Chapter 226: This is the Power of Money!

    Not only were the elders of Jade Pond Sacred Land curious, Ye Chen was also quite curious.

    What did I do?

    How did your breakthroughs relate to me?

    All the Jade Pond elders looked at Wang Changchun, eager to hear what she had to say.

    Wang Changchun smiled slightly. “Originally, it would have taken me at least another ten years to reach the peak of the late Nascent Soul Realm.

    “But last year, the Saint Master increased the benefits for the entire Heavenly Origin Sacred Land.

    “Now, the stipend for Nascent Soul Realm elders has increased to fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones per year!”

    Hearing this, all the elders of Jade Pond Sacred Land widened their eyes.

    Although there had been rumors outside that Heavenly Origin Sacred Land, after launching the Heavenly Origin Little Spirit Communicator and making a fortune, had significantly raised the stipends for its elders, they didn’t expect it to be this high.

    Their annual stipend was only two thousand high-grade spirit stones.

    But the elders of Heavenly Origin Sacred Land received fifty thousand a year?

    That’s more than twenty times higher!

    The gap between people was simply too vast.

    The Jade Pond elders felt like they had eaten lemons.

    Even the Supreme Elder of Jade Pond, though her face showed no expression, felt sour inside.

    As a Supreme Elder, her annual stipend was only twenty thousand high-grade spirit stones.

    As a Deity Transformation Realm cultivator, her stipend was less than that of a group of Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.

    The gap was truly too large.

    Only the Jade Pond Saint Master listened with twitching lips, feeling especially awkward...

    If she had known, she wouldn’t have asked.

    Seeing the expression of the Jade Pond Saint Master, Ye Chen was amused.

    Comparing salaries was not scary. Whoever had the lower salary felt awkward.

    If the boss was present, it’s the most awkward.

    Ye Chen now roughly understood what Wang Changchun was going to say.

    It’s a killer move...

    Seeing the shocked looks of the Jade Pond elders, Wang Changchun smiled. “Fellow Daoists, this is just the basic stipend.

    “Heavenly Origin Sacred Land also has birthday benefits. As an elder, on your birthday, you will receive a birthday benefit of two thousand high-grade spirit stones.”

    The eyes of the Jade Pond elders widened again.

    Birthday benefits?

    Is there such a thing?

    And it’s two thousand high-grade spirit stones, almost as much as their annual stipend.

    The female elders of Jade Pond were even more envious now.

    Elder Wang Changchun enjoyed the feeling of being surrounded by beauties and continued smiling. “And there’s also the year-end bonus...

    “The year-end bonus is linked to the annual total income of the Sacred Land.

    “Last year, the year-end bonus for elders in Heavenly Origin Sacred Land was ten thousand high-grade spirit stones!

    “This year, it might be even more.”

    The Jade Pond elders were stunned.

    Another ten thousand high-grade spirit stones?

    They suddenly didn’t want to listen anymore.

    It hurt their hearts.

    And Elder Wang Changchun wasn’t finished, “There’s also the Immortal Net Auction House!

    “If an elder finds a treasure they need at the Immortal Net Auction House but doesn’t have enough spirit stones to buy it, they can directly apply to the Sacred Land.

    “The finance hall will provide the spirit stones to help you bid on the treasure.

    “You only need to repay seventy percent of the spirit stones within ten years.

    “Yes, seventy percent. Because the thirty percent handling fee at the auction house is waived for us.”

    The female elders of Jade Pond were stunned.

    They even started to doubt their lives.

    The elders of Heavenly Origin Sacred Land earned so much.

    And they got a thirty percent discount on auctioned treasures?

    That’s ridiculous.

    Many powerhouses searched the Immortal Net Auction House for treasures they needed.

    “This would be faster. If there are no major delays, a round trip would only take a month.”

    Ye Chen frowned upon hearing this, “Is there no teleportation array?”

