"Senpai, if we are going to work like this, what reward will we receive?"
A sub-leader of the Blood Demon Gate, at the Golden Core Realm, asked trembling.
Although he had already resigned himself, he at least needed to clarify his doubts.
After working hard like an ox or a horse for a thousand years, only to end up not earning even a single spirit stone...?
Upon hearing these words, Tang Yu became furious.
He took out a whip and gave this man a good lash on the forehead.
The whip in his hand was not a magical artifact, just an ordinary whip.
Although striking a cultivator at the Golden Core Realm did not cause much damage,
the humiliation was quite significant.
After several lashes, Tang Yu, frustrated, said:
"Work is the most honorable thing. I give you work so that you stop being despised demonic cultivators and become righteous people."
"With this favor of regeneration, do you have the audacity to ask me for spirit stones?"
"..."
Seeing Tang Yu raise the whip to strike again,
the group of demonic cultivators immediately knelt and exclaimed in unison: "We only feel gratitude in our hearts!"
"That's more like it."
Hearing that everyone's attitude had improved, Tang Yu, satisfied, put away the whip and began to give them illusions.
"From now on, if you work well, there's a chance you might finish ahead of schedule..."
After listening to Tang Yu's illusions,
for some reason, the demonic cultivators felt a slight sense of gratitude in their hearts.
Once Tang Yu finished arranging everything with the people of the Blood Demon Gate,
he left the workshop with Amber and said with a smile:
"With the help of these people, production here can increase several times over."
"The only thing is, the cost is a bit high."
Amber, smiling, looked at him with even more admiration.
A good businessman knows how to extract all the value from a product.
Her master was doing it far better than she could.
What? You say cultivators aren't products? How could they not be?
"It's fine, this problem can also be solved."
Tang Yu let out a malicious chuckle and said, "The master finally came to see me, so come take a walk with me. I'll show you the industrial chain I've created for fashion."
"You can call me Amber, we're friends. The title of master sounds too distant."
Amber nodded with a smile and asked, "And what is an industrial chain?"
"An industrial chain is from raw materials..."
Tang Yu began explaining some modern economic concepts to Amber.
Being an extremely intelligent person, Amber immediately understood and smiled in delight.
"I'm learning a lot."
After taking a tour of the Heavenly Water Empire,
Tang Yu pulled out a map, which was a map of the southern part of the Cloud Continent.
The map was divided into several factions, with the Hehua Sect being the smallest, while the Treasure Tower was the largest due to its vast business network.
Tang Yu pointed at the map and smiled:
"Right now, combining the territories of our two factions, we don't even make up a fifth. The rest belongs to other sects or is currently unclaimed."
Amber nodded slightly, knowing that among the seven sects, the Hehua Sect and the Treasure Tower were the most friendly towards mortals within their territories.
The Treasure Tower, because she was its leader, did not allow cultivators to abuse mortals in its domain.
Before, the Hehua Sect was not so strict.
As long as there were no massacres, they turned a blind eye to everything.
It was only after Tang Yu took charge that the policy was raised to the same level as that of the Treasure Tower.
As for the other five sects, their attitude toward mortals varied, but overall, there was a relatively stable living environment.
Aside from that, in other areas, the life and death of mortals were not in their hands.
"With such a large south, golden eggs are everywhere."
"So what? Now, these foolish cultivators can't earn spirit stones."
"I think if we join forces and establish rules for the entire south, mortals will be well-fed and clothed, and we will profit even more."
"When that time comes, one month will turn into ten, and ten months will become a hundred, then it will continue..."
Tang Yu kept talking while laughing again.
"How much will it be? A million high-grade spirit stones a year?"
Amber smiled.
Tang Yu shook his head.
Amber extended a hand and smiled: "Will it be half a million high-grade spirit stones?"
"Give me your hand."
Tang Yu gestured with his hand.
Although Amber was confused, she still extended her delicate hand toward Tang Yu.
Feeling her soft skin, Tang Yu took her wrist and lifted it with a smile.
"It's a hundred times half a million high-grade spirit stones."
Hearing Tang Yu say this with great confidence, Amber felt that at that moment, this man seemed to shine.
Those lights that only she could see might even outshine the sun, moon, and stars in the sky.
"Well, you've finished boasting. When you finish creating the proper industrial chain for your Treasure Tower's sphere of influence, I'll provide you with those new machines."
After letting go of Amber's hand, Tang Yu changed the subject.
"Speaking of which, Amber, do you know if there are any demonic cultivator forces nearby?"
Amber smiled slyly, showing a youthful air of mischief.
"I just so happen to know something about that."
