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Chapter 529 Capital Cultivation
Although Fina was a little annoyed that she had become a maid again, she managed to hold back.

What else can I say? I'm used to it by now, okay?!

The three "people" and one "dog" used a teleportation spell and arrived outside the town they had explored.

"Interesting, do cultivators and mortals live together?"

Looking at the social classes on the street, which could be easily distinguished by clothing alone without even needing aura-gazing or lifespan-observing techniques, Feng Xue raised her eyebrows slightly.

In fact, it is normal to divide people into classes based on combat power in the extraordinary world. What is abnormal is that these mortals dressed in coarse linen clothes, although they do have respect and fear for those cultivators and will avoid clashing with them, do not have that obsequious appearance.

This is not an ordinary thing, because class is the same throughout history and across the world. When the gap becomes too large to be bridged, people, at least most people, will bow down to that unattainable class.

The difference between cultivators and mortals is considerable; the lifespan difference alone, often tens or even hundreds of times, is enough to classify them as different races.

But the ordinary people in this city clearly lack this kind of understanding.

If it were just one or two people, it could be a matter of pride or self-respect. But now, Feng Xue glanced at them and saw that every mortal was overly confident.

Well, not every one of them, at least the waiters in the service industry still maintain that obsequious attitude that's part of their business.

"Either the cultivators in this city are excessively kind, to the point that the common people are certain they won't oppress them; or these common people don't think cultivators are anything special, and genuinely believe they could become cultivators themselves?"

Feng Xue's doubts grew stronger as she walked, so she simply went to a restaurant.

"Sir, are you here for a meal or to stay the night?"

Faced with the question of universal compatibility, Feng Xue remained silent. Seeing the situation about to freeze, Sarah sighed and directly entered Fina's mind, saying:
"Are you stupid?! You're a maid now, speak up! Fine, I'll give you the lines, just read them as I say!"

Fina isn't usually this stupid; it's just that she's been lazing around lately, and she's gotten a bit of a letdown from overuse.

Sarah's reminder made her realize her mistake, and instead of reading mechanically just because she had a teleprompter, she instantly adjusted her tone and intonation, saying:
"Get a private room, bring out one of our signature dishes, and the rest is yours." As he spoke, he casually took out a silver ingot and tossed it to the waiter.

She also had access to the nano-units, so she naturally knew that mortals in this world also used precious metals. If she wasn't worried that the waiter wouldn't have change, she could have easily made a gold bar out of the nano-units.

Seeing such a large ingot of silver, the waiter deftly caught it with a skill that would leave even the most seasoned martial artists speechless, then slipped it into his sleeve before smiling and saying:
"Yes, yes, please come in!"

Having said that, he completely ignored the store's rule that dogs were not allowed in and led the group upstairs.

The food was served quickly, and just as Fina was about to start eating, Sara bit her calf, causing her to say helplessly:
"Fine, fine, you sit and I'll stand, you eat and I'll watch..." "Stop playing the victim, haven't you noticed anything strange?"

Feng Xue interrupted Fina and Sarah's charade. Upon hearing that it was a serious matter, Fina's expression immediately turned serious, and she said:

"The people here seem a little too egalitarian."

"Eh, really?" Liu Yunxi was, after all, a demon, and had only been in the human world for a short time, so she still lacked an understanding of human social classes. Feng Xue nodded and looked out the window at the street scene below, saying:

"If they weren't wearing linen clothes, I would have thought these commoners were also descendants of cultivators! Kaguya, have you found any relevant information?"

“Found it, it’s a ‘rule’.” Kaguya’s response was very quick, which surprised Feng Xue. She immediately abandoned the traditional approach of asking the waiter and said directly:

"Elaborate."

"Although cultivators in this world are divided into sects, the vast majority belong to an organization called the Righteous Path Alliance. Hundreds of years ago, the world underwent a cataclysmic change, and the 'spiritual energy' that cultivators needed in this world, which was originally readily available, became polluted. At that time, a certain sect developed a technology to purify 'spiritual energy' and make 'spirit stones'. Based on this technology, they connected the major sects and established this alliance. By controlling the supply of spirit stones, they established a system to bind all cultivators in the world to these rules. For example, not being able to oppress commoners is one of the rules."

"Oh, so this organization is not bad?" Liu Yunxi was slightly surprised. Although she had heard from the transmigrator that the act of polluting spiritual energy was orchestrated by the leader of the Righteous Path Alliance, judging from his rules, this monopoly didn't seem so bad after all.

"That's how it seems on the surface," Little Bell jumped out to explain.

"The rules of the Righteous Path Alliance do indeed constrain the behavior of cultivators, but at the same time, in order to obtain more spirit stone resources from the Righteous Path Alliance, the middle and lower-level cultivators have intensified their plundering of various places. The behavior here is normal because this market itself was run by the Righteous Path Alliance, and secondly because there are no resources needed by cultivators in this area."

"But since they've monopolized the resources, why doesn't that alliance leader simply cut off the supply of spirit stones from other sects? Wouldn't that completely cut off the cultivators outside of his own direct lineage?"

Fina, as expected of a mafia family's heiress, exudes a mafia aura from the moment she speaks. However, it must be said that if one person could truly monopolize all resources, hiding away and watching others die from resource scarcity seems like a perfectly viable path.
"Because even if it's contaminated, it can still be used. Didn't you use contaminated spiritual energy to cast spells before, Master? As long as it's not absorbed into the body, it won't be affected. And once cultivators in this world reach a certain level, they will break free from their dependence on spiritual energy and begin to seek deeper understanding. Therefore, the Righteous Alliance lacks the ability to restrain upper-level cultivators."

"Every major sect has a few patriarchs. If the Righteous Path Alliance really dares to completely monopolize spirit stones, the trouble these experts could cause with their lineages broken is something the Righteous Path Alliance absolutely does not want to see. In fact, if the Righteous Path Alliance itself did not have sufficient combat power, this technology would have been completely devoured when pollution and spirit stones appeared."

"Besides, if polluted spiritual energy is forcibly incorporated, although there are various side effects, it is not impossible to cultivate. And these unavoidable 'demonic cultivators' are the real enemies of the righteous alliance."

"So that's how it is. Sharing hatred, forming alliances of interests, monopolizing resources, but sharing among the higher-ups... So this is capitalist cultivation of immortality, right?"

Feng Xue rolled her eyes, thinking that the leader of this righteous alliance was probably also a transmigrator.

And he's a capitalist who time-traveled!
(End of this chapter)