“It’s not that the Lius are bold, but that they really don’t dare supply anything to you right now. None of the other ministries will agree to it and will pen them in for it. Their lack of support isn’t a great loss for the Skystar Commander Office, but continued expansion is impossible if this goes on.”0

There wasn’t much of an issue in the short run since Li Hao had ample cultivation resources, but expansion of operations would be difficult. Trading mysterious power stones and energy for money was an option, but such a massive outflow of cultivation resources would quickly cause a collapse of the mundane economic system.0

Trading small sums was fine, but large scale transactions would crash the economy. Deputy Zhou understood the implications, so he quickly piped up, “I understand that the commander may wish to utilize mysterious power stones for money and resources. The problem with that is that star coins are worth so much less than cultivation resources.0

"A single mysterious power stone can cause a minor disturbance in the economy. Insufficient money in circulation will cause the government to print more money. When there is too much in the money supply,...1