Exchange Rate
At the forefront of the Iron-Black Warship, Fairy Yunhua faced the crowd, holding a list in her hand. This was the Merit Exchange Ranking, but it was a secondary list; the main list was with Taihao True Person.
"Now we'll start calculating Merits. Who wants to go first?" Fairy Yunhua smiled, her beauty beyond compare.
"I'll go first!"
The speaker was Huang Chunhua, who wasn't particularly enthusiastic about fighting, but was always at the forefront when it came to exchanging for Merits.
"Alright, you understand the rules for exchanging Merits, right?" Fairy Yunhua asked softly, her expression unchanged.
"Of course I understand!" Huang Chunhua's face was full of smiles.
Among the crowd, Yang Tianyou's expression shifted slightly as he recalled the exchange rules Yunhua had mentioned.
After the Cold Tide War began, Luochuan Sect announced the rules for exchanging Merits. Later, with the invasion of the Demon Sea, Luochuan Sect adjusted the value of Merits, increasing it by about 20%.
The rules regarding slaying Devil Cultivators are roughly as follows:
Killing a Devil Cultivator Early Qi Refining will reward you with 3-6 Merits.
Killing a Middle Qi Refinement Devil Cultivator will reward you with 6-15 Merits.
Killing a Late Qi Refinement Devil Cultivator will reward you with 15-40 Merits.
Killing a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Devil Cultivator will reward you with 100-300 Merits.
Killing a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Devil Cultivator will earn you 300-800 Merits.
Killing a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Devil Cultivator will earn you 800-1500 Merits.
Killing a Foundation Establishment Great Perfection Devil Cultivator will earn you 1500-2000 Merits.
Killing a Devil Cultivator in the Early Golden Core will earn you 8,000 to 35,000 Merits.
In addition, assisting in combat, providing supplies, completing missions, and so on can all earn varying amounts of Merits.
Those who die in battle can also receive compensation for their Merits, which is called a pension, and the amount is twice that of killing Devil Cultivator of the same level.
In other words, if an Early Qi Refining of Qi Refining dies in battle, the compensation for their death will fluctuate between 6 and 12 Merits.
As for the value of Merits, it is roughly equivalent to 15 Spirit Stones per Merit.
Therefore, the difficulty of killing a Devil Cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Early Stage is vastly different from the corresponding amount of Merits; they are not commensurate.
After all, a Foundation Establishment Pill costs 13,000 to 14,000 Spirit Stones, which is almost equivalent to 1,000 Merits. However, killing a Devil Cultivator at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Third Layer would only earn you 300 Merits at most.
Therefore, at first glance, the Merit exchange ranking seems very unreasonable, but why don't these Foundation Establishment Lineage have any complaints?
The reasoning is actually quite simple. First and foremost, it's important to understand that this battle is not only for the Luochuan Sect, but also an urgent need for Foundation Establishment Lineage to protect their own power.
The threat of Devil Cultivators is imminent. The sooner the threat is eliminated, the more it will benefit not only the upper-level forces, but also the major Foundation Establishment Lineage, who will be able to live in peace without fear.
Therefore, this operation was fought both for the Luochuan Sect and for themselves. The former naturally didn't have to pay the full price for the latter; they only needed to sacrifice a small portion of the benefits.
Of course, if one day the Luochuan Sect were to engage in a major battle with other Immortal Dao forces and conscript its cultivators, the compensation and Merit meritorious service would be far greater than they are now.
Why?
At this moment, the Foundation Establishment Lineage are not fighting for themselves, but are fighting desperately purely for the benefit of the Luochuan Sect.
The latter should bear full responsibility and provide compensation.
For example, if a Foundation Establishment dies in battle under your command, you must provide a Foundation Establishment Pill as compensation; this is the minimum rule. Further compensation should include basic supplies and Spirit Stones.
If we don't do this, who else will be willing to risk their lives for us?
Relying on forceful suppression?
Then your rival sects will probably laugh their heads off, because you're destroying your own foundation.
One of the main reasons why the Dragon Valley Sect suffered such a crushing defeat was that Dragon Valley Sect leaders at the time were too harsh on their subordinates.
With morale completely shattered, the regime was overthrown by collusion from within and without.
That said, in actual exchange, the ratio between Merits and Spirit Stones will not only not fall, but will actually increase.
A ratio of 1:15 is the minimum; more often than not, a single Merit is worth the equivalent of 20 Spirit Stones.
The reason is simple: many of the resources on the Merit Exchange Ranking are simply unavailable for purchase, even with Spirit Stones. They won't sell them; what can you do?
Take Foundation Establishment Pills, for example. Not to mention that they are extremely difficult to refine, requiring Second-Tier Upper-Grade Alchemist.
Take those extremely rare materials for example; they are generally only in the hands of Golden Core Force and rarely flow out.
Moreover, even if a Foundation Establishment Lineage has Second-Tier Upper-Grade Alchemist, they can still gather all the materials for the Foundation Establishment Pill.
The Foundation Establishment Pills refined by this Lineage can only be used by themselves and cannot be sold to others. Otherwise, if the superior sect discovers this, the consequences will be extremely serious.
You think that's all?
No, the Foundation Establishment Pills refined by Foundation Establishment Lineage are often forcibly requisitioned by their superior sects, or offered as Foundation Establishment Pill instead of Spirit Stones.
The goal was simple and made no attempt to conceal it: to suppress the growth of his subordinates' forces and ensure his own dominance.
Strategic Pills such as the Golden Core Formation Pill and the Nascent Soul Formation Pill are similarly subject to layered suppression and clear class distinctions.
The higher the level of the Immortal Dao sect, the greater the benefits it enjoys. The strong always get stronger, which is why the ancient and the powerful are often viewed as a unified entity in the Cultivation World.
That said, Huang Chunhua began to list his family's military Merit one by one.
He particularly emphasized the twenty Qi Refining cultivators and one Foundation Establishment Cultivator from the Huang Household who died in the battle, and mentioned it more than once.
It's clear that Huang Chunhua didn't care about the Huang Household who died in battle; he was probably more concerned about how much "compensation" he could receive.
This blatant indifference made Yang Tianyou and the others in the audience very uncomfortable. In the Yang Household's education, the lives of clan members and the interests of the Lineage always come first.
Huang Chunhua's way of doing things was completely contrary to the ideals of the Yang Household Member.
However, this was a private matter. Apart from feeling sorry for the Huang Household cultivators who died in battle, the Yang Household Members did not show any anger towards Huang Chunhua.
[Ninth Lineage Rule: Without a conflict of interest, do not provoke unnecessary enemies because of your emotions.]
Soon, the Huang Household's Merits were tallied, totaling 2460 Merit. Half of these came from the compensation for cultivators who died in battle. In addition, Yunhua also included Huang Chunhua's outstanding performance with the Spatial-Sealing Orb in the final battle.
Adding in other miscellaneous Merit, this is the total figure.
2460 Merits Spirit Stone be exchanged for 36900 Spirit Stones, and the purchasing power of Merits is obviously higher.
In other words, through this operation, the Huang Household obtained cultivation resources worth at least 40,000 Spirit Stones, which is almost equivalent to the Lineage's net profit for seven or eight years.
War is indeed a great opportunity to make a fortune, provided you are strong enough.
Otherwise, like the Mu Household in Spirit Crane Town and the Qing Household in Qingfeng Town, the entire clan was wiped out, and all the resources they painstakingly accumulated were used to benefit others.