What’s the point of cultivating immortality if you don’t have money?.

Chapter 293 Underground Magical Power Trading
"Transfer money?" Zhang Yu asked curiously, "Is that true?"

Yu Xinghan sneered, "This old fellow, as expected, he offers different prices to everyone."

With that in mind, he had already contacted Li Xuelian through the eye fragments.

Yu Xinghan: Senior sister, there's something I need to tell you...

Li Xuelian: I understand. What do you want to do?
Yu Xinghan: After all, he is my instructor, so it's not a problem to give him some spirit coins as a token of respect, but his asking price is too high. I'll only give him 0.1 spirit coins as a referral fee at most.

Yu Xinghan: Master, do you have a student who works as a security guard at a construction site? Could you ask him about his connections?
Li Xuelian: Ever since Dad had that accident, all his students have been avoiding you like the plague, so they probably can't help you.

Yu Xinghan: I was just asking. This unsophisticated teacher of mine is taking advantage of the fact that a newbie like me has no way of knowing the market. As long as I have more sources of information about prices, it shouldn't be difficult to negotiate a lower price for him.

After discussing this matter with Yu Xinghan, Li Xuelian asked again: "The three-month basic course is over. What are your and Zhang Yu's rankings now?"
Upon hearing their scores, Li Xuelian smiled with satisfaction and replied, "The results are not bad. I've found a friend who can help you improve the quality of your magical power."

Yu Xinghan's heart skipped a beat, and he said: "Not using the platform?"
Li Xuelian: Underground Transactions
Upon hearing the news brought by Li Xuelian, Yu Xinghan informed Zhang Yu, who was standing nearby, about the matter.

Zhang Yu knew that all transactions conducted through the magic power platform were legal and compliant formal transactions, and every bit of magic power would be verified and guaranteed by the platform, but a considerable handling fee would also be charged.

If you directly contact others and conduct private transactions, you can save on transaction fees, but you lack security and may even encounter magic fraud, such as using low-quality magic to impersonate high-quality magic, or the magic quality is indeed higher, but not as high as claimed.

In addition, underground trading of magical power is a violation of school rules. If a student is caught doing so, in addition to being fined, their overall score will be deducted, causing their ranking to drop.

Zhang Yu had considered finding someone to trade with, but lacking connections on the second floor and having no trustworthy trading partners, he eventually gave up.

Upon hearing that it was Li Xuelian who made the introduction, he immediately nodded and said, "It's worth a try."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "It's not just about Le Mulan's Dao Seed; I need to use my higher-quality magic power to help her."

"The improvement of the quality of my magical power can also enhance the effects of many of my techniques and increase the efficiency of my cultivation."

Following Li Xuelian's directions, the two arrived at the empty street on the 85th floor of Wanfa University City.

Yu Xinghan said, "This is the mortal district? Why isn't there a single mortal here?"

Zhang Yu looked at the empty street in front of him and shook his head. Although he often came to the area below the 100th floor to cultivate his skills, he had not seen a single mortal on the street until now.

The mortals here seem to stay in their own houses forever, never needing to go in or out.

The streets below the 100th floor are always deserted and quiet, with not a single person in sight.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "However, with no one on the streets and a lack of surveillance, this area below the 100th floor is really suitable for underground transactions."

"But actually, with the capabilities of Wanfa University, it shouldn't be difficult to completely monitor the area below the 100th floor. Why..."

A moment later, Li Xuelian appeared before them and said, "It's me."

"This is your first transaction today, let me take you there."

Li Xuelian led the two to the agreed location, where a dark figure appeared before them.

The other party was shrouded in a layer of black mist, completely concealing their appearance.

Of course, Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan were the same. Under the guidance of Master Xinghuo, they had both practiced the technique of controlling their muscles to change their appearance. At this moment, one of them transformed into the appearance of Gongshu Jin, and the other transformed into the appearance of Ji Yuanshu.

Li Xuelian was transformed into the image of a strange man, completely unrecognizable from her original self.

Watching Li Xuelian exchange coded messages with the other party, Zhang Yu used the power of the detection ritual to sense that there were no cameras.

After exchanging the code, the other party nodded slightly: "My rule here is money first, then law."

Yu Xinghan asked, "How many spirit coins are 100 mana points?"

The other party chuckled and said, "Minimum order is 10000."

Yu Xinghan frowned and said, "We can't take that many in one go, and you have 10000 mana?"

The other party seemed used to this, and said casually, "Of course it's a transaction in batches. I can transfer 100 or 200 to you at once, it's fine..."

After some final negotiations, the other party quoted 1 spirit coin for 10000 mana.

Zhang Yu thought to himself that it was indeed much cheaper than the platform price.

Li Xuelian then said, "I want to inspect the goods."

The other party was not surprised by this and sent a surge of magic power into Li Xuelian's palm.

Li Xuelian's eyes lit up: "Such pure magic power."

