What’s the point of cultivating immortality if you don’t have money?.

How could Chapter 579 possibly be a salary increase?

Yu Xinghan didn't make it too obvious in the spirit world communication, but only hinted that he had taken too much leave recently.

Was he afraid that the news might leak out in the spirit world, or did he intend to tell Zhang Yu about it face to face?

Upon receiving the message, Zhang Yu frowned slightly, sensing something amiss.

After checking Yu Xinghan's working hours, Fu Ji said, "I thought he was busy with the massage platform, but now it seems... he's working less and less. Could he have developed a two-day weekend syndrome?"

"Wouldn't that put the entire construction site at risk?"

Fuki said, "I think it would be better to turn all your employees into my followers. With the blessing of the ritual, the two-day virus will have no effect."

Zhang Yu naturally didn't readily agree to Fu Ji's request. Instead, he said, "Let's add more money first and see if we can help Yu Xinghan cure the Double-Night Virus."

"We can't just stand by and watch him get taken to a rehabilitation center. Not only will it waste his time, but what if someone finds out something?"

After a pause, Zhang Yu added, "While we're at it, let's also give all the employees in the company a raise, which is a good way to prevent the spread of the virus over the weekend."

In Zhang Yu's view, employees like Yingxin, Shi Huaiyu, Xiao Qingxuan, and Shi Yunxiang, whom he knows well, cannot be allowed to be affected by the "double weekend virus" or even forced to take a mandatory break.

Even if the remaining soul cultivators received a raise, Zhang Yu didn't think it would make much difference.

Upon hearing this, Fuki exclaimed anxiously, "Are you crazy? Raise salaries for the whole company?"

"How can you just raise salaries so casually? You dare to give them a raise for such a small thing? What do you plan to do in the future? Are you going to just give employees paid leave? That would ruin the company!"

Although she received no salary or dividends, as one of the original shareholders who built the company from scratch, Fu Ji regarded the company as one of her own life's work. How could she tolerate Zhang Yu ruining it like this?
Zhang Yu, however, said directly: "It will rise!"

Fuki pleaded, "You really can't just raise wages arbitrarily. The employees are all insatiable. If you raise their wages now, they'll get used to it before long, and the raise will be a waste of time."

"And what do they need so much money for? The most important and worthwhile investment in the company is yourself."

Princess Fu felt like a loyal minister in ancient times, earnestly advising the emperor not to act recklessly.

But Zhang Yu had already made up his mind. Seeing Fu Ji's repeated attempts to dissuade him, he directly sent the decree to Ying Xin.

Yingxin was slightly taken aback when she saw the message from Zhang Yu: "A raise? It's a raise? How could it be a raise?"

A raise in less than a year after joining the company? Yingxin had never even heard of such a thing before, let alone seen it.

Ying Xin, a sixth-generation civil engineer, knows all too well how difficult it is to get a raise. It requires going through hardships and suffering, and also going with the tide of the times, and being in harmony with the right time, place, and people. It's like being blessed by fate in ancient times, like a serendipitous encounter or a stroke of luck.

As Fu Ji watched Zhang Yuzhen start raising employee salaries, her heart ached more and more: "There are so many people in this company, are you going to raise everyone's salary by a few tenths of a spirit coin? Won't that mean an extra 5 to 10 spirit coins a month?"

"That means an extra 15 to 30 spirit coins before the top ten leagues in September."

"That adds up to an extra 50 to 100 spirit coins a year!"

"That's 500 to 1000 spirit coins in ten years!"

"These are all spirit coins from our accounts!"

Hearing Fu Ji's calculations, Zhang Yu had to admit that he did feel a pang of heartache and melancholy, as if he had actually seen thousands of spirit coins being transferred from his account.

"Dividing the money..." Zhang Yu smiled bitterly to himself, "It's still a bit painful, as expected."

The moment the salary increase notice was delivered to one of the company's employees, the company group chat instantly became lively.

Yingxin's grandfather: Thank you, General Manager Zhang! I will never forget your kindness in raising my salary.
Zhao Tianxing: [Fireworks][Fireworks][Fireworks]
Mo Tianyi: Mr. Zhang, you see, from now on, I'll treat every day at the company as if it were my last day and work overtime!

Hu Yuntao: Dad! [Kowtowing] Working 24 hours a day isn't my limit, that's the limit of time.
Seeing the constantly updated messages in the company group chat, Zhang Yu replied: "I've said it before, I won't keep all the company's profits to myself."
Che Yufei: Born a company man, die a company soul! Loyalty!

Shi Huaiyu: Loyalty!

Shi Yunxiang: Loyalty!

Yingxin: Loyalty!
Seeing the messages still frantically refreshing in the group chat, Zhang Yu couldn't help but reply: Okay, stop refreshing the messages and focus on your work.

At Zhang Yu's command, the entire group immediately fell silent.

Then Zhang Yu sent another message to Yu Xinghan: How are you feeling?
Zhang Yu: A pay rise should help in this regard.
Zhang Yu: Are you feeling any better?

Although Yu Xinghan was only working part-time, she still received a raise this time.

When Yu Xinghan saw the message from Zhang Yu, he was slightly taken aback at first, but then he understood what the other party meant.

"Has Zhang Yu already realized that I might have been infected with the Double Weekend Virus?"

