The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Li Qingning couldn't help curling his lips and said: "These traditional craftsmen are really narrow-minded!"

However, Yang Lu had a natural expression on his face, and explained with a smile: "I don't think they are narrow-minded, but purely fighting for interests!"

"Consultant Yang is still sharp in seeing things!" Hearing Yang Lu's explanation, Lin Muhu nodded in agreement, "You must know whether it is the traditional ancient method of refining that relies on techniques, or the new method of refining that relies on the logic of the fairy array, It takes years of hard work to achieve something. My brother Lin Musen can have the current attainments in the logic of the fairy formation, and he has sacrificed his cultivation speed as a price. Otherwise, as a dignified top-level spiritual root monk, he would have been able to participate in the top five years ago. The trial on the outer battlefield will not be delayed until now, so whether it is an ancient art refiner or a new art refiner, they have invested a lot, uh..."

"A huge sunk cost?" Seeing that the other party couldn't find a suitable adjective for a while, Yang Lu directly helped the other party find a suitable noun to pick it up, but Lin Muhu had never come across this term before, so he couldn't help but Slightly taken aback.

However, Lin Muhu himself is a smart person, and the language of the cultivation world is a higher-level language than Chinese, which is quite good at expressing images. Lin Muhu quickly figured out the specific meaning of this earth economics vocabulary.

This made him couldn't help exclaiming in admiration: "Sunk cost! It is indeed very appropriate to use this word to refer to the efforts of the ancient art refiners! They have studied the ancient method of refining for hundreds of years, and the sunk cost invested is very staggering. Now you suddenly go to tell them, "The things you have studied in the past are useless, now hurry up and learn the new method of refining from scratch", guess what? How would they react?"

Yang Lu spread his hands and said, "It's hard to say what the reaction is, but there is a high probability that they won't be too happy!"

Lin Musen smiled wryly and said: "It's not just that they are unhappy, in order to ensure that their hard work and lofty status in the world will not be wiped out, they will only crazily stigmatize the new method of refining, saying that the new method of refining has no experience at all. It has been tested in actual combat, but it is just a bluffing method thought up by some unscrupulous craftsmen..."

Li Qingning was puzzled and said, "Why don't you explain? After all, facts speak louder than words!"

"How else can we explain it?" Lin Muhu spread his hands helplessly, obviously thinking about this problem long ago, "All the authoritative weapon refiners in this world are from the ancient method of refining, and before the appearance of the formation flying sword, The power of the new method of refining and the ancient method of refining weapons are only [-]-[-], and there are even some insurmountable flaws, such as easy to be seen by the opponent, and it is very easy to fall into logic bugs. It is really not that easy to use. Ordinary practitioners will definitely be willing Believe in those well-known authoritative ancient art refiners, but not those little-known new art refiners. In addition, there are no new art refiners above the foundation stage, which makes us even more reluctant to recruit The mainstream of the cultivation world is waiting to be seen."

"But the new method of refining that has just been born can be compared with the ancient method of refining that has been developed for thousands of years. Sooner or later, it will also replace the ancient method of refining!"...

"Replacing ancient crafts?" Hearing Li Qingning's speech while standing up, Lin Muhu's tone was slightly mocking, "How could ancient craftsmen allow us to have the chance to replace them? As long as new crafts appear on the market Their stigmatization is only one aspect of the traces of the weapon refining magic weapon, and on the other hand, these guys will follow the vine and wipe out the root of the new magic weapon refining master himself!"

"hiss--!"

Li Qingning couldn't help but gasped: "The treatment of this new art refiner sounds the same as that of a monk of the magic way!"

"Hehe, I'm afraid we are treated worse than the demonic monks!" After finally finding the boss who signed the heavenly contract to confide in, Lin Muhu couldn't help but start talking, "Although the demonic monks are few , but at least you can see them occasionally, like our new method refiners, ordinary monks probably won’t see them in their lifetime.”

Yang Lu also echoed: "It's not difficult to understand. After all, blocking people's money is tantamount to killing their parents. They are ancient craftsmen who are all for their own interests to eradicate dissidents. They must do everything they can. .”

Listening to this, Li Qingning suddenly felt something was wrong: "Wait a minute, the new method of refining weapons is not limited to your School of Artifact Refining. The Artifact School has become a generation of Dao Refining Masters, so why didn’t the Ancient Artifact Refining cultivators bother Elder Tong?”

"Today is different!" Lin Muhu sighed deeply again when he mentioned the famous Zijin Pavilion elder Tong Xingu, "When Tong Xingu became famous, it was the time when the three Ascension Immortals dominated the Kyushu Cultivation Realm. It is said that Elder Tong relied on his own friendship with the three Ascension Immortals back then, and just after he invented the technique of transforming the spirit soldiers into form, he openly handed over the letter of challenge to Xiao Huang, the Ascension Immortal who was still in the Jindan realm at the time, demanding that he verify the transformation of the Spirit Soldiers through actual combat. It is said that this incident even alarmed Ma Tianyi, the former head of the Wuliang Sword Sect who had already ascended to the realm of immortals at that time!"

