Chapter 1420 - 862: The Blacklist

The multitude of Soul Cultivators and Sect Affairs Officers who witnessed this scene felt a shock in their hearts.

Xiao Yunhe didn’t give the Soul Cultivator a chance to continue speaking. With a wave of his hand, a rumbling sound echoed from the Spirit Realm, and a Sealing List materialized before everyone. A murderous aura surged forth, instilling fear in the Sect Affairs Officers.

"Seal!"

In the next moment, Xiao Yunhe reached out and extracted a cluster of personal information from the Soul Cultivator, directly embedding it into the Sealing List.

The Soul Cultivator let out a miserable cry and turned into a wisp of green smoke, vanishing from everyone’s perception.

Once on the Sealing List, this Soul Cultivator did not only disappear before Xiao Yunhe but became invisible to all companies and sect enterprises affiliated with the Ancient Alliance. They could neither perceive his existence nor his information, nor could they communicate with him.

In the eyes of the Soul Cultivator, all cultivators associated with Xiao Yunhe and the Ancient Alliance also became entities that he could neither see, interact with, nor communicate with.

From now on, he will no longer be able to find a job through any company in the Ancient Alliance.

The Soul Cultivator unwillingly exclaimed, "The manager asked me to do the test! I didn’t actually want to register!"

Xiao Yunhe waved away the Sealing List and said indifferently, "These paupers do not grasp the bigger picture. Only by using a heavy hand can they understand what is right and what is wrong."

"Transmit today’s sealing process to all departments and order all Soul Cultivators to watch collectively, then submit a 3,000-word reflection."

The assistant understood this as a warning to others, ensuring no Soul Cultivator would register with Zhang Yu’s joint venture company, and quickly agreed.

The assistant then reminded, "Chairman, most Soul Cultivators likely won’t risk being sealed to register, but some, especially those from the Wanfa Sect, bewitched by Zhang Yu after hearing some Love Sect declarations, will still insist on going over to Zhang Yu’s side."

"And some Soul Cultivator who can’t find a job and are desperate are likely to be drawn over too."

This means that although the Soul Cultivators Zhang Yu recruits each day are not many, little by little, over time..."

Xiao Yunhe waved his hand and said, "Don’t worry, they won’t last long."

"The decision from above... should be coming soon."

"Hmph, involving a dispute of the Dao, how could it be swayed by the mere will of a group of Soul Cultivators?"

"Zhang Yu is, after all, from the Lower Realm, his vision and understanding of the Dao Dispute... are too superficial.

...

Zhang Yu could see that although public pressure was mounting and the sealing from the Ancient Alliance continued, thanks to several recent waves of publicity and the attractiveness of features like work memory and first-day mode supported by the Law Realm, along with the temptation of giving away one year of basic service for free and one month for new user invites, the number of new registrants at the joint venture company was still steadily increasing.

"And it just so happens that it’s the end of the year when a large number of Soul Cultivator positions within the Wanfa Sect are gradually being replaced, allowing us to fill those vacancies with Soul Cultivators."

Although the joint venture company has already signed strategic cooperation agreements with the Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Clan and many companies and departments within the Wanfa Sect, the replacement of Soul Cultivators across regions has to come step by step; it’s impossible to replace all existing Soul Cultivators at once.

But this suits Zhang Yu just fine, as the joint venture company has only just begun formal operations, and the number of Soul Cultivators they can employ is still limited.

"The number of positions and the number of Soul Cultivators are growing in tandem, allowing us to gradually nibble away at the market."

In a blink of an eye, a month had already passed since the opening, and Zhang Yu glanced over the latest statistics on registered users and the company’s business volume, estimating that the joint venture company’s market share had surpassed 2%.

The data may not look impressive, but it marks a qualitative change from zero to existence, signifying the Wanfa Sect has officially established a foothold in the Soul Cultivator industry within the Old Graveyard.

Fu Ji said, "Remember, when writing the report, don’t just say it’s a mere 2% breakthrough. From an original level of less than 1%... I see the data was around 0.3%, an almost nonexistent state, and grew to 2% today, achieving a full 6.7-fold market growth!"

But as Zhang Yu examined the statistics on Soul Cultivator support rates, it had already reached 45%.

This high support rate coupled with a low market share disparity, apart from being due to the joint venture company’s short duration since launch, also indicates a large number of Soul Cultivators desire to try working for the joint venture company but dare not come over due to the Sealing List’s presence.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "As long as the blockade imposed by the sealing cannot be breached, the vast majority of Soul Cultivators would not dare to come over, forcing us to remain reliant on recruiting Soul Cultivators from the Wanfa’s Love Sect and those in the Old Graveyard who are jobless and at the end of their rope."

"If there’s an insufficient number of Soul Cultivators, offering more positions would be pointless."

Moreover, Zhang Yu realized that it was insufficient to rely solely on the Wanfa Sect to provide Soul Cultivator positions.

After all, the Wanfa Sect is not a major user of Soul Cultivators even among the Ten Great Sects, and as a part of the Upper Three Sects, the scale of their Soul Cultivator positions doesn’t even rank in the top eight; in contrast, they have numerous High Intelligent Artifact Spirit users.

Zhang Yu knew that continuing this way, the joint venture company could at most achieve a market share between 5% and 6% in the future.

This would neither meet the Reincarnation Immortal Emperor’s requirement of 10%, to gain another Evil God,

nor fulfill the Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Emperor’s expectation of 20%, to receive the so-called significant rewards.

And this doesn’t even factor in the subsequent counterattacks from individuals like Xiao Yunhe.