No Money to Cultivate Immortality? - Chapter 833 (Patreon)

Chapter 833: Zhang Yu’s Goblin Cave?

Inside the meeting room of the Ghost Letter Department.

Zhang Yu, who had just finished a meeting, hurried over. The moment he saw Magneto and Old Gao, he said with a face full of warmth, “Teachers, this student has run into a difficult problem again. I’ll have to trouble the two of you for help once more.”

The faint trace of unfamiliarity that had arisen from their long separation was dissolved inch by inch by Zhang Yu’s enthusiasm.

And the slight worry that had originally lingered in Magneto’s and Old Gao’s hearts also vanished like smoke before Zhang Yu’s attitude.

After all, Magneto and Old Gao had already been in the sect for two years of training, and they had both gained a deep understanding of the sect’s customs.

So before seeing Zhang Yu, they inevitably had a few suspicions in their hearts. Now that Zhang Yu could be considered someone with a little power in the sect, would he still respect them as he had before? Would the two sides also become a typical superior-subordinate relationship within the sect?

They had even wondered… according to the sect’s customs, would they have to turn around and call Zhang Yu senior? Teacher? Master?

Old Gao looked at Zhang Yu before him and sighed. “You’re far more capable than we are now. There’s not much we can help you with in the sect. In the end, you’ll still have to rely on yourself.”

Magneto curled her lip and said, “All right, stop dragging this out. Let’s get straight to the point.”

She looked at Zhang Yu with concern and asked, “Your current position can’t be easy to sit in, can it?”

Zhang Yu smiled helplessly and said, “There are indeed quite a few problems. Let’s talk as we walk.”

A flash of cavern-heaven power swept before Zhang Yu, and a Cave Heaven Bridge descended with a rumble.

Led by Zhang Yu, everyone crossed the Cave Heaven Bridge and arrived in a vast space. It was none other than the immortal grotto-heaven, which had already exceeded ten kilometers in length, width, and height.

Old Gao said in shock, “So this is the immortal grotto-heaven Ying Xintian passed on to you? What a huge independent space. It’s practically comparable to the blessed grotto-heavens of ancient times.”

Magneto was also surprised. “This cavern-heaven of yours must be worth a fortune. Even inside the sect, it would count as first-rate real estate, wouldn’t it?”

Listening to their exclamations, Zhang Yu felt a strange sensation rise in his heart. It was as if a young man had brought his parents to the city to help out, then introduced them to the new house he had bought.

Divine Lord Yinquan, walking silently behind the three of them, watched this scene in silence. The astonishment in her eyes was hard to hide as she thought to herself, “With this cavern-heaven alone, Zhang Yu’s immortal dao potential is already simply earth-shaking.”

Watching Zhang Yu chat and laugh with Old Gao and Magneto, Divine Lord Yinquan silently felt a trace of yearning pass through her heart. “It would be wonderful if Wang Yin could become as promising as Uncle Zhang.”

At the same time, she was also rather envious of Old Gao’s and Magneto’s relationship with Zhang Yu.

“When they were in the lower realm, they took good care of Zhang Yu, and Zhang Yu can be considered someone with a rather old-fashioned sense of loyalty who remembers past kindness. The two sides have already formed a bond.”

“Can Zhang Yu and I have a bond like that?” Divine Lord Yinquan shook her head. “A bond is probably impossible. Performance ties, foundation ties, and chicken ties might be possible, though.”

At this moment, all sorts of information about the sect’s customs surfaced in Divine Lord Yinquan’s mind.

On the other side, Zhang Yu waved his hand and said, “In theory, the immortal grotto-heaven belongs to Myriad Laws Sect as sect property. I’m only managing it on their behalf.”

Next, Zhang Yu gave a brief introduction to the general situation of the immortal grotto-heaven, including its size and the Cave Heaven Bridges.

Magneto took a deep breath, inhaling and exhaling the spiritual essence in the air, then said, “Although this cavern-heaven doesn’t produce spiritual essence on its own, you have Breathing Corpses, as well as ten Cave Heaven Bridges arranged across different parts of the Labyrinth Realm, connecting you to the spiritual essence of the outside world. For now, it seems to be enough.”

Old Gao sensed it for a moment and said, “The spiritual essence here isn’t much different from the outside Old Days Graveyard.”

