Primordial Era: The Witch Clan's Dog-Headed Strategist

The coin is golden yellow all over, with a pair of small wings growing from its edge. Chaotic energy slowly flows through its square hole; it is the Treasure-Dropping Coin.

He held the money in his palm, its purplish-gold aura of righteousness intertwined with the mysterious yellow light of merit.

When the coins were poured in, the wings on the copper coins fluttered slightly.

An invisible wave of law emanated from Pan Xuan and spread out in all directions.

"Dear elder brothers and sisters, and three brothers, please use your primordial spirit to sense this law."

Pan Xuan said slowly.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones each released their divine senses, and the laws contained within the Treasure-Dropping Coins were extremely profound.

Like an invisible net, with transactions as its threads and wealth as its nodes, it covers every corner of the primordial world.

Zhu Rong scratched his head and spoke first: "Brother Pan Xuan, I sensed the fluctuations of the laws within this copper coin, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is."

It seems to have absolutely nothing to do with my Nanming Li Huo (a type of Chinese magic), as if it has nothing to do with me.

Gonggong, unusually, did not argue, but said in a deep voice, "It seems to have little to do with my Way of the Weak Water."

Xuanming nodded coldly, his words concise: "The connection isn't strong."

Jumang, Rushou, Qiangliang, Xizi, Shebishi, and Tianwu all shook their heads, indicating that they could only sense a peculiar law within the money.

However, that law did not seem to resonate much with its own fundamental Dao.

The same applies to Dijiang and Zhujiuyin.

Dijiang's spatial laws govern location and distance, while Zhujiuyin's temporal laws govern the past and future.

Trade and wealth have almost no intersection with their main path.

However, the feelings of the Three Pure Ones and Houtu were completely different.

Taiqing Laozi slowly opened his eyes. Yin and Yang energies swirled rapidly within his calm, still eyes, and his tone carried a rare hint of surprise:

"This law... I have never sensed it in the laws of Heaven. It does not belong to Yin and Yang, nor to the Five Elements, nor to any known system of laws of Heaven."

Yuanshi also infused the coin with the light of chaos, and after a moment, his brow furrowed slightly:

"Indeed, it is not within the laws of Heaven. Chaos encompasses all things, and all laws of Heaven bear traces of chaos to some extent."

But this law has no origin in the chaos.

Tongtian went even further, the Four Swords of Zhuxian emitting a clear, melodious sword cry behind him. He sensed the laws within the coins with his sword intent, and after a moment, his eyes flashed with sword intent:

"Interesting. This law is neither the Way of Heaven nor the Way of Earth; it is completely different from all the laws we have encountered before."

It seemed to appear out of thin air, yet it undeniably existed between heaven and earth.

The Law Deity of the Lord of Reincarnation between Houtu's brows flickered slightly. Sensing it for a moment with the authority of the Lord of the Underworld, she slowly spoke, her voice carrying a hint of enlightenment:

"This law has no connection with the earth."

The law of reincarnation emphasizes the rebirth of the deceased and the cycle of cause and effect, but the core of this law seems to be not cause and effect, but exchange.

An exchange mediated by goods or value. It exists independently of the laws of Heaven and Earth, forming a self-contained system.

Pan Xuan smiled slightly, held the Treasure-Locking Coin in his palm, and slowly said:

"Houtu's perception is the most accurate."

This coin contains two principles.

The Way of Wealth and the Way of Trading.

The great way of trading is to exchange goods for goods, to exchange power for power, and to exchange cause for cause. All exchanges in the world are manifestations of the laws of trading.

The acquired path to wealth uses money and goods as a medium to quantify transactions into concrete value exchanges.

These two principles are two sides of the same coin, complementing each other. The fundamental principles of trading are the core, while the path to wealth is its extension.

He paused, then continued:

"The reason why these two laws are not in the Heavenly Way is because the Heavenly Way was born when the Father God Pangu created the world."

In the beginning of time, the world was desolate, without living beings or exchange, so there was no need for rules of trade or ways of making money.

The Path of the Underworld was established when the Law of Reincarnation was established. It governs the rebirth of the deceased and the cycle of cause and effect. Transactions and wealth are not within the Path of the Underworld's jurisdiction.

However, the importance of these two laws will become increasingly important as the primordial world develops.

