077. Want to get rich? Build more roads, raise more pigs, have fewer kids.

  After impnting his Omega Energy into the remaining 47 pyers, Li Aozi turned around and took off into the sky.

  Even as Li Aozi’s figure rose into the skyline and gradually disappeared from sight, the pyers were still full of emotion.

  “Li Aozi really is a good person.”

  Flying high above, Li Aozi ted his gains: 47 pyers had been impnted with Omega Energy, and they had purchased 20 vials of mutation-indug potions in one go. He had given them a group dist—10,000 Derbis each.

  Total: 94,000 experience points, 200,000 Derbis.

  He had just earned 90,000 experience points and 200,000 Derbis in one shot—this was way faster than grinding monsters and doing quests on his own.

  “Pyers really are good people.”

  In truth, renting out Omega Energy didn’t cause any side effects for Li Aozi.

  Li Aozi always operated on a thin-profit, high-volume, ve, and affordable business model. As the pioneer of the Dao Path, he treated the pyers like precious assets, cultivating them with care.

  Ideally, he could eve up ao have them pete, f internal flid seleg the best didates.

  Harvesting crops (i.e., exploiting pyers) might yield quick profits, but it would hurt their sense of loyalty to Li Aozi.

  Raising pigs, oher hand, was different. Pigs receive meticulous care throughout their lives—someone pairs them up, adjusts the humidity and temperature, maintains hygiene on par with a b, pys music to keep them happy, and feeds them nutritious, delicious food until they grow fat and strong. When they get sick, free doctors treat them with utmost care, and sometimes they’re even given exercise to stay healthy. In terms of body fat pertage, pigs might be healthier than most humans.

  If not for the fact that they would eventually be eaten, Li Aozi figured most people wouldn’t live as fortably as pigs.

  When it came to his ma style, Li Aozi thought it over carefully—it was basically pig farming.

  Harvesting crops was a quick cash grab, but pig farming was a long-term iment. After raising a pig for six months, it would weigh around 250 to 300 pounds.

  Acc to the Azure Star market rate of 20 Derbis per pound, one pig could sell for about 6,000 Derbis. If he had 10 pigs, that would be at least 55,000 Derbis.

  After subtrag the cost of piglets (1,100 Derbis), feed (14,000 Derbis), medie (1,000 Derbis), and utilities (1,200 Derbis), the profit would still be 27,200 Derbis.

  The key point was that people wouldn’t keep eating crops, but pork was a food they eagerly anticipated.

  When you raise your own pigs to be fat, strong, and powerful, with unique personalities, and then sughter them, bleed them out, dunk them in boiling water, scrape off their hair, ahem at the market...

  That satisfa of nurturing and reaping the rewards is something harvesting crops could never provide.

  The nature of the Dao Path meant that cultivating pyers int, simple-minded, powerful "big fat pigs" was the highest-value approach.

  The strohe pyers became, the stronger his Dao Path became, and the faster Omega Energy developed, which made Li Aozi more powerful. With that strength, he could expand the pig farm and raise more "big fat pigs." The more pigs he had, the stronger he became, leading to tinuous expansion—a nearly self-sustaining cycle of growth.

  The cohesiht by the Dao Path was far more reliable than religion or nationalism.

  After all, panions could betray you, and gods weren’t always reliable, but power ower. The tiers of the Dao Path were something you fought for yourself, and it would never betray you.

  During the process of pig farming—no, pyer farming—Li Aozi could also offer "work to pay off debts" and "work for aid" schemes to keep the pyers motivated, turning them into a super-merary force that could be directed at will.

  This model of Li Aozi's was actually the same way narrative-level civilizatio with powerful individuals in his past life.

  After all, you couldn’t stop the extraordinary from pursuing assion, but you could form cooperative, mutually beneficial retionships.

  No matter how strong you were as an individual, you were still just one person. But Li Aozi trolled aire Dao Path, and with enough time and a massive popution, there would always be someorohan you.

  Ultimately, you still had desires and needs, and narrative-level civilizations could satisfy those.

  You o advance further on the Dao Path, learn higher teiques, and broaden your horizons—could an individual’s intelligend creativity pare to the tless possibilities of aire civilization?

  For those strong individuals who had been abandoned by their rades, it didn’t matter—they could always retreat to Star Abyss. But with its six yers, would they really want to face isotion on every single one?

  Besides, people had long misuood something: individual strength didn’t necessarily mean civilization would bow to you.

  This clusion didn’t hold up in Star Abyss because an individual could never defeat society.

  Society itself was a monster made up of all citizens, institutions, traits, and the supreme leader of a civilization, transformed by extraordinary power into a collective entity known as "society."

  In other words, no matter how strong you were, a society of the same level would tain hundreds of thousands or even billions of powerful individuals.

  Plus, society had at least oraordinary individual called the "Speaker."

  Iy, when an individual strongman faced society, they thought it was a one-on-one duel between men. But it was actually one versus one plus one plus (the popution of the society).

  The "society" species was truly the disaster of the universe.

  Narrative-level civilizations were skilled in this area. They couldn’t gather all power and sciousness like a society, but they used the temptation of the Dao Path as a dder of assion to wis.

  【Destru】 was the most tested Dao Path, followed by 【Craft】, then 【Redemption】.

  The 【Eerie】 and 【Plunder】 Dao Path's main gods were still around, so people were only fighting for the role of their apostles.

  Li Aozi had always tered his as around the Dao Path of the 【Starfall Master】, which he was most familiar with.

  The main god of the 【Domination】 Dao Path, Mophidria, had been firmed dead. The petition among the Dao Paths of the 【queror】, 【Lightbringer】, and 【Endbringer】 was intense, with many a monsters who had accumuted tless years vying for them. The result of being on a popur Dao Path was stant petition.

  Li Aozi simply said: Why should I bother peting when I easily slip away? Why engage in internal struggle?

  Increasing the number of 【Starfall Master】 pyers was far easier than fighting against those a petition kings.

  The 【Destru】 Dao Path was the most ridiculous. Although its tless sub-branches allowed for nearly infinite derivations of various Dao Paths, its popurity meant that whoever trolled a single Dao Path iru】 would attract tless strong individuals to gather around them.

  People weren’t stupid—fighting to the death had no good oute. With aing Dao Path avaible, why waste energy fighting for a main god position?

  By parison, the 【Starfall Master】 Dao Path was a blue o—a new world filled with profit and opportunity, without cutthroat petition.

  Just as Li Aozi was calg this pn in his head, flying toward Tianhuan, the world underwent a subtle shift.

  Tianhuan, Nuliang City, District 12.

  In a dark alley er, a young man who had been knocked unscious in a brawl suddenly tilted his head.

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