Chapter 16: The Crazy Bubble
With Zhao Xuhe’s guarantee, Lu Yang successfully borrowed 2000 Contribution Points from the [Three Rivers Society] behind him, and then went all in, buying Substitute Death Yin Puppets with his entire capital.
On the other side, Zhao Xuhe was also pacing excitedly in his Cave Abode.
“The news is actually true!”
After receiving the message from his Master, he was instantly filled with excitement. “That Ten-Thousand-Man Pit belonging to the Primordial Saint Sect in Jiangnan was really captured by the [Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion].”
“The one who took action was the Third Elder of the [Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion], that peerless sword cultivator known as ‘Perfected one Vanquishing-Demon’.”
“In the short term, retaking it is impossible.”
“With the Ten-Thousand-Man Pit lost, the price increase of Substitute Death Yin Puppets in the short term is already destined. It is a great opportunity for us to speculate and hoard for profit.”
“I’m going to be rich!”
To secure the status of a [Benevolent Merit Tower] Deacon Disciple within the Saint Sect, Zhao Xuhe naturally didn’t lack background or connections, nor did he lack vision or greed. Therefore, once he confirmed Lu Yang’s news was true, he immediately began raising money, then used all the cash in his hand to buy heavily into Substitute Death Yin Puppets.
And the development of events was exactly as he expected.
As news of the Jiangnan Ten-Thousand-Man Pit incident spread, more and more people who “sensed a business opportunity” began sweeping up goods on the market, purchasing Substitute Death Yin Puppets at high prices.
Just like all speculative bubbles, the people who entered the market first all made a lot of money.
However, as the event fermented, everyone discovered that the price of Substitute Death Yin Puppets showed absolutely no trend of decreasing. It was high when they bought it, and even higher when they sold it.
Making money suddenly became easy.
As long as you bought in and then sold out, you could easily earn Contribution Points that used to require completing several, or even dozens, of sect missions to earn.
Thus, more people went crazy.
More and more people began taking out their savings to enter the market, hoping to make money this way. And they did indeed make money, further stimulating the market.
Even the more cautious people, upon discovering that fellow disciples they usually looked down on were simply buying things and selling them a few days later to earn more money than themselves, naturally felt psychologically unbalanced. So, they took it for granted and joined this wave as well.
Under such a wave, the price of Substitute Death Yin Puppets climbed steadily.
From the initial 200 Contribution Points, it climbed all the way to 300 Contribution Points. A fifty percent price increase made countless speculators even more frenzied.
After all, its price didn’t stagnate—it was still rising.
It’s rising today, so it will definitely rise tomorrow. If it rises tomorrow, what reason is there for it not to continue rising the day after? Not buying at this time is a loss!
Thus, more and more people moved upon hearing the news.
300, 400, 500… Finally, when the price soared to 500 Contribution Points, people’s rationality recovered somewhat, feeling that it seemed about enough.
“Time to sell!”
Zhao Xuhe was the first to grasp this subtle node and began secretly selling off the Substitute Death Yin Puppets he had hoarded in batches, preparing to cash out and leave the market.
At the same time, the price across the entire Substitute Death Yin Puppet market began to fall back.
After all, Zhao Xuhe wasn’t the only smart person in the world. Others also keenly saw the downward trend and began gradually selling off their goods.
If things developed this way, in less than a few days, the price would completely avalanche and return to normal.
However, just as this wave was about to subside, suddenly, a piece of news spread from the high levels of the Primordial Saint Sect to the entire sect overnight.
“The Saint Sect is preparing to counterattack!”
“The loss of the Jiangnan Ten-Thousand-Man Pit caused a Perfected one within the sect to fly into a rage. He decided to take action personally and mobilize disciples to counterattack, having a showdown with the [Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion]!”
“Great war is imminent!”
In times of war, the prices of all materials beneficial to the war effort must rise.
And the Substitute Death Yin Puppet, a tool that could save one’s life at a critical moment—how important would it be in the bloody and cruel impending Righteous-Demonic war?
It was tantamount to a second life!
Undoubtedly, on the very night this news spread, the price of Substitute Death Yin Puppets, which had already begun to fall, welcomed a second skyrocketing surge!
