Villain Cultivator (Web Novel)

”Oh, my lord… ”

”Forty freaking thousand essence cores!? ”

”Holy mother of god. Demons are fucking rich! ”

The crowd dropped their jaws. They used their fingers to count how many digits it would be if they were to convert that into raw spirit stones, refined stones, or gold coins.

1,000 gold coins could be exchanged for one raw spirit stone.

1,000 raw spirit stones were equal to one refined stone.

1,000,000 refined stones were equal to one essence core.

For commoners, one gold coin was enough to buy a year ’s worth of food for their entire family.

As for weak cultivators and disciples from a small sect, earning one or two raw spirit stones a month from doing odd jobs was already considered a good wage as it could be exchanged for gold coins for their daily necessity supplies.

Meanwhile, disciples from 1st-rated sects, such as Silver Phoenix Sect, Myriad Cauldron Sect, or Jiangdong White Tiger Sect, had an average income of 1-20 raw stones a month, depending on their contribution and talent. Hard-working disciples could even earn one or two refined stones every month while Inner disciples and core disciples could easily get more.

The wages of clan employees, elders, soldiers, and freelance mercenaries were a lot higher than the income of the disciples. It ranged from 50 to 1,000 refined stones per month.

Small clan leaders or small sect leaders also had a good career. By swearing allegiance to a bigger clan or a more powerful organization, they could enjoy their annual stipend, paid by their bosses. A subsidiary clan ’s income was between 2,000 and 50,000 refined stones per year, depending on their military strength.

Orthodox city lords, top sect leaders, major clan leaders made money from their local businesses and gained taxes from the local territory. However, they didn ’t necessarily bow their heads to other clans or the emperor as they usually stayed independent, working as freelance mercenary groups.

These powerful organizations enjoyed the annual salary of 200,000 refined stones per year at the minimum. That amount hadn ’t included the perks of having various natural resources, such as mineral mines, lumber forests, monster beast dens, fishery, or even better, a spirit stone mine.

Alchemist Sects, however, had a special ability. They had a lucrative job of converting raw spirit stones into refined stones, so they could simply collect every raw spirit stone in the market and turn them into refined stones, printing the money for themselves. Someone like Ju Shoufen and Zhang Junyi could easily convert 500 raw spirit stones into one refined stone instead of trading 1,000 for one!

These alchemists had the potential to turn 50,000 refined stones into a million if they kept selling refined stones into raw spirit stones while they kept converting the raw ones into the refined ones. Of course, this amount of income hadn ’t included their earnings from selling pills, which could add a few zeros to the total sum.