No Money to Cultivate Immortality? - Chapter 830 (Patreon)

Chapter 830: Our Kunxu Dream

Almost two years had passed since Yu Xinghan entered the sect.

During these nearly two years of sect life, although Yu Xinghan had always worked diligently and conscientiously, doing his best to complete every task assigned to him, he was still only a level-one sect affairs officer.

Previously, Zhang Yu had passed the Chain Diagram technique Formless Martial Performance to Yu Xinghan and had him try researching and developing his own original Martial Technique, but...

After Yu Xinghan swept his gaze over the approval result, he could not help letting out a soft sigh.

The Martial Performance Pavilion had strict procedures for Martial Technique research and development. It required round after round of testing and approval. It was not enough for Yu Xinghan to feel that he had successfully developed it himself.

After Yu Xinghan completed the preliminary development, the first hurdle he faced was preliminary testing.

But over the past few months, Yu Xinghan had applied for Martial Technique testing again and again, only to receive one failed application after another.

Just then, his immediate superior, Team Leader Wang, sent another message: Little Yu, have you finished the task I gave you last time?

Yu Xinghan: Team leader, why still hasn’t my testing application been approved?

Team Leader Wang: The department has too many projects waiting to be launched. So many seniors are waiting for testing. Put your martial art aside for now.

Team Leader Wang: You’re still young. You’ve only been here for two years. What’s the rush? Follow me and build up your research experience properly first.

Yu Xinghan looked at the other party’s reply and felt that it was no different from the last one.

Yu Xinghan understood very clearly in his heart that the other party had no intention of letting him produce results.

As a cultivator who had entered the sect from the lower realm through the exam, after he arrived here, he became the lowest-status sect affairs officer in the team.

So whether it was the team leader or the other senior team members, every day they would hand him all kinds of odd jobs and dirty work that they did not want to do.

If it were only that, Yu Xinghan could still endure it.

As a cultivator who had climbed up from the first layer, he had experienced climbing up from the bottom again and again. He had rich experience in patience and counterattack.

But the repeated failures of his testing applications made him understand that with no connections, no background, and no immortal coins, if he wanted to queue up with all those old hands and wait for the process, it was likely that ten years, eight years, would pass before his turn ever came.

As for when he would be promoted to level-two sect affairs officer? That was probably already a matter of ten, or even twenty, years later.

As for level-three sect affairs officer, that would only be possible after some old-timer died, was transferred away, or stepped down.

Should I borrow some immortal coins and smooth out the connections?

Such a thought had also risen in Yu Xinghan’s mind. But every time it did, he would remember a certain level-one sect affairs officer in another team next door, also a cultivator who had graduated from Myriad Laws Sect University many years ago.

That cultivator looked very young on the outside, but his reactions were always very slow. He would often blank out for quite a while before he could finish communicating with someone.

Only later did Yu Xinghan learn that it was because the other party had once activated the Law Realm memory service, and now, with no money to pay the membership fee for the Law Realm memory function, some of the memories he had once authorized required watching ads before they could be replayed...

Although Yu Xinghan had not activated the memory service himself, he had already grown used to many convenient services in the Law Realm.

Sometimes, he would also selectively watch ads or pay for memberships. For example, he would activate membership for frequently used functions while they were discounted, or choose the first-month continuous subscription discount for certain memberships and then immediately cancel the automatic renewal for the next month.

For some function services he rarely used, Yu Xinghan would choose to directly watch ads.

What Yu Xinghan feared was that after borrowing a huge sum of money to smooth out connections, he would end up saddled with massive debt and gain nothing at all. In the end, he would have to watch ads just to use any random Law Realm function and become a useless person who had to watch huge amounts of ads every day.

“Sigh.”

“Before I knew it, I’ve already lost the kind of determination I had in the past to stake everything on one throw.”

He thought back to when he had first entered the sect and reported to the Martial Performance Pavilion. Back then, he had also been full of high spirits.

But as the days went by, Yu Xinghan seemed to have already seen himself as a cog inside the sect, repeating the same operation day after day, his future visible at a single glance. He would silently exhaust his lifespan just like this, walk through his whole life, and in the end, perhaps the most he could scrape together would be a level-three sect affairs officer position...

“So this is the sect.”

