Douluo: On Becoming a God through Science

Let’s not talk about things like popping candy and spicy strips. Although they are delicious and fun to play with, the variety is too monotonous and they are more popular among children.

The common people are more concerned about the new products launched by the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce that they have never heard of before.

What about the "fan" that can bring cool breeze in the hot summer, the "refrigerator" that can keep food refrigerated and preserved, the "incandescent lamp" that can replace candlelight and the rare soul guides that ordinary people cannot afford for lighting...

Just by hearing the introduction of the waiter of the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce and hearing these magical functions, not to mention the common people, even the nobles became excited.

The most important thing is...cheap!

The most expensive refrigerator only costs 10 Gintama coins, and a commoner family can afford it if they grit their teeth. The convenience it brings is needless to say. The most significant change it brings to their lives is the storage of meat!

In the past, after hunters finished hunting, it was fine if they had channels to sell to butcher shops. If not, they would usually keep the meat for themselves. It was basically impossible for a family to finish it, so they would share it with their neighbors and build good relationships. Then, when neighbors in the same village came back from hunting, they would share the meat with other families. Only a very small amount of meat would be preserved by means of pickling, so as to avoid waste as much as possible.

This relatively primitive situation is an extreme case that only exists in remote villages far away from cities.

But the problem of food storage has always been a big problem for people without money.

Taking the storage of meat as an example, salt and oil were not cheap in ancient society, and most people would not frequently use them to marinate, seal, or otherwise process meat.

Without more convenient means, life can indeed be lived like this, even if it is a little troublesome and tiring, but that is because they have no choice.

No one wants to live a more tiring life when they can live more easily.

Especially when they can afford it.

"Excuse me, are there any mistakes in the prices of these products? Is this fan really only worth 3 Gintama coins?"

Someone soon asked impatiently. He had just experienced the power of the fan with the help of the waiter. Looking at his appearance, it was obvious that he was very hot in the summer.

The waiter smiled and replied, "Yes, but please note that our store's products, including fans and refrigerators, which have special power requirements, all require the 'Soul Power Battery' function specially produced by our store. Take the fan as an example. A standard unit of Soul Power Battery can only provide it with power for 24 hours of continuous operation. When the battery runs out, you need to come and buy a new battery in time. By the way, we can recycle the used batteries at one-tenth of the selling price."

When the man heard that he wanted to buy batteries, he immediately shuddered, thinking that it was impossible for such a good thing to happen. He still asked, "Then... how do you sell this battery?"

The waiter said, "Take the smallest unit of 1 standard soul power battery mentioned earlier, and its price is only 10 copper coins."

"This……"

The man's eyes widened: "This is a completely acceptable price! It's so cheap!"

His eyes lit up.

The fan costs ten dollars to run for a day. Any modern person would think that this is like slaughtering a pig...it's such a rip-off.

But for these Dou Luo natives who have never used a fan before, 10 yuan for a 24-hour fan? That's too cheap!

After all, it was ancient times, and it wasn’t that hot at night. The hottest and most unbearable times were the few hours at noon.

A minimum unit soul power battery can actually be used for several days!

Oscar's sausages are five dollars each, and ten dollars can keep you from blowing the fan for several days...totally worth it!

Similar scenes were played out in various places across Douluo Continent.

Tiandou City, Prince's Mansion, Prince Xuexing had just said goodbye to Dugu Bo who came to visit and congratulate him. He was still a little dazed, muttering to himself: "So, that Heaven-level assassin really intends to cooperate with me sincerely?"

The reputation of Bi Phosphorus Douluo, the high-quality and low-priced goods, and the channels arranged and opened up by Prince Xuexing made the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce expand rapidly in the Tiandou Empire.

The process went so smoothly that it was beyond Prince Xuexing's imagination.

When Dugu Bo came to him at the beginning, he still thought that it didn't matter if he made a little loss, but now, as the number one partner in the Tiandou region, he has made a lot of money.

Although soul masters and nobles do possess enormous wealth in this society, on average, the property of each soul master is probably more than a hundred times that of ordinary people.

But...how many soul masters, or formal soul masters, are there? Only about 100,000 or 200,000.

There are hundreds of millions of people on the entire continent, but soul masters only account for less than one ten-thousandth of them. Compared with the less than one percent of the modern Tianlong people, the proportion of soul masters is still too small. It is impossible for one ten-thousandth of the people to occupy 99% of the wealth.

In this continent and this era, although the common people are completely inconspicuous and have nothing to do with the so-called events on the continent, they are the mainstream.

The total assets of every civilian family may add up to only a few to a dozen gold soul coins, and the liquid funds available on hand may be less than one gold soul coin, but the total economic output of people across the continent combined is still enough to exceed that of soul masters.

It’s just that no one has ever thought about making money from them or providing them with services.

But for Prince Xuexing, this is not the key.

The key is……

The Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce does not just sell relatively cheap daily necessities that serve the general public.

