The Leisurely Life of a Young Man in the World of Cultivation

Back in his office, Lu Changfeng excitedly opened his resource list.

[Resources section]

Resource #1: Dragon-shaped stalactite (10 years old). One drop of 10-year-old dragon stalactite is produced annually.

Although there was only this one resource in the resource list, Lu Changfeng was quite excited.

Previously, he didn't have much interest in rare and precious materials. After all, as long as you spend enough money, you can get any kind of resource. Even if you explore a secret realm, you can't take away some top-tier resources, so he simply doesn't consider it.

But this resource section gave him some motivation today.

With this thing, at least some extremely rare items can be taken away. Although it's not quite a planting space, it's better than one.

It's a pity I don't know the refresh rate of the resource bar; I just hope it's not too infrequent.

Three months have passed in the blink of an eye. During this time, Lu Changfeng and Duan Yu have become drinking buddies.

An ordinary person might worry that getting too close to him would arouse Su Ziyuan's suspicion, but Lu Changfeng wasn't worried about that at all.

Seizing power is not something to be taken lightly. Running a shopping mall requires more than just strength; you also need your own people to control key positions within the mall, otherwise you won't even realize you've been tricked.

But Duan Yu came alone, without a single one of Tie Gan's men. How could he possibly seize any power like that?

However, he knew that the manager's concern was understandable, but that didn't stop the two of them from drinking.

He even tricked Duan Yu into using his transformation technique.

This is a genuine third-tier technique. Only those at the Golden Core stage can detect even a slight hint of it at the technique level; otherwise, those at the Foundation Establishment stage wouldn't be able to detect it at all.

Early that morning, after the morning meeting ended, Lu Changfeng finally strolled into the mall.

As soon as he arrived, Huo Chongwu approached Lu Changfeng with a fawning expression.

"Good morning, Director Lu. The previous punishment has ended. Do you have any further instructions?"

Lu Changfeng was quite surprised to see this person.

I didn't expect him to stick with it; that's interesting.

You should know that in these three months, not only did he lose a lot of spirit stones, but even those who were originally following others lost a lot of money.

The initial thought was that Huo Chongwu could persevere for at least three months, but the younger workers below him might not be so sure.

But now not a single person has resigned voluntarily, which is quite interesting.

The most crucial point is that this guy actually found a place to live in a courtyard near the shopping mall, which makes it impossible for him to do anything underhanded.

However, compared to when he first took office, this guy is much more humble now.

"Hmm, Director Huo, you're not quite right. What do you mean by punishment? I meant experiencing firsthand what's unreasonable about the rules I set!"

"Now that your three-month trial period is over, I'm sure you've noted down a lot of things you need to improve!"

Huo Chongwu nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, yes, yes, over the past three months I've realized that the employee handbook was too idealistic when it was first created!"

"These are my revised terms, please take a look!"

He then handed over a revised set of terms, clearly indicating that he was prepared.

Lu Changfeng took a look and, in short, the fines were all gone, and the punishment was changed to cleaning.

Secondly, the self-criticism and mutual supervision clauses have been replaced by supervision by the counter staff.

Overall, there were no major problems, so after Lu Changfeng finished reading it, he handed it back to Huo Chongwu.

"Okay, good revisions. Hopefully, the next time you add clauses, it will be just as good as this time."

"Alright, go and make the changes!"

Although he wanted to kill Huo Chongwu, he believed that people are people and work is work, and that they shouldn't bring their personal conflicts into their work.

I could easily handle this privately!

After he left, Lu Changfeng quietly opened the news jade slip and started looking for fun again.

But after seeing the title, he couldn't help but gasp.

The news originally said that this major change in the world happened less than a month after the last one, and it is predicted that the frequency of such changes will become even more frequent.

The intervals have changed from a year to 11 months, then 10 months, and finally to a few days or even a few hours.

It is predicted that within 20 years, the Immortal Path will fully enter its glorious period.

After reading Lu Changfeng's words, he couldn't help but gasp.

"Wow, that was fast?"

Originally, in his mind, the glorious era of immortal cultivation was similar to the golden age in the cultivation novels he had read before.

It would take at least several hundred years, and at most tens of thousands of years, to truly enter a glorious era, but now they are telling him that it will only take 20 years?

This makes the situation much more serious, but it's not all bad.

Twenty years later, with the help of his cheat system, he will be at least at the Nascent Soul stage. He may not be the strongest then, but he won't be the weakest either.

When the time comes, Lao Deng and the others will be in their prime. With my help, they might even be able to achieve immortality with me!

While I was pondering, the ground suddenly began to shake violently.

Upon seeing this, Lu Changfeng abruptly stood up, and with a slight sense of awareness, immediately detected that something was amiss.

"This is bad, this isn't a localized earthquake, it's a widespread seismic event."

He immediately rushed outside and saw that Passerby A, Passerby B, Li Bing, and Huo Chongwu were all there. He immediately began giving orders.

"Quickly notify all employees to evacuate and take shelter!"

Because of the layered formations, the materials used in Luoyun Mall are extremely solid. So if it were to collapse, it would be a death sentence for cultivators who are only at the Qi Refining stage.

At this moment, the group realized the seriousness of the problem, so they all responded and rushed to the first floor.

"Everyone, leave the counter immediately and take shelter outside!"

"Hurry up, forget about that counter, get outside if you don't want to die!"

"Hurry up, all of you! What are you waiting for, deacons? Get those with early-stage Qi Refining abilities out of here!"

"Hurry, hurry, let's get outside!"

Amidst the crowd, Huo Chongwu and his three companions frantically cleared the way for employees and customers in the various aisles.

Upon seeing this, Lu Changfeng nodded.

"At least you have some sense! You didn't cause trouble at this time!"

When Lu Changfeng arrived outside, all the employees and customers on the first floor had already successfully evacuated.

Once they reached the outside road and saw the surrounding buildings clearly, everyone gasped in horror. Not only had most of the original houses in Tianxing City collapsed, but many people were even trapped underneath.

In addition, many cultivators tried to use the sword control technique to fly, but after several attempts, they were unable to fly. Obviously, for unknown reasons, they were unable to fly.

While Lu Changfeng and his group were calming down the employees and customers, Su Ziyuan and her companions flew out of the mall and landed beside Lu Changfeng.

"Lu Changfeng did a good job. Qingzhu, you're in charge here. I'll go see what's going on!"

Second Manager Su Qingzhu nodded, and then saw Su Ziyuan, Duan Yu and Third Manager leave.

A few minutes later, the news jade slip beeped. Lu Changfeng took it out and saw that it had released a special edition.

Seeing this, he already had a guess that it was related to the earthquake, but when he actually opened it, he was shocked.

[A failed attempt to steal a chicken backfired; strange phenomena went berserk. Who will bear the losses?]