Of course.
Just as the Group Owner 'Great Power Great Virtue Great Fortune World-Saving Universal Compassion Venerable' reminds us—there are countless paths on the Demonic Way, but safety comes first.
There are undercover agents in the group, so transactions must be cautious.
Although demonic cultivators trade with each other, largely 'mutually benefiting and reducing slaughter,' it's hard to stop those damn Righteous Path sects from causing trouble.
For example.
Many times in the past, Righteous Path people have turned demonic cultivators, posting transaction tasks in the group to lure 'innocent and simple' demonic cultivators into offline deals.
The result.
Those demonic cultivators who agreed to offline transactions would charge headfirst into Righteous Path encirclements and be blasted into dust and ashes.
Additionally.
Everyone in this group is a demonic cultivator licking blood off knife edges, believing in the life philosophy of 'eat clean and leave nothing behind, a horse isn't fat without wild grass,' so they don't really have much concept of following rules.
If your cultivation is weaker, even when trading with another Golden Core Stage demonic cultivator, it's easy to arouse their covetous greed.
At that point, becoming prey and being killed for your goods isn't impossible.
No exaggeration.
Among the hundreds of gray avatars in this group, at least thirty to forty percent have gone missing after rashly agreeing to meet offline.
Regarding this.
If there's solid proof someone is a 'Righteous Path undercover agent,' the Group Owner 'Great Power Great Virtue Great Fortune World-Saving Universal Compassion Venerable' will directly kick them out of the group chat.
And the person who invited them will be punished by association, possibly even kicked out along with them.
But if there's no solid evidence, or if both parties are just demonic cultivators having an offline transaction that results in a betrayal, then in principle, the Group Owner won't intervene.
After all.
Once you enter the Demonic Path, it's deeper than the sea, and safety becomes a stranger.
Betrayals are far too common on this path, and the Group Owner 'Great Power Great Virtue Great Fortune World-Saving Universal Compassion Venerable' can't manage them all, more importantly, he has no intention of managing them.
Because.
The more accidents that happen with offline transactions, the more people will use the group's official trading channels.
Yes.
The 'Traditional Artisan Exchange Group' has special 'intermediary channels,' where as long as both sides pay an extra twenty percent commission, they can conduct transactions through the group.
For example.
If Cultivator A needs 3000 portions of human essence blood, they only need to kill 1200 people, hand over 1200 human souls and 1200 human bones to the group management.
Then.
The group management will contact Cultivator B and Cultivator C, complete the transaction on behalf of Cultivator A, exchange for 2400 portions of human essence blood from them, and give 2000 portions to Cultivator A.
This way.
All three parties—A, B, and C—can save the killing work of 1800 people, greatly reducing the danger of being discovered, ambushed, and besieged by Righteous Path sects, or being betrayed.
And the Group Owner and administrators can get 400 portions of human souls, 400 portions of human bones, and 400 portions of human essence blood for free.
As long as these materials are sold to the corresponding demonic sects, they can fetch a considerable price.
Of course.
Bartering is ultimately the most primitive form of transaction. After several hundred years of refinement, the Group Owner 'Great Power Great Virtue Great Fortune World-Saving Universal Compassion Venerable' has also revised the group rules.
All group members can sell 'unused' materials to administrators in exchange for virtual currency that can be used within the group.
This virtual currency is named 'Jian Coins,' meaning the currency for building communication channels.
Using Jian Coins.
You can not only have group management handle transactions on your behalf but also directly exchange for various cultivation resources through the official group. Of course, the official pricing is slightly more expensive than private transactions between group members.
Additionally.
If anyone in the group gets some top-secret intelligence, they can also post 'paid intel'—only after paying Jian Coins can you view it.
The Jian Coins earned are split fifty-fifty between the group officials and the intel poster, no cheating anyone, young or old.
If anyone in the group wants to know some intel, they can also post a 'paid bounty' in the group, and once verified as correct, the officials will ensure the respondent gets the corresponding reward.
...
In summary.
After thousands of years of development in the cultivation world, communication tools have been optimized countless times.
Whether it's the Righteous Path or the Demonic Path, both have gone through many attempts and mutual learning in communication management, finally reaching a near-perfect state.
