Chapter 58: Lin Xue Swinging a Hoe to Poach the Cornerstone

[Du Yuhan fell into deep thought......]

[Du Yuhan felt that Lin Xue's words made a lot of sense.]

[If the systems, welfare benefits, and everything else were completely identical, and even the environment and various reward-and-punishment policies were entirely the same, then after the Yudu Society grew stronger, one could entirely say that the Chixin Society was a branch of the Yudu Society.]

[By then, the Yudu Society could completely swallow up the Chixin Society, treating that massive Chixin Society as nourishment for the Yudu Society's development and expansion, devouring it down to the last scrap.]

[She truly had not expected that the emulation she had initially undertaken just for the sake of convenience would actually possess such an effect now?]

[On this day, she and Lin Xue talked all night by candlelight, discussing the development and planning of the Yudu Society.]

[As the president of the Chixin Society, Lin Xue was thoroughly familiar with the system where the Chixin Combat Team evolved into the Chixin Combat Corps, and the Chixin Society developed its commercial empire, which in turn fed back into the Chixin Combat Team.]

[Therefore, after making a few simple revisions, she shared this developmental mindset with Du Yuhan.]

[Upon hearing this, Du Yuhan was instantly struck with awe, viewing it as nothing short of divine.]

[The combat team she wished to create was still currently in its infancy.]

[After all, when forming a combat team, selecting teammates was of paramount importance.]

[The role that each individual had to undertake was extremely critical.]

[Coupled with personal character, temperament, innate talent, and ways of thinking......]

[Every single one of these combined factors represented a huge test.]

[Therefore, this required the utmost caution.]

[When all was said and done, Cloud City First University did not yet have any team members that particularly satisfied her.]

[However, that was in the past, and now...... she had discovered a promising sapling to serve as a teammate.]

[As it happened, Lin Xue was a support-class professional.]

[If Lin Xue could join her team and become her teammate—or rather, the vice-captain of the combat team she was building—then she would be able to devote more energy in the future to refining her mana and smelting divine grace crystals.]

[Before that, however, she needed to let Lin Xue witness her strength.]

[Thus, she appealed to her father for assistance, hoping that her father could provide her with a batch of transcendent resources to help her win this arena battle.]

[Du Yuhan's father did not take it seriously at first; to him, this was merely a children's game.]

[What kind of intensity could fights between university clubs possibly reach?]

[As a proud daughter of heaven hailing from the Du family, if she couldn't even resolve disputes among these clubs, wouldn't she be a bit of a good-for-nothing?]

[However, when he saw the combat corps development proposal sent over by Du Yuhan, he jerked up from his seat with a start.]

[This idea was viable!]

[As long as his daughter could bring all the students of Cloud City First University under her wing, and with their Du family providing financial backing for their cultivation, it wouldn't be entirely impossible to develop them into a combat corps a decade from now.]

[Consequently, he dispatched a batch of resources from his personal treasury.]

[Having obtained this batch of support, Du Yuhan began following her and Lin Xue's concepts, using money-sprinkling tactics to win over people's hearts.]

[At the same time, she found your behavior of taking in students from other schools utterly laughable.]

[Although the quality of students at Cloud City First University wasn't exceptionally high, they were at least from a first-tier university.]

[Once transcendent resources were invested in such talents, they were fully worth cultivating as subordinates.]

[But what was there worth cultivating in students from second-tier and third-tier universities?]

[However, as your competitor, the more biased your thinking was, the better it was for her!]

[Meanwhile, armed with the transcendent resources provided by Du Yuhan and leading her core members, Lin Xue began poaching people from the Chixin Society.]

[After paying brief attention for a period of time, Du Yuhan discovered that Lin Xue's efficiency was remarkably high.]

[In three days, she had poached eighty First-Transition professionals.]

[These individuals were all core members of the Chixin Society and internal personnel of the Chixin Combat Team; even within the massive Cloud City First University, they could be considered geniuses.]

