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

Chapter 763: Continue to Help Others
Yan Yu really doesn't have much interest in power.

Various cases in previous lives have proven that the most important thing for a Transcendent is strength. A Transcendent without strength, even if they hold power, is like a tree without roots and water without a source, and will soon be overthrown by a powerful upstart.

However, improving one's strength requires sufficient resources for cultivation, including wealth, friends, Dharma, and land; the more the better.

If you work in isolation and want to follow the path of the Sword God of Shilipo, unless you are extremely lucky and blessed, there is no chance.

In order to collect cultivation resources and concentrate on improving one's cultivation strength, one cannot spend too much time on governing the country. As a result, all the territories occupied by supernatural forces in the world are almost all trying to exploit the mortals, even the North ruled by Anna.

It's not that superhumans are inherently evil, it's just that direct exploitation is much simpler than organizing production.

If this pattern continues, the existing scientific civilization will sooner or later wither and die, and eventually evolve into the kind of cultivation world that Zhao Yuanzhen had before he traveled through time: there is a difference between immortals and mortals, mortals live a mediocre life, and the sects reap the benefits, with becoming an immortal being the highest pursuit, and even after hundreds of thousands or millions of years, it will still be a stagnant pool.

Yan Yu always believed that professional matters should be left to professionals. Since he excelled at combat, he focused on defending the country and its people, ensuring that production order remained intact. Since mortal bureaucrats excelled at organization and operations, he provided him with cultivation resources to maintain his superior strength. This was clearly a win-win situation, far superior to rebelling and claiming the throne only to discover he didn't want to work at all.

Of course, as Yan Yu's own strength becomes stronger and stronger, it is difficult to say how long this tacit understanding, mutual trust, cooperation and mutual benefit between the Lu Kingdom cultivators and the secular regime can continue.

Li Zhaojiang's rebellion in a previous life completely shattered this foundation of mutual trust. Later, neither the loyal and righteous Teacher Mei nor the abjectly useless Xie Ruoxi, with zero ambition, truly earned the official's complete trust. If anything, only ordinary warriors could be considered part of the official's fold.

As for the current worldline, the reason Yan Yu maintains such a good relationship of trust with the Cabinet Privy Council is actually thanks to the mediation of Chen Tianming and Li Weiguo. In the previous life, Chen Lingyun actually had the same opportunity, but if you want Chen Lingyun to consider the interests of Lu State, it would be better to make a wish to make the spiritual energy disappear directly.

An agreement with the new Wizard King was quickly reached. Under the pressure of the five Golden Core True Immortals, the current Wizard Lords were willing to sacrifice almost anything to ensure they would not be destroyed by the Lu Kingdom. However, this compromise was clearly fragile, and many of the terms of the final agreement were considered humiliating for the Southern Territory.

Hu Minghua naturally didn't care. First, he was just a puppet wizard king, a "pro-Lu Kingdom role model" set up by the wizards. Second, no matter how harsh the terms, he wouldn't be paying anyway... So he readily agreed to everything.

It is obvious that even if this agreement is signed and recognized by both parties, the wizard lords will not honestly implement the agreement. Both parties will definitely conduct repeated tests, tug-of-war and pressure.

However, as long as there is no war, it is a victory.

Hu Minghua did what he said. After the agreement was signed, he sent a copy to Yan Yu for his review.

Yan Yu didn't even look at it carefully. He thought, "Just hand it over to the comrades in the foreign affairs department. Why should I bother with it?" So he handed it directly to Chen Tianming, the old Taishan, and returned to the Wudang Mountain base.

He stayed in Pingjing for three days and two nights to ensure that the agreement between Lu Kingdom and the Southern Territory could be successfully reached. After returning to base, he learned that Su Yunjin and Yang Linhui had successfully transcended the tribulation, and the list of the third group of cultivators who would transcend the tribulation had been finalized, including all the remaining monks in the team.

Chen Lingyun was ranked first because she had the lowest qualifications and her skills were definitely inferior to Yan Yu's. If even Chen Lingyun could successfully transcend the tribulation, it would mean that the current tribulation transcendence system was mature enough and could be widely promoted among the cultivators of other teams and even the cultivators of the military monastery.

The above are all superficial statements. In fact, there is no doubt that this was done by mobilizing Chen Tianming's connections.

Considering that the rest of the people are about to undergo tribulation, since I promised them that I would help them reach the Golden Core level, of course I have to arrange it as soon as possible.

This is a man's promise!
Yan Yu asked Teacher Mei for the list of people who would be crossing the tribulation barrier. He saw that Tang Xiaolian was ranked third, Ye Jun was ranked seventh, Lin Ning and Li Minghu were ranked tenth and seventeenth respectively, so he asked her:
"The list is completely based on cultivation qualifications?"

