Big Data Cultivation-Chapter 525 - : The Cultivation World’s Authority to Mint Coins

Chapter 525: Chapter 525: The Cultivation World’s Authority to Mint Coins

After Elder Deng advanced in rank, Yu Changqing practiced for two more days, then dismantled the Spirit Gathering Array.

The Deng Family Brothers notified everyone that their father, Deng Yifu, had arrived at the foot of Mount Zhige early on.

Currently busy with business in Xiyin City, the head of the Deng Family had nonetheless arranged for construction on Mount Zhige, showing signs of a possible move to the location. Moreover, the Deng Family’s compound was built right next to that of Lang Zhen’s.

After the Lang Family moved here, their residence was quickly constructed; they would rest during the too-hot days and work under the lights at night. The construction was now completely finished, and they even hung a wire in the courtyard with a light bulb on it.

As for lighting inside the house? The entire Lang Family agreed that a single lamp in the courtyard was sufficient. They had installed the kind of “glass” that Master Feng mentioned on their windows, which had excellent light transmission, and placing the lamp in the courtyard also illuminated the way for passersby.

When Deng Yifu arrived, his own compound was still lacking in some respects. First, he negotiated with Lang Zhen, saying, “My courtyard can’t accommodate so many guests; I’ll need to borrow yours,” then he let his friends know everywhere.

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Of course, the construction of the compound was important too. Seeing a shortage of labor in various areas, he wandered around the vicinity, recruiting temporary workers.

At the jade-cutting site, he saw two individuals whose cultivation levels were not high, but they worked swiftly and well. Their craftsmanship was on point, so he approached them to negotiate, hoping they could help carve some small items for his family, such as the patterns on eave brackets or columns.

These two were easy to talk to. After greeting the Tian Family Disciples, they stood up and followed him. The head of the Deng Family didn’t notice that behind him, three martial masters from the Tian Family exchanged a peculiar look.

That evening, Elder Deng took a break and returned to his own compound. To his surprise, he found two extra stonemasons among those working late into the night. At first stunned, then shocked, he immediately pulled his father aside, “How did you bring those two over here?”

Is something wrong? Deng Yifu was a bit puzzled. “I thought they did good work. They are young and energetic. With so many stonemasons working for the Divine Doctor, missing these two shouldn’t matter, right? If they were important, the Tian Family wouldn’t have let me take them away.”

The corner of Elder Deng’s mouth twitched. “Young… Do you think the one with the dark face looks younger? He’s nearing fifty.”

“Nearing fifty…” Deng Yifu turned back to look and felt that both of the young men were about thirty. The dark-faced one did indeed appear younger, maybe around twenty-seven or twenty-eight.

After contemplating for a moment, he finally realized what was going on and his eyes widened in astonishment, “Is he… one of those three?”

“Isn’t he?” Elder Deng spread his hands, a bittersweet expression on his face, “If you dare to command him, the Tian Family certainly won’t dare to utter a word.”

“That’s it,” Deng Yifu had a “took an arrow to the knee” expression, “Why is he messing with us mortals… Is it fun for him?”

“Maybe he’s hit a bottleneck,” Elder Deng whispered, “The Divine Doctor said there’s a process called ‘refining the heart’.”

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Deng Yifu glanced at him dismissively, “We martial cultivators talk about refining the heart too, but this kind of refining the heart… shouldn’t it be done without revealing one’s identity?”

Ironically, it was Pan Renjie who had done just that. He felt he was very grounded, silently working as a stonemason without using spiritual energy to shape the stones, relying solely on his own strength and skills—refining the heart through understanding the nature of the mortal world requires such realization.

His stonemasonry work was commendable; when others asked him to leave, he did so without any complaints. However, the approach to this worldly trial of refining the heart… evidently had some issues.

Pan Renjie’s stay on Mount Zhige has its gains and losses. It wasn’t particularly successful, but it wasn’t a waste either.

Wang Botai also found his niche, delighting in his work.

It seemed… only Shangguan Yunjin, the mediator of the event, did not gain anything?

Wrong. She felt that her gains were the greatest.

Because she needed to provide Feng Jun with a trade list, she first had to understand what exactly Feng Jun needed.

Then, unfortunately, there was a small traitor among Feng Jun’s side—Yu Changqing got along well with Sister Shangguan, so Yu Changzhu provided an important clue: We have just perfected a Contribution Point System.

Yu Changzhu didn’t feel she was betraying Doctor Feng. She did not understand the structure of a database, but she could access every detail and summary of each item by unlocking the computer with her fingerprint.

For Shangguan Yunjin, this was a magical experience.

First, she faced an operating system entirely in Chinese—Feng Jun had cautiously installed all the Chinese language modules.

However, to Shangguan Yunjin, it was still incomprehensible.

Simplified characters were almost like learning a new foreign language to her.

Opening the relevant software, which had been translated—or rather, transformed into ancient script—Shangguan Yunjin could understand it.

But this did not prevent her from wondering: Was that kind of script the legacy of Doctor Feng?

