Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 657 - 640: Sales Channels

Chapter 657: Chapter 640: Sales Channels

"Bro, wanna buy some potions?

"Freshly made Nine Dragon Elixirs, cheaper than from the Elixir Room, suffering huge loss and clearing out the stock, limited quantity, first come, first served."

Instructor Ding was continuously shouting in the Erosion Spirit Heavenly Palace Square.

But after shouting for one or two hours, the results were not very promising.

Some people bought, but not many.

Logically, Instructor Ding had indeed offered a slightly lower price than the Elixir Room’s, and in terms of the cost price, he was indeed selling at a loss.

But the problem was, for other players, it wasn’t very attractive.

Though Erosion Spirit Heavenly Palace was full of whales, there was still a difference in spending power among them.

Top-tier whales like Instructor Ding buy large packs with discounts frequently and stockpile a lot of Nine Dragon Elixirs, not needing to buy more for now.

The poor small whales, on the other hand, have started taking out loans crazily to maintain their rankings within the Sect, using all energies, and buying just enough Nine Dragon Elixirs to consume immediately, without extra resources to buy more.

The only buyers from Instructor Ding’s offerings were mid-tier whales, and even they bought in limited quantities.

Even selling at a loss, due to the cost price, the slight reduction compared to the Elixir Room wasn’t enough to cause a buying frenzy among all players.

"No way, selling like this isn’t going to work.

"I need to find a way to expand my sales channels."

Instructor Ding quickly realized this situation wouldn’t hold.

The server had only so many players, although they were dynamically changing, they were also spread across various big and small Sects.

Shouting in the Sect Square of Erosion Spirit Heavenly Palace would at most reach the disciples present here, but how many customers was that?

This was only his first batch, not particularly large, and it was so hard to sell.

When this batch was sold out, there would be a second and third batch; who knows how many batches would need to be sold to be promoted to a Level A dealer?

This type of selling tactic, absolutely no way.

Need to find a way to open up sales channels, allowing all server players to buy Nine Dragon Elixirs from me.

Losses for now were acceptable, with the Blue and Green Modifier on, he could charge in a lot of money for now, still affording the losses. Even more, after reaching a higher dealer level, this money could slowly be earned back.

The key was to form a stable, reliable, and huge sales channel; otherwise, without moving the products, everything would be useless.

"Seems like there’s only one way.

"I must become the most famous player on the server; I have to strive for the Heavenly Pride assessment!"

Instructor Ding, being a clever player, quickly figured out the key points.

This was Nitiandang’s overt scheme!

Because consuming too many Nine Dragon Elixirs led to body explosion and death, it was inevitable according to game mechanics.

But this also caused whales to refrain and stop recharging.

This was the current situation.

But Nitiandang definitely didn’t want to see this happen; if you all stop recharging, how would I make money?

If you all stop exploding, enjoy the game peacefully, wouldn’t this game be a waste?

So, Nitiandang would still find ways to make everyone continue consuming Elixirs and keep exploding.

How to achieve that?

Very simple, just using the current mechanics.

Understanding this, Instructor Ding decided to max out the Nine Dragon Elixirs!

For now, he wouldn’t waste time shouting in front of various Sects to sell potions; the selling results weren’t good now.

Because at this time, the market for Nine Dragon Elixirs was temporarily saturated, players worried about body explosion had reduced their consumption, so potions weren’t selling, which was normal.

What Instructor Ding needed to do now was to shatter their perception, bringing them back to the right path of using Nine Dragon Elixirs for cultivation.

Open the cultivation interface, open the Nine Dragon Elixir consumption plan, and max it out!

Of course, this so-called maxing out wasn’t to the maximum; the game’s freedom was high, there was no upper limit to consuming Nine Dragon Elixirs, players could indeed consume themselves to body explosion in one go if they wished.

Eating Nine Dragon Elixirs like meals would achieve this effect.

But this made no sense.

Previously, Instructor Ding’s consumption was one pill per one or two days, combined with training, which was seen as a high-efficiency and low-organ toxicity option.

This was the optimal dose summed up by countless cultivation predecessors.

If the dose was any lower, organ toxicity would significantly decrease, but so would training effects.

If the dose was any higher, there would be some improvement in training effects but with a substantial increase in organ toxicity.

But now, Instructor Ding had figured out the game mechanics.

He directly doubled the original dosage of Nine Dragon Elixirs!

If the Melt Shell Dragon previously needed just one a day, now he’d consume two.

Same with other Nine Dragon Elixirs, previously consuming one every two days, now one every day.

Anyway, it’s a new body, just go crazy!

Body explosion would lead to a loss of cultivation, effectively losing the Nine Dragon Elixirs and money.

