socalfunplaces Chapter 5 Nouveau Riche
Chapter 5 Nouveau Riche
"Your funds have been received."
"Account opening successful. You have now become a formal customer of our world's number one bank."
"Your bank card balance is 1,000,000,000,000 Jialan Coins (The Universe's Number One Bank)"
Everything went more smoothly than Suk had imagined.
"I'm now a customer of the world's number one bank?" Suk felt like he was dreaming.
His Universe Bank card now has a full trillion Jialan coins!
If it's Flowing Cloud Coins, then the value is even higher. According to the official exchange of the Empire, 1 Flowing Cloud Coin can be exchanged for 1000 Jialan Coins. However, 1000 Jialan Coins cannot be exchanged back for Flowing Cloud Coins!
Going through the black market... is possible, but it usually costs over a thousand, almost two thousand Jialan coins, to exchange for one Liuyun coin. And ordinary citizens have no idea where the black market is.
Suk looked at the bank card in his hand. This bank card was quite peculiar because it was fused with a spiritual imprint. Only the original owner could use the bank card, and no one else could use it.
This is an absolutely secure method, more secure than any password, after all... everyone's mental imprint is different.
With the bank card in hand, Su Ke felt much more at ease. The Universe's Number One Bank is a super bank that spans the entire universe! This bank card can be used anywhere, and it can also be linked and used in the virtual universe, which is very convenient.
Although Su Ke did not awaken his mental power and was not a mentalist, everyone has a mental sea of consciousness, regardless of whether they are a mentalist or a martial artist.
"One trillion, just like that, it's in my hands." Suk was excited.
He could even buy an entire inhabited planet! He could become its lord, a local emperor, indulging in unparalleled luxury and power... reaching the pinnacle of his own planet, with absolute control over life and death. He could also buy countless slaves to work for him; planetary-level slaves were expensive, but those below planetary level only cost 10 or 20 Jialan coins each! Even buying hundreds of millions would only amount to a few billion!
Planets purchased by lords through legal channels are considered the property of imperial citizens and are marked as such by the empire. They are protected by the empire, and space pirates dare not attack or invade them at will, otherwise the imperial fleet would arrive immediately.
The average price of a planet is 1 trillion Jialan coins.
The price can be as high as a few hundred billion, or as low as a few hundred billion, but those planets are of very low value.
Owning a life-bearing planet is like owning a treasure trove! And a planet's lifespan is generally extremely long, measured in billions of years, making it a perfect heirloom. Of course, since human lifespan is finite, planets are typically sold for in trillions of Jialan coins.
"Right now I'm just a regular customer. Forget about one-star, to upgrade to two-star, I need to have 'deposits of 100 billion Cosmic Coins' to automatically upgrade to a two-star user."
One Cosmic Coin is equivalent to approximately 3300 Flowing Cloud Coins, and 100 billion Cosmic Coins is approximately 33 trillion Flowing Cloud Coins.
Suk's one trillion Jialan coins, if traded through black market channels, are equivalent to only five or six hundred million Liuyun coins.
"Keep a low profile, I must keep a low profile. I'm still just a nobody." Suk swallowed hard, forcefully suppressing the immense joy that welled up inside him from suddenly acquiring a huge fortune. "With this much money, I could buy an ordinary planet, but I couldn't even buy Earth."
Suk remembered that Earth was officially valued at the highest price in the Black Dragon Mountain Empire: "three trillion in purchase price." That was the condition for the first discoverer, because it was once the territory of immortal gods.
Of course, whether Earth still exists today is still a question.
Suk still hasn't figured out when he traveled through time.
I do know that the last Hengxing-level Universe Peak Genius Battle was held more than 3,000 years ago. After all, it was a grand event that affected the entire human territory. It was widely known and not a secret. However, those familiar names did not appear.
Suk had no interest in the battle of the top geniuses; such things were too far removed from an ordinary person like him.
His current goal is to reach the Planetary level! The Eternal level!
What are planetary-level beings anyway? Wandering in the universe, they can only manage to survive on food and shelter.
Hengxing is considered a formidable figure. However, he can only thrive on ordinary, small planets like Yuehe Star; he's not exactly a figure of great importance. He cannot survive long-term in space outside of his planet.
Even more powerful cosmic-level beings are those whose bodies can wander through space and fight against interstellar fleets; such extraordinary figures are rare, appearing only once in hundreds of thousands of inhabited planets in a galaxy.
Even if Suk knew the original story, he would never underestimate such a strong person, because he knew that with his own talent, without the chance to win the lottery, he would probably only be a planetary-level being for the rest of his life.
Even if we have one trillion Jialan coins now, the possibility of becoming a universe-level entity is still so low it's heartbreaking.
Therefore, Suk's goal is very clear: he has no ambitions and will focus on improving his physical fitness to the Hengxing level first.
If you become a star level, you can survive safely without taking risks or encountering any major disasters.
In addition to improving his strength, Suk also considered things further into the future.
This trillion Jialan coins was his lucky win. He probably won't have such good fortune again. Every penny he spends is one less. Is he just going to sit around and live off his savings?
Money can generate more money; that's capital.
For example, trying to do financial investment like Luo Hua is extremely difficult and a huge pitfall that most people can't handle; one wrong move and you could lose everything.
It's safer to let the bank manage and operate the funds for you, and you can just sit back and collect dividends. The interest for a year will be enough for you to live very comfortably.
With even greater ambition, one could buy a habitable planet, enslave billions of ordinary people to work for one's company, or even more ruthlessly, create a slave race, reproduce generation after generation, and then sell them off as slaves. Generation after generation, endlessly!
The slave trade is an extremely profitable industry. There are planets in the universe that specialize in raising slaves, just like harvesting leeks, one crop after another!
Selling hundreds of millions of people would amount to a huge fortune! However, this kind of thing is disgusting. Once a super strong person is born in a certain race, the planetary lord is finished. So it is usually only done to some weak races, and only planetary lords with powerful backgrounds dare to do it.
Clearly, Suk has no background and has nothing to do with being powerful.
"Buying the lowest-grade, worst planet would only cost a few hundred billion, plus a hundred billion slaves, it would only cost around one or two hundred billion." Suk was a little tempted.
Who doesn't dream of becoming a landlord?
Selling slaves directly violated his moral bottom line, but buying slaves whose fate was destined to be tragic to work for him and giving them a comfortable life was actually a good thing.
Roughly calculated, if each person can earn an average of 0.04 Jialan coins per year, that's over 400 million Jialan coins a year. With just one planet, one could live the life that countless people dream of.