Purple Mist Dao Master-Chapter 837 - 544: Step by Step to the Top!

In short—

If the Great Yan Trading Company offers a purchase price of 10 jin Essence Stones for a certain Ruins Beast, then in the Tan Valley Realm, it’s set as 10 military merits.

The values are aligned for easier statistics.

But the value is different.

In the Tan Valley Realm, this 10 military merits can only be exchanged for 5 jin Essence Stones, and only a Divine General can exchange it.

Not only that.

Yan Chuan not only directly cuts the price in half to gain a full half profit, unscrupulous, even unwilling to pay the halved Essence Stones, instead he thinks of other ways, turning to use Absolute Skills, Divine General guidance, and his own personal guidance to offset.

As for surprise weapons, the exchange conditions are harsh, requiring total military merits to reach the appropriate level to exchange the corresponding surprise weapon, and if this surprise weapon is sold outside for 100 jin Essence Stones, proportionally it should be 200 military merits, but Yan Chuan directly sets it as 500 military merits, further exploiting.

In short, the Tan Valley Realm is in disrepair and everywhere needs money, so the common people and soldiers must endure hardship first.

But Yan Chuan is not making black-hearted money without conscience, the profits he obtains from the Tan Valley Realm, apart from maintaining his own cultivation and ensuring the fastest promotion speed, are all invested into the construction of the Tan Valley Realm—

City expansion.

Strengthening arrays.

Road repairs.

Rebuilding of mines and fields.

These things are, in fact, taken from the people and used for the people. Even though some of it is used for Yan Chuan’s own cultivation, who is he cultivating for? Is it not for the people of the Tan Valley Realm, for the safety of the Tan Valley Realm?

"Only by becoming stronger can I better intimidate High Rank Beast Kings, and can hope to resolve the two major hidden dangers, ’Jade King’ in Tiger Hunting Land and ’Golden King’ in Golden Flower Gu Mountain."

Yan Chuan has no selfish motives.

Furthermore, ’military merits’ are not just a show, elsewhere how many military merits or Essence Stones are needed to purchase a scroll of Absolute Skill, or, even in an environment like the Hunxi Territory, many historical families still hide Absolute Skills deeply, where is it possible to buy them with money?

But in the Tan Valley Realm, here with Yan Chuan, Absolute Skills are the least scarce, now every day there are at least six or seven Geng Level Absolute Skills derived, definitely enough, in the Tan Valley Realm, the difficulty of accessing Absolute Skills, obtaining Absolute Skills, and cultivating Absolute Skills is absolutely the lowest.

In this aspect, Yan Chuan is definitely not tricky, and not stingy.

After all.

Wide dissemination of Absolute Skills can enhance the strength of Martial Artists inside the realm, thereby better responding to beast tides.

Secondly, the more people cultivate higher-level Absolute Skills, the higher the strength, the higher the levels, more gains can be collected from Yan Chuan’s martial arts lectures and Mutual Teaching and Learning.

This is a win-win.

Yan Chuan indeed wins quite a lot.

But why aren’t the common people and soldiers in the Tan Valley Realm also getting a chance to soar, a Trapped Dragon Ascending opportunity in this trapped place?

No one loses.

Of course, ordinary people and ordinary soldiers can be tricked with Absolute Skills, can suffer a bit, but as the foundation of the Tan Valley Realm, no one can suffer more than those Divine Generals.

To this end, Yan Chuan, on the one hand, opens a ’military merit exchange channel’ exclusively for Divine Generals, allowing them to exchange Essence Stones with military merits, although it’s cut in half, elsewhere, they wouldn’t even earn that half, they’ve been very lucky.

On the other hand, Yan Chuan, by prohibiting private trading of military merits, has set up a ’one-on-one Divine General guidance’ project in the ’military merit mall’ for ordinary soldiers, which is welfare for those in the Postnatal Realm who can’t cash in military merits, and is also welfare for Divine Generals, Yan Chuan, through ’scheduling’, through the monthly number of guidance and the division ratio of military merits per lecture, can transfer some Postnatal Realm military merits to the Divine Generals inside the realm, to some extent, this is reasonable secondary distribution of resources, making all three parties benefit, all gain value, everyone happy.

