Forced to become a top influencer, I rely on my tu cao to ruin the cultivation world.

The revelry at Luoxia Peak continued late into the night.

Jia Zhuang lay on the "Throne of Wealth" made of top-grade spirit stones, holding a cup of "high-purity spiritual energy essence" that had just been extracted using the spiritual energy extraction machine, listening to Elder Wang Teng report on today's results.

"Chairman Jia! Amazing! Absolutely amazing!" Elder Wang Teng's old face was flushed with excitement as he held a thick ledger in his hands, his voice trembling. "Today alone, our 'Qingyun Heavy Industry' revenue has exceeded one million spirit stones! Those rogue cultivators almost fought at the mountain gate just to grab a 'fast charging slot'!"

"This is nothing." Jia Zhuang took a sip of the spiritual essence and looked out the window with a deep gaze.

Outside the window, the enormous bioenergy conversion reactor was still roaring tirelessly, its dark green beams shooting straight into the sky like a straw connecting heaven and earth, greedily plundering all the energy around it.

"Elder Wang, do you feel... that the spiritual energy today smells a little off?" Jia Zhuang suddenly frowned.

"Something's not right?" Wang Teng paused for a moment, then laughed, "Chairman Jia, this spiritual energy is 99.9% pure industrial-grade spiritual energy, how could something be wrong? Are you tired?"

"No, it's not a matter of purity." Jia Zhuang stood up, walked to the window, and opened it.

A gust of cold wind blew in, carrying with it that familiar, nauseating dark green smell.

"Within this spiritual energy, there is a... weeping sound."

Jia Zang's voice was very soft, but to Wang Teng it sounded like thunder.

"A crying sound? Chairman Jia, what nonsense are you talking about? How could spiritual energy produce a crying sound?"

Jia Zang ignored him and instead summoned the system panel.

"System, bring up the real-time monitoring screen of the [Interdimensional Spiritual Vein Network]. I want to see the source."

[System notification: Connecting to the "Blue Star-Azure Cloud Realm" interdimensional spiritual vein node... Connection successful.]

As the system notification sounded, a pale blue holographic projection unfolded in mid-air.

It was a complex network of spiritual veins, with densely packed lines resembling a giant spider web. One of the thickest main veins was flashing a blinding red light.

That is the main spiritual vein connecting to the Earth.

"This is..." Jia Zhuang's pupils suddenly contracted.

In the projection, he saw a black, turbid torrent, frantically flowing back towards Earth along the spiritual veins. That wasn't spiritual energy; it was "spiritual waste" that had been drained of all its activity by industrial reactors, leaving only violent energy.

And these wastes are frantically eroding the Earth's spiritual vein nodes.

"Elder Wang! Prepare the car!" Jia Zhuang turned around abruptly, his face ashen. "To the 'Interdimensional Teleportation Array'! I need to go back to Earth!"

……

Half an hour later.

Earth, China, the Jianghuai region.

Jia Zang stood atop a desolate mountain, looking at the scene before him, and was struck dumb, frozen in place.

This place was originally Yuntai Mountain, a famous Taoist mountain in China. Before Jia Zang's transmigration, although the spiritual energy here was thin, it was at least a place of beautiful scenery and lush greenery.

But now...

The once lush forest has now turned into a gray-white "stone forest".

The trees did not fall; instead, some force instantly drained all their life force, turning them into grayish-white dead wood, like withered corpses, standing there upright.

At the foot of the mountain, the water level of Taihu Lake has dropped by a full ten meters! The once vast and misty lake surface now reveals large areas of cracked lakebed, like mouths yearning for water.

"What... what's going on?" Jia Zang murmured to himself, his voice trembling slightly.

He subconsciously raised his hand, trying to grasp the spiritual energy in the air.

All that could be touched by fingertips was cold, lifeless dust.

"System! Detect the spiritual energy concentration here!"

[System notification: The current area's spiritual energy concentration is detected to be "negative".]

[Warning: Due to the host's excessive extraction of interdimensional spiritual veins in the Qingyun Realm, a "siphoning effect" has occurred in the Blue Star spiritual vein network. Industrial waste gas from the Qingyun Realm is flowing back into Blue Star, causing irreversible ecological collapse.]

[Estimated Honkai Impact Value: +500000!]

"Negative value..." Jia Zhuang felt as if his heart was being gripped tightly by an invisible hand.

He originally thought that his industrialization in Qingyun Realm was "saving" the cultivation world and was a "dimensional reduction attack".

He believed that he was using advanced productive forces to change backward production relations.

But he never expected that his proud "industrial miracle" was actually sucking the blood of his home planet!

"What...what did I do...?"

