What’s the point of cultivating immortality if you don’t have money?.

Chapter 674 Dark Spirit Realm Cultivation Techniques Open Source (Thanks to '一笑天晴' for the generous donation)
Zhao Ruoli is a graduate of the finance department.

She was once full of vigor and ambition when she was nearly 80 years old.

After all, she was admitted to the university with excellent grades, became a student in the finance department, obtained the Foundation Establishment Certificate during her time at the university, and successfully obtained a job in the finance industry after graduation... all of this demonstrates her excellence.

After joining the financial industry, she continued to work hard. For 50 years, she never took a vacation, never slept, never missed an hour of overtime, and never received a raise.

But through her own efforts, she continuously sold various worthless financial projects, worthless stocks, and worthless products to groups such as college students, junior college students, and people of demonic origin, earning her a considerable amount of wealth.

She often exclaimed, "While eliminating low-quality population from Kunxu, I also accumulated wealth and achieved a win-win situation with the world."

The various social contribution awards and outstanding performance awards presented by companies made Zhao Ruoli realize that she was indeed a successful person who had made great contributions to society.

But she also has her own troubles.

"The oppression in Kunxu is too severe."

"The Heavenly Court, the sects... are constantly exploiting us, exploiting us, the cornerstones of Kunxu."

"They took away the money we worked so hard to earn..."

"The world shouldn't be like this..."

Despite having such thoughts, Zhao Ruoli, being merely a Foundation Establishment cultivator, was helpless in the face of this.

Just when she thought life was like a road leading to the grave, with an end she could see at a glance, making her watch herself step by step toward the tomb every day, being constantly exploited by the sect until the day she stopped working and living, the world suddenly connected...

The Kunlun Society raised the banner of rebellion. Led by the eight Nascent Soul cultivators, and together with the finance departments of various schools, as well as the Righteous Alliance composed of the Demonic Sect and Evil Gods, they stormed to the top of the sky to reclaim everything that belonged to them.

Zhao Ruoli followed the main force of the Righteous Alliance to the fifth floor. On the way, they attacked the factory, seized the Golden Core, and completed their breakthrough without a license.

Reaching the Golden Core Realm filled Zhao Ruoli with immense excitement.

Later, as the Righteous Alliance released all its martial arts techniques below the military grade, Zhao Ruoli revered the Righteous Alliance as a god.

After Zhao Ruoli obtained a military-grade cultivation technique through the Dark Spirit Realm, she became completely devoted to the Righteous Alliance, feeling that this was the most successful investment of her life.

At this very moment, Zhao Ruoli was ordered to infiltrate the second floor to carry out an important mission.

Looking at the two sides clashing not far away, Zhao Ruoli asked, "Will Zhang Yu come?"

A thought flashed through Zhao Ruoli's mind: considering Zhang Yu's personal intervention at the construction site to suppress Xiangshan last time to resolve the conflict, it suggests he might do the same. Everyone says this man cares for his subordinates and cherishes old friendships, possessing the virtues of the ancients; let's see if that's true.

Zhao Ruoli knew that the person sending her the message was an evil god, and it was only because of the other party's cover that she was able to appear openly on the second floor.

Her role was simply to create conflict with Yu Xinghan and lure Zhang Yu into a trap.

As far as Zhao Ruoli knew, there were at least four Nascent Soul cultivators hiding in secret. Once Zhang Yu appeared, they would do everything in their power to kidnap him, then hide him with the help of the Evil God and send him to the fifth level of Kunxu.

"I'm afraid he won't come." Zhao Ruoli frowned. "Then we'll have to detain all of them and interrogate them one by one."

As Zhao Ruoli glanced at Yu Xinghan, Shi Huaiyu, and the others, she thought to herself, "These people are said to be very close to Zhang Yu. We should be able to get a lot of information out of them, which might help us capture Zhang Yu."

……

In the university town.

Shortly after Zhang Yu asked Zhang Pianpian for help, she sent him a lot of information.

Zhang Pianpian: The construction team that had the conflict with you belongs to Zijing Construction Company.
Zhang Pianpian: The information looks fine.

Zhang Pianpian: The reason for the conflict was...

Zhang Yu read the intelligence report, in which both sides claimed that the other had slowed down their construction progress. Later, the workers argued, fought, and even one person died. Yu Xinghan was also injured by one of the other side's Golden Core cultivators.

Everything seemed ordinary, especially in today's chaotic world.

Zhang Pianpian then sent another message: There's something strange about it.

Zhang Pianpian: I checked their spirit world browsing history.
Zhang Pianpian: Very few, they don't seem to log into the spirit world very often.
Looking at the message Zhang Pianpian sent, Fu Ji said, "There's definitely something wrong here. How could a normal person log into the Spirit Realm so infrequently every day? Don't they need to acquire all sorts of information every day? Isn't that practically an instinct for second-level beings?"

"This can only mean one thing... they may be obtaining information through other means."

Zhang Yu's eyes flickered: "You mean?"

“The Dark Spirit Realm!” Fuki said. “I think these people might be some kind of cultists or followers of evil gods.”

Fuki wasn't really sure she could say that; she was just offering a suggestion and hoping that Zhang Yu would go to the Dark Spirit Realm with her.

Since the disappearance of the God of Heaven and Earth, Fukihime has been able to vaguely sense that the Dark Spirit Realm deep within the Spirit Realm has been flourishing and undergoing various subtle changes over time.

As an evil god, she was naturally extremely curious about what the Dark Spirit Realm had become after these past few months.

At the same time, she also hoped to use the power of the Dark Spirit Realm to increase her value in Zhang Yu's eyes and further enhance her voice, instead of being Zhang Yu's puppet every day, managing the company and doing all sorts of chores.

In addition, it is naturally necessary to find out the whereabouts of other evil gods.