After Lin Muhu's introduction to this point, Yang Lu understood Elder Tong's brilliance.

In the Kyushu cultivation world, the three Ascension Immortals are the existence of coercion in the world. No matter how powerful the ancient art refiner is, they are definitely not comparable to the radical monks before the third Lingshi financial crisis.And Immortal Feisheng's unmatched strength and political skills were also fully demonstrated in the process of suppressing the radical monks of the sectarian sect.

Although today's monks of the world school and the monks of the world school have maintained a relationship of well water and river water for a long time, but that is actually after the third Lingshi financial crisis. Before the outbreak of the third Lingshi financial crisis, the world school In order to compete for the limited resources of spiritual stones and the right to speak in the cultivation world, the monks and the monks who joined the world have not only split into two mutually hostile cultivation camps, but have even reached the brink of a full-scale war. If it were not for the Lingshi Reserve Bank leading the currency reform , as long as the financial situation in Kyushu is out of control, a world war of comprehension will inevitably break out between the WTO faction and the non-world faction.

This is by no means alarmist.

The fundamentalist Transcendent monks back then were not like the moderate Transcendent monks now. …

These radicals not only oppose the currency reform of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, but also oppose all practical knowledge. They even think that cultivation economics, mathematics, sect management, and fairy logic should all be thrown into the garbage dump of history The Kyushu Cultivation World must return to the Middle Ages, and the Cultivators usually only need to do two things:
Retreating to practice, and killing people to seize treasures.

In the eyes of the monks of the world school, the monks of the world school did not concentrate on pursuing the Dao of Longevity, but went to study the practical knowledge of the world, which undoubtedly went heresy and robbed the cultivation resources that the monks of the world school should have.

However, unlike the boxers on earth who have no theoretical basis, the radical theory of the world is not completely without basis.

After all, almost all the ancient immortals who ascended tens of thousands of years ago were monks of the Transcendental School, and I have never heard of any ancient immortal who knew the economics of Laoshizi's cultivation.

Cultivation economics, as an independent subject, was originally invented by Ye Lun, the head of the Xiaozong sect 7000 years ago. However, in the 500 years since the Cultivation School of the Shishi School was born, there has never been a rising immortal in the Shishi School. Isn’t that true? Because there are fundamental problems in the knowledge of the World School?

Although the Transcendental School has not produced a rising immortal in the past 6000 years, the radical Transcendental School monks naturally put the account on the Introductory School monks, thinking that they have robbed the cultivation resources that should belong to the Transcendental School:
If it weren't for you gang of world-oriented monks who are so good at making money, how could the cultivation world become so complicated?
After Bo Nanke, the genius of the World School, failed to ascend, the monks of the World School had doubts about the knowledge of the World School. It was not until the birth of three immortals who proved the correctness of the way of the World School, that the monks of the World School were shaken The theoretical foundation of the world has made the moderate secularism, which advocates peaceful coexistence with the secularism, become the mainstream thought of the secularism monks.

However, in real history, the sequence of events is not that the three Ascended Immortals ascended to the Realm of Immortals and then defeated the radical Transcendent monks, but that the three of them first defeated the radical Transcendent monks and successfully promoted Cultivate the currency reform, and then gain infinite merits and virtues, and successfully ascend to the realm of immortals.

Since the three of them were able to blow up the otherworldly monks before they ascended to immortality, no one would dare to provoke them after Ma Tianyi became immortal.

Although all the sects in Kyushu have ancient art refining masters, and there are even several ancient art refining masters in the Nascent Soul Stage, but no matter how strong they are, they are definitely not as powerful as the radical monks of the world school back then.

Even the radical surreal faction with more than a dozen monks in the Nascent Soul Stage was smashed by the three Ascension Immortals. Childlike innocence is old.

Therefore, on the surface, Elder Tong seems to be just a dead house obsessed with the research of refining weapons, and he has not even stepped out of the Bailian Valley, the holy land of the Zijin Pavilion, for hundreds of years, but his political methods are definitely not as simple as they appear on the surface.He even usually said that he studied the transformation of spiritual soldiers in order to compete with Xiao Huang, the immortal Feisheng, which was probably just a means for him to protect himself. Don't come here to provoke him, the ancient art refiner. …

Of course, this is only one of the reasons.

