Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 658 - 641: The Leading Scrolls Drive the Latter

Chapter 658: Chapter 641: The Leading Scrolls Drive the Latter

Although the Cultivation Team can only accommodate a very limited number of people, and they also must be limited to the sect, rules are dead, but people are alive.

There are many ways to get around them.

For example, Instructor Ding stipulated that the team he established, which is the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company, belongs to the headquarters.

For the later entrants, such as the disciples of Henggang Sect, disciples of the Qingming Medicine Furnace, etc., they can set up subordinate cultivation teams under their respective sects.

The ’Henggang Branch of the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company’ set up by a fellow from Henggang Sect is just one of these types.

Similar teams have also appeared in other sects and have begun promoting Nine Dragon Elixirs.

Certainly, after two days of rough development, the entire framework of the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company has become very large, so Instructor Ding had to find a relatively active player to specifically tally the internal personnel structure of this organization.

He even had to create a rather complicated excel sheet to keep track of each member’s sales performance, future share ratio, and other information, and update it in real-time.

Chen Tingquan was somewhat disapproving, thinking that Instructor Ding was just busying himself for nothing.

No matter how professional it is, like a pyramid scheme, so what?

Buying these Nine Dragon Elixirs requires real money, and most ordinary players simply don’t have money. Their Cultivation Loans have already been drained by the sect, and now they are even struggling to repay, let alone having so many people buy elixirs from him.

Becoming a Level A dealer is almost out of reach.

"Another week of sect grand comparison time."

Chen Tingquan, Liang Chun, and Li Wenhao took the members of the Tou Fangfang Cultivation Team and headed once again to the sect competition venue.

The content of this event is no different from the last one: sign-up, group, fight, and leave.

Just don’t know if anyone will dare challenge the disciples of the Wuxiang Pill Alliance this time.

However, upon arriving at the venue, Chen Tingquan suddenly felt that there seemed to be some changes compared to last week.

Visibly, musclemen have increased!

Moreover, not just musclemen, there are also muscle women. The physique of many players has grown significantly.

"Something is wrong, very wrong!"

Chen Tingquan looked down at his own physique, then looked at Liang Chun and Li Wenhao’s physique.

Although they were also using Nine Dragon Elixirs, they used them sparingly, only within the quota of their Cultivation Loans, just enough to prevent themselves from defaulting.

However, compared to last week, their physiques did not have significantly noticeable changes, just a slight swelling.

On careful inspection, those with significantly prominent physiques, most of them have a common feature, that is, the cultivation team name under their names are labeled ’Henggang Branch of the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company’.

Chen Tingquan’s expression turned serious, he quickly mounted his flying sword, and flew to other sect areas to check.

The grand competition site allows free movement between areas, without air wall restrictions like sect formations.

Just that players need to return before the competition starts, otherwise missing the appearance time would result in an automatic loss.

When Chen Tingquan flew back from other sect areas, Li Wenhao was still baffled.

"Brother Quan, what’s wrong?"

Chen Tingquan’s expression was serious: "It’s bad, this time the grand comparison might end in defeat again."

Soon, the grand competition began.

The three of them, just like last time, appeared on stage as one-year disciples, ten-year disciples, and hundred-year disciples respectively.

Originally, Li Wenhao thought, after a week of training, along with the natural player attrition in this game, he could work hard and win at least one more round, right?

Unexpectedly, all three brothers were eliminated in the first round.

And those who eliminated them indeed bore the names like ’Henggang Branch of the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company’ or the ’Second Qingming Medicine Furnace Branch of the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company’ on their displays!

Looking at other areas, the situation was almost the same.

The players labeled with the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company name all successfully broke through the first round!

But this was not all, Chen Tingquan quickly realized a more serious problem.

Back in the sect, continuing to complete the daily tests.

The test results, however, were very harsh: all three brothers could not even make it as excellent disciples, and all became the lowest-tier regular disciples!

As for the outstanding disciples’ leaderboard, most were occupied by people from the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company.

"Wait, what’s going on here?

"I really didn’t play seriously this week, but how come it feels like being abandoned by the world?

"Why did it suddenly start to spiral out of control out of nowhere??"

In the Tou Fangfang Cultivation Group, there were also some other team members, including some who were not very active.

At this moment, everyone gathered together, seeing no one in the group became an excellent disciple, they couldn’t help but feel despondent.

Chen Tingquan ruefully said: "It’s all Instructor Ding’s fault!

"He ruined the cultivation world’s atmosphere!"

Everyone gathered to review, and soon deduced the specifics from various clues.

Simply put, it’s the situation where initial competition drives subsequent competition, Instructor Ding utilized money power, flooring the gas pedal several times on the cultivation world’s brakes already applied!

When the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company was first established, it was just a few wealthy whales joining, helping Instructor Ding to spread the inventory pressure of Nine Dragon Elixirs a bit.