Ordinary soldiers have to work hard to earn more military merits to receive Divine General guidance.

Divine Generals want more courses to easily earn more military merits, also have to go out to earn enough military merits, if they slack, courses decrease, directly affecting income.

The ’military merit order’ strategy is still very rough, but in the Tan Valley Realm, trapped in a special environment, Yan Chuan mastering the entire realm, also mastering external trade channels, even if rough, it’s still effective everywhere.

Only the first day!

The three armies’ resting soldiers and idle Martial Artists from the three Guard Cities have hunted down Ruins Beasts valued over 1.3 Primordial Pills for Yan Chuan.

This is only part of it.

Also.

The three Guard Cities defending against beast tide assaults while slaying Ruins Beasts.

The harvest during the reconstruction of Tan Valley Royal City.

Special military missions for targeted Ruins Beast clearing.

All sorts.

All aspects.

Adds up to 1 Primordial Pill.

But the main component is still with over a hundred Divine Generals inside the realm, on the first day, these Divine Generals also showed immense enthusiasm, one day and night, on average killing 500 Ruins Beasts per person, almost all Postnatal Realm Ruins Beasts, total value exceeding 100,000 military merits.

In summary.

One day and night.

The Tan Valley Realm went all out, nationwide hunting, total value about 12.3 Primordial Pills, Yan Chuan obtains at least half, about 6 Primordial Pills.

"6 Primordial Pills in one day."

"180 Primordial Pills per month."

Yan Chuan is pleasantly surprised.

After operating Tan Valley Realm for more than a year, finally today comes the true harvest!

Suffering ends and sweetness comes.

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"Monthly income of 180 Primordial Pills is just the beginning, with the distribution of military merits, more Martial Artists inside Tan Valley Realm exchanging Absolute Skills, seeking Divine General instruction, and listening to my martial arts lecture, as long as they don’t die, under ’real combat + Absolute Skills + listening to lecture’, cultivation and combat strength will definitely surge stage by stage, and the speed and quantity of hunting Ruins Beasts will further increase in the future, and the growth potential is huge."

The nation turns to martial arts.

Military exploits hunting beasts.

Wide dissemination of absolute skills.

Ultimately, the entire territory becomes high martial arts.

With Yan Chuan’s ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’ as a catalyst, it won’t take a year before the Tan Gu Realm undergoes earth-shaking changes, and perhaps even the elderly, women, and children will grow to become limit-breaking warriors.

"The whole territory becomes high martial arts."

"The entire nation breaks limits."

"If there are six million limit-breakers, and one in ten thousand becomes a Divine General, there will be six hundred more Divine Generals."

According to the standard of the first day, a hundred Divine Generals earn 100,000 military merits a day, so six hundred Divine Generals will earn 600,000 military merits a day. Just this alone amounts to 60 Primordial Pills, with Yan Chuan taking half, earning 30 Primordial Pills a day, in a month—

Primordial Pills!

The prospects are infinitely good!

Yan Chuan is full of motivation.

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Since the martial arts lecture in the Eight Phases Realm at the beginning of the month, on the tenth of August, Yan Chuan returned to the Tan Gu Realm. On August 11, the ’Military Merit Order’ was issued, opening the era of nationwide beast hunting.

On the same day.

In Mengsha City, Yan Chuan held a martial arts lecture, helping Sheng Xuan take the final step, successfully advancing to the sixth stage, and from then on, he became renowned, comparable to the ’Commander Level’ of Ruins Beasts, unparalleled in the Tan Gu Realm.

The next day, August 12.

Sheng Xuan stabilized his newly broken-through cultivation and immediately came to see Yan Chuan.

