Conferred God: Started from Swallowing the Heaven-Repairing Stone

Chapter 267 Thoughts on Currency
To put it simply, star liquid is the liquefied innate spiritual energy. In the past, the cultivation environment was poor, and the world was full of acquired spiritual energy. Only some blessed places retained the innate spiritual energy.

Scarcity makes things valuable, which is why innate spiritual energy is so precious. But now, innate spiritual energy is like air, everywhere, so it is naturally difficult to be sought after like before.

Monks are all profit-seeking. When they discover that innate spiritual energy is no longer rare and that they only need to take a few breaths of air to get it, they will naturally pursue better things.

The liquefied innate spiritual star liquid was abandoned by the cultivators, who turned to pursue more valuable star crystals, star marrow, or even pearls.

This is what makes Ao Bing depressed. The monetary system he formulated was fine at the time. But unfortunately, plans cannot keep up with changes.

As the starry sky slowly recovered, the low-level currency he designed showed signs of being eliminated by the times before it even began to circulate.

This is definitely not a good thing for Ao Bing. After all, he has gained a lot of luck in recent years thanks to these low-level currencies.

If they were eliminated and abolished now, most of this luck would inevitably be lost.

Of course, the lost luck can be made up from other places, but what is lost is lost, and even if it is made up, it cannot change the fact that part of the luck is lost.

Ao Bing was very greedy. He only allowed luck to come in, not out. Therefore, he had to think of a way to prevent the low-level currency from being eliminated.

He already had an idea for this method, which was to increase the value of low-level currency. As long as its value increased, Ao Bing would not need to do anything, and profit-seeking monks would spontaneously pursue low-level currency.

As for how to increase its value, Ao Bing has currently thought of two solutions.

One is to pass down the method of using star liquid to condense star marrow. Although the value of star liquid is low, the value of star marrow is high. And star marrow is precisely the product of highly condensed star liquid.

As long as the method of refining star liquid into star marrow is passed down, its value will naturally increase.

However, this method is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental one, because according to the current trend, as the world continues to recover, the value of star marrow will sooner or later be reduced.

What can maintain its value now is the cultivation resource that is more precious than star marrow, the pearl that is transformed from the essence of the sun and the moon and contains the spirit of immortality.

The method of refining star marrow can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Therefore, Ao Bing did not have high hopes for this method. He mainly placed his hopes on the second method.

That is, use currency to replace mana and activate magic weapons.

If this method succeeds, then not only the low-level currency, but all the currencies created by Ao Bing will have their value greatly improved, becoming a necessity for practice and an indispensable item for cultivators.

To activate a magic weapon, mana is required. In other words, the power that a magic weapon can unleash is not only related to its level, but also to the amount of mana it absorbs.

It is a well-known fact that the more magic power absorbed, the more powerful the magic weapon will be.

However, it is precisely because of this characteristic of magic weapons that low-level cultivators are often unable to activate high-level magic weapons.

Just like Ao Bing, although he possesses an incomplete innate treasure, Pangu Jade Tower, he seldom uses this treasure.

Did he not want to?
No, he just can't do it.

Pangu Jade Tower is too powerful. Every time it is revived, it requires a huge amount of innate vitality. With Ao Bing's limited magic power, even if he had ten thousand more, it would be of no help compared to the needs of Pangu Jade Tower.

Therefore, although Ao Bing obtained the Pangu Jade Tower, he could not use it at all and could only use it as a life-saving item. When he was on the verge of death, he hoped that the Pangu Jade Tower would revive on its own and protect him from death. As for actively activating the Pangu Jade Tower, he had to wait until he became a mythical Daluo before he was barely qualified to do so.

Due to insufficient mana, low-level monks are unable to activate high-level magic weapons. In the past, the only way to solve this problem was to rely on the monks to work hard to improve their strength.

But now, Ao Bing has a new idea. That is to use star liquid, star crystal, star marrow and other currencies to replace the cultivator's mana to activate magic weapons.

Restricted by their realm, the mana in a cultivator's body is limited, but currencies such as star liquid, star crystals and star marrow are unlimited.

As long as they can be used instead of mana to activate magic weapons, even low-level cultivators can activate innate treasures.

The power contained in a drop of star liquid is equivalent to one year's cultivation of a celestial immortal; a spirit crystal is equivalent to one year's cultivation of a mysterious immortal; a piece of star marrow is equivalent to one year's cultivation of a golden immortal.

One pearl is equivalent to one year's cultivation of a Taiyi Golden Immortal...

The power contained in a single pearl may not be enough to activate an innate treasure, but what about tens of millions or hundreds of millions of pearls?
Ao Bing just didn't believe it. He thought that the power generated by billions of pearls burning together was not enough to awaken the innate treasure.

Similarly, cultivators who have not yet become immortals have limited magic power and are unable to activate innate spiritual treasures, but as long as they are willing to burn star liquid, they can still awaken their power.

Burning a hundred drops of spiritual liquid is equivalent to a hundred years of cultivation of a celestial being, which is completely enough to push the power of a lower-grade innate spiritual treasure to the limit.

For all the cultivators in the prehistoric world, especially those with backgrounds, if currencies such as star liquid and star crystals can really activate magic weapons, it would undoubtedly be a great joy that could greatly enhance their strength.

Once this comes true, currencies such as star liquid, star crystal and star marrow will immediately become the most important strategic resources in the prehistoric world.

All forces in the world, even all cultivators, will stockpile them in large quantities in case of emergency.

As for depreciation? I'm afraid that will never happen again. These currencies are consumables. After having the ability to activate magic weapons, the consumption rate will even increase by thousands or tens of thousands of times.

In this case, how could these currencies depreciate? No matter how much they are, they can be consumed. We are not afraid of having too much, but not enough.

It can be predicted that once Ao Bing's plan comes true, the prehistoric world will be in a state of long-term shortage of these currencies from now on, and people will be buying them up everywhere, exchanging them for all kinds of natural treasures.

At the same time, Ao Bing's goal of promoting currency and making it circulate throughout the prehistoric world will be achieved naturally.

The cultivators of the prehistoric world had a natural craze for becoming stronger. As long as it was something related to becoming stronger, it would spread spontaneously in the prehistoric world without any need for publicity.

Using currency to activate magic weapons is the fastest and most effective way to become stronger. At the same time, it is also the best advertisement. Once it appears, it will immediately cause a sensation in the world.

……

These are Ao Bing’s ideas. They are very good, but how to implement them specifically is a problem.

Ao Bing is worried about this now. He is thinking about how to realize his idea.

Convert currencies such as star liquid and star crystals into mana, or power similar to mana, so as to bypass the monks and directly activate magic weapons.

(End of this chapter)