Chapter 250: Come Out, My Backup Potential! Help Me Achieve Foundation Establishment!
President Wang's words were full of kindness, yet Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen felt a thread of bone-piercing chill wash over them.
This guy... Zhang Yu thought. From beginning to end, he never intended to let us spend this money however we wanted.
Even if we scraped together enough to buy a Heavenly Spiritual Root months in advance, we would still have to pass his inspection.
So... from nine months ago, from the moment he transferred the money to us, we had to get his consent before we could achieve Foundation Establishment under his nose.
This guy had been playing us all along.
No wonder, no wonder he didn't ask an Orthodox God to witness the contract when he signed it... He never intended to fully honor the contract.
I thought that gave us more freedom, but in truth, it placed the fewest restraints on him.
Zhang Yu understood in an instant. For the wealthy clans of Songyang City, having an Orthodox God witness a contract was to ensure that it would be enforced.
But for someone in Wang Yin's position, his wealth and influence alone could ensure a contract's enforcement on the First Layer. Having an Orthodox God witness it would instead only bind him.
And things like monitoring other people's accounts and freezing their funds definitely involved illegal operations. Yet Wang Yin clearly had an Orthodox God assisting him behind the scenes, allowing him to do such things.
At that moment, Zhang Yu felt as if all the cultivation resources he had accumulated over the past nine months to charge toward Heavenly Spiritual Root Foundation Establishment had been tightly gripped in Wang Yin's hand.
Suppressing the fury in his heart, Zhang Yu explained, "A-Zhen wanted me