"Is he trying to combat the 'weekend virus' by raising salaries?"

Looking at Zhang Yu's message in the company group chat again, Yu Xinghan felt a slight warmth in her heart: "Is this why you're raising salaries for everyone in the company?"

Upon thinking of this, Yu Xinghan felt his magical power and blood surging within him, and he wanted to stand up immediately and work hard to complete the task twice as much.

But after a while, the motivation in his heart gradually dissipated, and he felt as if he were glued to the ground, unable to get up.

Yu Xinghan: I'm already useless.

Yu Xinghan: You don't need to worry about me anymore.
At this moment, Yu Xinghan had made up his mind to simply go to the rehabilitation center to properly get rid of the "double weekend virus." He thought to himself, "Zhang Yu, I'll work overtime for the company again after I get out."

Besides Yu Xinghan, Zhang Yu chatted with the other employees about their recent situations and confirmed their work status.

Fuki analyzed, "After the salary increase, other employees should have no problem preventing the spread of the virus on weekends."

"But Yu Xinghan... he's probably deeply poisoned, and a simple pay raise won't solve the problem."

Fuki then advised, "I told you, turning him into my follower is more reliable than giving him a raise."

Zhang Yu remained silent, because he knew that becoming a believer was not a simple matter, and he didn't know if Yu Xinghan would agree or be willing to become a believer of the evil god.

If they don't want to... are we supposed to silence Yu Xinghan?
Just as Zhang Yu was pondering this, Zhang Pianpian sent him a message.

Zhang Pianpian: Do you remember the fourth one? They were planning to send someone to the construction site to check if your company had weekends off.

Zhang Yu was startled and replied, "Why? Is someone trying to get me?"
Zhang Pianpian: What I can confirm right now is that I've received reports from various sources.
Zhang Pianpian: I need to investigate further whether someone is targeting you, and if so, who is.

Zhang Pianpian: Anyway, be careful, and deal with any problems on the construction site as soon as possible.
Zhang Yu's heart grew heavy as he recalled the scene of Master Xuyang questioning him on the flying boat last time.

"These repeated attempts are clearly attempts by someone to target me and push me into the trap of the Dual Cultivation Cult."

"Who is it?"

Zhang Yu couldn't think of a solution for the time being, so he could only hurry to leave the laboratory and head to the construction site.

"But after Yu Xinghan contracted the double-weekend virus, he brought people from all over the place to get checked."

"I'm afraid the target this time is Yu Xinghan."

"Are you trying to drag me down with Yu Xinghan?"

Whether the construction site was shut down because of Yu Xinghan, or he was investigated because of Yu Xinghan, it was clearly unacceptable to Zhang Yu.

Regardless of whether the consequences could be minor or major, the time wasted on the investigation would hinder his preparations for the Top Ten Leagues, which gradually fueled Zhang Yu's resentment.

A moment later, Zhang Yu's figure soared into the sky from the top of the university building, tearing through the air in the blink of an eye and hurtling towards the battlefield construction site.

At the same time, a black light followed closely behind Zhang Yu like a shooting star; it was a black sword box.

The sword box contained the twelve Taihao Sacred Law Flying Swords that Zhang Yu had just finished forging, which he brought out with him at the moment.

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Battlefield construction site.

Having just received a 10% raise, Shi Yunxiang was full of fighting spirit and energy, wishing he could be in multiple places at once and do all the work on the construction site.

At the same time, one sentence kept repeating in his mind.

“Zhang Yu wasn’t lying or making empty promises; he really will get a raise.”

"Isn't this even more impressive than bosses who are at the Golden Core or Nascent Soul stages?"

But before Shi Yunxiang had been working on the project for long, he felt the ground shaking so badly that it made it almost impossible to work on the entire site.

Upon witnessing this, Shi Yunxiang abruptly turned his head and looked at another construction site in the distance.

He knew that the project was contracted by Tianyao University, and that their area had been frequently affected by large-scale construction recently.

This time it was even more serious, making Shi Yunxiang feel that the entire construction site was about to be paralyzed.

After a full hour of work stoppage, Shi Yunxiang felt he couldn't endure it any longer.

Hu Yuntao shouted in the spirit world, "It's been an hour! We haven't worked for a whole hour!"

"How can we possibly repay General Manager Zhang for the raise if things continue like this?!"

Che Yufei chimed in, "We just got a raise, how are we going to earn it if we don't work?"

Although Zhang Yu initiated a pay raise, the construction site still followed the old rule of distributing wages based on workload. For everyone in the company, the pay raise boosted morale, making them eager to work overtime and earn more money.

So the group went to the construction site of the demon descendants, but unexpectedly they met Xiangshan, the number one demon in the Civil Engineering Department of Tianyao University.

Listening to Shi Huaiyu, Shi Yunxiang and the others, Xiangshan said indifferently, "What does your work stoppage have to do with me?"

Xiangshan snorted coldly, his trunk twitching slightly, and said, "We're going to modify the earth's veins here. Are we going to stop working just to accommodate you?"

"Just bear with it a little longer, it will be fine in half a month."

Shi Huaiyu angrily said, "Half a month? You mean we have to stop work for half a month?"

Xiangshan said calmly, "You can also choose not to stop, as long as you have the ability to avoid the influence of the environment."

"If you can't do it, then you're not capable enough, so just bear with it."

(End of this chapter)