Chapter 949: Is Your Reformist Faction Really Going to Make Enemies of the Entire World?
As the three company representatives, Wan Wuyi, Wang Guanyao, and Bu Aixian, made their moves one after another, Zhang Yu’s Spirit Realm and Dharma Realm were filled with gambling traps; the slightest carelessness would result in being swept into a casino.
Various types of information within his body were continuously leaking into the Dharma Realm, constantly being observed and perceived by Wang Guanyao.
Furthermore, the entire Inner Enclosure Grotto-Heaven was completely blocked off by the office buildings and data centers inserted by the three of them. Pressing down like divine mountains for suppression, even if the cultivators of the Inner Enclosure Grotto-Heaven exerted all their strength, they could not shake them in the slightest.
The most terrifying, naturally, was Bu Aixian, who was acting personally. As the power of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm swept out, it seemed as if even space itself would be shattered layer by layer. With an irresistible momentum, she intended to force Zhang Yu, inch by inch, into her Charity Park.
But even holding such an upper hand, the three of them still did not relax their vigilance.
Because they all knew Zhang Yu still had a Ten-Billion Flying Sword, and they were all wary of this strike from him.
However, just when everyone thought Zhang Yu would slash out with this sword, his body suddenly dimmed, as if he had become a black hole within the Spirit Realm and Dharma Realm.
Wan Wuyi thought to himself, “Did Zhang Yu disconnect from the Spirit Realm and Dharma Realm just to avoid being suppressed by Wang Guanyao and me?”
“Hmph, however, the act of disconnecting from the Spirit Realm and Dharma Realm is inherently giving up a massive amount of assistance. It’s completely normal for one’s strength to drop by half; it will only make him lose even more miserably.”
Wan Wuyi made his judgment, “What a terrible move.”
At the same time, the space all around Zhang Yu suddenly twisted, and a surging Grotto-Heaven force poured out.
“Why do you think I arranged to meet today?” Zhang Yu shouted in a low voice. “Do you know what day today is?”
Hearing these words, the three of them were startled in their hearts. Although their hands did not stop attacking, all sorts of data immediately surfaced in their minds.
“What day is today?”
“Payday? Trading day? The Immortal Emperor’s birthday?”
“Tax deadline? Dual Cultivation Obligation deadline? Or is my loan due? Has my physical body lease expired?”
In an instant, dates flashed through their minds one after another, but even after searching through hundreds or thousands of dates and deadlines, they still couldn’t figure out what made today so special.
The next moment, the surging Grotto-Heaven force had already spread across more than half of the Inner Enclosure Grotto-Heaven.
It turned out that long before the three descended, Zhang Yu had already relied on the Grotto-Heaven Manifestation Force to cover the entire Inner Enclosure Grotto-Heaven with the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
Now, Zhang Yu suddenly struck, as if opening a giant maw to swallow everything in the Inner Enclosure Grotto-Heaven in one gulp, before crossing the Grotto-Heaven Bridge and sending it all directly to another minor realm…
Boom!
The crowd only felt the world spin, and then found themselves — along with the companies, office buildings, and data centers from the Inner Enclosure Grotto-Heaven — transported to an unfamiliar world.
Zhang Yu could be heard saying slowly, “Today is a Dual Rest day.”
Bu Aixian’s expression suddenly tightened, “This is the minor realm where the Tai Yuebai Law Edict is being piloted?!”
At the same time, the Dual Rest Law Edict had already swept through with a roar, engulfing the companies they had brought over like a hurricane.
“Halt your work!”
Wan Wuyi let out a miserable scream, like a vampire exposed to the sunlight.
“This is bad… Work has stopped! The entire platform has halted operations!”
On the other side, Wang Guanyao also cried out in alarm, having sensed the complete shutdown of the data centers under her control.
In this instant, the impact of the battle had already spread to all levels within the sect.
There were cultivators who had just won a million Immortal Coins in gambling, only to find they could no longer place bets, letting out roars of anger.
There were cultivators in the stock market about to take out loans to cover their positions, who saw the lending platform freeze and let out shrieks of despair.
There were cultivators who had just borrowed a strand of magic power, only to find the lending platform instantly freeze up, causing their magic power to dry up for a moment, leaving them far behind their competitors.
