The Primordial Sacrificial Altar.
Qi Sheng withdrew his gaze from the direction of Bully City.
He found the battle-chip feature newly introduced by the Quest Market very interesting.
As the Player Faction developed rapidly, players began spending longer at each stage of their growth.
The sacrificial power they held needed somewhere to go.
Taking Star Meridian Levels as an example, veteran players generally needed years of preparation to advance a single level.
They stockpiled enough sacrificial power, then spent it all at once to push for a breakthrough.
During this lengthy accumulation period, vast amounts of sacrificial power remained in players' hands, unable to generate additional value.
After all, the player system offered no interest on deposits.
The few income channels available, such as pet pensions and spirit plant cultivation, yielded meager returns and could not possibly put the enormous reserves of sacrificial power to work.
Thus, most players chose to stockpile goods and lock up their holdings, profiting by reselling rare resources as their prices changed over time.
But this traditional model was merely a zero-sum game of players fleecing other players.
The Player Faction's total reserves of sacrificial power did not increase at all. Resources merely circulated between different players.
Whenever one player profited, another inevitably lost. The total amount of sacrificial power in the pool remained unchanged.
Trading seemed brisk, but it was only internal circulation, unable to generate growth for the player population as a whole.
The emergence of the Battle-Chip Bazaar, however, broke this entrenched deadlock.
It offered an income-generating avenue to every veteran player holding idle sacrificial power with no short-term need to level up.
Players were no longer limited to shuffling resources among themselves. They could invest their accumulated idle resources in the Bully Legion's campaigns of conquest beyond their world.
Then they