    The Foreign Affairs Elder immediately shook his head, “Saint Master, for such long-distance teleportation arrays, the materials needed for stability are top-notch, and the cost is exorbitant...

    “If it is a bidirectional teleportation array, it would be even more expensive.

    “There are very few cultivators who need to travel across states.

    “But connecting Great Yan Province to Penglai Island would require an investment of at least four to five million high-grade spirit stones.

    “So no force would spend spirit stones on this.”

    Ye Chen squinted his eyes upon hearing this.

    This situation was unexpected.

    Without a teleportation array, spending a lot of time going to Penglai Island just to kill Daoist Huangpu was not worth it.

    And without a teleportation array, there was no point in making prior arrangements.

    After all, transportation would be too inconvenient, and even a Nascent Soul cultivator would take three months to reach there.

    From Penglai Island to Mingwang Province would take another three months.

    Too long!

    So, to get rich, first build roads.

    Only by building the teleportation array would entering the Mingwang Province market be smooth in the future.

    As for the huge investment?

    That’s not a problem.

    The market in Mingwang Province had hundreds of millions of cultivators.

    To Ye Chen, it’s an untapped goldmine.

    Once they enter this market, any application could easily recoup the investment hundreds or thousands of times over.

    So, what others were unwilling to build, his Heavenly Origin Sacred Land will build.

    Ye Chen temporarily dismissed the idea of going to Penglai Island.

    Since there was no time to go now, he decided to focus on developing online payments first.

    Ye Chen’s concept for online payments was already very complete.

    It would take at most a week to develop it.

    Due to the chaos in the Eastern Sea, he had already lost quite a bit of money, delaying his breakthrough progress.

    So he needed to release a new application quickly to make up for the losses!

    Ye Chen, always decisive, bade farewell to the elders of Jade Pond Sacred Land and left with his own elders.

    The Jade Pond Saint Master watched Ye Chen’s departing figure with mixed emotions, hiding her reluctance.

    Beside her, the Supreme Elder sighed in admiration, “Saint Master Ye Chen has helped our Jade Pond Sacred Land so much without asking for anything in return, truly admirable.”

    Hearing the Supreme Elder’s words, the Jade Pond Saint Master sighed.

    You don’t understand, Ye Chen came for me.

    Naturally, he wouldn’t ask for anything.

    “The Saint Master asked for nothing, but our Jade Pond Sacred Land will not be ungrateful. In a few days, I will take people to Heavenly Origin Sacred Land with a generous gift to express our gratitude.” With that, she led the elders back to the Sacred Land.

    The great momentum of the Eastern Sea demons was gone.

    The demon powerhouses had either fled or died.

    Now, only a few small demons were left, being relentlessly hunted by the Eastern Sea cultivators.

    On the way back, some elders mentioned the benefits of Heavenly Origin Sacred Land with envy.

    Some elders looked expectantly at the Jade Pond Saint Master, “Saint Master, why don’t you become a Daoist companion with the Heavenly Origin Saint Master? Then the Heavenly Origin Saint Master would surely take care of us. Just the 10% discount at Taobao alone is very tempting.”

    “If I could get a 30% discount at the Immortal Net auction house, my strength would definitely improve rapidly.”

    “Saint Master, I think we have made quite a bit of spirit stones from our Taobao online store recently, should we increase the stipend!”

    “Indeed, indeed, two thousand is too little, it’s far too different from Heavenly Origin Sacred Land!”

    As they talked, the elders began to look forward to a raise in stipends.

    Even the Supreme Elder transmitted a message to the Jade Pond Saint Master, expressing that she couldn’t accept that her stipend as a mighty Deity Transformation Realm cultivator was less than that of a Nascent Soul cultivator in Heavenly Origin Sacred Land.

    She hoped to increase her stipend to fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones.

    This gave the Jade Pond Saint Master a massive headache.

    How could her Sacred Land compare to Heavenly Origin Sacred Land!

    The people’s hearts were scattered!

    The team was hard to lead!