[Therefore, she subsequently focused all her attention on polishing her Bronze-grade mana and paid no further heed to the matter.]

[To say the least, Lin Xue's frantic poaching had already completely and utterly offended the core management of the Chixin Society.]

[No matter what, as long as Lin Xue remained a student at Cloud City First University, she had no choice but to stay within the Yudu Society.]

[Otherwise, given the influence of the Chixin Society, they could entirely suppress her to the point where every step she took would be fraught with difficulty.]

[Faced with the Yudu Society's frantic poaching, the Chixin Society reacted quite swiftly as well.]

[First, the Chixin Society issued a statement expressing strong condemnation of Lin Xue, who had defected from the Chixin Society and turned around to swing a hoe at her former home.]

[Such behavior was truly devoid of ethics.]

[Second, the Chixin Society relaxed the soft criteria for backup members of the combat team.]

[Finally, using intermediate divine grace crystals as stakes, the Chixin Society initiated a wager-duel against the Yudu Society.]

[Unsurprisingly, Deng Qi, the president of the Chixin Society, fell slightly short in the wager-duel and lost a large batch of intermediate divine grace crystals to Lin Xue.]

[Du Yuhan was immensely satisfied with Lin Xue's victory.]

[Even though she was already at Level 20 and had no use for these intermediate divine grace crystals, this income came just in time to relieve her urgent needs.]

[After all, with more subordinates under her command, the expenses for food, drinks, and supplies increased correspondingly.]

[Looking at the daily consumption in the Yudu Society's ledger and comparing it with the gradually rising welfare standards of the Chixin Society, she felt a trace of anxiety.]

[Yet, having just asked her father for financial backing, she felt somewhat embarrassed to continue asking.]

[As a result, she acted like a spoiled child to her mother and managed to secure a batch of transcendent resources.]

[Aided by the core members of the Chixin Society whom Lin Xue had poached by swinging her hoe, the development of the Yudu Society gained increasingly formidable momentum.]

[In January of the 126th Transcendent Era, you took into consideration the economic benefits that would be generated by the collapse of the adamantine market.]

[This explosive surge in the adamantine market would by no means be a matter of a fewfold or a dozenfold.]

[The last time you merely speculated in transcendent energy, it had already attracted covetous gazes.]

[Although you managed to scare away your opponents by leveraging your accumulations across several space-times and fabricating a nonexistent backing force, this method could not be used indefinitely after all.]

[Once you happened to run into some reckless hothead one day, the facade would be exposed.]

[There was simply too much money involved; you needed to spread out this matter.]

[Therefore, after asking the old principal to help shoulder a portion of it, you transferred the bulk of the funds to Chixin members who held fanatical loyalty toward you.]

[Now, you were merely awaiting a single word from yourself to launch an assault on the adamantine and mithril markets.]

[At your hint, Lin Xue also informed Du Yuhan about the explosive growth of the adamantine market.]

[At first, Du Yuhan refused to believe it. Although she did not dabble in stocks, she had still heard a thing or two about the price stability of transcendent materials like adamantine.]

[Yet, out of trust in Lin Xue, she still requested a sum of capital from her grandparents.]

[Her logic was quite simple: adamantine prices had remained steady for a long time, so it wouldn't matter even if Lin Xue's information turned out to be false.]

[Following reports by the Transcendent Financial News that the Federal Third Combat Team had suffered a defeat on the Abyss frontline, resulting in the loss of the Federation's sole large-scale adamantine mine, the adamantine market instantly blew up.]

[In a single day, the price of adamantine directly multiplied thirteenfold!]

[Gazing at this report, and then at the value packed within the adamantine she had stockpiled in her own hands, Du Yuhan's mind went blank.]

[The thing Lin Xue mentioned earlier...... turned out to be real?]

[In an instant, boundless regret surged into her heart.]

[If she had simply believed Lin Xue's words right from the start and borrowed a massive sum of money from her parents, grandparents, maternal grandparents, and various aunts and uncles, wouldn't she have made a fortune by now?]