Chapter 374: Chapter 323: Cetery Blind Box
By mid-April, Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, Li Xiao, and other students had already arrived at the tenth underground level.
For this cetery restoration project, besides first-year students, more outstanding upper-year students had also signed up to participate.
For example, leading the team at the front was a sixth-year student nad Tian Yang, who was responsible for leading, supervising, and coordinating the work of these students.
Zhang Yu walked through the wide underground passage, and the further he went, the more he could feel the concentration of spiritual energy in the air becoming denser.
According to Zhang Yu’s knowledge, the underground spirit veins of Wanfa University City were not naturally ford but were gathered into eighty-eight spirit veins at this location by adjusting the terrain when the university city was built.
The passage they were walking through led to one of these spirit veins.
Monts later, a massive tal door lood in front of everyone.
Feeling the faint mana flowing from behind the door, Zhang Yu sensed the powerful array forces surging on the other side.
Leader Tian Yang said, “Ahead is the cetery area. Everyone line up and pass through one by one, don’t crowd together.”
In Zhang Yu’s eye chanism, a line of writing also appeared on the door: Huilong Garden Mana Production Co., Ltd.
Zhang Yu understood that cetery, underground cetery was just a folk term, while this company’s na was the official appellation.
The next mont, as the closed door opened, a stream of cold air rushed in.
At that instant, the air around seed to thicken.
When Zhang Yu stepped inside, not only did the air beco thicker, but he also felt the humidity around him increasing, as spiritual energy began to float in the air like droplets, forming a mist of vibrant colors.
Zhang Yu took a deep breath, and as the mana circulated within him, he felt a surge of spiritual energy, slightly increasing his mana and nourishing his flesh and blood.
Beside him, Yu Xinghan exclaid, “No wonder this project has application requirents, working here… just breathing is a benefit.”
Hearing this, Zhang Yu nodded slightly, thinking that if the spiritual energy on the second floor was as valuable, they might all have to bring oxygen tanks to work.
Besides the gradually thickening spiritual energy, the temperature in the air was also decreasing.
Zhang Yu speculated this might be to cool down the cadavers perpetually channeling mana and absorbing spiritual energy.
At the sa ti, a notification and several options appeared in Zhang Yu’s eye chanism.
Welco to Huilong Garden!
Guided Tour
Paying Respects to Friends and Family
Product Showcase
Purchase Souvenirs
Contact Us
Job Openings
Zhang Yu casually selected the guided tour and discovered the entire map of Huilong Garden appeared before him, featuring the Festival Area, Benevolence Area, Gratitude Area, Family Area, and so on…
“What is the Festival Area?”
Zhang Yu looked over out of curiosity, only to realize that the so-called Festival Area was for space savings, where low-value cadavers had unnecessary parts removed, then underwent structural optimization and compression, to be stored into cadaver cabinets and integrated into the absorption cluster with minimal space.
Just then, Li Xiao said, “Look at the souvenir blind boxes they’re selling here, there’s good stuff inside!”
Hearing this, Zhang Yu also looked at the rchandise displayed in his eye chanism, thinking, “Are discarded cadavers decomposed and sold as blind boxes?”
Eyeing the potential contents of the blind boxes, like skin, flesh, limbs, ridians, and dantian, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but frown, “They can actually sell this stuff?”
Beside him, Yu Xinghan added, “Yep, the organs dismantled from these cadavers, running 24/7, are so old! Older than , can they even be used?”
Unable to hold back, Li Xiao said, “But if you could draw a Golden Core, or even a Nascent Soul organ…”
Yu Xinghan disapprovingly remarked, “Oh Li, you always have such speculative thoughts? You’re drawing the blind box, but the people filling the blind boxes aren’t blind. Do you think you’ll get lucky with genuinely valuable finds?”
“The Immortal Path frowns upon shortcuts like these, they’re for the wealthy. We poor cultivators need to be down-to-earth, borrowing step by step, repaying step by step, stop dreaming of overnight riches.”
“Plus, consider how many cadavers need to be discarded here annually, can blind box sales handle it all? There must be other channels for processing them, what’s really coming and going with these cadaver parts and organs, and of what quality…”
While Yu Xinghan was passionately explaining, a voice suddenly interrupted him.
“Dear student, Wanfa University is a legitimate university, and Huilong Garden is a legally operated cetery, unlike Nether University that sells the living as cadavers. Every organ and cadaver here is from legal deaths, with clear origins and destinations.”
Everyone turned toward the young man speaking, and the leader Tian Yang promptly said, “Manager Sun, this junior of mine knows nothing, just talking nonsense, you can ignore him.”
The man known as Manager Sun gave a cold glance at Yu Xinghan but said nothing more, turning to Tian Yang, “The cetery restoration area is quite large this ti, thank you for your hard work.”
After Manager Sun assigned tasks, he departed, and Tian Yang began distributing assignnts.
Soon, guiding arrows and task instructions started appearing separately in everyone’s eye chanisms.
Zhang Yu followed the guiding arrows to continue moving forward, gradually separating from his classmates.
He looked at the rows of densely arranged iron containers on both sides, thinking to himself that these must contain corpse parts.