Jia Zang knelt down on the ground and plunged his hands hard into the cracked soil.

Just then, a gust of wind blew by, stirring up dust that stung his eyes.

In a daze, he seemed to hear an old voice whispering in the wind:

"Child...stop pulling...it hurts..."

That was the lament of Mother Earth.

"No! This is not what I want!"

Jia Zhuang suddenly stood up, his eyes bloodshot.

"System! Close the interdimensional spiritual vein! Immediately! Right now!"

[System message: Unable to close.]

[Reason: The interdimensional spiritual vein is now bound to the main reactor of "Qingyun Heavy Industry". Forcibly severing it will cause the reactor to overload and explode, obliterating everything within a hundred miles.]

"What?!" Jia Zhuang felt like the sky was about to fall.

"So what do we do? Are we just going to watch Earth become a dead star?"

[System Prompt: The host can repair the spiritual veins through "reverse transmission." This means transmitting high-purity spiritual energy back to Earth to neutralize the "spiritual energy waste."]

"Reverse transmission?" Jia Zhuang was stunned. "But all I have right now is... industrial waste gas!"

He looked at the still-roaring reactor, at the dark green beam of light, and suddenly a crazy idea came to him.

"No! I have a way!"

Jia Zhuang suddenly turned around and looked at Elder Wang Teng behind him.

"Elder Wang! Issue the order! Halt all production! Move all the demon beast dung, waste pill residue, and all the unwanted garbage from the warehouse to the reactor!"

Elder Wang Teng was startled: "Chairman Jia, what... what are you doing? Those things are highly poisonous!"

"Highly poisonous? Hmph!" Jia Zhuang sneered, his eyes flashing with a crazed light. "In my reactor, there's no highly poisonous substance, only fuel!"

"I want to create a 'circular economy'! I want to transform this garbage into the purest spiritual energy and send it back to Earth!"

"But... how is this possible?" Elder Wang Teng exclaimed in disbelief, "How can garbage be transformed into spiritual energy?"

"Why not?" Jia Zhuang pointed at the reactor. "Look at this machine! It can turn monster excrement into marsh gas and waste pills into energy. As long as I adjust the parameters and change the 'output mode' to 'purification mode,' it can turn this garbage into the purest 'source of life'!"

"Family!" Jia Zhuang shouted to the mechanical paper crane in the air, "You saw the live broadcast just now, right? Something happened to Earth! It was my doing! But I won't run away! Today, I'm going to launch an unprecedented 'Earth Rescue Operation'!"

"I'm going to use this reactor to turn that garbage into life-saving spiritual energy!"

The chat in the live stream instantly fell silent.

A moment later, a golden barrage of comments slowly floated by:

[This time, I'm truly impressed.]

This is the real "industrial cultivation"!

Although I still feel it's unreliable, keep going!

[This is called "turning waste into treasure," do you understand?]

[System notification: Host is detected preparing for "reverse redemption," logic breakdown value +100000!]

[System Reward: Unlocked the "Psionic Purification Filter" blueprint, which can convert any organic matter into high-purity spiritual energy.]

Jia Zhuang looked at the system panel, took a deep breath, and clenched his fist.

"Elder Wang! Stop standing there! Get to work!"

"Yes, Chairman Jia!" Although Elder Wang Teng was still confused, he couldn't help but feel excited when he saw Jia Zhuang's determined eyes.

"Pass down the order! Everyone mobilize! Move all the trash from Luoxia Peak over here!"

"We need to do a 'big clean-up'! We need to save the planet!"

……

Night falls.

The summit of Luoxia Peak was brightly lit.

The massive reactor had stopped spewing out dark green exhaust fumes and was now sucking in the mountains of garbage.

"Boom!"

With a low rumble, the reactor began to operate.

This time, it didn't spew out exhaust fumes, but rather a pure white beam of light that emitted a faint fragrance.

The beam of light shot straight into the sky, pierced through the atmosphere, and flowed slowly towards the distant Earth along the interdimensional spiritual vein.

Standing under the pillar of light, feeling the pure energy, Jia Zang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Earth...is saved."

He muttered to himself, a long-lost smile appearing on his face.

But just then, the sky suddenly darkened.

It wasn't the gloom of overcast skies, nor the darkness of nightfall, but rather a deathly black screen, like the silence of a television signal cut off.

Immediately afterwards, a blinding red light tore through the darkness without warning.

"Sizzle—sizzle—sizzle—"

Accompanied by a piercing electrical hum, the sky seemed to transform into a giant, collapsing LED display screen.

Jia Zhuang's heart clenched suddenly.

He knew that the real crisis had only just begun.