"I don't care about any of that. My Dao has long been like the Great Dao coursing through the heavens, and Heavenly Pivot has had the exchange system online for some time. You can make exchanges yourselves."
"Within Materialized Heaven, resources are exceedingly abundant. Money, points, credit, contributions-all of these will be unified and converted into merit. You can use it to obtain any cultivation provisions I can supply. What you achieve in the future will depend on your own efforts."
This was Li Chen's response to Bu Qingyun and the others' pledge of allegiance. He wanted them to understand that they were doing this not for anyone else, but for themselves.
After receiving enlightenment, Bu Qingyun's thinking seemed to have broadened all at once. "Merit... contributions... if I upload my exclusive secret techniques for Heavenly Pivot to acquire, that should count as a considerable amount of merit, shouldn't it?"
Li Chen said, "Of course it would."
Bu Qingyun continued, "Then if we use the techniques we already possess to develop new methods, that should count too."
"Also, if we help others unlock their chips and integrate knowledge..."
Li Chen said, "Of course that counts too! You can look up the detailed rules yourselves. There's no need to ask me at all."
In the past, Bu Qingyun and the others might have taken those words as impatience and misunderstood Li Chen's attitude. Now, however, they understood profoundly that they really should look things up themselves. There was no need to keep asking.
Such tedious details should not waste the precious time and energy of an accomplished grandmaster artisan. They could simply connect to the Mind Core through their personal terminals and obtain the answers themselves.
Like laws and decrees, those rules had long been embodied in every corner of this