Chapter 449: President Fu

After careful consideration, Zhang Yu still decided to set up a small company.

He sighed, "This isn't just for myself, but also to shoulder more Kunxu responsibilities."

"It'll make it easier for me to take care of my hometown folks in the future, give more poor people a chance to earn money, and lead everyone to prosperity together..."

With a snort of laughter... Fuji looked at Zhang Yu, who had stopped speaking, and barely suppressed her grin as she said, "I think what you said was really good, and I totally understand your words. It's just that in the future, when it's just the two of us, you don't need to say that kind of thing. Just save it for when you're giving speeches to your employees."

Zhang Yu shook his head, thinking to himself, how could this pure-blooded Kunxu evil god possibly understand my magnanimity?

Next, Zhang Yu thought about it—he had no experience in running a company, so he consulted Director Gao.

Director Gao: Hmm, you really could start a small company.

Director Gao: Here's what I'll do—I'll have Tuli Shan help you go through the process.

So soon, Tuli Shan got in touch with Zhang Yu, and with his help, Zhang Yu successfully registered the company the next day.

Then Tuli Shan sent him a beginner's guide to starting a company and also shared some experience with him.

For example, how to keep wages low, how to recruit interns, how to get students to work for free, how to secure school projects...

When Tuli Shan asked if Zhang Yu needed him to introduce some financial or accounting resources, Zhang Yu said, "I heard Ying Xin say she's studied this area, so I plan to let her try first."

Tuli Shan: "You're pretty good to your classmates. That girl Ying Xin was already looking to get out of purely manual labor work, so now she's seizing this opportunity you've given her."

Zhang Yu sighed inwardly: "The main reason is really... Ying Xin is cheap enough."

After all, Ying Xin was just a beginner in this field; without Zhang Yu's offer, she basically couldn't find a related job.

And Zhang Yu felt that the scale of the company he had started didn't require someone too capable in this area—Ying Xin should be enough.

What's more...

"Fuji, once the company is running, with Ying Xin as our accounting manager, you'll be the finance director, specifically responsible for managing and supervising Ying Xin."

Hearing Zhang Yu's words, Fuji exclaimed, "Ah? I have to work too?"

"What's with that 'ah'?" Zhang Yu said. "You've been freeloading at my place, lying around doing nothing for how many years? I've already pushed through from the first year of high school to my junior year of college, from Songyang High School into the Top Ten. And you?"

"You've only advanced to a level 2 evil god, and only with my help at that."

Fuji said somewhat weakly, "Wouldn't it be inconvenient for me to work?"

Zhang Yu said, "It's a new company; we don't need an office. Everything will be streamlined... we'll all work remotely."

"Just use my Dharma Remnant to contact Ying Xin, use my name to communicate with her, manage and supervise her work—isn't that fine?"

Zhang Yu spoke confidently, "You've bragged so much about your grand fraud business in Kunxu, so you must be very familiar with finance, accounting, law, taxation, and all that, right?"

Fuji said, "And the salary..."

Zhang Yu: "You don't eat or drink, you've been living with me for so long, and I've never charged you rent, and you still ask me for a salary?"

"And what's the company's situation now? Everything is waiting to be built, it's the most difficult startup phase, and you still have the nerve to ask for a salary?"

"What's more... if I can't make big money and get into a sect, I'll take you with me when I die. Doing everything you can to help me get into a sect is the most important thing for you right now."

"You're at least an original shareholder of the company. Shareholders don't just sit around, right, President Fu?"

Fuji rolled her eyes inwardly and said, "Fine, fine, I'll do it."

Hearing Fuji's agreement, Zhang Yu recalled the process of recruiting Ying Xin and using Fuji, musing that he was gradually starting to think like a boss.

"I feel like after starting the company, my mindset has changed."

"Sigh, is it because I'm shouldering more responsibility that I've become more mature?"

On the other side, Fuji thought to herself, "This Zhang Yu... I only taught him yesterday how to start a company and exploit employees, and the very next day he's already exploiting me?"

"He freely uses verbal pressure and mental pressure too. This kid... looks like he really absorbed a lot of what I taught him before."

"Oh well."

Fuji thought, "How can you get stronger in Kunxu without knowing how to start a company?"

"Improve your strength, use your own power to tackle the key parts, hire underlings for the grunt work, freeing up more of your power for the critical tasks."

"Then keep expanding the company, earn more money, improve your strength further, hire more minions to boost productivity, and simultaneously solve problems in sales, finance, taxation, legal power, human resources, and so on, squeezing out more profits..."

"Hehe, grow stronger, Zhang Yu."

"The stronger you become, the higher the returns on my long-term investment in you."

In the days that followed, besides studying and training, Zhang Yu also began to take on projects in the company's name, and days passed one after another.

……

On the simulated battlefield.

Su Yanyang, working together with Shi Huaiyu, stirred up a torrent of sand and mud, sweeping toward the colonel-level students not far away.

Zhang Yu's figure was absent from this match.

Su Yanyang and the other team members had no objection to this.

After all, they all understood that opponents at the colonel level were no longer worth Zhang Yu's time—he needed to focus on cultivating the Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power to improve his chances of victory in future competitions.

