Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest.

Chapter 500 Organizational Tasks

This time, the upper limit of spiritual energy concentration was increased far beyond the ordinary, and even a "spiritual energy tide" phenomenon appeared.

Just like the ebb and flow of the tide, the concentration of spiritual energy in some places is higher, and in some places it is lower. Obvious gaps have begun to appear between different regions - but overall, the concentration of spiritual energy in places with famous mountains and rivers is much higher than in plains.

Jinling Prefecture, situated right on the Yangtze River, fared better. Xingwang, Shuzhong, and Shengjing, however, lacked sufficiently high mountains and wide rivers within their urban areas, resulting in a low increase in spiritual energy concentration, a fact that drew the attention of the Privy Council.

Among the famous mountains and rivers, the place with the highest concentration of spiritual energy is not the top of the mountain or the bottom of the river, but in the corresponding secret realm.

The higher-ups quickly made a decision and organized each team to set aside a certain amount of time every day to practice breathing exercises in the secret realm.

"Guess which secret place you are going to?" Li Weiguo joked with Yan Yu in the principal's office.

"Hmm." Yan Yu actually began to speculate, "The more powerful the secret realm, the higher the concentration of spiritual energy is likely to be, but the more difficult it is to conquer. So it must be from a secret realm we've conquered before... Wuyi Mountain?"

"Haha, smart." Li Weiguo threw the information to him, "The second level of the Wuyi Mountain Secret Realm has been opened. Based on the current survey data, the concentration of spiritual energy ranks first among all the secret realms in our jurisdiction."

"Is a competition still necessary?" Yan Yu asked.

"Not for now," Li Weiguo said. "All secret realms are being surveyed by research teams. The national live broadcast of the competition is suspended for a week. The second level of the Wuyi Mountain Secret Realm is not difficult. Explore and conquer it on your own, then practice there and wait for further notice from above."

"Okay." Yan Yu nodded.

"By the way," Li Weiguo asked casually, "How are your relationships with the team members lately?"

"It's fine." Yan Yu was confused. "What's wrong?"

"Build relationships with your teammates," Li Weiguo said with a smile. "The harmony of interpersonal relationships within the team will also affect the team's overall performance."

"The interpersonal relationships in our team are quite good." Yan Yu heard that Lao Li seemed to be hinting at something, and frowned and asked, "Did someone spread rumors in front of you?"

"Ahem." Li Weiguo was also a little embarrassed. He wondered how he could explain this matter, so he could only choose his words tactfully. "There's no limit to how good interpersonal relationships can be. Good relationships can be even better. Above friendships, there are good friends, best friends, confidants, and... you get the idea."

"I understand, I understand." Yan Yu nodded and said, "It's like a formalistic political achievement project, always making progress and never stopping."

"Can you please stop interpreting other people's words as malicious metaphors?" Li Weiguo fumed. "Your team is full of beautiful young women, and you don't have any feelings for them? You don't have any feelings for women?"

"Look at what you said." Yan Yu said helplessly, "Even rabbits don't eat grass near their burrows."

"That male lion has several female lions with him," Li Weiguo said, puffing his beard and glaring. "If you love the animal world so much, why don't you take a look at how other social mammals do it? Stop quibbling and focus on building good team relationships and submitting weekly reports to me."

"A written report, right?" Yan Yu was not panicked at all.

No matter what materials are submitted, Secretary Su, who has a solid literary foundation, will take care of it, and it won’t fall on me anyway.

It’s best to have it in written form, just throw it in Lao Li’s office and be done with it; it doesn’t matter if it’s oral, at most you can just read it aloud.

Li Weiguo also knew that this guy had thrown all the programming work to Su Yunjin, and he had no experience at all. Therefore, he felt even more frustrated that "there was nothing he could do about it". He waved his hands impatiently and said:
"Hurry up and go to Wuyi Mountain. Come back when you're notified."

"Okay." Yan Yu immediately turned around and left.

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The Zhenhai team, riding on their swords, flew towards Minyue Province. "Speaking of which, the limit of spiritual energy concentration this time is even higher than in the past," Chen Lingyun said casually. "That's another headache for the higher-ups."