“I thought that once I got ashore, the sea would be wide and the sky vast. I never expected that on the shore there would be a hundred thousand mountains, each higher than the last, and the foothills, slopes, and peaks would all be packed full of various seniors.”

“The entire sect system is far too vast and complicated. On the path of the immortal dao, people charge forward one after another, countless in number. There will never be any shortage of talent.”

“And in the end, there are very few who can charge to the summit. Most people are destined to have their whole lives worn away and eventually be eliminated on the road up the mountain.”

“This isn’t something that can be overcome by relying on personal ability or talent.”

Just then, Team Leader Wang sent another message: “Little Yu, is the thing ready?”

Yu Xinghan did not reply immediately. Instead, he looked at the message Zhang Yu had sent, along with the attached appointment document.

Originally, Yu Xinghan had not wanted to waste all the effort he had put in before. He had still been thinking about whether he could push the Martial Technique he had developed into the process before he left.

But at this moment, looking at yet another failed testing application, Yu Xinghan suddenly felt relieved.

At this moment, he felt as if he had returned to his university days. No matter what kind of opponent they faced, whenever Zhang Yu said one word, he would follow him into the fight.

Team Leader Wang: “Where are you? Reply to me immediately.”

Yu Xinghan replied: “Team leader, I’m not planning to do it anymore.”

A moment later, Team Leader Wang’s projection suddenly descended and berated Yu Xinghan: “What madness are you spouting? Do you not want to pass this year’s evaluation?”

At the side, Shi Huaiyu abruptly turned her head. As an outsourced worker brought up by Yu Xinghan, she deeply understood that Yu Xinghan, who could enjoy boundless glory in the lower realm, was now nothing more than a bottom-level little ant in the sect.

Especially because of their identities as people from the lower realm, both Yu Xinghan and she herself were more or less subject to some exclusion.

Looking at Team Leader Wang’s projection descending abruptly and beginning to reprimand Yu Xinghan, Shi Huaiyu sighed inwardly. “If it were some other old-hand sect affairs officer, Team Leader Wang would never reprimand him in public like this.”

And seeing Yu Xinghan not hurry to apologize and admit his mistake as usual, Shi Huaiyu could not help worrying. “What’s wrong with Yu Xinghan? You can’t lose your temper at a superior. Otherwise, how is he supposed to stay in the Martial Performance Pavilion?”

Just then, Yu Xinghan said, “Team leader, I’ve been transferred to the development zone. I’ll be responsible for assisting with the reconstruction work of the Old Days Graveyard development zone.”

Team Leader Wang was slightly stunned when he heard this. He was just about to open his mouth and curse, but then he saw the appointment document projected by the other party and cried out in shock, “Why didn’t I know about this?”

Yu Xinghan said, “Maybe it’s an order from higher up. It’s just that they sent me a copy first. Your copy should arrive a bit later.”

Looking at Yu Xinghan before him, Team Leader Wang only felt that a faint trace of mystery had suddenly appeared around him.

He thought to himself, “Reconstruction of the Old Days Graveyard development zone... That’s a position where one can gain achievements and get promoted easily. And someone can directly transfer a person from the Martial Performance Pavilion to the Old Days Graveyard? I really couldn’t tell this kid had such a powerful backer.”

His thoughts finished in a flash. Team Leader Wang had already changed into a smiling face and said, “This is the higher-ups placing importance on you. Work hard after you go.”

Yu Xinghan: “Team leader, then the handover work...”

Team Leader Wang waved his hand and said, “Ah, it’s just a tiny matter. What handover is there to do? I’ll arrange it. You can leave without worry.”

Then Team Leader Wang began asking about Yu Xinghan’s background: “Right, that Divine Lord Zhang seems to have also entered through the exam from the lower realm. Are you two very close?”

Yu Xinghan said, “Pretty close. We’re classmates.”

Looking at Team Leader Wang, whose attitude had suddenly undergone a complete one-hundred-and-eighty-degree change, Shi Huaiyu stood to the side with her face full of shock.

Only when Yu Xinghan said, “Huaiyu, you should pack up too. Get ready to follow me to the Old Days Graveyard.”

“The Old Days Graveyard...” Shi Huaiyu quickly sent a message and asked, “Could it be Zhang Yu?”

