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After cultivating this technique, the Ghostly Demon Lord realized the immense importance of resources and wealth. The materials required for this technique might not be much in a future era of greatly developed productivity, but in the present era where productivity was relatively low, they were quite expensive. Although the resulting treasures were even more valuable, there were many precious magical artifacts he couldn't easily sell. He lacked sales channels and couldn't sell them to his potential enemies.

Therefore, the first divine artifact he forged was for making money. As everyone knows, besides fighting, the most important thing for immortals is business. An immortal who can't make money, no matter how talented in combat, will often find it difficult to rise to prominence. Among the Ten Venerables, many seem to be battle maniacs. In reality, they also have their own ways of making money. Otherwise, their powerful strength would be difficult to maintain. They would only reign supreme for a time, and sooner or later they would fall.

Ordinary immortals usually engage in agriculture or animal husbandry as basic industries to earn money.

The immortal aperture itself is essentially a plot of land that can be completely managed by oneself. Therefore, the most basic skill of our ancestors was farming. The more skilled immortals were all ecological masters, able to plan their physical resources into an ecological park.

Adjusting one's internal environment and Dao traces according to their chosen cultivation style allows for the cultivation of corresponding crops. With proper nurturing, Gu worms can also be raised within this environment. By creating several well-functioning ecosystems, even with minimal maintenance, regular yields can be generated. The cultivated crops and Gu worms can then be sold.

Another group engages in additional animal husbandry. The things they raise are incredibly diverse. Some raise creatures that can be enslaved, such as certain breeds of war wolves, foxes, or even pegasi. Others raise insects or fish.

Animal husbandry, on the other hand, relies more on luck. The value of ordinary farmed creatures is relatively limited; tens of thousands of third-tier ferocious beasts might not even fetch a single immortal essence. However, if one or two wild beasts—beasts with strength comparable to sixth-tier ferocious beasts—can be produced, the profits can be enormous. It's somewhat like a gacha game. The more you raise, the more likely you are to draw one or two.

As for what the Ghostly Demon Lord is doing now, it's almost like cheating. If the two models mentioned above represent agriculture and animal husbandry, what he's doing now goes beyond the scope of agriculture. While others are still obtaining organic matter by growing crops, he's already synthesizing organic matter directly from water and carbon dioxide. He's directly crossed the threshold of agriculture, engaging in low-cost industrial synthesis.

The first-generation Gu worm production line can synthesize Gu worms directly by inputting commands and corresponding materials. Gu worms below the sixth rank can be mass-produced cheaply. This practically destroys the niche of low-level Gu cultivators. Even those who have just reached the master level may lose their jobs in the face of this technological impact.

It's important to understand that even less skilled masters have a slight chance of failure when refining fifth-grade Gu worms. Moreover, it's extremely difficult to refine them with the same high efficiency, working tirelessly without sleep.

The success rate of machinery may not be higher than theirs, but it is faster, more stable, and tireless. It has completely exceeded their capabilities.

After completing the construction of this super factory, the Ghost Demon Lord began to continuously acquire raw materials from various channels and then process them.

This is essentially what happens after industrialization. Factories and industrial workers crush each other. If it were handcrafted, the value difference between raw materials and finished products could be tens or even hundreds of times. The profit margin here is unimaginable. However, even immortals couldn't have achieved the efficiency of mass production like on an assembly line, so even if some wanted to earn this profit, they could only make a meager living, not a fortune.

But now the Ghostly Demon Lord is consuming an unlimited amount of supplies and endlessly dumping them onto the market.

Selling at a price slightly below market value immediately dealt a devastating blow to the entire market.

"Fortunately, I had the foresight to invest in various types of Gu insects when collecting materials. When it came to market, I sold hundreds of different ancient insects in succession, which prevented the market from collapsing. Otherwise, if the supply and demand relationship had changed, the price might have fallen too sharply, or even resulted in unsold inventory."

Although the Ghost Demon Lord lacked modern economic awareness, he instinctively deduced that if the output of the same Gu worm increased too much in a short period of time, it would lead to an oversupply in the market, causing the price to collapse indefinitely. Going all in on one type of Gu worm would not only attract too much attention, but could also result in losing everything.

So he created numerous alternate accounts, posing as individual sellers, and sold various types of Gu worms simultaneously. He even conducted research before selling them, ensuring that most of the sales coincided with the peak market launch of these Gu worms.

Baohuangtianli also has its own economic logic. This is because newcomers don't actually have very large social circles. The total number of immortals in the entire world is generally considered to be no more than 10, and that includes those who are dormant and inactive for a long time. Those actively trading in the market are probably only tens of thousands, or even fewer.

This means that once certain large-scale Gu worms have a stable supplier, that supplier will dominate the market, and the cyclical patterns of spatial operation within each person's body are fixed. Therefore, the market launch time of these ancient Gu worms also follows a cyclical pattern. Newcomers may not be aware of these patterns. Even the Ghostly Demon Lord was initially unaware of them. But since he was going to do this business, he naturally needed to gather intelligence first, even spending tens of yuan stones on this—a massive expense for a sixth-level immortal. This expenditure was entirely used to purchase intelligence: summarizing consumption records from different perspectives.

In this round, the Ghostly Demon Lord earned a hundredfold profit thanks to intelligence and his powerful productivity. What was originally a few hundred spirit stones instantly turned into tens of thousands. This also sparked an idea in his mind. Money isn't everything these days. While you can't do without money, the significance of making money isn't as great as he had hoped. Since he's so good at making money, why not try to create a world where money is everything?
[To be continued]

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