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

Chapter 330 Passionate Civil Engineering
Zhang Yu switched to Qi Meridian Flow and felt his mana rapidly recovering. He said nonchalantly, "It's alright, just focus on improving the quality of your mana."

"You should be able to sense it, right? The magical power within you is about to break through a bottleneck."

Le Mulan nodded. Recently, she felt that the magical power in her body was becoming increasingly cold and sinister. Although it would not harm her, it would sometimes leak out uncontrollably, causing various strange phenomena in the outside world.

Le Mulan had a feeling that if things continued at this pace, her magical power would undergo a qualitative change in another week or two.

Such a rapid improvement in the quality of magical power is also inseparable from Zhang Yu.

The improvement in the quality of her magical power made her cultivation more efficient, accelerated her progress, and led the Le family on the second floor to invest more resources in her.

Thinking of this, Le Mulan looked at Zhang Yu and sighed inwardly. She never expected that the money she had spent on him would be returned to her in this way, doubling the cost.

Just then, Zhang Yu handed another measuring cup to Le Mulan: "By the way, this shipment is for you too."

Le Mulan nodded and said, "I'll transfer the spirit coins to you once they arrive in my account."

Feeling the warmth emanating from the measuring cup, Le Mulan immediately judged based on her rich experience: "It must have been born not long before I came, that was very fast."

"Zhang Yu's productivity has been so high lately... Is it because he's been taking too many supplements?"

After regaining his magical powers, Zhang Yu quickly left the dormitory and rushed to the construction site again.

The renovation of the cemetery is more than half completed, and now he is even more determined to make the most of the remaining time to absorb spiritual energy within the cemetery construction site.

"It's a pity that Mr. Wang won't be there to keep me company for the rest of the time."

Walking through the familiar underground passage, Zhang Yu arrived at his assigned work location for the day.

Then, as usual, he activated the detection ritual within his body and glanced at the location of the nearby cameras.

After all, he had many secrets, so Zhang Yu had gotten into the habit of checking and memorizing the camera locations to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.

But this time, feeling the feedback from the ritual power within his body, Zhang Yu looked at the wall on his left and suddenly frowned slightly: "Is there a hidden camera here?"

"Did they come here specifically to take pictures of me?"

Thinking of this, Zhang Yu activated the power of the monitoring ritual within his body and tried to control the camera. The next moment, he gained the camera's monitoring perspective.

"This is……"

Looking at the surveillance footage, Zhang Yu discovered that it was a multi-angle camera that could simultaneously see the construction site and a hidden passage behind a wall.

"Is there a secret passage here?"

Zhang Yu controlled the surveillance camera, looking at the messy holes dug behind the wall, and thought to himself, "This doesn't look like a formal project; it looks like someone dug it secretly."

Zhang Yu became curious: who dug this secret passage?

But after thinking about it, Zhang Yu decided not to bother with it.

Who knows what secrets lie behind this, what interests are involved, or what dangers might arise?
So for the next few days, Zhang Yu pretended not to have discovered the secret passage and continued working and breathing as usual.

That day, he received a message from Jiao Lei Zhenren in the class group chat.

Jiao Lei (real person): Students who want to participate in this year's architecture competition can register now. Interested students can let me know.

Upon seeing this message, Zhang Yu's eyes lit up. He knew that with the holding of various competitions, students would have more avenues to improve their overall scores.

Therefore, relying solely on academic performance is not enough to consistently rank at the top of the school's rankings.

So Zhang Yu consulted with Master Jiao Lei to learn more about the architecture competition.

Only then did I realize that this was an annual, important competition for architecture and civil engineering students, encompassing both architectural design and civil engineering.

The competition was arranged as follows: first, a selection competition was held within the college of Wanfa University, and then the selected teams were sent out to compete against representative teams from other universities.

"This year's finals will be held at Tianyao University at the end of the year."

"But the departmental selection competition will begin in the second half of the year."

"Although the competition will not officially start until next semester after the final exams of this semester, the registration and team formation have already begun. After all, once the competition teams are formed, they will need to work together."

Soon after, Tulishan also sent a message to Zhang Yu.

Tulishan: You know about the building competition, right?

Tulishan: There's a team recruiting; you could give it a try.

Tu Lishan: You're only a freshman, so don't worry about the outcome. Just focus on gaining experience.
So, on Tu Lishan's recommendation, Zhang Yu made a special trip the next day to the construction site on the 667th floor.

Upon arriving at the agreed location, he saw a slender girl doing warm-up exercises.

Looking at the other person's not-so-muscular physique and the ranking above their head, Zhang Yu wondered in surprise, "Are there girls with this kind of build in the Civil Engineering department?"

Cong Na, a fourth-year Foundation Establishment student in the Civil Engineering department, ranked fifth in her class, said calmly, "Zhang Yu, right? Here's what happened..."

