63: Ordinary and Immortal Bases, Trading Systems

Old Potato looked at the post, a little stunned.

It turned out that the setting of the Xuanhuan World was richer and more colorful than he had imagined.

From Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, it was not a simple Rank increase.

Instead, it was a qualitative change.

Most ordinary Cultivators would take a Foundation Establishment Pill, absorb the surrounding Spiritual Qi into their bodies, guide the Spiritual Qi throughout their bodies, transform quantity into quality, gather it into an internal Spiritual River, and step into Foundation Establishment.

This type of Foundation Establishment was also the most common.

However, this type of Foundation Establishment was the lowest and most inferior.

Foundation Establishment achieved by refining ordinary Spiritual Qi through a Foundation Establishment Pill was called Mortal Foundation, with limited strength and extremely limited future prospects; most would stop at the Golden Core stage, with no hope of reaching Nascent Soul in their lifetime.

Another type of Foundation Establishment was more intricate and troublesome, and for most people, it was unheard of.

That was refining Immortal Qi to form an Immortal Foundation.

After reaching the Peak of Qi Refining Ninth Level, one needed to use a special method to extract a wisp of Immortal Qi, absorb it into the body, and guide this wisp of Immortal Qi to transform all the Spiritual Qi in the body, gathering it into a Spiritual River.

Failure would result in the dissipation of all Spiritual Qi and the destruction of the body by the Immortal Qi.

Success would lead to the formation of an Immortal Foundation, where the internal Spiritual River possessed the wondrous efficacy of Immortal Qi, and the Cultivator's Foundation Establishment strength would greatly increase.

A Foundation Establishment Cultivator who had just successfully formed an Immortal Foundation could easily suppress a Mortal Foundation Cultivator who had reached the Late Stage; the difference was that vast.

And this Immortal Qi also had its own Dao; different Immortal Qi had varying acquisition difficulties and brought different levels of improvement.

Some Immortal Qi was easy to acquire, such as Clear Forest Morning Mist Qi, which only required collecting a wisp of Clear Spring Qi from the mountain forest morning mist on the first day of the first lunar month for three consecutive years, eventually allowing this Immortal Qi to be refined.

Some Immortal Qi was difficult to acquire, such as Emperor's Six Harmonies Qi, which required conquering an Empire as an Emperor, collecting the excited Qi from the head of civil officials, the head of military officials, and three thousand Mortals, and then cultivating for another three years to collect the cultivation Qi, before this Immortal Qi could be refined.

Old Potato was dazzled by what he saw, finding it incredibly bizarre and unheard of.

Without concrete examples or personal experience, he simply didn't understand what any of this meant.

"Isn't this too Xuanhuan?"

Old Potato was stunned for a moment before he uttered this sentence.

As the Xuanhuan World became popular, people gradually began to call things they didn't understand or found incredible "too Xuanhuan."

"Collecting Clear Spring Qi every first lunar month, refining it for three consecutive years? Conquering Empires to collect Qi? What is all this?"

Old Potato felt his head buzzing; he couldn't quite grasp it anymore.

Originally, although the settings of the Xuanhuan World were somewhat Xuanhuan, they could barely understand them.

The so-called Spiritual Qi was also understood by many as a unique resource, similar to electricity or energy.

But now, upon encountering the concept of Immortal Qi, Old Potato suddenly realized that the Xuanhuan World seemed to truly have something unique, completely different from traditional sci-fi games?

Spiritual Qi, Immortal Qi—these things didn't seem to be some kind of energy similar to electricity; they seemed to possess very unique properties.

This uniqueness was somewhat indescribable and unclear; it was just... very Xuanhuan.

It was somewhat illogical and unscientific, yet it seemed to have its own logic and could be self-consistent.

The unfortunate thing was that even wealthy chinese yuan players, due to the current game progression, didn't know much about the more Xuanhuan elements. He also wasn't clear about the specifics of Immortal Qi; he only knew that:

"The Cultivation Technique practiced by the Great Jiang Imperial Dynasty can cultivate Immortal Qi to form an Immortal Foundation, and compared to the secret techniques of other Sects, the Imperial Dynasty's Cultivation Technique is easier to obtain."

