Fake Husband of the Glamorous CEO-Chapter 449: Spirit Stone resources critical, competing for the [Cold Moon Sect] project

Chapter 449: 449: Spirit Stone resources critical, competing for the [Cold Moon Sect] project

Global spirit stone supplies had become scarce!

Due to the rapid promotion of core members within major families to breakthroughs, the consumption of spirit stones faced an emergency. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Moreover, the limited number of employees recruited in the mining areas of the three Nascent Soul Lords had resulted in many Foundation Establishment Cultivators being unemployed in a short duration.

There was a time when those unemployed Foundation Establishment Experts in major families were despised like dogs.

Thus, whenever there was a job opening, the phones of the heads of each family would explode, eagerly marketing the Foundation Establishment Experts in their clans.

Li Yan’s Star System mine was indeed recruiting employees, but only a limited number.

Probably no more than a thousand people.

With nearly 50,000 Foundation Establishment individuals on Earth, the competition was fierce.

It was known that after the last space exploration, the materials they brought back were made into 200,000 Foundation Establishment Pills, meaning more Foundation Establishment Experts would continue to emerge.

Just like soon-to-be graduates, those Qi Refining Late Stage family members also felt pessimistic about their Foundation Establishment journey when they saw the market situation.

So, the question arose, wasn’t anyone using the Teleportation Array to go to ownerless star systems in the Galaxy to search for spirit stone mines?

Of course, there were.

But the cost was also very high.

With 20,000 Teleportation Arrays constructed across the Galaxy covering 150 billion star systems, you had to blindly use the Teleportation Array to search.

And with a single use of the Teleportation Array costing one spirit stone, how much would you have to spend?

Moreover, without any spirit mine detection equipment or magical treasures, it was like searching for a needle in the sea.

This involved a common-sense issue, which was that the Divine Sense of a Nascent Soul Stage expert could penetrate mountains and rock layers, thus they could detect spirit stone mines.

Core Formation Cultivators couldn’t.

This led many major families to try sending people to ownerless planets to search for spirit mines, but after spending hundreds to thousands of spirit stones, they were forced to abandon this idea.

They might have been able to search for oil mineral resources, but those were so abundant on Earth that they were worthless, so the major families had already abandoned the no-brainer plan of mining.

Under this premise, there was the scene where the threshold for Li Yan being promoted to Nascent Soul Lord was flattened.

When the Li family helped to recruit mine workers, many families even bribed officials to smoothly slot their family members into the list.

For spirit stones, major families around the world were sparing no efforts.

They had set their sights on the Singapore consortium responsible for constructing palaces in exchange for mining quotas for Lord Yu.

"You barely have a construction team of 50 people, and how long will it take for you to complete the construction? Aren’t you afraid of offending Lord Yu if you don’t meet the deadline?"

At the home of the President of the Singapore consortium, David from the Angsa forces personally visited, and the President dared not refuse to meet him.

After all, David was in the Core Formation Stage, while he was just in the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

Before this, he had already received and seen off four groups of visitors.

The first group was from Europe, who had variously threatened and tempted him while waiting for him to make up his mind and call back.

The second group was the oil tycoons from East Middle.

The third group was from South America, led by Eileen’s father, with the South American Cultivation Alliance also coming to criticize and instruct.

"The contents are essentially the same as what Angsa’s David suggested, hinting that they hoped the Singapore consortium wouldn’t fail to recognize the benefits and would release a portion of the spirit stone pie."

"This way, our alliance will provide you with a thousand people to help you catch up with the schedule, and even hand over the project ahead of time so that you can start the mining project sooner. By then, your forces will take 60%, and we will take 40%!"

"These people had already gotten wind of the news that the contract signed between the Singapore consortium and Yu Zecheng for the small spirit mine was conservatively estimated to be able to produce at least 300,000 spirit stones."

"If this were the past, they really wouldn’t care about such a quantity, but now that spirit stone resources are in a crisis, they have no choice but to shamelessly beg."

The chairman of the Singapore consortium wryly expressed his difficulties.

They dared not break off relations outright for fear of their people moving around the universe and potentially facing retaliation from these stronger forces.

Thus, the helpless consortium could only allow forces from all sides to participate, eventually letting them divide up 60% of the shares, with the consortium retaining only 40%.

After this, even these small third-tier families felt what it meant to be a case of the survival of the fittest."

And it was only after hearing that the number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators had increased that Liu Yuan and Jiang Xue moved ahead with plans to build their own sect palaces in their star systems.

As protectors of the sect, Liu Yuan and Jiang Xue managed the sect hands-on with utmost dedication."

"Who will take over the mining rights for a mine estimated conservatively at 1 million spirit stones?"

Jiang Xue boldly declared to all the major families worldwide, "Don’t bother if the project bid is below 200 billion RMB!"

Yu Zecheng’s bidding price for 300,000 spirit stones was a construction project worth 50 billion RMB.

Jiang Xue felt that times had changed; she was exchanging triple the output of spirit stones for four times the market rate of construction cost, which wasn’t taking advantage of a crisis."

This news triggered a frenzied response and competition among the major family forces.

"Bid, we offer a construction bid of 300 billion RMB. This mine must be ours!" David from the Angsa forces declared resolutely, slamming his hand on the table.

The major factions had come to a clear understanding that no amount of Earth’s currency could exchange for spirit stones.

Thus, they were willing to pay a higher price in cash to acquire spirit stone resources!"

Even if they spent 300 billion, the mineral resources they brought back from the universe would eventually pay off as they were consumed by the mundane market.

But spirit stones were a different matter; if you missed them, you genuinely missed out!"

Accumulating spirit stones now was essential to expanding your family’s power.

It is well-known that these major families had already stockpiled large amounts of Foundation Establishment Pills and Core Formation Medicines, just waiting for spirit stones to elevate their minor stages and then break through to major realms."

On a larger scale, those Family Heads and protectors making breakthroughs to the Core Formation Stage needed spirit stones even more to advance their minor stages and strive for breakthroughs at the Infant Binding threshold!"

Now, it was a competition of who had greater reserves of spirit stones."

In time, all the major families recruited the world’s best architectural design teams."

Then, all these teams focused their research on one theme: what style does the Great Master’s Wife prefer!"

Everyone knew that the founder of the Cold Moon Sect was the Great Master’s Wife, so the sect’s design had to catch her eye."

Comparing various luxurious materials and piling up costs was less effective than catering to her preferences, thus increasing the likelihood of being chosen."

Accordingly, these teams gathered information on Lin Yue’s early fashion choices and jewelry preferences, then targeted their strategies accordingly."

Some families asked their socialite members who had joined the Cold Moon Sect as Outer Disciples to help find out the Sect Leader’s preferences."

But the response from these Cold Moon Sect disciples was, "We’ve been part of the sect for so long and haven’t even seen the Sect Leader, let alone the protectors."

"Who wouldn’t want to meet the Sect Leader? Being guided by her in our sect’s secret cultivation techniques could greatly advance a disciple, but the Sect Leader is almost a divine entity, even Inner Sect Disciples don’t always get to see her."