In a short period of time, countless sect staff, corporate employees, outsourced cultivators… all found that their services were lagging or even suspended.
The number of various losses, complaints, lawsuits… suddenly skyrocketed.
And the choice laid before Wan Wuyi, Wang Guanyao, and Bu Aixian instantly became a dilemma.
“If we stay by Zhang Yu’s side, even if we can continue to freeze the four-hour work period and have free overtime… we have to take Dual Rest!”
“Moving out means we can escape Dual Rest, but without Zhang Yu’s freezing of Law Edicts, we’ll have to do Paid Overtime.”
“How to choose?” Wang Guanyao’s mind raced, and in an instant, she made up her mind.
“The platform cannot remain stalled for long. If this continues, it will become a major incident, and I, the one who moved the data center here… am the one primarily responsible! When the time comes, all the losses during this period will be pinned on my head.”
“Withdraw!”
Wang Guanyao was seen propping up the data center of the Factory in a Sleeve with one hand, already beginning to move the entire center outward.
“I must move to another place covered by Zhang Yu’s Law Edict so the employees can work unpaid overtime with peace of mind and keep the data center running.”
Just as Wang Guanyao chose to retreat, Wan Wuyi on the other side remained where he was.
Seeing this scene, Wang Guanyao was startled. “Is he crazy? If he continues to stay here, how long will their gambling platform be suspended?”
“None of my damn business…” Wan Wuyi’s mind raced, having already made his decision. “I am staying here.”
“Anyway, the Dual Rest halts work… it’s the entire platform that stops.”
Looking at his transfer records and recalling the Paid Overtime he had just been ordered to front by the higher-level cultivator, Wan Wuyi thought to himself, “But if we go out and have to do Paid Overtime, that’ll be burning my own money.”
“And…”
Wan Wuyi looked at Bu Aixian, as if wanting to observe the Immortal Clan member’s choice.
Bu Aixian let out an angry roar, her voice rolling like thunder as it echoed throughout the entire minor realm: “Tai Yuebai! Is your Reformist Faction truly going to make an enemy of everyone in the world?”
Hearing this angry shout, a wry smile appeared on Tai Yuebai’s face. “That brat Zhang Yu…”
At this moment, with the descent of Zhang Yu and the others, Tai Yuebai realized that he was also facing a dilemma.
Should he persist with the Dual Rest and make an enemy of Bu Aixian and her two companions?
Or should he interrupt the Dual Rest within his pilot zone? Bow his head to the other party? But if he bowed his head this time, what would happen when other companies came asking for favors in the future?
Did it mean that whenever a company had a need, or whenever a dispute arose, his Dual Rest had to be suspended? His days off shifted? Left for others to adjust and pulled around at will?
“Zhang Yu, you are certain that I won’t bow my head to the companies, certain that I… will absolutely not let anyone easily interrupt the Dual Rest I have established, aren’t you?”
Tai Yuebai had to admit that Zhang Yu had a very accurate grasp of his mentality. He truly would not easily compromise with others and interrupt his Dual Rest days.
“If I don’t even have this bit of resolve, how could I establish any Dao Lineage?”
“My Dual Rest days are meant to be nailed firmly into the heavenly principles of the world, becoming the foundation for all living beings…”
Thus, facing Bu Aixian’s furious roar, Tai Yuebai had no reaction at all, only silently circulating the Dual Rest Law Edict.
“Is the Reformist Faction really this stubborn?”
Bu Aixian realized she had truly underestimated the Reformist Faction in the past. Their determination to push forward legal reform was far greater and much firmer than she had ever imagined.
“Were they deliberately showing weakness before, simply lying dormant?”
As her thoughts spun like lightning, Bu Aixian continued her attack, saying coldly, “Dao Monarch Zhang, this is not the place to talk. Let us head outside to continue this conversation.”
The moment the Tribulation Transcendence Realm Bu Aixian struck, it carried the momentum of a Heaven Collapse. The surging power underwent continuous transformations in the atmosphere, growing more ferocious with every single shift.
Wan Wuyi watched clearly from the sidelines, thinking to himself, “This strike from Bu Aixian is a Sect-Guarding-Tier Immortal Sect Martial Art, the Lossless Exchange Manual. It is a martial art that observes the changes in futures trading, leveraging the momentum of price fluctuations to unleash earth-shattering power.”
