The Fourth Financial Crisis

Li Qingning couldn't help but curled his lips and said: "These traditional weapon refiners are so narrow-minded!"

However, Yang Lu had a matter-of-fact expression on his face and explained with a smile: "I don't think they are narrow-minded, but a pure struggle for interests!"

"Consultant Yang is still very sharp in seeing things!" After hearing Yang Lu's explanation, Lin Muhu nodded in agreement, "You must know that whether it is the traditional ancient method of weapon refining that relies on techniques, or the new method of weapon refining that relies on the logic of fairy formations, It takes many years of hard work to achieve anything. My brother Lin Musen's current attainments in fairy formation logic are at the expense of his cultivation speed. Otherwise, as a high-ranking spiritual root monk, he would have been able to participate in the above five years ago. The trial on the extraterritorial battlefield will not be postponed until now, so whether it is the ancient weapon refiner or the new weapon refiner, they have invested a lot, uh..."

"A big sunk cost?" Seeing that the other party couldn't find a suitable adjective for a while, Yang Lu directly helped the other party find a suitable noun to pick it up, but Lin Muhu had never been exposed to this noun before, and couldn't help but wonder He was slightly startled.

However, Lin Muhu himself is a smart person. In addition, the language of the cultivation world is a higher-level language than Chinese, and the image expression is quite good. Lin Muhu quickly figured out the specific meaning of this earth economics vocabulary.

This made him couldn't help but praise: "Sunk cost! It is indeed very appropriate to use this word to refer to the efforts made by the ancient weapon refiners! Those ancient weapon refiners, especially some seniors in the Nascent Soul stage, each They have studied the ancient method of refining weapons for hundreds of years, and the sunk cost invested is very staggering. Now you suddenly go and tell them, 'Everything you studied in the past is useless, now hurry up and learn the new method of refining weapons from scratch.' You guessed it? How will they react?"

Yang Lu spread his hands and said, "It's hard to say what the reaction will be, but there's a good chance they won't be too happy!"

Lin Musen smiled bitterly and said: "More than just unhappy, in order to ensure that their efforts for most of their lives and their lofty status in the world will not be in vain, they will only crazily stigmatize the new method of weapon refining, saying that the new method of weapon refining has no experience at all. It has been tested in actual combat. It is just a deceptive trick thought up by some unrighteous weapon refiners..."

Li Qingning was puzzled: "Why don't you explain? After all, facts speak louder than words!"

"How else can we explain it?" Lin Muhu spread his hands helplessly, obviously he had thought about this problem for a long time, "All the authoritative weapon refiners in this world have learned ancient methods of weapon refinement. In addition, before the formation of flying swords, The power of the new weapon refining method and the ancient weapon refining method are only 50-50, and there are even some insurmountable shortcomings. For example, it is easy for opponents to see the tricks, and it is very easy to fall into logic bugs. It is indeed not that easy to use. Ordinary cultivators will definitely be willing to Believe in the well-known and authoritative ancient weapon refiners, but not the unknown new weapon refiners. In addition, there are currently no new weapon refiners above the foundation building stage, which makes us even more difficult to recruit. The mainstream of the cultivation world is waiting for you."

"But the new weapon refining that has just been born can be 50-50 comparable to the ancient weapon refining that has been developed for thousands of years. This is already quite impressive. If we continue to study along this line of thinking, even if there is no formation flying sword, it will Sooner or later it will be able to replace the ancient method of refining weapons!"

"Replace ancient weapon refining?" Hearing Li Qingning's speech without back pain, Lin Muhu's tone also brought a little ridicule, "How can the ancient weapon refiners allow us the opportunity to replace them? As long as new methods appear on the market On the one hand, they are stigmatizing the traces of the weapon refining magic weapon. On the other hand, these guys will follow the clues and eliminate the roots of the new weapon refining master himself!"

"hiss--!"

Li Qingning couldn't help but take a breath: "Why does the treatment of this new method weapon refiner sound the same as that of a demonic monk!"

"Haha, I'm afraid our treatment is even worse than that of the demonic monks!" After finally finding a boss who signed the heavenly contract to talk to, Lin Muhu thought of his fear in the past few years and couldn't help but start chatting, "Although there are few demonic monks, , but at least we can still see them occasionally. Ordinary monks may never see new method weapon refiners like us in their lifetime."

Yang Lu also echoed: "This is not difficult to understand. After all, blocking people's way of making money is equivalent to killing their parents. These ancient weapon refiners are all for their own personal interests to eradicate dissidents, and they will definitely use all possible means to do so. .”

As he listened, Li Qingning suddenly felt that something was not right: "Wait a minute, your array weapon refining school is not the only one with the new method. Tong Xingu, the supreme elder of Zijin Pavilion, relied on the refining method that created the spiritual weapon transformation. The Weapon Sect has become a master of Tao refining, so why don’t the ancient Weapon Refining monks find trouble with Elder Tong?”

