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

Chapter 834 A young man arrived at the committee and let the corpses fly for a while.
According to information obtained by Tu Mu, the director of the Construction Bureau, almost no crazed corpses were sent to Zhang Yu for processing until the first day was completely over.

The next day, Tu Mu and his team became even more cautious as they cleaned up the body parts, as if they were waiting for a possible counterattack from Vice President Zhang Yu.

But even after a full day had passed, the entire office area of ​​the labyrinth remained unusually calm, and nothing unusual had happened.

Meanwhile, the body parts that Tu Mu led the team to suppress had all been broken down into various materials and sold to recycling companies.

Looking at the large sum of immortal coins that had come in, Tu Mu handed over a portion of the immortal coins, used another portion as funds for the Construction Bureau, and distributed the rest as bonuses to himself and his many subordinates.

For a time, the atmosphere within the Bureau was incredibly powerful, and many cultivators were eager to continue their efforts to suppress the corpse.

Seeing that Zhang Yu remained unmoved, Tu Mu asked his subordinates, "How many body parts were sent to Zhang Yu the next day?"

The subordinate laughed and said, "There isn't a single one. Zhang Yu is just a vice president without any real power now. I don't think anyone in the entire development zone will listen to him anymore."

Hearing this, Tu Mu felt relieved and smiled faintly, saying, "I heard he was very arrogant during the meeting. I thought he had some amazing skills, but it seems he's just a greenhorn."

"If he thinks that just because he has a position, we should all listen to him and work for him wholeheartedly, then he is too naive and too ignorant about how the sect works."

The subordinate standing nearby laughed and said, "After all, he's just a young man who climbed up from the lower realm. It's normal that he doesn't know anything."

Tu Mu understood that Zhang Yu's first order had been dropped so easily, which would inevitably damage his authority. Coupled with his own lack of strength, he would probably find it difficult to move an inch in the management committee in the future.

Then his subordinate will have no reason to respect this superior in the future.

Tu Mu said, "Our vice president should just be a lucky charm up there."

Seeing that Zhang Yu had no countermeasures, Tu Mu became even more unrestrained in his subsequent actions, leading his numerous subordinates to frantically and rapidly plunder the corpses and then earn material recycling fees from various companies.

The money they received boosted the morale of the cultivators under his command. The only thing that bothered Tu Mu was that some of the outsourced demon cultivators were demanding higher pay.

"A bunch of beasts, how dare they make demands of me?"

Tu Mu frowned: "I told you long ago, these beasts only ask that you stop beating them every day. Now that you're not beating them, their demands will only increase."

Thinking that the increasing demands of the demon race would reduce his profits, Tu Mu's magical power seemed to surge slightly.

The subordinate standing to the side dared not speak, because he knew that introducing the demon offspring was a decision made by the higher-ups, which concerned the Hunyuan Dao lineage, and it was not something he could presume to discuss.

Tu Mu continued, "Fine, just tell those beasts that I'll personally poop and share it with them every day from now on, is that alright?"

Although he had given away the impurities in his body to the other party, Tu Mu still felt a bit unhappy. He hadn't defecated in a long time, and now he had to defecate for a group of demons to remove the impurities. So he made up his mind to clean up more corpses tomorrow and earn more immortal coins.

Meanwhile, Xie Lanyin, the vice president of the management committee, also received news about Zhang Yu.

"Is no one paying attention?" Xie Lanyin shook her head: "If he can't even get past this hurdle, I'm afraid Zhang Yu won't be able to control his subordinates until the reconstruction of the development zone is completed."

On the outside of the maze, near the grotto bridge that Zhang Yu set up.

Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting looked at the deserted venue before them, a look of worry appearing in their eyes.

Shi Huaiyu said worriedly, "Not even a single body part has been brought in to be disposed of today. This can't go on."

Feng Tingting, who was standing nearby, said, "I heard from the other outsourced cultivators in the cleanup team that... the situation here has spread throughout the entire management committee. Some people are even saying that Vice President Zhang got his position by getting pregnant by someone higher up, and that he doesn't actually have any ability. The higher-ups are just putting him here to keep a title."

Upon hearing this, Shi Huaiyu couldn't help but say, "Someone must be stirring things up. The less people hand over the body parts to Vice President Zhang for processing, the less people will listen to him."

