Chapter 1693 - 946: Zhang Yu, Just How Far Can Your Eyes See

"Under the guise of free overtime, everyone has achieved the freedom to work extra hours, yet the company would naturally squeeze employees’ time to the brink."

"After all, Lower Cultivators are the most cunning. If a company wants to deal with Lower Cultivators, it must be even more cunning and malicious than them to drive the company’s development, rather than being dragged down."

"However, the Lower Cultivators will certainly not endure it silently; they will resist."

Snake Desire Venerable knows that faced with the continuously increasing overtime hours and the looming crisis of 24-hour workdays, Lower Cultivators would never sit idle and await their doom.

"These Lower Cultivators are adept at feigning sympathy, outwardly proclaiming their dedication to the Immortal Emperor, the sect, the enterprise, the company, and presenting themselves as devout on the surface. But when push comes to shove... once their determination of ’Heart towards Immortal Dao’ is violated, they would dare to risk money and life even against the Immortal Emperor."

"What I need to do next is leverage their resistance."

Snake Desire Venerable understands that under normal circumstances, in a new Law Chain environment, companies and employees often engage in rounds of strategic games to adapt and secure their interests.

"Just like when ’4-hour workdays’ and ’paid overtime’ were introduced before, change inevitably brings pain. After rounds of strategic games, companies and employees unable to adapt are eliminated, forming new work hours and compensation structures across industries, achieving a new dynamic balance."

"During this process, whether the fierce confrontation shakes the heavens and earth or unfolds quietly, how much upheaval and loss it ultimately invokes depends on the hosting Upper Cultivator... how their cultivation and strategies stand."

Snake Desire Venerable knows in his heart that the host this time is Zhang Yu, testing Zhang Yu’s cultivation and strategies.

"What I need to do is to intensify the conflict and contention between the two sides."

He profoundly understands that the legal reform propelled by the Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Emperor is inevitable.

However, in the process of implementation, if Zhang Yu cannot maintain control... sparking intense conflict and subsequently industry upheaval, shaking the sect, affecting the growth of cultivation for Immortals and Immortal Emperors, even impacting the sects’ Dao struggles, then Zhang Yu would be replaced, and the plan would be temporarily postponed.

This is precisely Snake Desire Venerable’s objective.

And presently, within the Wanfa Sect, especially the many Small Realms on the 16th level of Kunxu, with the scope of Law Freeze expanding continuously, increasingly more people either face longer work hours or unemployment, leading to growing dissatisfaction with Zhang Yu and the Law Freeze.

"Originally thought we wouldn’t need to pay for overtime anymore, but now having to work extra hours for free every day keeps me from taking any side jobs or even from cultivating; it was better when we paid for overtime."

"Yeah, at least with overtime fees, we weren’t paying for a 24-hour day and still had time to work a side job and earn money..."

"In the past, if I was forced to pay for more than 3 hours of overtime, I wouldn’t comply; who the hell works at a loss? Now working 24 hours? Blocking my Immortal Road, I’d rather not do it at all (you remove one, I’ll post ten)."

"The threat of 24-hour workdays is imminent, unemployment waves spilling over from various sectors are already lurking..."

"Zhang Yu has abused his power, using his Lower Realm Soul Cultivators to pose as Upper Realm Soul Cultivators, accelerating the spread of unemployment shortages..."

"The shortage has reached us; so many unemployed people come here seeking jobs, it’s becoming more competitive... What exactly is Zhang Chuxu doing!"

Snake Desire Venerable can see that similar remarks are emerging endlessly in the Spirit Realm and Law Realm.

Additionally, Snake Desire Venerable has sensed many more substantial acts of resistance.

Numerous corporate employees and Cultivators in the Spirit Realm have set up signature posts, utilizing Spirit Realm technology to achieve Will Resonance, strengthening their opposition akin to layers of thought barriers, striving to block the spread of Zhang Yu’s True Domain of Laws.

Employees unable to bear 24-hour workdays have chosen to work inefficiently, since they have to work 24 hours anyway, using ’Dual Cultivation Duty’ as a reason, conducting paid dual cultivation during work to combat laws with laws, working with low efficiency.

Some Cultivators, indifferent to work efficiency, employ the Divine Splitting Technique at their posts, letting avatars idle while fishing at work and moonlighting to earn money.

"Below, there’s slacking, loafing, secret side jobs. Above, there’s monitoring, performance evaluation, disconnecting the Spirit Realm..."

Snake Desire Venerable sneers as he says, "Employees resist, and the company suppresses. If this path of escalation in confrontation continues without intervention, eventually, someone... will give up work."

"After all, if the company provides insufficient benefits and employees see no chance of ascending the Immortal Path through work, they naturally won’t work."

"Just like when paid overtime was first introduced, some companies forced employees to pay for 10-hour or even 20-hour overtime, leaving people paying for work each day and taking loans to work, resulting in no one working at their company."

"And if the struggle escalates further, then it’s... a strike."

Upon hearing Snake Desire Venerable’s words, Zhu Yan along the side conjures up the memory of an earth-shattering calamity that once befell the Wanfa Sect, which causes his projection to pause slightly.

"Strike... it’s too dangerous. Back then, Yingxin Heaven was known as the first Immortal under the Emperor. Later, he led billions of Lower Cultivators to set up the ’Array of All Industries Stopping,’ connecting their Mana, Immortal Coin, and Will, collectively bearing the minimum consumption, minimum expense, causing the sect inside and out to halt all industries, nearly causing a standstill in most of Kunxu..."

Seemingly reminiscing that earth-shattering calamity, Zhu Yan takes a deep breath and says, "Under this calamity, it shook the ten sects, blocked sect’s policies, indeed harming Kunxu, harming the Emperor, harming the sect, harming the Immortal, listed as the most vicious among the ten evils of Kunxu."