Zhang Yu said, “In recent days, I’ve kept the Cave Heaven Bridges open at all times, connecting the inner and outer worlds precisely so that the cavern-heaven’s spiritual essence would be sufficient, making it easier for me to operate all kinds of corpse units inside the cavern-heaven next.”

After that, Zhang Yu explained the general outline of the reconstruction plan, then said, “Tomorrow, I’ll restore the Dimensional Structure of the Labyrinth Realm’s Office Zone.”

Although Zhang Yu could restore the Dimensional Structure of the entire Labyrinth Realm in one go, that would be equivalent to weakening his own authority.

So in order to maintain his authority and expand his influence within the management committee, Zhang Yu had divided the process of restoring the Dimensional Structure into several steps.

Zhang Yu continued, “Once the cleanup work starts, the various departments will work together to suppress the frenzied corpse units inside the Office Zone.”

“Teacher Magneto, Divine Lord Yinquan, when the time comes, I’ll have to trouble the two of you to help me sort out the corpse units inside the immortal grotto-heaven.”

“In the future, aside from directly using some corpse units for battle, I also hope to use the current corpse units and the corpse units we suppress later to form laboratories and production lines inside the immortal grotto-heaven. They’ll be used to refine and upgrade our Law Husks and magical treasures.”

Zhang Yu knew that although with the support of various cultivation techniques, Chain Diagrams, and Dao Seeds, his abilities had already become extremely powerful, when it came to equipment such as magical treasures and Law Husks, he was practically a blank slate.

After all, ever since advancing to Nascent Soul, Zhang Yu had successively gone through the university war and the sect examination. After joining the sect, he had been busy all the way with work, research into Sect-suppressing techniques, and the struggle over immortal inheritance… He had never had the chance to properly improve his magical treasures or Law Husks, and he had gone a long time without improving his Artifact Refinement skills in this area.

“Perfect… I can take advantage of this chance to clean up the Labyrinth Realm and obtain large amounts of raw materials and equipment. With Teacher Magneto and Yinquan’s assistance, I’ll be able to build my own laboratory and production lines inside the cavern-heaven…”

Zhang Yu could imagine that once each of his thirty-two avatars was equipped with various magical treasures and Law Husks, his overall work ability would receive a fairly large boost, allowing him to gain even more authority within the management committee.

“And there’s also Teacher Magneto’s Dao Seed, Heavenly Craft Opens Creation. This time, I can upgrade it along the way too.”

Zhang Yu’s gaze swept over Divine Lord Yinquan. “I just wonder… does Divine Lord Yinquan have a Dao Seed?”

Then Zhang Yu looked toward Old Gao and said, “Teacher Gao, after the cleanup plan starts, I’ll also have to trouble you to make a trip through the Labyrinth Realm with me, do some cleanup work, and use Earth-Wood Techniques to collect some materials along the way.”

Just then, Feng Tingting and Shi Huaiyu, who had been organizing corpse units in the distance, came over and took the initiative to greet Zhang Yu and the three Divine Transformation cultivators.

Using the Literary Thought Seal, Zhang Yu quickly transmitted the upcoming work arrangements to them. Then he led them out of the immortal grotto-heaven and back to the Ghost Letter Department office, and had Yu Xinghan take the three of them to handle their onboarding procedures.

Looking at the salary of two thousand immortal coins, Magneto and the other two were all slightly surprised. They had participated in two years of training and knew what two thousand immortal coins meant.

Old Gao thought, “A first-level sect affairs officer only has a salary of two thousand immortal coins, right? Most outsourced workers probably don’t get this much.”

Yu Xinghan, standing to the side, seemed to have noticed their surprise. He smiled and said, “Teacher Gao, Senior Magneto, Senior Yinquan, this is the salary Zhang Yu specially requested for you. It’s basically the highest starting salary among outsourced experts. If it’s going to rise again after this, we’ll have to wait until next year.”

It was not only the salaries of Magneto and the other two. Zhang Yu had also specially raised the wages of Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting, the two outsourced employees.

As for Yu Xinghan and Ye Xingli, Zhang Yu had used the name of job transfer to make them his secretary and assistant respectively, raising both of them to the second rank.