"Today is different from the past!" Speaking of the famous Zijin Pavilion Supreme Elder Tong Xin Gu, Lin Muhu sighed deeply again, "When Tong Xin Gu became famous, it was the era when three ascended immortals dominated the pattern of the Kyushu cultivation world. It is said that Elder Tong relied on his friendship with the three Ascended Immortals and had just invented the art of spiritual weapon transformation. He openly submitted a letter of war to the Ascended Immortal Xiao Huang, who was still in the golden elixir realm at the time, demanding that the spirit weapon transformation be verified through actual combat. It is said that this incident even alarmed Ma Tianyi, the former head of the Wuliang Sword Sect who had reached the immortal realm at that time!"

After Lin Muhu introduced him here, Yang Lu understood the brilliance of Elder Tong.

In the world of Kyushu cultivation, the three ascended immortals are the most powerful beings in the world. No matter how powerful the ancient weapon refiners are, they are definitely not as powerful as the radical sect monks before the third spiritual stone financial crisis. The unparalleled strength and political skills of the Ascended Immortals were also fully demonstrated in the process of suppressing the radical sect monks.

Although today's monks from the worldly sect and monks from the worldly sect have maintained an inseparable relationship for a long time, that was actually after the third spiritual stone financial crisis. Before the outbreak of the third spiritual stone financial crisis, the worldly monks In order to compete for the limited spiritual stone resources and the right to speak in the world of cultivation, the monks and the secular monks not only split into two mutually hostile cultivation camps, but they were even on the verge of a full-scale war. Had it not been for the spiritual stone reserve bank to lead the currency reform , as long as the financial situation in Kyushu gets out of control, a world war of cultivation will inevitably break out between the worldly faction and the worldly faction.

This is by no means alarmist.

The fundamentalist secular monks of those days were not like the moderate secular monks of today.

These radicals not only oppose the currency reform of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, but also oppose all knowledge that applies to the world. They even feel that cultivation economics, mathematics, sect management, and fairy logic should all be thrown into the garbage dump of history. With the extraordinary skills and ingenuity, the world of Kyushu cultivation must return to the medieval era. Cultivators usually only need to do two things:

Practice in seclusion, and kill people to seize treasures.

In the view of the sect monks, the sect monks do not concentrate on pursuing the path of immortality, but instead go to study the mortal knowledge that can be used in the world. This is undoubtedly a heretic and robs the sect monks of the cultivation resources they should have.

However, unlike those boxers on Earth who have no theoretical basis, the theories of the radical sects are not completely without basis.

After all, almost all the ancient immortals who ascended tens of thousands of years ago were monks of the Transcendental Sect. I have never heard of any ancient immortal who knew anything about the economics of cultivation.

Cultivation Economics, as an independent discipline, was originally invented by Ye Lun, the head of Shenxiao Sect seven thousand years ago. However, in the 6,500 years since the birth of the World Sect of cultivation, the World Sect has never produced any ascended immortal. Isn't this because there are fundamental problems with the secularist learning?

Although the Transcendental sect has not produced an ascended immortal in the past six thousand years, the radical Transcendental sect monks naturally put the blame on the Worldly sect monks, believing that they have robbed the Secretan sect of cultivation resources that should belong to the Transcendental sect:

If it weren't for you, a group of secular monks who are so good at making money, how could the world of cultivation become so complicated?

After Bo Nanke, the prodigy of the Worldly sect, failed to ascend, the monks of the Worldly sect increasingly doubted the knowledge of the Worldly sect. It was not until three ascended immortals appeared and proved the correctness of the Worldly sect's path that the Worldly sect monks were shaken. The theoretical foundation made the moderate sectarians, who advocated peaceful coexistence with the sects, become the mainstream trend of thought among the sects.

However, in real history, the sequence of events was not that the three ascended immortals came to the realm of immortals and then defeated the radical transcendental monks. Instead, the three of them defeated the radical transcendental monks first and successfully promoted After cultivating the currency reform, he gained immeasurable merit and deepened his virtues, successfully ascending to the realm of immortals.

Since the three of them were able to defeat the monks of the Sutra Sect before they ascended to immortality, no one would dare to provoke them after Ma Tianyi became an immortal.

Although all major sects in Kyushu have ancient weapon refiners, and there are even several masters of ancient weapon refiners in the Nascent Soul stage, no matter how strong they are, they are definitely not as powerful as the radical monks of the transcendental sect back then.

Even the radical sect camp with more than a dozen Nascent Soul monks was defeated by the three ascended immortals. These ancient weapon refiners did not dare to take the risk of offending the immortals and get rid of them to gain the attention of the immortals. The childlike innocence is ancient.

Therefore, Elder Tong appears to be just a deadbeat who is obsessed with weapon refining research and has not even stepped out of the Baijin Pavilion Holy Land Bailian Valley for hundreds of years, but his political methods are definitely not as simple as they appear on the surface. Even he usually says that he studies the transformation of spiritual weapons in order to compete with the Ascending Immortal Xiao Huang. It is probably just a means of self-protection. The subtext actually means that his technique of spiritual weapon transformation has been endorsed by the Ascending Immortal. Don't mess with him, the ancient weapon refiner.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons.

