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Chapter 612: The Surplus Value of Disciples

This plot caught Chen Tingquan off guard.

The double-door master came in a hurry and left with a full load, leaving him alone in the wind.

Now Chen Tingquan completely understood that the world of "Against the Heavens" was indeed very law-abiding, but not entirely law-abiding.

The laws here are similar to those in slave society. Beating a slave to death will of course be punished, but the punishment is not life for death, but compensation.

In the game, paying players cannot kill ordinary players at will.

The first time you kill someone, you must pay a high-quality spirit stone, or 100 yuan, according to the law.

After that, each additional kill during the game will be doubled.

The initial 100 yuan is already a huge sum of money for most players, and if it goes up further, even rich players will feel the pain.

Moreover, if too many people are killed, it will trigger a heavenly calamity, which will directly turn the physical body of the paying player into ashes.

Of course, the physical body being reduced to ashes does not mean the account will be cancelled, so the players who have spent money on the game will not lose all their money, but the loss should still be huge.

There are two types of death in this game:
The first kind of death is death that retains the body. In this case, all you need is a resurrection pill. This thing is not expensive, only 100 low-grade spirit stones, or 1 dollar.

However, if for various reasons the physical body is gone, such as encountering a heavenly calamity, the corpse being refined into a puppet, or the body exploding for other reasons, then one cannot be resurrected by the resurrection pill and can only be reincarnated.

Chen Tingquan was in this situation at the moment: either he could transform into a soul cultivator in soul state and look for the Ten Thousand Souls Banner nearby, or he could reincarnate.

“I can only reincarnate.

"Damn it! Shouldn't these 100 middle-grade spirit stones be given to me? My black-hearted master!"

For a sucker like Lecturer Ding, he doesn't care about these 100 medium-grade spirit stones. He just thinks of it as spending money to buy a puppet.

The Eclipse Palace has a unique secret technique that can use corpses to create ghost general puppets, but the corpse can only be the player's corpse.

Lecturer Ding felt a little embarrassed to kill other people. After all, he was also a host and had to pay attention to the impact of his actions.

If you accidentally kill your good brother, then just make use of his body.

But what made Chen Tingquan very unhappy was that the money was clearly earned by me, so why did I give it to Master Shuang Kaimen?

Is this reasonable?

"Forget it, I'm going to reincarnate first.

"Just wait! We'll sign this voluntary distribution agreement later. You must help me dig enough minerals, otherwise we'll never be done today!"

Instructor Ding nodded quickly: "Don't worry, Brother Quan, I will be waiting for you in the Wilderness Realm. Just come to me after you are reincarnated.

"I will definitely take you flying!"

……

After pressing the reincarnation button, Chen Tingquan was resurrected.

However, this time he is not the same person as before, and there is also an additional "Reincarnated 1st time" icon in the character interface.

All attributes were reset to zero, and the flying sword was no longer on him.

Originally Chen Tingquan was still thinking about how to return to Henggang Sect, but he soon found that he was worrying too much, because the Shuangkaimen Master Qian Pharmacist appeared in front of him.

"Disciple, this is something your master is keeping for you, please keep it safe.

"Cultivating immortals is to go against the will of heaven. If you are not careful, you will be doomed. You must be careful next time and protect your body."

Upon hearing this, Chen Tingquan became very angry.

"Old Deng! Where are the 100 middle-grade spirit stones you earned from selling my body? You're too embarrassed to mention it, right?"

That's 100 middle-grade spirit stones, equivalent to 100 yuan! For a kryptonian like Ding, it's nothing, but for a zero-kryptonian player like Chen Tingquan, how many Nine Dragon Pills can it buy?

Then he took a closer look and found that there were actually similar options in the dialogue.

"Master, those 100 middle-grade spirit stones..."

After clicking this option, Pharmacist Qian's face couldn't help but darken.

"Evil disciple! Didn't you read the details of the training agreement carefully?

"You can cultivate immortality because it is an opportunity given to you by your master and the Henggang Sect. Your body is naturally the property of the Henggang Sect. What does this compensation have to do with you?
"Humph."

After Pharmacist Qian finished speaking, he threw all of Chen Tingquan's props on the ground, then turned and left.

Chen Tingquan picked up the props in confusion and counted them briefly.

Well, no problem, the props in his bag before, including the flying sword he bought with a loan are also there.

From this point of view, Pharmacist Qian is okay, as no one has shattered his stuff.

However, all previous cultivation has been reset to zero, and one has to start practicing from the beginning.

"Hey, I'm going to go sit and meditate first."

Chen Tingquan started practicing again, but he found that his practice speed was obviously much faster. Even without using the Nine Dragon Pill, his practice speed was several times faster than before.

It seems that after reincarnation, this game has a special catch-up mechanism to help players quickly practice and return to their original realm and strength.

However, reincarnation will still result in the loss of some resources, and the higher the player's level, the greater the loss.

