Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 1020 - 57 Continuing to Take Delight in Helping Others

Chapter 1020 -57 Continuing to Take Delight in Helping Others

Yan Yu really wasn’t very interested in power.

Various cases from the past life proved that strength was the most important thing for a transcendent. Even if a transcendent held ruling power without strength, it would be like water without a source and wood without roots, and they would soon be overthrown by rising stars with strength.

However, to improve strength, enough cultivation resources are needed. Wealth, companions, methods, and places – the more, the better.

If you want to follow the path of the Sword God on Ten-Mile Slope by shutting yourself in, unless you have the strongest luck and great blessings, it’s just not going to happen.

If you want to gather cultivation resources while focusing on improving your cultivation and strength, you can’t spend too much time on governance and administration. As a result, in territories occupied by extraordinary forces around the world, they almost all exhaust their resources and exploit mortals. Even in the Northern Border ruled by Anna, it is the same.

It’s not that transcendents are inherently evil; it’s just that direct exploitation is much simpler than organizing production.

If this pattern continues, the existing scientific civilization will sooner or later wither away, eventually turning into the kind of cultivation world Zhao Yuanzhen traveled to: a world where immortals and mortals are distinct, mortals toil their entire lives, sects sit back and enjoy the fruits of others’ labor, and everything is pursued for the sake of becoming an immortal, stagnant for hundreds of thousands or millions of years.

Yan Yu firmly believes that professional matters should be handled by professionals. He’s best at combat, so he focuses on defending the country and protecting the people, ensuring that the production order is not disrupted. Mortal bureaucrats, who are good at organization and operation, provide him with cultivation resources to maintain his significant strength advantage – this is clearly a win-win situation, much better than rebelling to become an emperor only to find that he doesn’t want to work.

Of course, as Yan Yu’s strength continues to grow, it’s hard to say how long this mutual trust and cooperation between the Lu Country cultivators and mortal government can last.

In the past life, Li Zhaojiang’s rebellion completely shattered this foundation of mutual trust. Subsequently, neither the loyal and righteous Mr. Mei nor the super inept Xie Ruoxi ever truly gained 100% trust from the officials. If anything, only mortal warriors roughly counted as their own people.

As for the current world, the reason why Yan Yu can maintain such a good trust relationship with the Cabinet Privy Council is largely thanks to Chen Tianming and Li Weiguo mediating between the two sides. In the past life, Chen Lingyun also had the same opportunity, but expecting Chen Lingyun to serve Lu Country’s interests is less likely than wishing for the disappearance of spiritual energy altogether.

The agreement with the new Witch King was quickly reached. Under the pressure of five Golden Core True Men, the current sorcerer lords were almost willing to do anything to ensure they wouldn’t be defeated by Lu Country. But this compromise was obviously very fragile, so many terms of the final agreement were extremely humiliating for the Southern Border.

Hu Minghua naturally didn’t care. First of all, he was just a puppet Witch King, a “pro-Lu Country example” set up by the sorcerers; secondly, no matter how harsh the terms were, he wasn’t the one paying… so he readily agreed to everything.

It’s clear that even if the agreement was signed and acknowledged by both sides, the sorcerer lords wouldn’t obediently fulfill it. Both sides were sure to repeatedly test, tug, and press each other.

However, as long as there was no war, it counted as a victory.

Hu Minghua kept his word and sent a copy of the signed agreement to Yan Yu for his review.

Yan Yu didn’t look at it closely, leaving such matters to the foreign affairs department. He handed it directly to the old supervisor Chen Tianming and returned to the Wudang Mountain base himself.

He stayed in Pingjing for three days and two nights, ensuring that the agreement between the Lu Country and the Southern Border could be smoothly reached. Upon returning to the base, he learned that Su Yunjin and Yang Linhui had successfully crossed their tribulations, and the third batch of names for crossing tribulation had been finalized, including all remaining team cultivators.

Chen Lingyun was placed first, with the reason being that she had the worst cultivation talent and was technically inferior to Yan Yu. If even Chen Lingyun could successfully cross tribulation, it would indicate that the current tribulation system was mature enough to promote it widely among other team and military mansion cultivators.

All this was the official explanation, but in reality, it was undoubtedly due to Chen Tianming’s influence.

Considering that everyone else was about to cross tribulation, he had to quickly arrange the promised help to enhance their Golden Core rank.

This was a man’s promise!

