Ch 63: Qi Cultivation Method

The next day.

At the same time.

An unimaginable amount of silver essence was piled into small mountains, even extending outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Hundreds of thousands of spirit stones were stacked in front of the silver essence, forming an incredibly thick wall.

Emperor Chongzhen slowly opened his mouth, his brain dizzy, and slumped back into the Dragon Throne.

In all honesty, he had never seen anything like this since birth… No, Chongzhen hadn’t even imagined he would ever witness such a sight in his life.

Money, all money, so much money!

The eunuchs respectfully guarded him from the side. Wang Zhixin lowered his head, but when he saw the silver essence out of the corner of his eye, he still felt as if his heart was being squeezed. A portion of these riches were his!

In the past, when faced with such a confiscation, Wang Zhixin would not only have stuffed his own money in, but would have also embezzled a large sum. But this time… because of Chu Mo’s power, he had strongly exerted his subjective initiative and didn’t allow a single eunuch the chance to steal any money.

The civil and military officials knelt on the ground, partly because their family fortunes were being confiscated, causing them heartache, and partly because they were worried that this vast wealth would anger Emperor Chongzhen, causing him to go mad and raise his butcher’s knife against them.

They had barely survived Chu Mo’s ruthless methods, and it would be truly laughable if they ended up falling at the hands of Chongzhen because of money.

After a long time, Emperor Chongzhen finally managed to calm down. Facing Chu Mo, he was no longer as unconvinced as before, but became respectful and restrained. “Imperial Ancestor, are we going to use this money to create the strongest army under Heaven?!”

Sun Chuanting, kneeling on one knee, had bright eyes, and his heart suddenly became active. This strongest army under Heaven… should be led by him, right?

And then…

“Army? What army?” Chu Mo glanced at Emperor Chongzhen with a strange expression. “I won’t invest a single coin of this money into the army!”

Sun Chuanting: “???”

Military generals: “?!!”

Emperor Chongzhen: “…Huh?!”

Civil officials: “…”

Everyone suspected they had misheard.

Chu Mo gently waved his hand, and the mountain of silver was instantly divided into two portions. “I will divide it into a three-to-seven ratio! Seventy percent will be used to invest in education in Beizhili, and even the entire North.”

Of course, this didn’t mean that Chu Mo wasn’t planning to transform the South. Instead, he was planning to take his butcher’s knife to Jiangnan in the future, to properly ask the Jiangnan scholar-officials and gentry to borrow some money… He had no doubt that the wealth that could be squeezed out of the South far exceeded that of the people in the capital.

“As for the remaining thirty percent, I plan to invest it in the shipbuilding industry!”

Having been the Lord of the World for ten years, Chu Mo was very clear about what could truly enhance national power.

Only by improving the basic quality of the people could the foundation for an explosive increase in national power be laid… This was just the foundation! To usher in a surge in national power, a large influx of external wealth was also needed.

That is, the opening of the great colonial era!

Only the opening of the colonial era could ignite the seeds of capital under the temptation of profit. Thus, it would rapidly enter that… completely new era!

Chu Mo didn’t think that it was meaningless for a supernatural society to enter an industrial society. Because entering industry represented a substantial increase in productivity… just like when he started the industrial revolution in the Demon Qing, cultivation resources increased three or four times, which could then support the entire society’s universal cultivation…

“But, but, what about the demons, the Demonic Race?!” Emperor Chongzhen’s forehead was dripping with cold sweat.

“With me here, what’s there to fear?” Chu Mo’s ordinary words stunned Emperor Chongzhen.

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After a long silence, the Emperor still whispered, “But, what’s the point of shipbuilding… It won’t make money, right? Moreover, I don’t think it has much significance! Even if you insist, why not use this thirty percent to expand the army…”

“Are you denying my words?” Chu Mo just looked at Chongzhen with interest. Luck intertwined around him, forming a phoenix and a true dragon. A trace of terrifying power intimidated Emperor Chongzhen. “Or, do you think you see more than I do?”

Emperor Chongzhen choked. Emperor Chongzhen had nothing to say. Emperor Chongzhen nodded bitterly. “I will listen to your arrangements.”

Facts speak louder than words.

The fact was that when he was the Emperor, he couldn’t even scrape together any money from the imperial treasury! But the person in front of him easily produced hundreds of millions in wealth.

“Imperial Ancestor!” Sun Chuanting suddenly raised his head, his expression tangled and pained. “There are demons in the North, the Demonic Race in the West, and civil unrest in the Northwest… We must not emphasize civil affairs over military affairs… Even if it’s you…”

“Education doesn’t mean only teaching civil affairs!” Chu Mo glanced at Sun Chuanting with a strange expression. “Martial Path is a required course in the education I plan to promote! Otherwise, what do you think these hundreds of thousands of spirit stones are for?”

“…Ah, oh, then I have no objections.” Sun Chuanting obediently lowered his head.

“Everyone,” Chu Mo coughed lightly, attracting everyone’s attention, and said softly, “Next, I will impart to you a set of Qi cultivation methods! Please write it down… I plan to use this set of methods as a universal Martial Path cultivation textbook in the future.”

As his voice fell, Chu Mo paused slightly and solemnly recited a set of cultivation methods.

He named this set of methods the Qi Cultivation Method!

The Qi Cultivation Method is different from the Basic Cultivation Method. As the name suggests, it is a set of methods for cultivating Qi.

The Basic Cultivation Method, on the other hand, is purely for tempering the body!

The new Basic Cultivation Method that Chu Mo had adapted actually encompassed both body and Qi cultivation from the beginning.

But in the end, Chu Mo chose to separate the Qi cultivation and turn it into the Qi Cultivation Method! Then, he would fully promote Qi cultivation…

The reason was simple. The wealth and energy required to cultivate both paths would increase exponentially. Even after squeezing out so much wealth, it was impossible to support him in promoting the simultaneous cultivation of both paths…

Most importantly, the body tempering method had already been spread once during the Demon Qing. If he spread this method again in the late Ming, then when he went back, the Heroic Spirits would awaken their memories, and there would really be fun to watch…

Although it could be explained, it would be very troublesome.

After comprehensive consideration, Chu Mo chose to focus on promoting Qi cultivation.

As time passed, the people who were originally a little restless all stopped talking at this moment.

To be able to become officials to this extent, not all of them were Martial Path experts, but they had basically all cultivated Qi. To enter the Grand Secretariat, one’s cultivation had to reach the Heaven-Human Realm.

Therefore, there was no doubt about the vision of the people present. The more they listened, the more shocked they became… They all clearly tasted the horror of this set of methods… and the unfathomable nature of Chu Mo, who had created it.