Chapter 2680: Completion of Globalized Trade in the Boundless Starry Sky Economy

At the center of the Tianlong Ancient Realm, in a wild and primitive land, a colossal and majestic true dragon lies sleeping at the heart of the ancient realm, inhaling and exhaling vast rivers of heavenly treasures and earthly riches, all kinds of heavenly treasures and earthly riches, many of which clearly bear the style of the Tai Shang Da Ri Shi Dao Gong Ye system, having arrived here through trade.

These heavenly treasures and earthly riches are not absent from the Huangyan Domain, but they have no choice.

For these heavenly treasures and earthly riches from the Tai Shang Da Ri Domain, even with added shipping costs and merchant profits, they are still far cheaper than those produced in the Huangyan Domain, and their effects are superior.

Relying on these vast quantities of heavenly treasures and earthly riches, the Huangyan Dragon Emperor's recovery speed far exceeds expectations, his aura has become much heavier, and the Earth Dao is much more active.

This forbidden zone Dragon Emperor is now drawing step by step toward the Seven-Character Immortal Scripture!

Perhaps only a few million years are needed to succeed in reaching it—this is the terrifying foundation and talent of the old emperor.

Opposite the Huangyan Dragon Emperor, a true dragon of golden hue, slightly smaller in size, stands upon a divine peak, gazing into the depths of the universe, unknown what it thinks, its aura extremely sharp and terrifying, more terrifying than ninety-nine percent of sword cultivators between heaven and earth.

This is the ancient emperor of the True Dragon Immortal Clan's Cross Immortal Scripture, the Severed Gold Dragon Emperor.

In legend, when this ancient emperor attained the Dao, the human sword path was extremely flourishing; his path of growth was the destruction of one sword sect after another, and although he did not walk the sword path himself, he drew inspiration from many sword traditions to forge his own way, excelling most in frontal assault.

At this moment, a message arrives from the Golden Fortune True Dragon.

"Severed Gold Younger Brother,"

"It seems the time for the Dragon Blood Gold Tariff has come to nothing; we can only raise the purchase price." The Huangyan Dragon Emperor sighs helplessly.

This Dragon Blood Gold Tariff is naturally a probe; if the probe succeeds, a large batch of follow-up measures will come, enabling the True Dragon Immortal Clan to seize many benefits.

But alas, having just begun, we must now stop.

There is no need to speak further of forcing many true dragons and dragon beasts to offer up Dragon Blood Gold—free trade is a law etched into the Heavenly Dao, not so easily avoided.

"Then let it be."

"Then raise the price—Dragon Blood Gold is indeed useful for my ascent to the Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperor."

The Severed Gold Dragon Emperor also had no great surprise, saying: "Will the Tai Shang Da Ri not do anything this time? I have heard that Dragon Blood Gold plays an important role in their Great Day Spirit Gold."

"It will not."

"Dragon Blood Gold is not an absolute necessity for the Great Day Spirit Gold, but rather there are multiple procurement channels, some differing only slightly in Dragon Blood Gold content; since Dragon Blood Gold prices rise due to market behavior, it is no longer the best choice."

"He will abide by so-called free trade."

The Huangyan Dragon Emperor today seems to sigh constantly, utterly devoid of the joy from his wounds healing rapidly or his Dao progressing swiftly.

For he knows that if he can progress this much, the human Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperor dwelling at the center of Wu Jin Kong Kong must inevitably progress even more terrifyingly. The Severed Gold Dragon Emperor remains silent.

In the past, he once considered going to the Tai Shang Da Ri Domain, where they treated many ancient emperors exceedingly well, making the possibility of becoming a Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperor much greater.

Later he gave it up, because the True Dragon Immortal Dao system suited him better.

"Younger Brother,"

"Recently, the impact of many Shi Dao Gong Ye products from the Tai Shang Da Ri has been too great on us—our many products have become scrap iron, we can only sell them at less than half cost price, many dragon beast worlds have become useless, bankruptcies upon bankruptcies, losses upon losses."

"Now, what we can sell are merely minerals, raw timber, dragon beast hides, bones, and meat—raw materials."

"This low-profit trade is obviously not a long-term plan, insufficient to serve as reliance for Shi Dao."

"Younger Brother, do you have any thoughts on this?"

The Huangyan Dragon Emperor asks calmly.

The True Dragon Immortal Dao scientific system is a Shi Dao Gong Ye system leaning toward Shi Dao biology; its production process is the growth process of many specially modified bloodline dragon beasts—from birth to death, a dragon beast finally produces special ores, blood, flesh, bones, and so on—this is their method of production.

This method has its great advantages; it is not inferior to the commonly used water-fire refining method in the human Shi Dao scientific system, having shone brightly in multiple eras of Wu Jin Kong Kong, representing the highest level of Shi Dao scientific technology at the time, and thus achieving the highest utilization efficiency for Shi Dao nature.

The problem now is that the True Dragon Immortal Dao scientific system has not delved as deeply as the Tai Shang Da Ri Shi Dao scientific system. Therefore, under free trade, many deeply processed products from the True Dragon Immortal Clan's dragon beast bloodlines have begun to lose value, because the equivalent products from the Tai Shang Da Ri Domain are better and more cost-effective.

Even when used by the True Dragons themselves, they tend toward products from the Tai Shang Da Ri Domain.

A True Dragon's level in Shi Dao determines everything—strength, wealth, lifespan, and all else—yet no True Dragon would spare himself in this regard, discarding excellent heavenly treasures and earthly riches, instead using far inferior and far more expensive things, then dying with so-called dragon pride unwilling to yield.

Many dragon beast worlds, dragon beast Shi Dao biotechnology, are beginning to become liabilities; the operation and growth of their worlds are entirely loss-making processes, because these many dragon beasts undergoing special evolutionary paths require input of vast heavenly treasures and earthly riches, human and material resources, attention—entailing enormous costs.

Many True Dragons who govern star domains and worlds, during this period, have been considering one thing: transforming their farmed dragon beast worlds into producers of only basic Shi Dao Gong Ye products, ceasing production of those loss-making products that undergo multiple bloodline reincarnations and deep processing.

This approach can indeed bring profit.

The drawback is that the profit is truly too low.

This topic is a hot one among the True Dragons, concerning all their major interests and future paths; in recent years, whenever two True Dragons meet, eight or nine times out of ten they chat about this.

"What else could there be to think?"

"In the past, when the free trade law was inscribed into the Heavenly Dao and we failed to shatter it, everything was already destined."

The Severed Gold Dragon Emperor sighs: "It is nothing more than abandoning the production of many common dragon beasts, shifting focus to producing our advantageous products—such as my Severed Gold Dao's Dragon Bone Immortal Gold and Dragon Scale Sword Spirit Gold—and continuously investing vast resources into R&D and production, improving quality, ensuring they always hold a monopoly in the niche markets of Wu Jin Kong Kong."

"Huangyan Senior, your auspicious soil and indestructible rock heavenly treasures and earthly riches should likewise be so." "We Dragon Emperors, as leaders, have many True Dragons investing in these niche monopoly markets—finally, we can all live quite well."

"It is merely... that hegemony is hopeless."

Wu Jin Kong Kong finance and free trade, in a short span of a hundred thousand years, have already shown initial signs—even the mouths of the antiquated Dragon Emperors occasionally blurt out finance, currency, niche markets, etc., revealing astonishing research on trade and markets.