Shi Huaiyu sighed, "It's just like stocks. The less people believe in it, the more the stock price falls, and then even fewer people believe in it, creating a vicious cycle... In the end, it becomes a complete junk stock."

Thinking of this, Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting both became worried.

At the same time, news of Yu Xinghan appeared before Zhang Yu's eyes.

Yu Xinghan: Zhang Yu, use whatever method you have quickly.
Yu Xinghan: All the cleanup teams are refusing to hand over the body parts to us for processing; they're all selling them directly to companies. This makes it impossible to continue our work.

Zhang Yu replied: It's alright, let the corpse fly for a while longer.
After replying to Yu Xinghan, Zhang Yu looked at the cultivator from the sect and asked, "Manager Lin, how are these corpses?"

The monk named Manager Lin nodded and said, "Not bad... very good."

"Not only has it preserved its complete structure, but it can even function normally. Most of the self-modifications it underwent during its madness have also been preserved..."

Manager Lin understood that damaged or dismembered body parts would be sold as raw materials.

Corpse parts that are still functioning properly can be sold as equipment.

The prices of these two are clearly not at the same level.

As for the various self-modifications and special abilities of the berserk corpses, they have even greater research value and have already become research materials rather than just simple equipment.

In Manager Lin's eyes, the body parts that Zhang Yu had processed were obviously much more valuable than those brought by other cleaning teams.

He couldn't help but look at Zhang Yu and ask, "Vice President Zhang, how did you do that?"

Zhang Yu smiled slightly and said, "It's all the great power inherited from immortals. Manager Lin, then it's settled."

Zhang Yu: "It's a pleasure working with you."

Manager Lin: "It's a pleasure working with you."

……

It was the third day after the cleanup of the Labyrinth office area began.

Tu Mu looked at the profits of the past few days, his eyes gleaming.

"If this continues, once the entire labyrinth is cleared out, the profits will be enough for me to pay off a significant portion of my loans in one go."

Of course, it's impossible for Tu Mu to prepay the loan.

At this moment, Tu Mu was already secretly planning to acquire another immortal cultivation technique or immortal magic weapon to further enhance his work ability.

Just then, a message came from a subordinate: "Director, Manager Lin has lowered the price of materials for collecting corpses!"

Upon hearing that this matter concerned interests, Tu Mu suddenly focused a lot of attention and asked seriously, "Is it a normal drop in material prices?"

Tu Mu knew that as the entire labyrinth was gradually cleared and a large number of body parts were recycled, the supply would increase, and it was to be expected that the recycling price would gradually decrease.

The subordinate exclaimed urgently, "The recycling price has dropped by 50% in one go!"

Upon hearing this, a faint divine light emanated from Tu Mu's body. He asked solemnly, "Have you found out why? What about the buyback prices from other companies?"

The subordinate said helplessly, "It's dropped. The price for recycling dismembered body parts from all companies has plummeted. And..."

A bad feeling welled up in Tu Mu's heart: "And what?"

The subordinate said, "Manager Lin told us privately that if we ever find any body parts, we should immediately send them to Vice President Zhang. Only body parts processed by Vice President Zhang can be sold for a higher price."

Tu Mu: "What about other companies?"

The subordinate said in a shocked tone, "Same here, they all told us to hand over the captured body parts to Zhang Yu for processing, and then to various companies for recycling."

"Moreover, they all said the same thing: the recycling price of the decomposed body parts might decrease further, and only the body parts that have been processed by Zhang Yu will have a high recycling price."

Upon hearing this, Tu Mu was shocked: "Zhang Yu... has he still made a move?"

But Tu Mu couldn't understand how Zhang Yu manipulated all the major companies to gain their support.

It should be noted that most of these companies do not belong to the Myriad Laws Sect, but rather to various factions such as the Heavenly Demon, the Netherworld, and the White Bone Sect, and have absolutely no connection with Zhang Yu.

"How exactly did he do that?"

……

Meanwhile, Manager Lin, having crossed the spirit realm, is communicating with Zhang Yu.

Manager Lin: "Vice President Zhang, I've completed the arrangements. Has someone already sent the body parts to you for processing?" Zhang Yu watched as the body parts were sent into the Immortal Cave Heaven, feeling the wisps of cave heaven power being extracted from it, and the size of the Immortal Cave Heaven slowly increased once again.