Or rather, their importance was already evident in the primordial world, but no one had refined them into laws or principles.

"For the divine system to function for a long time, the order of heaven and earth, the cycle of life and death, and the way of teaching are not enough."

Every day, countless exchanges take place among the beings of the primordial world. Rogue cultivators exchange goods for other goods, small clans exchange spiritual materials for protection, and mountain and water gods exchange merits for fortune.

These exchanges are not governed by any rules, so they can only rely on the voluntary actions of the parties involved.

While some are self-aware, many more are not.

The Divine Path Network covers most of the prehistoric lands. If it can formally establish the rules of trading and the path to wealth, it will be able to achieve great things.

By making the exchange legally regulated and based on established rules, the cultivation resources of the entire prehistoric world will be allocated in an unprecedentedly rational manner.

Merit is no longer a one-sided gift bestowed by Heaven, but can flow in an orderly manner within the divine network.

Fortune is no longer an elusive destiny, but a quantifiable law and authority that can be determined through merit and contribution.

"More importantly, the way of wealth and the way of trade are different from the authority of mountain gods and water gods."

Those powers require specific backgrounds and cultivation levels to wield, and ordinary rogue cultivators can never get their hands on them in their entire lives.

But the rules of trading are different.

Any rogue cultivator, even one with only the cultivation level of refining essence into qi.

Both can acquire cultivation resources through trade, and both can participate in the operation of the primordial economy through the path of wealth.

This will allow the most primitive beings in the primordial world to truly experience the benefits of the divine system for the first time.

They will no longer be bystanders in the divine system, but direct participants and beneficiaries of the divine laws.

This is the most fundamental difference between the divine system and the Hongjun Immortal Path.

The path of immortality descends from top to bottom, with sages at its core, and ordinary people can only passively endure it.

The divine path ascends from the bottom up, based on all races, and every living being can find its place within the laws.

Taiqing Laozi slowly opened his eyes, a thoughtful glint flashing in his calm, still gaze:

"Brother Pan Xuan's words indeed point out the core difference between the divine path system and the immortal path system."

The path of immortality takes saints as its peak, and all living beings are climbers; the path of divinity is based on laws, and all living beings are participants.

The inclusion of trading rules and financial principles will make this participation more direct and widespread.

The Primordial Interface states: "The existing laws and principles of the divine system include mountain gods, water gods, funerals, reincarnation, education, and creation."

Both are top-down methods of maintaining order.

Trading principles and financial wisdom form the first bottom-up framework of principles.

The establishment of this lineage signifies that the divine system has expanded from "governing heaven and earth" to the level of "benefiting all living beings."

Tongtian went even further: "Brother Panxuan, now that the Treasure Falling Coin is in your hands and you have already begun to refine the authority of the trading rules, what are you waiting for?"

"Just incorporate these two laws directly into the divine system!"

Pan Xuan shook his head slightly: "No rush. The rules of trading are different from the ways of making money."

The rules of trading can be directly incorporated into the divine system through the falling treasure coins, but the path of wealth requires the joint participation of all living beings in the primordial world to truly function.

If laws are merely incorporated into the divine network without corresponding systems and practices to support them, then it is nothing more than a castle in the air.

However, there is one more thing to do before that.

There are no rules of trade or the way of wealth in the Way of Heaven; this is a deficiency in the Way of Heaven itself.

The underground passage was opened up by the Wu tribe using the law of reincarnation, and it is itself a supplement to the order of heaven and earth.

Since these two Great Daos are independent of the Heavenly Dao and the Earthly Dao, they are indeed indispensable laws for the operation of the primordial world.

They should first be incorporated into the Heavenly Dao to make its legal framework more complete, and then incorporated into the Divine Dao system so that the Divine Dao network can use these two laws to regulate the exchange order of the primordial world.

First mend the heavens, then merge with the Dao; this order cannot be disordered.

He held up the precious coin in his hand; the wings on the coin fluttered slightly, and chaotic energy slowly flowed within its square hole. He continued to explain:

"After completing the Heavenly Dao, we will gradually promote the Dao of Wealth in the primordial world, based on the Divine Dao Network."

Once the path of wealth takes root and flourishes in the primordial world, the divine system will, outside the order of heaven and earth, forge a completely new network of laws in which all living beings participate.