In fact.
Many of the group rules in the [Traditional Artisan Exchange Group] also have similar setups in the subgroups of the Three Purities Immortal Gate's various branches, which is relatively less cautious.
After all, compared to the Demonic Path, where 'walking on thin ice, one wrong step and you're wrong for life,' communication between famous righteous sects is relatively safer.
The risk of being scammed, ambushed, or backstabbed during transactions is low, and the elders from one's sect are also relatively reliable.
So there's no need to waste money finding someone notarize things.
...
As a veteran Golden Core Stage demonic cultivator, backed by an old-school demonic sect like the Ghost King Sect, and with multiple endorsements from his old flame, Chi Mei Snake Ji.
Thousand-Face Evil Lord's credibility in the [Traditional Artisan Exchange Group] is still quite high—at least for now, no one has suspected him of being an infiltrator or anything.
After replacing this guy, Wang Xiu smoothly logged into the [Traditional Artisan Exchange Group].
In the group.
His avatar also changed from offline gray to online normal color, of course, the face in the avatar wasn't Thousand-Face Evil Lord's real appearance, it was after disguise.
In fact.
Everyone else's avatar in the chat group is also fake—no one in the Demonic Way is foolish enough to use their real face to communicate online.
At this time.
The number of demonic cultivators online in the group wasn't small, a good three to five hundred people, but most were in a wait-and-see, eating-melon state.
After all, those in the Demonic Way all understand, the first rafter to stick out rots first.
If your strength and background aren't hard enough, rashly showing off in a chaotic group chat full of demons and evils is easy to bring trouble upon yourself.
Only a handful of tough characters.
Either their methods are tough enough, fearless of most schemes, or their background is tough enough, certain others won't dare to make a move against them, only then would they dare to speak freely in the group.
For example.
The person currently speaking in the group is a Golden Core Sixfold Heaven steward from the Joy Union Sect, backed by the Joy Union Sect, her background is super hard, basically no one dares to provoke her.
Cough cough.
As for why Thousand-Face Evil Lord knows her real identity? Because they are old acquaintances, even... you could say old flames.
Among female demonic cultivators, quite a few like to play with face-changing 'cosplay'—it's very popular!
As an old-timer, Thousand-Face Evil Lord is very familiar with her.
Their relationship is deep～
NothingToDoToday_ListeningToMusic: New tea has arrived!
NothingToDoToday_ListeningToMusic: 69 big virgins, each as beautiful as a flower, fairies among mortals, all in their prime years.
[Ding!]
[Detected someone bragging, congratulations to the host for gaining magical power +88.]
NothingToDoToday_ListeningToMusic: Not white, no charge; not tender, no charge; bad attitude, no charge; poor service technique, no charge, fellow daoists, first come, first served!
[Ding!]
[Detected someone bragging, congratulations to the host for gaining magical power +88.]
...
It seemed that after discovering 'Thousand-Face Evil Lord' had logged on, 'NothingToDoToday_ListeningToMusic' specially sent Wang Xiu a private message.
"Darling, I've been missing you～"
"Come play!"
"I've saved the best girls from this batch for you, twin sister flowers!"
"Come early, and I'll bring them to serve you together."
"Ultimate triple pleasure, twenty percent off!"
Seeing the private message from the Joy Union demoness pop up, Wang Xiu couldn't help but spit, as if he had opened a door to a new world.
Stimulating～
Replacing the Thousand-Face Evil Lord identity, and getting this kind of unexpected bonus?
This is truly embarrassing.
...
No!
Wang Xiu, calm down! You're a young hero from a righteous sect!
How can you be so depraved?
Have you forgotten your cultivation and demon-slaying plans you made earlier?
Confucius said: I examine myself three times a day.
This can't go on!
Even if she's a succubus, even if they're twins, you can't be ** by her and have your Dao heart clouded!～
Mmm～!
Another time!
Another time I must find a way to infiltrate the Joy Union Sect, figure out the depths of these demons' secrets, and then wipe them all out in one night!
I, Wang Xiu.
Share the sky with no one from the Demonic Way!
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