8:30 AM is the time when most people are heading to work, but today, aside from a few factories keeping society running and some highly automated facilities operating at full tilt, at least eighty percent of businesses across Huaxia—from multinational corporations down to small family workshops—had ground to a halt.
They had to stop; the workers had all run off to collect their Cultivation Formulas, so who was going to stick around to work for you?
As for docking pay for taking leave or skipping work?
Don't make me laugh. We are about to cultivate immortality here, and you think I care about your meager little handouts?
Chapter 20