You dare to cultivate without money?!

Chapter 1312 - 832: A Young Man Joins the Committee, Let the Corpse Items Fly 3

Zhan Xian said, "If we add in those obedient cleanup teams... they hand the Corpse Items over to us for processing, and they can also get higher returns. That’s a triple win."

Fu Ji burst out laughing. "Exactly. Let them take a bit more profit for now in exchange for our grip on them."

At the same time, Zhang Yu had finished explaining everything to Yu Xinghan. A faint sigh rose in Yu Xinghan’s heart. "Zhang Yu... he’s taking the abilities granted to him by the Immortal Inheritance and converting them into layers upon layers of power as much as possible, influencing and controlling more Cultivators."

"Zhang Yu, he’s getting more and more formidable."

Meanwhile, wave after wave of cleanup teams sent the captured Corpse Items over to Zhang Yu to be processed. Once the Cave Heaven Power was extracted, the Frenzied Corpse Items no longer lost control, didn’t need to be violently suppressed, and could even keep operating normally.

After these Corpse Items were sent to the companies for recycling, the cleanup teams also gained greater returns.

With profits rising like this, more and more cleanup teams started sending in the Frenzied Corpse Items they’d captured.

The Cultivators in the sect had powerful strength, fast-moving minds, and communication channels as swift as the Spirit Realm.

So when faced with changing circumstances, their reaction speed and execution speed were both extremely high.

By the time Tu Mu, the director of the Construction Bureau, also sent people to transport the newly captured Corpse Items to Zhang Yu, he saw a long line already formed outside the registration point, each person waiting for their Corpse Items to be processed.

And because the registration was being handled by two outsourced workers, the Cultivators who came to register had no choice but to adjust their settings, lowering the transparency level for outsourced staff so the outsourced could become visible.

Just then, as the number of Corpse Items kept rising, Yu Xinghan stepped out and announced to everyone, "Because the number of Corpse Items that need processing is continuously increasing, to facilitate management, from now on all Corpse Items sent in must be uniformly registered, uniformly processed, and uniformly recycled..."

Listening to Yu Xinghan’s explanation, Tu Mu understood in his heart: this meant they would no longer process the Corpse Items sent by each cleanup team one by one. Instead, everyone had to register their Corpse Items first and then store them directly with Zhang Yu, who would centrally arrange their processing.

"Then Zhang Yu will sell them on to the companies and transfer the payment to each cleanup team..."

Tu Mu didn’t know the principles behind the Immortal Inheritance and didn’t know whether Zhang Yu’s method was actually more efficient. But at least the overall process, from the sound of it, was indeed more convenient than handling each cleanup team’s Corpse Items separately.

But Tu Mu knew that wasn’t the key...

"This way, Vice President Zhang basically becomes the middleman between all the companies and all the cleanup teams."

"In the future, all Corpse Item recycling in the development zones has to go through him."

"And all payments for recycling will also be issued by him."

Tu Mu even thought ahead: whose Corpse Items got processed first, whose got processed later, whose money got paid out first, whose got paid later—in the future, all of that would be decided by Vice President Zhang.

"He... wants to control all the cleanup teams."

Tu Mu understood that with countless Cultivators waiting to pay off loans, renew memberships, renew Magic Treasures, and juggling all kinds of financial arrangements, just the sequence and timing of processing was enough to seriously affect many Cultivators’ lives.

Tu Mu said to himself in his heart, "He never intended to fight us head-on. Instead, he solved the problem right at the source."

"Can we resist? Can we stop him?"

Almost the moment this thought surfaced, Tu Mu shook his head and denied it in his heart.

"Impossible... as long as the profit Vice President Zhang offers is always a bit higher than what the cleanup teams can get by directly selling their Corpse Items, each cleanup team will keep sending their Corpse Items to him."

"This is driven by利益; it’s the voluntary choice of every Cultivator."

Thinking of this, Tu Mu couldn’t help but sigh inwardly. "In the end... it’s still the Immortal Inheritance. The Immortal Inheritance gave Vice President Zhang abilities we don’t have. He’s converted this ability into power, forcing us to be driven by him."

At this moment, Tu Mu already understood that his judgment of Zhang Yu had been completely wrong.

The other party might only be in the Divinity Transformation Realm, but he wasn’t some mascot. He was a leader capable of rapidly converting his high-level capabilities into power.

But what Tu Mu thought of next went even further. "Once Corpse Items are centrally processed, the next step... will probably be to further squeeze the profits of the cleanup teams."

Tu Mu had seen far too many similar stories in the sect. In who knows how many fields... once decent profits appeared, Upper Cultivators would immediately show up, using their superior abilities to squeeze Lower Cultivators and skim off massive profits.

"But I’m one of his own, aren’t I? I’m the director of the Construction Bureau under Vice President Zhang’s portfolio, a direct subordinate, not some other Lower Cultivator... He can’t accidentally hit me too, right?"

Looking at the long line before him, Tu Mu muttered inwardly, "Hmm... how do I bow my head... no, how do I let Vice President Zhang see my loyalty?"

The first thing Tu Mu thought of, of course, was to open his contacts and send a message to Vice President Zhang.

Zhang Yu has enabled friend verification. You are not his friend yet. Please send a friend request first...

Seeing that glaring red exclamation mark, Tu Mu’s heart jolted.

"This is bad, Vice President Zhang must have a huge misunderstanding about me right now."

Tu Mu hurriedly sent over a friend request.

Tu Mu: [kowtow]

Tu Mu: [red envelope]

Tu Mu: [Dual Cultivation]

But like a stone sinking into the sea, no matter what kind of request Tu Mu sent, there was no response from Zhang Yu’s side.

This only made Tu Mu even more anxious.

He suddenly looked toward the end of the line, quickly turned down the transparency for outsourced staff until they were fully visible, and then sent friend requests to Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting.

As she was registering entries, a faint feeling flickered through Feng Tingting’s heart. Ever since she’d entered the sect and become an outsourced worker, she had gradually gotten used to her transparent life, and to the fact that Sect Affairs Officers barely spared her a glance.

She knew that in the sect, she was like a speck of dust, visible only to other outsourced Cultivators who were also dust.

But right now, she and Shi Huaiyu suddenly seemed dazzling. All the Cultivators who came to register—whether outsourced Cultivators or Sect Affairs Officers—were forced to face her, pay attention to her, listen to every word she spoke, and even act according to her instructions.

There were even Level 2, Level 3, and Level 4 Sect Affairs Officers actively adding her as a friend.

"This... is power, even if it’s just a tiny bit of power." Feng Tingting thought with emotion. "But just by having Senior Brother Zhang grant me the authority to register Corpse Items, he turned me, this little invisible nobody... into the focal point of these Cultivators’ gaze."

On the other side, when Tu Mu saw that Feng Tingting had accepted his friend request, he hurriedly sent a message: [100 Immortal Coins] Thanks for your hard work

Feng Tingting looked at this in mild surprise and thought, "Truly a Level 4 Sect Staff. Even when dealing with outsourced workers, he casually throws out 100 Immortal Coins."

Feng Tingting then sent the reply she had already prepared: Vice President Zhang does not accept gifts

Tu Mu paused slightly, thinking, "No gifts? Is he even human?"

Feng Tingting continued: If you really must give something, then donate Immortal Crystals to the Immortal Cave Heaven

Feng Tingting: That can at least be used to improve the environment and increase the sect’s assets

Feng Tingting: It’s all for the sake of the sect, after all