That was precisely Lin Tian's plan: boil the frog in warm water until Buddhism went bankrupt and faced liquidation.
Then Spirit Vine City would take over Spirit Mountain, leaving Tathagata and the others homeless. Just thinking about it was entertaining!
With that, the situation in the Chechi Kingdom was settled. Zhulong had broken a Twenty-Four Heavens grand formation and received a house worth five billion for nothing.
Building Spirit Vine City had cost only one hundred million Spirit Stones in total.
Of course, Spirit Stones had been scarce and valuable back then. There had not even been several hundred million Spirit Stones in the entire Three Realms.
After construction was completed, a house had cost only five million Spirit Stones.
Five hundred years had passed, and the supply of Spirit Stones in the Three Realms had exploded. Like boats rising with the tide, house prices in Spirit Vine City had risen too. Each house in a better location was now worth five to ten billion Spirit Stones.
Their value had already soared a hundredfold, and even at those prices, none were available to buy.
Now everyone in the Three Realms knew houses were valuable. Once you bought one, it became a place that generated money.
Everyone who had invested early had earned enough to fill their bowls and spill over their pots.
Although stocks did not yet exist, Spirit Vine City's market valuation would have exceeded ten trillion Spirit Stones.
After all, Spirit Vine City's position in the Three Realms was unmatched. It was their one and only economic center, cultural center, and even political center.
Every major power in the Three Realms maintained a presence in Spirit Vine City, making it something like the United Nations of the Three Realms.
The landscape had already taken shape. Even if Yuqing