No Money to Cultivate Immortality? - Chapter 843 (Patreon)

Chapter 843: Shock And Compensation

Although the Labyrinth Realm’s Spiritual Realm had been disconnected, the entire Old Days Graveyard outside the Labyrinth Realm, including the temporary offices of the many Administrative Committees and subordinate units, could all connect to the Spiritual Realm as normal.

Not long after Bai Zhenzhen returned to the Safety Supervision Bureau’s office, she sensed that news about a Nascent Soul cultivator counter-killing a Void Refinement cultivator was gradually spreading through the Spiritual Realm.

Her gaze shifted slightly. She swept her eyes over the people sending out these messages and immediately understood that Zhang Yu was the one pushing things along behind the scenes.

“Yuzi… is he trying to hype this up?”

Although she did not know Zhang Yu’s full plan, since she could sense that Zhang Yu wanted to drive up the incident’s popularity, Bai Zhenzhen planned to help him along.

She began thinking about exactly how to help.

Bai Zhenzhen opened her contact list. When she saw Wen Wuya’s avatar, her eyes suddenly lit up.

“At the moment, this matter is mainly spreading only inside the Old Days Graveyard.”

“If we want to spread this matter outward… then of course it has to be through our Heavenly Sword Sect, number one among the Ten Major Sects in communication power.”

“And when it comes to the Heavenly Sword Sect, the people most suited to transmitting intelligence are naturally the cultivators who practice the Shock Sword Dao, who have always hoped to be shocked by others and longed to shock others as well.”

As she thought this, Bai Zhenzhen had already sent Wen Wuya a message.

Bai Zhenzhen: I have something huge to tell you.

Wen Wuya: Questioning Emoji

A moment later, Wen Wuya, as though he had found a treasure, only felt the Shock Sword Aura inside him surging. It was as if it had been forcibly bottled up in his chest and might burst out of his body at any moment.

“No, I have to go shock someone else too.”

Wen Wuya hurriedly pulled up his own contact list, intending to pass along the news of “a Nascent Soul cultivator counter-killing a Void Refinement cultivator.”

After all, in the process of practicing the Shock Sword Dao, aside from being shocked, one also needed to shock others.

The first person Wen Wuya contacted was a leader he had served under in the Heavenly Sword Sect before he came to the development zone, a level-four sect affairs officer at the Nascent Soul realm.

The other party was also a practitioner of the Shock Sword Dao and would definitely love the news he brought.

This was also something he had learned when studying the Shock Sword Dao in the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Practitioners of the Shock Sword Dao shared a vast, complex channel for information circulation.

Almost every practitioner of the Shock Sword Dao would use this channel every day… to gather or spread all kinds of shocking news, circulating it through this social network, shocking one another and improving one another’s cultivation.

In Wen Wuya’s view, this was practically the place within the sect where all kinds of gossip, unsourced claims, and fake news circulated the most widely. At the same time, it was also the place where all kinds of secret intelligence and true information circulated the fastest.

Especially when paired with the Instant Sword Network built by the Heavenly Sword Sect. It was said that its information transmission speed was faster than light, allowing their information to spread everywhere at the fastest speed among the Ten Major Sects.

The leader Wen Wuya wanted to contact was named Zhentian. It was said that his nickname in the Spiritual Realm had once been Yao Sword Immortal Emperor, because he wanted people to be shocked the moment they saw the name. Later, he had been forced to change it back to his original name.

Wen Wuya guessed that if it were not against the rules, many people in the Heavenly Sword Sect would probably just call themselves Heavenly Sword Immortal Emperor.

Wen Wuya: Old leader, I have a piece of news to tell you.

Zhentian: Sigh. You lower-realm lower cultivators have been in the sect for too short a time. Everything shocks you.Zhentian: Once you stay another ten or twenty years, everything will seem ordinary, and you’ll find it harder and harder to be shocked.Wen Wuya: There was a Nascent Soul cultivator who counter-killed a Void Refinement cultivator.Zhentian: Damn! That kind of thing still happens these days? Which Void Refinement cultivator was that useless? What happened? Do you have a video?

Wen Wuya immediately sent the video over.

After Zhentian learned the cause and course of events, he felt the Sword Aura inside him surging, and his face was already filled with satisfaction.

Then he immediately passed the news on to others. “Let me tell you something bizarre. A Nascent Soul cultivator counter-killed a Void Refinement cultivator. The battle shook the Spiritual Realm. I heard even the Spiritual Realm over at the Old Days Graveyard got disconnected.”

As the news continued to spread, more and more Shock Sword Dao practitioners learned of it, then began secondary transmission. Like wave after wave, it passed back and forth through the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Spiritual Realm, spreading wider and wider, continuously pushing the incident’s popularity upward.

