Eat, eat, eat in the primordial world

Jiang Yuan's vision of currency has come true with the birth of Xuanhuangji. Simply extracting the Xuanhuang Qi from Xuanhuangji will allow it to be used as currency.

No one in the primordial world could resist the allure of the Xuanhuang Qi. As the primordial Qi of heaven and earth, it was almost indistinguishable from Xuanhuang merits, except that it could not directly improve cultivation or fortune.

Whether it's cultivation, alchemy, weapon crafting, or even healing, strengthening one's foundation, and elevating one's life level, it can play a role.

As you can tell from the name, even the words "mysterious and yellow" are added before "merit," which shows how precious the "mysterious and yellow" energy is.

Such a treasure would be irresistible to any cultivator, no matter which one presented it to. Therefore, using it as currency would immediately gain the approval of all races.

Whether a currency can circulate depends on whether people accept it. As long as people accept it, even a piece of waste paper can be used as money.

The more people who recognize it, the greater its influence. The myriad races are the main body of the primordial world, and the currency they all recognize is the legal tender of the primordial world.

The characteristics of the Xuanhuang Qi destined it to easily gain the recognition of all races and become the legal tender of the primordial world.

Therefore, it is said that with the birth of Xuanhuangji, Jiang Yuan's idea about currency has come true.

"The emergence of currency will undoubtedly promote the development of the primordial world. This contribution to the development of the primordial world, I wonder how much merit it will bring me?"

Rubbing the Xuanhuang millet in his hands, Jiang Yuan thought to himself. With this merit, from now on, he could be considered the God of Wealth of the Primordial World.

Once you become the God of Wealth, will you still worry about lacking resources? You'll have as many as you want!

Those days must have been incredibly enjoyable.

Boom!

Just as Jiang Yuan was lost in thought, a strange change occurred in the sky. Auspicious clouds and auspicious energy gathered and transformed into golden lotuses of merit, some of which merged into his body and some of which merged with Xuanhuangji.

The next moment, the Xuanhuangji underwent a strange change. Originally, each plant only produced 3,600 grains, but the yield instantly surged to 10,000 grains, nearly tripling.

"this……"

Upon seeing this, Jiang Yuan was first stunned, then overjoyed.

The increased production of Xuanhuang millet is a good thing. More production means more resources, which can support more cultivators. Isn't that a cause for celebration?

In high spirits, Jiang Yuan cut down a few stalks of Xuanhuang millet, wove them into a grass ring, and then went to the nearby temple, carefully placing it on the statue of the Goddess Nuwa.

This was done, of course, for the purpose of maintaining secrecy.

After cultivating the Xuanhuang Millet, Jiang Yuan's next step will definitely be to promote it and allow more races to cultivate it; this is unavoidable.

As he accumulated more merit, he gradually gained experience.

Heaven is very strict in this regard. Unless one has truly made an extraordinary contribution, Heaven will not bestow a large amount of merit all at once. Instead, it will give it little by little, like a gentle stream.

Jiang Yuan's previous acts of merit were all of this kind. This time, cultivating the Xuanhuang millet is no exception.

Cultivating the Xuanhuang Millet was a meritorious act, so Heaven bestowed upon it merit, but not much. This was because the millet had just appeared and had not yet spread throughout the primordial world.

To gain more merit, one must observe the future development of Xuanhuangji. The wider its reach, the more merit Jiang Yuan will receive, and vice versa.

Only when the Xuanhuang millet is planted everywhere on the primordial land will it bring Jiang Yuan immeasurable merit.

As for now, we're still a long way off.

This means that if Jiang Yuan wants to gain more merit, he must take the initiative to promote Xuanhuangji.

Besides, if he wants to improve the monetary system through Xuanhuangji, he also needs to promote it. Otherwise, if only humans have Xuanhuangji and other races don't, what's the point of building a monetary system?

With the two factors combined, Jiang Yuan had no choice but to promote Xuanhuangji.

However, while promoting the millet seed is acceptable, the amount of seeds distributed must be limited.

That is, after one or two or three ripenings, the fruit will lose its ability to grow and will not be able to take root and sprout again.

At this point, if other races wanted to continue cultivating Xuanhuangji, they would have to come to the human race to purchase new seeds.

These are all advanced experiences that Jiang Yuan learned from later generations. As long as the source is firmly controlled, a continuous stream of benefits can be obtained, allowing the human race to maintain its advantage.

Otherwise, Jiang Yuan isn't a saint. We can't expect him to share the Xuanhuangji seeds, which he painstakingly cultivated with countless resources, with all races for free, can we?

That's impossible and unrealistic. Like I said before, in this prehistoric world, you can't be a pushover.

If Jiang Yuan really did that, none of the myriad races would remember his kindness; instead, they would call him an idiot and try every means to kill him and steal his merits.

It should be understood that not only is cultivating the Xuanhuang millet meritorious, but promoting it is also meritorious. And the task of promotion is not limited to Jiang Yuan; anyone can do it.

The difference is that if Jiang Yuan were still alive, then as the cultivator of Xuanhuangji, whoever gains merit from its promotion would have to share it with him.

But if he dies, then this share of the promotional merit will not be shared with him; it can be enjoyed exclusively by the promoter.

The merit is so precious that it is easy to imagine that countless people would risk everything to kill Jiang Yuan in order to enjoy it all to themselves.

Jiang Yuan didn't want to die, much less make himself an enemy of the world and live in constant fear. Therefore, he had to firmly hold onto the mother seed of Xuanhuangji.

In this way, anyone who wants to grow millet must buy seeds from him.

This ensured that all the Xuanhuangji seeds flowed out from his hands, and outsiders couldn't promote them even if they wanted to.

Since outsiders cannot promote it and cannot find out who cultivated Xuanhuangji, they naturally will not harm Jiang Yuan for the sake of merit.

Jiang Yuan, on the other hand, not only made a fortune by selling seeds, but also enjoyed the credit for their promotion, achieving multiple benefits in one fell swoop.

This is why Jiang Yuan wove the Xuanhuang millet into a grass ring and placed it on the statue of the Goddess Nuwa. He wanted to use the power of the Holy Mother to realize his idea.

With a sage shielding the secrets of heaven, who could possibly foresee the connection between Xuanhuangji and Jiang Yuan? And under the influence of the sage's power, it would be incredibly easy to deprive the Xuanhuangji seeds of their ability to reproduce a second time.

Furthermore, these two factors combined create a misconception: that the Xuanhuang millet, this meritorious crop, was likely bestowed upon humankind by the goddess Nuwa for their development.

It's a very reasonable guess. Are merit-based crops mysterious or not? They must be extremely mysterious, truly divine creations.

It is related to creation and originated from the human race. If it wasn't created by the goddess Nuwa, then who else could it be?

Surely it couldn't have been invented by the human race themselves? It's absolutely laughable. If a mere acquired race had this ability, all the innate races would be ashamed to death.