232: Economic system

"What happens if we don't fight?" Meng Tianzong sneered.

He just wanted to laugh at that question.

Meng Tianzong snorted, "If we don't fight, we'll be poor! The Human Race will become weak, and it will be over!"

"Where do you think Source Fluid comes from? And weapons? What are all those strange devices made of?"

"They're all made from the flesh, bones, and essence blood of the alien races!"

"Currently, half of all the Human Race's Cultivation resources come from the alien races!"

"Let me give you a basic rundown of the economic system."

Meng Tianzong said indifferently, "federal currency is just the lowest-level currency within the Human Race, because most of the things it can buy are unrelated to alien races and can be acquired without killing enemies! It belongs to ordinary natural and social resources, accounting for about 40% of the Human Race's total resources today."

"And our merits from the Eight War Zones account for 60% of the resources!"

"You can understand merit as an intermediary currency for equivalent exchange."

"Every bit of merit is exchanged for the flesh, essence blood, and heads of alien races, because alien races are treasures from head to toe, they're valuable!"

"There are many types of alien races. If you Cultivate fire elements and kill a water element alien, its flesh is useless to you. Then you can exchange it for merit, and then use that merit to exchange for resources useful to you, or Martial Arts, and so on..."

"Over a hundred million soldiers at Shanhai Pass, and over five hundred million powerhouses across all Eight War Zones."

"Everyone needs to Cultivate, everyone needs to become stronger. Where does the Human Race find these resources? Imagining them out of thin air?"

"Of course, they're killed for!"

"Everyone needs to Cultivate every day, so naturally, they need to kill every day, which means people die every day."

"Furthermore, when you exchange the alien flesh and blood in your possession for merit, a handling fee will be deducted, leaving a portion of resources to flow into the interior!"

"Most of the resources in your Di Yi Academy are handling fees taken from the Eight War Zones on the border!"

"Even some of the Element Seeds you need are directly refined from special alien races, alive. These are taboos because they are too cruel and perverse, and we fear they might affect children who haven't grown up yet. So, there's no knowledge of this in the interior, but you'll know eventually."

"Also, where did most of the Super God Class students' resources come from when they were young? Take your wife and brother-in-law, Lin Lianshen and Lin Xianhuo. Their resources were exchanged by Demon War God using his merit, and his merit was exchanged for the flesh and blood of alien races!"

"No resources appear out of thin air, and the Human Race is not wealthy."

"So why does everyone want to join the Super God Class? Because the super god points inside are a welfare, they are giving you resources!"

"Climbing that Peak Tower, what practical meaning does climbing higher have? You have no output, no tangible things."

"Your team competitions, individual competitions, no matter who wins or loses, they don't produce any resources."

"But you can obtain a currency on par with merit!"

"What about us? We have to fight tooth and nail to get these resources!"

"Let me tell you something you won't like to hear."

"Most of the Cultivation resources on your entire body right now were exchanged with the lives of the people in front of you who can no longer open their eyes!"

"This even includes Martial Arts and Cultivation Techniques, because there are specialized Martial Arts conversion masters here who specifically study how to convert alien Martial Arts into Human Race Martial Arts."

"Why does Divine Ape Golden Body have 'Divine Ape' in front of it? And the Song family's Black Tortoise Bone Suppression."

"The Origin of these Martial Arts actually comes from the alien races' Martial Arts. Heavenly Emperor Zhang and the Song family's Old Ancestor researched and modified them after acquiring them, thus creating them."

What Meng Tianzong said made Xiao Fan's face grow increasingly grim.

It turned out that all the battles among the Super God Class members were just child's play!

The true resources were all fought for with their lives by the soldiers in the Eight War Zones!

"Alright..." Xiao Fan's expression was complicated.

At this moment, Meng Tianzong continued, "In the Super God Class, if you pass the intensive training perfectly, won't you be rewarded with generous super god points?"

"But there's no such thing here at Shanhai Pass. In fact, before you even came, Di Yi Academy had to pay merit to those intensive training instructors, because the Super God Class occupied the time those instructors could use to earn merit!"

"I'll even tell you, the Super God Class from earlier generations didn't even have super god points. There was only Martial Arts education, no resource provision. In fact, the Super God Class wasn't even located in Di Yi Academy. It was here: they attended classes during the day, learned Martial Arts, and fought wars at night, exchanging merit for resources."

"Even the Overlord Martial Emperor's generation went through this. Firstly, because there wasn't much money, and secondly, because the Human Race wasn't strong at the time, this could 'help the shoots grow by pulling them up'."

"But the result was that over those few hundred years, more than a hundred Super God Class students died here before graduating. Previously, each class only had 48 students. What does over a hundred mean?"

"It's very realistic here. To get merit, you must take on missions, or freely kill enemies and exchange their flesh, blood, and the miscellaneous items in their Storage Rings."

"No matter how high-ranking a military officer is, it's impossible for him to open a back door to get resources for others, because this would violate the principle of equivalent exchange, and in severe cases, it could even lead to the collapse of the entire economic system."

Meng Tianzong patted his shoulder and said indifferently, "But you don't need to think too much. The Super God Class is also an investment. Throughout history, powerhouses who emerged from the Super God Class, like your father-in-law, have, after growing up, killed for far more resources for the Human Race than the Super God Class ever gave them."

"Let's go, to the city wall."

Finally, Meng Tianzong looked regretfully at the soldiers continuously being sent to the cemetery.

Then he looked up at Xi He, who was hanging on a cross, a deep disgust in his eyes.

"If it weren't for the possibility that she could atone for her sins in the future, she would already be dead."

"I heard she's related to the Phoenix. I wonder what Phoenix stew tastes like."

The two walked side by side towards the steps of the Great Wall.

On the way, Meng Tianzong continued to ask, "Then do you know why the alien races attack the Human Race?"

Xiao Fan was a little nervous and whispered, "I've thought about this question. Is it because the Human Race itself..."

"Yes!" Meng Tianzong said gravely, "The flesh, essence blood, and even the Cultivation of higher-level Human Race powerhouses can also be converted into the power of the alien races."

"When we get to the city wall, you might be able to witness alien races eating people right before your eyes. It's very disgusting."

"The border between the Human Race and the alien races stretches for hundreds of thousands of miles. We can barely see some distant battlefields with binoculars, but we simply don't have time to save people. Sometimes, in our eagerness to save people, we might even lose our own lives."

"The first time I saw an alien race eat someone, I couldn't eat for three days straight. It was truly disgusting to the core."

"The most terrifying thing is that this means humans eating humans can also make one stronger. So these are all taboos, not to be discussed in the interior. There are many perverse and cruel things that cannot be spoken of in the interior."

"Hundreds of years ago, when these rules didn't exist, many parents, in order to 'help the shoots grow by pulling them up', constantly told their children those terrifying things. As a result, those children grew up to be perverts, serial killers, who regarded human lives as grass."

"So, while the general sentiment of the entire Federation now is 'strength is respected', there is still a moral bottom line."

"Because madness without a moral bottom line may not bring greater power, but it can easily lead to a race's self-destruction."

"You're currently oscillating between complete madness and a moral bottom line, right?"