After hearing the price Chen Changsheng had quoted, Guan Ping and Chen Feng were both left speechless.
Guan Ping, who was carrying the most "debt," curled her lips and said, "Sir, are you trying to fool us?"
"Cultivation does require an ocean of resources, but isn't that a bit too exaggerated?"
"If we use your calculations, how many people in the world could afford such consumption?"
Facing Guan Ping's doubts, Chen Changsheng said disdainfully, "I'm not deliberately inflating the price to scare you. This is simply what cultivation is like."
"To tell you the truth, it's only because your talent is passable that you barely qualify to spend this money."
"If it were anyone else, no matter how much money they had, they wouldn't be qualified to spend it."
"Because spending resources on them would be like pouring water into the sea."
Unconvinced, Guan Ping said, "Sir, don't change the subject. I'm asking how other people are supposed to cultivate."
"There are countless experts in the world. Did they all have such immense resources when they first started out?"
Seeing that Guan Ping remained unconvinced, Chen Changsheng said unhurriedly, "You're right. Before they rose to prominence, ninety-nine percent of cultivators in the world had no resources around them at all."
"See? Sir really was just using words to fool us."
A smug little expression instantly climbed onto Guan Ping's face, while Chen Changsheng continued on his own.
"For cultivators who couldn't obtain resources through other channels, the only option was to seize them."
"Take Chen Feng, for example. If he were merely an obscure Loose Cultivator right now—"
"Then if he wanted to obtain the Bodhi Seed, he could only join the Heavenly Lotus Sect."
"During that time, he would have to step on countless Heavenly Lotus Sect prodigies and