Every time Yu Xinghan thought of this, he could not help sighing inwardly. A rank that might originally have taken him ten years to raise had been achieved because of a single transfer order from Zhang Yu.

It also made Yu Xinghan feel even more deeply, at this moment, the importance of power within the sect.

Time passed in the blink of an eye and arrived at the next day. Accompanied by a violent tremor inside the Labyrinth Realm, the inverted and disordered Dimensional Structure within the Labyrinth Realm’s Office Zone gradually recovered under Zhang Yu’s control, little by little returning to a normal Dimensional Structure.

Watching the twisted rays of light and the chaotic building clusters all return to normal, the management committee leaders present, as well as cadres of all levels under them, all had sharp gleams flash through their eyes, as if they had already seen countless profits.

In the blink of an eye, large numbers of cultivators had already rushed into the restored Office Zone and begun the cleanup mission.

And the first step of cleanup was suppressing all the frenzied corpse units.

Zhang Yu shot into the sky, already bringing Old Gao in with him. Among the management committee’s chair and vice chairs, he was also the only one personally taking action at this moment.

That was because the equipment and corpse units in the Office Zone were often not high-level, and the profits they contained held no attraction for cultivators at the Tribulation Transcendence or Void Refinement realms. So they would invest their strength elsewhere, mostly in some assets that belonged to themselves.

As for the Office Zone cleanup activity before them, they chose to hand it over to their Divine Transformation subordinates. After their subordinates completed it, they would simply turn in a portion of the profits.

It would only be once the Factory Zone and Experimental Zone opened up next that the Void Refinement cultivators might enter the field one by one.

This was also the operating rule of the overwhelming majority of departments within the sect layer.

Superiors gave projects to subordinates. When subordinates completed the projects, they submitted a portion of the profits to their superiors, while the superiors themselves invested most of their strength into projects at their own level to obtain profits, then passed those profits further upward.

At this moment, the projection of Vice Chair Xie Lanyin quietly watched Zhang Yu taking action and thought to herself, “Divine Transformation is ultimately Divine Transformation. He even has to personally act for this tiny bit of profit. Truly unpresentable.”

The next moment, her figure flashed. Like the projections of the other leaders, she disappeared from the scene.

At the same time, all kinds of light rose within the mystic realm as one cultivator after another began suppressing corpse units.

Old Gao threw a punch, and countless distorted ripples appeared in the air. Large swaths of frenzied corpse units were gathered together by his Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Might, floating in midair like little mountains.

At the same time, Zhang Yu’s cavern-heaven manifested within a radius of a thousand meters, overlaying the material world.

All the corpse-unit mountains tossed out by Old Gao were instantly taken into the cavern-heaven as soon as they came within a thousand meters of Zhang Yu.

Magneto led Divine Lord Yinquan, Shi Huaiyu, and Feng Tingting in beginning to sort these corpse units into categories.

Although Magneto’s understanding of corpse units had originally been limited, after Zhang Yu’s paid acceleration last night, she had seized the time to accelerate her understanding of all kinds of knowledge about the corpse units of the Old Days Graveyard. Now, with Divine Lord Yinquan’s assistance, everything was going fairly smoothly.

As Zhang Yu sensed the corpse units continuously increasing inside the cavern-heaven, his heart suddenly stirred.

Previously, Zhang Yu had only sensed the existence of Grotto-Heaven Power inside the frenzied corpse units after reaching the Factory Zone. He had originally thought that within the Labyrinth Realm, only the later Factory Zone and Experimental Zone had frenzied corpse units containing Grotto-Heaven Power.

But later, after his Immortal Descendant rose to level six, he had also faintly sensed Grotto-Heaven Power inside the frenzied corpse units of the Office Zone… It was just that the amount was smaller than in the other zones.

Now that he was personally sorting out large numbers of frenzied corpse units from the Office Zone, Zhang Yu’s guess was further confirmed.

“These corpse units from the Office Zone… really do contain Grotto-Heaven Power?”

Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Is it because the level of Immortal Descendant rose, making my senses more subtle, that I was able to notice it?”

At this moment, as Zhang Yu waved his hand, threads and wisps of Grotto-Heaven Power were extracted from the bodies of the frenzied corpse units and surged toward Zhang Yu.