"So, could you lend me two very valuable ancient treasures? Then, I'll meet them in their territory, where they will try to kill me and rob me? After that, you, the heroine, will come to save me?"
"And then, do you plan to offer your body in gratitude?"
Amber smiled as she asked.
"That depends on what kind of gratitude we're talking about. If it's to join the Treasure Tower, I'd have to think about it a bit more."
Tang Yu coughed twice, knowing that what Amber meant by 'offering the body' was different from what he had in mind.
"I know, I know, I'll lend them to you."
Amber smiled as she took out two ancient treasures, already refined as her personal artifacts, from her storage ring and handed them to Tang Yu.
One was a jade hairpin, and the other a flying sword.
With the two treasures in hand, Tang Yu followed Amber as they flew toward a sect called the Three Bodies Gate, three thousand miles away.
This sect of demonic cultivators specialized in refining wandering corpses, and it was said that they possessed the same strength as the undead.
This meant that a cultivator from the Golden Core Realm of the Three Bodies Gate would carry with them wandering corpses of the same level.
In this way, when encountering a cultivator of a similar level, it would be nearly impossible to lose.
When they were just a few kilometers from the Three Bodies Gate,
Amber, following Tang Yu's instructions, hid her energy and stayed behind, trailing at a distance.
The strength of the Three Bodies Gate was not as powerful as that of the Blood Demon Gate, as only their elder had reached the divine transformation level, so she wasn't overly concerned.
Tang Yu approached the Three Bodies Gate with great confidence.
Two slender cultivators from the Three Bodies Gate flew toward Tang Yu, carrying a coffin and shouting at him.
"Who dares to break into the Three Bodies Gate...?"
Before they could finish speaking, their gazes were immediately drawn to the two ancient treasures that Tang Yu held in his hands.
The primal energy emanating from those treasures was unmistakable. Upon recognizing them, their faces changed slightly.
A cultivator with two ancient treasures?
It should be noted that the elder of their sect, a cultivator of divine transformation, only had one ancient treasure as his personal treasure.
This made the two of them cautious immediately, and their tone softened a little.
"I do not know what reason the distinguished guest has for coming to the Three Bodies Gate."
"Three Bodies Gate? What is that? Yesterday, I woke up with an unbearable headache and I don't remember what happened before. Do you know me?"
Tang Yu said with an expression of complete confusion.
Seeing the unbeatable look of confusion on his face, the two guardian monks of the Three Bodies Gate were also somewhat perplexed.
Both were cultivators in the early stage of the Golden Core.
After hearing what Tang Yu said, they couldn't help but use their spiritual sense to scan him.
"Wow, does he only have cultivation at the early stage of the Golden Core?"
"With this strength, and he still possesses great treasures, moreover, two of them?"
"If each of us had one, we could turn them into spirit stones and with that, we could go from the Golden Core stage to the peak of the Soul Formation realm."
"Do we do it or not?"
The cultivator with a matchmaker mole on his face sent a message to his companion.
"This man carries two ancient treasures, he's probably not simple, what if it's a trap?"
The other cultivator, shorter in stature, was more cautious and felt that this person was not entirely normal.
"A trap? At the door of our Three Bodies Gate? What kind of trap could there be? If it was really something, we have the ancestor."
The cultivator with the matchmaker mole looked at Tang Yu eagerly.
Seeing the two exchange glances and transmit thoughts, Tang Yu grew somewhat impatient and, furious, shouted.
"Have you made up your mind yet? Haven't you slapped me in the face yet? Are you waiting for something? Do you want to rob me and still fear the consequences? You're right at your doorstep, what are you afraid of?!"
"…"
Upon hearing these words from Tang Yu, the two immediately felt their urge to act vanish.
This guy isn't right!
In the next second, Tang Yu appeared in front of them in the blink of an eye. Before the two could react, Tang Yu had already placed the two ancient treasures into their hands.
Then he threw a punch without thinking, a strike with all his strength.
Both fists hit their faces at the same time.
At that moment, the two saw something like an oil lamp moving before them.
It was as though a 300-kilo cultivator was standing in front of them, pointing at them and saying offensive things.
After being thrown over a hundred meters by Tang Yu's blow, both nearly lost their Golden Core.
"Alright, you from the Three Bodies Gate steal my treasures and now slap me in the face. This makes no sense! If you don't give me an explanation today, the Three Bodies Gate will not see a good day."
After tossing the two, Tang Yu shouted loudly, making sure that all of the Three Bodies Gate could hear his words.
Soon, dozens of cultivators from the Three Bodies Gate arrived, each carrying a coffin on their back, surrounding Tang Yu.
