1 Planetary-level = 1 Universe Coin?

After giving a few more instructions, he dismissed his steward, Venina.

Wang Yu remained seated high upon his throne.

The small reward and operating funds he had given her were a mere drop in the bucket to him, not worth mentioning at all.

He had the Lord Mall, where he could use lord funds to purchase any item in unlimited quantities.

The spatial ring and Universe Crystals from earlier had simply been bought from the mall on the spot and taken out immediately.

A spatial ring with a thousand cubic meters of storage was not expensive, costing only 2,000 Universe Coins. Children of great families could receive one as a gift at the Planetary-level, so it was nothing special.

If Venina had not merely been an ordinary ninth-order Star-level warrior, unable to safeguard valuable treasures and likely to invite deadly trouble, he would not have minded giving her something better.

After all, she was his steward. Even giving her an enormous spatial ring worth hundreds of thousands or millions of Universe Coins would have been nothing.

After all, he had started with ten billion.

The ten thousand Universe Coins in selection funds had been handed out just as casually.

Although even the Ganwu Universe Country had only been established for five hundred thousand years, and the Black Dragon Mountain Empire and Silverblue Empire from the original novel did not yet exist at this point in time.

Still, the currencies of low- and mid-tier universe countries generally had roughly similar values.

Taking the Black Dragon Mountain Empire as an example, the official exchange rate between the Black Dragon Coins it issued and the Ganwu coins issued by its suzerain, the Ganwu Universe Country, was 1,000 to 1.

Yet in reality, it was difficult to exchange them at the official rate. On the black market, the rate could reach 1,500 to 1.

Likewise, Ganwu coins could hardly be exchanged for Universe Coins at the official rate of 3,300 to 1. In reality, it often took 4,000 Ganwu coins to exchange for one Universe Coin.

In other words, according to the official rate, one Universe Coin equaled 3.3 million Black Dragon Coins, but in reality, it could be exchanged for 6 million Black Dragon Coins.

The ten thousand Universe Coins he had given amounted to 60 billion Black Dragon Coins!

That was equivalent to five or six Black Dragon Mountain X81 Spaceships, the kind Luo Feng had used when he first entered the universe!

Although he was currently in the Blue Silver Empire, not the Silverblue Empire.

And its suzerain mid-tier universe country was not the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, but the White Dragon Sea Empire, whose official currency was the White Dragon Coin.

Still, prices were more or less the same.

He had given so much merely to hold a genius selection across fifty planets.

Venina would surely deliver results that satisfied him.

Of course, if he had already spent the money and she still failed to handle things properly for him, then he could only replace her.

He had money anyway, and managing planets was hardly some rare talent. The universe was full of professional companies specializing in this business, so replacing her would be no trouble at all.

The only reason he had not immediately hired one of those professional management companies was that he could not be bothered with the hassle, and he was giving someone else an opportunity while he was at it.

With that thought, Wang Yu was about to carefully study the Lord Mall.

But just then, his heart stirred as the system sent a new notification.

[A citizen has broken through to the Planetary-level. Reward: 1 Origin Energy.]

"Hm?" Wang Yu's eyes showed surprise.

A citizen breaking through to the Planetary-level earned one Origin Energy?

Wasn't that one Universe Coin?

Just breaking through from Apprentice Grade to the Planetary-level earns one Universe Coin?

Wasn't this a massive profit?

The system was giving out that much?

Wang Yu was genuinely shocked!

In White Dragon Coins, purchasing a ninth-order Planetary-level slave cost only thirty thousand for a warrior and one hundred thousand for a spirit reader.

One Universe Coin equaled 6 million White Dragon Coins, enough to buy two hundred ninth-order Planetary-level warriors!

The disparity between the two was enormous...

I knew the system was generous, but I never imagined it would be this generous! Wang Yu was deeply shaken as he thought rapidly.

Getting an Apprentice Grade cultivator to break through to the Planetary-level isn't difficult. There have long been mature and reliable drugs for such a low-level breakthrough. From start to finish, it would cost at most ten thousand White Dragon Coins.

Ten thousand in costs for six million in returns? The cost is practically negligible. That's pure profit!

Never mind how rewards will be calculated for slaves I buy. Just raising the more than one hundred billion existing citizens in my territory from Apprentice Grade to the Planetary-level would bring in more than one hundred billion Universe Coins!

I've struck it rich this time!

The more Wang Yu thought about it, the more excited he became!

The system was giving far too much!

Breaking through to a worthless Planetary-level actually earned Universe Coins!

However, after his initial excitement passed, Wang Yu gradually calmed down.

Calm down! I need to calm down. I can't let money go to my head...

Although the system gives a lot, I can't rush to collect it all at once. If I made all one hundred billion Apprentice Grade cultivators break through to the Planetary-level in one go, the commotion would be too great and would inevitably attract attention...

I'm not suited to being too extravagant just after getting started. I need to be conservative. If a big move won't work, then I'll make a small one first.

Let one hundred million Apprentice Grade cultivators break through to the Planetary-level!

Wang Yu quickly made his decision.

If he spent money to use drugs to push all of his more than 160 billion citizens to the Planetary-level, it would require an investment of roughly 300 million Universe Coins.

A First-Order Universe Level slave warrior cost only ten million Universe Coins.

As a newly advanced Universe-level cultivator, if he immediately invested 300 million Universe Coins into his territorial citizens, it would practically be shouting, "Who dares kill me?"

But if he selected only one hundred million more talented citizens, the investment would only be two hundred thousand Universe Coins. That figure was acceptable and would merely make him seem somewhat generous.

Moreover, the system rewarded more than just major breakthroughs. It also gave rewards for cultivation and achievements, such as increasing amplitude, mastering a certain secret technique, participating in large competitions like the Genius Battle, or gaining tremendous harvests in cosmic secret realms.

Selecting talented people to nurture would not seem conspicuous to outsiders, and spending a little more money would be reasonable.

And talented people were more likely to achieve success in cultivation and accomplish things, earning him even more rewards.

But I can't keep hiding everything forever. It limits me too much. I still need to obtain the identity of a major power as soon as possible, borrow their prestige, and show off a little more wealth. Then no one will dare make a move against me so easily.

I wonder when my mentor will reply? I'm in a hurry to go teach and nurture people at the Ganwu Dojo!

Restricted by his status and unable to make any major moves, Wang Yu found it truly frustrating to see the system rewards yet be unable to claim them.

That Ganwu Dojo mentor did not reply until three days later.

The two met in the Virtual Universe.

Inside an upscale restaurant, a short, bald man with green skin sat opposite Wang Yu. This was Mentor Yoda, the mentor with whom he had the best relationship.

"I was previously in seclusion comprehending the laws, so I shut off all Virtual Universe communications. I only saw your email after finishing my cultivation. I'm truly sorry!" Mentor Yoda said with a warm smile.

"You're too polite, Mentor. I'm the one who should apologize for disturbing your seclusion," Wang Yu hurriedly said.

Wang Yu still greatly respected Mentor Yoda. After all, when he had cultivated at the Ganwu Dojo, this mentor had taken great care of him and guided him several times. Otherwise, Wang Yu could not have reached the sixth level of the domain at the Star-level.

Mentor Yoda was a veteran One-Leaf Qian Wu Adept of the Ganwu Dojo, a ninth-order Universe-level cultivator who also possessed the title of Giant Axe Warrior. He had a considerable chance of breaking through to the Domain Lord Level, and his status was extremely high.