These whales joined for different reasons, some purely because they were fans of Instructor Ding, some looking for future discounts on Nine Dragon Elixirs, and others for making money.

For example, the "fried dealer" they encountered when they went to apply for Time Loan before, also joined the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company at the first opportunity.

Afterward, these people started hitting various leaderboards while developing downstream.

The first to be impacted were the daily tests of the Six Major Sects.

Originally, these daily tests were a grinding mechanism, just that everyone was tired and unable to grind anymore, so the rankings of excellent disciples and outstanding disciples were roughly fixed.

But as a group started aggressively pushing, the leaderboard began to change again.

This trend also continued spreading, starting from the Six Major Sects to regular sects, until now, even small places like Henggang Sect Songyang Branch had earth-shaking changes...

Li Wenhao frowned: "Truly an escalating competition driven by initial competition?

"But why do I feel something is off here? In the beginning, wasn’t it just Instructor Ding alone in the race?

"How much money did he pour in to make so many people join him in this race?

"If everyone refused to join, causing him to dominate the leaderboard alone, wouldn’t that work?"

Chen Tingquan sighed: "It’s a pyramid scheme, Instructor Ding brought pyramid schemes into this system!"

At this time, the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company had very explicit distribution and promotion mechanisms.

That is, after selling Nine Dragon Elixirs, commissions can be earned.

And hitting the leaderboard also comes with corresponding rewards.

In fact, in this game, zero-spending players are the overwhelming majority, and if relying solely on the whales to promote, the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company wouldn’t have developed this rapidly.

But the joining of zero-spending players changed the situation.

Originally, there were few places where zero-spending players could earn extra income, mostly only in the Barbaric World hunting some materials to sell, which could hardly cover the heavy consumption of Nine Dragon Elixirs.

But now, after joining the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company, they could earn some commissions by selling Nine Dragon Elixirs or obtain commissions by ranking high on the leaderboard.

This was all extra income, which greatly increased their enthusiasm, allowing them the ability to consume more Nine Dragon Elixirs and keep climbing up.

Over time, a virtuous circle formed.

This is somewhat akin to the mode of many national war games, where gold-spending bosses support a huge guild, distributing red packets based on leaderboard rankings, and there are specific people to tabulate attendance, fully mobilizing their enthusiasm.

Of course, all this is premised on Instructor Ding and a few initial big whales of the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company themselves investing a lot of money into it.

But for them, it doesn’t matter to burn money initially, once dealership ranks rise quickly, becoming Level B or even Level A dealers, and gradually monopolizing the Nine Dragon Elixir market of the entire server, then the money can be earned back.

Under this mode, the influence of the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company quickly grew, spreading throughout the server within a week, even small places like the Henggang Sect Songyang Branch were almost dominated by members of the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company.

"Damn it, this Instructor Ding is simply heinous!

"Originally, everyone didn’t want to compete anymore, but he forced everyone back into competition by throwing money?

"I strongly suspect this guy is a plant from Nitiandang!

"When is he going to blow himself up and die again?"

The members of the Tou Fangfang Cultivation Group were extremely outraged. The state before was already pretty good; everyone could just mix as excellent disciples and then slowly cultivate.

Now, however, a bunch of zero-spending players fell into the big pit of the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company, not only crazily promoting Nine Dragon Elixirs but also increasing their dosages.

If this keeps going, the members of the Tou Fangfang Cultivation Group will likely end up at the bottom of the Henggang Sect.

...

Contrary to the groans of casual players, Instructor Ding’s side was a scene of joy and prosperity.

Although he spent a lot of money, Instructor Ding’s dealership level did indeed rise rapidly!

After establishing the Technology Cultivation Supplement Company, in just three days, he climbed from Level D dealer to Level C, and after another two days, he reached Level B.

Although the number of elixirs required for further level-ups increased exponentially, the distribution channels established by Instructor Ding were also expanding rapidly, so the progress was still delightful.

At this time, Instructor Ding had already distributed all the Nine Dragon Elixirs he had, just waiting for his dealership level to rise.

"Great, finally Level A dealer!

I’m faster than I thought, in just a week, I thought it would take at least a month.

Looks like I’m truly a sales genius!

How about I start live streaming my sales tomorrow?

Instructor Ding was very happy. Though he had poured tens of thousands into the game due to various subsidies while privately giving significant cash red packets to some key members, it didn’t matter, it was all worth it!

After becoming a Level A dealer, he could start to gradually recover the initial costs.

Of course, the most important thing was the exclusive supreme Tao Companion in the server.

This kind of thing, in other pay-to-win games, selling for tens of thousands would be entirely reasonable!

"Hm? Why can the Level A dealership qualification still drop?

"Forget it, let’s not worry about it now, Supreme Tao Companion, here I come!"