Star Coins
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Original Name:星币 (xīng bì)Gender:NeutralKind:ConceptScope:Novel-specificStatus:ActiveSource:AIOccurrences:143Chapters:37
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Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Star Coins |
| Original Name | 星币 |
| Type | Currency 41 |
| Usage | Salaries, tuition, cultivation supplies, scholarships, investments, property, and travel 1 10 12 29 30 |
| Area of Use | Blue Star and New Moon; exchangeable with the Primal Points used on Primordial Star 10 41 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1, as the currency used for martial arts course fees and Fang Yu’s teaching commissions 1 |
Use and Exchange
- Banking: Star Coins are held in bank accounts and transferred electronically. Fang Yu’s account notifications record payments and balances to two decimal places 29 30.
- Purchases: Cultivation medicines can be ordered through shopping apps. Fang Yu’s million-Star-Coin purchase requires password, fingerprint, and facial verification 30 31.
- Investments: Star Coins denominate share dividends, speculative investments, and inheritance. Fang Zhiyuan preserves Galaxy Group shares and accumulates 5.1 million Star Coins in dividends 12.
Primal Points
Primal Points are the special currency required for purchases on Primordial Star. Their exchange rates with Star Coins differ sharply depending on the direction of conversion 41.
| Transaction | Rate or Payout | Conditions |
|---|---|---|
| Primal Points → Star Coins | 1 point → 1,000 Star Coins | Jiang Wei’s gift of 200 points could therefore yield 200,000 Star Coins 41. |
| Star Coins → Primal Points | 10,000 Star Coins → 1 point | Apparently subject to an exchange limit; purchasing the same 200 points would cost two million Star Coins 41. |
| Beast-spoil sale | 7,800 Star Coins or 1.56 Primal Points | The payout offered for Fang Yu and Xia Yao’s collected spoils, rather than the direct currency-exchange rate 45. |
- Exchange disadvantage: Converting one Primal Point into Star Coins provides only one-tenth of the amount needed to buy it back. Martial artists therefore normally avoid exchanging the currencies directly 41.
- Beast spoils: Materials taken from ferocious beasts must be sold to the base. Warriors usually choose Primal Points because buying them directly with Star Coins is expensive 45.
- Natural treasures: Found herbs, ores, and spirit marrow can be sold to the base or taken back to Blue Star for sale, but their sale yields Star Coins rather than Primal Points 45.
Purchasing Power
Income Benchmarks
| Source | Amount | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Average salary in Wuling City | A little over 7,000 Star Coins | Median income is lower 1. |
| Fang Yu’s assistant-instructor work | Over 100,000 Star Coins in one year | Part-time earnings; his income depends heavily on enrollment and renewal commissions 1 8 23. |
| Advanced Martial Artist in an ordinary job | Around one million Star Coins annually | Typical earnings for most Advanced Martial Artists working ordinary jobs 23. |
| Intermediate Martial Artist on Primordial Star | Two to three million Star Coins annually | Described as readily achievable with year-round activity, but accompanied by extreme danger 42. |
| Retired martial artist lending their name to a company | Hundreds of thousands to millions annually | Companies benefit from employing martial artists under Alliance policies 26. |
| Gu Qing’s salary | Twenty million Star Coins annually | A comparatively low-risk position after years of fighting on Primordial Star 35. |
Education, Housing, and Travel
| Expense | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Beginner summer martial arts course | 28,888 Star Coins | Twenty days, including tuition and some medicine expenses 1. |
| High-school martial arts crash course | 58,888 Star Coins | Compared with the cheaper beginner course 1. |
| Villa comparable to the Fang family home | More than three million Star Coins | A recent sale of the same floor plan in their Wuling City compound 6. |
| New Moon group tour | About 100,000 Star Coins | Travel through a star gate 10. |
| New Moon commercial housing | Over one million Star Coins per square meter | Even the smallest residence costs tens of millions, with occupancy limits requiring larger families to buy more space 10. |
Cultivation Supplies
| Item | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Starlight Group Qi and Blood Mixture | 1,000 Star Coins per vial | Basic cultivation medicine 7. |
| Eight major groups’ Qi and Blood Mixture | 2,000 Star Coins per vial | Suggested use is one vial every two days 8. |
| Starlight Group Bone-Strengthening Pill | 800 Star Coins per pill | Half the price of the eight major groups’ version 8. |
| Eight major groups’ Bone-Strengthening Pill | 1,600 Star Coins per pill | Suggested use is one pill every two days 8. |
| Cell Vitality Elixir / Vitality Regeneration Elixir | 50,000 Star Coins per vial | Twelve vials given to Fang Yu are worth 600,000 Star Coins 13. |
| Star Spirit Life-Generating Pill | 600,000 Star Coins per pill | A body-tempering foundation treasure Fang Yu used before entering college 13. |
| Ice Heart Marrow-Cleansing Fruit | Nearly two million Star Coins for five | Potent foundation-building treasures suited mainly to Junior Martial Artists 13. |
| Myriad Phenomena Life-Transforming Fruit | Two million Star Coins each | A gentler foundation treasure suited to beginners 10 13. |
