192: Chapter 192 Zhou Heng's Greed, Offering Warmth at the Door

"This matter must be reported so that those above can make the final decision!"

After saying this, he immediately submitted the report.

The news was quickly reported upward.

Less than half an hour later, a figure stepped out from the teleportation array outside the stone hall!

The person who arrived wore dark cyan clothing and had a copper seal hanging from his waist.

His name was Zhou Heng, the manager of the Ascension management branch in the southern part of the Zichen Heavenly Realm, and his cultivation had reached the Ninth Heaven of the Heavenly Immortal Realm!

Upon hearing the news, he immediately rushed over!

Hundreds of thousands of star points appearing at the Ascension point under his jurisdiction was a situation he was seeing for the first time!

This meant that hundreds of thousands of people had arrived in this region, and it also meant that hundreds of thousands of free laborers had slipped right under his nose!

This was obviously a major loss!

Those two reception envoys were already standing by the desk, waiting.

Zhou Heng didn't even glance at them; he walked straight to the bronze mirror and looked down at the light spots on the mirror surface that had not yet completely dissipated.

The sheer number made him silent for a moment. "Have the locations of these auras been confirmed?"

The reception envoy nodded, "Confirmed. They are in the uninhabited area in the northwest of the Zichen Heavenly Realm. The nearest reception point is over a million miles away. There are no registration records for an Ascension channel, nor are there any traces of a reception array being activated. They have indeed entered the Immortal Realm on their own!"

After listening, Zhou Heng did not immediately express his stance!

His fingers tapped lightly on the desk twice.

Entering the Immortal Realm on one's own without passing through the reception array according to the rules counted as smuggling!

According to precedent, they should be punished with ten thousand years of mining labor!

If it were just a few dozen people, he would simply send people to capture them and handle things according to the rules!

But for hundreds of thousands of people to smuggle themselves in at once, this was the first time in his jurisdiction!

He raised his gaze, a flash of greed appearing in his eyes!

If he caught them and hid these people to mine for him, he could just turn over the fixed quota of Immortal ore to those above.

The rest would all be his!

The profit involved was self-evident; it was enough to make him take the risk!

That was hundreds of thousands of people. If each person mined one piece of Immortal ore for him every day, that would be hundreds of thousands in income!

It was enough to make anyone completely lose their reason!

Completely insane!

He only received 500 Immortal Jades from the management Realm every month, which was far from enough for him to Cultivate!

To him, these hundreds of thousands of people meant hundreds of thousands in income every single day!

"I will take people there myself. Do not discuss this matter loudly. This is your fault. With so many people smuggling themselves in, I could already have you executed!"

After saying this, he was filled with rage and immediately looked at them with icy eyes!

He deliberately pushed the blame onto them; after all, with such a large number, they only discovered it now!

If anything went wrong, they would be unable to shirk the responsibility!

The two of them were indeed terrified; where had they ever encountered such a situation!

They were just trying to make a living, yet now such a situation had occurred!

The two immediately knelt and begged for mercy!

"My Lord, please save us! My Lord, we are willing to work like beasts of burden for you, please save us both!"

"Yes! My Lord! We are willing to be your slaves, we only ask that you save our lives!"

Zhou Heng's gaze fell upon the two reception envoys kneeling on the ground.

He didn't speak immediately, his eyes sweeping back and forth between the two.

"Enough. I am already aware of this matter. You two know what to do."

These two were people sent by the Ascension management Realm, not Zhou Heng's own people.

Therefore, Zhou Heng had to let them know that he was the one in charge here!

Even if they died, it would only be their own negligence; it would not be blamed on Zhou Heng!

"You should know what to say and what not to say."

"You should know what to do now, right?"

The two reception envoys lowered their heads slightly. One of them raised his hand, and a faint wisp of Divine Soul aura condensed at his fingertip. The other person followed suit and did the same.

The two wisps of aura floated in front of Zhou Heng for a moment before he raised his hand and collected them. His movements were clean and efficient; it was clear he had done this many times before.

"Get up."

Zhou Heng turned and walked toward the outside of the hall. He spoke without looking back, "Assemble the patrolling Cultivators, prepare the teleportation array, and we will depart in a moment."

Outside the hall, twenty patrolling Cultivators had already lined up, their cultivation levels ranging from the Fifth Heaven of the Earth Immortal Realm to the First Heaven of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

Everyone was wearing the same style of dark gray short armor.

The team was quiet, their gazes uniform.

And their life souls had all been taken into Zhou Heng's hands in various ways!

In this remote Ascension management branch, he was the only one who truly called the shots!

He had struggled and climbed for hundreds of thousands of years, and now he had finally reached this point!

To him, hundreds of thousands of people ascending were nothing more than a group of smugglers, with the highest strength being no more than Earth Immortal!

Every Realm is like a different heaven, not to mention that he spanned across a major Realm!

Zhou Heng did not say much more; he stood in front of the team and raised his hand to signal!

The teleportation array lit up!

The team's landing point was at the edge of the area where the buildings were located!

When they walked out of the teleportation array, the concentration of Immortal Qi was significantly thicker than at the southern reception point!

At the same time, Gu Xuan sensed several unfamiliar auras approaching rapidly.

The direction was clear, and the objective was also very clear; they were heading straight for the Gu Family Mountain Gate.

At first, he didn't pay any attention to it, until Immortal King Su Mingchuan said from the side, "Master, those are people from the Immortal Realm Ascension Management Bureau. It seems they have come to investigate us smugglers."

Hearing this, Gu Xuan was a bit unhappy!

Gu Xuan's brows twitched slightly, "Smugglers? Our Gu Family walked through the Immortal Gate openly and honestly; what is this talk about smugglers?"

Why was this phrasing so unpleasant?

The Gu Family had entered these gates openly and honestly!

What do you mean by smugglers?

Wasn't this lowering the status of the Gu Family?

Are they saying the Gu Family's Ascension was done sneakily?

"Generally, ascenders are captured to mine and convert Immortal Qi, but..."

Immortal King Su Mingchuan didn't know what to say for a moment. He had just ascended to the Immortal Realm only to discover that his Master was an Immortal Emperor?

And then went to the Lower Realm to play??

Upon returning to the Immortal Realm, he was treated as a smuggler?

How was he supposed to explain this?

There was nothing to say!

Furthermore, he himself, a dignified Immortal King titan, was also going to be treated as a smuggler?

With the current strength of the Gu Family, they were going to be captured to mine?

Wasn't this a joke?

At this time, outside the Mountain Gate, Zhou Heng had already arrived with twenty patrolling Cultivators!

He couldn't see the world inside, but outside there were Immortal Plants and the like, as well as a few makeshift houses, which seemed to be places for storing things.

Clearly, the large group of smugglers was right before his eyes.

He stepped forward two paces and said loudly, "The Zichen Heavenly Realm Ascension management branch is here on patrol. Who is ahead? Report your names!"

It was quiet inside the formation for a moment!

A Disciple's voice came out, "Is that any of your business?"

Zhou Heng was stunned for a moment!

What?

Was it any of his business?

He was the manager of the Ascension management branch!

These people truly did not know the immensity of heaven and earth!

Since they didn't know the matters of Ascension, he would let them teach these ascenders how to behave!