“This martial art is the pinnacle of the Momentum-Leveraging Martial Dao, far more formidable than the Son of Heaven Sword Technique or Sovereign Fist and Imperial Blade of the past. After all, futures trends represent the changes in the Great Tide of Humanity, serving as the ultimate symbol for the shifting currents of the Human Dao.”
“And now, with every passing minute and second, her martial art’s aura undergoes myriad transformations. One moment it carries the momentum of spiritual energy, the next, the momentum of magic power, followed closely by various raw materials, energy sources, and medicinal pills…”
“This is Bu Aixian sensing the world; in the unseen depths, futures prices are fluctuating at every moment. Every one of her stances and moves echoes the type of futures surging the most, linking it to the might of this move, causing it to rise again and again, endlessly…”
“It is said that as this move continues to accumulate power, as long as there are futures rising, and as long as one can consistently foresee which type of futures is rising, one can continue to echo and borrow that momentum, ceaselessly increasing the move’s might…”
Surging power gathered in Bu Aixian’s hands, yet it did not damage the environment within the minor realm in the slightest. To Wan Wuyi, this was precisely a display of exquisite control.
“Under this move, Zhang Yu will inevitably be captured whole.”
Just as Wan Wuyi was thinking this, he saw a surging current of heat suddenly erupt from Zhang Yu’s body, shining brightly like a miniature sun.
At the same time, the aura around Zhang Yu suddenly soared, skyrocketing endlessly. In an instant, it broke through the upper limits of Void Refinement and entered the level of Tribulation Transcendence.
“What?”
Seeing this scene, Wan Wuyi was suddenly startled, but he reacted in the next moment, “Is it the Peng Swallowing Heaven Art? Zhang Yu has already entered the Overlimit Realm? He forcibly elevated his own power to Tribulation Transcendence?”
“But can the Kunpeng Swallowing Heaven Art possess this kind of might? Why do I feel like his power level is about to enter Mid-stage Tribulation Transcendence?”
In the next moment, Zhang Yu let out a furious shout and took the initiative to meet Bu Aixian head-on.
However, Bu Aixian was ultimately a veteran Tribulation Transcendence expert. This clash between the two immediately caused Zhang Yu to suffer heavy injuries.
Just as Bu Aixian was about to take advantage of the momentum to drag Zhang Yu out of the minor realm, the Grotto-Heaven force on Zhang Yu’s body flashed. He had already recovered to his peak state again and shot into the sky like a flaming meteor, fiercely blasting towards Bu Aixian.
“A backup physical body?”
Wan Wuyi thought to himself, “Hmph, even so, the Overlimit Realm of the Kunpeng Swallowing Heaven Manual cannot be maintained for long. Furthermore, in the face of a Tribulation Transcendence expert, how many physical bodies could you possibly have available to use?”
1 body… 10 bodies… 100 bodies!
After Zhang Yu sequentially swapped through 100 physical bodies, maintaining his Overlimit State to bombard Bu Aixian, Wan Wuyi was left speechless in his heart for a long time.
And at this moment, inside and outside Zhang Yu’s Immortal Grotto-Heaven, a total of 72 clones were used by him in rotation. They were either struggling to self-heal and recover from their injuries or rushing out of the Grotto-Heaven, igniting the Blazing Sun Meridian under Zhang Yu’s control, circulating the Kunpeng Swallowing Heaven Manual, and blasting toward Bu Aixian time and time again.
Bu Aixian originally thought Zhang Yu wouldn’t last long, but in the blink of an eye, she watched the other party use over a hundred physical bodies, each seemingly stronger and tougher than the last, becoming more and more adapted to her attacks.
“Truly worthy of being the Myriad Laws Divine Sword. To be able to take these few moves of mine head-on at the Void Refinement Realm, you are indeed formidable.”
After all, the other party was the Myriad Laws Divine Sword bestowed by the Immortal Emperor. Bu Aixian was previously terrified of accidentally killing him and dared not use her full strength at all.
But now, seeing that Zhang Yu was actually this powerful, she immediately increased her power output, wanting to take him down in one fell swoop.
