Maoshan Celestial Master: A standard currency had to be indispensable to cultivation. What about Spirit Stones containing spiritual energy?
Crown Prince Changqin: Spiritual energy was divided into Innate Spiritual Energy and Postnatal Spiritual Energy. Immortals needed the innate kind, also known as immortal Qi.
World Conqueror: So Innate Spirit Stones and Postnatal Spirit Stones could serve as standard currencies?
Lord of Divine Law: But for Daluo Golden Immortals like us, the amount of spiritual energy no longer mattered. What we needed was to comprehend the Source Laws.
Demon Lord: As the ruler of a world, I hardly lacked a basic resource like spiritual energy.
World Conqueror: My world had spiritual energy, but I hadn't found any Spirit Stones.
Spiritual energy existed in Xiongba's Storm Riders World, but its concentration was low. No Spirit Stone veins had formed, so there were naturally no Spirit Stones.
Lin Jiu's world was a world of cultivation, but it had long since entered the Dharma-Ending Era. Its Spirit Stone veins had dried up ages ago; perhaps only major cultivation sects still had some Spirit Stones in reserve.
Lord of Divine Law: Worlds differed too greatly, and so did the cultivation levels of the group members. We needed different standard currencies for different stages.
Yang Jian was the Lord of Divine Law, an active official of the Heavenly Court. He quickly proposed a solution.
Lord of Divine Law: For example, cultivators below the Immortal Realm could use Postnatal Spirit Stones as currency, and those below the Daluo Golden Immortal level could use Innate Spirit Stones. As for Daluo Golden Immortals...
Yang Jian's Primordial Spirit Realm—his Magical Power cultivation—was at the Early-Stage Grand Luo Golden Immortal level. His physical body, having brought the Eight Nine Arcane Art to Perfection, had reached the Late-Stage Quasi-Sage level. Beneath the Sages, he was practically invincible!
So, judging by his own needs, what cultivation resources did a Daluo Golden Immortal require?
Spiritual energy? Surely no Daluo Golden Immortal lacked that. It would be embarrassing even to say so!
Before he perfected the Eight Nine Arcane Art, he had still needed resources to temper his body. Now he no longer did.
Once his Primordial Spirit Realm reached the Daluo Golden Immortal level, all he needed was to comprehend the Source Laws of heaven and earth. That took only insight and time.
Demon Lord: So Daluo Golden Immortals needed something that could help them comprehend the Source Laws. But I've never heard of such a treasure.
Chonglou's Chinese Paladin World and the Lotus Lantern World were both Greater Worlds, but his world's foundations were far weaker. Even as its ruler, Chonglou had never heard of such a supreme treasure.
Lord of Divine Law: Heavenly Dao Sages can use the Heavenly Dao to comprehend the Source Laws. Dao Ancestor Hongjun even has the Jade Plate of Creation, a supreme treasure for Dao Comprehension.
As a Chan Sect Disciple, Yang Jian knew very well that although the Heavenly Dao constrained its Sages, that bond had benefits as well as drawbacks.
Because their Primordial Spirits were entrusted to the Heavenly Dao, Heavenly Dao Sages could draw on its power in battle and use it to comprehend the Source Laws.
Why were all the Sages such recluses? It wasn't just because of the Dao Ancestor's restrictions. They were also using the Heavenly Dao to comprehend the Source Laws.
Even those who had attained Merit-Based Sainthood didn't want to stop there. They all hoped to advance further.
After much discussion, they still hadn't settled on a standard currency for Daluo Golden Immortals.
But they had decided on currencies for everyone below that level.
Spirit Stones and Immortal Spirit Stones, respectively.
They were further divided by the amount of spiritual energy they contained into four grades: low, middle, high, and supreme.
Spirit Stones contained Postnatal Spiritual Energy, an essential basic resource for cultivators who had yet to become Immortals.
Immortal Spirit Stones contained Innate Spiritual Energy—immortal Qi. They were essential to any Immortal who had yet to reach the Daluo Golden Immortal level.
Even Daluo Golden Immortals needed spiritual energy to replenish the Magical Power they expended in battle. It wasn't indispensable, but it was at least somewhat useful.
There was no helping it. For now, Daluo Golden Immortals would have to make do.
After all, the Chat Group was still in its infancy, and its features weren't complete.
Seeing the group members' discussion, Bai Yu suddenly had an idea.
Perhaps he could become the Chat Group's currency issuer himself!
After all, he could mass-produce supreme treasures like the Jade Plate of Creation, which helped people comprehend the Source Laws!
If he made a consumable version, wouldn't it work just like a Spirit Stone?
Yang Jian and Chonglou would need it, and so would the Heavenly Dao Sages of the Lotus Lantern World.
After all, who wouldn't want an unfair advantage?!
To keep it consistent with the other currencies, Bai Yu named it the Sacred Spirit Stone.
A Sacred Spirit Stone would contain the Source Laws. It could help its user comprehend them, or its power could be released in an explosion, turning the stone into a law-infused bomb to hurl at an enemy.
To settle the matter once and for all, Bai Yu also needed to create a magical treasure that could produce Sacred Spirit Stones on an assembly line.
Then he could make money while lying back.
And because Bai Yu had comprehended every Source Law, the Sacred Spirit Stones he made would contain them all!
That would make the currency useful to everyone. No matter which Source Law someone was studying, a Sacred Spirit Stone could help them comprehend it.
Otherwise, Sacred Spirit Stones containing only a single Source Law would be far more limited and troublesome to use.
With his thoughts in order, Bai Yu immediately got to work.
He used the power of laws to create matter from the void. As the divine glow faded, a flawless, white jade-like Primordial Chaos Divine Stone the size of a goose egg appeared.
Ordinary rock could never contain every Source Law. Though this Primordial Chaos Divine Stone had been created through the power of laws, it was no different from a genuine one.
Even this most ordinary Primordial Chaos Divine Stone was, in essence, comparable to a 16th Order Supreme Treasure.
Then he pointed a finger. Divine lights of every color burst forth, each representing a Source Law. Law-infused energy surged, wondrous beyond description, before condensing into a single point, all merged as one Hunyuan whole.
A beam of chaos-colored divine light shone brilliantly. It looked utterly ordinary, yet held unfathomable mysteries.
Bai Yu refined the two into one. The divine light of the laws vanished into the stone, and even the infinitely wondrous Primordial Chaos Divine Stone seemed unremarkable.
He looked at the Primordial Chaos Divine Stone before him. No—it should now be called a Sacred Spirit Stone.
To be precise, this was the Sacred Spirit Stone Primordial Embryo.
It was a complete supreme treasure, like the Jade Plate of Creation, containing all three thousand Source Laws. It wasn't a single-use consumable.
Using such a treasure as currency would be extravagantly wasteful, not to mention impractical.
So...
With a wave of his hand, Bai Yu created another 16th Order Supreme Treasure. It had only one purpose: to produce Sacred Spirit Stones automatically on an assembly line.
The treasure was a cube that radiated a mysterious divine glow.
Bai Yu tossed the Sacred Spirit Stone Primordial Embryo straight inside.
At once, divine light flashed as a steady stream of law power poured in. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged in as well.
In the blink of an eye, Sacred Spirit Stones appeared one after another in the treasure's boundless storage space.
Before long, they had piled up like mountains.
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