Chapter 1612 - 922: The Validity Period of Statutes

In the Spirit Realm of the Old Graveyard, he had once been a Level 4 Sect Staff in the Divinity Transformation Realm; now he had become a Soul Cultivator, Lu Hengzhang, working for the Wanfa Sect’s Netherworld Property Department—counted as one of Zhang Yu’s grassroots employees.

And after the pay raise incident, his attitude toward Zhang Yu had greatly improved; he even, like many Soul Cultivators, expressed support for Zhang Yu in several activities.

At this very moment, the "Effective Period of Laws" event was announced and immediately spread widely among the Soul Cultivator groups.

Lu Hengzhang, upon hearing the news, was utterly shocked: "Lord Zhang has established a Third Generation Law Chain?"

One Soul Cultivator said, "This isn’t some ordinary Third Generation Law Chain, it’s the King of Law Chains—the Law Chain that manages all other Law Chains!"

"From now on in our Wanfa Sect, I’m afraid every Law Chain that wants to keep running will have to look at Lord Zhang’s mood."

"It officially starts trial implementation on January 1st next year. Who knows how many Law Chains will be frozen after that."

"I think paid overtime should be the very first to be frozen! Why the hell does overtime on so many posts have to be paid? Can’t we be allowed, on all posts, to work overtime whenever we want, as long as we want?"

Listening to the Soul Cultivators’ discussion, Lu Hengzhang’s mind was in a tangle: "Zhang Yu... actually managed to reach this step?"

At this moment, memories rose again in his mind, recalling that scene during the Lower Realm Examination Sect interview, when he raised a question to Zhang Yu.

Back then, Lu Hengzhang would never have imagined that this Lower Realm examinee who passed the Examination Sect would stir up storms inside the sect and ultimately reach the situation before his eyes.

And as a former supporter of the Innate Dao, Lu Hengzhang turned to look at Di Xuan’s Law Chain announcement.

This Di Xuan—Lu Hengzhang had already known of his existence when he was still a Level 4 Sect Staff, knowing that the other was a senior Refining Void Cultivator under the Innate Dao, a true heaven’s favored child, a pure-blood Upper Realm Person.

You could say that even when Lu Hengzhang was alive, Di Xuan was an existence completely out of his reach.

"If Di Xuan is the Upper Realm Person among Upper Realm People, then I’m the Lower Realm Person among Upper Realm People."

And seeing the potential evaluation levels of those Law Chains listed in the announcement, Lu Hengzhang was even more shocked.

"Now this Di Xuan’s Law Chain potential evaluation is only Fourth Class, totally trampled under Zhang Yu’s Special Class Law Chain."

Lu Hengzhang thought to himself, "It’s not just Zhang Yu—Tai Yue Bai actually ranks as First Class too. This Reform Faction is really unfathomable."

Just then, a Soul Cultivator shouted, "Feng Tingting’s streaming again!"

Hearing this, Lu Hengzhang hurriedly squatted into Feng Tingting’s live room.

Because from Feng Tingting’s live room, he could occasionally hear some secret news about Zhang Yu, Lu Hengzhang had unknowingly started following her.

Besides Feng Tingting, there was another streamer called Ye Xingli who also occasionally had some news about Zhang Yu, but that live room had too many big spenders; Lu Hengzhang still preferred watching Feng Tingting.

Right now he heard Feng Tingting in the live room saying, "The current public-opinion attacks against Lord Zhang are entirely the outrageous behavior of the sect’s hardliners! These entrenched forces are colluding with forces outside the sect, all to slow down our Wanfa Sect’s Law Chain reform."

"Look at this Kuang Zhiquan, he even has the same surname as Kuang Tianqing from the Sky Demon Sect—can you tell me they’re not connected? And that Lie Jinghong, don’t be fooled by him being a representative sent by the Dharma Realm Daoist, he has a study-abroad background in the Immortal Soldier Mansion. And this Di Xuan is also problematic..."

Feng Tingting summed up, "These hardliners, anti-reformers, are colluding with outside sect forces—who knows how many benefits they’ve taken. Behind them are the instructions of Outer Sect Immortal Emperors. They’re here to sabotage our Wanfa Sect’s grand revitalization plan, to obstruct the grand blueprint of the Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Emperor..."

The next moment, the live room was abruptly banned, and the Soul Cultivators in the bullet screen were cursing in unison.

"It must’ve been reported by those hardliners."

"That bunch just wants to keep people from free overtime for their entire lives, to drag Wanfa Sect down."

"If I let us work free overtime, how can the Immortal Emperor keep ranking top three in yearly growth rates? How is he supposed to stay ahead of all the other sects?"

"Support Zhang Yu! Support Effective Period of Laws."

Watching the live content, Lu Hengzhang secretly nodded: "Though some parts are too much grasping at shadows, the general idea still makes sense."

...

"In the future, every Law Chain will have two dads. One is the biological dad—biological dad sees it every day, fully supporting the Law Chain."

"The other dad only shows up once every fifty years, but when the biological dad sees him, he practically wants to kneel."

Deep in the Spirit Realm, Ying Aikun was reading all kinds of reports about the Third Generation Law Chain.

Ever since becoming a Soul Cultivator and being kept under watch by the True Gods deep in the Spirit Realm, Ying Aikun could only rely on Spirit Realm information to understand changes in the outside world.

When he saw Zhang Yu’s Third Generation Law Chain, Ying Aikun was also scared out of his wits.

"Zhang Yu? He established an Effective Period of Laws? They’re going to let him manage the Law Chains?"

"How could it be Zhang Yu? How could it possibly be that Lower Realm-born lower animal?"

But no matter how shocked, how incredulous Ying Aikun was, he had no choice but to admit... Zhang Yu, whether in cultivation realm, in rank, or in the amount of power carried by his Law Chains, had completely surpassed the former him.

Immediately he began pondering the impact that "Effective Period of Laws" would bring.

"Next... could it be that they’re going to continue cleaning up the remaining influence of my Taizhen Immortal Clan?"

Ying Aikun knew that ever since the Taizhen Clan was liquidated, there were still many Cultivators related to Law Chains who had been temporarily kept on, solely to maintain the sect’s stable order.

But if this Effective Period of Laws is in place...

"On January 1st next year, how many Law Chains tied to the interests of the Taizhen Immortal Clan will be frozen?"