But right at this moment, she sensed streams of divine light falling, descending directly behind Zhang Yu.
Bu Aixian’s brows furrowed tightly: “What Talisman did he use?”
Zhang Yu, however, smiled faintly. Looking at the notification sent by the Righteous God, he said, “Has my application finally been approved?”
The application Zhang Yu spoke of was the application to use an ultra-high-danger Dao Seed.
Back when Zhang Yu obtained the ultra-high-danger Dao Seed [One Qi Swallows the Universe], he was required to strictly limit the use of this Dao Seed.
During his daily work and cultivation, any abnormal surge of energy around him would immediately trigger an investigation.
If he actually needed to use it, he was required to submit an application to the Heavenly Surveillance Hall. Only after receiving approval could he use it at the specified time, in the designated location, and according to the approved quota.
In Zhang Yu’s eyes, applying to the Heavenly Surveillance Hall was essentially applying to the Immortal Emperor.
Seeing that his application had been approved, Zhang Yu felt even more confident. “As expected, with the Immortal Emperor’s boldness, he is willing to pay this small price for reform.”
Thus, under everyone’s watchful eyes, a massive amount of hidden Immortal Qi suddenly erupted from Zhang Yu’s body, surging out of the minor realm with torrential force and beginning to expand madly.
Ah!
Bu Aixian’s heart jumped in shock. “An ultra-high-danger Dao Seed!”
“Was his application to use it just approved?”
Realizing this, Bu Aixian’s heart sank, for she knew exactly what this meant.
*“The Immortal Emperor agreed to let him use it.” *
But to ask Bu Aixian to just give up her own interests like this left her thoroughly unwilling. She cursed inwardly, “The Immortal Emperor is muddled!”
Meanwhile, on the other side, Wang Guanyao had just moved the data center out when she was suddenly startled.
“My data center… why has the space gotten smaller?”
“Who stole it?!”
Although she was burning with anger, Wang Guanyao knew that now was not the time to talk about this.
After all, the extra space in the data center had originally been stolen anyway, so even if it was gone now, it wasn’t a good idea to make a fuss about it.
Furthermore, her top priority right now was to restore the operation of the data center.
But just as Wang Guanyao inserted the data center into an area of Zhang Yu’s True Domain, she felt Zhang Yu’s Law Edict True Domain undergo another change.
The employees of the data center had just arrived in Tai Yuebai’s Law Edict Pilot minor realm and were still in shock: “It’s a two-day weekend today?”
The next moment, they exited the minor realm and fell into Zhang Yu’s True Domain, immediately becoming depressed again: “Unpaid overtime again?”
Immediately after, the True Domain changed again, and they became furious, stopping work in unison: “Why paid overtime again? Fucking changing every day, do the higher-ups have any brains at all?”
“Anyway, I’m not going to pay to go to work!”
Looking at the data center, which was still at a standstill after she had busied herself for a while, Wang Guanyao cursed inwardly: “What’s going on? Bu Aixian should still be suppressing Zhang Yu, so how does Zhang Yu still have the spare energy to change the coverage of the Law Edict Domain?”
But the next moment, something even more shocking to Wang Guanyao happened.
Under her observation, with Zhang Yu’s location as the center, the hidden Immortal Qi fluctuated violently, and Zhang Yu’s Law Edict True Domain actually began to expand frantically. Furthermore, this round of expansion was highly purposeful, heading straight for the companies under Wan Wuyi, Wang Guanyao, and Bu Aixian… those that had not yet been drawn into this conflict.
What alarmed Wang Guanyao even more was that Zhang Yu’s Law Edict Domain kept expanding and shifting, dragging their companies into unpaid overtime one moment, and then into the Four-Hour Workday and Paid Overtime the next. It practically drove company after company under their control into a standstill, triggering a drop in stock prices as well.
“Zhang Yu!”
Amidst her furious shout, Bu Aixian wished she could beat him to death on the spot. But thinking of his title as the Myriad Laws Divine Sword and the approval of his ultra-high-danger Dao Seed application, Bu Aixian ultimately had her reservations and didn’t dare to strike to kill.
Meanwhile, his frantically expanding and changing Law Edict True Domain plunged company after company under her command into chaos.