"Yes," Mei Yingxue replied, "Except for Chen Lingyun being ranked first due to the superiors' request, the others are ranked according to their cultivation aptitude and total amount of true essence. The main reason is that they don't have any useful means of overcoming the tribulation, so they will probably still have to rely on formations, the Ten Thousand Bamboo Sword, and the Small Xuanguang Ruler."

"Hmm..." Yan Yu pondered for a moment, "Can the order of Lin Ning's tribulation be advanced a little?"

"Does it have to be early?" Mei Yingxue asked, puzzled. "What's the point?"

"She's quite arrogant," Yan Yu explained. "Being assigned the tenth place to undergo the tribulation, she'll inevitably think, 'There are so many people with better aptitude than me,' which could easily affect her performance." "But that's the truth," Mei Yingxue said bluntly. "Furthermore, the fact that it affects her performance shows that her current personality is simply not suitable for undergoing the tribulation right now."

"Just tell me if you can do it earlier." Yan Yu asked helplessly.

"Sure." Mei Yingxue turned to operate the computer, "How far in advance do we need to go?"

"Can I choose whatever I want?" Yan Yu said with a smile.

"Of course," Mei Yingxue replied. "Compared to when you underwent the tribulation, the theoretical system is much more mature now, and the production capacity of tribulation resources has also increased. By the time Chen Lingyun undergoes the tribulation, we estimate that the number of Ten Thousand Bamboo Swords and Small Xuanguang Rulers we have prepared will be seven to eight times what you had back then."

Yan Yu couldn't help but be amazed when he heard this. Is this the strength of the world's first industrial country?
The Ten Thousand Bamboo Sword and the Small Xuanguang Ruler weren't particularly powerful magical weapons, their grades being among the lowest of the low. However, even these two items required specialized crafting by swordsmiths and weapon makers in the world of cultivation, so it was practically impossible to obtain tens of thousands of them to help you overcome your tribulation, even if you were the grandchild of a Nascent Soul Elder.

With the fully automated production technology now in operation on industrialized assembly lines, even a useless cultivator like Chen Lingyun can rely on the vast amount of resources to forcibly overcome the tribulation! Wealth, Friends, Dharma, and Land, reaching the pinnacle of wealth, unexpectedly possess such unimaginable power!

"I can't understand it at all." Yan Yu couldn't help but sigh.

In the previous life, when the officials were training the monks to pass the tribulation, the State of Lu did not start the industrial machinery to mass-produce Golden Core True Immortals... If Yan Yu were to analyze the reason, it was probably because of Li Zhaojiang's rebellion, which caused the higher-ups to be extremely strict with the monks and they did not dare to allow too many monks to form elixirs at once, otherwise they would have no way to suppress the rebellion.

As for this life, I, Yan Yu, am here. Not to mention that they dare not rebel, even if they all rebelled, how many of them could be my opponent?
"It's normal not to understand," Mei Yingxue replied. "If it were me before, I would never have imagined that overcoming the tribulation could be so easy. Science and technology still have their unique advantages."

She opened a paper on her computer and continued to read it attentively.

Yan Yu tactfully did not disturb her and turned around to say goodbye and leave.

Now that the list has been confirmed, then... let's go find Xiao Lian.

On the other side, Tang Xiaolian was in Zhou Hongyu's room, watching and studying fighting action movies with her.

Zhou Hongyu had already been discharged from the hospital, and the burns had completely healed, leaving no trace of scars or boundaries. If Yan Yu hadn't been attending a conference in Pingjing at the time, he would have been forced to seek him out on the day he was discharged.

"It's boring." She looked at the TV screen and commented, "Even with makeup, she looks ugly, and her screams are contrived. It's the same old fight scenes over and over again. She might as well be better than the hairdresser down the street."

"That's for sure," Tang Xiaolian analyzed. "In a movie, fighting isn't about winning, it's about the audience enjoying it. So the visual effects are definitely exaggerated. Look at her foaming at the mouth. How could there be that much water to spit out in real life? It was all props."

She was laughing and talking when her phone suddenly lit up. She glanced at it and her expression suddenly changed drastically. She shouted:
"Captain Zhou, save me!"

"Ok?"

"Captain Yan said it's his turn to practice with me!"

"Then let's fix it." Zhou Hongyu said nonchalantly, "I won't accompany you this time. After all, it's your first time, and experience is very important."

"But I'm scared!" Tang Xiaolian trembled, "What if my secret method goes wrong?"

"Then let him be responsible." Zhou Hongyu said.

(End of this chapter)