Buying While Furious

"This kind of spirit mine shall henceforth be named Spirit Stone."

Yi Chen rose to his feet and ordered, "Gather all the manpower that can be mobilized within the tribe and head to the Spirit Stone Mine in the east to extract Spirit Stones."

"We do not need too many in the early stages. Make sure every tribesman receives several fist-sized Spirit Stones."

"Once they are collected, distribute them to every tribesman. Tell them to keep a Spirit Stone beside them whenever they cultivate from now on."

"Could it be that these Spirit Stones can enhance cultivation?"

The High Priest was clearly intelligent and immediately understood some of Yi Chen's meaning.

"Yes, they can roughly double cultivation speed."

Yi Chen nodded, confirming his guess.

"Does that mean that in only around three months, the tribe's average realm can reach the Spirit Release Realm First Level?"

The High Priest stared at Yi Chen in disbelief.

"Yes!"

Yi Chen nodded again.

"I'll make the arrangements right away."

Wild joy appeared on the High Priest's face.

A massive increase in the tribe's average strength was undoubtedly tremendous news to him as well.

His current authority within the Flame Mountain Tribe was second only to Yi Chen's.

And the source of that authority had all been built upon Yi Chen's outward expansion.

The stronger the tribesmen became, the faster the expansion would proceed, and his authority would naturally rise with the tide.

"Go! Do not neglect the forging of Iron Swords either. Within one month, every tribesman must have one on average."

Yi Chen waved his hand and returned to his Wooden House with the Spirit Stone.

Since it was a Spirit Stone Mine located on the surface and easy to excavate, there was naturally no need for him to make the trip himself.

He only needed to wait for the tribesmen's realms to rise faster and their territory to grow ever larger.

For now, his most urgent task was still to create a sword technique.

Back in the Wooden House.

He sat cross-legged on the wooden bed and casually tossed the Spirit Stone to Little Golden Ball, which was about the same size as it.

Little Golden Ball assumed Yi Chen had given it the Spirit Stone as a toy.

It immediately pushed the Spirit Stone around, rolling it across the wooden bed.

Yi Chen could not be bothered to teach it how to absorb the Spiritual Energy within the Spirit Stone.

This little creature's rate of strength growth was beyond imagination.

By now, it had already reached the level of a Level 6 Ferocious Beast, and there was no sign whatsoever of its growth rate slowing.

There was simply nothing for him to worry about.

He half-closed his eyes, suppressed the joy of discovering the Spirit Stone Mine, and adjusted his mindset.

He began testing the acupoints from his Qi Sea to his arms, trying to develop a Spiritual Power circulation route suited to Sword Intent.

Just as Yi Chen had calmed down from the joy of discovering the Spirit Stone Mine and begun studying the Meridian Cultivation Chart for his sword technique,

the viewers in the Live Stream Room were still immersed in the shock brought by those words.

"These Energy Stones—no, the Spirit Stones Yi Chen named—can double cultivation speed?"

"My God! Doesn't that mean that in another two months or so, I can break through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level, truly raising my lifespan limit to two hundred and forty years? And I can start cultivating the Spirit Release Realm-level Chaos Art too?"

"This... this is something I never expected! Spirit Stones, which the Federal Academy of Sciences had abandoned research on, actually have such enormous usefulness and value when used for cultivation?"

"As expected of Yi Chen. The instant he got his hands on Spirit Stones, he immediately discovered where their true value lay."

"I'm getting rich. I think I'm about to get rich. There's a Spirit Stone Mine on the land I bought for a Plantation."

"Holy crap, then you really are about to get rich. Though from what Yi Chen meant, one or two Spirit Stones are enough for the Flame Mountain Tribe's tribesmen at their current stage, so the consumption does not seem high."

"But that is only because the Flame Mountain Tribe's tribesmen are not at high realms yet, and they do not need much Spiritual Energy to rise by a realm."

"As their realms increase, their consumption of Spirit Stones will definitely keep growing. The price will certainly keep rising."

"Does anyone know where Spirit Stones are being sold? I want to stockpile a batch while their price is still low."

"Yeah! Where are Spirit Stones being sold? I just searched all the major e-commerce platforms, and there are no Spirit Stones for sale at all."

"Obviously. Spirit Stones used to be worthless. Nobody had any use for them, so naturally nobody sold them."

"If you want to see them online, you will probably have to wait another hour or two."

"After waiting an hour or two, the price will probably already be sky-high. Look at those Mining Group stock prices—they have already begun soaring."

"Even if the price is high in the early stages, it will definitely skyrocket later. So as long as there are any for sale, buying them absolutely cannot be a loss."

"Right now, I only want to buy Spirit Stones. No matter how high the price is, I'll buy them! Doubling cultivation speed means I can break through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level in just one month and gain a lifespan limit of two hundred and forty years."

"It would have been one thing if I did not know Spirit Stones capable of increasing cultivation speed existed. But now that I know, not buying them is making my whole body itch."

Every viewer in the Live Stream Room was immensely excited.

Spirit Stones held extraordinary value in Yi Chen's eyes, and they were equally extraordinarily valuable in the eyes of all humanity.

In less time than the anticipated hour, merely twenty-odd minutes later, Spirit Stones appeared as a product on online shopping platforms.

They were ten centimeters long, five centimeters wide, five centimeters high, and weighed exactly one jin.

The price was as high as one thousand per piece.

The internet immediately erupted in curses.

Across the entire Human Federation, the average monthly income was only around ten thousand.

For something that had originally been completely worthless to dare to ask one thousand per piece was practically daylight robbery.

Yet even as everyone cursed furiously, they placed orders at the same time.

It was only that their original plans to stockpile thousands or tens of thousands of pieces had all gone up in smoke.

In merely a dozen seconds, the tens of thousands of Spirit Stones put up by that e-commerce platform were sold out.

A dozen minutes later, another e-commerce platform put up over a hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

The price rose to one thousand one hundred per piece.

The public cursed even more fiercely.

But in only six or seven seconds, the more than one hundred thousand Spirit Stones were sold out.

One thousand two hundred, one thousand three hundred, one thousand four hundred...

The prices kept climbing.

Yet no matter how many Spirit Stones appeared on the market, they still sold out in short order.

There was no helping it—the allure of Spirit Stones was simply too great.

Reaching the Spirit Release Realm First Level quickly meant doubling one's lifespan and meant being able to begin learning the improved version of the Chaos Art.

Even without Spirit Stones, one could sooner or later cultivate to the Spirit Release Realm First Level.

But the temptation of reaching the Spirit Release Realm First Level as quickly as possible was something no one could resist.

It was like the items in virtual online games that sped up leveling—so long as someone had money, no one could refuse such temptation.

And the temptation of accelerating one's own realm advancement was ten thousand, a hundred thousand times greater than speeding up a game character's leveling.

It had nearly reached the point where anyone who could afford them would certainly buy them.

The entire human world plunged into a frenzy of panic buying.

And the ever-rising prices caused the anger of all humanity to keep rising as well.