During this period, Shi Huaiyu had also been paying attention to Zhang Yu’s situation. After seeing the news about Kunxu’s outstanding hero, she had been surprised, shocked, excited...

But she had not expected that Zhang Yu could even transfer Yu Xinghan over.

Yu Xinghan nodded and sent back a reply: “It’s him.”

“Zhang Yu wants us to go over and help him.”

When Shi Huaiyu heard this, it seemed as if a ball of hot blood had also ignited in her heart.

At this moment, scenes flashed through her mind one after another: joining Zhang Yu in attacking the Demon Sect Gold Core against the odds, participating in the university war together, breaking through the firmament together...

Before she knew it, Shi Huaiyu had clenched her fists. “Let’s go! This rotten place, the Martial Performance Pavilion... how could it be more comfortable than following Zhang Yu?”

…

Myriad Husk Pavilion.

Feng Tingting came to Ye Xingli’s side and said, “Senior, Senior Wang came to look for you again earlier.”

Ye Xingli frowned. It had been nearly a year since she entered the sect. She had originally thought that in a place like the Myriad Husk Pavilion, where Law Husks were researched and developed, she would be able to keep learning and improving, but...

Ye Xingli let out a sigh, and the words this Senior Wang had once said to her surfaced in her mind again.

At the side, Feng Tingting said, “Senior, this can’t go on. That guy keeps trying every day to force you to Dual Cultivation with him so he can squeeze your cultivation out of you!”

“If it were only that, it would be one thing. After all, in-depth communication between superiors and subordinates counts as normal in the sect.”

“But I heard he also wants you to breed children for him and pay him child support every month. Back in the lower realm, even vocational college students wouldn’t be messed with like this.”

Feng Tingting said angrily, “He just thinks we have no background, so he wants to squeeze us to death.”

Ye Xingli sighed. “Try to avoid him as much as possible.”

Ye Xingli understood very clearly in her heart that in a place like the sect, where the hierarchy between upper and lower ranks was strict, it was almost very difficult for her, as a subordinate, to find any way to resist when faced with a superior making things hard for her.

But just then, Ye Xingli saw a message from Senior Wang flickering before her eyes again.

Just as Ye Xingli wanted to pretend she had not seen it as usual, the flashing information made her slightly freeze.

Senior Wang: Little Ye, if you had connections, why didn’t you say so earlier? Look at this misunderstanding we’ve caused.

Doubt rose in Ye Xingli’s heart. She did not understand what the other party meant.

At this moment, however, Senior Wang was already frightened out of his wits.

Because he had already received the news of Ye Xingli’s transfer, and the transfer direction was precisely the Old Days Graveyard development zone.

When he thought of Zhang Yu and Ye Xingli both being lower-realm cultivators, and added in Ye Xingli’s experience once working as Zhang Yu’s outsourced worker... Wang Song felt his scalp go numb.

“He even transferred Ye Xingli over. It looks like the relationship between these two really isn’t ordinary.”

During this period, Wang Song had watched the people of the Taizhen Immortal Clan explode like fireworks one after another, go bankrupt one after another. At first, he had only been shocked, rueful, and emotional...

But after learning that Zhang Yu, who had been charging into battle, had a connection with his subordinate Ye Xingli, Wang Song felt an intense unease.

Although he felt that Zhang Yu, or the person behind Zhang Yu, should not suddenly take action against an insignificant person like him, what if?

Thinking of the Taizhen Immortal Clan members who had appeared in the news one after another, Wang Song could not help becoming anxious.

“Even so many members of the Taizhen Immortal Clan have fallen. What if...”

So he hurriedly contacted Ye Xingli.

Wang Song: [10,000 immortal coins]

Wang Song: You’ve worked hard during this period too. Consider this my personal subsidy for your overtime pay.

Wang Song: If you need it, I can also give you some guidance on your cultivation.

In Wang Song’s view, since he had wanted to squeeze Ye Xingli during this period, then an apology gift of 10,000 immortal coins, plus taking the initiative to Dual Cultivation with her and boost her cultivation, should be enough to salvage the relationship.

Wang Song thought to himself, “Surely she can’t want me to help her carry a child and pay her child support every month.”

