This is what an immortal should be like

Chapter 107: Forging Immortal Foundation in Modern Times
Before the board meeting, Liu Hongyu finally met with seven directors at their homes, a few more than expected.

But apart from the initial situation where Liu Hongyu acknowledged the identity of a fairy cultivator in front of the Qi family because of their special status, he only tried to win over the other six directors in a normal way.

However, even if they just met Liu Hongyu privately in the Haizhongsen Villa park, the feeling that he was essentially superior to ordinary people was still very obvious. This was a mysterious feeling that was difficult to describe in words, and it was also deeply rooted in the hearts of several directors.

After all, there have been various speculations about who was able to come and see Liu Hongyu in advance during this period of time in the past six months.

If Liu Hongyu had not made that impressive show of force, then with the death of Liu Shihao, his son Liu Hongyu would have been far away from the past. He would definitely still be a rich man, but he would not be able to touch the core of the Liu Group.

But after that scene, everything that happened before became suspicious, especially Liu Hongyu's many years of mental illness.

Was he really mentally ill at the time?
I'm afraid not! Or perhaps some senior executives at the board level already have a more definite inclination in their minds.

Then the information about some of the so-called "symptoms" at the time becomes even more intriguing.

In any case, Liu Hongyu has never admitted anything in front of others, and no one else can do it to the same extent as the Qi family, but the results on the surface are similar.

That board meeting was certainly important, but rather than jointly assessing the future development of the group and coordinating with national strategies, it was more about many people on the board wanting to have more contact with Liu Hongyu.
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Liu Hongyu didn't even have to attend the meeting on the scheduled day, but he still went.

Liu Lei spent most of the lengthy meeting giving reports.

It mainly explains some basic situations. The Liu Group's strategic analysis has long been aimed at this major project. Although it is very radical and risky, the prospects for benefits are promising.

Occasionally, some board members would ask questions or express some sharpness in their words, mainly showing some distrust of Liu Lei as the person in charge.

Liu Hongyu sat bored in the main seat with his eyes closed the whole time. No one knew whether he was listening or had fallen asleep.

"Okay, that's the general situation. I believe you all have some understanding of it before. If you have any questions, please raise them. I will provide additional explanations. Please share your opinions."

As soon as Liu Lei finished speaking, someone spoke up.

"Overall, I agree. And since Mr. Liu is here, I'll share my opinion. After all, the risks are huge. Although our project accounts for a higher proportion, the key difficulties are almost entirely within our scope. In comparison, the distributable profits are somewhat disproportionate."

"Yes, the allocation from the Development Bureau isn't very reasonable. Although the project payment seems reasonable based on the project area, and there are some increases at certain points where we are, it's completely mismatched compared to the cost increase brought about by our difficulty!"

"Yes, there are three engineering companies under the Liu Group, and the supporting facilities companies are not enough. For this project, we have to expand the scale. This pressure is too much for us!"

Liu Lei nodded.

"What you say is indeed true, but we have already come into contact with the higher-ups many times, and sometimes we have to make sacrifices for the greater good!"

"We understand and know that sacrifice is necessary for the greater good, but why is it always us who has to do it?"

"I mean, they can't sacrifice themselves for the greater good?"

Once the issue returned to the project itself, debates in the conference room became frequent. Of course, there were also many people like Liu Hongyu who remained silent from beginning to end.

Liu Hongyu did not speak throughout the entire meeting until the debate finally came to a conclusion and all the votes were passed.

Debates are arguments, but since Liu Lei has basically obtained the support of the majority of the board of directors, he only explains the content to others, or argues with the other party in a more implicit way, and finally finalizes the result.

After Liu Lei breathed a sigh of relief, Liu Hongyu opened his eyes and slowly stood up.

There was still some tension in the meeting room after a debate, and those directors who "lost the argument" were obviously in a bad mood.

But when everyone noticed that Liu Hongyu stood up, the room gradually became quiet.

To be honest, in the last inheritance rights conference, Liu Hongyu was in a state of suppressing everyone throughout the whole process, so he didn't feel deeply. After this meeting, although everyone used very civilized words, he just felt that he had experienced a noisy quarrel.

Liu Hongyu didn't pay too much attention to anyone, but just glanced at everyone.