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This wasn’t Yan Chuan’s first time helping someone break through to the sixth stage. The previous time was with Luo the Madman in the Danhu Realm. Yan Chuan truly felt that he exerted significant effort because his martial arts lecture had a profound impact on Luo the Madman. However, with Sheng Xuan this time, even without Yan Chuan’s martial arts lecture, he could have made rapid progress, reaching the Fifth-Rank Peak in the short time after the Heavenly Calamity, even fighting Sixth Rank Ruin Beasts to a draw. Only Yan Chuan knew how impressive this was.

If not for Great Yan.

If not for Star Gate.

If not for Yan Chuan.

Sheng Xuan would surely be the ’Tan Valley King,’ the main character of the Tan Gu Realm.

There’s no need to say more, Sheng Xuan must have obtained some opportunity here to grow so rapidly.

As for Sheng Xuan being a genius himself?

No, no, no!

Yan Chuan held martial arts lectures in Yong Mountain City and Mengsha City, and Sheng Xuan attended both. From Sheng Xuan’s feedback, Yan Chuan could roughly assess that he was dull and had poor comprehension, even worse than Yu Jinpeng.

A mediocre talent.

Yet he could make rapid progress, ferociously advancing, surely due to some opportunity.

Yan Chuan was curious, but not envious.

He possessed the ’Purple Mist Palace,’ and though his growth in certain areas and stages might not be as fast as others with cheats, he progressed steadily, firmly grounded with ’Mutual Teaching and Learning,’ a foundation so strong it was terrifying.

He had seen Wang Zhengyi’s ’Avatar’ and ’Soul Channel,’ Lu Yuru’s ’Insightful Eyes,’ and knew Ma Hongniang’s ’Immortal Bone.’ He had also witnessed Situ Fei’s talent of easily reaching the fourth layer within six months, and Ding Xiang’s unique expertise in the movement technique, even progressing his lightweight body technique to closely follow Yan Chuan, who had ’Mutual Teaching and Learning.’

And then there is Cheng Fengxiao.

He obtained the ’Green Bottle,’ also an extraordinary treasure.

These people either had cheats or were geniuses, and Yan Chuan always knew, yet he was never jealous.

He had the ’Purple Mist Palace,’ and even if he was temporarily surpassed, at least everything was earned through his own efforts. As long as he worked hard, he could catch up and surpass them.

"I just want to climb step by step by step, reach the highest point!"

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"Sheng Xuan doesn’t have any conspicuous treasure light, maybe he doesn’t carry treasures with him, or he has unique gifts, like my ’Insightful Eyes,’ something that isn’t a treasure yet surpasses a treasure."

Lu Yuru looked at Sheng Xuan cautiously; she was really frightened by Cheng Fengxiao’s dazzling treasure light before, even fearing she would be blinded by her ’Insightful Eyes,’ worried that Sheng Xuan might have a similar supreme treasure.

But fortunately.

Sheng Xuan didn’t.

"Growing so fast without the help of a supreme treasure, his talent must be extraordinary." Yan Chuan was also amazed. Generally, if there is a supreme treasure, it would be carried along. Not having it on oneself means not having it. So Sheng Xuan’s ability to grow to the sixth stage level genuinely relied on his talent and personal effort?

No, no, no!

"It’s also possible that he possesses a supreme treasure beyond Lu Yuru’s ’Insightful Eyes,’ detection range, for instance, me holding the ’Purple Mist Palace,’ such a supreme treasure? But Lu Yuru can’t see it."

Yan Chuan speculated that Lu Yuru’s ’Insightful Eyes’ detection limit was roughly at Cheng Fengxiao’s ’Green Bottle’ level, and beyond that, it would either truly blind one or self-protectively be invisible.

But that’s for now.

Maybe Lu Yuru’s ’Insightful Eyes’ can upgrade and evolve along with her cultivation improvement.

It’s all unpredictable.

Small hacks are not hacks, small cheats are not cheats.

Yan Chuan happened to gather these small cheats and hacks around him, fully trusting them. When fighting alone, progress was difficult and slow, but with everyone joining hands, mutually assisting and complementing each other, progress was rapid. Isn’t that wonderful?

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