On the other side, Ye Xingli still looked utterly confused.

Just then, she received a message from Zhang Yu: Senior sister, I need my own people here to help. Come to the Old Days Graveyard and help me.

Ye Xingli froze slightly, then smiled and replied: All right.

…

Imperial Law Pavilion.

Lu Hengzhang, deputy minister of the Review Department, who had once clashed with Zhang Yu and then been beaten by Bu Yingshu while she held him by the head... had his brows tightly furrowed at this moment.

Ever since that piece of news about Zhang Yu being Kunxu’s outstanding hero came out, Lu Hengzhang had been both shocked and furious.

As an advocate and supporter of the Innate Dao Lineage, seeing this kind of news only made him feel disgusted.

“A lower beast who climbed up from the first layer, and each of you is holding him in the palm of your hand? You even call this kind of thing Kunxu’s outstanding hero?”

“An immortal inheritance is going to someone like this?!”

“It’s filthy. Even the immortal inheritance has been dirtied!”

The thought that Zhang Yu’s current position carried even more authority than his own made Lu Hengzhang feel his mana circulating faster and faster.

And when Lu Hengzhang saw the follow-up reports, he felt even more disgusted, as if he had eaten a lower beast’s excrement.

Those were interviews about Magneto and Old Gao.

“Even the Civil Engineering Department people are coming out? They’re taking such a filthy, stinking background and using it for publicity? Have the people above gone insane?”

Immediately afterward, Lu Hengzhang saw Zhao Tianxing giving his personal testimony.

In the footage, Zhao Tianxing opened his mouth and said, “Thank you, Kunxu. Thank you to my high school, my vocational college, my university, and Myriad Laws Sect. They realized my dream.”

“Soul Cultivator?” Lu Hengzhang felt shocked just seeing this. “A damn vocational college Soul Cultivator?”

A voice-over came from the video: “As a Soul Cultivator, riding the spring breeze of reform, soaring all the way into the clouds, and breaking through the tenth layer of Kunxu, Zhao Tianxing’s life is the best annotation of the Kunxu dream.”

“According to current data statistics, the Exam Sect held in the lower realm each year can provide five to ten talents for the sect. And as the abilities of lower-realm students continue to grow, this figure is still rapidly increasing. More and more people of Kunxu are realizing their own Kunxu dream...”

“Dream your mother’s Kunxu!” Lu Hengzhang directly shut off the news video. Thinking of how cultivators continued to take part in exams in the lower realm every year, enter the sect, gather in larger and larger numbers, and constantly band together like Zhang Yu, he felt more and more uncomfortable.

Lu Hengzhang hurriedly contacted Yang Kaitai, deputy pavilion master of the Imperial Law Pavilion.

Yang Kaitai was likewise a supporter of the Innate Dao Lineage. During the previous research on the sect-suppressing technique, he had crossed swords with Bu Yingshu and Zhang Yu.

Lu Hengzhang said, “Leader, did you watch those interviews? What exactly do the people above want to do? They put a vocational college Soul Cultivator in the news and broadcast him? Myriad Laws Sect’s face has been utterly lost.”

Yang Kaitai seemed to have long anticipated what Lu Hengzhang wanted to say. He said calmly, “Upward and downward circulation, turning the wheel of history backward—such behavior may succeed for a time, but in the end, it is destined to fail.”

“The trend of the immortal dao is vast and unstoppable. As resources concentrate and technology develops, the final result must be the separation of heaven and earth. Immortals will forever be immortals, the sect will forever be the sect, and lower-realm people will forever be lower-realm people.”

“The Innate Dao Lineage we practice will inevitably stand invincible. It is only that in the process of realizing it, there will inevitably be some setbacks.”

After saying this, Yang Kaitai pointed out a projection light screen and said, “The matter on the Taizhen Immortal Clan’s side has already passed. There is no need to bother with the publicity. The next key problem is...”

Looking at the Old Days Graveyard appearing on the light screen, Lu Hengzhang said gravely, “The development zone?”

Yang Kaitai said, “Once the development zone’s reconstruction is completed, the Soul Cultivator industry will certainly severely impact the current Artifact Spirit industry, affecting the development of the Artifact Spirit Dao Lineage and thereby obstructing the Innate Dao Lineage.”

