I run a casino in the immortal realm.

Half an hour later, in a secluded training ground behind Tingfeng Pavilion.

One hundred Foundation Establishment disciples dressed in cyan inner sect robes stood in neat rows.

Among them were sword cultivators and magic cultivators, each with an arrogant expression, whispering among themselves, clearly very dissatisfied with being suddenly and forcibly conscripted.

"Quiet!"

Zheng Yifei walked up to the command platform in front of the training ground, and poured his ninth-level Qi Refining spiritual power into his voice, which resounded like muffled thunder in the air above the training ground.

Although the Foundation Establishment disciples below the stage quieted down, their eyes were filled with disdain as they looked at Zheng Yifei.

How dare an outer sect director in the Qi Refining stage issue orders to them?

Without wasting any words, Zheng Yifei directly revealed the Sect Master's Token.

The purple-gold light flashed, and the pressure from the late-stage Golden Core cultivator caused all the Foundation Establishment disciples to change their expressions and lower their heads in silence.

"I don't care how high-minded you were in the inner sect before. From now on, your only identity is 'Special Envoy for Lottery Issuance of the Qingyun Sect'!"

Zheng Yifei's gaze swept across the entire room like lightning: "This mission is a top secret of the sect. For the next five days, everyone will undergo fully enclosed training."

Anyone who dares to step out of the training ground, or utter a single word to the outside world, will have their cultivation abolished and be expelled from the sect!

The chilling killing intent made these Foundation Establishment disciples shudder, and they completely abandoned their contempt.

The next five days were an absolutely mind-blowing experience for these one hundred Foundation Establishment disciples.

Zheng Yifei led them into a secret underground room with multiple soundproofing arrays and began a hellish brainwashing training in "modern sales and control".

"What is a lottery?"

Zheng Yifei stood before a massive blackboard, drawing the structure of a lottery ticket on it with a magic pen. His voice was incredibly inflammatory, "This is a dream-making feast! What you need to do isn't to fight against people, but to control people's hearts! To ignite the suppressed greed within those lowly cultivators!"

"You will be divided into ten groups of ten people each, and each group will go to the ten largest markets within the Qingyun Sect's jurisdiction. The disciples of the local news department will cooperate to help you choose the location, set up the stage, and sell your products."

Zheng Yifei distributed a thick stack of scripts to everyone.

"Look at the brochures in your hands! This is called sales script! When you stand on the high platform of the market, facing tens of thousands of independent cultivators below, you are not high and mighty inner disciples, you are the gods of wealth bringing them opportunities!"

Zheng Yifei walked up to a sword cultivator, patted him on the shoulder, and said loudly, "Tell me, if someone asks you how much lottery tickets cost, what will you answer?"

The swordsman stammered as he read the words from the manual: "Two...two low-grade spirit stones per piece, you won't lose out, you won't be cheated..."

"It's too soft! Didn't you eat?!"

Zheng Yifei shouted sternly, "Use your Foundation Establishment stage cultivation to amplify your voices tenfold, and make them feel like they're losing out big time if they don't buy!"

Zheng Yifei personally demonstrated, waving his hand sharply, his voice booming, his eyes burning with fervor: "Only two low-grade spirit stones! You can't buy top-grade magic weapons or elixirs with two spirit stones."

But today, you're buying a chance to defy fate!

The grand prize: a low-grade Foundation Establishment Pill! It saves you sixty years of arduous cultivation, directly leading to the Great Dao! Who dares to take the gamble and transform from a nobody to a phoenix!

The brainwashing rhetoric, reminiscent of modern pyramid schemes, combined with Zheng Yifei's deliberately contagious emotional appeal, left these uncultured cultivators, who only knew how to meditate and cultivate, completely bewildered.

In addition to conversation techniques, Zheng Yifei also provided them with extremely rigorous training in controlling the flow of the conversation.

"Remember, you're in groups of ten. Two of you will be responsible for collecting money and issuing receipts; the disciples from the Information Department will assist you. Two of you will be responsible for using your divine sense to monitor the entire area and prevent anyone from snatching things. The remaining six of you will all be part of the 'atmosphere team'!"

What is a "momentum group"?

A female nun asked curiously.

"When someone scratches off a big prize, you guys should be even more excited than the winner!"

Zheng Yifei tapped the blackboard, "For example, if someone scratches off a hundred spirit stones, the atmosphere team will immediately ring the gong and loudly announce: 'Congratulations to Fellow Daoist Li from the East District for winning the fourth prize and earning a hundred spirit stones!' If someone scratches off a Foundation Establishment Pill..."

Zheng Yifei's eyes sharpened. "Immediately activate the protective array to protect the winner, and sound the highest level of the Heaven-Shaking Drum!"

At the same time, frantically toss some cheap, low-grade spirit-gathering pills into the audience, pushing the atmosphere to its peak! Make those who didn't win in the audience insanely jealous, making them keep pulling out money with envious eyes!

To get these Foundation Establishment disciples to work wholeheartedly for him, Zheng Yifei unleashed his ultimate weapon—a pact of mutual benefit.

"I know you also lack resources when you cultivate."

Zheng Yifei looked at them and said, "You're not doing this lottery for nothing. The sect leader has specially approved that each group will receive a commission on the total lottery sales in the market they are responsible for! If a market sells 100 million spirit stones, the ten of you will each receive 20,000 low-grade spirit stones!"

Upon hearing this, the breathing in the secret room instantly became heavy.

Twenty thousand low-grade spirit stones! Each person will receive two thousand spirit stones, which is an absolute fortune for early Foundation Establishment disciples, enough for them to buy an excellent high-grade magic weapon!

"Let's do it!"

The stuttering swordsman was the first to redden his eyes, and suddenly thumped his chest: "Don't worry, Director! Anyone who dares not buy lottery tickets in my territory, I'll hold a sword to their neck and make them buy them!"

"Fools! We're in legitimate business; we can't use violence. We need to make them willingly part with their money!"

Zheng Yifei chuckled and cursed, but his eyes were full of satisfaction.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye.

Under Zheng Yifei's high pressure and heavy financial incentives, these one hundred Foundation Establishment disciples have completely shed their arrogance as inner disciples and have become a group of eager "golden sales directors".

They memorized their scripts, practiced emergency response plans countless times, and even mastered the art of drumming and gonging.

Meanwhile, good news also came from Qifeng: the first batch of 100 million lottery tickets was successfully completed under Xu Jian's relentless pressure.

Night falls.

One hundred Foundation Establishment disciples were divided into ten teams, each carrying a top-grade storage ring filled with ten million lottery tickets and corresponding prizes.

Zheng Yifei stood on the command platform, looking down at the ten teams that had been completely transformed, and waved his hand.

"Let's go! Our destination: the Ten Great Markets! Let the entire cultivation world witness what true revelry is!"

Ten top-of-the-line flying boats from Shunfeng Logistics took off under the cover of night, like ten sharp knives, silently piercing the ten most prosperous commercial heartlands in the Qingyun Sect's territory.

An unprecedented storm of wealth harvesting is about to begin.