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

Chapter 311 Superior - Sacred Body of Civil Engineering (88)

Zhang Yu is a freshman in the Department of Civil Engineering and a master of construction site survival. For the past few months, he has been on a journey to find wild delicacies on construction sites, risking his life in order to eat the freshest, most delicious, and most expensive ingredients.

Several days ago, he traveled thousands of miles by airship to this dangerous post-war ruin.

On this land covering more than a thousand acres, there are remnants of Golden Core magic power, still-functioning array power, and all sorts of invisible polluting materials... various unimaginable dangers.

High temperatures, explosions, diseases... all threatened his life, trying to break down the defenses in his heart.

If Zhang Yu is seriously injured by these dangers, he will be sent to the team doctor, ending his adventure.

But what waries him most is not these deadly threats from the wild, but the predators who are also searching for prey like him.

Those stronger, older, and more experienced civil engineering seniors were able to easily snatch food from him.

To avoid competition with its own kind, Zhang Yu had to travel even further to find precious ingredients that grew in remote, untouched places.

At this moment, he walked cautiously through the ruins, his three-eyed supernatural powers fully activated, guarding against any movement around him.

He was accompanied by swirling clouds, sweeping over the broken building materials, unknown parts, and shattered equipment.

He would occasionally pick up some metallic materials or some utensils whose purpose he didn't know, examine and identify them, and then casually throw them on the ground.

In this perilous ruin, food is always hidden in some unknown corner.

Suddenly, Zhang Yu's gaze shifted slightly; he seemed to have discovered something.

The formless cloud energy transformed into spiraling streams of energy, which then grabbed a cylindrical object and brought it to his front.

This appears to be a module on the puppet production line.

The corrosion-resistant film contained within has properties such as acid resistance, high temperature resistance, and impact resistance, which is exactly the delicacy that Zhang Yu has been searching for.

Zhang Yu stroked the inner liner of the cylinder, using the knowledge and experience he had gained over the past few days to examine it. Soon, a smile appeared on his face as he began to carefully handle this gift from nature.

With a flick of his index finger, a green silk flying sword attached to his finger was activated, sweeping across the cylinder with a beam of light and slicing it into dozens of pieces.

After the sword strike, the strand of black hair coiled around Zhang Yu's index finger again, but it was no longer miraculous and needed to gather its spiritual energy for a day and a night to recover.

Picking up the fragments from the ground, Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Luckily, I have the Green Silk Flying Sword that Zhen gave me. Otherwise, even if I found these materials, it would take me a lot of time to hide them or swallow them and process them myself."

Zhang Yu opened his mouth and swallowed the fragment of the Corrosion Abyss Membrane in one gulp.

Although he was starving, Zhang Yu did not rush to switch to the University Sacred Body or use the Earth-Eating Divine Technique to digest the food in his stomach.

Because he understood that in this dangerous wilderness, he would be extremely weak after digesting everything.

So Zhang Yu simply kept the Corrosion Abyss Membrane in his stomach for the time being, planning to deal with the day's harvest after get off work.

A moment later, Zhang Yu found another section of pipe and used three of his Green Silk Flying Swords to cut it open.

"No. 15 Spiritual Steel is a weaker version of No. 20 Spiritual Steel, but it still takes three sword strikes to cut through it."

"As expected, I am still a long way from being able to digest the No. 20 Secret Steel."

Zhang Yu swallowed the fragment of No. 15 Secret Steel, thinking to himself, "Like No. 20 Secret Steel, I'll store it away for now. After I strengthen my digestive system with the Corrosion Abyss Membrane, I'll use this No. 15 Secret Steel to further strengthen it, and then I can try to digest No. 20 Secret Steel..."

While clearing the ruins, Zhang Yu collected and processed food, and soon it was time to get off work.

While the other students went to get massages, he buried the collected ingredients in a large pit he had prepared.