"I'm just a young man, not as experienced as you all. I respect your opinions, so I just listened and didn't say anything. Now that the vote is over, I'll say a few words."

Liu Hongyu paused for a moment, recalling what his master had written after his last trip. He saw the big picture from the small, the whole from the single, and could see the complexity and danger of the world.
A faint white light emerged from Liu Hongyu's body beyond the reach of ordinary people's eyes.

"The changes in a country affect its people, just as the changes in heaven and earth affect us! Our Liu Group has achieved what it has today, and all its benefits are built on this platform of China. It's understandable that merchants value profit, but what are our fundamental interests?"

"Just the scattered gold and silver in front of us? Are we just going to be seen as a villain by the world? At least I, Liu, don't want to be that kind of person!"

The white light became brighter and brighter, and without Liu Hongyu himself realizing it, many ordinary people in the conference room felt a special feeling, as if their mental drowsiness and darkness were melting away.

"Our fundamental interests lie in the world's power, in the vast land of China and its people, including us. We are not fighting for a simple project or the profit from it. Assistant General Manager Liu said this is about future development."

Liu Hongyu smiled and said.

"Then what we are fighting for is the future! One of my teachers once said that in this world, China grasped the future in the past and avoided a great disaster for the people. It is truly a great blessing!"

"We are all very fortunate to be born in a comfortable world and to hold such an illustrious position!"

Liu Hongyu, who had been trying to stay in tune with modern society, now seemed to have returned to his most comfortable environment. He even stood at the conference table and bowed to the dozen or so board members. "A true man should do what he should do and not do what he shouldn't do! That's all I have to say. I hope you will all share this!"

After saying that, Liu Hongyu ignored the silent environment in the conference room, turned around, opened the door and left.

To be honest, if the scene just now looked like a "relapse" to outsiders, but for the dozen or so members of the board of directors, they seemed to be able to feel that what Liu Hongyu said was from the heart.

Liu Hongyu also had his own reasons for leaving immediately. He suddenly felt that the opportunity for him to form a fairy furnace had arrived!
In fact, Liu Hongyu now believes that he has not yet fully reached the perfect physical state that he told Zhuang Lin before, but this sense of opportunity is so mysterious that he can't wait, and he is even afraid that it will disappear in a flash!
Liu Hongyu didn't even plan to rush back to Yinxian Valley. Since the final step to break through the delusion barrier is in his heart, it doesn't matter whether he is in Yinxian Valley or not!

He walked quickly all the way to the elevator, ignoring the awestruck looks of the surrounding employees. When Leng Zhiheng, who was waiting outside, came over, Liu Hongyu didn't say anything, but directly took out the car keys from his suit pocket, and then walked quickly into the stairwell.

Afterwards, Liu Hongyu rushed up the stairs at an incredible speed and reached the underground parking garage in just a few breaths.

Leng Zhiheng on the top floor was stunned for a moment, then followed him into the stairwell.

"Boss, what can I do for you? Boss? Boss?"

Leng Zhiheng shouted a few times, then walked to the stairwell and looked up and down in confusion.

Huh? Weird? I clearly walked in, but where's the boss?

At this moment, Liu Hongyu had already sat in the car that Leng Zhiheng usually drove. Although he had never learned how to drive formally, he had been in the car many times and performed a series of smooth operations almost as soon as he got in the car.

The car engine roared, carrying Liu Hongyu out of the underground parking lot of the Liu Group headquarters, and then rushed onto the road.

Not long after, the car rushed to Haizhongsen Villa. When the nanny ran out to see, Liu Hongyu had already gotten out of the car, leaving the car keys inside. He said something to the nanny and rushed into the house.

"Aunt Lu, I'm going into seclusion and won't see anyone. No outsiders are allowed to enter or leave the villa. Also, tell Brother Lei and the others that I need to come back in a hurry and help me deal with some minor troubles."

The words were still ringing, but Liu Hongyu's figure seemed to have disappeared in front of the nanny with a trace of afterimage.

Lu Lijun was slightly stunned, surprised at the boss's ghostly speed and what had happened, but none of this mattered, the boss's orders came first.
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Not long after, Liu Lei, who was still in the group headquarters building, received a call.

