After Tracebright Society opened its internal Gu insect trading function, the organization's membership instantly exploded.
Originally, Tracebright Society had only been a niche circle where a small handful of low-level Rogue Cultivators banded together to experiment with Memory Gu. It had only gradually built up a little reputation through its ever-updating rankings of refining methods.
But once the internal trading channel opened, every member saw tangible benefits.
When cultivators refined inferior Memory Gu, they no longer had to discard them as waste. They could resell them to newcomers for practice. If they refined high-quality Gu insects, they could also exchange them for contribution points or other refining methods.
The transitional Gu insects that had once been uselessly stockpiled in their hands instantly became hard currency that could circulate, be monetized, and be exchanged for resources.
Word spread from one to ten, then from ten to a hundred, swiftly sweeping through the circles of low-level cultivators on Nine Void Mountain.
Countless Rogue Cultivators who had still been groping blindly through the dark, with piles of defective Gu insects in hand and no channels through which to exchange resources, flocked over at the society's reputation, fighting tooth and nail to join Tracebright Society.
In just a few days, Tracebright Society's membership surged wildly, completely shedding the confines of its original small and niche group.
As Tracebright Society's sole founder, rule-maker, and the only one updating its rankings, the benefits Zhou Feng reaped were impossible to measure.
He controlled the source of every refining method and held the organization's entire trading system in his grasp. Whether members exchanged refining methods, traded Gu insects, or bartered resources, he could draw invisible profits from it all.
An unceasing stream of Gu Essence, rare Gu materials, exclusive trial-and-error notes, and ideas for improvements all flowed into