Then, he took out a portion of the Corrosion Abyss Membrane, switched to the University Sacred Body, activated the Earth-Eating Divine Art, and began to fully digest this rare food.

"Unfortunately, we have vegetables but no medicine."

But Zhang Yu also knew that one couldn't be too particular about things on a construction site in the wild, so he shook his head and began to use his magic to digest the food in his stomach.

The wisps of the Corrosive Abyss membrane seeped into his stomach, gradually strengthening its resilience and resistance, as if it were slowly putting on a layer of armor for his stomach.

As each strand of the Corrosive Abyss membrane was refined, his digestive ability became stronger, gradually grinding away at the food that entered his stomach like a giant millstone.

In the days that followed, Zhang Yu devoted himself to collecting and refining ingredients, while also clearing away the ruins.

In just over a week, thanks to the peak digestive power of the Foundation Establishment stage brought by the University Sacred Body and the level 20 Earth-Eating Sacred Technique, he refined the Corrosion Abyss Membrane, worth more than 10 spirit coins, into his esophagus, stomach, and intestines, making the three as solid as an impenetrable fortress.

So, a few days before the ruins were cleared, he finally began to try to digest the No. 15 Secret Steel.

First, he used up seven Green Silk Flying Swords to cut more than a dozen metal blocks into hundreds of tiny fragments.

Then Zhang Yu swallowed the fragments, and the Gluttony Mana condensed by the Earth-Eating Divine Art surged out. With the help of his peak Foundation Establishment level digestive power, he tried to continuously decompose the No. 15 Secret Steel.

But as he felt the No. 15 Secret Steel being digested with difficulty and shrinking bit by bit, Zhang Yu activated the Battle Demon Life-Destroying Technique again, temporarily raising his physical strength level by a full 1.0 level.

The internal organs inside his body erupted like a volcano, bursting forth with incomparably violent power. Like a giant millstone, it was relentlessly grinding towards the No. 15 Secret Steel under the blessing of the Gluttony Magic.

Then Zhang Yu activated the level 20 Wuji Zhenchan, using high-frequency vibrations to further accelerate his digestion process.

As he felt the strands of No. 15 Secret Steel being digested in his stomach, and how it strengthened his stomach along with the Corrosion Abyss Membrane, Zhang Yu finally felt a sense of satisfaction.

"I barely managed to digest this No. 15 secret steel with all my might." "What strength will it reach when I refine the No. 20 secret steel into my bones?"

A few days later, with the rubble cleared, the construction site entered its second phase, and construction began on the factory buildings for the Fahai Factory.

From the start of factory construction, teachers and students from the Weapon Refining Academy, as well as the Architecture Department, gradually appeared.

However, unlike the Civil Engineering Department, which aims to train students, this outdoor Fahai Factory project is merely a money-making project for the Weapon Forging Academy and the Architecture Department. Furthermore, since they mainly focus on design, supervision, and quality control, not many people come to participate.

Without the danger of the ruins, Zhang Yu spent his days driving the University Sacred Body, diligently working while also practicing the techniques of the Civil Engineering Sacred Body.

Previously, because he was constantly using the Earth and Wood Sacred Body technique to ensure safety, his cultivation of the Mountain True Form Chapter had slowed down. But now, his cultivation progress has accelerated by leaps and bounds.

With the activation of the Mountain True Form Manual, Zhang Yu's body expanded to a new size, and then he unleashed palm strike after palm strike, fixing the steel bars in front of him firmly.

Looking at the senior students leaving, Zhang Yu's eyes flashed with the size data, and he reminded them, "1.3 millimeters won't do here, the requirement is that it cannot exceed 1 millimeter."

On this day, he also pushed the Mountain True Form Chapter to level 10.

After his cultivation technique reached level 10, Zhang Yu felt his body expanding, no longer just throughout his body, but also locally.

"After reaching level 10, is it possible to allow for the expansion and growth of specific muscle groups within the body?"

