Chapter 471: Chapter 4: Must Cultivators Also Become Slaves to Their Mortgages?
“Hurry, hurry, hurry, get everything ready and head straight for the Three Counties in Zhongzhou—that’s where the most important place is.”
“The clan’s affairs will be left to you. From now on, I’ll be stationed here permanently. As long as there are no accidents, I shouldn’t be coming back!”
The top-ranking Spirit Kings within the Spirit Clan had known about the existence of the Spirit World for a long time.
Now that they could enter, they were impatient to do so.
They had tried breaking through in the real world before, but that made them realize just how difficult it was for the ones who had initially blazed these trails.
Since the restrictions were lifted, there have been more than ten Spirit Kings, including those on record, who attempted to break through.
“Cultivation itself is fraught with mortal danger, not to mention blazing new trails. One wrong step can lead to death, but the Spirit World offers a chance for regret. The Spirit Clan cannot miss this opportunity.”
This was the common understanding among the Spirit Clan Elders upon learning about the function of the Spirit World.
Unfortunately, before this, they had not trusted the Spirit World and, after understanding its function, they did not have the chance.
Therefore, after the Spirit World became open to the Spirit Clan, all the strong moved, heading for the Three Counties, which were already connected into one region.
There, the Spirit Clan also had their foundations.
Wang Sheng naturally also knew about these matters.
“The effects of intentional scarcity marketing are not bad. If it had been open from the beginning, it might not have attracted nearly all the top-ranking Spirit Kings.”
The Three Counties area was the very first place where the Spirit World descended, so it attracted countless Martial Artists.
“Now, including the Spirit Kings inside, the Three Counties have gathered more than 500 Great Grandmasters. If it spreads to the entire range covered by the Spirit World, there may even be more than 4000 Great Grandmasters, with two-thirds of the world’s strongest gathered here… truly not bad.”
The equivalent of the world’s Great Grandmaster-strong had been limited by the Destiny Dynasty, with each dynasty having a maximum of only about twenty Great Grandmasters, and with over two hundred dynasties, only about four to five thousand, and some even relied on destiny to improve. With the Destiny Dynasty’s Spirit World sealed and disappeared, their strength decreased, becoming even less.
However, Wang Sheng later lifted most of the restrictions and some Grandmaster Level Martial Artists seized the opportunity to break through, resulting in a rapid increase of Great Grandmasters, restoring the original numbers.
Later, Huangtian, wanting to strengthen Datong’s power, intentionally gathered these strong into the Spirit World for cultivation, so within the covered area of the Spirit World, there were so many Great Grandmasters.
Even the foremost dynasty had only over a hundred of them.
This terrifying force could only be gathered by Datong, backed by Wang Sheng.
But without Wang Sheng’s indication, Huangtian would not dare to do so.
Wang Sheng was quite satisfied with this number: “The Spirit Clan’s strength is much weaker than the Human Race’s, with only about 1500 Spirit Kings, but there are quite a few top-ranking Spirit Kings. Their entry allows the spiritual power I harvest to greatly increase.”
4000 Great Grandmasters contributed not a little to the Spirit World.
“It’s about time, ready to open it up!”
[Spirit World update complete, simply think ‘log in’ to enter]
The moment they heard this, countless Martial Artists were ready and entered the Spirit World.
Upon entering the world, the first thing everyone saw was a massive city.
“So this is the Spirit World, there’s actually such a huge city!”
It was the first time for the Spirit Clan, who were amazed.
Such a huge construction of the city probably wasn’t accomplished overnight.
However, just as they were about to ask about some rules, they realized that the people of the Human Race had similar expressions.
“A city has been added to the Spirit World? We finally no longer need to live exposed to the elements and be wary of disturbances!”
The Spirit Clan then understood that the giant city had also appeared for the first time.
Soon, they learned the rules for taking possession of the city.
[Great Grandmasters and Grandmasters may take residence for free, receiving one property in the city. Martial Artists may take residence based on strength, ranked by the Martial Arts Tower. If you covet someone else’s property, you may also issue a challenge. Challengers cannot refuse continuously more than three times, or they will automatically be expelled]
[Property can replenish spiritual power to a certain extent. The higher the level of the property, the better the replenishment effect]
Seeing the second effect, everyone went mad.
“Replenishing spiritual power, I can only say that in the Spirit World, it’s divine!”
Those who had experienced it knew that spiritual power was the foundation of survival in the Spirit World.
Being able to replenish spiritual power meant that more could be accomplished. For those who felt their own spiritual power was insufficient, this was practically a godsend.
Thus, all Martial Artists began to fight for it.
Only the Spirit Clan was still unclear about the situation.
“What’s going on, why are they so crazy?”
At that moment, a Spirit Clan elder opened his eyes, full of shock: “You’ll understand if you try to break through the realm. Everything the Human Race said is true. However, each failure consumes spiritual power. Just now, I received a reminder during cultivation that if the spiritual consumption exceeds the threshold, you will be kicked out. Now do you understand how important replenishing spiritual power is?”
Now it was not just the early opening of the Spirit World, these Spirit Clan strong could obtain a lot of information.
After the reminder, they instantly understood the role of replenishing spiritual power.
“Property, we must compete for it… We are Spirit Kings, though it will automatically arrange for us, I presume none of you want the poor ones, right?”
For better properties, they naturally needed to fight continuously.
So in the Spirit World, the fighting spirit of all was ignited, with countless Martial Artists and spirit beasts battling in the Martial Arts Tower and in challenges.
And all of this was naturally Wang Sheng’s doing.
“That’s more like it. Only when they struggle, is it a real win-win… especially for those Great Grandmasters and Spirit Kings, they cannot keep only thinking of cultivating. When they struggle, I can reap even more!”
When they reached Great Grandmaster Realm, they were mainly thinking about breaking through, so they seldom challenged the Martial Arts Tower.
Although cultivation also generated some spiritual power dissipation, it was nothing compared to the action of battle.
Thus, with this renovation, he set up such a giant city to attract strong fighters.
The result of doing so was better than expected.
The efficiency of harvesting increased several times.
The fact proved that even cultivators had to strive for a home. If it wasn’t for Wang Sheng’s refusal to take wealth, all these Great Grandmasters would have become ‘mortgage slaves’.
“Even if the competition for properties eventually declines, it will still be better than before… It seems I need to think of more methods like this in the future. And now that it has expanded so much, ordinary people also need to truly utilize it.”
Under the cover of the Spirit World, there were many strong, but even more were ordinary people, numbering in the billions.
But the initial enthusiasts who received the Martial Artist Cultivation Secret Manual in the Spirit World were hard to mobilize anymore, their enthusiasm had passed.
It was getting difficult to reap the dissipated spiritual power from ordinary people.
But with the number of ordinary people now covered, even if only a third consumed, it was an extremely large amount of dissipated spiritual power.
“It looks like the Spirit World needs more changes; let’s take it step by step…”