On the other hand, Tong Xingu's spirit weapon transformation technique is not actually a means of refining weapons in the true sense, but more like a spell in a broad sense. Soldiers, as a lower-level substitute for a specific magic weapon, so the two are not competing in the same ecological niche. Even if the art of spiritual soldier transformation is really carried forward, even to the point where everyone can master it, the traditional magic weapon should still be used. use.

However, the nature of the new method of refining is completely different from that of the spiritual weapon.

There is a mutual substitution relationship between the new method of refining and the ancient method of refining, and only one of the two is enough. It is impossible for a cultivator to use the traditional magic weapon and the array magic weapon at the same time, even before Lin Musen's Monte Carlo flying sword appeared. , the power of the array magic weapon is not obviously stronger than the traditional magic weapon, and there are still insurmountable flaws, but in case there is a revolutionary breakthrough in the new method of refining, the traditional refining method that has been studied for hundreds of years Master, I'm afraid everyone will drink the northwest wind.

If Tong Xingu used the Monte Carlo Flying Sword instead of the Spiritual Armament Transformation Technique, even if he was protected by the three Ascension Immortals, the Ancient Weapon Refiner would have to kill him at all costs.

The appearance of the Monte Carlo flying sword also proved that the worries of the ancient craftsmen were not groundless.

Although the principle of the Monte Carlo flying sword cannot be applied to the foundation-building period magic weapon for the time being, it is mainly because there are too few combat images of the monks in the foundation-building period, and Lin Musen did not collect enough battle data. The Carlo flying sword can completely replace the traditional flying sword.

Thinking of the future of cultivators' fighting skills, which may evolve into a competition whose magic weapon has the stronger calculation power, and which cultivation programmer has the faster algorithm, Yang Lu couldn't hold back on the spot...

Lin Muhu's next statement also verified Yang Lu's conjecture: "The two of us brothers were able to learn the secret of the Dao Artifact Refiner because my brother happened to meet a dying alchemist when he was hunting treasures in a secret place in the world. Qiqi new method refiner, this refiner also accidentally exposed the secret of his own magic weapon, and was noticed by a certain master in the ancient art refinement world, and then he heard that Heyu Pavilion hung up the prefecture-level hunting order .This person was able to escape to the secret realm of heaven and earth to linger on his last breath, because he possessed a unique set of logic methods of the fairy array..."

"So you took the opportunity to rescue him?" Li Qingning answered immediately.

"We are not related to this person, so why should we rescue him?" Lin Muhu ruthlessly shattered Li Qingning's naive fantasy with the most simple reason, "Since killing and arson in the secret realm of heaven and earth do not deduct merits, of course we have to beat the dog in the water and put this person in the water." The man killed the treasure! The information I just mentioned was obtained from him before the execution, and through his research notes, we learned a lot of fairy array logic that is very suitable for the new method of refining structure, and then my elder brother Lin Musen went a step further on the basis of this person's research, and invented today's Array Flying Sword!"

The secrets of heaven and earth often refer to those places that are not protected by the Heavenly Dao of Kyushu.

Compared with the peace and stability of Kyushu's cultivation world, the secret realm of heaven and earth is like a pvp copy in the game. Various treasures are used to lure cultivators to kill each other, and the battlefield outside the territory and outlying islands are the largest secret realms of heaven and earth. …

Since the brothers of the Lin family were able to kill each other and at the same time obtain a full set of inheritance of the new art refiner, Yang Lu knew without guessing that the unlucky new art refiner either kept a diary as carefully as a certain uncle surnamed Lei, or Before he died, he was subjected to the ten tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which were not inferior to those of Liu Xiahui and Ai Wen.

It's not that the Lin brothers are cruel, but that the Kyushu cultivation world is just that cruel.

If low-level grassroots cultivators like the Lin brothers don't seize any opportunities that can be seized, even if they have top-grade spiritual root aptitude, I'm afraid it will be difficult for them to have a real success in this life.

Thinking of this, Yang Lu secretly glanced at Li Qingning again, but found that Li Qingning didn't seem to have thought of this. After thinking for a while, he decided not to tell the young lady the cruel truth.

This world is too cruel, and a purely "good person" like Li Qingning is even rarer than giant pandas.

In the past, she was able to maintain a pure and kind temperament, mainly because Li Qingyang protected her so well. Now that Li Qingyang has exhausted his lifespan, it is his turn to fulfill the responsibility of protecting him!
So Yang Lu pretended that he didn't understand what the other party meant, and ended the topic directly: "Okay, now that the Heavenly Dao contract has been signed, we are considered our own people, so let's go back to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce to talk about anything! Although there are usually no practitioners in this tavern, but after all, there are still a lot of people talking, I don’t know your brother..."

"My brother has already sensed the signing of the contract. He will rush over from outside the city soon. Let's just go back to the headquarters of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce. He must have a way to find us!" Lin Muhu replied immediately.