Hell Valley Transformed

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The Age of Dharma Decline was coming!

Yin Ming planned to stockpile basic cultivation resources so that falling elemental energy on the plane would not hamper his cultivation.

There were only two ways to gather resources: produce them or plunder them.

Production came in two forms. The first was mining. Powers such as the Wizard Black Tower, the Warlock Alliance, and the Abyss controlled deposits of certain resources. They did not need to gather resources; they only had to dig!

In the second, you were the mine. You made potions, crafted wizard artifacts, grew crops, hunted, or conducted experiments. The platform selling your work took most of the profits, leaving you with only a few resources. And if an individual amassed too many, they would draw unwanted attention.

Plunder also came in two forms. The gentler kind included the Abyss Sunshine Project and Nightmare City, which monopolized knowledge and resources to force unequal trades.

The other kind was brutal: murder and theft, raiding other powers. It was unethical and risky, its gains were unsustainable, and it caused serious damage to the wider world.

Back when he read novels in his previous life, Yin Ming had despised protagonists who got all their resources from killing enemies.

Failing to create value was bad enough! They had the strength to harvest resources but were too lazy even to do that. Such Evil God behavior did not merely harm one faction; it damaged the existing order. Everyone had reason to kill them.

He had merely picked up a few resources in the Abyss and run into Beelzebub, the Lord of Gluttony. How did people like that level up safely in the starting village?

"I'm not qualified to mine, and I don't want to be mined. That leaves plunder!"

After weighing his options, Yin