In the end, by using various military and civilian black-tech devices, he had successfully brought Night City’s products to the world stage, where they shot to the top of all major arms and weapons sales charts.
The immense competitive pressure drove the other companies to desperation.
They even went so far as to band together and launch the Sixth Corporate War, hoping to use brute force to completely crush Li Chang’an and Night City for stealing their piece of the pie.
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With this prior success, replicating his methods wouldn’t be difficult.
After all, while the Main World’s technology was also highly advanced with plenty of its own black-tech, there were still many fields where Night City excelled and the Main World fell short.
These areas, where Night City was strong and the Main World was not, represented the perfect opportunity for Li Chang’an to fill a market void with superior products!
For example, the Super Electromagnetic Cannon, a technology even the Main World hadn’t fully cracked.
Or... the Particle Beam Cannon produced by the Gu Family.
These were all technological fields in which Night City—and by extension, Li Chang’an—excelled.
And the weapons he had in mind were at least fifty percent stronger in overall attributes than the current models available in the Main World!
With this as a given, ’making money by producing high-quality weapons’ was actually not the biggest challenge for Li Chang’an.
On the contrary, the initial startup phase would be the most troublesome. This was because he would have to personally execute every step of the process at the beginning, proceeding with extreme caution and allowing for no mistakes.
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In all his time as a Reincarnator, Li Chang’an had only ever used the Rebirth Forum to upload the Martial Dao Evolution Path; he had never actually used it to buy anything.
But raw materials for military-grade weapons weren’t available through the Rebirth Mark. They could only be sourced from Reincarnator cities that specialized in manufacturing military equipment.
Still, while Li Chang’an had never bought anything on the Rebirth Forum himself, he had learned how it worked back at the academy.
So, after a brief moment of consideration, Li Chang’an quickly figured out the transaction process on the Rebirth Forum.
The Rebirth Forum was divided into four main sections.
The Chat section, the Trading section, the News section, and the Administration section!
Since Li Chang’an wanted to sell things, the Trading section was the natural first choice.
Although people did hawk various goods in the Chat section, the sellers there were a motley crew, and you could easily run into scammers or fakes.
Therefore, within the Reincarnator community, any item of decent value had to be purchased through the official Trading section.
Even if it meant paying a transaction fee, that was far better than getting swindled.
After opening the Rebirth Forum, Li Chang’an didn’t rush off to buy what he needed. Instead, he first opened the Chat section for a look.
The Chat section was far more bustling than Li Chang’an had imagined. Dozens, even hundreds, of new threads appeared with every refresh.
"Female Cultivators are one hell of an experience!"
"Secret Manual for Picking Up Girls in the Rebirth World, Get It Now!"
"My new book, *One Hundred and Eight Ways for New Reincarnators to Die*, will be available on a certain popular platform! It details all the ways I kicked the bucket during my novice period in the Rebirth Worlds. If you Newcomer Reincarnators don’t want to repeat your senior’s fate, then please buy the official guide!"
The flood of random information made Li Chang’an a bit dizzy.
Driven by curiosity, Li Chang’an clicked on a few of the more popular threads to see what the fuss was about. He immediately felt like he had "learned a thing or two," and couldn’t help but curse inwardly.
’Degenerates in scholars’ robes, all of them...’
’These guys are dragging the reputation of all Reincarnators through the mud!’
After silently bookmarking a few threads, Li Chang’an opened the News section.
The News section was much more respectable.
The moment he opened it, Li Chang’an saw a massive headline: "Mysterious Martial Arts Practitioner Creates New Technique! Is a New, Extraordinary Era of Martial Dao Cultivation Beginning for Ordinary People?"
The thread’s title was big and bold, making it stand out in the News section. The discussion already had over 10,000 replies.
Clearly, the *Basic Martial Arts Truth* that Li Chang’an had uploaded had already circulated throughout the Reincarnator community, causing a major earthquake on the Rebirth Forum.
Still in the mood to be a spectator, Li Chang’an clicked on the thread and glanced through it, discovering that the reactions were extremely polarized.
Some praised the uploader of the *Basic Martial Arts Truth* for ushering in a whole new era.
They argued that as long as the *Basic Martial Arts Truth* was officially popularized and promoted, then once ordinary people in the major cities gained Cultivation, humanity’s ability to resist the Exotic Beast Tides would inevitably soar.
At the same time, many people furiously denounced the uploader of the *Basic Martial Arts Truth*, saying they clearly had nothing better to do and should have focused their energy on raising the upper limits of the Martial Dao.
Instead, they created a Technique for a bunch of ordinary people to cultivate the Martial Dao.
Letting ordinary people cultivate the Martial Dao was bad enough.
But it even allowed some talented commoners to break through their social class and become Extraordinary.
If ordinary people could cross the class divide and become Transcendents, where did that leave them, the Reincarnators?
The praise and condemnation in the comments section were fierce. Some even claimed that by lowering the barrier to entry for the Martial Dao and allowing common people to become Martial Artists, Li Chang’an had insulted the Martial Dao itself—and by extension, all Martial Artists.
They stopped just short of branding Li Chang’an a public enemy.
From this, it was clear that the Evolution Path Li Chang’an had uploaded was not particularly popular within the Reincarnator community.
In response, Li Chang’an just let out a silent, derisive laugh.
’You can’t speak of ice to a summer insect,’ he thought. ’For these low-tier Reincarnators, the idea that an ordinary person could become a Transcendent just like them is simply unacceptable.’
’But from my perspective, if you’re a Reincarnator who’s afraid of being threatened by ordinary people, you might as well just get eliminated.’
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