The Real Way to Cultivate in the City-Chapter 50: White Impermanence Really Causes Harm!
"Twenty cups should be enough, right?"
"Yeah, that’s plenty, how much do I owe you? I’ll pay you double—no, triple the market price."
"Just pay me market price, I only put in my own labor. The ingredients and machines are all courtesy of the City Management Team. Whenever folks ask me for custom milk tea, it’s always this price."
"Alright then, I won’t hold back. If you ever need a hand with anything, just holler."
I have read it pounded his chest, paid up, and hauled off twenty cups of milk tea...
On the way to the detention room, he couldn’t resist downing a cup...
He could clearly feel the contained objects getting much quieter.
Back when he first met Lin Hao at the amusement park, he thought Lin Hao was just some random guy. But now? Not even close!
Lin Hao might not pack a punch, but for someone like I have read it, who has to wrangle contained objects every day as a member of the Hidden Cultivation Association, Lin Hao is basically OP!
Walking and sipping all the way.
One cup down, hmm, another one, gotta keep chugging chugging chugging chugging... ha~
Seriously, so tasty.
The contained objects got even more well-behaved.
Another cup? Let’s do it.
Chug chug chug chug chug... ha~
The contained objects settled down more.
This is way too comfy!
Holding three contained objects, I have read it had never felt so relaxed.
Right now, he didn’t have to worry at all about the three contained objects fighting each other.
So, I have read it paced back and forth outside the City Management Team’s detention room again and again...
Looking at the last cup of milk tea in his hand, he felt that chugging the final cup would be crossing the line.
But if he gave it to those Extraordinary who didn’t want to reform...
That’d be a waste!
There was no one in the City Management Team’s detention room more reformed than I have read it.
The excellent always deserve extra rewards.
After finishing the last cup of milk tea, I have read it stepped into the detention room. All the whispers instantly died out.
He knew they were cooking up another escape plan...
But how could they get out?
If they escaped or raised hell in the City Management Team, how would he have an excuse to buy milk tea?
I have read it pushed up his toad-glasses. Everyone saw a beautiful vision...
The dog trainer who was curled up hugging her knees slowly lifted her head. She saw in front of her a little black dog, tilting its head, wagging its tail like crazy. As soon as the little black dog saw the dog trainer looking at it, it leapt up...
Zhen Haoren saw White Impermanence and the jerk in detention with toad-glasses both become his loyal henchmen. For their past mistakes, Zhen Haoren as boss, big-hearted, didn’t hold grudges. Those two? Super moved.
Tears of gratitude!
Bowed, pledging loyalty!
On future assignments, they’d risk life and limb, never say no!
With a crew like that, hahahahaha, Zhen Haoren would get more respect, more resources in the faction, climbing step by step...
From the detention room came the sounds of "hehehe," "hahaha," "kukuku," "gegege," and the like.
See...
I have read it manages this detention room so damn well!
Oh, today feels pretty nice. I have read it can finally sleep really well.
Since taking in three contained objects, how long had it been since he last slept?
Two years?
Three years?
Or even longer?
"Zzzzzz..."
...
For the next week, every night, the City Management Team entrance would see the figure of I have read it.
Lin Hao gradually got used to the gorgeous woman boss waving as he clocked out, followed by a guy in toad-glasses, suit, beach shorts, and leather shoes waiting faithfully for his shift to end...
Life started calming down.
Ke Chen City’s normal routine was coming back!
Lin Hao’s cultivation pace sped up a tiny bit after money flowed into his bank account—from snail-crawl level to snail...giving it all it’s got.
Compared to the rapid upgrade during Qi Refining Stage, the Foundation Establishment Stage was a million times slower...
But Lin Hao’s mindset was ace...
A bad mood wouldn’t make cultivation go faster anyway.
And with this cultivation pace, in about 120 years, he’ll reach Foundation Establishment Great Perfection. At that point, he’ll be 142 years old, leaving 58 years to break through to the Golden Core.
Advantage: me.
This whole time, Li Chuchu was also hustling the paperwork for milk tea powder packs. Looks like once those go on sale, his cultivation resources will ramp up again.
His magical power cultivation rate will speed up too!
The time to Foundation Establishment Great Perfection will definitely shrink.
Compared to slow magical power gains, Lin Hao’s Divine Thought upgrade was totally managed by White Impermanence Avatar...
Very stable improvements!
Not a single worry.