A mont later, Zhang Yu saw a large area of iron containers twisted and deford, crushed on the ground.
There were also extensive damages to the surrounding ground, array foundations, spiritual chanism circuitry, nutrient pipelines, Spirit Realm Network, surveillance caras, and other infrastructure.
Zhang Yu thought, “Is this the area I’m responsible for maintaining?”
“Even the network is down?”
His eyes flickered, and the project files and repair blueprints he had downloaded in advance began to surface one by one.
“Speaking of which… why did such serious damage occur here?”
“Although the official explanation states that the high concentration of spiritual chanism caused corpse transformation and zombies, the universities and companies here in Kunxu—sohow I feel their surface explanations can’t be fully trusted.”
Zhang Yu shook his head, temporarily suppressing the stray thoughts in his mind, preparing to start his work.
As for the preparations before work, of course, it was taking dicine.
After all, for Zhang Yu, snagging so food and drink was his main reason for coming to the site; work was rely secondary.
And thanks to Director Gao’s special care, Zhang Yu could still get no more than ten doses of life-shortening drugs for free each day upon entering the site.
Blood Robbing Powder, capable of violently expanding blood vessels and ridians temporarily, stimulating the Dantian and heart’s pounding, rapidly accelerating the circulation of qi and mana throughout the body…
Spirit Root Stimulant, stimulating the central spirit root, increasing the sensitivity and thickness of the spirit root, temporarily improving its efficiency and endurance…
Only to see Zhang Yu inject one portion of these regular vigorous dicines into his body.
And this ti, due to the need to focus on breathing techniques, most of the dicines he chose were related to mana circulation.
He sat cross-legged, already operating the sixth set of Qi Vein Flow breathing technique—Superior Foundation Establishnt Mana Technique.
Besides the Qi Vein Flow set, the reason Zhang Yu chose this breathing technique was that it not only absorbed spiritual chanism and regulated mana but also slightly improved mana quality.
As Zhang Yu operated the breathing technique, the already wildly frenzied mana under the dication’s stimulation surged through his ridians like a colossal dragon, seeming to howl with a whistling sound.
anwhile, his Qi Sea Spirit Root, reaching full integration under the dication’s stimulation, also beca thicker and more robust, crazily absorbing the surrounding spiritual chanism.
The originally floating, colorful cloud-like dense spiritual chanism in the air seed to be drawn towards Zhang Yu as if swept by a tornado.
“It’s too dense… This spiritual chanism is too rich…”
Feeling the furious accumulation within his ridians, akin to jade-like spiritual chanism, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but marvel inwardly, thinking that this project choice was correct.
After running the breathing technique for a while, the Superior Foundation Establishnt Mana Technique had a breakthrough, reaching level 3.
At the sa ti, Zhang Yu waved his hand, casting strands of Gang Qi, wielding the Formless Cloud Gang to sweep across and begin site cleanup.
Even though this slowed the work efficiency, Zhang Yu, keen to cultivate the breathing technique alongside working, didn’t mind earning a bit less.
So in the following days, Zhang Yu imrsed himself in breathing practice and work, spending most of his ti at the site, reveling in the joy of constant improvent in mana and breathing techniques.
During his days at the site, Zhang Yu also encountered Che Yufei and Shi Yunxiang.
According to these two older students, the cetery project, compared to field projects, was considered a wellness project; it was much safer, and soaking in the rich spiritual chanism daily was also quite beneficial for the body.
One day, while Zhang Yu and Shi Yunxiang were walking together towards their designated area,
when they arrived at a fork in the path, Shi Yunxiang said, “Zhang Yu, could you walk with for a bit longer? It’s not far, just a few steps?”
“Hmm?” Zhang Yu looked curiously at the rough-featured, lion-headed student in front of him and asked, “Are you…afraid of the cetery?”
“What’s there to fear about a cetery? Would you be afraid in a Magic Remains store?” Shi Yunxiang shook his head, “I’m afraid of people.”
“Haven’t you noticed…many colleagues have coveted intentions towards ?”
Zhang Yu: “Huh?”
Shi Yunxiang sighed, “Every year, there are solitary demon scions who get eaten, even being shared among several— in the cetery area, because it’s less populated, such cases are frequent, so I try to avoid moving alone.”
“I can feel that your gaze doesn’t have that kind of desire.”
Zhang Yu smirked; although he was hungry and craved at, he indeed had no interest in eating sentient beings.
Zhang Yu asked, “If you’re a demon scion, why didn’t you go to Sky Demon University?”
Zhang Yu rembered that back in Songyang City, the top students from Red Tower usually went to Sky Demon University.
Shi Yunxiang shook his head, “Sky Demon University assigns majors based on bloodlines; I could only get into the reproduction departnt, and I didn’t want to study that, so I worked hard to get into Wanfa University.”
As they talked, Zhang Yu had already escorted Shi Yunxiang to his work site and then walked back.
But on the way back, when passing through a severely damaged area with no network or surveillance, Zhang Yu’s gaze suddenly sharpened.
Within the all-encompassing view provided by his Three-Eyed Divine Power, he saw a figure darting from the darkness, rushing towards him like a black lightning bolt.
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