Chapter 435: Chapter 8: The Breathing Technique Upheaval, The Grand Trend Is Set!
Gradually, cultivators began purchasing the Martial Arts Breathing Technique at high prices.
There were even Nascent Soul stage loose cultivators offering a million spirit stones!
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Fufeng Island, marketplace.
In a teahouse, several Foundation Establishment Cultivators were discussing fervently.
"Have you heard? Star Moon True Man offered a million spirit stones to buy the original copy of the Supreme Body Refining Dharma Gate!"
"A million spirit stones? Truly worthy of a Nascent Soul True Man, so wealthy! But... isn’t this price too high?"
"High? I don’t think it’s high at all! Have you heard? A few cultivators have advanced to the Foundation Establishment Stage within just half a year through body refining! This is definitely a supreme technique... is one million spirit stones really too much?"
Lin Chen sat quietly in a corner of the teahouse, listening to the conversations around him.
"Tsk, tsk, if it were me, I wouldn’t sell it... This technique can be inherited for a thousand years, serving as a family’s foundation..."
"Exactly! If it were me, I wouldn’t sell it either!"
In the teahouse, two Golden Core Cultivators were talking loudly, attracting a lot of attention.
Lin Chen also glanced at them; both were the ones who had survived a relic and had each grabbed a copy of the Martial Arts Breathing Technique.
A moment later, the two Golden Core Cultivators left in a hurry, saying their goodbyes.
Lin Chen watched this scene, lost in thought.
"Heh, unwilling to sell... It’s not up to you..." Lin Chen smiled slightly.
Days later, Star Moon True Man announced that they had acquired the original copy of the Martial Arts Breathing Technique.
Simultaneously, he made rubbing copies, selling them to several dozen Golden Core Cultivators for thirty thousand spirit stones each.
In just a month, Star Moon True Man earned tens of millions of spirit stones!
Spending a million spirit stones to buy it, and then selling it for tens of millions...
Star Moon True Man not only got the original Martial Arts Breathing Technique for free, but also earned nearly ten million spirit stones!
So, are those Golden Core Cultivators who spent thirty thousand spirit stones on rubbing copies fools?
Of course not...
They bought it for thirty thousand spirit stones and resold rubbing copies of the rubbing copies at ten thousand spirit stones each.
Back-and-forth, they not only didn’t lose, but even made a tidy profit of tens of thousands of spirit stones.
The Cultivation Realm is never short of astute people.
So, more and more cultivators began purchasing the Martial Arts Breathing Technique.
Their next move was to frantically make rubbing copies and sell them.
Even Foundation Establishment Cultivators borrowed tens of thousands of spirit stones to buy rubbing copies of the Martial Arts Breathing Technique.
They took loans, acquired techniques, and then made large quantities of rubbing copies to sell...
In just a few months, the Meteor Islands were flooded with the Martial Arts Breathing Technique.
It had practically become the Cultivation Realm’s "financial product".
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Grey Stone Island.
Lin Chen established a training ground, teaching Fufeng family’s disciples in body refining.
Meanwhile, these disciples privately discussed rumors and gossip about the Meteor Islands.
As a result, Lin Chen gathered a lot of intelligence.
Learning that the Martial Arts Breathing Technique had devalued rapidly and was spreading everywhere, Lin Chen smiled genuinely.
The devaluation of this technique was naturally within Lin Chen’s expectations.
Initially, some were unwilling to sell, hiding and hoarding it.
After all, this supreme technique could provide the foundation for establishing a sect, how could it be worth just a million spirit stones?
But later, everyone found out that even if they didn’t sell it, others would...
Since the Martial Arts Breathing Technique was not a unique copy nor restricted...
Even mortals could make countless copies...
So in just three months, the price of the Martial Arts Breathing Technique plummeted from a million spirit stones to ten thousand spirit stones...
After another two months, the price dropped again.
From ten thousand spirit stones to a thousand spirit stones.
Just a thousand spirit stones, and one could buy this "Supreme Body Refining Dharma Gate".
In merely eight or nine months, half the cultivators on the Meteor Islands owned a copy of the Martial Arts Breathing Technique.
Those who didn’t buy it weren’t unwilling to, they simply couldn’t afford a thousand spirit stones.
After all, for Qi Refining Cultivators, a thousand spirit stones was an astronomical number.
At the same time, cultivators who owned the Martial Arts Breathing Technique tacitly stopped reducing prices.
The price held steady at a thousand spirit stones per copy for several months without drop.
"A thousand spirit stones per copy... the price is still too high..."
Lin Chen shook his head, his goal wasn’t just to have cultivators acquire the Martial Arts Breathing Technique.
He wanted mortals to be able to afford it too!
If it remains a thousand spirit stones per copy, it’ll still be limited to cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Stage and above.
The gap in power between mortals and cultivators would only widen...
"It seems I need to add a bit more intensity..."
Watching the Fufeng family’s disciples practicing in the training ground, Lin Chen murmured.
Thus, three days later,
The price of the Martial Arts Breathing Technique plummeted again.
Thousands of copies were sold throughout the Meteor Islands.
Slashed from a thousand spirit stones straight down to a hundred spirit stones per copy.
Once the price drop was known, cultivators on the Meteor Islands rushed to sell.
And again, it dropped from a hundred spirit stones per copy down to ten spirit stones per copy.
Hence, in just one year, almost every one of the tens of thousands of cultivators on the Meteor Islands had a copy of the Martial Arts Breathing Technique.
Even those in the second and third layers of Qi Refining gritted their teeth and paid ten spirit stones for a copy.
All of this, of course, was propelled by Lin Chen.
He deployed dozens of Martial Arts Puppets, selling as long as the price was below a thousand, naturally there were buyers.
And the rubbing copy of the Martial Arts Breathing Technique, its cost was almost nothing.
Even mortals could make rubbing copies, easily creating thousands with a single spirit stone.
It was practically a no-cost, high-profit endeavor.
If someone sold it at a low price, even for just dozens of spirit stones per copy, there was profit to be made.
But for those who sold it slowly, they’d make no profit.
"Ten spirit stones per copy, still too expensive... Qi Refining Cultivators can buy it, but how can mortals have access?"
Lin Chen murmured.
On the Meteor Islands, there are billions of mortals, but only tens of thousands of cultivators.
Lin Chen’s goal was for every mortal to have a copy of the Martial Arts Breathing Technique.
"It’s just... even at the beginning, cultivators aren’t willing to let mortals grasp such power..."
"Looks like a new strategy is needed..."
Lin Chen smiled slightly.
The second phase of the plan was complete, so next was the third phase...
So, half a year later...
Qi Refining Cultivators began opening martial arts halls on major islands...