"Uh, you mean the boss was driving without a license and ran through more than a dozen red lights on his way home?"

Liu Lei couldn't help but recall the boss's final summary at the meeting: A real man should do what he should do and not do what he shouldn't do.
"Oh, I'm listening. I understand. I'll take care of it."

Leng Zhiheng, who was also in the office, grinned, not knowing what to say.
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In Liu Hongyu's own room in Haizhongsen Villa, he did not hesitate to use up a large amount of spiritual power to close all the doors and windows.

What the mysterious umbrella-bearer didn't know was that the immortal spirit he felt wasn't actually real, at least not in the orthodox cultivators of Zhuang Lin's lineage.

At this moment, Liu Hongyu was about to break through the true boundary between mortals and immortals!
This time, Liu Hongyu entered a state of tranquility almost as soon as he sat down and closed his eyes. A scene he had never seen before emerged.

Deep within my consciousness, a white light seemed to illuminate along with my invisible consciousness, gradually illuminating the surroundings and revealing a scene of heaven, earth, mountains and rivers.
This is not an illusion, this is what Master calls the state of mind and artistic conception of Tao!
But something is missing, what?
A thought flashed through Liu Hongyu's mind, and the Heart Lake Yuanhai he cultivated in his daily life emerged at this moment, rolling waves infiltrating the mountains and rivers and transforming into a vast ocean.
In this void of artistic conception, Liu Hongyu's originally empty consciousness gradually condensed into a human form.

And at the moment when the human form appeared, all kinds of ghosts and monsters in consciousness also emerged.

Emotions such as greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance, and doubt evolved into various distortions such as color, violence, and fear, spreading darkness and filth in this artistic conception, as if to drag the current "Liu Hongyu" into the abyss and tear him apart.

"I am Liu Hongyu, the only orthodox disciple of this immortal sect. Today, I want to condense the Tao into the furnace of immortality. How dare the evil spirits stop me—"

Liu Hongyu let out a roar like a huge bell, and the sound turned into a huge wave that spread to every corner of the artistic conception and also shook the sky.

At this moment, a ray of righteousness shone on Liu Hongyu, and the interference in his heart that had been suppressed was instantly eliminated!
At the same moment, Liu Hongyu felt a sharp pain in his heart. He looked up and saw that the clouds in the sky had parted and a red sun had emerged. Although the red sun was shining with scorching light, he felt that it could not continue.

This feeling was so strong that Liu Hongyu felt a sense of defeat, his mind was shaken, and the turbid qi resurfaced, and the pain in his "heart" became more and more intense.
At the same time, the situation in Zhonghai City outside had changed dramatically in a short period of time.

The weather in the entire Zhonghai changed from sunny and clear skies to dark clouds in a very short time, with endless lightning swirling in the clouds in the sky.

"Rumble--"

A bolt of lightning struck the lightning rod in Liu Hongyu's home directly and was then conducted to the ground.

Afterwards, heavy rain poured down and thunder began to rage, but many lightning bolts struck directly at the location of Liu Hongyu's house, as if there lived an unforgivable evil person here and he wanted to be struck to death by hundreds of thousands of lightning bolts. Even Lu Lijun and others were so frightened that they hid in the villa and dared not go out.

However, the thunder energy around the villa became increasingly stronger during this process!

Although the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is exhausted, the authentic immortal way will be born, and heaven and earth will also feel it.

Liu Hongyu had essentially crossed the level of breaking delusion, but after all, there were many things he lacked in this world. Breaking delusion was difficult to achieve with the Dao furnace, so even if there was no spiritual energy to send him, the energy of heavenly thunder could still be used.
The blockade left by Liu Hongyu seemed to be ineffective, and wisps of thunder energy seeped into the villa.

Lu Lijun and others in the villa only felt static electricity on their bodies, and many people's hair stood up, but the main thunder energy all entered Liu Hongyu's room and was absorbed by him in his calm state.

At this moment, in the artistic conception, the red sun in the sky gradually became hotter. It was not only the pure yang power accumulated by Liu Hongyu, but also rolling thunder and fire.
The turbid air recedes, water and fire surge, and yin and yang appear between heaven and earth!

(End of this chapter)