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Chapter 1046: Chapter 573 Longevity Academy Chapter 1046: Chapter 573 Longevity Academy “Sect Leader, isn’t this too expensive?”

In the Treasure Color Market auction for Foundation Building Pills, the final price is usually around over ten thousand Spirit Stones. This set of ten Rank-3 Cave Dwellings, guaranteeing Foundation Building Pills, will inevitably be a loss compared to that.

E Yun couldn’t imagine who would buy a Rank-3 Cave Dwelling because of this.

“Do you know about the Ascending Immortal Orders?”

Chen Mobai asked with a smile, addressing a question to E Yun. Being one of the most knowledgeable within the Sect, E Yun thought for a moment and then recalled something he had read in the ‘Eastern Territory Miscellany’.

E Yun: “Are those orders bestowed by the Eastern Earth Holy Lands to disciples with significant contributions, that allow their descendants with a Spiritual Root to join the Holy Land with the help of an Ascending Immortal Order, ensuring them a Foundation Building Pill?”

Chen Mobai: “Correct. This Rank-3 Cave Dwelling is equivalent to our Divine Wood Sect’s Ascending Immortal Order. As long as someone purchases it, within the sixty years ownership period, they can use this proof of purchase to join our Divine Wood Sect and claim a Foundation Building Pill.”

E Yun: “But if someone can afford to spend one hundred thousand Spirit Stones to buy a Rank-3 Cave Dwelling, why wouldn’t they just go to the Treasure Color Market and directly bid over ten thousand Spirit Stones for a Foundation Building Pill?”

E Yun had trouble keeping up with Chen Mobai’s thinking and struggled to understand it.

Chen Mobai: “This Rank-3 Cave Dwelling is a fallback for Cultivator Families. After all, no one can be certain that their family will always have a Foundation Establishment Practitioner. If someday the family has no more Foundation Establishers, their vast assets will be coveted by their neighbors. Rather than waiting for that to happen, it’s better to buy a Rank-3 Cave Dwelling in Northern Abyss City. Perhaps they could rise again with the support of our Divine Wood Sect and a Foundation Building Pill.”

With this explanation, E Yun suddenly realized the truth of the matter.

When a Cultivator Family has a Foundation Establishment Practitioner in charge, it can hardly avoid friction with its neighbors, and even Rogue Cultivators come knocking. Once the Foundation Establishment member dies, according to local customs, the family will certainly be bullied and plundered.

Rather than face this situation, it would be better to secure a Rank-3 Cave Dwelling while having a Foundation Establishment Practitioner and thereby reserve a potential future within the Divine Wood Sect for their family.

“Aren’t ten Rank-3 Cave Dwellings too few?”

After coming to an understanding, E Yun thought of the previous hot demand for Rank-2 Cave Dwellings and was immediately invigorated.

“Scarcity creates value, and those who can take out one hundred thousand Spirit Stones are few in the Eastern Wilderness. Let’s start by selling just five,” Chen Mobai responded.

Chen Mobai had taken courses in commerce and finance at the Repairing Heaven Institute and knew the tactics of marketing well.

“Sect Leader, there’s another issue. Won’t this be too great a burden on our Sect? After all, we need to distribute Spirit Stones to our disciples.”

In the previous years, the Divine Wood Sect had almost exhausted its reserve of Spirit Stones due to a great war. If not for securing control of the Spirit Stone Mine at Shake Mountain Peak and leveraging Cloud Dream Marsh to acquire a substantial sum from Snow-blowing Palace and Back to Sky Valley, Luo Xue’er, the Vice Hall Master of the Reward Virtue Hall, would probably still be frowning in worry.

Last year, the Divine Wood Sect distributed a total of 2.8 million Spirit Stones to Sect practitioners, most of which were rewards and subsidies for participating in the war.

In times without war, the basic Spirit Stone welfare would only require around 800,000 to be distributed.

This figure does not even account for the Golden Core Cultivators.

In the Divine Wood Sect, Spirit Stones could be withheld elsewhere, but the annual 500,000 Spirit Stones basic expense for the Nascent Soul Ancestors would never, and could never, be deducted.

Moreover, every time a Nascent Soul Ancestor acted on behalf of the Sect, the Sect would also have to provide upwards of 100,000 Contribution Points. Considering the operation needs of the Sect, Zhou Shengqing and Fu Zongjue’s accounts continued to grow, but they hardly ever converted it all into Spirit Stones at once to prevent causing a financial collapse within the Sect.

The reason for this was that Zhou Shengqing and the others had other sources of income.

When the Divine Wood Sect split from Jinguang (Golden Light) Peak, they received a medium-sized Spirit Stone Mine from the Five Elements Sect.

This mine was located in Wind Country, guarded by agents of Jinguang Peak and mined by the Divine Wood Sect. The core vein was made of top-grade Spirit Stones, the rewards from which were divided equally among the three Nascent Soul Ancestors.

Their top-grade Spirit Stones mostly came from there.

The annual output was roughly 3 to 4 million Spirit Stones, belonging exclusively to the Golden Core Cultivators.

Even with the addition of Chen Mobai to the share, each individual was still able to acquire nearly a million Spirit Stones from this medium-sized mine.

In other words, Chen Mobai’s annual share of Spirit Stones from the Divine Wood Sect amounted to one and a half million, which seemed a lot on the surface.

However, in reality, a Golden Core Cultivator required that much just to maintain their various areas of growth, and their resources were merely adequate.

Spirit Rice, elixirs, Talisman Paper, puppet components, the nurturing of magic artifacts, and so on. At the Golden Core stage, Cultivators couldn’t afford any weakness, so they used Spirit Stones to enhance all aspects.

Chen Mobai, habituated to poverty, felt that the annual million Spirit Stones was more than enough after establishing his Golden Core. But to the likes of Fu Zongjue, it seemed hardly sufficient.

Moreover, after nearly a hundred years of excavation, the Spirit Stone Mine in Wind Country had dwindling reserves, causing Zhou Shengqing and the others much anxiety in the past few years.

Not counting this mine, the annual Spirit Stone expenditure of the Divine Wood Sect was about three million.

Previously, with territories consisting of just four countries, plus the addition of Cloud Dream Marsh, the Sect’s annual income was only between three and four million Spirit Stones.