“Zhang Yu...” Thinking of the current Zhang Yu, Lu Hengzhang could not help saying, “Now that he has gone to the development zone, he has already left the Imperial Law Pavilion. We can’t control him anymore.”

Yang Kaitai said calmly, “Don’t place your gaze on a single person. Zhang Yu is only a knife. Even without Zhang Yu, there would be Wang Yu or Bai Yu. The key is the forces pushing this reconstruction and the restoration of production.”

“It can be said that this reconstruction of the Old Days Graveyard will involve the struggle between Soul Cultivators and Artifact Spirits. Zhang Yu is nothing more than a chess piece swept into it.”

“And the Imperial Law Pavilion’s Ghost Letter Department just so happens to be a decent point of entry.”

Lu Hengzhang’s gaze sharpened. He understood what Yang Kaitai meant.

The Innate Dao Lineage crossed multiple departments of Myriad Laws Sect. It was far from just the people of the Imperial Law Pavilion.

And this time, the Innate Dao Lineage would also mobilize more power to influence the reconstruction of the Old Days Graveyard.

…

Old Days Graveyard.

Inside the office of the Ghost Letter Department.

Because the office area of the development zone management committee had not yet been settled, Zhang Yu had temporarily borrowed the Ghost Letter Department’s office to work.

At this moment, qi and blood surged inside his body, and mana flowed as he seized every minute and every second to cultivate.

Whether it was exploring the Labyrinth Realm or cooperating with the special task force’s investigation afterward, Zhang Yu had never given up tempering his own cultivation.

Because he understood very clearly... although Kunxu seemed to operate stably under layer after layer of orderly structures, at the deepest point of all these countless orders, violence was still the prime mover behind everything.

If he wanted to climb to the summit of Kunxu, then his own cultivation and power were indispensable.

No matter how far his official rank rose, he absolutely could not relax his advancement of his own cultivation.

Fortunately, the conditions at the detention point set up by the special task force had been fairly good. Zhang Yu’s cultivation had steadily advanced during these days.

His Dao Heart had already reached level 43 at 62.55 percent. His physical-body strength had reached level 43.81. His mana, through repeated refinement of spiritual energy, had already reached the level of 210,000 units.

Zhang Yu knew that although his main combat power was now concentrated in his techniques and Immortal Descendant abilities—the thirty-two-fold avatar, Blood-Tide Essence Saint Visualization, and the immortal grotto-heaven... all working together to grant him extremely formidable combat strength—

A foundation was called a foundation because it was the basis of the immortal dao. Every bit of improvement to his foundation could comprehensively increase the strength of all his abilities and lay an even more solid foundation for his next breakthrough in realm.

Aside from the improvement in basic data, under the specialized effect of the Feathered Tome, Zhang Yu pushed one Divine Transformation realm technique to max level every day.

This made great progress in his Divine Transformation Dao Body. After pushing techniques to max level again and again, then burning them completely again and again, the Divine Transformation Dao Body successively activated the infinite Chain Diagram effects of 14/14, 16/16, 18/18, and 20/20.

Together with the 12/12 he had activated before, Zhang Yu’s Divine Transformation Dao Body effect had now been enhanced by 100 percent.

“A comprehensive 100 percent enhancement means that the Divine Transformation Dao Body’s original enhancements to reorganization speed, consumption speed, cultivation efficiency, cultivation effect... all of these aspects have doubled.”

Zhang Yu estimated inwardly, “But the most important thing... is still the first-layer effect of the Divine Transformation Dao Body.”

Beginner—Divine Transformation Dao Body (6/6): Once the Dao Body is formed, the primordial spirit transforms on its own, returns to the Divine Transformation Pool, and changes once a year. After switching Chain Diagram sets, this layer remains in effect.

“The ten transformations of Divine Light for the primordial spirit originally required one year to break through under the enhancement of the Divine Transformation Dao Body. But now...”

Zhang Yu could feel that under the effect of the infinite Chain Diagram, “It will take at most half a year to complete the breakthrough.”

“And counting the time I previously let my primordial spirit soak in the Divine Transformation Pool, this transformation of mine will be complete in another month or two.”

After checking his cultivation progress as usual, Zhang Yu’s gaze returned to the Spiritual Realm light screen before him.