While practicing, Chen Tingquan pondered what Pharmacist Qian had just said. "The content of the training agreement...

"Oh no, I didn't look carefully!"

Chen Tingquan quickly opened the system interface, found the training agreement, and clicked to view the specific contents.

The agreement was very long, so Chen Tingquan just signed it at the end without even looking at the specific details.

I clicked on it now, but the more I watch, the more disappointed I feel.

This agreement was basically a loan agreement, so Chen Tingquan understood it as a "cultivation loan". In simple terms, it was to borrow money from the Henggang Sect to buy various elixirs and techniques for cultivation.

But since it is a loan, there must be collateral.

As a wild man living in the mountains, what can I mortgage?

Obviously, there is only one's own body.

So according to the contents of the agreement, Chen Tingquan has actually mortgaged his physical body to the Henggang Sect. When his physical body is damaged, that is, when he dies, according to the law, the cultivator who killed someone must pay compensation. This money will naturally be paid to the Henggang Sect and has nothing to do with Chen Tingquan.

"This is a pitfall!

"How come cultivating immortality is full of routines!

"I was wondering why the Henggang Sect likes to recruit poor students so much, it turns out there is profit to be made!
"Everything seems to make sense now!"

Now that I think about it, the Henggang School’s approach is indeed in line with the concept of risk control.

If one only accepts disciples from poor families, although one can use the law to make the disciples work in the future to repay the debt and earn the interest difference, this is not entirely safe.

Because the disciples may die, or the players may run away, and the loan cannot be collected, won’t it become a bad debt?

In order to avoid this risk, the Henggang Sect simply added a collateral requirement to the Xiuxian Loan, and actually obtained the ownership of these disciples' bodies.

In this way, no matter if they are killed by other monks or the disciples want to run away, they can make a fortune by using the collateral and squeeze out the surplus value of these disciples as much as possible.

According to this statement, it is reasonable not to give these 100 medium-grade spirit stones to Chen Tingquan.

And from the player's perspective, this game mechanism is more reasonable.

Krypton players definitely cannot kill ordinary players at will. If they kill them at will, ordinary players will soon quit playing and the gaming environment will collapse.

However, forcing kryptonian players to not be killed at all is a bit too harsh. It would be better to kill them with punishment, which would be more flexible.

So, can this punishment be given to ordinary players?

Of course not, because if it is given to ordinary players, there will definitely be many people who will take advantage of this loophole.

Either they try to scam the paying players when they use AOE to kill monsters, or two people honestly brush each other and exploit system loopholes to make money.

Therefore, this money-handling system not only serves as a punishment, preventing paid players from killing people wantonly, but also prevents ordinary players from benefiting from it, thus avoiding the occurrence of fraud.

That makes sense, the only problem is...

Isn’t this setting a bit too dark?
Isn't this still forcing players to spend money? Moreover, all the benefits go to the game's official account, and ordinary players don't even get a bite of the soup. This is too much!

If the officials of "Against the Sky" are willing to take the fine from freeloaders and use it for freeloaders, and give benefits to free players, then it can be barely justified.

However, Chen Tingquan has not discovered a similar mechanism yet.

After practicing for a period of time, Chen Tingquan finally recovered about 80% of his previous strength, and his mana was enough to use the flying sword.

"Go find Xiao Ding again! This fellow used my body to refine a puppet. If he doesn't compensate me for the cold iron ore, I will never forgive him!"

Chen Tingquan rode on the flying sword and flew towards the wilderness again.

……

Coming to the wilderness again, Chen Tingquan successfully teamed up with Lecturer Ding.

During this period of time, Lecturer Ding had hunted a young Steelback Dragon himself.

The two of them wanted to find another Nine Dragon baby, but it was obvious that this thing was not always available, and in the end they could only hunt down a few ordinary monsters.

According to the agreement, Chen Tingquan also got some scraps.

Not only that, he also dug up some cold iron ore in the process.

However, what Chen Tingquan did not expect was that in the process of working with Lecturer Ding, the minerals he dug and the herbs he collected had to be distributed according to the originally predetermined ratio!

This made Chen Tingquan feel very painful. He had dug dozens of pieces of cold iron ore with great difficulty, but in the end he could only keep a few pieces, and the majority was taken away by Lecturer Ding.

This game really embodies the principle of “The way of man is to take from those who are deficient and give to those who are in excess”!
It is obvious that the paying players do not really need these resources, but because of their strong strength, they can still get the lion's share according to the distribution agreement.

The strong will always be strong. If this continues, the gap between the two will only get bigger.

"Okay, that's enough for today. I have to go back to practice."

Chen Tingquan counted his haul and felt it was almost time to leave.

Although he could only get a small portion of the resources according to the agreement, he still had monster materials, ores, herbs, etc. The cold iron ores he had saved were enough to complete the sect's mission.

During the whole process, Lecturer Ding was the one who was killing everyone in the front, while Chen Tingquan could only watch the whole process from behind, feeling very envious.

(End of this chapter)