Seeing the two fallen and unconscious disciples, and the two ancient treasures in Tang Yu's hands, the leader of the Three Bodies Gate, with the power of the Soul Formation stage, stared at Tang Yu and said:
"Friend, why do you behave so recklessly in my Three Bodies Gate? Do you think we have no people? Leave the two ancient treasures and today I'll leave you with your body intact."
"Hasn't the Day of the Dead come yet? What are you doing running around with such a big coffin? Are you in a hurry to die?"
Tang Yu cursed under his breath and threw another punch without thinking.
With the power of the early Soul Formation stage, after throwing that punch, all the male cultivators of the Three Bodies Gate felt enormous pressure.
The leader of the Three Bodies Gate, despite being a peak cultivator in the Soul Formation stage, found it hard to receive that blow.
It had nothing to do with cultivation.
This punch was aimed at eliminating the last great human emperor after the strike.
After taking the blow, the leader of the Three Bodies Gate, full of anger and shame, ordered everyone to attack together.
Then, from the shadows, Amber decisively used her spiritual ability, sending everyone present to the ground, unable to rise.
When Amber acted, her terrifying strength in the Spiritual Transformation stage immediately alerted the ancestor of the Three Bodies Gate, who was meditating.
The ancestor appeared dressed in a black robe, and under the robe, his body was only a skeleton, with two red dots in the eyes replacing his pupils.
Upon waking, a crack in the space appeared next to him.
A huge bronze coffin came out of the crack, and from it emerged a strange skeleton, several hundred meters tall, shaped like a cross between a snake and a centipede.
As this skeleton emerged, the space around it distorted, and it also had a cultivation power in the Spiritual Transformation stage.
"Who dares to disturb the Three Bodies Gate?"
The ancestor of the Three Bodies Gate opened his mouth, which had no flesh, yet still emitted a voice.
"You from the Three Bodies Gate tried to kill my friend to steal his treasures, and I have come to defend him."
Amber, somewhat embarrassed by her words, didn't hesitate for a second to act.
After launching a spiritual ability, the enormous skeleton standing trembled.
The cultivation of the middle and early stages of Spiritual Transformation couldn't be compared easily.
Moreover, Amber was the leader of the Treasure Tower, possessing many magical artifacts.
After a brief battle, the ancestor of the Three Bodies Gate finally reacted, surprised:
"So, you are from the Treasure Tower..."
Before he could finish speaking, Tang Yu had already launched an energy sword toward him, staring intently at his enemy.
This old man didn't only have cultivation in the early stage of Spiritual Transformation.
Moreover, the dead he had created also had that level of cultivation.
Buy one, get one free!
Both fought in silence, crushing the ancestor of the Three Bodies Gate.
The cultivators of the Three Bodies Gate, trapped on the ground, showed expressions of despair.
This is a total disaster!
Half an hour later,
The ancestor of the Three Bodies Gate, half-dead, lay on the ground while Amber imposed a spiritual restriction on him.
Once they had finished with the Three Bodies Gate, Tang Yu now had a large number of talents at his disposal.
What pleased him the most was that these guys came with their own "dead" on their backs, ready to work!
Humans could work ten hours a day.
But these dead didn't need to rest!
In the following week, Tang Yu, along with Amber, traveled all across the southern region of the Jiuxiao continent.
In one breath, they destroyed twenty-four sects of demonic cultivators.
In no time, the alliance between the Pleasure Sect and the Treasure Tower swept through all the demonic cultivator sects in the south.
At least eight demonic cultivators in the Spiritual Transformation stage fell into their hands.
This made many cultivators start to enthusiastically praise the Treasure Tower and the Pleasure Sect.
This kind of act of cleaning up scum without fearing retaliation was the closest to goodness in this world!
With these accumulated merits, even Buddha himself should appear in dreams to thank them.
The rest of the small demonic forces didn't hesitate.
They quickly packed up their belongings and left through the most expensive transport portal.
After capturing these demonic cultivators and using them as resources, the countries protected by the Pleasure Sect saw a great increase in productivity.
At least, their electrical system was now extremely stable.
These demonic cultivators were assigned to various tasks, such as generating electricity with blood.
Those who controlled the wind were in charge of wind energy generation.
Those who controlled fire handled thermal energy.
Tang Yu had plans for everyone.
Following his spirit of "see, exploit, and squeeze."
These demonic cultivators were forced to work and began questioning their lives, wondering why the hell they had decided to be demonic cultivators.
If circumstances allowed,
Tang Yu would nearly go mad and start going to other large sects to do "illegal fishing" to get labor.
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