Chapter 1512 - 892: A Man Without a Past? Ultra-High-Risk Dao Seed (3)

Tai Yue Bai smiled faintly and said, "As long as handing out money can bring benefits, the Upper Cultivators will agree."

Zhang Yu asked curiously, "How does it bring benefits?"

Tai Yue Bai said, "Right now all of the Ten Great Sects share a similar situation: every company is desperately developing technology just to seize more market share."

"But as Immortal Dao Technology has flourished, the productive capacity of the Ten Great Sects has, without anyone quite noticing, long since surpassed the total demand of the Lower Cultivators. This is overproduction—supply exceeding demand."

"So the companies of each sect can only enter vicious competition, constantly squeezing their employees and cutting costs to grab the market."

"In this situation, most industries have already turned into red oceans. The importance of the market itself has gradually begun to surpass that of the companies that control Immortal Dao Technology."

As he spoke, Tai Yue Bai raised a finger and said, "Let’s use what you did in the Old Graveyard as an example. The Soul Cultivator industry is a textbook exploitative industry, which has always increased its competitiveness by lowering the cost of the dead."

"But after you gave the Soul Cultivators a pay raise, what happened to the industry? The companies that command powerful Immortal Dao technological capabilities instead started providing services to the Soul Cultivators."

"This is the importance of the market."

"Whoever holds Immortal Coins, whoever can purchase the products in a company’s hands—the company will serve that person."

"If the Lower Cultivators of Wanfa Sect can become richer and have stronger purchasing power, then the countless companies of the other nine sects will all have to serve us, kneeling and begging us to buy their goods, opening their markets to us, even at the cost of trading technology for market access."

Tai Yue Bai said solemnly, "One hand gripping technology, the other gripping the market—that is the future Wanfa Sect’s way to stand at the summit of the Ten Great Sects."

Listening to Tai Yue Bai’s explanation, Fu Ji thought to herself, "This ’handing out money’... really might work. The key is how to distribute it so that the money actually ends up in the hands of the Lower Cultivators."

Zhang Yu asked, "How do we distribute it?"

Tai Yue Bai said, "You’ve hit the crux of it. Distributing money is like raising wages. Under Kunxu’s current circumstances, if any given company casually raises wages on its own... from the company’s perspective, that may cause costs to become too high and its competitiveness to decline."

"And from an individual’s perspective, it will also reduce the profits of the company’s upper ranks, slow the growth of their assets, and cause their cultivation to lag behind their peers."

Tai Yue Bai looked at Zhang Yu and sighed. "After all, not everyone can be like you, able to still make rapid progress even after voluntarily sacrificing their own interests as a leader."

"So... the end result is often that whoever raises wages gets eliminated, and in the end no one raises them."

"Therefore, the best way is: if wages are to be raised, then all industries must raise them in one go. If money is to be handed out... then it must be handed out to everyone."

"And the establishment of this round of the Third Generation Law is the best opportunity."

Zhang Yu listened to the other’s exposition, and for a moment his mind turned over many thoughts.

"Tai Yue Bai... is he really trustworthy?"

Suddenly, seeing Tai Yue Bai’s gaze once again drifting toward the other students, he abruptly asked, "Tai Taojun, there’s another question I’ve been wanting to ask you."

At the same time, Tai Yue Bai was looking toward the representative of the Dharma Realm Daoist... Lie Jinghong, and was thinking to himself, "According to the information I’ve obtained, of the two Dao Seeds Lie Jinghong is hiding, one can rank within the Top Ten on Kunxu’s ultra-high-risk Dao Seed list."

"But in order to first obtain detailed intelligence on this Dao Seed and then grasp its abilities, within the overall plan... I’m still short at least three abilities at the moment."

Tai Yue Bai’s gaze swept over the bodies of the other students, and he thought silently, "Fortunately... these three abilities can be obtained from these students. This is an unprecedentedly good opportunity."

Just then, he heard Zhang Yu’s question.

And in Zhang Yu’s mind surfaced the rules of the meeting room: one cannot lie here.

So he asked a question he had long held in his heart: "You... can you see something on other people’s bodies?"