Beginning the Game

Mo Xiao is a somewhat well-known businessman in the Lingchou Realm, with some wealth.

However, this money was not earned by him, but rather all the savings his father had accumulated through business. He simply inherited his father's business and kept it from declining.

Even so, his wealth surpassed that of 95% of the people in the Lingchou Realm. He was a successful businessman, even owning his own World-Class Giant Ship. His business encompassed hundreds of worlds, as well as a Law Treasure production line that was more valuable than all of those worlds combined.

In his worlds, he cultivates vast amounts of raw materials, continuously harvesting world resources, taking them all, and pouring them into his Law Treasure production line to produce robes bearing his trademark, which are then exported overseas.

Of course, in addition to these assembly lines, he also employs a group of weavers. These are the high-end products. The weavers receive high pay for weaving exquisite handmade custom-made robes, which are then sold at dozens or even hundreds of times the price.

Although these exquisite handmade products are only about 40% better in performance than those produced on the assembly line, their prices have increased a hundredfold.

However, this is the significance of high-end products. A 40% performance difference can present an overwhelming advantage when two people are fighting for their lives. Generally speaking, the money is still worth it, after all, the difference in production volume is more than a hundred times.

His business flourished, even though he himself had already distanced himself from actual production and his Dao Path had been cut off.

This is a typical characteristic of these merchants in the Lingchou Realm.

Most of these merchants did not engage in production themselves; they were only responsible for running their own chambers of commerce and increasing their wealth, even though they didn't know what to do with that wealth.

After all, these merchants have a lot of money, and many of them try every means to accumulate resources, using massive amounts of resources to force themselves to the seventh rank and obtain immortality.

This kind of immortality can be described as extremely superficial. Without the support of Dao heart, they have almost no combat ability and cannot even be considered immortal, because without the protection of Dao heart, their cultivation is gradually dissipating.

If Dao heart is truly inferior, and one's mind ages over time, then their lifespan will likely end in just over ten thousand years, and they might not even be able to defeat an eighth-rank cultivator.

Of course, most of them probably won't live to be 10,000 years old. 10,000 years is a very long time. Many people lose the desire to live after living for a few thousand years.

Without a strong will and the patience to resist the passage of time, immortality becomes a torment.

Mo Xiao is a typical example, but he is different from those people because he has a promising son.

His son truly achieved the rank of a seventh-grade official through his own efforts.

Mo Xiao invested most of his earnings into his son, enabling him to continue climbing the ladder of success, unlike his peers who made a fortune but didn't know how to spend it, only to die with their money and then pass it on to their descendants, who in turn didn't know what to do with it.

However, Mo Xiao also has his own troubles lately.

Some of the worlds under his command have... withered away.

Generally speaking, resources within the world circulate, and World Barrier prevent them from escaping. Regardless of how they are used internally, the essence of resources is circulation, just like reincarnation.

But if we include other worlds as variables, then things are different.

Mo Xiao's worlds produced a continuous stream of raw materials, but these materials were not incorporated into the cycle or left to rot in the ground. Instead, they were transported to other worlds, processed into Law Treasure, and then transported to those other worlds with a thunderous roar.

This kind of system that only outputs and never receives will inevitably run dry.

Under normal circumstances, the world needs to slow down. After all, the world itself has the ability to create Creation from Nothing, and it can recover its Primal Qi after a period of time.

However, if he slows down, others will take away his market share.

Since everyone is produced on an assembly line, it's really hard to differentiate ourselves. At most, we might have some unique features in the design, but they're not that special.

If production is reduced or even stopped at this moment, it would be tantamount to voluntarily handing over the market to others.

What should we do?

If this continues, and the world becomes depleted or even degraded, then we're doomed. Li Qi has witnessed this firsthand.

In the beginning, in the Earth Oil Realm, the resource world of the Great Deer Kingdom was a resource world that was constantly being mined and was almost exhausted. The oceans of the entire world had dried up and were devoid of life.

But if they don't continue, things will be very difficult. What use will it be when the world recovers? They won't be able to sell anything, and he still needs to support his son's continued cultivation, hoping he can reach the sixth rank!

