"What if I kept a hundred million?"
Su Wen asked tentatively. One Wealth Source Point cost ten million, so ten billion would give him a thousand Wealth Source Points.
A thousand Wealth Source Points would send his strength soaring!
And at this stage, a thousand Wealth Source Points were enough.
As for the unlimited amount he had mentioned earlier?
If the country could provide it freely, that would naturally be wonderful.
Better yet, they could set aside a few money-printing factories just for him. They would print the money, and he would absorb it directly.
That would be a fast way to gain Wealth Source Points!
If he had enough Wealth Source Points, leaving rank aside, his strength would surely rise rapidly.
If that really happened, he wouldn't need to cross spacetime and travel through timelines anymore.
He could simply spend a massive amount of Wealth Source Points to forcibly improve the Basic Body Tempering Method.
So what if it reached the Transformation Realm?
Wealth Source could break through the limits!
"Wait a moment. I'll check some information."
"The stars are telling me there's something unusual about the way you use money," Star God said.
Su Wen sighed softly at that. He had known this wouldn't go so smoothly.
He had considered this question before. Was the power of Wealth Source really... just those virtual banknotes and numbers?
Would a power that could even toy with spacetime and reverse yin and yang come solely from some pieces of paper?
Did money really have value, when all was said and done?
Money could be spent on food, clothing, housing, transportation, and travel. It could buy almost all the material goods available in society, but at its core, it was still a form of bartering.
In other words, if a country fell, wouldn't its currency instantly become wastepaper?
So the origin of the power of Wealth Source was worth examining.
Still, the country knew much more than he did, so he had simply brought it up. If it worked, fine; if not, so be it.
"The idea you mentioned for making money-would you be earning it domestically or abroad?"
A moment later, Star God suddenly asked.
"Abroad."
"Then tell me, how do you plan to earn it?"
"Sell them the Basic Body Tempering Method!"
"There are three versions," Su Wen said. "We'll start by selling the original version."
"Once they've bought it, we'll sell the next version."
"I thought it over. If we promote it on a large scale, foreign countries will surely get their hands on it through all sorts of means anyway."
"In that case, why don't we make a fortune from it?"
Star God thought for a moment and said, "That makes a lot of sense. Besides, you created this cultivation method, so you have the final say."
After saying that, Star God paused, then continued, "I just checked the records. There's a Heavenly Mandate Bearer over in Qindu whose class is Wealth Spirit. He can spend money to summon living beings from other worlds."
"According to the records, whenever that Wealth Spirit absorbs more than a hundred million in a short period, small-scale economic turmoil breaks out in Qindu."
"Sometimes it even spreads from Xianyang City across the entire province."
"So if you were to absorb ten billion directly..."
"That would cause an economic storm sweeping across the whole country, right?" Su Wen asked immediately.
Star God nodded slightly and said, "But it's not a problem. If we prepare in advance and have a contingency plan, you should be able to absorb several hundred million, or even over a billion."
"If you absorb it slowly, there shouldn't be a problem."
"Besides, extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. When we have time, we can experiment, increasing the amount a hundred million at a time to see at what point a quantitative change occurs."
His thinking was straightforward. As long as the God of Wealth could keep producing cultivation methods that led the era, an economic storm would not be unacceptable.
He had great confidence in Huaxia.
A mere few billion wasn't enough to hurt Huaxia to the bone.
Compared with the country's annual economic output, what was a few billion?
But when all was said and done, this was still an unpredictable threat.
If they could shift the economic storm onto the international stage, that would be ideal.
Besides, selling the Basic Body Tempering Method was a transaction between willing parties. Who could object?
"If there's a financial threat, let's focus on foreign currency first!"
"Unless it's necessary, there's no need to throw the country into turmoil this way," Su Wen said.
"Besides, the Basic Body Tempering Method was developed for the bloodlines and constitutions of the people of Huaxia. Even if we sell it, they might not be able to create a body tempering method suited to their own people anytime soon."
This was also one of his goals: to spread the Basic Body Tempering Method around the world by selling it.
On the one hand, he would earn a huge income and could rapidly increase his own strength.
On the other hand, once the Basic Body Tempering Method reached other countries, it would take root there.
In particular, as the Martial Dao community gradually grew stronger in the future, other countries would surely put all their effort into developing martial cultivation methods and techniques suited to their own people.
Most importantly, with the flower of the Martial Dao blooming across the world, more Martial Dao theorists and Martial Dao prodigies would emerge.
With it blooming across the world in diverse forms, perhaps he would reap greater rewards when he traveled to the future.
He could also take the cultivation manuals of other countries from the future and continue selling them back to those countries. While continuously harvesting leeks, he would strengthen the human side, making the invasion by the other races less smooth.
Putting obstacles in the other races' path would increase Huaxia's chances of victory in the future.
In an era when the other races invaded, if their strength proved too great, humanity would inevitably unite.
Then all the countries would also build a community with a shared future for humanity in the truest sense, joining all the forces on humanity's side to fight the other races!
As for the financial storm caused by his absorption?
One had to lose something to gain something!
They were already getting to appreciate the flower of the Martial Dao ahead of time, so wasn't it reasonable for them to experience a financial storm ahead of time too?
"Wait!"
Su Wen asked, "If Heavenly Mandate Bearers like us cause financial turmoil by absorbing money, wouldn't it be easy to throw the country into chaos?"
Absorbing a hundred million would cause upheaval in a city. It would be far too easy to do something.
"Yes!"
"Otherwise, how did you think the country managed to pinpoint newly awakened Heavenly Mandate Bearers in the shortest possible time?" Star God said quietly.
"The greatest danger posed by Heavenly Mandate Bearers has never been their fighting power."
"If their strange and unusual abilities aren't brought under emergency supervision, the turmoil caused directly by fighting power is only the mildest of the adverse effects."
As he spoke, Star God pointed overhead. "And that is also why the country paid a great price, and I paid a great price, to set up the Star Grand Array up there."
"Now, you understand why the police came knocking within half an hour of your awakening, don't you?"