As Tu Lishan announced the start of the final phase of the exam, the first wave of attack also arrived.
Accompanied by the rise of partitions around, massive pipes unfolded from underground.
The next mont, like a mountain flood pouring down, dragon-like furious waves crashed towards the fortress on site.
Terror filled the air as the great waves smashed against the fortress repeatedly, much like a siege engine bombarding, leaving many students anxious, fearing their fortress might get overwheld.
Ten minutes later, the tide gradually receded.
Tu Lishan nodded slightly and began the second wave of attack.
With loud booms echoing.
All the fortresses trembled slightly as the array of the simulated exam site was activated, causing the ground beneath the fortresses to ripple up and down, like turbulent waves arising from the earth.
As the ground shook violently, each fortress seed like it endured a magnitude 7 or 8 earthquake.
So students watched the cracks form on their structures with worry.
So students breathed a sigh of relief as their works remained steadfast.
After a minute, with the simulation earthquake ended, no fortress had collapsed on site.
The third wave of attack, intense explosions erupted, visibly sweeping shockwaves across the fortresses.
And in this wave of attack, finally, so fortress walls began to crumble.
By the end of the fourth wave, there were only four fortresses left intact on the field.
However, one of them had cracked exterior walls, exposing large patches of bloodstains inside.
Tu Lishan looked slightly surprised at this scene: "Ying Xin managed to hold on till this wave?"
Seeing the bloodstains within the wall, his gaze flickered: "Is it a blood sacrifice?"
Director Gao’s eye socket revealed Ying Xin’s information, and he nodded slightly: "During the re-refinent of materials, she infused her own essence blood and ancestral ashes stored within her, completing the blood sacrifice."
Director Gao smiled faintly, his eyes seemingly reflecting students who resembled Ying Xin, including her father, grandfather, and even earlier ancestors.
"No wonder she’s a sixth-generation civil engineering person, mastering the site blood sacrifice technique as a freshman."
The fifth wave of attack, massive fireballs rose and engulfed the remaining fortresses one by one.
As Ying Xin’s fortress was mostly shattered, Gongshu Jin’s fortress also had a big hole, revealing a section of the spine within.
The blood threads and nerves on that spine extended throughout the wall, pulsating with the spiritual chanism of the array, appearing as if it were the building’s heart.
Tu Lishan’s gaze flickered: "Inserted his magic remains spine into the array center?"
Director Gao appreciatively nodded: "Oh? Is it foundation piling? This is a sophomore construction technique, didn’t expect he’d already mastered it and could insert his magic remains into it."
The sixth wave of attack, accompanied by the flickering lightning, strands of thunderfire covered the entire site.
Continuous explosions swept waves of air in all directions, leveling all broken walls and remains to the ground.
Watching his spine disappear amidst the explosions, Gongshu Jin couldn’t help but feel heartache, shouting wildly in his mind: "My magic remains!"
Yet, knowing he only achieved third place by using his spine as foundation piling, he couldn’t help but stare at the remaining two fortresses, wanting to discern what civil engineering techniques they employed to stand firm till now.
Tu Lishan’s gaze flickered, revealing Ji Yuanshu’s construction records and acceptance records.
When Tu Lishan first saw them, he was astonished.
And as he browsed again at this mont, he couldn’t help but be amazed anew.
"Indeed..."
In the acceptance records, in the basent of the fortress, Ji Yuanshu’s body was sitting cross-legged.
"Actually buried himself inside, using his corpse to suppress fortune, gather spiritual chanism, and reinforce the array to its limit."
"No... not just that."
"When he was channeling the spirit vein, he was already constructing an auspicious burial site, planning his burial at that ti."
Tu Lishan’s gaze swept over patches of broken walls and the underground simulated spirit vein: "Initially suppressing fortune with the auspicious site and the buried corpse, occupying the most spiritual chanism in the spirit vein."
"But each ti a fortress collapsed, Ji Yuanshu’s fortress gathered additional spiritual chanism."
"This is the essence of Finance Departnt’s fortune path; each added resource can transport more resources, eventually accumulating and even influencing the world’s major trend..."
"Up until now, ninety percent of the spiritual chanism in the simulated spirit vein has gathered into Ji Yuanshu’s fortress."
Tu Lishan looked outside the exam site, at the figure of Ji Yuanshu.
At this mont, Ji Yuanshu’s soul preserved in the Spirit Realm appeared here as his Spirit Realm projection; however, most students accustod to viewing the world with eye sockets hadn’t noticed.
anwhile, Tu Lishan could also feel that the dical company’s ergency team was already waiting outside the exam site.
...
One young doctor asked, "Captain, how long do we wait?"
The leading doctor casually replied: "Once the exam ends, we can go in to rescue people."
The young doctor curiously asked: "Anyone wealthy enough to hire us, how could they still die in the exam?"
The leading doctor indifferently said: "Rich people, it’s normal to die several tis a year, unlike the poor who can’t afford to die."
"In our line of work, rember, don’t question how clients died; just revive their flesh each ti."
...
Director Gao coldly looked at Ji Yuanshu’s fortress, feeling the stability provided by the array and fortune.
At this mont, a proud voice called out: "Old Gao, how is my student’s mastery of fortune path?"
A Spirit Realm projection appeared before Tu Lishan and Director Gao; it was Ji Yuanshu’s master, Director Lin of the Civil Engineering Departnt, representing the Peace Faction.
Director Gao glanced coldly at the other, indifferently replied: "Not my civil engineering true path."
Director Lin sighed: "What true path is there in civil engineering? No matter the skill of construction, the quality of materials, or the cleverness of design, how can it compare to fortune? How can it defy destiny?"
"From ancient tis, no fortress, regardless of how strong, truly fell to war; it was always to human calamity. Which fortress was genuinely knocked down?"
"Even if your civil engineering skill is refined, without Finance, lacking fortune, it ends up as soone else’s foot rag, discarded after use."
Director Gao snorted coldly: "Finance Departnt turns the world into a grand casino; if everyone gambles, who truly constructs Kunxu? The sect aims to build Kunxu, to prosper Kunxu, that’s the true trend."
"Don’t use grand words to press , are you a Kunxu builder? Talking about trends with ? Whoever controls the money controls the trend."
Director Lin laughed coldly, looking at the two remaining fortresses on site, calmly spoke: "I have more outstanding disciples under my door than you, more projects on hand than you, more bank loans than you; if the trend isn’t with , who does it favor?"
"Like on this exam site now, all spiritual chanism converges on Ji Yuanshu; he’s the one favored by fortune, the one following the trend."
"How long can your civil engineering true path withstand?"
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