Looking at Yu Xinghan and Ye Xingli’s replies, he smiled faintly.

After the matter of the Taizhen Immortal Clan temporarily came to an end, Zhang Yu’s greatest gains, aside from being hailed as Kunxu’s outstanding hero, were that he had become the official temporary owner of the immortal grotto-heaven, the official inheritor of Ying Xintian’s bloodline, possessed control over the Labyrinth Realm, and had even exceptionally become the vice chairman of the development zone management committee.

“Immortal grotto-heaven...”

With a thought from Zhang Yu, a Cave Heaven Bridge had already opened.

After successfully legitimizing the immortal grotto-heaven, he could finally use this ability openly and aboveboard. Not only could he use it freely to store things, he could also casually use it to open cavern-heaven gates for movement.

“But for now, I can’t use it for profit.”

Zhang Yu thought inwardly, “If I want to use it for profit, I’ll need to obtain all kinds of licenses, and I’ll also need to bring the entire grotto-heaven under Spiritual Realm coverage.”

Only after obtaining the relevant business licenses and constantly remaining under the Spiritual Realm’s monitoring could Zhang Yu’s immortal grotto-heaven be used for profit.

At that point, the entire immortal grotto-heaven could serve as a transfer station, even becoming a transportation hub for all kinds of cultivators to move goods and travel, heading everywhere through the Cave Heaven Bridge.

Once he reached that step, Zhang Yu would only need to build a toll station to earn money while lying down.

Zhanxian said, “It won’t be easy to obtain all kinds of business licenses supporting the use of an immortal grotto-heaven to transport goods and people.”

“And the Spiritual Realm monitoring that continues every day also isn’t suitable for our current situation.”

Zhang Yu nodded. He knew that his dream of using the immortal grotto-heaven to lie down and collect money could not be completed in the short term.

Just then, Zhang Yu received another message from Le Mulan.

Le Mulan: Sorry, Zhang Yu. I can’t come. They won’t release me on this side.

Seeing this message, Zhang Yu’s heart sank.

After officially taking charge of the Labyrinth Realm and becoming vice chairman of the development zone management committee, the higher-ups had given him some quotas for transferring people.

The first thing Zhang Yu naturally thought of was to transfer over a group of companions he trusted to help him.

Fu Ji said, “Too many people are watching your current position. The interests tied up in the development zone are also far too enormous, and your cultivation is insufficient.”

“Remember this, Zhang Yu. At a time like this, you must appoint people by favoritism. The most important thing about the subordinates you transfer over is that they listen. Otherwise, if you transfer over a group of people who don’t listen to you and have their own ideas, then no matter how capable they are, they’ll be useless. They may even become more detrimental to your work the more capable they are.”

“As for appointing people by merit, we are still far from reaching that level right now.”

Zhang Yu very much agreed with what Fu Ji said, so he first set his sights on Yu Xinghan, Ye Xingli, Le Mulan, and the others who had entered through the exam together with him.

Unfortunately...

Zhanxian said, “Le Mulan is now an investment project they have spent considerable resources on. They won’t release her easily.”

Zhang Yu nodded. He knew that he would not be able to contact Le Mulan in the short term.

“My authority is still too weak.”

“If I were a level-nine or level-ten sect affairs officer right now, an Ascension-stage cultivator, would I still be afraid of not being able to transfer Le Mulan over?”

Zhang Yu exhaled and pressed down the agitation in his heart.

“Although Yu Xinghan and senior sister are still level-one sect affairs officers, they haven’t wasted their years. They have now already broken through to the Nascent Soul realm.”

A level-one sect affairs officer could already obtain a Nascent Soul license. Combined with the excellent cultivation environment of Kunxu’s eleventh layer, Yu Xinghan and Ye Xingli had been able to smoothly break through. This could be considered one of the greatest benefits they had gained after entering the sect.

“But the Nascent Soul realm will still be somewhat insufficient for what comes next...”

Zhang Yu’s gaze shifted slightly. He had already looked toward the contact avatars of Magneto, Aoki, Yinquan... and the other lower-realm Divine Transformation cultivators.

“Since they’re letting me transfer people, outsourced cultivators can naturally be transferred too, right?”

Seeking monthly tickets.

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