Although Hong Shanlang was only a Divine Transformation cultivator, he was a frontline employee responsible for scheduling and calibrating lightning tribulations, and the leader of the Lightning Tribulation Monitoring Group.
The only reason his mere Divine Transformation cultivation allowed him to participate in managing lightning tribulations was that the Heaven Sword Sect's entire tribulation system had become so mature that even his cultivation was enough to control it.
In fact, Hong Shanlang felt that even his Divine Transformation Realm cultivation was overkill.
"With the tribulation system's idiot-proof controls these days, even an outsourced Golden Core cultivator could probably handle all the work, right?" The reason so many cultivators competed for this position, driving the competition to the point where only a Divine Transformation cultivator like Hong Shanlang could finally secure it, was the enormous profit involved.
After spending ten years at a tribulation post, once you transferred out... it was easy to get into a securities sect enterprise. Once you were put in charge of tribulation securities there, your income could jump tenfold, or even several dozenfold.
But Hong Shanlang also knew that this position came with risks.
His predecessor, for instance, had been taken away on suspicion of insider trading, while the predecessor before that had been taken away on suspicion of illegally siphoning off lightning tribulations...
"Once I put on this employee badge, I was no longer an ordinary sect affairs officer. I became someone capable of affecting countless tribulation crossing cultivators, the entire tribulation bond market, and the fortunes and lives of countless rogue cultivators..."
"But holding this position also means constantly tempering my Dao heart, lest greed cloud my mind and, under the influence of heart aspiring to immortality, I break the laws and regulations and ultimately lose every scrap of my cultivation."
This time, Hong