Chapter 1441 - 869:

Just as he was thinking about how to break the deadlock, Xiao Yunhe suddenly realized that Bu Yingshu had pulled him into the group, and besides the two of them, Zhang Yu was also present in the group.

Bu Yingshu: You guys talk, I’ll just watch.

Xiao Yunhe felt a stir in his heart: "Letting Zhang Yu take the lead for her? Hmph, if it succeeds, the credit goes to Bu Yingshu, if something goes wrong, then it’s Zhang Yu acting independently, taking responsibility for the consequences. Truly a non-stick pan."

Zhang Yu: Chairman Xiao, if you want to talk, please lift the ban first.

Xiao Yunhe: No problem, the Ancient Alliance’s ban can be lifted today, this is our sincerity.

Xiao Yunhe understood very well that the combined ban of numerous enterprises in the Old Graveyard had reached a point where it was no longer effective against Zhang Yu and his group; rather, it encouraged Soul Cultivators to remain under Zhang Yu’s banner. It was no longer a ban, but a suicide order.

Therefore, Xiao Yunhe was already planning to stop the ban, and naturally had no objections to Zhang Yu’s proposal.

Zhang Yu continued: Then I’ll say the second condition, White Bone Sect, Netherworld Palace, and the other five major sects, lift the sanctions against us and allow our Soul Cultivators to work.

Xiao Yunhe: That’s not something I can handle.

Zhang Yu: Then report it upwards, until the sanctions are lifted, we will continue the salary increase every day. I’ll keep raising them until all your Soul Cultivation Companies go bankrupt, until you kneel and beg me to stop.

Xiao Yunhe: Zhang Yu, don’t make alarming remarks here, I don’t believe you can really increase indefinitely, you can’t scare us.

Xiao Yunhe: Besides, the Immortal Dao Technology barriers accumulated by us over years in the Soul Cultivation industry are not so easy to break, many positions can only be completed by our Soul Cultivators!

While the two negotiated, the battle in the Soul Cultivation industry continued.

Both Zhang Yu and Xiao Yunhe understood that negotiations couldn’t yield results in a short time, a mix of fighting and talking, talking while fighting was the immediate reality.

At the same time, to reduce the loss of their Soul Cultivators, Xiao Yunhe not only lifted the ban, but also expressed that they were studying the possibility of salary increases, causing many Soul Cultivators who were preparing to switch jobs to hold back temporarily.

Especially many Soul Cultivators still under contract, who were worried about breach penalties, hearing Xiao Yunhe’s side was likely to increase salaries too, eagerly awaited.

In addition, although the Old Graveyard’s public opinion offensive failed, outside of the Small Realm, Xiao Yunhe and others hardly needed any effort, the public opinion storm caused by infinite salary increase authority was overwhelmingly disadvantageous for Zhang Yu.

Various sects almost all criticized Zhang Yu’s wave of salary increases.

"The privilege operation leads to a thousand stocks plummeting? When will the barbaric salary increase stop?"

This is Upper Cultivators from White Bone Sect and Netherworld Sect discussing the industry turmoil caused by the salary increase, denouncing the behavior.

"Standardized salary adjustment is the sect’s bottom line."

This is Vajra and Immortal Soldiers’ Cultivators criticizing the infinite salary increase authority itself.

Even within Wanfa Sect, countless cultivators have had grievances over this round of salary increases.

Of course, countless Soul Cultivators within the Old Graveyard are trying in their own ways to speak well of Zhang Yu.

"Zhang Yu came, Soul Cultivators got a salary increase! Salary King came, salary suppression is gone!"

"Minister Zhang truly treats Soul Cultivators as brothers!"

"Minister Zhang is the Immortal Emperor’s incarnation! The salary increase is the Immortal Emperor’s intention!"

But clearly, these Soul Cultivators’ words hardly gained advantage in the public opinion arenas outside the Small Realm, among the major sects, and the more they spread news of salary increases, the more they incited dislike from many Sect Affairs Officers against Zhang Yu.

Meanwhile, various accusations and reports against Zhang Yu flooded the Wanfa Sect like snowflakes.

And the Vice Hall Master of Heaven Observation Hall, Dugu Ming, at the moment had already descended into the Old Graveyard, to supervise Zhang Yu’s salary increase situation.

Dugu Ming knew that although the Immortal Emperor had granted Zhang Yu infinite salary increase authority, it didn’t mean Zhang Yu would be unregulated, could really act without consequences.

"Even infinite salary increase authority must be under the Immortal Emperor’s supervision."

Dugu Ming understood that what he discovered in the Old Graveyard could become evidence used to settle accounts with Zhang Yu in the future.

"Zhang Yu... after all, he climbed up from Kunxu layer by layer, struggled for years, suddenly holding the power of salary increase, surely he must have gained quite some benefits for himself."

As the Vice Hall Master of Heaven Observation Hall, Dugu Ming was well aware of the immense attraction infinite salary increase authority could generate under Heart towards Immortal Dao.

Especially Zhang Yu, who ascended from such a place, his obsession with climbing the Immortal Dao is self-explanatory.

"Only those with steady salaries can ascend the Immortal Dao Peak."

"Zhang Yu, let’s see what your thirty years of salary suppression has exploded into."