Zhang Yu understood that more and more teams, under pressure from major corporations, were proactively sending the captured body parts to him for processing.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yu smiled and said, "Don't worry, Manager Lin, I will definitely do what I promised."

Shortly after Zhang Yu lost contact with Manager Lin, Yu Xinghan approached Zhang Yu excitedly and said, "More and more teams are bringing over the body parts they've captured. I heard it's because major companies are putting pressure on us. Zhang Yu! How did you manage to do that?"

Zhang Yu led Yu Xinghan into the Immortal Cave Heaven. Looking at the corpses being brought in along the Cave Heaven Bridge, he explained, "Theoretically speaking, it's not that the major companies are putting pressure on each other, but rather that the people in charge of the corpse recycling project in the development zone from these companies... these people have chosen to support us."

Yu Xinghan asked, "Why would they support us?"

Zhang Yu said, "Because we can bring them more profits..."

Just as Zhang Yu was explaining to Yu Xinghan, Fu Ji in his mind said, "Hey, a berserk corpse that can function normally has more market value for a company, and the self-modification after going berserk also has more research value. For these people in charge, the performance and merit of recovering a complete corpse is naturally higher than recovering some random materials."

“But that’s only for official business.” Fuki chuckled. “The bigger reason… is that the price for recycling complete body parts is higher, the profit margin is larger, and there’s more room for manipulation, which allows us to offer more kickbacks to those in charge.”

"For these people in charge, every corpse they collect that has been processed by us means they earn an extra amount of immortal coins. So, every time they collect a batch of corpses that haven't been processed by us directly from the cleanup team, doesn't that mean they earn less money?"

“Making less is a loss. So these people in charge naturally put pressure on us and act as the vanguard of the corpse transporters, driving all the corpses from the cleaning team to us.”

Fuki said, "Those in charge get paid and credit, while we get the right to handle the corpses and the power of the cave. This is a win-win situation."

Zhanxian said, "If we add those obedient cleanup teams... they can also get higher profits by handing over the body parts to us, which is a win-win-win situation."

Fuki laughed and said, "That's right, we can let them take more profits temporarily in exchange for our control over them."

At the same time, Zhang Yu had finished explaining to Yu Xinghan. Yu Xinghan sighed inwardly, "Zhang Yu... he has transformed the abilities bestowed upon him by the immortals into layers of power, influencing and controlling more cultivators."

"Zhang Yu, he's getting better and better."

At the same time, batches of cleanup teams delivered the captured corpses to Zhang Yu for processing. The berserk corpses, whose power had been extracted from their caves, were no longer out of control and no longer required violent suppression; they were able to function normally.

After the body parts were sent to a company for recycling, the cleanup team also gained greater profits.

Seeing the increase in profits, more cleanup teams brought over the captured, crazed corpses.

The cultivators in the sect possess formidable strength, swift thinking, and rapid communication channels like the Spirit Realm.

Therefore, the cultivators reacted and acted extremely quickly in the face of changing circumstances.

When Tu Mu, the director of the Construction Bureau, sent people to transport the newly captured corpses to Zhang Yu, they saw a long queue outside the registration point, with people waiting for their corpses to be processed.

Since the registration was handled by two outsourced personnel, the monks who came to register had to adjust their settings to lower the transparency of the outsourced personnel in their eyes, making them visible.

Just then, faced with the ever-increasing number of body parts, Yu Xinghan stepped forward and announced to everyone, "Because the number of body parts that need to be processed is constantly increasing, in order to facilitate management, all body parts sent in from now on will need to be registered, processed, and collected in a unified manner..."

Listening to Yu Xinghan's explanation, Tu Mu understood that instead of handling the body parts brought by each cleaning team individually, everyone had to register the body parts and store them directly with Zhang Yu for unified processing.

"Then Zhang Yu sells them to companies, and he pays the various cleaning teams..."

Tu Mu didn't know the principles of immortal inheritance, nor did he know if Zhang Yu's approach would be more efficient, but at least the whole process sounded more convenient than handling the corpses sent by the cleaning teams one by one.

But Tumu knew that this wasn't the key point...

"In this way, Vice President Zhang becomes the middleman between all the companies and the cleanup team."