Mo Xiao was worried about this matter day and night, and even after the arrival of that big shot, that so-called Shamanic Way envoy, who caused a national uproar six months ago, things did not improve.

In fact, after that incident, business became much more difficult because there were many more audits. Each chamber of commerce had to audit the business, which was really troublesome.

Sigh... But no matter what, things still need to be done, life still needs to go on, and we have to get on with it no matter how hard it is.

Thinking about these things, Mo Xiao put on a hat and wore an extremely beautiful and dazzling robe. It seemed that there was a blue light surrounding him, with a faint rainbow color, and there were intricate patterns on it.

He himself was quite good-looking, with green eyes, a slender figure, and the appearance of a middle-aged man. He looked very similar to everyone else in the world, but the difference lay in the subtle differences in eye color and face shape, and his inner world was also somewhat different.

Today, he's going to pick up a new partner who has just passed the vetting process. The partner is quite well-funded and... brings with him new technology that is supposedly able to solve his predicament.

The predicament that Mo Xiao encountered was not just his own predicament, but a common problem among businessmen. These chambers of commerce and wealthy people generally encountered such difficulties, but no one dared to easily give up and stop production.

After all, if someone lets go, the others will devour him completely, leaving nothing behind. Everyone will be swept along by each other, rushing headlong into destruction.

But this one, from afar, is said to be a companion of Dou Su, who claims he can solve this predicament.

Mo Xiao took this matter very seriously. After all, the money of those medium-sized chambers of commerce of similar size was of little use except for investment and expanding production. His money really needed to be converted into resources for his son.

Ride on Savage Beast unique to the Lingchou Realm. This is a Savage Beast that can fly in the air. It is said to be a manifestation of the great path of the Lingchou Realm's monsoon and is a common means of transportation.

At the beck and call of his servants, Mo Xiao quickly arrived at the agreed meeting place.

The other party arrived earlier than he expected. Although they had just passed the review, they had already arrived.

Mo Xiao walked over and spotted the other person immediately.

"Hello, Mr. Mo Xiao, right?" A woman from all over the world had been waiting for a long time.

If it were Li Shiwei, she would definitely recognize the other person at a glance.

Zhang You.

Zhang You at this time had changed considerably from before. She had grown up and become more composed, losing that timid feeling and making people feel that she was reliable and trustworthy. Her gentle gaze, as always, also made people feel that it would be very comfortable to be around her.

After all, almost ten years have passed, and she has grown up.

She was still only an eighth-rank official; the seventh rank wasn't so easy to reach, but her position had risen considerably because she was diligent, honest, and loyal, earning the great trust of her superiors.

Now, she is in charge of promoting new technologies within the chamber of commerce.

In fact, every civilized civilization that can establish itself outside its own territory, and even various chambers of commerce, has its own unique skills to some extent.

Li Qi's Witchcraft Silkworm does have some innovations, but these innovations are not groundbreaking; in the end, they can only serve as the foundation for a seventh-grade cultivator's Dao.

Throughout the heavens, technological exchanges and explosions occur constantly. Every minute and every second, countless ideas collide, sparking new ideas and giving rise to entirely new Technique Method and even Dao Lineage.

If all techniques and Dao Lineage form a circle, then how many points are on this circle?

The answer is countless.

Countless Dao Lineage and countless new technologies, even if they have various overlapping characteristics, still offer something new.

Therefore, technological exchange has always been an important part of transactions between civilized worlds outside the region, with a vast market and a large number of transaction records outside the region.

In other words, technical exchanges and equipment sales are very normal, so normal that even Human Path -made Law Treasure production line can be sold in the Lingchou Realm. Although they do not have the manufacturing capability, there is no doubt that these things are produced by the Human Path, and only the Human Path and the Reason Way have this kind of technology.

It was precisely because of this that Zhang You was able to enter this world, and to enter in a natural and reasonable way to sell his technology, all under a very loud banner, directly claiming that he would solve the world's depletion problem for the merchants.