And in the process of this spread, some people embellished the story, while others tracked the incident and obtained even more messy gossip from the Old Days Graveyard…

“That’s absurd. I heard this Zhang Yu went to the Old Days Graveyard to carry a pregnancy for the Immortal Clan, and he got beaten into a miscarriage during the battle!”

“Holy crap. I heard that Immortal Clan was furious and directly launched an Immortal Shuttle to kill people. After the two of them fought, they directly smashed the Old Days Graveyard’s Spiritual Realm to pieces. It’s still disconnected even now.”

“Huh? Didn’t they say that Void Refinement cultivator’s attack caused the Spiritual Realm to disconnect?”

“In any case, she can’t get away from this.”

And while tracking the incident, many Shock Sword cultivators discovered Zhang Yu’s past experiences.

“Huh? Isn’t he that cultivator who tested up from the lower realm?”

“Holy crap. A lower-realm cultivator who tested his way up, a Kunxu hero, the holder of an immortal inheritance, counter-killed a Void Refinement cultivator, and got beaten into a miscarriage?”

“Good. If Kunxu had big news like this every day, our Heavenly Sword Sect would have become the number one among the Ten Major Sects long ago.”

“This Zhang Yu is interesting. He’s excellent cultivation fuel for us. I’m following him.”

“Following too, following too.”

When Wen Wuya, who was still in the Safety Supervision Bureau, saw the news that Zhang Yu had been beaten into a miscarriage, both his heart and body shook at once. He instinctively looked toward Bai Zhenzhen’s office.

“Good. This is a good thing. Won’t Zhenzhen’s cultivation in Extreme Sentiment Swordsmanship and the Grief Sword Dao advance greatly from this?”

With the Shock Sword Dao’s assistance, the news grew more and more explosive. Its popularity climbed steadily, and it was transmitted everywhere through the Instant Sword Network.

And this was also one of the important reasons Xie Lanyin could never suppress the incident’s popularity.

But Xie Lanyin no longer had time to pay attention to any of that. She looked at Xiao Yunhe, the Administrative Committee chairman who had descended onto the scene and stopped her from erupting into an intense battle with Bu Yingshu.

Xiao Yunhe sent a private message: “You injured Zhang Yu too heavily this time. Even his spirit root flowed out. It’s said to be completely destroyed and beyond saving.”

Xie Lanyin: “I didn’t injure him!”

Chairman: “You didn’t injure him? Does that mean you were counter-killed by a Nascent Soul cultivator?”

Xie Lanyin: “How could I possibly fail to beat a Nascent Soul cultivator?”

Chairman: “Then you admit you injured him?”

Xie Lanyin: “I…”

Xiao Yunhe did not give Xie Lanyin a chance to argue and directly sent a private message: “Go apologize to Zhang Yu and compensate him.”

“Compensation is the greatest sincerity, and it is also the fastest way to calm this incident.”

Xie Lanyin looked at Xiao Yunhe unwillingly, as if to say: Me? A level-six sect affairs officer and Void Refinement cultivator, apologizing to Zhang Yu, a Nascent Soul cultivator and level-four sect affairs officer from the lower realm? Fine, apologize if I must, but I have to compensate him too?

Xiao Yunhe continued messaging her privately and said mildly, “Vice Chair Xie, you should understand. The most important thing for the Administrative Committee is balance. If everyone handled matters by killing and fighting, without paying even the slightest price, then what would we need sect law for? What would we need a chairman like me for?”

“When I was young, I was just like you. Relying on power and cultivation, I would injure people at the slightest provocation. At that time, I thought, a bunch of people whose realms, strength, power, and assets were all beneath mine—I hit them if I wanted to. Why should I give way to them? Why should I compensate them?”

“Later, I understood. This is what rules are. This is what balance is. Only by maintaining rules and establishing balance can the people below listen to us and voluntarily, independently build the sect and serve Kunxu.”

“Much of the time, not making a move is more profitable than making one.”

As he spoke, Xiao Yunhe’s gaze shifted slightly. A long string of messages had already appeared in the Spiritual Realm interface before his eyes.

He sent the contents to Xie Lanyin. They were messages from the major sect enterprises urging the development zone to repair the Spiritual Realm as soon as possible.

Xie Lanyin immediately said, “This has nothing to do with me! Zhang Yu holds an immortal inheritance. It must be him causing trouble…”

Xiao Yunhe said, “Xie Lanyin, you’ve already risen to this position. Do you really think… who did it matters?”

“I have already asked the Righteous Gods about the Labyrinth Realm’s Spiritual Realm situation. They have no solution.”