"In the future, all body parts collected in the development zones will have to go through him."

"And all the payments for recycling are also made through him."

Tu Mu even considered who should handle the body parts first, who should handle them last, who should receive payments first, and who should receive payments last—in the future, everything would be decided by Vice President Zhang.

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

Tu Mu understood that with countless cultivators waiting to repay loans, renew memberships, renew magic weapon fees, and so on, the order of priority and processing time alone was enough to seriously affect the lives of many cultivators.

Tu Mu thought to himself, "He didn't want to fight us directly; instead, he addressed the problem at its source."

"Can we resist? Can we stop him?"

Almost the instant the thought crossed his mind, Tu Mu shook his head and rejected it in his heart.

"Impossible... As long as the profits offered by Vice President Zhang are consistently higher than those from the cleanup teams selling the body parts directly, the cleanup teams will continue to send the body parts to him."

"This is driven by profit, and it is the voluntary choice of all the monks."

Thinking of this, Tu Mu sighed, "In the end... it's still the inheritance of immortals. The inheritance of immortals gave Vice President Zhang abilities that we didn't have. He transformed these abilities into power, forcing us to be driven by him."

At this moment, Tu Mu realized that he had completely misjudged Zhang Yu.

Although the other party is only at the Nascent Soul stage, he is not a mascot, but a leader who can quickly transform his high-level abilities into power.

But Tu Mu had more on his mind: "If the body parts are disposed of in a unified manner, then... I'm afraid we'll have to further squeeze the cleanup team for profits."

Tu Mu had seen far too many similar things in the sect. In countless fields, after obtaining considerable profits, superior cultivators would immediately appear, using their powerful abilities to exploit inferior cultivators and seize a large amount of profit.

"But I'm one of our own. I'm the director of the Construction Bureau under Vice President Zhang's supervision, a direct subordinate, not some other subordinate... Don't let them mistake me for someone else."

Looking at the long line in front of him, Tu Mu thought to himself, "Hmm... how should I back down... no, how should I let Vice President Zhang know my loyalty?"

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

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

Upon seeing the glaring red exclamation mark, Tu Mu was startled.

"Oh no, Vice President Zhang must have a huge misunderstanding about me now."

Tu Mu quickly sent a friend request.

Tu Mu: [Kowtowing]

Tu Mu: [Red Envelope]

Tu Mu: [Dual Cultivation]

But it was like throwing a stone into the sea; no matter what applications Tu Mu submitted, Zhang Yu did not respond.

This made Tu Mu even more anxious.

He suddenly looked towards the end of the line, quickly lowered the transparency of the outsourced content to make it fully visible, and then sent a friend request to Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting.

As Feng Tingting was registering, a sense of emotion flashed through her mind. Since coming to the sect as an outsourced employee, she had gradually gotten used to her transparent life and the days when she was not taken seriously by the sect affairs staff.

She knew that she was like a speck of dust in the sect, and only other outsourced cultivators who were also specks of dust could see her.

But at this moment, she and Shi Huaiyu seemed to become incredibly dazzling. All the cultivators who came to register, whether they were outsourced cultivators or sect affairs personnel, had to look at her, pay attention to her, listen to every word she uttered, and even act according to her commands.

There were also level 2, 3, and even 4 clan affairs officers who took the initiative to add her as a friend.

“This… is power, even if it’s just a tiny bit of power.” Feng Tingting sighed inwardly, “But Senior Zhang merely granted me the power to register corpses, and yet I, an insignificant nobody… became the focus of these cultivators’ attention.”

On the other side, Tu Mu saw that Feng Tingting had accepted his friend request, so he quickly sent her a message: [100 Immortal Coins] Thanks for your hard work.
Feng Tingting looked at this scene with some surprise, thinking to herself, "As expected of a Level 4 Sect Affairs Officer, he charges 100 Immortal Coins for outsourcing."

Feng Tingting then sent over her prepared reply: Vice President Zhang does not accept gifts.
Tu Mu was slightly taken aback, thinking to himself, "Not accepting gifts? Is this a human being?"

Feng Tingting continued, "If you absolutely must send something, then send immortal crystals to the Immortal's Grotto."

Feng Tingting: It can also be considered as using it to improve the environment and enhance the sect's assets.
Feng Tingting: It's all for the sect.
(End of this chapter)