Under the convergence of these strands of Grotto-Heaven Power, Zhang Yu felt his immortal grotto-heaven complete something like a meal. After a slight tremor, it began another slow expansion of space.

At the same time, the frenzied corpse units that had still been struggling fiercely instantly quieted down one after another as the Grotto-Heaven Power inside them returned to the immortal grotto-heaven before them. They completely submitted to Zhang Yu and became grotto-heaven divine beasts of this place.

Although a trace of surprise flashed through Magneto’s and Divine Lord Yinquan’s eyes at these corpse units suddenly calming down, they were not too astonished. After all, Zhang Yu had already given them a brief explanation of this situation in advance.

As for the reason, and the specific principles behind it? No matter who asked, the answer was always the mysteries of the immortal inheritance.

…

While Zhang Yu’s group was cleaning up large swaths of frenzied corpse units, the other cleanup teams were also observing him from afar.

One of them was Tu Mu, the bureau chief of the Construction Bureau, a fourth-level sect affairs officer and a Divine Transformation cultivator.

The so-called Construction Bureau was a subordinate institution of the management committee, responsible for planning and constructing all kinds of engineering projects, buildings, and land within the Old Days Graveyard Development Zone.

At this moment, looking at Zhang Yu personally taking action, Tu Mu thought to himself, “Logically speaking, as a vice chair of the management committee, Zhang Yu is in charge of matters like land planning, engineering construction, and infrastructure within the Old Days Graveyard Development Zone. He counts as my direct superior.”

“But looking at this superior of mine right now… setting aside the immortal grotto-heaven, his abilities are too weak, so weak that he even has to turn around and snatch projects from a subordinate like me.”

And when Tu Mu saw Old Gao assisting Zhang Yu, along with Magneto, Divine Lord Yinquan, Shi Huaiyu, Feng Tingting, and the others appearing from time to time within the manifested cavern-heaven, his brows unknowingly furrowed even more tightly.

“He hasn’t even warmed his seat for long, yet he’s already dragged in so many stinking lower-realm cultivators. I heard many of these people even have civil engineering backgrounds. Tsk.”

“If he keeps this up, is he trying to build the Old Days Graveyard into a nest for lower-realm cultivators?”

If one were to put it in Earth terms, in the eyes of many cultivators of the Old Days Graveyard, what Zhang Yu was doing was practically building a goblin cave.

A subordinate beside him said, “It seems he also transferred two lower-realm cultivators from other departments, directly making them his secretary and assistant.”

“I heard that the other vice chairs are all quite dissatisfied with what Vice Chair Zhang has been doing.”

When Tu Mu heard this, his brows furrowed even more tightly. Although he was not a supporter of the innate Daoist lineage, he was also quite displeased with this kind of promotion of lower-realm cultivators. After all, if this continued, wouldn’t it increase the difficulty of competition in the upper realm?

The subordinate beside him asked again, “Bureau Chief, then what do you think? Should we still hand the corpse units we collected today over to Vice Chair Zhang?”

Tu Mu said coldly, “Have the other teams handed theirs over?”

Aside from Zhang Yu, the vice chair in charge of land, and Tu Mu of the Construction Bureau, quite a few other teams had also participated in this corpse-unit cleanup.

There were cultivators belonging respectively to public security, environmental sanitation, and urban management departments, as well as personnel hired by sect-owned enterprises. Their backgrounds were all different.

The subordinate said, “I took a look. So far, no one has handed any corpse units over to Vice Chair Zhang for processing.”

Tu Mu said flatly, “Since everyone else isn’t handing them over, why are we in such a hurry to hand ours over?”

Tu Mu of Netherworld Sect gave a cold snort. “What that rebel immortal Ying Xintian was skilled in was Grotto-Heaven Power. I’ve never heard of him having any research into corpse units.”

“Fine, we can’t compare to Zhang Yu of Myriad Laws Sect when it comes to cavern-heaven technology. But corpse units are our old trade. Can he really surpass us in that too?”

“He wants all the corpse units everyone collects to be handed over to him for processing? The way I see it, he just wants to seize the chance to demand favors and skim benefits.”

Tu Mu coldly watched Zhang Yu still busily working in the distance, wondering what countermeasure this fourth-level sect affairs officer of a vice chair would come up with next.

If he had none, then there would be no need to take him seriously in the future either.

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