On the other hand, Tong Xingu's spirit weapon transformation technique is not actually a means of refining weapons in the true sense. Instead, it is more like a spell in a broad sense. It only uses spells to transform into spirits when there is no specific magic weapon in hand. Soldiers are inferior substitutes for specific magic weapons, so the two do not compete in the same ecological niche. Even if the art of spiritual weapon transformation is really promoted, and even reaches the point where everyone knows it, traditional magic weapons should still be used. use.

However, the nature of the new method of refining weapons is completely different from that of spiritual weapon transformation.

The new method of weapon refining and the ancient method of weapon refining are in a mutually substitutable relationship. Only one of the two is enough. It is impossible for cultivators to use traditional magic weapons and array magic weapons at the same time. Although before the emergence of Lin Musen's Monte Carlo Flying Sword , the power of the array magic weapon is not significantly stronger than that of the traditional magic weapon, and there are still shortcomings that are difficult to overcome. However, if there is a revolutionary breakthrough in the new method of weapon refining, the traditional weapon refining method of ancient methods has been studied for hundreds of years. Master, I'm afraid everyone will drink the northwest wind.

If Tong Xingu had used the Monte Carlo Flying Sword instead of the Spiritual Weapon Transformation Technique, the ancient weapon refiner would have killed him at all costs, even if there were three ascended immortals to protect him.

The emergence of the Monte Carlo Flying Sword also proved that the concerns of the ancient weapon refiner were not without purpose.

Although the principle of the Monte Carlo Flying Sword cannot yet be applied to the Foundation Establishment Stage magic weapon, this is mainly because there are too few battle images of the Foundation Establishment Stage monks, and Lin Musen did not collect enough combat data. In the Qi Refining Stage Magic weapon, Monte Carlo's flying sword can completely replace the traditional flying sword.

When he thought that the battle between cultivators in the future might turn into a competition of whose magic weapon has stronger computing power and which cultivator programmer's algorithm is faster, Yang Lu couldn't stand it on the spot...

Lin Muhu's next statement also verified Yang Lu's guess: "The two of us brothers were able to learn the secret of the formation weapon refining because my brother happened to meet a dying refiner when he was hunting for treasure in a certain secret realm of heaven and earth. A new weapon refining master in the Qi period. This weapon refining master also accidentally exposed the secret of his own magic weapon. He was noticed by a big shot in the ancient weapon refining world. Then, after listening to the Heyu Pavilion, a prefecture-level kill order was issued. . The reason why this person can escape to the secret realm of heaven and earth and survive is because he possesses a unique set of fairy formation logic methods..."

"So you took the opportunity to rescue him?" Li Qingning immediately answered.

"We are not related to this person, why should we rescue him?" Lin Muhu ruthlessly shattered Li Qingning's naive fantasy with the simplest reason, "Since murder and arson in the secret realm of heaven and earth are not deducted from merit, of course we must beat up the drowned dog and put this person to death. The person was killed to seize the treasure! The information I just mentioned was all information obtained from the person before he was executed. Then through his research notes, we learned a lot of fairy formation logic that is very suitable for the new method of weapon refining. Structure, and then my brother Lin Musen went a step further based on this person’s research and invented the current array flying sword!”

The secret realms of heaven and earth often refer to those places that are not protected by the heavenly laws of Kyushu.

Compared with the peace and stability of the Kyushu cultivation world, the secret realms of heaven and earth are like PVP copies in the game. Various treasures are used to lure cultivators to kill each other. The extraterritorial battlefields and outlying islands are the largest secret realms of heaven and earth.

Since the Lin brothers were able to kill each other and also obtain a complete set of inheritance of the new method of weapon refining, Yang Lu knew without guessing that the unlucky new method of weapon refining master either kept a diary as carefully as a certain uncle surnamed Lei, or he was Before his death, he suffered one of the top ten tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that was no less severe than that of Liu Xiahui and Ai Wen.

This is not because the Lin brothers are cruel, but because the Jiuzhou cultivation world is so cruel.

If low-level grassroots cultivators like the Lin brothers fail to seize any opportunity they can, even if they have high-grade spiritual root qualifications, they may not be able to truly make a difference in this life.

Thinking of this, Yang Lu glanced at Li Qingning secretly, but found that Li Qingning didn't seem to have thought about this yet. After thinking for a moment, he decided not to tell the eldest lady this cruel truth.

This world is too cruel, and a purely "good guy" like Li Qingning is rarer than a giant panda.

In the past, she was able to maintain a pure and good temper mainly because Li Qingyang protected her so well. Now that Li Qingyang has exhausted his lifespan, it is her turn to fulfill her responsibility to protect him!

So Yang Lu pretended not to understand what the other party meant, and directly ended the topic: "Okay, now that the contract of heaven has been signed, we can be considered our own people. Let's talk about anything when we return to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce! Although there are usually no cultivators in this tavern, there are still many people talking, and I wonder if your brother..."

"My brother has sensed the signing of the contract. He will rush over from outside the city soon. We can just go back to the headquarters of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce. He must have a way to find us!" Lin Muhu immediately replied.