Although despite Bu Aixian’s attempts all the outside companies had tried their best to adapt, they still found it difficult to keep up with the changing scope of Zhang Yu’s Law Edict.
As for the Zhang Yu before her, Bu Aixian was unable to move him out of Tai Yuebai’s minor realm and into her own park within a short timeframe.
Especially… since Zhang Yu had already activated his Feather Spirit Root, using the Level 5 [Azure Lotus Sword Embryo]’s adaptability to the Immortal Grotto-Heaven to enter the Hegemon Body State. Standing tall upon the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, his 72 clones erupted with the power of the Kunpeng Swallowing Heaven Manual and the [Blazing Sun Meridian] behind him, continuously transferring power to Zhang Yu’s body through Grotto-Heaven Manifestation.
This gave Bu Aixian a headache after her repeated attempts to manipulate the situation.
“It feels like trying to pull out an incredibly hard Living Stake deeply embedded into the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.”
“It will take too long to soften him up and move him out without killing him.”
Watching the companies’ stock prices falling one after another, Bu Aixian had no choice but to suppress the anger in her heart. Looking at Zhang Yu, she said, “10,000,000. I’ll give you 10,000,000 Immortal Coins. Stop what you’re doing first, and we can talk it over slowly.”
While speaking, Bu Aixian had already issued an order in the small group chat: “Immediately mobilize the Internet Troll Army to stabilize the stock price and destroy Zhang Yu.”
Without Bu Aixian’s instructions, Wang Guanyao and Wan Wuyi were already doing just that.
Countless Soul Cultivators under the three of them, as well as temporarily hired Soul Cultivators, swarmed out and were already spreading propaganda everywhere in the Spirit Realm and Dharma Realm.
“Beast Zhang is destroying the business environment! Causing countless people to go bankrupt!”
“Dao Monarch Zhang is dying. I am at the scene, watching him about to be subjected to suppression by Profound Monarch Bu…”
“The commotion is too big. The higher-ups have already noticed. They will immediately take thunderous action, perform suppression on the entire scene, and return peace to the 16th layer.”
And the arrival of this wave of offensives in the Spirit Realm and Dharma Realm immediately attracted the attention of the Former Days Graveyard.
Zhao Tianxing led his people out and also started leaving messages everywhere: “Dao Monarch Zhang has won continuous victories! He is about to perform suppression on the companies and set a limit on working hours!”
Sensing the changing winds and clouds in the Spirit Realm, Lu Hengzhang also took the initiative to leave a message: “Dao Monarch Zhang is the Myriad Laws Divine Sword. Everything he does is authorized by the higher-ups. In our Myriad Laws Sect, as long as the higher-ups make up their minds, can a few mere companies withstand it?”
More and more Soul Cultivators from the Former Days Graveyard, serving as Zhang Yu’s base, also joined the battlefields of the Spirit Realm and Dharma Realm one after another upon hearing the news.
Seeing the inextricably entangled fighting in the Spirit Realm and Dharma Realm, and that her own company’s stock price was actually dropping again, Bu Aixian couldn’t help but say angrily, “I’ll pay 0.5 Immortal Coins per message! All of you, charge in!”
But seeing the continuously stalemated situation where they were slightly at a disadvantage, Bu Aixian couldn’t help but be slightly surprised. “This Zhang Yu… did he use the authority of the Former Days Graveyard to hire a massive number of Soul Cultivators to spread rumors?”
Her subordinate Chief Soul Cultivator said, “Profound Monarch, they are working for free!”
Bu Aixian didn’t believe it at all. “How is that possible?! Zhang Yu must have borrowed the authority of the Former Days Graveyard to force these Soul Cultivators to cheer for him for free.”
At this very moment, Bu Aixian could feel that the scope of the battle between both sides was constantly expanding.
Within the 16th layer, the Law Edict True Domain and the company’s location were constantly shifting, as various Space Immortal Dao daoist arts were unleashed with wild abandon.
Throughout the sect, the services currently being used by countless users suffered from lag and suspensions, triggering a chain reaction.
In the Spirit Realm and Dharma Realm, the Soul Cultivators of both sides were locked in a chaotic bloodbath, each declaring their own side’s victory and claiming they had won, all to exert influence over the company’s stock prices and the Thought Tide Amplification.
