Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming-Chapter 1086 - 482: Good News Comes Knocking, Post-Battle Statistics [8000 Words Mega Chapter, Subscription Request]_4

Chapter 1086: Chapter 482: Good News Comes Knocking, Post-Battle Statistics [8000 Words Mega Chapter, Subscription Request]_4

In Tuyun Ridge, when Zhou Mingde learned from Zhou Chun about Luo Qingni’s intentions and her willingness to stay and assist the Zhou Family, he couldn’t help but express his happiness and relief.

Upon hearing his sigh of relief, Zhou Chun also nodded and added, "Taoist Friend Luo’s arrival is indeed timely. With her overseeing Jiufeng Ridge, we no longer need to worry about its security, and the clan members within our family’s mountain gate can gradually start to leave and resume the family’s various businesses."

Due to the war, the Zhou Family’s operations had almost entirely ground to a halt, with all clan members either called to the battlefield or pulled back to the mountain gate or marketplace.

One could say that the entire family was rapidly depleting its reserves.

Now that the war had ended, resuming production was undoubtedly a top priority.

However, before officially lifting the mountain gate’s closure, Zhou Chun first ordered the various halls to tally the family’s current personnel and financial status.

After roughly half a month of inventory, the relevant information was all presented before Zhou Chun for his review.

According to the latest tally, counting maternal family cultivators and dead soldiers under the Zhou Family’s control, the Zhou family currently boasts one Golden Core Stage Cultivator, five Purple Mansion Phase Cultivators, twenty-five Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and five hundred ninety-seven Qi Refinement Realm Cultivators and non-cultivating clan members.

The total number had broken through the six hundred mark!

Of these, the newly advanced Purple Mansion Cultivator Lin Wan’er, along with four other Foundation Establishment cultivators Zhou Xinfu, Zhou Siming, Zhou Sipu, and Zhou Yuanyuan, all achieved their breakthroughs during the war.

Zhou Yuanyuan, a cultivator of the "Yuanyuan" generation with Superior Spiritual Root Talent, even set a record for the Zhou Family by succeeding in Foundation Establishment before the age of thirty!

However, behind this appearance of a robust lineup of personnel, there also lay many things that caused Zhou Chun grief.

That was because the two remaining "Jia" generation Foundation Establishment cultivators had little lifespan remaining.

Among them, Zhou Jiarui was nearing the end, probably unable to live for more than two years.

Zhou Jiapeng was in slightly better condition, though his lifespan was also only about a decade.

The two behind them, Zhou Zhengyuan and Zhou Zhengyong, unless they can successfully open their Purple Mansion, only had three to four decades of lifespan left!

These were all Zhou Chun’s most familiar elders and friends within the family, the closest group of people to him now.

Thinking that the vast majority of them were likely to pass away in the coming decades, Zhou Chun felt a deep sense of sorrow in his heart.

He gazed at the data in his hands and zoned out for a while before murmuring to himself, "It’s inevitable for the two clan uncles, given their advanced ages. Even if they were provided with the Spiritual Objects that assist in opening the Purple Mansion, success would no longer be possible."

"But Brother Six and Brother Yong still have the potential to open their Purple Mansion; they’ve accumulated countless Merit Points for the family over these years, and it’s only logical and reasonable for the family to give them a chance!"

After all, he was someone who cherished old ties and really didn’t want to see familiar faces disappear one by one before him.

Even though he knew that it was bound to happen eventually.

Yet, if there was even a slight chance to extend the life of one of them by a few hundred years, that would still be something to celebrate.

With a decision in his heart, Zhou Chun then turned his attention to the Zhou Family’s financial situation.

This situation was naturally not very promising.

The closure of the mountain gate had a significant impact, slashing more than seventy percent of the Zhou Family’s income.

During the war, many businesses simply could not operate.

Even the various elixirs needed for the cultivators’ training were hardly obtainable in sufficient quantities.

Even the demon beasts raised by the family had to be slaughtered in batches due to feed issues, sparing only those that were not very important.

Fortunately, because businesses were unable to operate, the Spirit Coins in the treasury weren’t used either, leaving the quantity of Spirit Coins seemingly quite impressive.

But correspondingly, a huge amount of Merit Points had accumulated among the family cultivators!

"The recent war led to the fall of many cultivators and nearly shattered the entire Cultivation World of Fengguo. Inflation is probably going to be severe in the short term; it seems we can’t just sit on these Spirit Coins—they need to be spent outside of the Tianling Region as soon as possible!" Zhou Chun thought to himself, suddenly feeling a strong sense of urgency.

Because of the special monetary system, the concept of devaluation doesn’t officially apply to Spirit Coins.

But scarcity and surplus of goods can give rise to inflation.

In the nations of the Tianling Region after the war, with the reduction in the number of cultivators and a large release of battle rewards, the market could see an unusual phenomenon of more money and fewer people.

The Cultivator Families who lost their important combat strength in the war will frantically deplete their savings to purchase Spiritual Objects and nurture new Foundation Establishment or Purple Mansion Cultivators for the family.

Those who profited from the war—both individuals and families—will also look to turn their Spirit Coins into various objects that could improve cultivation levels and strength.

Some, in order to gather Spirit Coins, might even sell their collected spoils of war at a discounted price.

The foreseeable situation is that the marketplaces in the nations of the Tianling Region will see prices of magic artifacts, talismans, and related raw materials plummet.

Meanwhile, the price of elixirs and their raw materials, which are crucial for enhancing cultivation levels and assisting in breakthroughs, will skyrocket.

If there is no large external force intervening, eradicating this odd phenomenon could easily take decades or even a century!

However, as inflation generally only affects cultivators below the Golden Core Stage, and based on past experiences, the upper echelons of major powers tend not to take this issue too seriously.