Huo Yuhao from The Peerless Tang Sect is incredibly talented.

"The skill reset card we have can reset all your spirit rings at once, so I suggest that you reset your original spirit rings after you reach level three and then reconfigure your skill settings."

"So, let's hurry up and earn some Holy Coins; we need to sell three God-given Soul Rings."

"There's something they say in Heaven Dou City, remember it."

"Cultivation is not a 100-meter sprint, but a marathon. The fastest runners are not necessarily the ones who finish the race—it is usually those who die halfway through. On the contrary, those who take each step firmly and steadily are the ones who eventually surpass everyone else."

Everyone fell silent.

"Alright, you guys hurry up and earn some Saint Coins. We need to buy three God-given Soul Rings."

Before he could finish speaking, Xu Sanshi raised his hand: "Wait a minute, Beibei, you make earning Saint Coins sound so easy. The problem is, how exactly do you earn them? They're not going to fall from the sky, are they?"

"Good question." Beibei nodded and held up a finger. "Let's start with the first conventional way of obtaining them—cultivation conversion. When you open the Holy Coin acquisition window, every time you circulate your soul power and every time you condense your spiritual power, it will be automatically captured by the Void Realm system and converted into the corresponding Holy Coins. In this kind of cultivation, all the power you cultivate belongs to the Void Realm."

"What is the specific efficiency?" Jiang Nannan immediately asked, her eyes gleaming with the light of an actuary.

"Taking an ordinary Soul Emperor as an example, if he cultivates at full strength for a day, he can probably obtain one hundred Saint Coins."

The air was silent for a full three seconds.

"How much?" Xu Sanshi thought he had misheard.

"One hundred."

"How much does that divinely bestowed soul ring cost in the store?" Wang Dong's voice carried a hint of ominous premonition.

Beibei glanced at her and calmly uttered the number: "Ten thousand."

silence.

Then came a chorus of wails.

"Ten thousand?! A Soul Emperor only gets one hundred a day, so it would take a hundred days to buy one?!" Xiao Xiao finished calculating on her fingers, then froze. "Three God-given Soul Rings would take three hundred days, almost a year!"

"And this is a Soul Emperor who cultivates at full speed without rest for a single day," Jiang Nannan calmly added. "How many can we, as second or third-ring students, convert in a day?"

Beibei thought for a moment: "Probably twenty or thirty."

"That would take forever to save up!" Xu Sanshi clutched his head.

"Can't it be transferred?" Wang Dong suddenly asked. "If it could be traded, maybe we could get it from a high-level Soul Master..."

Wang Dong wanted to slack off and see if he could get his uncles to help him get some holy coins.

"No." Beibei decisively shattered her illusions. "Holy Coins are currently bound to an individual's soul imprint and cannot be transferred, traded, or gifted. You spend what you earn yourself, eliminating any possibility of obtaining Holy Coins through non-labor."

Huo Yuhao: Do ​​you like the virtual realm I designed? Everyone is equal, I'm serious.

If the market problem of Sacred Coins is difficult to solve, then I might as well just not do it. Anyway, apart from the Soul Master's Soul Power, the Void Realm doesn't lack anything else.

The only thing that provides value is labor.

Even Wang Dong was speechless. Who designed this? What a bastard! Why can't I rely on my family?

"Isn't that a rip-off?" Xiao Xiao puffed out her cheeks. "How long would it take to save up for a single divine soul ring...?"

"Wait, I'm not finished yet." Beibei raised her hand to signal everyone to calm down. "What I just mentioned is only the first of the conventional methods of acquisition. There is a second method—hunting monsters from the Void Realm."

"When monsters in the Void Realm are killed, they drop something called Illusion Power. You should already know this; you can use Illusion Power to upgrade your Soul Rings or increase their age. But you can also choose not to use it; when you leave the Void Realm, Illusion Power will automatically be converted into Holy Coins."

"How's the conversion rate?" Jiang Nannan perked up instantly.

"It's much faster than cultivation," Beibei said. "A Void Realm monster of the same level drops Holy Coins converted from Illusionary Power, which is roughly equivalent to the amount you would earn in three to five days of cultivation. If you hunt monsters of a higher level, the efficiency doubles."

The monsters in the virtual realm are a byproduct of Huo Yuhao's system decompression through the virtual realm. The more monsters the group hunts, the faster the system decompresses, and the faster the virtual realm grows.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao was happy to spend some Saint Coins to have Soul Masters hunt monsters in the Void Realm for him.