“Right now, I’m afraid only Zhang Yu can repair it quickly. But unfortunately, he is badly injured.”

“This is the hole you stabbed open. Clean it up yourself. Pay compensation and treatment costs, and get him to restore the Spiritual Realm as soon as possible.”

Although the speed of their private conversation was lightning fast, and a massive amount of data exchange was completed in an instant, to Bu Yingshu standing nearby, the two of them had still made her wait far too long.

“Xiao Yunhe! Are you going to shield her?!”

Xie Lanyin felt Bu Yingshu’s predatory gaze and the silent pressure coming from Xiao Yunhe, and her mind raced madly for a countermeasure.

Just then, another message was sent before her.

When she saw the sender’s name and information, Xie Lanyin’s heart shook, because the other party was a Soul Cultivator child under Bai Gusheng, called Ku Rong Tongzi.

Although the other party did not hold the identity of a sect affairs officer, most of the time, he represented Bai Gusheng’s will. His own Ascension-stage Soul Cultivator cultivation was also enough for him to summon wind and rain in the Spiritual Realm, making him someone no one dared underestimate.

Xie Lanyin hurriedly replied, “May I ask what business you have, sir? How do you have the time to seek out this humble one?”

Ku Rong Tongzi’s projection appeared before Xie Lanyin and spoke in a manner only Xie Lanyin could hear and see. “I had no choice but to seek you out. You’re the key figure right now. Complaints about you have already flashed before the Heavenly Lord.”

“And the Myriad Laws Immortal Clan even specially sent a letter of protest. Fortunately, the Heavenly Lord suppressed it.”

At this point, Ku Rong Tongzi paused. Then he shouted sternly, “Xie Lanyin, the Heavenly Lord sent you here to revitalize the development zone and promote industrial development. That is the top priority. Who told you to beat the Spiritual Realm into shutdown?”

Xie Lanyin hurriedly explained, “I didn’t damage the Spiritual Realm.”

Ku Rong Tongzi said coldly, “Is telling me that useful? Xie Lanyin, did you use your entire brain to operate your assets and leave not a single bit behind here in the development zone?”

“The Heavenly Lord wanted you to stop Myriad Laws from interfering, not to beat Zhang Yu to death.”

“Whether Zhang Yu is injured or dead, whether it affects the Labyrinth Realm’s state because of the immortal inheritance or draws even more powerful people from Myriad Laws, it will only make things more troublesome. Do you not understand such a simple principle?”

Xie Lanyin had never felt that at any moment, she had been as wronged as she was today.

She could only explain, “I learned that Zhang Yu could control Corpse Husks. I wanted to stop him from subduing a Void Refinement Corpse Husk, making it easier to erode his authority in the future, gradually hollow him out, and stop Myriad Laws from interfering in the development zone’s industries…”

“Enough.” Ku Rong Tongzi waved a hand and said, “Don’t talk about this useless nonsense now. Whether you apologize and admit fault, or visit him with compensation, immediately get Zhang Yu to repair the Spiritual Realm.”

“If you don’t have money, I can help you.”

Looking at the loan link the other party sent, Xie Lanyin felt a burst of unwillingness.

At the same time, Ku Rong Tongzi continued, “What happened today was all because you acted on your own authority. It has nothing to do with the Heavenly Lord. Clean up your own mess. Otherwise, you’d best take care of yourself.”

Hearing Ku Rong Tongzi’s words, Xie Lanyin sighed inwardly, but she knew everything was already irreversible.

After all, within Kunxu, a leader’s responsibility could be borne by subordinates, while a subordinate’s achievements could be seized by leaders.

Not to mention that with the losses and mistakes she had caused today, there was simply no chance anyone would shoulder them for her.

At this moment, Xie Lanyin finally understood what danger she had smelled earlier.

“Without realizing it, I ended up standing in the way of everyone’s profits.”

“Not many people care what the truth is. The sect enterprises only want to resume production as soon as possible, and the people above only want to eliminate the negative impact as soon as possible…”

“And the fastest, lowest-cost method is for me… to be willing to bow my head, to be willing to pay compensation, and to pay out of my own pocket to treat Zhang Yu.”

“I am the one all of them have deemed most suited to take the blame.”

In that instant, Xie Lanyin understood. When everyone had reached a consensus, even though she was a Void Refinement cultivator with world-shaking cultivation, at this moment, she no longer had any control over herself.

Xie Lanyin gave a bitter laugh inwardly and looked again at Bu Yingshu and Xiao Yunhe before her.

Although she had just exchanged quite a bit of information with Ku Rong Tongzi, under Spiritual Realm acceleration, everything had happened very quickly.