Even right in front of Bu Aixian, the powers of both sides were constantly clashing. As long as Zhang Yu revealed a single flaw, Bu Aixian would mercilessly pull him out.
The Spirit Realm, Dharma Realm, Finance Realm, Material Realm…
Information, assets, cultivation, laws…
In this series of all-around clashes, what Bu Aixian didn’t expect was that amidst such a comprehensive and fierce battle, Zhang Yu stubbornly did not reveal the slightest flaw. Evidently, his thought speed could already keep up with hers.
Facing the formidable strength displayed by Zhang Yu, Bu Aixian had no choice but to show him respect. She offered a benefit of 10 million Immortal Coins in hopes of getting Zhang Yu to temporarily call a truce.
However, in response to Bu Aixian’s proposal, Zhang Yu simply said lightly, “I don’t need you guys to give me Immortal Coins. I only need you to agree to the working hour limit I have set.”
Bu Aixian gritted her teeth and said, “Zhang Yu! Do you think if you keep messing around like this, the higher-ups will just let it slide forever?”
At the same time, a wave of anxiety rose in Bu Aixian’s heart. “It’s been so long… are the higher-ups still not going to stop him?”
Zhang Yu replied, “Then we can just see who gives out first.”
Wang Guanyao suddenly descended and said, “Zhang Yu, do you think you alone can outlast the three of us?”
On the other side, Wan Wuyi thought to himself, “I can’t outlast this…”
He sensed his own condition and cursed inwardly, “Fuck… the companies outside of Tai Yuebai’s minor realm are affected, and I still have to foot the bill for their Paid Overtime? If I keep holding on like this, my funds will be depleted, and my debt will trigger a Thunderstorm!”
Wan Wuyi took a step forward and arrived by Zhang Yu’s side, his face solemn as he said, “Everyone, we are all members of the Myriad Laws Sect, why must we fight back and forth? Let’s talk this out nicely. I feel the working hour limit is not completely off the table for discussion.”
Seeing this scene, Wang Guanyao frowned and cursed inwardly, “He’s already giving up? What a piece of trash.”
Bu Aixian, however, felt a shock in her heart, “Wan Wuyi backed down this quickly? Did he receive some kind of news?”
Right at this moment, Zhang Yu was heard saying, “You two, the legal reform is sect policy, no one can stop it. And the reason the higher-ups want to freeze the Four-Hour Workday and Paid Overtime is to guarantee the purchasing and spending power of the lower-tier cultivators.”
“The passing of Tai Yuebai’s Dual Rest Law Edict is also for this reason.”
Bu Aixian did not speak, but a thoughtful look flashed through her eyes.
And after a martial duel, Zhang Yu’s words also sounded much more reasonable to her ears.
Wang Guanyao refuted, “If the lower-tier cultivators earn less, the upper-tier cultivators will earn more. We can spend the money they are unable to spend on their behalf, and our Myriad Laws Sect will still be able to become the number one market of the ten sects.”
Zhang Yu said, “Then the products and services originally targeting lower-tier cultivators… the related markets will all shrink, which will in turn affect external sect trade and our sect’s entire Immortal Dao industrial chain… Do you want our Myriad Laws Sect to abandon its original comprehensiveness?”
Zhang Yu said with a solemn expression, “I’m telling you, this reform is imperative. No one can stop it, including you.”
Hearing Zhang Yu’s words, both of their hearts shook.
As the two sides conversed, the fierce battles and battlefields spreading everywhere never ceased.
Wang Guanyao was constantly gathering intelligence and acquiring information from all over, wanting to know exactly how much time and what quota had been approved for Zhang Yu’s ultra-high-danger Dao Seed.
But no matter how hard she tried or how much she inquired, she couldn’t uncover the specific details.
Meanwhile, Zhang Yu’s ultra-high-danger Dao Seed was like an unknown black hole, constantly expanding Zhang Yu’s Law Edict True Domain, and continuously swallowing up their company’s profits and stock prices. Its duration remained completely unknown, like a long, drawn-out torture where one never knew when it would finally end.
What made Wang Guanyao feel even more alarmed was that the inability to find out any information was, in itself, a message.
“Could it be that I have been abandoned? Am I being made the scapegoat? Left to bear the losses?”