"Every transaction you complete is known to the Spirit Land in minute detail. That is why no one dares rely on their strength to rob you by force and make you hand over your Nanke Coins! Though people taking a vicious bite out of you during a trade is a common sight."
Fan Rongrong concealed the spirit mark on the back of her hand and said with a smile, "I've heard that quite a few well-to-do fellow cultivators, in order to avoid being murdered for treasure, simply keep only the most basic magical treasures and spiritual items on them. They sell everything else for Nanke Coins, then buy it back when they need it. That makes things much safer! Even if they are unfortunately killed, their enemies will not gain much from it."
Tu Lin nodded thoughtfully. Only after he and Fan Rongrong had walked another half street did he seem to reach some conclusion, abruptly saying, "If the Spirit Land's administrators can issue Nanke Coins without restriction, wouldn't that mean they could use this alone to gather all the manpower and resources of our cultivation world? After a few years, when all kinds of spiritual items on the market grow scarce while Nanke Coins increase a hundredfold or thousandfold, will this currency still be as valuable as it is now?"
Hearing this, Fan Rongrong turned her head and gave him a startled look.
"You're a little Daoist younger than me by several years, yet you can think so far ahead!"
"You weren't wrong about the first half. My father has said before that these mysterious Spirit Land administrators may very well be trying to plunder every resource of our Dragon Claw World, including the blood-and-sweat labor of cultivators like us."
"Oh... right! You may not know this yet. The