"175% mana quality." The other party smiled and said, "I always sell the best stuff. You'll understand once you use it."

Li Xuelian nodded to Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan, indicating that there was no problem. Then she sent a message: "Transfer the money to me, and I'll handle the transaction with him to reduce your risk of exposure." Although they were somewhat worried about being scammed by giving away spirit coins all at once, Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan still gave her the money after receiving Li Xuelian's repeated assurances and out of trust in her.

The two each contributed 0.5 spirit coins, totaling 1 spirit coin, which was transferred to Li Xuelian. Under the other party's guidance, Li Xuelian then used the 1 spirit coin to buy several books in the second-hand market.

Next, under Li Xuelian's supervision, the other party stretched out their hands and placed them on Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan respectively.

The next moment, Zhang Yu felt an incredibly thick, yet non-aggressive, high-quality magical power surge into his body, and under the other party's deliberate control, he remained quietly still.

Zhang Yu quickly circulated his magic power, using it to attack this high-quality magic power.

With each impact, he could feel his magic becoming more resilient, and at the same time, some high-quality magic was constantly mixed into his magic. Although it was quickly diluted and dissipated, the remaining parts still made Zhang Yu feel that his magic had become more solid.

In the blink of an eye, the magical power that the other party had poured in had completely dissipated.

As Zhang Yu sensed the changes in his own magical power, he thought to himself, "If I had such a master constantly infusing me with this high-quality magical power every day, the quality of my magical power would improve by leaps and bounds."

Zhang Yu wished he could enjoy this service all the time, but he knew that how often he could enjoy it depended not on his needs, but on his account.

Looking at his account balance, he realized that in the three months since he entered university, apart from the 2.5 scholarship and the 5 spirit coins that Bai Zhenzhen had given him, he had no income at all.

Although he had been saving every penny, after deducting monthly rent, internet fees, communication fees, transportation costs, food expenses, the cost of purchasing cultivation techniques, and the 0.5 spirit coins spent on purchasing high-quality mana, Zhang Yu currently had a little over 11.4 spirit coins left.
"I will purchase the Earth and Wood Sacred Body and the Qi Meridian Flowing Technique next. I need to ensure that I have at least 7 or 8 spirit coins."

"And then there are the usual expenses..."

Zhang Yu sighed inwardly. After discussing it with Yu Xinghan, they decided that each of them would pay 0.5 spirit coins to purchase 10000 mana from the other party at a price of 1 spirit coin per month, which the other party would then infuse into each of them once a day.

Zhang Yu thought to himself that since his current results were not bad, he could accept that the quality of his magic power was improving more slowly.

The other party replied, "Only 333 units of mana can be infused by the two of you together each day? That would only increase the quality of mana by 2 or 3 percent per month."

"Moreover, the higher the quality of your magic, the worse the effect, and the more you need to infuse it."

"With your abilities, you could easily infuse your mana several times a day. I think 5 spirit coins a month could greatly accelerate the improvement of your mana quality."

After refusing the other party's sales pitch, Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan accepted the remaining mana they had received that day and returned to their dormitory, intending to slowly digest it through their own cultivation.

But before entering the dormitory, Yu Xinghan said, "You go back first, I have something to do."

Zhang Yu gave the other person a strange look and said, "Why aren't you going back to digest this? Where are you going?"

Yu Xinghan said impatiently, "It's none of your business."

He shot out like lightning, his mind filled with images of Li Xuelian before and after her transformation today. He felt his incredibly strong body gradually heating up as his blood and energy accelerated, and his mind began to wander.

Yu Xinghan thought to himself, "Senior Sister, it's been a while since I last saw you, why do you seem to be getting more and more..."

"I can't take it anymore, I need to release some energy, otherwise I can't even calm down while meditating."

Thinking of this, Yu Xinghan couldn't help but feel a sense of shame.

"This is free overtime work."

Sometimes he wanted to kneel down and beg himself not to work for free, but he found that he could continue even if he knelt down.

Not long after Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan left.

The person in the black mist looked at Li Xuelian and said, "Chief, shouldn't you give your friend a discount?"

Li Xuelian said calmly, "You can give them a discount once, but do you think you can give them discounts for a lifetime?"

"Let's go, it's time to go to work."

In a flash, the two figures shot off towards the lower levels of the university town.

……

Time came to the second day.

This was the first day of the official start of the school year in September.

Zhang Yu glanced at the schedule and found that the three basic courses—Dao Xin, Mana Power, and Body Refinement—were basically the same as before, except that the number of courses had been reduced.

In contrast, the number of specialized courses has increased significantly, with many more courses on construction and testing, designed to help students make good use of the various civil engineering skills they have learned over the past three months.

During today's construction training, we saw Zhang Yu use a basic-level technique called Concrete Qi to manipulate mud with his Qi, pouring large swathes of concrete into the target location several meters away.

(End of this chapter)