But now Instructor Ding was a wealthy tycoon, holding a lot of Nine Dragon Elixirs intended for loss-sale, so consuming them himself wouldn’t incur much more loss.

Admittedly, doubling the Nine Dragon Elixir consumption yielded instant results.

Combined with the additional effect of quickly regaining original cultivation after rebirth, his cultivation realm improved by leaps and bounds, almost like he was hacking.

The bullet chats were full of amazement.

"Wow, Little Ding is done being reasonable? Just completely giving up?"

"Really treating Nine Dragon Elixirs as meals."

"The previous dosage already made him the first to body explode on the server, now aiming for the second spot too?"

"Bro, you’re already invincible, why consume so many Nine Dragon Elixirs? Totally can’t understand."

"Good job, streamer! As a streamer, you should chase such program effects!"

The bullet chats were discussing fervently, but clearly, only a small part of the audience understood the purpose behind Instructor Ding’s actions.

After an intensive wave of cultivation, having nearly completed today’s cultivation tasks, Instructor Ding started with other matters.

He disbanded his previous cultivation team "Ding’s Instructor Square" and founded a new team.

"Technology Cultivation Supplement Company"!

Then, he spent money buying some transmission messages, broadcasting to the entire server.

"Technology Cultivation Supplement Company recruits the first batch of founding members! Our goal is to dominate all server leaderboards!

"Many discounts on Nine Dragon Elixirs within the group, accelerate your cultivation progress tremendously!

"The group also offers various promotion schemes with high commissions from Nine Dragon Elixir distribution, allowing you to enjoy the game without further charging, possibly even converting to money!

"Limited number of initial founding members, must be disciples from the Six Major Sects, with cumulative spending above thirty thousand, interested parties contact me immediately!"

Soon after posting, many curious inquiries came through transmission messages.

Instructor Ding patiently explained to each of them.

But most players didn’t follow up afterward.

The reason was simple: Instructor Ding was currently drawing a pie, and the words did sound like a pyramid scheme.

Or, more accurately, it’s not like one, it is one!

Instructor Ding’s idea was straightforward:

To sell Nine Dragon Elixirs massively and become a Level A dealer, high server-wide fame was needed, drawing everyone to buy his potions.

How to gain such fame? Dominating the leaderboards was the best choice.

If he could ensure all the top-ranked players in every leaderboard were from "Technology Cultivation Supplement Company," along with some discounts, naturally, players from the whole server would buy Nine Dragon Elixirs here.

But such a task couldn’t be achieved by Instructor Ding alone.

He could undoubtedly rank first on individual leaderboards, but many challenges in this game were team-based.

Although his combat power was high enough to crush many ordinary players, a few whales slightly lower than him could still turn the tables.

Moreover, selling potions required many helpers. Instructor Ding needed to consider his program effects, couldn’t be shouting for sales at every Sect entrance all the time, right?

That efficiency was too low.

Thus, he initially planned to draw some whales across the server. How to entice these whales? Of course, with profit.

The promised discounts on Nine Dragon Elixirs and high commissions from distribution were essentially drawing a pie.

Once those players messaged for details, Instructor Ding would reveal the truth:

In the beginning, everyone had to sell potions at a loss, with Instructor Ding taking a bigger hit while others took smaller hits.

After becoming a Level B dealer, they could gradually recover their costs;

And upon becoming a Level A dealer, they could start making money effortlessly.

But many players instantly saw through Instructor Ding’s little trick and didn’t reply further.

Only a small number chose to join.

This included Instructor Ding’s fans and followers, as well as some whales still wanting to group up.

Though few in number, it was enough for Instructor Ding.

After all, they would be the future founding members and management of Technology Cultivation Supplement Company, too many would make profit-sharing difficult.

...

A week later.

Chen Tingquan logged in as usual to begin cultivation, just finished utilizing today’s efficient cultivation time, when a guy approached him, with a dialogue bubble floating above his head.

"Brother, wanna buy some potions?"

Chen Tingquan turned and saw this guy was also a disciple of the Henggang Sect and an outstanding disciple of the year.

But he wore the title of Technology Cultivation Supplement Company Henggang Branch.

Chen Tingquan typed in frustration: "No money!"

Unexpectedly, this guy didn’t give up: "Can take a Cultivation Loan."

Chen Tingquan stopped replying, but the guy wasn’t annoyed and moved on to pitch to someone else.

"Little Ding’s sales channel expanded quite quickly."

Chen Tingquan couldn’t help but marvel.

Instructor Ding just started this Technology Cultivation Supplement Company a week ago, and now its downlines were all over the major Sects in the server.