Having finally escaped all supervision, Fuki saw this as the best opportunity to hunt down her colleagues and become stronger.

Fuki continued, "In the current situation, the Dark Spirit Realm will inevitably be used by the evil gods as an important channel for communication, and may even become a communication tool for countless members of the demonic cult and believers of the evil gods, just like the Spirit Realm."

"Mastering the ability to obtain intelligence from the Dark Realm will be of immeasurable benefit to your handling of future developments."

Hearing Fu Ji's words, Zhang Yu frowned slightly and sighed, "The tree may wish to be still, but the wind will not cease."

Although he had tried his best to avoid anything that would distract him, Zhang Yu understood that when things became unavoidable, he had no choice but to face them head-on.

"A demonic sect, an evil god?" Zhang Yu knew that he could never abandon Yu Xinghan and Shi Huaiyu.

He was unwilling to give up on these companions, whether in terms of feelings, beliefs, or their connection to him.

"Then let's go to the Dark Spirit Realm."

……

Dark spirit world.

When Zhang Yu opened his eyes again, he found that the Dark Spirit Realm before him was very different from the Dark Spirit Realm in his memory.

First, there's the overwhelming barrage of advertisements.

"The Heavenly Demon University's fully open-source cultivation techniques are being sold in a package for only 0.1 spirit coins!"

"The Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power used by Zhang Yu in the Top Ten Leagues can be taught and mastered for just 1 spirit coin!"

"300% annual interest rate! Buy early and get rich quick!"

"The ultimate secret of Hehuan University, the Great Joy of Heaven and Earth Yin and Yang, can be mastered in three days and perfected in seven days, all for just 3 spirit coins!"

Zhang Yu was stunned when he saw the last advertisement, and couldn't help but take a few more glances at it.

And it was those few glances that made him feel strange forces surging towards his sea of ​​consciousness.

Fuki immediately said, "Don't look at these ads too much, they're all scams and viruses."

After saying that, Fu Ji unleashed a divine power that swept away the incoming virus.

At the same time, Zhang Yu immediately turned his head away upon hearing this, no longer looking at those messy advertisements.

"What is this?" Zhang Yu couldn't help but curse, "Do even the evil gods deceive each other?"

Fuki said, "This is a layer of protection. It seems that someone from the top ten universities is also secretly invading the Dark Spirit Realm, which is why this kind of protection has appeared."

"And who told you that evil gods can't deceive each other?"

Zhang Yu rolled his eyes and continued walking forward, then felt a large amount of information rushing past him.

The original conference room was nowhere to be seen. What appeared before Zhang Yu now was a huge city composed of countless torrents of information.

Fuki smiled and said, "Hey, these guys have really expanded the Dark Spirit Realm. They want to turn it into a real spirit realm for all their subordinates to use."

Fu Ji's body surged with evil divine power, and in the next moment, she automatically summarized and categorized the torrents of information, transforming them into a dense array of options that appeared before Zhang Yu.

Looking at the words above, Zhang Yu became even more surprised.

"A righteous alliance composed of finance, demonic cults, and evil gods?"

"Martial Arts Street, Open Source Professor teaches all the martial arts techniques of the top ten universities, the thirty-six colonels, and the seventy-two junior colonels..."

"Cultivation techniques below military grade can be obtained for free once you reach 100 points of Righteousness..."

"Military-grade martial arts techniques, each requiring 1000 Righteous Qi points to exchange..."

"Taoist Arts Research Institute, Open Source Taoist Arts Manuals..."

"Magic Treasure Remains Zone... Exchange for various magic treasure blueprints captured..."

"Library, virus repository, dark parish, mission area, intelligence agency..."

"Is this true? They've progressed to this point in the last few months?"

Seeing all this, Zhang Yu let out a long sigh: "Is this another scam?"

Fu Ji shook her head: "No, it's all true. I can feel tens of thousands of people exchanging a lot of information and learning various techniques and knowledge here every minute and every second."

"I'm afraid... these guys have acquired a lot of knowledge belonging to the top ten universities through the wars on the fifth and fourth floors, and then put it down below to bewitch people and become bait in front of countless demonic cult followers and evil god believers."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yu couldn't help but sigh, "No wonder the cultists and believers of evil gods in various places are resisting relentlessly. These guys... are too ruthless. They've directly open-sourced the knowledge of various schools. How many people will they attract to join?"

"And once you join, once you practice the pirated techniques and achieve an unlicensed breakthrough, you'll have no choice but to follow the Righteous Alliance wholeheartedly."

Let alone ordinary people, even Zhang Yu, the strongest undergraduate student from one of the top ten universities, was shaken to his core when he saw all those military-grade martial arts techniques from various schools.

In particular, seeing the Heavenly Demon Illusionary Body Technique, Heavenly Demon Void Technique, and Profound Darkness Returning to Nothingness Technique that had once put him in such a difficult battle... made him feel a slight surge of emotion.

"No way." Zhang Yu quickly shook his head: "My priority right now is breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage. I don't have time to cultivate these Daoist techniques."

Suppressing the greed that had just surged within him, Zhang Yu became curious again: "What exactly is this 'righteousness value' for exchanging items?"

Fuki pulled up a list and said, "It's something that encourages people to do tasks. You can get this thing by completing all sorts of tasks given by the evil gods."

Zhang Yu glanced at the task list, and a few of them caught his eye.

Stealing a flying sword from the Sword Pavilion of Tianjian University will grant you 7000 Righteousness Points.

Stealing the Yin organ of the Magnetic God of Wanfa University will grant 10000 Righteous Qi points.

Taking Zhang Yu from Wanfa University to the fifth level of Kunxu will grant you 30000 Righteousness Points.

Fuki laughed: "You're more valuable than a genital organ."

(End of this chapter)