Note: A heads-up, this Chapter might be a bit hardcore.
Update at 21:05: This Chapter was originally scheduled for tomorrow, but I accidentally hit the wrong button....
"Three Spiritual Roots!"
"Five Spiritual Roots!"
"Four Spiritual Roots!"
Lin Ziming, with a cigarette in his mouth, said to Yan Shaohua beside him:
"Old Yan, how is the spiritual root detection going?"
Yan Shaohua glanced at the real-time updated tablet in his hand, biting his lower lip, looking somewhat serious:
"The first batch of 1,200 people from the whole group have undergone the test, and over 600 have been assessed.
with four spiritual roots, 8 with three spiritual roots—not including me, the rest all have five spiritual roots."
Lin Ziming saw his old friend a bit discouraged, took a Huazi cigarette from his pocket, and handed it to him:
"Isn’t this data quite good, even better than 20%, almost reaching 25%?
Not to mention you detected three spiritual roots; I, with my four spiritual roots, haven’t said anything."
Yan Shaohua took it conveniently, lit it up, and took a deep drag.
Moments later, he leisurely exhaled a smoke ring, and when the ring expanded slightly, he hooked it apart with his index finger:
"I get it, but this group of young people are all like my own flesh and blood.
Hundreds of them suddenly can’t cultivate, and it really weighs heavy on my heart."
Lin Ziming patted his shoulder to comfort him:
"It’s not that those with five spiritual roots can’t cultivate.
If they work hard, they still have a chance in the earlier layers of Qi Cultivation—didn’t Clan Leader Wei say even a cultivator at the first layer of Qi Refining has a lifespan a few years longer than ordinary people."
Moreover, your group is the first structured unit to reach the other world; the higher-ups certainly won’t let you suffer.
Who knows, maybe in the future, there might be some blue pill that, once taken, shoots you straight to the Nascent Soul!"
Yan Shaohua gave him a disdainful sidelong glance:
"You’re talking nonsense; why not say one pill takes you straight to ascension?"
As the two were speaking, Wang Yaohua, the squad leader of the communications team, suddenly approached briskly.
Following the geographical route left by Comrade Wei Siming, our exploration team successfully discovered the Spirit Stone Mine!"
Several minutes later, Master Wang led a large group to the temporary communications station.
In front of Elder Wang, Wang Yaohua looked somewhat excited:
"Hello, Master Wang!"
Master Wang amiably patted his shoulder:
"Hello, young comrade.
Your news came just in time; we just finished negotiating the exchange ratio of Spirit Stones to Huaxia currency with Patriarch Wei."
Just as Elder Wang said.
About ten minutes ago, both parties officially established the exchange ratio for Spirit Stones to Huaxia currency.
The process—or rather, the basis—for defining the exchange rate by the Ministry of Commerce is as follows:
Authorized by the Wei Family, the Ministry of Commerce collected 74 magical artifacts ranging from Qi Refinement to Foundation Establishment stages from the Wei family’s warehouse, and meticulously recorded their Spirit Stone prices.
Subsequently, the physics team used the Rockwell hardness tester to apply set forces on these magical artifacts.
Ensuring no damage to the artifacts, regular uncracked quadrilaterals were produced.
The physics team, including Bao Xin, calculated the indentation area to obtain a series of HRA hardness values.
Then the team input these hardness values into the supercomputer ’Skyhigh’ to construct a counter-axis position model.
Ultimately, the team, through this counter-axis position model, graded the dense hardness points of 35,487 Qi Refinement Realm magical artifacts and 13,892 Foundation Establishment artifacts, nearly 50,000 ’virtual magical artifacts’ suited for Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment.
These 50,000 artifacts were subdivided into the ’four-thousandths’ of levels such as "Second Layer of Qi Refinement" and "Fifth Layer of Foundation Establishment," covering almost all possibilities within the levels.
According to the words of Bao Xin, leader of the physics team.
If the Wei family had any Core Formation Realm artifacts, the team could even directly analyze the hardness information of Core Formation Realm artifacts.
After calculating these dense hardness points.
The supercomputer ’Skyhigh’ determined the Spirit Stone value of nearly 50,000 ’virtual magical artifacts’ based on the prices of 74 artifacts.
By using the floating-point multi-sifting method, they completely eradicated the cost-effectiveness error between defensive and offensive artifacts.
Subsequently, ’Skyhigh’ compared these nearly 50,000 dense hardness points to Huaxia’s alloy sequences one by one, finding the alloy corresponding to the hardness of each ’virtual magical artifact.’
Assuming the Spirit Stone value of a virtual magical artifact is M, and the Huaxia currency value of the corresponding alloy is K.
Then divide K by M, and average the 50,000 resulting values.
This final ratio is the value ratio of Huaxia currency to the Spirit Stone.
This showcases the capability of the team, as the tech world isn’t purely made of strawmen!
Through the above calculations, the Ministry of Commerce eventually reported an exchange ratio of...
Spirit Stone of one cubic centimeter, weighing approximately 2.3g (lighter than the same volume of granite), can be exchanged for 5955.23 Huaxia currency.
That is an average of 2589.23 per gram.
On the day Master Wang and others visited the Wei Mansion, the local gold futures price was 372.86 per gram. (Diamonds have high commercial factors and are divided into industrial and gem-grade, only four tons annually, so no comparison to diamonds).
From a pricing perspective, one gram of Spirit Stone in the Damo Realm is about 6.9 times that of a gram of gold locally.
In fact, this also illustrates the nature of the social structure in the Damo Realm—according to the data in the "Huaxia Dynastic Economic Level Solow Growth Model" published by windkcos2017, in eras comparable to the grassroots infrastructure of the Damo Realm like the Qin and Han dynasties, the per capita GDP was approximately 440 US dollars.
That equates to an annual income of 2867.48 Huaxia currency, or about 238 per month.
This is GDP, not disposable income.
And what about the upper echelons of the Damo Realm?
According to Wei Fan.
In nearly all the city and family affiliations in the Damo Realm, even the most useless clan member receives a monthly offering of one Spirit Stone.
That translates to 6000 Huaxia currency a month!
Even an individual clan member is so well-off, so what about the entire family? Fresh chapters posted on novel⦿fire.net
Moreover, due to Wei Siming’s ancestral teachings, Chixian City treats its residents better than other cities by an unknown margin.
In other cities, it is questionable whether the grassroots GDP even reaches 50 a month.
This situation simply makes one shudder to think about it.
In reality, after seeing the report from the Ministry of Commerce.
Whether it was Elder Wang or the core members outside.
They almost simultaneously resolved to ensure control over the Damo Realm’s people’s livelihoods!
Subsequently, amidst repeated negotiations with give-and-take.
The team eventually reached a consensus with the Wei Family:
One standard unit of Spirit Stone, exchanged for 6100 Huaxia currency. (Note)
The team will exempt the Wei Mansion from any tariffs for the next ten years, and after ten years, charge certain duty fees following offshore standards.
Having resolved the exchange ratio issue between Spirit Stone and Huaxia currency, only one matter remained on Elder Wang’s mind—
How much is the deposit of the Spirit Stone Mine?