zhongzhou, but as long as the major sects cooperate with us to open basic income accounts for mortals in the jurisdiction, and the proportion of local mortals opening basic income accounts exceeds 50%, we can accept transfer applications from local cultivators!"
The most critical point in Wang Ziwei's speech is the price of merits.
As we all know, the merit required for a cultivator to cultivate the first golden wheel of merit is the least, and for each additional golden wheel of merit, the merit required to accumulate the next golden wheel of merit is twice as much as the previous one.
It sounds like 10% of the first golden wheel of merit is not a big number.
But if you consider that most low-level cultivators may not be able to accumulate a golden wheel of merit in their lifetime, 10% of the first golden wheel of merit is actually equivalent to the merit accumulated by ordinary cultivators for half of their lifetime.
Of course, 500,000 spiritual stones are not a small number either.
Last year, the annual fiscal revenue of the Mountain Eagle Sect was only 20 million spiritual stones, which means that the annual fiscal revenue of the entire Mountain Eagle Sect was only enough to buy a golden wheel of merit for each of the four disciples. As for the current Mountain Eagle Sect, there are no more than 10 people who can take out 500,000 spiritual stones in cash.
Although the price of 500,000 Lingshi coins is not cheap, it is not an exorbitant price. It is even the result of the high-level Merit Bank offering as low a price as possible in order to attract as many cultivation forces as possible to join.
The biggest feature of the Jiuzhou cultivation world is the serious imbalance in wealth distribution. For the grassroots Qi-refining cultivators of ordinary sects, a foundation-building pill that costs tens of thousands of Lingshi coins and does not guarantee the success of foundation-building is already a super luxury that many people have to save money for decades to buy. However, when Li Qingning broke through the foundation-building period, the foundation-building pill was stuffed into his mouth like candy beans.
You must know that Qingning Chamber of Commerce is definitely an absolute nouveau riche in the cultivation world. For old money like Jiang Huanan and Su Yuanfeng, if they try their best, it is not impossible to take out 1 billion Lingshi coins in cash at one time.
Even at the preparatory meeting of the Merit Bank, someone suggested that the price of merit should be doubled for each additional layer of the Merit Golden Wheel that the buyer originally owned. Otherwise, almost all business leaders such as the Haiya Chamber of Commerce can give themselves six Merit Golden Wheels as standard.
Wouldn't this cause chaos in the world?
But no matter what, merit inflation is something that needs to be considered a long time in the future. In the current trial operation stage, in order to prevent the overflow of merit from causing chaos, except for actors like Chen Ming who need to perform, even if the king of heaven comes, they can only buy a fixed number of Merit Golden Wheels. Even the notes handed over privately by Mo Yunlan and Jiang Huanan, Yang Lu did not let go.
After all, there are ten thousand times to go through the backdoor once. Even if Yang Lu is as bold as a dare, he dare not use the Merit Bank, a nuclear weapon that can destroy the world, to go through the backdoor.
It was also because the merit price offered by Wang Ziwei was not high for the real local tyrants in the cultivation world that some powerful cultivators in the southeastern coastal area of Zhongzhou at the listing ceremony immediately sent transfer applications to Wang Ziwei.
Seeing someone taking the lead, the atmosphere on the scene gradually became enthusiastic. After all, the big guys who were specially invited by the Haiya system to sit on the scene to watch the ceremony did not lack these 500,000 Lingshi coins.
For a time, Wang Ziwei, who was facing countless transfer spells, was almost drowned by rounds of colorful spell lights. Considering that each transfer spell represents a transfer application of millions of Lingshi coins, it is not an exaggeration to say that Wang Ziwei was drowned by Lingshi coins!
And as a large number of transfer spells flashed, the VIP seats in Haiya City Square also lit up several rounds of merit golden wheels!