Losing My Way to Immortality, Starting with Mecha Puppets

Pei Yan transmigrates into a cyberpunk cultivation world and gets bound to a System. Want to get rich? Make a profit? You get only 0.1% of the net profit in cultivation and pocket money, barely enough to tide you over! Want to become an immortal? Lose money! You get 100% of your losses back as an enormous amount of cultivation. Ascending on the spot is no longer a dream! Pei Yan is ecstatic. Lose money? Now that's something I know how to do! I'm a professional at starting businesses just to run them into the ground! So he takes the System's funds and launches an all-out money-losing spree: Top-grade materials? Buy them! The more ridiculously expensive, the better! Employees: “The boss is so generous! Costs are down 40%, and profits have doubled!” Insane, user-hostile ideas? Let's do it! Drive the customers away! Employees: “The boss is visionary! He's pioneered direct neural connections and is leading the way into the future!” Every settlement day is Pei Yan's “day of suffering.” “I just want to quietly lose some money and get a little cultivation in return! Please stop reading so much into everything! Stop working so hard! Let me lose money! Can't I just lose my way to immortality?” This is the tearful rags-to-riches story of “the most miserable entrepreneur in history.” In a world where cyberpunk rules have turned traditional cultivation on its head, Pei Yan's employees use their bizarre imaginations, tireless work ethic, and “god-tier” comprehension to repeatedly interpret his carefully planned “bankruptcy schemes” as “revolutionary innovation” and “thinking bigger,” then “stab him in the back” by turning them into one hit after another. Employees (fanatically devoted): “The boss is far-sighted and always has everything under control!” Rivals (gritting their teeth): “How does he do it?!” Pei Yan (crying out in despair): “I never wanted to make money! My cultivation! My grand plan to lose money! You've stabbed me in the back again!” Watch as this tragic boss, pummeled by a bunch of employees who read far too much into everything, ends up making astronomical sums of spirit stones in tears, along with... a little Golden Core cultivation painstakingly scraped together bit by bit?