Whether currency or units of measurement, both were tied to Profound Yellow Grain.
So long as Profound Yellow Grain was accepted by the world, the currency and units of measurement connected to it would gradually gain acceptance as time passed.
And Profound Yellow Grain would be accepted by the world no matter what—indeed, it would even be eagerly sought after.
The reason was simple: the Profound Yellow Qi contained within Profound Yellow Grain was essentially a substitute for Profound Yellow Merit. With Merit so difficult to obtain, Profound Yellow Qi, as its substitute, would naturally be highly prized by all.
Profound Yellow Qi was far more powerful than innate spiritual qi. Cultivating with it not only accelerated one's progress, but also repaired one's Dao foundation and reduced the difficulty of evolving one's life level.
This was a genuine strategic resource. Ignorance was one thing, but once a race knew of it, no far-sighted race would dare refrain from using it.
It could not be helped. Living in the Primordial World, who did not have a few enemies? One could hold oneself back from using Profound Yellow Grain, but one could not stop one's enemies from using it.
If the enemy used it while one did not, the gap would widen over time. At that point, extinction would not be far away.
With that in mind, who would dare not use Profound Yellow Grain? Not only would they use it, they would scramble to do so, striving to get ahead of others.
In short, where a race's survival was concerned, Profound Yellow Grain could not possibly fail to be welcomed by the living beings of the Primordial World. Its widespread rise was merely a matter of time.
Once all living beings accepted Profound Yellow Grain, the currency system and units of measurement built upon it would naturally circulate alongside it and flourish together.
"Thinking about it this way, promoting currency and units of measurement is actually simple. There's no need to force it; I can just let nature take its course."
Having grasped the key, Jiang Yuan was in an excellent mood.
The promotion of currency and units of measurement could be accomplished incidentally while promoting Profound Yellow Grain. Turning three matters into one saved him a great deal of trouble. How could he not be pleased?
At the same time, Jiang Yuan recorded everything that had happened today in the History of the Human Race. The next moment, the power of both the Writing Brush of Creation and the Character Creation Diagram visibly increased.
They could now produce more avatars, increasing from over a hundred to two hundred—double the previous number.
And this was only the beginning. As books such as the Canon of Spirit Herbs compiled by Jiang Yuan spread and became known to more people, the power of the two treasures would continue to grow.
By then, the avatars they could produce would number not merely in the hundreds, but in the tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands.
"The road ahead is long and arduous; I must continue striving."
After encouraging himself, Jiang Yuan summoned his group of students and distributed to them the avatars created by the Character Creation Diagram and the Writing Brush of Creation. He had them visit the Trade Zone and interact with different races, recording what they saw and heard.
Completing the Canon of Spirit Herbs and drawing the Primordial World Map were important, but they could not be rushed. To accomplish those tasks, they would need to leave the Human Race and travel throughout the Primordial World.
Yet the Primordial World was full of danger at this time. To travel outside, one needed at least the cultivation of an eighth-level Heavenly Immortal to barely possess the ability to protect oneself.
However, Jiang Yuan himself was not even a Heavenly Immortal, much less his students. The strongest among them was merely in the Void Refinement Realm, while the rest were all in the Pre-Heaven Realm.
With such strength, leaving the Human Race to travel abroad was simply courting death.
Therefore, it was still too early to have them complete the Canon of Spirit Herbs and draw the Primordial World Map. For now, he would have them practice by recording rumors and accounts of the Ten Thousand Races, laying a foundation for compiling books in the future.
That way, once they succeeded in cultivation and traveled abroad in the future, they would know what to do even if Jiang Yuan gave them no instructions.
It took ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. Jiang Yuan had plenty of time and was in no hurry; he could slowly cultivate his own core group.
After giving his disciples their instructions, Jiang Yuan left the Sacred Temple and headed for Ancestor Sui's residence.
Next, he intended to cultivate Profound Yellow Grain on a large scale among the Human Race, which required Ancestor Sui's support. Beyond that, he also wanted to give Ancestor Sui the Profound Yellow Pill he had just refined from the Profound Yellow Grain.
This Profound Yellow Pill was not to be underestimated. It was the first Profound Yellow Pill born in the Primordial World, and the Heavenly Dao had therefore bestowed it with special power.
It contained pure power of the Heavenly Dao. If a Taiyi Golden Immortal at perfection could refine it, the chance of becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal would increase by at least forty percent.
Forty percent might not seem like much, but Taiyi Golden Immortals with hopes of reaching the Daluo Realm already had at least a thirty to fifty percent chance.
With a thirty to fifty percent chance, plus the additional forty percent brought by this Profound Yellow Pill, failure was impossible unless one's luck was truly abysmal.
Jiang Yuan wanted to give this pill to Ancestor Sui to help him become a Daluo Golden Immortal more quickly. Granted, Ancestor Sui had only just entered the Taiyi Realm. He was still far from perfection, and even farther from the Daluo Realm.
But after consuming this Profound Yellow Pill and comprehending the power of the Heavenly Dao within it, the time Ancestor Sui needed to become a Daluo Golden Immortal would be shortened by at least a hundredfold.
Under normal circumstances, even the foremost prodigies of the Primordial World would need tens of millions of years to become Daluo Golden Immortals without external assistance.
Tens of millions of years was far too long. If that time could be accelerated a hundredfold, it would become one million years. With other external assistance, it could be further reduced to several hundred thousand years, or even just over a hundred thousand years.
If Ancestor Sui could become a Daluo Golden Immortal within a little over a hundred thousand years, he would undoubtedly greatly intimidate the Ten Thousand Races and make them reluctant to attack the Human Race lightly.
Yes, Jiang Yuan had a premonition that the Ten Thousand Races would eventually move against the Human Race. Therefore, before they acted, he had to strengthen the Human Race as much as possible.
Why would the Ten Thousand Races attack the Human Race? Was it not because of resources? As the Human Race's trade became increasingly prosperous, the resources under its control would surely grow as well.
How could the Ten Thousand Races not covet this? They would certainly try every possible means to tear off a piece of the Human Race's flesh.
Do not say such foolish things as Lady Nuwa's protection making the Ten Thousand Races afraid to provoke the Human Race. No matter how powerful Lady Nuwa was, she could not protect every member of the Human Race. The only place she could protect was this small stretch of the East Sea Coast.
Here, the Human Race was absolutely safe. But once they left, whether they lived or died depended entirely on their own fortunes.
The Human Race could not remain forever on the East Sea Coast. Therefore, if the Ten Thousand Races wished to deal with the Human Race, they would inevitably target those members who left.
And the only way to prevent this was for the Human Race to grow strong as quickly as possible—strong enough that the Ten Thousand Races would not dare provoke them casually.
How was strength defined? The simplest method was to look at the number of experts within a race. The more Daluo Golden Immortals and Quasi-Saints it possessed, the stronger it was.
In the Primordial World, a powerful race was defined as one possessing several Quasi-Saints and over a hundred Daluo Golden Immortals.
A race with only one Quasi-Saint overseeing it could merely be called a major race. A race with only one Daluo Golden Immortal overseeing it was a minor race.
A race like the Human Race, which did not even possess a Daluo Golden Immortal, was a weak race with no status whatsoever in the Primordial World.