"If anyone is willing to trade, I am willing to pay one million chinese yuan, after tax."

"If I can get other Cultivation Techniques, as long as they can cultivate Immortal Qi to form an Immortal Foundation, I am also willing to pay one million chinese yuan."

"One million..."

Old Potato couldn't comprehend Xuanhuan for now, but he could comprehend chinese yuan.

One million was enough to allow him to live comfortably for a long time.

With his status as a male concubine, it seemed not impossible to get a Cultivation Technique?

"Wait, it seems it's not just Cultivation Techniques. If I, as a male concubine, can get other things, can I also trade them?"

Old Potato's eyes lit up.

He vaguely had a hope in his heart: could he make a living from the Xuanhuan World game in the future?

Converting the resources earned in the game into real-world income?

"I wonder if Huan Meng Group will allow this? It would be troublesome if my account gets banned..."

Old Potato thought for a moment and decided to send a message to the official Huanmeng Studio to inquire.

Jiang Feng sat in the boss's chair.

In front of him was Liu Meiqin.

Outside the studio, there were also some bright-eyed university students, all newly recruited employees, with excited expressions on their faces.

"Boss, our server expenses are very high right now. If we continue with the buy-to-play model, we might not be able to sustain it in the future."

Liu Meiqin worriedly said, "Since we've already transitioned to an online game, we should ideally switch to a time-card, monthly-card, or item-based payment model."

During the ancient-style game competition, many games also transitioned from single-player demos to online games, but they only changed their payment models after the competition ended.

The problem was that the Xuanhuan World was simply too popular, and players were flooding in too quickly. Server expenses were growing day by day, and if they didn't change the model soon, Liu Meiqin was truly afraid that her studio would go bankrupt again.

"Hmm, I've also considered this issue."

Jiang Feng nodded, "So I've already prepared to add a trading System in the next update."

Liu Meiqin was stunned, "A trading System?"

"Players can trade resources obtained in the game using chinese yuan, and we will take a commission from it, starting from 10% of the transaction amount and going up to 50%."

"I will design a specialized mechanism to adapt to the trading System. At that time, players will only need to perform simple operations, and resources will be directly teleported through the Grand Void Passage."

Liu Meiqin was dumbfounded, "Boss, do you really think trading commissions can support us?"

Jiang Feng chuckled, thinking that in his previous life, if it weren't for policy restrictions, many games would have wanted to be released for free and then make a fortune from trading commissions.

There was a lot of money to be made there!

More importantly, with a trading System, many professional players would enter the game, and their exploration of the Xuanhuan World would definitely be stronger than that of ordinary players.

Even some tedious tasks like mining, Alchemy, and herb gathering would have people eager to do them, greatly enriching the diversity of Xuanhuan World's gameplay.

"And Boss, if we implement a trading System in the game, will the officials approve?"

Liu Meiqin was worried.

Jiang Feng nodded, "Don't worry, I've already consulted them. They said it's completely feasible and very supportive."

The social pressure in the Huaxia Federation was growing, and the authorities had opened up many opportunities for games, even hoping that game worlds could create "employment" positions.

Jiang Feng secretly thought that he would specifically target wealthy individuals, giving them extremely low starting identities and forcing them to spend money on trades, which could be considered robbing the rich to help the poor... Old Potato waited anxiously for a while.

Soon, he saw a new announcement posted on the official website, which was a warm-up for the next update.

The next update would not only open up the complete maps of Yue Country and Li Kingdom, and more maps of the Great Jiang Imperial Dynasty, but also add a brand new mechanism—

A trading System!

"This is great, the officials support trading!"

Old Potato excitedly waved his fist.

Now there was no hesitation. With an excited heart, he lay down in the VR pod.

"Empress, I'm coming!"