Anyway, the cost is ultimately borne by the consumer. The items in the store are easy to create in the virtual realm. Generally, the cost of a ten-thousand-year soul ring is only five or six holy coins.

"I see." Everyone suddenly realized.

"So to put it bluntly, the Void Realm is just about making us hunt down monsters within it like crazy, right?" Xu Sanshi said thoughtfully.

Xiao Xiao sighed, "I understand the logic, but it's still so difficult... Twenty a day, only six hundred a month, and the efficiency of grinding monsters won't be very high, right? After all, our level is low..."

"Yeah, it still feels like it's a long way off," Wang Dong couldn't help but mutter.

"So," Beibei changed the subject, her tone suddenly becoming serious, "what I just described are the common ways for Soul Masters to acquire them. But it's different for you—because you joined the Mutual Aid Association."

You don't really think Huo Yuhao is going to use the Void Realm to exploit everyone, do you?

Huo Yuhao simply robbed the rich to help the poor, making full use of the surplus value of high-level soul masters' labor, and then distributing welfare to the lower classes.

Main quest: Establish a paradise for humanity. Everyone was taken aback.

"A mutual aid society?" Xu Sanshi blinked. "Isn't that a charity organization? What does it have to do with holy coins?"

Beibei gently shook her head, a strange expression on her face—an expression mixed with admiration and emotion.

"The Mutual Aid Association is not an ordinary charitable organization. Behind it is the City Lord's Mansion of Tiandou City, the agent of the Lord of the Void Realm."

He paused, seemingly considering his words, and then slowly said, "As long as you complete the daily tasks issued by the Mutual Aid Association, open the internet, and then go to the slums to help repair houses, organize early childhood education, distribute basic supplies to the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled, and awaken martial souls for the common people—for each task completed, the Void Realm will automatically issue Holy Coins as a reward based on the completion rate of the task and social contribution value. Oh, by the way, opening the Void Realm to do tasks does not consume your own soul power."

"Wait, wait a minute." Xiao Xiao's eyes widened. "You mean... you can earn Holy Coins by doing good deeds?"

"Do good deeds, and good deeds that the system determines are effective and truly help others." Beibei nodded earnestly.

"And what about efficiency?" Jiang Nannan pressed, "Which is more efficient, it or grinding monsters?"

Beibei thought for a moment and offered a comparison that silenced everyone: "Let me put it this way—a second-ring Soul Master can earn forty or fifty coins a day by farming monsters of the same level in the Void Realm if they're lucky, but there's a significant risk of injury. If they die in the Void Realm, they can't work for half a month. But if they complete the daily tasks of the Mutual Aid Association, a second-ring Soul Master can reliably earn forty to sixty coins a day, with zero risk and no limit on the number of participants."

"It's even higher than grinding monsters?"

"And it's stable?"

The group exchanged bewildered glances. The impact of this information on them was no less than that of the skill reset card they had just received.

"Think about it," Bei Bei's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached everyone's ears, "If you were an ordinary Soul Master with no background, no resources, and no powerful elders to guide you, how would you accumulate enough for three God-given Soul Rings?"

"Cultivating on your own? That would take at least a year. Going into the Void Realm to grind monsters? That's risky, and can you guarantee you'll have a team to carry you every day?"

"But mutual aid societies are different. They don't require you to be highly capable, to know anyone, or to have a lot of money. They only require you to be willing to lend a helping hand to those who are struggling more than you."

"Then, the system will reward you. It's fair, transparent, and without any compromises."

"This isn't charity," Jiang Nannan suddenly said softly, "this is paving the way for lower-level Soul Masters."

"Yes." Beibei nodded seriously. "And it's not just Soul Masters. The poor people that the Mutual Aid Association helps will also enter the Void Realm system in the future. They may not become Soul Masters, but they can use the Void Realm to pursue other cultivation paths, such as Blood Qi Martial Arts, or taking magic potions."

"Wait a minute, so what exactly is the City Lord of Tiandou City trying to achieve by doing this?" Xu Sanshi frowned. "Issuing holy coins and setting up mutual aid societies—this isn't just burning money, it's burning through the resources of an entire system. He can't possibly be doing charity, can he?"

Beibei remained silent for a moment.

Then he spoke, his voice more solemn than ever before.

"Do you know what the City Lord of Heaven Dou City once said?"

Everyone looked at him.

With great power comes great responsibility.