Advanced Experience

Jiang Yuan's idea for currency had, with the birth of the Profound Yellow Grain, become a reality. All that was needed was to refine the Profound Yellow Qi from the grain, and it could be used as currency.

In the Primordial World, no one could resist the allure of Profound Yellow Qi. As the origin qi of heaven and earth, it was almost indistinguishable from Profound Yellow Merit, save for its inability to directly enhance cultivation or fortune.

It could be used for cultivation, alchemy, artifact forging, healing, strengthening one's foundation, and even elevating one's life level.

As the name suggested, even "Merit" was preceded by "Profound Yellow," indicating the preciousness of Profound Yellow Qi.

Faced with such a treasure, no cultivator could refuse it. Therefore, if it were used as currency, it would immediately gain the recognition of the Ten Thousand Innate Races.

Whether a currency could circulate depended on whether it was recognized. As long as it was recognized, even waste paper could be used as money.

The more people who recognized it, the greater its influence. The Ten Thousand Innate Races were the main body of the Primordial World, and a currency recognized by all of them would be the legal tender of the Primordial World.

The properties of Profound Yellow Qi destined it to easily gain the recognition of the Ten Thousand Innate Races and become the legal tender of the Primordial World.

It was for this reason that it was said that with the birth of the Profound Yellow Grain, Jiang Yuan's idea for currency had come true.

"The emergence of currency will undoubtedly promote the development of the Primordial World. This is a merit for promoting the development of the Primordial World. I wonder how much merit it will bring me?"

Rubbing the Profound Yellow Grain in his hand, Jiang Yuan mused. With this merit, he could be considered the God of Wealth of the Primordial World from now on.

And after becoming the God of Wealth, would he still be afraid of lacking resources? He would have as much as he wanted!

Life would surely be incredibly satisfying.

Boom!

As Jiang Yuan was lost in these thoughts, a sudden change occurred in the sky above. Auspicious clouds and radiant energy gathered, transforming into a Golden Lotus of Merit that descended. Part of it merged into his body, and part of it fused with the Profound Yellow Grain.

The next moment, the Profound Yellow Grain underwent a transformation. Its yield, which was originally only three thousand six hundred grains per stalk, instantly surged to ten thousand grains, nearly tripling.

"This..."

Seeing this, Jiang Yuan was first stunned, then overjoyed.

The increase in the yield of Profound Yellow Grain was a good thing. More yield meant more resources, which could support more cultivators. What else could be considered good news?

In a great mood, Jiang Yuan cut down a few stalks of Profound Yellow Grain, wove them into a grass ring, and then went to the Sacred Temple not far away, carefully placing it on the statue of Lady Nuwa.

This was naturally to maintain secrecy.

After cultivating the Profound Yellow Grain, Jiang Yuan's next step would undoubtedly be to promote it, allowing more races to plant it. This was unavoidable.

As he gained more merit, he gradually gained experience.

The Heavenly Dao was very strict in this regard. Unless one achieved an earth-shattering merit, it would not bestow a large amount of merit all at once. Instead, it would be given out slowly, bit by bit.

Jiang Yuan's previous acts of merit had all been like this, and the cultivation of Profound Yellow Grain was no exception.

Cultivating the Profound Yellow Grain was meritorious, so the Heavenly Dao bestowed merit, but not much. This was because the item had just appeared and had not yet spread throughout the Primordial World.

To obtain more merit, one had to look at the future development of the Profound Yellow Grain. The wider its scope of dissemination, the more merit it would bring to Jiang Yuan later, and vice versa.

When the Profound Yellow Grain was planted everywhere across the Primordial World, it would bring Jiang Yuan immeasurable merit.

As for now, it was still a long way off.

This meant that if Jiang Yuan wanted to gain more merit, he had to actively promote the Profound Yellow Grain.

Furthermore, if he wanted to perfect the currency system through the Profound Yellow Grain, he also had to promote it. Otherwise, if only the Human Race had the Profound Yellow Grain and other races did not, what kind of currency system could be built?

With these two factors combined, Jiang Yuan had no choice but to promote the Profound Yellow Grain.

However, while promoting the Profound Yellow Grain was acceptable, the seeds that were spread must be limited.

That is, after one or two or three harvests, the resulting fruit would lose its ability to grow and could no longer take root and sprout.

At this point, if other races wanted to continue planting the Profound Yellow Grain, they would have to come to the Human Race to purchase new seeds.

This was advanced experience that Jiang Yuan had learned from later generations. As long as the source was firmly controlled, one could obtain continuous benefits and maintain the Human Race's advantage.

Otherwise, Jiang Yuan was not a saint. He couldn't possibly share the Profound Yellow Grain seeds, which he had painstakingly cultivated with who knew how many resources, with the Ten Thousand Innate Races for free, could he?

This was impossible and unrealistic. To reiterate, in the Primordial World, being a good person was not feasible.

If Jiang Yuan really did this, the Ten Thousand Innate Races would not be grateful. Instead, they would call him an idiot and try to kill him to steal his merit.

It should be known that not only was cultivating the Profound Yellow Grain meritorious, but promoting it was also meritorious. And promotion was not limited to Jiang Yuan; anyone could do it.

The difference was that if Jiang Yuan was still alive, as the cultivator of the Profound Yellow Grain, he would receive a share of the merit regardless of who obtained it through promotion.

But if he were dead, then this share of promotion merit would not need to be given to him and could be enjoyed solely by the promoter.

Merit was extremely precious, and it was easy to imagine that countless people would take risks to try and kill Jiang Yuan in order to enjoy this merit alone.

Jiang Yuan did not want to die, nor did he want to live in constant fear, being an enemy of the world. Therefore, he had to firmly hold onto the mother seed of the Profound Yellow Grain.

This way, anyone who wanted to plant the Profound Yellow Grain would have to buy seeds from him.

This ensured that all Profound Yellow Grain seeds flowed from him, and outsiders could not even promote it if they wanted to.

Since outsiders could not promote it and could not find out who cultivated the Profound Yellow Grain, they naturally would not target Jiang Yuan for merit.

Jiang Yuan, on the other hand, not only earned a large amount of wealth by selling seeds but also enjoyed the merit of promotion alone, achieving multiple goals with one action.

This was why Jiang Yuan wove the Profound Yellow Grain into a grass ring and placed it on the statue of Lady Nuwa. He wanted to borrow the power of the Holy Mother to realize his plan.

With a saint shielding the heavenly secrets, who could deduce that the Profound Yellow Grain was related to Jiang Yuan? And under the influence of the saint's power, making the Profound Yellow Grain seeds lose their ability to reproduce a second time would be effortless.

Moreover, these two factors combined would create an illusion. That is, this meritorious crop, the Profound Yellow Grain, was likely bestowed upon the Human Race by Lady Nuwa for their development.

A very reasonable guess. Was the meritorious crop mysterious? It was undoubtedly extremely mysterious, a divine creation.

Related to creation, and originating from the Human Race. If it wasn't created by Lady Nuwa, who else could it be?

It couldn't be that the Human Race created it themselves, could it? That would be laughable. A mere acquired race, if they had such ability, the Ten Thousand Innate Races would be ashamed to death.