Yan Yu asked Mr. Mei for the list of those crossing tribulation and saw that Tang Xiaolian was ranked third, Ye Jun was seventh, Lin Ning was tenth, and Li Minghu was seventeenth. So he asked her:

“Is the list arranged entirely according to cultivation talent?”

“Yes,” Mei Yingxue replied, “except for Chen Lingyun being placed first by higher-ups’ orders, the rest are ranked by cultivation talent and True Yuan amount. Mainly because they don’t have any effective means for crossing tribulation. They still have to rely on formations, the Ten Thousand Bamboo Sword, and the Small Xuan Guang Ruler.”

“Hmm…” Yan Yu contemplated for a while, “Can Lin Ning’s tribulation order be moved up a bit?”

“Does it have to be moved up?” Mei Yingxue asked in confusion, “What’s the point?”

“She has high aspirations,” Yan Yu explained, “If she’s arranged to cross tribulation at the tenth position, she’s bound to think, ‘So many people have better talent than me,’ which might affect her performance.”

“But that’s the reality,” Mei Yingxue said frankly. “And if this fact affects her performance, it shows that her current personality isn’t suitable for immediately crossing tribulation.”

“Just tell me if it can be moved up,” Yan Yu asked helplessly.

“Sure.” Mei Yingxue turned to operate on the computer, “To which position?”

“Can I choose freely?” Yan Yu smiled.

“Of course,” Mei Yingxue replied, “Actually, compared to when you crossed tribulation, the theoretical system is now more mature, and tribulation resources’ production capacity has also increased. When Chen Lingyun crosses tribulation, the expected preparation quantities of Ten Thousand Bamboo Swords and Small Xuan Guang Rulers will be seven to eight times the amount during your tribulation.”

Upon hearing this, Yan Yu couldn’t help but click his tongue. Is this the strength of the world’s number one industrial country?

The Ten Thousand Bamboo Sword and Small Xuan Guang Ruler themselves aren’t powerful magic treasures, but their grade is the lowest of the low. Even so, in the cultivation world, they require swordsmiths and artifact makers to specially create them, so making tens of thousands for tribulation is basically impossible, even if you’re the grandson or granddaughter of a Nascent Soul Elder.

Now with industrial automated production running, even a cultivation waste like Chen Lingyun can forcibly cross tribulation by relying on massive quantities of resources! Wealth, companions, methods, and places—reaching the peak in wealth has such unimaginable power!

“It’s hard for me to understand,” Yan Yu couldn’t help but exclaim.

In the past, when officially trained cultivators crossed tribulation, Lu Country didn’t start its industrial machines to mass-produce Golden Core True Men… If Yan Yu were to analyze the reason, it was probably due to Li Zhaojiang’s rebellion, which made the higher-ups extremely suspicious of cultivators, unwilling to let too many form their Golden Cores at once, fearing another rebellion that couldn’t be suppressed.

As for this lifetime, isn’t it because I, Yan Yu, am here? Don’t say they wouldn’t dare rebel; even if they all did, how many could be my match?

“It’s normal not to understand,” Mei Yingxue responded, “I couldn’t have imagined before either that crossing tribulation could be so easy. Science and technology indeed have their unique advantages.”

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Yan Yu sensibly didn’t disturb her and turned to leave.

Since the list is confirmed, let’s go find Xiaolian.

Meanwhile, Tang Xiaolian was in Zhou Hongyu’s room, watching and studying fighting action films with her.

Zhou Hongyu had been discharged from the hospital. Her burned skin had completely regrown, without any residual scars or boundaries. If Yan Yu hadn’t been in Pingjing attending meetings, she would have asked him to “remove the illness” on the day she was discharged.

“Boring,” she commented while watching the TV screen, “She’s ugly even with makeup, her moaning is fake, and the fight scenes are repetitious. She might not even be as skilled as the street corner massage parlour workers.”

“Naturally,” Tang Xiaolian analyzed, “It’s a film, after all. The fighting isn’t about winning but about audiences’ enjoyment. The more exaggerated the visual effects, the better. Look at her foaming at the mouth after being hit—how much spit can one have? It’s all props.”

She was giggling when her phone screen suddenly lit up. Seeing it, her expression changed drastically, and she quickly called out:

“Captain Zhou, save me!”

“Hm?”

“Captain Yan says it’s my turn for cultivation!”

“Then go cultivate,” Zhou Hongyu replied nonchalantly. “I won’t accompany you this time, after all, it’s your first time, and the experience is important.”

“But I’m scared!” Tang Xiaolian quivered, “What if something goes wrong with my secret technique?”

“Then let him take responsibility,” Zhou Hongyu said.

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