Through the other party's explanation, Zhang Yu finally understood that the team had already gathered five students, and now they needed to recruit another student from the Civil Engineering Department to be responsible for the project implementation.

Cong Na twisted her arms and legs, making a series of crackling sounds, and chuckled, saying, "I'm here to give you a test."

"Although you were recommended by Teacher Tu and ranked second in the class, you're still only a freshman." Although it wasn't explicitly stated, Cong Na thought... having a freshman on the competition team was just a burden. The other person would only be doing odd jobs and might even be hoping to get a ranking by default.

Even if the other party is truly skilled, Cong Na would still prefer to choose a student of similar ability from a higher grade, since higher grade students have more construction experience.

Therefore, Cong Na's idea was very simple.

"Let him give up," Cong Na thought to herself. "Let this kid understand that competitions are not for freshmen."

Zhang Yu nodded and asked, "How do we test it?"

Cong Na sent the blueprints to Zhang Yu, then pointed to a support frame and said, "I've already sent you the blueprints."

"If you can complete the steel reinforcement in the blueprint within 10 minutes, you will pass the test."

"However, just like the competition simulates a wartime environment, while you are laying steel bars, I will attack from time to time to stop your work."

"Is there a problem?"

Zhang Yu glanced at the blueprints and thought to himself, "Damn it, are they using this test to make me do all this work for free again? No wonder they're the team that Tu Lishan introduced, they're just like everyone else."

Even so, Zhang Yu nodded and said, "No problem."

As the countdown began, "3, 2, 1," Zhang Yu flashed forward, unleashing a surge of powerful energy.

With a single palm strike, the steel bars more than ten meters away were swept away and fell onto the scaffolding.

He then flicked his finger, and ripples of qi flashed by. The wires several meters away jumped up and began to wrap around the steel bars.

Watching Zhang Yu's swift movements, Cong Na nodded slightly: "His movements are not slow."

"Then I'll put even more pressure on you..."

Cong Na took a step forward and struck Zhang Yu's back with a palm strike, a palm strike capable of twisting most of the steel bars.

With the tendon-severing power contained in Cong Na's palm strike, she was confident that a single blow would twist all the steel bars that Zhang Yu had erected, rendering his work completely futile.

Cong Na even felt that if she were to land a few blows on Zhang Yu, she might be able to break his bones.

Zhang Yu, who possessed the Three-Eyed Divine Power, had been observing Cong Na's situation for a long time. Almost the instant Cong Na made a move, he also struck out with a palm, his qi swirling and surging towards her.

With a loud bang, Cong Na shattered Zhang Yu's protective aura with a palm strike and continued to approach without stopping.

She scoffed inwardly, "The transmission rate of my internal energy is too low. This little bit of power... can't even slow me down. As expected, freshmen are unreliable."

With a cold snort, Cong Na had already arrived beside Zhang Yu, unleashing a barrage of palm strikes that forced Zhang Yu to turn around and parry.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Is this some kind of 'Hot-Blooded Civil Engineering' competition? We have to work on construction and fight at the same time?"

However, due to Cong Na's interference, Zhang Yu found himself unable to continue the construction.

As an outstanding senior student, Zhang Yu's opponent was stronger and faster than him. Once the battle started, even if he used a 50/50 fighting strategy, imitated the opponent's movements, and went head-to-head with the opponent, he could only parry the opponent's moves and would find it difficult to continue working, let alone defeat the opponent.

At this moment, Zhang Yu revealed the flaws in his combat system.

"He's quite resilient," Cong Na thought to herself as she suppressed Zhang Yu. "But in a competition, just being resilient isn't enough."

Seeing that the other party's work had completely stopped under her offensive, Cong Na thought to herself, "Is the project halted just because of fists and feet? The real competition is countless times more dangerous than this."

Cong Na thought to herself, "It's too far off. Should I give up now?"

Just as Cong Na was thinking this, a humanoid aura flashed past her and pounced towards her.

"What use is this low energy conduction rate if I can transform into human form?"

Just as Cong Na was about to casually break through this humanoid aura, she discovered that the humanoid aura was using the exact same move as her.

"Using your internal energy to imitate my moves?"

"Ridiculous."

With a deafening roar.

Cong Na's palm collided violently with the palm of the humanoid qi, and then she was surprised to find that not only were the moves exactly the same, but the force exerted by the qi was also exactly the same, both being tendon-severing palm force.

"Ok?"

However, after just one strike, the humanoid aura dissipated into the air.

But the next moment, just as Cong Na stepped out, another humanoid aura rushed towards her and blocked her way.

boom!
One humanoid aura dissipated, and another humanoid aura struck.

To Cong Na's astonishment, each humanoid qi strike used the exact same move and palm force as her, and somehow managed to block her completely.

Protected by the protective aura, Zhang Yu turned around and continued working, his hands creating afterimages as he swept them back and forth across the steel bars.

(End of this chapter)