Now, when she looked at the two of them again, her attitude had completely changed.

Xie Lanyin bowed and said, “Bu Daojun, I am willing to visit Zhang Yu and apologize with compensation…”

Xiao Yunhe, standing to the side, nodded in satisfaction and began to mediate. “Bu Daojun, although Vice Chair Xie was in the wrong, she knows her mistake and is willing to correct it. In my view, the most important matter now is still treating Vice Chair Zhang…”

After all, Zhang Yu had not truly been beaten to death by the other party. And after hearing that Xie Lanyin was willing to compensate him, the expression on Bu Yingshu’s face also eased slightly.

Under Xiao Yunhe’s mediation, the intents of Bu Yingshu and Xie Lanyin crossed the Spiritual Realm together and arrived inside the development zone’s medical hall.

There, surrounded by layer after layer of Dao Techniques, Zhang Yu lay on a sickbed, his life aura extremely weak.

The doctor responsible for treating Zhang Yu was considering how to treat the patient when his body was so tough that even ordinary treatment Artifacts could not pierce it.

Sensing Xiao Yunhe and the other two arrive, the medical hall director immediately came over with the attending physician.

Xiao Yunhe asked with a face full of concern, “How is Vice Chair Zhang’s condition?”

The attending physician sighed. “We just finished the examination. His current condition is very poor. The patient has multiple fatal injuries all over his body. Even the Celestial Spirit Root inside him was beaten until it flowed out and is completely ruined…”

“Conventional treatment Artifacts are also ineffective on the patient.”

“Next, we will do everything we can, but it may be… the treatment costs will be very high.”

The attending physician said all this to state in advance that the treatment costs would be very high.

After all, with Kunxu’s medical arts, the vast majority of patients could be cured. The greatest difference was simply the level of medical expenses.

And for some cultivators, overly high medical costs might be worse than death.

Therefore, under such circumstances, compared to illnesses and injuries that could most likely be cured, the vast majority of cultivators cared more about how much they would have to pay in medical expenses.

To them, if the medical costs exceeded what they could bear, then even successful treatment was equivalent to failure.

After hearing this explanation, Bu Yingshu glared fiercely at Xie Lanyin beside her.

When Xie Lanyin heard that the medical costs would be very high, she sighed inwardly.

Just then, someone suddenly shouted, “Doctor, bad news! The patient is awake.”

On the sickbed, Zhang Yu opened his eyes and looked at Bu Yingshu and Xiao Yunhe before him. “Bu Daojun, Chairman, you’re here?”

Xie Lanyin, standing to the side, greeted him. “Vice Chair Zhang.”

Seeing that Zhang Yu did not speak, Xie Lanyin could only continue. “I’m here to compensate you.”

Zhang Yu’s eyes lit up, and he turned to look over.

The doctor was startled. “Not good! Why did the injured person’s vital signs suddenly rise?”

“Was his Dao Heart lifted by the stimulation of immortal coins, triggering his Life Essence?”

After all, all the patients he came into contact with were cultivators. The doctor knew that for cultivators, many times, changes in mental state and changes in the Dao Heart could effectively stimulate their own Life Essence.

Thinking this, the doctor could only look at Zhang Yu with a worried expression.

Zhang Yu looked at Xie Lanyin and said, “How much compensation?”

Xie Lanyin said, “One million…”

Bu Yingshu gave a mocking laugh. “One million? Are you trying to fob off a lower-realm… are you trying to fob off a pauper?”

The light left Zhang Yu’s eyes again, and his whole aura weakened once more.

The doctor at the side was shaken, then let out a sigh of relief. “His vital signs dropped back down again.”

Zhang Yu touched his belly and said with an injured expression, “I had only had my Celestial Spirit Root for a dozen or so months. I finally managed to gradually adapt to it and let it grow completely inside me…”

Looking at Bu Yingshu pressing her with that stare from the side, Xie Lanyin sighed inwardly and continued, “Vice Chair Zhang, this time was indeed my mistake. I am willing to compensate you five million. This is my greatest sincerity.”

Bu Yingshu said directly, “Not enough. At least ten million immortal coins, and you also have to cover all medical expenses.”

Xie Lanyin’s gaze suddenly sharpened. “I don’t have that much cash.”

Bu Yingshu indicated that she did not believe her and went tit for tat. “Show me your account balance. If you don’t have it, sell off your assets.”

Xiao Yunhe said from the side, “Ten million is somewhat too much. Although Vice Chair Xie has many assets, she probably cannot produce that much liquid capital all at once.”

And so, under Xiao Yunhe’s fence-sitting mediation, Zhang Yu, Bu Yingshu, and Xie Lanyin gradually settled on the compensation amount and method.

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