Auspicious for Ascension, Inauspicious for Work

After the spiritual qi revival, cultivating immortality became a business. Students took national Qi Refining exams, companies paid for tribulation insurance, sects could go public, and even cultivators struck by lightning had to prove it was a workplace injury first. Lu Zhun's job was to prove that employees' cultivation deviations, spiritual qi poisoning, and deaths during drug trials had nothing to do with their companies. Then, on the day he was laid off, nine layers of tribulation clouds appeared above his head. The company shut him outside its mountain-protecting formation, while his supervisor still reminded him: “Former employees must pay full replacement costs for any company property they damage.” Then Lu Zhun saw a ledger that only he could see: [Apparent tribulation bearer: Lu Zhun.] [Actual debtor: Wanxiang Biotechnology Co., Ltd.] [Debts to be repaid on its behalf: 12,436.] From then on, the cultivation world gained a cause-and-effect debt collector who was not big on leniency, but very big on evidence. Immortal corporations withhold employees' lifespans? Audit the books. Schools steal underachieving students' talent? Collect the debt. An old ancestor ascends and makes the entire sect undergo tribulation in his place? Settle the whole account, with interest. “Mr. Lu, our sect's lineage goes back ten thousand years, and all our ancestral masters have ascended. Are you sure these accounts are correct?” Lu Zhun glanced up at the tribulation clouds covering half the sky. “The accounts are correct.” “It seems your ancestors forgot to pay when they ascended.”