Lin Hao figured it wouldn’t be long before his Divine Thought reached [Foundation Establishment Great Perfection], no doubt about it.
The feeling of leveling up every day is honestly awesome...
...
Lin Hao blended his milk tea and had Qianqian deliver it to the customer.
The customer thanked him, and the next customer stepped up.
"So, what would you like to drink today?" Qianqian asked sweetly.
"..."
Everything was running smooth.
Soon it was 3am.
Today’s sales were solid, three thousand higher than yesterday.
Though, in today’s queue, Lin Hao sensed a bunch of folks chatting about whether White Impermanence was legit—
"White Impermanence doesn’t exist, trust science! Superstition ruins people!"
"White Impermanence is totally just some viral meme."
"White Impermanence, nah, fake as hell, how could it be real?"
"I mean, there’s no way White Impermanence would help people work overtime. Ghosts got nothing better to do?"
"I don’t buy it, ’cause White Impermanence never showed up while I was working late."
"..."
People had always talked about White Impermanence before.
Even Xiao Shuai, who’d been possessed by White Impermanence Avatar, bought milk tea more than once.
But today, way more people were chatting, and they definitely didn’t buy into White Impermanence being real.
But...
What does any of that have to do with Lin Hao?
Shift’s over, back to the City Management Team.
In the cab, Lin Hao scrolled through today’s Ke Chen City news.
Today’s Ke Chen City hot topics—
Half of the top ten were about White Impermanence Avatar?!
#I got possessed by White Impermanence, and the next day my company fired me#
#White Impermanence pushes overwork tribe into the abyss, overtime even worse#
#White Impermanence is a fantasy for overworked people and doesn’t actually exist#
#White Impermanence, a capitalist lackey#
#Expert debunking: White Impermanence doesn’t exist, just internet performance art#
What the heck, someone bought trending spots for White Impermanence?
Lin Hao curiously tapped the first hot topic, about being fired—
It was a long ramble, a few typos, some punctuation off, but super real vibes.
The main character’s name was Shun Liu, a chick who just got the hang of being a corporate drone.
One night while working late, Shun Liu got possessed by White Impermanence. The work that should’ve taken three hours, she finished in three minutes.
She gleefully sent the report to her boss and posted to social media.
#Ladies, met Lord White Impermanence today. Lord White Impermanence works fast as hell, I’m off#
Next day, Shun Liu got a termination letter from HR.
Shun Liu was bewildered and pissed—the first rage attack since becoming a drone!
Why?
Why fire me?
Up earlier than chickens, to bed later than dogs, slaving away day and night, doing two people’s work for half a person’s pay, and I still get kicked out?!!!
Shun Liu stormed to HR and learned that folks possessed by White Impermanence can’t handle overtime after. If you won’t work late, you’re not the employee the company needs, so you get canned.
Shun Liu thought this was messed up and posted her rant online—then boom, viral.
Uh...
The hell?
Checking other hot topics—
Someone posted about a startup not even half a year old, making everyone work overtime, never getting anything done. The boss made everyone write a hundred-year plan for the company. Not for results, just to lure White Impermanence to do it.
But White Impermanence never showed up, just endless pointless overtime!
—White Impermanence really ruins lives!
Someone else, a girl, said she was heading home alone late at night, ran into White Impermanence, who turned out to be a creep, hands everywhere. Police said she was hallucinating.
—White Impermanence really ruins lives!
Another person claimed White Impermanence scammed them out of a thousand bucks for an overtime-boost service—paid up, White Impermanence never showed.
—White Impermanence really ruins lives!
Others posted...
Seriously, wtf?
Lin Hao checked out the wild posts online and decided to scroll hot girls for an eye cleanse.
Ke Chen City’s White Impermanence and his milk tea shop’s Gold Medal Milk Tea Master—what do they have in common?
As long as White Impermanence Avatar gives him pure spiritual power every day and boosts Divine Thought, that’s all that matters.
Forget what everyone else thinks.
Getting out at City Management Team’s entrance, Lin Hao spotted I have read it again...
"Hey I have read it, like I said, I’ll make twenty cups for you daily. Just grab them, no need to wait."
"Gotta show some attitude, man."
"I have read it, weren’t you only supposed to be locked up five days? Why are you still hanging around the City Management Team?"
"To stay locked up longer, I beat up a troublemaker. Milk Tea Master, that dude is a total scumbag, yet his name’s Zhen Haoren. Tell me, isn’t that hilarious?"
"..."
