Chapter 1322: Chapter 835: Taoist Inheritance Conflict, Ying Shu’s Personal Vendetta_4
"And this Safety Supervision Bureau position is precisely meant to counterbalance Zhang Yu’s side..."
The mysterious person chuckled. "Aren’t you at the Love Sect Realm? Standing up for the sect against Wanfa—isn’t that what you’re supposed to do?"
"Besides, don’t you want to go head‑to‑head with Bu Yingshu?"
"Do you want to end up like this again, being kicked out by her like a dog?"
Bai Zhenzhen rubbed the Yu Linggen in her belly, feeling the stimulation it brought, and did not answer.
In her mind, scenes of Bu Yingshu driving her away kept surfacing, along with Zhang Yu’s profile picture that had already gone gray.
"Bu Yingshu... that woman has been relying on the power of the Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Clan to humiliate Zhang Yu again and again, and now she wants to completely cut off all contact between us."
"Damn it... If I were a bit stronger, if I were an Ascension Cultivator, or even an Immortal, how could I let something like this happen?"
Feeling the Extreme Emotion Sword Intent and Sadness Sword Intent ceaselessly surging from Bai Zhenzhen, the mysterious person laughed. "Now that’s more like it."
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With news of Bu Yingshu’s imminent arrival, Zhang Yu’s work clearing and collecting Corpse Items went even more smoothly. At the very least, the cultivators under him—including Tu Mu—and all the various search teams became much more cooperative.
Yu Xinghan said, "Right now, all the search teams are sending the Corpse Items they catch each day straight to us at the first opportunity. The Corpse Items in the office area have pretty much been cleaned up..."
Zhang Yu nodded. Next, it really was time for him to open up the factory district.
And as he suppressed and secured Corpse Items one after another, Zhang Yu specifically picked out those whose power output had reached the Divinity Transformation level.
Among them were Clear‑Path Corpse Items used to repair roads, capable of moving mountains and splitting the earth.
There were Prison Corpse Items that could be used to monitor the offices, preventing employees from secretly working unpaid overtime.
There were also Office Building Corpse Items that could transform into office towers and change the office environment at any time...
In this way, a total of seven Divinity Transformation‑level Corpse Items were picked out by Zhang Yu and set aside as the combat force he would use next to subdue Refining Void Corpse Items.
Besides the harvest in Corpse Items, the bureau chiefs under Zhang Yu and the leaders of each search team also brought him a huge amount of Immortal Crystals.
Looking at the Immortal Crystals piled up in neat rows inside the Immortal Cave Heaven, Yan Qianji, who was in charge of tallying, said excitedly, "Divine Monarch, all these Immortal Crystals together are worth over one million Immortal Coins."
Zhang Yu said, "Qian Ji, don’t go around talking about ’Immortal Coins’ outside. When have I ever collected any Immortal Coins? Remember, these are all Immortal Crystals everyone voluntarily donated to the sect."
Glancing over the inventory list of Immortal Crystals, Zhang Yu nodded, sighing inwardly. "Sigh, this is so much faster than when I used to work as a Sect Affairs Officer earning dead wages..."
Fu Ji said, "A million Immortal Coins, Zhang Yu! What are you planning to buy?"
Fu Ji wanted to take the opportunity to have Zhang Yu buy a few things for her as well—preferably valuable sect antiques. Those cheap antiques Zhang Yu bought her every month were nowhere near enough.
Zhan Xian, however, said, "These Immortal Crystals need to stay in the Grotto Heaven and be used slowly. They can’t be cashed out."
Fu Ji snapped, "So what if we secretly cash out a bit? Zhang Yu is short on money right now. If we cash out even a little, imagine how much it could help him boost his strength."
Zhan Xian said, "These Immortal Crystals don’t have a clean origin. So long as they stay in the Immortal Cave Heaven, we can say they were donated as sect assets, and we’re just incidentally absorbing a bit of Immortal Qi. But if we cash them out, what would that be?"
Fu Ji said, "You think there aren’t plenty of people doing that sort of thing?"
Zhan Xian said, "Zhang Yu is not like them. Since those above want us to be the banner of reform, who knows how many eyes will be on us in the future."
"These Immortal Crystals might be a trivial matter for others, but for us they could very well become a handle for people to attack us later."
Fu Ji sighed. "Then just a little bit, all right?"
Zhan Xian said, "A little adds up. The more we take now, the more weak points we’ll have in the future. At that time, the outcome might come down to just that little bit."
Zhang Yu stopped the quarrel between the two and said, "We won’t cash them out. We’ll just keep them in the Grotto Heaven and use them directly."
"I only just broke through to Divinity Transformation; I still need to grow my Mana. With these Immortal Crystals, I can greatly speed up my Mana refinement."
With so many Immortal Crystals, Zhang Yu’s rate of Mana accumulation could increase severalfold, helping him reach the Divinity Transformation Stage’s upper limit of one million Mana more quickly.
And Zhang Yu knew that whether it was the Cultivation Technique ’Blood Tide Essence Qi Holy Observation’ that he had mastered, or the Immortal Cave Heaven, both required him to drive them with Mana.
Especially since he was about to subdue Refining Void Corpse Items, profound Mana would be all the more indispensable.
"It’s a bit of a shame we can’t cash them out, but using them to rapidly boost my Mana and strengthen my work capacity isn’t exactly a waste."
Just then, a notification surfaced: the Chairman of the Management Committee was convening a meeting and inviting Zhang Yu and the other vice‑chairmen to attend together.
Zhang Yu’s brows furrowed slightly. "Why a sudden emergency meeting?"
Zhang Yu looked at the message Yu Xinghan had sent him not long ago. "Right now, there are rumors outside that the other vice‑chairmen of the Management Committee are very displeased with us. I’m worried they’re going to try to trip us up."
As the representative of Wanfa, Zhang Yu knew that once he gradually took hold of the authority of a vice‑chairman and was no longer treated as a mere mascot because of his cultivation realm, he would inevitably become a target of the Management Committee’s upper echelon, who represented the interests of the other sects.