Though he had clashed with Zhang Yu in the past, Su Yanyang now hoped that Zhang Yu would make significant progress in the Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power, leading them to consecutive victories in the upcoming matches.

"If we can hold on until Mo Shangjin returns, maybe even aiming for first place isn't impossible."

Thinking this, Su Yanyang couldn't help but look forward to Zhang Yu's improvement.

At the end of the match, as the rolling mudslide stopped and the dust settled, the duel came to a complete close. On the way out of the arena, Mo Shangjin's projection descended and said, "You all coordinated well—the training wasn't in vain."

Shi Huaiyu asked, "Has the next opponent been announced?"

Mo Shangjin sighed, "Yes."

"Vajra University."

Xiao Yunji exclaimed in surprise, "They were eliminated?"

Mo Shangjin nodded. "Eliminated by Heavenly Sword University. They've fallen into the losers' bracket, and our next match is against them."

Xiao Yunji asked with concern, "What's Zhang Yu's situation now?"

Mo Shangjin shook his head. "I'm not too sure either."

Everyone grew worried upon hearing this—if Zhang Yu's Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power hadn't reached a certain level before the next match, they might lose to Vajra University again and be eliminated early from this inter-school civil engineering league.

Walking out of the arena, hearing the clamor outside, Su Yanyang frowned. "What's that noise?"

Xiao Yunji said casually, "Seems like this university gave its students a day off this month, and they're protesting, suspecting that some school leaders are followers of the Two-Day Weekend Cult."

Su Yanyang curled his lip. "They've reached the colonel level, and they're still taking days off? They're really regressing—learning ancient ways instead of modern ones. If it were me, I'd protest too."

A moment later, looking at the protesting students on the street, Su Yanyang couldn't help thinking, "Hardly any Foundation Establishment."

"What's the point of these colonel-level students studying and training so hard? In the end, they'll just take a few more steps on the path of immortality. Whether they die early or late, I don't see much difference."

"When you think about it, a single day off doesn't make much difference to them either."

……

At a construction site in a canyon region.

With a shift in Zhang Yu's palm seal, he executed the Prison Star Cage from the Seven Star Prison Seal.

Under the sweeping gravitational pull of earthly fiends, transparent force fields emerged in the canyon before him, locking onto the scaffolding structures of the bridge, while soul-cultivator-controlled artifacts began welding and reinforcing.

This construction site was the first major project Zhang Yu took on after starting his company, with a total project fee of nearly sixty spiritual coins.

Every time he thought of the income he would receive, Zhang Yu couldn't help but feel his heart race, marveling that civil engineering was truly a great major.

So these days, he had been busy at the construction site, and this process was not only work but also a form of cultivation.

Each use of the Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power also drove the Kun Yuan Art, rapidly improving it—in no time, the Kun Yuan Art had reached level 17.

Besides that, Zhang Yu had become more proficient in applying the Seven Star Prison Seal, as these were merely techniques and experiences in using the Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power. With his high-level Seven Civil Engineering Arts boost, understanding and learning them was naturally very fast.

However, while his strength improved rapidly, his savings hardly increased.

Because Zhang Yu no longer took on projects through Director Gao's company; no one directly paid him a salary anymore.

According to the normal project process, his company had only received a small advance payment so far, and he still needed to front the wages of his subordinates, waiting for each project payment to be settled before he could see any income.

"I'll just have to tough it out for now."

Zhang Yu thought to himself: "It's a good thing I have nearly 70 spirit coins saved up right now—I can manage for a while in this area."

"Once the first batch of project payments starts settling, my income will start growing quickly."

"After all, running a company and taking on projects pays way more than my previous odd jobs."

Just then, Zhang Yu suddenly received a message.

Magnetic Pole True Lord: "After mastering the Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power, why haven't you contacted me even once?"

Zhang Yu: "True Lord, you handle a myriad of affairs every day. I figured my trivial matters weren't worth disturbing you."

Magnetic Pole True Lord: "I have indeed been quite busy recently."

Magnetic Pole True Lord: "But I still have time to meet you once."

Magnetic Pole True Lord: "Come to the Refining Department tonight. I'll check you over and see how the Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power is working."

Zhang Yu: "I've been busy with the construction site these past few days."

Magnetic Pole True Lord: "I was going to talk to you about your department transfer."

Magnetic Pole True Lord: "Since you don't have time, we'll do it some other time."

Zhang Yu: "No worries—this project is actually for Wanfa University itself. The site is very close to the university town. It only takes me about ten minutes to fly over, so it's easy to come."

…

That night.

Ye Xingli walked out of the Refining Department's lab and paused slightly when she saw a figure not far ahead.

"Zhang Yu? What is he doing here?"

"Could it be…"

Thinking for a moment, Ye Xingli followed him. Watching Zhang Yu walk toward that familiar office, she thought to herself, "Just as I suspected."

"In that direction, there's only the teacher's office. So Zhang Yu really is here to see the teacher?"

"Why isn't he working overtime at this hour? What does he want with the teacher?"

Ye Xingli thought: "Could it be… private tutoring?"

"The teacher thinks so highly of him… After Zhang Yu's junior year… is he really going to transfer to the Refining Department?"