Please, Whatever You Do, Don't Switch Sides!

"We'll build the fastest logistics network, and we won't just transport our own goods.

"We'll also carry freight for the small sects and merchant guilds being squeezed out of existence by major sects and economic powers like the Xuanming Sect."

"Some ordinary sects can survive on the income from just a few merchant guilds. If those guilds earned money through us, how large a force could we support?"

"And that's only the first step. Once those people truly grow accustomed to our transportation and our way of doing business,

"once they can't do without us—that's when the real killing blow lands."

A flicker passed through Yan Shaozhe's eyes. He seemed to have caught a hint of something extraordinary.

"But even that isn't enough." Owl Bro changed tack.

He took a stack of specially made paper from his Soul Tool. Exquisite patterns and anti-counterfeiting marks were printed on it.

"What's this?" Yan Shaozhe took a sheet. The words Credit Points were printed across it in large letters, along with a denomination of one hundred.

"Money," Owl Bro said evenly.

"Or rather, a new kind of money. It's woven from a Fatui Soul Master's Soul Power and a special metal. No one outside the Fatui can make it."

"Absurd!" Yan Shaozhe blurted out.

"Currency is a matter of national importance. How could an organization like yours issue it as you please?

"The Dou Ling Imperial Family would never allow it, and neither would the three nations of the original continent..."

"The Dou Ling Imperial Family can barely protect itself right now. Besides, it needs money."

Owl Bro cut him off. "Major sects like the Xuanming Sect are powerful because vast amounts of gold flow through their hands.

"But gold is heavy, inconvenient to carry, and easy to counterfeit. That's why Gold Soul