Not only did it instantly return to its peak of 500 Contribution Points, but it was still climbing!
By the next morning, 500 Contribution Points had turned into 1000 Contribution Points. Compared to the original price of 200 Contribution Points, it had actually multiplied by five times!
“Hahahaha!”
In the [Scripture Pavilion], Wang Bairong stood on his precious rocking chair, dancing with excitement. His old face was filled with the flushed color of agitation and fanaticism.
“Rise! Keep rising for me!”
“No, I have to buy more. Selling what little I have now won’t make much money… Hoard a bit more, and I’ll have enough Contribution Points for a Cave Abode!”
At this moment, the entire Saint Sect welcomed a carnival for ordinary disciples.
These ordinary disciples had no vision, no connections, and no information channels. So when others were secretly selling, they were still buying.
But now, they had struck it rich.
Unknown numbers of ordinary disciples saw their net worth double overnight. The money they earned even exceeded the total assets of some senior disciples with backgrounds and backers.
For a time, countless fantastical stories spread throughout the Saint Sect.
For example, a certain destitute poor boy who was publicly rejected by his fiancée furiously divorced her after his net worth doubled, leaving behind the sentence, “Do not bully the youth for being poor”.
Or a certain little girl who, due to her father’s death and mother’s remarriage, had to live under another’s roof. Before buying Substitute Death Yin Puppets, she lived a life where she was beaten and scolded at will by her stepfather daily, unable to even keep her father’s inheritance. Now, with her net worth doubled, she immediately bought a high-grade Cave Abode with full payment…
Do you have a dream? Do you want to realize your dream?
Come buy Substitute Death Yin Puppets!
This madness, where everyone was invested, reached its absolute peak one day when a disciple at the Perfection of Qi Refining suddenly broke through and successfully established his Foundation.
Because that disciple who successfully established his Foundation frankly admitted in public that the reason he could break through was entirely because he earned enough Contribution Points by trading Substitute Death Yin Puppets to buy a Foundation Establishment Pill with full payment. So he wanted to thank the Substitute Death Yin Puppet; if not for it, he couldn’t have defied heaven and changed his fate…
Complete madness.
1000, 2000, 3000… The price of Substitute Death Yin Puppets left everyone in the dust. Watching the soaring price, some were happy, naturally, and some were sad.
Among the happy people was Lu Yang.
He wasn’t greedy. When the price soared to 2000, he decisively chose to sell.
After all, buying 10 at the original price of 200 Contribution Points and selling them at 2000 meant a tenfold profit in one round trip—20,000 Contribution Points in the bag!
Among the sad people was Zhao Xuhe.
When he saw the price rebounding, he regretted it until his intestines turned green, especially after seeing Wang Bairong, whom he used to look down on and even planned to harm.
As far as he knew, Wang Bairong, this guy who had been mediocre for decades and had half his body buried in the ground, had hoarded a full 20-plus Substitute Death Yin Puppets. All of them were bought at high prices during this period. When Zhao Xuhe was secretly selling earlier, he had secretly laughed at Wang Bairong for being a leek waiting to be cut.
But now, that bastard was about to earn 100,000 Contribution Points!
If it was just him not earning money, that would be fine.
But when Zhao Xuhe saw Wang Bairong earning so many Contribution Points, smiling so much every day that he couldn’t close his mouth, that feeling was truly more unbearable than losing money himself!
Seeing the price of Substitute Death Yin Puppets rising all the way with no trend of stopping, Zhao Xuhe thought it over and hesitated for a whole night.
Finally, he entered the market for the second time.
The Contribution Points he earned from leaving the market earlier were thrown back into the Substitute Death Yin Puppet market.
At first, he remained cautious and didn’t invest all his Contribution Points. But seeing the price keep rising, for every point it rose, he felt like he lost a point.
“Opportunity knocks but once. I’ve already missed it once— how can I miss it a second time?”
“It will still rise. Buying now is better than buying later…”
There were many people who shared Zhao Xuhe’s thoughts.
And when this batch of people who cashed out earliest re-entered the market, it stimulated the rise of Substitute Death Yin Puppets again and further solidified people’s confidence.
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