You dare to cultivate without money?!

Chapter 1310 - 832: A Young Man Joins the Committee, Let the Corpse Items Fly for a While

According to the information obtained by Construction Bureau Director Tu Mu, by the end of the first day there were almost no Frenzied Corpse Items sent to Zhang Yu for processing.

So on the second day, while leading his teams to clean up Corpse Items, Tu Mu became even more cautious, as if waiting for a possible counterattack from Vice President Zhang Yu.

Yet even after a whole day had passed, the office area of the entire Maze Realm remained unusually calm, with nothing out of the ordinary happening.

At the same time, the Corpse Items suppressed by the teams led by Tu Mu had all been dismantled into various materials and sold off to recycling companies.

Looking at the large sum of Immortal Coins coming in, Tu Mu handed over a portion, kept a portion as funds for the Construction Bureau, and distributed the rest entirely as bonuses to himself and his many subordinates.

For a time, morale in the Construction Bureau soared; all the cultivators under him were eager to keep working hard to suppress Corpse Items.

Seeing that Zhang Yu remained unmoved the whole time, Tu Mu asked his subordinate, "How many Corpse Items were sent over to Zhang Yu on the second day?"

The subordinate laughed and said, "Not a single one. Zhang Yu is just a bare-pole Vice President now. I don’t think anyone in the whole development zone up and down is going to listen to him in the future."

Hearing this, Tu Mu let out a breath and said with a faint smile, "I heard he talked big in that meeting. I thought he had some remarkable tricks up his sleeve, but it turns out he’s just a hotheaded rookie."

"If he thinks that just because he’s sitting in a position, one order from him and we’ll all have to obey, whole-heartedly work for him, then he’s far too naive—and far too ignorant about how the sect actually runs."

A subordinate beside him laughed and said, "After all, he’s just a youngster who climbed up from the Lower Realm. It’s perfectly normal he doesn’t understand anything."

Tu Mu understood that with Zhang Yu’s very first order ending up in limbo like this, his authority was bound to take a major hit. Coupled with his insufficient strength, Zhang Yu would probably find it hard to take even a single step in the Management Committee from here on out.

In that case, this subordinate of his had no need to take this superior seriously in the future.

Tu Mu then said, "Our Vice President may as well just stay up there as a mascot of good fortune."

Seeing that Zhang Yu had no response measures, Tu Mu cast off all scruples in his subsequent actions, leading his many subordinates to frantically accelerate their scavenging of Corpse Items and then profiting from the material recycling fees paid by various companies.

The money distributed down boosted the morale of the cultivators under him even further. The only thing that made Tu Mu feel displeased was that some of the Demon Descendant cultivators working as contractors actually demanded better treatment.

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

Frowning, Tu Mu said, "I’ve long said this: for these beasts, if you beat them every day, their only request is that you stop beating them. Now that you don’t beat them, their demands will only keep growing."

Thinking about how the Demon Descendants’ growing demands would eat into his profits, the Mana in Tu Mu’s body seemed to stir slightly.

The subordinate beside him did not dare speak, because he knew that bringing in Demon Descendants had been a decision from above and concerned the Mixed Element Dao; it was not something he could casually comment on.

Tu Mu went on, "Forget it. Go tell those beasts that from now on I’ll personally shit every day and share it out for them to eat. That should satisfy them, right?"

Although he would merely be passing the impurities from his body to the other side, Tu Mu still felt a wave of displeasure in his heart. He hadn’t taken a dump in a long time, yet now he had to defecate specifically for a bunch of monsters to expel impurities. So he resolved that tomorrow he would definitely clear more Corpse Items and earn a few more Immortal Coins.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Vice President Xie Lanyin of the Management Committee had also received news concerning Zhang Yu.

"No one is paying him any heed?" Xie Lanyin shook her head. "If he can’t even pass this hurdle, I’m afraid that by the time the reconstruction work in the development zone is finished, Zhang Yu still won’t have tamed even the slice of subordinates under his own purview."

Outside the Maze Realm, near the Grotto Heaven Bridge set up by Zhang Yu.

Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting looked at the cold and deserted site in front of them, and a trace of worry surfaced in both of their eyes.

Shi Huaiyu said anxiously, "No one sent even a single Corpse Item here for processing today. This can’t go on."

Beside her, Feng Tingting said, "I heard from some contracted cultivators in other cleanup teams... this situation over here has already spread throughout the entire Management Committee. Some are even saying that Vice President Zhang got his position by carrying a child for someone up top, that he has no real ability at all, and that those above just put him here to pad his résumé."

Hearing this, Shi Huaiyu couldn’t help saying, "Someone must be fanning the flames. The fewer people hand over Corpse Items for Vice President Zhang to handle now, the fewer people will listen to Vice President Zhang in the future."

Shi Huaiyu sighed and said, "It’s like a stock: the less people believe in it, the more the price drops, which makes even fewer people believe in it—a vicious cycle like that... and in the end it becomes a complete junk stock."

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

At the same time, a message from Yu Xinghan appeared before Zhang Yu.

Yu Xinghan: Zhang Yu, if you have any way to deal with this, use it quickly

Yu Xinghan: Right now all the cleanup teams are refusing to hand their Corpse Items over to us for processing. They’re all selling directly to the companies instead. If this continues, we won’t be able to carry out our work

Zhang Yu replied: It’s fine, let the Corpse Items keep flying for a bit

After replying to Yu Xinghan, Zhang Yu looked at the cultivator from the Sect Enterprise in front of him and said, "Manager Lin, how are this batch of Corpse Items?"

The cultivator called Manager Lin nodded and said, "Not bad... very good, in fact."

"Not only have they preserved a complete structure, they can even still operate normally. Even most of the various self-modifications carried out during their frenzy have been retained..."

Manager Lin understood that once a Corpse Item was damaged and dismantled, it was only sold as materials.