Stable Improvement, Second Elder Lu, Auditing Accounts!

Since he could not fuse the cultivation techniques for the time being, Lu Qingyun turned his attention to speed-type divine abilities.

Compared to eye techniques, Lu Qingyun had invested no less into escaping for his life.

After spending another fifteen hundred Fortune Points to complete the fusion, Lu Qingyun's speed soared once more!

Moreover, with his talent bonus in comprehending space, he was confident that not even a Saint Path Expert could catch up to him!

His life-preserving means had greatly improved!

Having finished spending, Lu Qingyun directly invested the remaining few hundred Fortune Points into his cultivation realm in batches.

He then returned to the Hundred-Thousand-Layer Heavenly Stairway.

Only this time, he deliberately avoided everyone's attention.

Over the next period of time, his strength would undergo an utterly terrifying surge. To maintain the highest possible absorption efficiency, he would inevitably climb dozens of layers from time to time. That rate of improvement was simply too shocking.

To avoid any possible disturbances and cultivate in peace as much as possible, Lu Qingyun did not intend to be too high-profile.

When he returned to the Hundred-Thousand-Layer Heavenly Stairway, he was now on the ten-thousand-and-second-thousandth layer!

Time flew by, and Lu Qingyun seemed to have returned to his days of secluded cultivation.

Every day, a massive number of Fortune Points flowed into his account, and he did not save any of them.

All of them were used to raise his cultivation realm!

The only slightly troublesome part was that he had to return to Ling Jue Hall every so often.

The resources were being consumed far too quickly, and he had to replenish them constantly.

He took them with exceptional ease, but after Second Elder Lu emerged from seclusion, he stared at the ledgers for three days and three nights without blinking once.

At last, his eyes bloodshot, he turned expressionlessly toward his trembling subordinates and said in a voice brimming with extreme fury:

"What do you mean, a Thirteenth Sequence still at the Blood Moving Secret Treasury needs, every half month, resources capable of supporting a Venerable Lord-level expert's cultivation for a hundred years?"

"I know those of us in charge of resources have plenty of opportunities for profit. It is no big deal if everyone takes a little to improve their cultivation. After all, we are all members of the Lu Family. Take what you take, as long as it is not wasted. But... take a look at what you've written here!! Do you take me for a fool!?"

"Don't you even know how to fabricate accounts? Wouldn't you find the contents of this laughable even yourselves!?"

The aura of a peak Venerable Lord spread out, making the others tremble like leaves. Not a single person dared to provoke his ire at this moment.

After a long while, Second Elder Lu rubbed his brow and asked, "Tell me. Where are these resources now? Return them in time, and I will not report this to Ancestor. Otherwise... all of you will be struck from the Lu Family rolls!"

Upon hearing this, the others immediately panicked.

Being struck from the rolls of the Supreme Lu Family was even more unbearable than being killed outright!

"We've been wronged, Second Elder! We truly did not tamper with anything!"

"That's right! It was truly the Thirteenth Sequence who made the request. With the Sequence's authorization, we had no power to refuse!"

"Ever since four years ago, the resources required by the Thirteenth Sequence have been a hundred, even a thousand times those of the other Sequences! Compared to now, though, the resources he needed back then were pitifully few, so we did not pay much attention. Who could have imagined that after the Thirteenth Sequence returned from the Great Wilderness, the resources he required would increase with every request!"

"More importantly, Ancestor personally said back then that the Thirteenth Sequence was to be given however many resources he wanted. We could not defy Ancestor's will either!"

The group began crying out their grievances one after another.

As the people responsible for allocating the Lu Family's resources, they could be said to be the ones least willing to hand resources over.

Whenever a batch of resources flowed out through their hands, their hearts hurt so much they could barely breathe.

But they had no choice!

Sequences themselves were not subject to restrictions, and with Ancestor's word on top of that, who would dare stop them?

No matter how outrageous the request was, they had to fulfill it!

"Ancestor said so? So what if Ancestor said so! Does that mean Ancestor can disregard the family's development and indulge a junior in squandering the family's resources!?"

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Second Elder Lu was exceptionally stubborn, and he shouted it outright.

The people around him instantly broke out in cold sweat, each one so frightened that they did not dare utter a word.

They were not elders. They had not met Ancestor often, nor could they speak so freely.

Even if they agreed completely in their hearts, if they voiced even a word of agreement... the outcome would not be pretty.

"A Sequence who has remained at the Blood Moving Secret Treasury for all these years—what right does he have to receive such enormous support from the family!?"

"Every half month, he needs a hundred years' worth of cultivation resources for someone at my realm. Does he even know how to use them!?"

"Besides, wasn't it said that this generation's prodigies had all gone to train in the Great Wilderness? Why is he still in the family? Could it be that Ancestor does not even uphold the tradition that has endured within the clan for countless ages?"

The more Second Elder Lu spoke, the angrier he became. He was on the verge of going directly to Ancestor to demand an explanation.

Then he realized that everyone else was exchanging strange looks, seemingly not agreeing with what he had just said.

Sensing that something was wrong, he stopped and looked at them suspiciously.

"What? What did I say wrong?"

Soon, someone explained Lu Qingyun's deeds during the period of Second Elder Lu's seclusion.

Upon learning of Lu Qingyun's terrifying strength, Second Elder Lu's fury immediately died down.

Just then, a graceful, beautiful young matron walked over and knocked on the door.

"Excuse me, I'm here to collect the cultivation resources required by the Thirteenth Sequence."

The visitor was none other than Yang Mei. She looked over the faces she had long since become intimately familiar with, then at the very unfamiliar Second Elder Lu, and unconsciously lowered her voice.

She had joined the Lu Family while Second Elder Lu was in seclusion, so she did not know this Second Elder Lu, who oversaw the resources.

But seeing everyone else being scolded by him until they looked like grandchildren, she knew this old man was no ordinary figure.

Moreover, she had vaguely heard some talk concerning her own Sequence just now, and Yang Mei could not help but feel a little nervous.

Yet her Sequence's resources were nearly exhausted. If she delayed the Sequence's cultivation progress because of herself, the sin would be grave.

So she could only force herself to speak.

Who would have thought that the instant her words fell—

The unfamiliar old man before her broke into a brilliant smile. The only problem was that his wrinkles piled together, making his ugliness particularly distinctive.

"Resources for the Thirteenth Sequence? They've been ready for ages! Little Wang, hurry up and bring them out!"

"Ah... yes! I'll get them right away!"

A young man hurried off at once, running toward the storeroom.

After Second Elder Lu handed over the resources with a beaming smile, he watched Yang Mei's retreating figure, and a trace of sorrow appeared on his face.

It was a good thing for the clan to produce a monster. But when that monster was a little too monstrous, it became rather troublesome.

With Lu Qingyun's current consumption, the clan could still hold out.

But he had looked over Lu Qingyun's records of resource consumption over the years, and knew full well... this was only the beginning!

"The family's poor, and the child can eat too much. That isn't a good thing either."

Second Elder Lu let out a long sigh.

Afterward, he still went to find Ancestor.

Only his purpose had changed. He needed to ask Ancestor properly: why couldn't they make the family fortune a little bigger?!

(I'm finished. The bookstore directly cut me in half. I'm about to get slashed at the waist again and again (╥_╥). I don't understand—my completion rate at 100,000 words keeps rising, it's already at 27. Why isn't the traffic increasing? Why is it dropping instead?)

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