"Why?" Lin Ning asked curiously.

"It's because of the problem of resources and manpower," Su Yunjin replied. "There's no regulation of cultivation abroad. Civilian transcendents will spontaneously seek out secret realms and mine for resources, thus forming an environment similar to a free market economy that can operate spontaneously without interference."

"There are cultivation controls in the country, so all work needs to be coordinated and arranged by the authorities. The deeper the spiritual energy recovery, the more secret realms will open up and need to be dealt with, and the more headaches the higher-ups will naturally have."

"Is that so?" Lin Ning looked at Chen Lingyun.

Chen Lingyun smiled but said nothing.

In reality, it wasn't just that. The real problem was that even if the entire nation were mobilized, the number of secret realms developed and the extraordinary resources obtained would still not compare to the "gold rush" abroad—now, the Western world calls exploring secret realms "gold panning." As soon as news of a suspected secret realm leaked out, a large number of extraordinary people would quickly gather nearby, waiting to rush in and snatch up everything.

The Lu Kingdom had to conduct exploration and investigation, as well as deploy manpower, so it certainly wasn't as efficient as private gold panning. Even in the initial "discovery" phase, many secret areas were overlooked, which was unavoidable.

Of course, Yan Yu was very disgusted with the banditry of the ordinary people, so she tactfully didn't say much to everyone.

Anyway, just as Yan Yu has always insisted, as long as the strength of the Lu Kingdom cultivators (top combat power) can always crush the surrounding areas, the flaws of this system can still be accepted by the higher-ups.

So, you have to work hard to become stronger, Brother Yanyu~
If your strength is surpassed by others, then not only will you lose the throne of the strongest in the world, but even the beliefs and ideals you have held on to until now will be completely trampled into the dust.
Chen Lingyun thought to herself, and her smile became sweeter, her eyes full of longing and expectation for the future.

And a desire for fun.

The group arrived near the secret realm of Wuyi Mountain, which had been designated a military restricted area. A huge wall had even been built around it, with cameras installed at regular intervals to prevent anyone from illegally climbing over the wall and breaking in.

After going through complicated procedures, the Zhenhai team finally passed through the entrance to the secret realm and arrived in the secret realm.

Everyone has the impression that the first level of the Wuyi Mountain Secret Realm is full of dense and lush forests.

Today, the original forest is still everywhere here, but in the open space with sparse vegetation around, uniform industrial factories have been built, and countless roads connect the surrounding areas - it feels like the Amazon rainforest is being developed.

The person in charge of showing everyone around the first level of the secret realm was Captain Jiang Weiming, who had originally come in with the Zhenhai team. He has now been promoted to the security director of the entire secret realm.

"This is the alchemy area." He drove everyone around the factory building. "It's full of alchemy cells. Each furnace is tended by four monks, working in shifts 24 hours a day."

"Has industrial automation not been achieved yet?" Lin Ning asked in surprise.

"No," Jiang Weiming said with a wry smile, "They use the ancient method of refining the elixir, and someone is assigned to watch over the furnace. The work isn't very tiring, but it's too time-consuming, and I can't leave at all."

"All the foundation-building pills in the country are now produced in the Wuyi Mountain Secret Realm. Further west is the spiritual herb planting area. I'll take you there."

The car left the industrial park and arrived at the planting area. Looking around, there were neatly arranged fields everywhere, separated by countless ridges. There were also a large number of spiritual herbs planted among them, and they looked very good.

"The planting area is more automated, with agricultural drones and combine harvesters handling the harvest," Jiang Weiming explained. "The only problem is that the growth cycle of spiritual herbs is too long. Even if we're frantically expanding cultivation and production, we can't keep up with the rapid increase in demand... Here we are."

The car stopped in front of the thatched cottage, which was the cottage where everyone defeated the puppet and obtained the control center last year. It was now surrounded by the most tightly guarded troops in the entire secret realm.

"The entrance to the second floor is inside." Jiang Weiming said.

(End of this chapter)