| Crimson Star Pill | One million Star Coins per bottle of ten | Equivalent to 100,000 Star Coins per pill 30 31. |
| Red Star Grass | Over 10,000 Star Coins per stalk | A raw ingredient for Crimson Star Pills 50. |
Martial Arts Funding
Cultivation Support
| Program | Funding | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Martial arts junior-college support | Resources worth at least 100,000 Star Coins annually | Excludes scholarships, facilities, and teaching costs 4. |
| Ordinary martial arts undergraduate support | 1.5 million Star Coins over five years | Fang Yu uses this as a comparison for his own funding 29. |
| Huguang Martial Arts University Elite Contract | One million Star Coins annually | Also grants access to special university resources 22. |
| Fang Yu’s Elite Contract settlement | 3.7 million Star Coins upfront | Four years’ funding minus the 300,000 already received during three years at junior college 22. |
Performance Rewards
| Achievement | Reward | Conditions or Example |
|---|---|---|
| City academic examination champion | Tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of Star Coins | Direct state reward 3. |
| City martial arts examination champion | At least several million Star Coins | Further university support and corporate opportunities may follow 3. |
| Alliance Martial Arts Tournament | One-billion-Star-Coin prize | The tournament won by Wang Heng 3. |
| Tier-One Civilization Warrior | 10,000 Star Coins | Huguang Martial Arts University reward for reaching the rank before graduation 30. |
| Second-Tier Civilization Warrior | 100,000 Star Coins | University reward 30. |
| Third-Tier Civilization Warrior | Five million Star Coins | University reward 30. |
| Fourth-Tier Civilization Warrior | 100 million Star Coins | Also earns permanent recognition on the university’s Wall of Honored Alumni; Yan Tianheng receives this scholarship 29 30. |
| Highest transfer-student Coefficient Score | One million Star Coins | First combat exercise; the winning score must exceed 1.4 40. |
| Top-ten transfer-student Coefficient Score | 300,000 Star Coins each | Awarded by Coefficient Score rather than total score 40. |
Cultivation Economics
- Basic expenses exceed ordinary earnings: Using the eight major groups’ Qi and Blood Mixtures and Bone-Strengthening Pills at the recommended rate costs over 50,000 Star Coins a month—well above Wuling City’s average salary 1 8.
- Star Aspects reduce costs: Absorbing Star Power lowers reliance on purchased medicines. Powerful Star Aspects can allow martial artists to reach the Advanced tier without cultivation treasures, saving substantial resources 19 23.
- Money can compensate only so far: Treasures can raise life level without an awakened Star Aspect, but the cost becomes enormous. At higher realms, an Astral Aspect’s importance extends beyond cultivation efficiency 5 18 26.
- Technique improves value: Better bodily control increases the benefit obtained from medicines. Yan Fu estimates that Inner Landscape technique could let Fang Yu make one Star Coin achieve the effect of five 18.
- Absorption remains a limit: Even wealthy martial artists must give their bodies time to absorb treasures; possessing enough money does not permit unlimited consumption 39.
- Financial training is formalized: “Using Star Coins Properly” is among the courses Jiang Wei recommends to Fang Yu 30.
Role in Fang Yu’s Story
| Event | Financial Significance |
|---|---|
| Teaching and dismissal | A trial lesson earns Fang Yu over 9,000 Star Coins in commission. His departure settlement subsequently credits 48,211.60 Star Coins to his account 1 2. |
| Family-funded cultivation | Fang Ping’an provides 500,000 Star Coins annually during Fang Yu’s junior-college years and later states that his total support for Fang Yu’s martial path approaches ten million 8 13. |
| Younger siblings’ foundations | Fang Long and Fang Siyue’s planned foundation treasures cost twelve million Star Coins over three years, prompting Fang Ping’an to consider mortgaging the family supermarkets 13. |
| University admission payments | Fang Yu receives 4.92 million Star Coins across three transfers, followed by a separate one-million-Star-Coin university scholarship 29 30. |
| Crimson Star Pill purchases | He spends one million Star Coins on an initial bottle, then orders three more. His first training session consumes nine pills, equivalent to 900,000 Star Coins 31 32. |
| Shengchuan Group negotiations | Wang Xundao offers financial backing in exchange for endorsement rights. Fang Yu resists a ten-year main contract because immediate funding is not worth surrendering control over his strongest growth years 33 34. |
- Devour stretches his budget: Fang Yu’s ability improves absorption and removes harmful components. Crimson Star Pills consequently give him effects comparable to Dragon Star Pills at one-fifth of the price 31.
- Family savings provide a safety net: Fang Zhiyuan’s preserved Galaxy Group holdings supply 5.1 million Star Coins in accumulated dividends without requiring him to sell the shares 12.
- Funding shapes his goals: Fang Yu pursues university admission to gain access to state resources and reduce his father’s burden, then targets further contracts and combat rewards to sustain his cultivation 13 30 34 40.
Appearances
143
Total Mentions
37
Chapters Appeared
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