After attracting the attention of the soul masters with these new things, the high-end products sold by the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce also opened up the sales market.

There are only so many soul masters in the entire continent, and the entire market is only so big. If the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce takes up a little more, the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce will take up a little less.

And attacking the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce will obviously also be able to strike at the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect.

It is a well-known fact among the upper class of Tiandou that the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect is the most powerful supporter of the current Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.

"My dear nephew, how will you respond to this?"

Prince Xuexing raised the corners of his mouth as he thought about it.

How will Xue Qinghe, or Qian Renxue, respond?

The answer is... deal with it normally.

Contrary to what Prince Xuexing thought, Qian Renxue was actually very happy about the impact that the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce had on the status of the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce.

Because more than a year ago, her handling of the public opinion about Bibi Dong had actually created a certain rift between her and her teacher Ning Fengzhi.

The competitive relationship between the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce and the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce can actually be utilized to increase her importance to the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

This makes the originally distant relationship closer.

Qian Renxue didn't care whether her throne would be stable after she ascended the throne, nor did she care about the development of the Tiandou Empire, and she didn't care what would happen to the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect.

All she wanted was to take control of the Tiandou Empire as quickly as possible and then lose the entire country to the Spirit Hall.

So she doesn't need to pursue long-term and stable control at all.

Of course, the reason why she did not choose to target the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce was naturally inseparable from the fact that Dugu Bo stood up for the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce.

It is a foregone conclusion that You Chen and Dugu Bo are now standing together. According to Qian Renxue's thoughts, she certainly does not want to have another conflict with her teacher.

In particular, she realized that her previous practice of suppressing public opinion for Bibi Dong not only set back her efforts to gain the support of the ministers and nobles of Tiandou, but also seemed to have frustrated You Chen's plan...

The first time he was so capricious, he could be said to be ignorant. The second time he was so careless, he could be said to be careless. But the third time...

She couldn't be sure if she ruined the teacher's plan again, would it lead to the two of them really becoming enemies...

Therefore, Qian Renxue did not intend to directly hinder the development of the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce, but only set her sights on the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, intending to use this to make the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect stand more firmly behind her.

As for whether the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect and the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce could defeat the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce, that was up to the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect itself.

Even if they failed, she had already provided assistance and was responsible for fighting against Prince Xuexing. If the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect failed, it would not be her fault.

Correspondingly, her real teacher probably wouldn't say anything about it.

Qian Renxue believed that her beloved teacher would give her this level of tolerance.

Otherwise...if they really become hostile, she will have no other choice.

It's impossible for her to give up the career she has devoted more than ten years of her youth to, right?

She had no way out, no room for regret, even if it meant becoming an enemy of the teacher, she had to follow this path...

With the support of both civilians and nobles, the rise of the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce was unprecedentedly rapid. No matter how efficient the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce was, it was difficult to respond in the first place.

Just before they finished formulating a response strategy, the top leaders of Qibao Chamber of Commerce quickly noticed another key piece of information.

The Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce has opened branches not only in the Tiandou Empire, but also in the Xingluo Empire.

It is worth mentioning that the Qibao Chamber of Commerce also has branches in the two major empires, but they obviously focus on the Tiandou Empire.

Especially after establishing an offensive and defensive alliance with the eldest prince Xue Qinghe, he increased the development and control of the Tiandou market.

Now, the question before them is, should they choose to fight head-on with the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce, which has the support of Prince Xuexing, in their main battlefield? Or should they choose to fight with the Xingluo Empire, which is weaker but also lacks support from other forces?

Tiandou is their base. No matter whether they can win or not, at least they must not lose!

As for Xing Luo, if it chooses to give up, then in the absence of strong competitors, the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce is likely to rise directly and completely occupy the Xing Luo market, thus forming a bipolar structure of Tian Dou Seven Treasures and Xing Luo Beast Soul.

And finally, as the current leader of the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect, Ning Fengzhi's choice is...

"Do it with both hands, and both hands must be strong!"

Ning Fengzhi said to his subordinates with a serious face: "After all, the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce has just risen. Although they quickly occupied the civilian market, but... their sources of funds, goods channels, and other aspects are far inferior to ours! The technology used in their low-priced daily necessities is too advanced, and we can't crack or replicate it in a short time. We don't have any competitive advantage in this sinking market, and we must not touch it! The only thing we can do is to monopolize the upper market! From today on, the prices of all cultivation resources will be reduced and discounted! We will use our strong capital to fight a price war with them! Bring back all the soul master customers!"

Price war is a tactic that only powerful people with abundant capital can use!

They snatched away customers by selling at a lower price, and then let the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce’s inventory rot in their own hands!

Ning Fengzhi's idea is very simple.

If you can’t conquer the lower-tier markets in a short period of time, you should first win back the high-end customers.

In response to their price offensive, if the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce chooses to lower prices as well, it will inevitably be dragged down due to insufficient cash flow.

