You dare to cultivate without money?!

Chapter 1252 - 815: Immortal Path Connections, All for Profit, Work Injury Curse (10/10)_3

The young boy’s voice said, "Junior Sister, you’ve changed too."

"Changed to the point where you no longer believe what Senior Brother says, nor that there are people like him."

...

Within the Maze Realm.

Zhang Yu looked at the mountain of corpses at the recycling station before him, thinking to himself, "If this is a trial arranged by Yingxin Heaven, and if there are high-level officials close to Yingxin Heaven who can witness the process of this trial..."

"Then what they want to see... is definitely not an action in line with conventional principles, but one that aligns with the ideals of Yingxin Heaven."

Zhang Yu wandered among the mountain of corpses, considering, "To find the ancestral remains here, the best method is to use the Immortal Descendant."

He knew that as soon as the ancestral remains were placed in the Immortal Cave Heaven, they would immediately be liberated and acquire the Cave Heaven Power contained within.

"As long as the corpses here are collected en masse into the Immortal Cave Heaven... naturally, the hidden ancestral remains can be found."

"But after collecting them into the Cave Heaven, how should they be handled?"

At the next moment, the voice of the Kao Sect Avatar echoed in Zhang Yu’s mind, "Hmph, isn’t this place originally a recycling station? What more handling is needed? Keep the valuable ones, sell them outside, and throw the worthless ones here."

Zhan Xian, upon hearing this, disagreed, stating, "To treat people as people, they should be returned to the original state of this graveyard, taken and buried one by one, instead of treating the corpses as mere resources."

"Otherwise, the boundary between people and things will gradually blur, ultimately falling completely into the Demon Path."

...

Kunxu, unidentified high-level area.

A female voice said, "According to Demon Path logic, sell what you can, discard what you can’t."

The young boy’s voice said, "If it’s just simple burial, it’s nothing more than old-fashioned thinking. Even if you uphold the principles of the Righteous Path in the short term, in the long run, you won’t be able to sustain through the losses."

"Senior Brother wouldn’t choose such a person."

"For the ideals of the Righteous Path to continue evolving in today’s Kunxu, it must adapt to change, not cling to outdated ways..."

...

Listening to Zhan Xian’s argument, the Kao Sect Avatar sneered, "How much time would it take to bury all these corpses one by one?"

"You want to treat people as people? Sure, people should work, should be utilized to their fullest, should be exploited until death."

"If you treat these corpses as people, then they should continue to be used and processed into various products."

"That’s what it means to treat people as people, blending the Righteous and Demon Paths, which is the proper use of the Demon Path."

Zhan Xian responded immediately in objection, "Nonsense, if you do this, what makes us different from the Demon Path?"

The Kao Sect Avatar laughed, "Is there really any difference? Didn’t you use those Corpse Items happily? But when it comes to corpses, they suddenly need to be buried? Foolish!"

Zhan Xian said, "How can this be generalized? This is where the boundary lies between righteous and demon!"

Listening to the argument between the Kao Sect Avatar and Zhan Xian, Zhang Yu also started to furrow his brows.

"The Kao Sect Avatar’s approach may not align with Yingxin Heaven’s ideals."

"However... if we follow Zhan Xian’s suggestion and simply bury the corpses... though this sounds righteous, this pure ancient Righteous Path style is not feasible in today’s Kunxu."

"What Yingxin Heaven wants to do is change Kunxu; an impractical method like this... should not be his choice."

Looking at the old sign of the landfill, Zhang Yu suddenly had a realization.

"Building this place into a graveyard seems to be the idea of a righteous person. But did the builder not know that this method might not be sustainable?"

"Or did the builder have their own answer?"

Zhang Yu’s figure flickered as he inspected the entire landfill, gradually forming a conclusion in his mind.

"This graveyard is not just a graveyard, but through burying corpses and constructing a Monument Forest, it creates an Artificial Spiritual Vein."

"It’s both a burial and a benefit."

Zhang Yu sighed inwardly, "But this Spirit Vein counts as a public facility, and the surging Spiritual Mechanism covers almost the entire Maze Realm."

Fu Ji analyzed, "Then it definitely won’t work. Doing this for the whole area as a public benefit? It would be more cost-effective to recycle the corpses and sell them."

Zhan Xian said, "That’s precisely why this graveyard ended up as it is now."

As they spoke, Zhang Yu had already activated "Kunlun in the Palm," collected masses of corpses into the Cave Heaven, and buried them beneath the Monument Forest at the graveyard’s depths, gradually initiating the Artificial Spirit Vein.

Feeling the signs of revival within the Artificial Spirit Vein, Zhang Yu thought inwardly, "Doing righteous deeds while creating benefits like the Demon Path, this might be the way for the Righteous Path to re-emerge in the new era."

"But in this process, by constructing the Artificial Spirit Vein, I increased the area’s overall benefits, probably earning less than if I were recycling corpses."

Zhang Yu thought of the lower realm reforms initiated by Yingxin Heaven, which also brought significant benefits to the Lower Realm Cultivators, yet damaged his own interests.

"Brother Dao, is this what you wanted to tell me?"

"Is this also why you initiated the lower realm reforms?"

At that moment, as the Artificial Spirit Vein gradually revived, Zhang Yu noticed frenzied Corpse Items converging towards the graveyard, the source of this Artificial Spirit Vein...

Zhang Yu struck out from a distance, collecting one Corpse Item into the Immortal Cave Heaven.

But the next moment, more frenzied Corpse Items swarmed towards him, forcing Zhang Yu to move rapidly and collect them one by one into the Immortal Cave Heaven.

Seeing this, the Kao Sect Avatar sneered, "Hmph, you’re not going to bury these frenzied Corpse Items?"