However, since the Chamber of Commerce was operating under the banner of Young Master Wushen Mountain, for reasons unknown to Zhang You, she was required to establish a branch of the Chamber of Commerce. This branch then partnered with another Seventh Rank World, authorized the technology to a third-party Seventh Rank World, and distributed it to 120 completely unfamiliar Rank Seventh Rank World through normal channels.

Within these 120 Seventh Rank World, the Chamber of Commerce branch dispatched 120 'technical outsourcing experts' to be responsible for dissemination.

Finally, after about six months of propagation, passing through more than six hundred worlds, it slowly spread from the Sacred Flame Realm to the Lingchou Realm of the Heart Mansion.

Then, the dispatch of technical experts had to expand, so Zhang You naturally reached an agreement with a Seventh Rank World. This Seventh Rank World was prepared to sell the technology of the Witchcraft Silkworm to the Lingchou Realm, and Zhang You joined the negotiations as an advisory expert.

There were hundreds of floors in between, and Zhang You herself didn't know what she was there to do. She was only chosen because she was reliable at her job.

However, all of this was manipulated by Li Qi's golden body from billions of light-years away.

This is what Li Qi learned from Li Shiwei's adventures.

To imitate 'Heaven's Will'.

This is not a simple matter for someone at the sixth rank, and even for someone at the fifth rank, it is quite difficult.

Fortunately, Li Qi was a genius, and during the more than twenty years that Li Shiwei was away, he successfully learned this subtle adjustment.

He is still far from being a true embodiment of Heaven's Will, but he can already subtly manipulate the connections between cause and effect to allow relationships between people to naturally develop to the outcome he desires.

The complex and massive, tightly interconnected arrangement is, in a sense, 'Heaven's Will'.

However, Li Qi always felt that he was still far from the true 'Heaven's Will', and it was a fundamental difference. It was not that his computing power was insufficient, but rather a fundamental difference in the algorithm.

He used a clumsy method, albeit a clever one, but it was still clumsy in the end.

Unfortunately, his vision, knowledge, and intelligence were insufficient, and his cultivation level was probably even lower, so he couldn't perceive the difference and therefore couldn't make any improvements.

But it doesn't matter, it's enough for now.

At least, Zhang You has unknowingly arrived in the Lingchou Realm, and the Lord of Lingchou Realm himself has not yet realized it. Obviously, the other party will not train him to become 'Heaven's Will' at the sixth rank, so Li Qi can be considered to have succeeded for the time being.

Zhang You stepped forward, facing Mo Xiao.

"You must be the one dispatched for this technical mission. To have reached the eighth rank at such a young age and mastered such technology is truly remarkable." Mo Xiao stepped forward and greeted him with a smile.

"Mr. Mo Xiao is already a seventh-rank official, so please stop mocking me," Zhang You replied.

"Hey, what I achieved was purely through money; it can't compare to proper cultivation," Mo Xiao waved his hand.

"Isn't making money a skill too? How many people can only scrimp and save to buy Longevity Pill from the Hell Path? Earning enough resources to boost your cultivation to the seventh rank is no easier than cultivating to the seventh rank yourself," Zhang You flattered.

These words pleased Mo Xiao, and he laughed heartily. However, he didn't forget the important matter and coughed twice, saying, "Ahem, then please come to the production site and take a look at the current technology. Why do you say that this kind of Gu worm can solve our predicament?"

Zhang You nodded slightly and began to analyze. "The current predicament is nothing more than the conflict between production capacity and the lifespan of the world. As long as we can guarantee a certain amount of production to maintain the market and reduce the consumption of the world's resources, the problem will naturally be solved."

"It sounds simple, but how do you do it?" Mo Xiao nodded.

Zhang You said, "Reducing the consumption of world resources can be approached from two aspects. First, it is to truly reduce consumption, such as reducing some output and eliminating excess capacity."

"Secondly, we should improve the utilization rate of existing resources and use the same resources to produce more valuable goods, which can indirectly reduce consumption."

"However, the current dilemma is that if we reduce production, it will be easy for us to lose our existing market share. After all, the competitors you face are not only from the Lingchou Realm, but also from other worlds."

"So, what our products can offer is the ability to reduce production while still not losing market opportunities."