But if the price is not lowered, the goods will not be sold. If they cannot be sold, there will be no way to import more goods, which will cause the supply to be gradually snatched away by the Qibao Chamber of Commerce, and in the end... there will be no goods to sell.

After the period when the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce first emerged was over, the soul master customers returned to the habit of purchasing the products of the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce, and the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce gradually adjusted the prices.

However, the high-end customers that the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce has already lost will find it difficult to get them back.

Re-establishing a complete sales chain of buying and selling will inevitably take a long time, and the cost is not something that the newly started Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce can afford.

In this way, the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce will eventually occupy the lower-end market, while the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce will occupy the upper-end market.

Although the Qibao Chamber of Commerce lost a large amount of funds, it has stabilized its position, while the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce has opened up a new competition area. It seems that both of them are making money and can live in peace...

But Ning Fengzhi obviously didn't think so.

No matter how advanced the technology is, as long as it has been released, it will be cracked eventually.

As for the daily necessities that the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce has withdrawn, there are two ways to crack it.

One is to directly crack the structure of fans and refrigerators, and the other is to ignore these daily products and directly work on their energy source, that is, the "soul power battery"!

Ning Fengzhi naturally thought of the latter.

With his keen sense of smell as a businessman, he quickly realized that the selling prices of daily necessities themselves were just extras, and the real money-making stuff came from the power and energy that needed to be continuously consumed and replenished!

As long as they can crack this energy source, their Qibao Chamber of Commerce can also produce it in batches.

There is no need to sell and research new technological products. By directly selling energy, you can grab a huge piece of the pie from the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce!

In a sense, this is a race against time.

The sooner it is cracked, the less pressure the Qibao Chamber of Commerce will face.

However, the first step of the Qibao Chamber of Commerce to suppress the high-end market of the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce... was not completed.

The Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce launched a new cultivation resource, the Beast Soul Pill, which directly crushed all their products.

The so-called beast soul pill is the so-called low-level experience pill.

This is one of the latest achievements of the Beast Soul Alliance Research Institute.

Of course, its effect is still somewhat inferior to the system's experience pills. It cannot be refined instantly, the soul power it increases is also reduced, and it has drug resistance. At the same time, it also has the limitation of being effective only for soul masters at the Soul Master level and below.

But even so, this low-level beast soul pill still caused a stir in the entire Douluo Continent as soon as it came out.

There is no other reason. The elixirs that can directly improve one's cultivation level are absolutely in short supply no matter which cultivation system one is in.

The improvement of cultivation means the reduction of cultivation time, the increase of lifespan, more time to break through bottlenecks, and a higher realm...

Think about it, for a first-ring soul master with the same qualifications, the time it takes to break through to the Soul Sect level may differ by three or even five years between taking the Beast Soul Pill and not taking the Beast Soul Pill. If it were you, could you accept it?

At least those noble soul masters who have established a family heritage would never want their children to lose at the starting line.

It can be said that every freshly-made Beast Soul Pill will be snapped up as soon as it is put on the shelves.

It even gave rise to the profession of Beast Soul Pill Scalper in Douluo Continent.

If the Beast Soul Merchant Guild had not been backed by a Titled Douluo, I'm afraid many nobles would have just started robbing...

原著唐三在诺丁城扫地每天10个铜魂币，奥斯卡一根烤肠5铜币。又说一个金魂币相当于一个一个三口之家数月开销，也相当于唐三扫地三年的收入。所以1金魂币=10银魂币=100铜魂币明显是笔误，他想写的是1金=100银=10000铜。这也比较符合斗罗世界的物价，还有一个三口之家数月开销。

However, I don't know if he didn't realize it was a typo or just let it go. The resources auctioned later were worth tens of thousands of gold soul coins, which was equivalent to hundreds of millions. As top cultivation resources, it was barely acceptable. But the auction of things worth millions of gold soul coins appeared frequently, which was obviously wrong. It was like an auction, and Alibaba auctioned it off... In our country, the total economic volume in ancient times was not even one ten-thousandth of the modern economy, let alone one percent. With the population, technology, and economy of the Douluo era, it was hard to say whether it could support such an auction. Anyway, it can't be investigated in detail.

If we regard it as a mistake by the Third Young Master, and the gold soul coins used for the auction are actually only 1%, although we still cannot investigate it in detail, it is at least not that outrageous. In this book, everyone lowered the prices of those expensive auction items in the original book.

In short, here we use 1 gold = 10000 copper, and the purchasing power of 1 copper is equivalent to 1 RMB. The things sold by Qibao Chamber of Commerce written here start with gold soul coins, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of yuan for any jewelry. They only go to the high-end market, so it is normal that ordinary people cannot afford it.

Chapter 146 The Development of the Chamber of Commerce, You Chen's Reflection

After all, there is no shortage of people in this world who are willing to take risks for wealth.