He wakes up in a cultivation novel as a disposable side character. The senior brother tosses him a broken bowl and tells him to beg for alms to fund his cultivation.
Shen Yuan, who worked himself to the bone in the finance industry in his previous life, turns around and establishes the Spirit Stone Quantitative Investment Fund.
He buys low and sells high to monopolize the magical treasure market, shorts spiritual veins and triggers a price collapse, and forces every major immortal sect to line up and go public to raise funds.
When the Demon Venerable leads an army to the border and threatens to crush the cultivation world, Shen Yuan quietly hands him an IPO prospectus. “Think it over. Your market value will double after you go public.”
The Demon Venerable: “???”