This gave her an inexplicably novel feeling, and then she discovered that the Contribution Point System was truly immense.

Strictly speaking, the Contribution Point System that Feng Jun and his group had compiled wasn’t especially immense; aside from the exchange of Martial Cultivation Techniques and Natural Treasures, it was just the release of tasks, with the difficulty of the tasks corresponding to the number of Contribution Points.

Wuyou Platform was an Immortal Sect, and naturally, it had its own resource management model, including a similar task system, but it was only similar.

How did their disciples obtain resources for cultivation? The monthly rations were one part, and they needed to produce to obtain these rations, such as through cultivating Spirit Plants, Artifact Crafting, and making Talismans, among other means.

For anything beyond the monthly rations, it was time to demonstrate divine skills—those who produced many Talismans could sell them, those who cultivated Spirit Plants well could acquire more fields for growing Spirit Plants, or complete some exploration or even combat tasks.

Wuyou Platform did have a task system, but there was no unified platform for publishing tasks. Sect tasks, of course, were released at the highest level, but many minor tasks were published by the demanders themselves on their platforms.

For instance, within Wuyou Platform there were functional departments such as the Internal Affairs Hall, Technique Hall, and Book Collection Pavilion, which would release tasks as per their needs, paying in Cultivation Techniques, Talismans, and such, but more often they paid in Spirit Stones since that was the real currency.

If an individual had a need, sometimes they would hang the task via a department, but most of the time, they used public platforms to release tasks—like small taverns or market stalls, for example.

Not only Wuyou Platform but other Cultivation Sects as well, lacked a unified task publishing platform and had no unified settlement system.

Everyone had never found this inconvenient, because many trivial tasks didn’t require a unified platform to release—big matters were coordinated by the Sect, and small ones could be managed by the individuals, as Cultivators were meant to be free and spontaneous.

But Shangguan Yunjin was amazed to find that the Contribution Point System created by Feng Jun could greatly simplify the process and fully coordinate and mobilize resources.

Being meticulous about everything was one aspect, it also facilitated the exchange of various materials, which was tremendously helpful for effectively managing a group.

Take Wuyou Platform as an example; if there were such an authoritative publishing platform, the Sect’s management efficiency could greatly improve while also avoiding a lot of disputes.

It’s not that no one had thought of this before, but there was a huge problem: the workload was immense.

Nearly ten thousand people in the Sect, plus reserve disciples and miscellaneous workers, amounted to tens of thousands. How many people would be needed to handle related affairs for a centralized management platform?

Moreover, processing such affairs required considerable expertise and continuity; it wasn’t something a newcomer could just be brought in to handle, and those who had been doing it for years couldn’t just leave at a moment’s notice.

In the end, Shangguan Yunjin was interested in the system’s processing ability and efficiency.

With such a system, management would become much more convenient, and it wouldn’t interfere with the managers’ cultivation—those responsible for managing the task system would certainly not be the use-less ones, they’d have to be important figures within the Sect, so their cultivation needs must be considered.

Shangguan Yunjin felt the Contribution Points system immense, not because the database was vast; strictly speaking, Feng Jun’s needs were pitifully small, mainly collecting some Martial Cultivation Techniques, Natural Treasures, and only exchanging for items like books, generators, Gold, and such.

The various supplies and needs of Wuyou Platform added up would be at least hundreds times, perhaps even thousands of times greater than Feng Jun’s.

Shangguan Yunjin was shocked to find that the system had tremendous data processing capabilities and through questioning Yu Changzhu, she learned that the database had a large amount of reserved space, with at least ten thousand times more storage room.

Shangguan Yunjin became excited; with such a thing, Wuyou Platform’s ability to handle affairs could be greatly enhanced. Publishing and querying tasks would be convenient and wouldn’t require much manpower.

Moreover, she had a vague feeling that if she managed this well, the Sect would be like having a huge shop, not only useful for the disciples of Wuyou Platform but also potentially attracting outside Cultivators.

At the same time, Wuyou Platform’s Contribution Points could also become a hard currency akin to Spirit Stones.

After carefully pondering for a few days and deeming her ideas sound, she found Feng Jun and consulted with him on the details of the system.

“Are you trying to own the currency issuance rights of the Cultivation World?” Feng Jun instantly grasped the essence of her idea but… you’re thinking a bit too broadly.

Wuyou Platform is still too small; beyond the Wutai, there are still Four Great Sects to consider.

So he clearly told her, “This system, you can buy it, and so can others—why should they only recognize Contribution Points from Wuyou Platform?”

Shangguan Yunjin was stunned by this question and took a long time to speak up, “Can’t you sell it only to Wuyou Platform?”

Feng Jun was at a loss for words; it wasn’t that he thought her request was unreasonable, but… she just didn’t understand finance!

He shook his head with a mix of laughter and helplessness, “If I sold it only to you, Wuyou Platform wouldn’t be able to afford it at all!”

That’d be the right to mint currency, how much money would that be?