After sensing the new power of the cultivation technique, Zhang Yu looked at the messages in the group and urged helplessly, "Hasn't the blueprint for the architecture department arrived yet? Can you urge them? We've been waiting for almost an hour."

After a busy day and night, it's finally time to get off work.

Zhang Yu usually couldn't bear to waste the spirit world network, nor could he waste the equally expensive network of the Sky-Patrolling Flying Sword.

But at this moment, Zhang Yu held the Xuanzao Relic, inhaling and exhaling the high-quality magical power within it.

At the same time, he connected to the spirit network within the construction site, let Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Pianpian know he was safe, asked Yu Xinghan for the class video, and greeted Le Mulan...

“Ah Zhen, my senior classmates went to get massages again. Of course I didn’t go. There are six masseuses, working overtime every day, they don’t even have time to shower. I think they’re dirty.”

Life on the construction site was so fulfilling that Zhang Yu felt like a piece of steel being repeatedly forged and tempered under high temperature and pressure, advancing on the path to immortality every second.

Half a month later, not only did his cultivation level improve significantly, but he also became more and more familiar with the construction site and gained more and more construction experience.

Looking at the dimensions of the steel bars in front of him, Zhang Yu said to Che Yufei beside him, "It's only 2 millimeters off. I think it's about right. It's not like we're making a magic weapon."

Che Yufei frowned, about to say something, when he saw the piece of No. 20 secret steel being handed to him. He raised an eyebrow slightly and quietly slipped it into his sleeve: "I'll let it go this time, but you can't do this again next time."

After seeing Che Yufei off, Shi Yunxiang said, "Teacher Tu said in the group that the blueprints have been sent over?"

Zhang Yu said, "What are you waiting for? I finished installing that floor a long time ago. How can those designers know the situation as well as we construction workers do?"

"It's time to leave work, I'm going now."

When Shi Yunxiang returned to his room, he found Che Yufei and the others there. He asked in confusion, "Didn't anyone go for a massage?"

Che Yufei said helplessly, "Those technicians haven't showered in a long time, and we all thought they were dirty, so Zhang Yu went instead."

……

It was accompanied by a soft boom.

Zhang Yu dug up the pit he had buried and took out a piece of No. 20 secret steel.

Since Che Yufei and the others stopped giving massages these past few days, Zhang Yu simply used massages as an excuse to sneak out for his daily meals.

"The masseuses will be taking a shower tomorrow, so Che Yufei and the others will probably go for another massage to relax."

Zhang Yu looked at the No. 20 Secret Steel in his hand.

Now that he has strengthened his digestive system with No. 15 Secret Steel, it is finally time to digest No. 20 Secret Steel.

The precious material used to protect the core of the puppet is as strong as some body parts of a Foundation Establishment Peak Body Refinement expert.

Not only is it explosion-proof and impact-resistant, it can also evenly absorb martial arts energy.

Zhang Yu previously used the Azure Silk Flying Sword to cut, consuming the power of seven strands of Azure Silk each day, and could only barely cut off a piece the size of a palm.

At that moment, Zhang Yu's mouth, stomach, and chest suddenly swelled up.

It was after he pushed the Mountain True Form Chapter to level 20 that, when the technique was activated, he gained the ability to temporarily expand his esophagus, stomach, and other internal organs.

After cultivating the Mountain True Form Manual to level 20 a few days ago, his Earth and Wood Sacred Body finally reached the second level.

Superior Level - Earth and Wood Sacred Body (8/8): During the Foundation Establishment stage, the consumption of energy, food, and medicine greatly reduces the impact on lifespan. The Earth and Wood Sacred Body allows you to live to old age and keep working forever.

"What a wonderful sacred body! With this Earth and Wood Sacred Body, I can now practice some cultivation techniques and consume some life-shortening drugs more recklessly."

"Fortunately, I only used up a year of my lifespan during this period, and I still have plenty of lifespan left to burn."

(End of this chapter)