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

Chapter 388 Intelligent Buildings
Within the spirit realm.

Each participating team has a competition communication group. During the competition, the information in the group will be shared with the judges and teachers, showing the internal communication process of the team.

Zhang Yu's team was no exception at this moment.

Looking at Zhang Yu's comments in the competition group, one teacher said, "It seems like Zhang Yu has discovered something."

Another teacher said, "The conversation with the substitute player should be a kind of probing."

"The formation was set up hastily. Without enough big data collection, the Myriad Ghosts Bewitching Formation cannot perfectly simulate various situations. He must have discovered its flaws now."

Wolf Friend laughed and said, "I didn't expect that Zhang Yu, who seems so daring and aggressive, could be so meticulous in his work."

Wei Huai said, "However, Su Yanyang's team was probably still working hard on construction just now and didn't really put their efforts into it. Now that Zhang Yu and his team have discovered the flaw, Su Yanyang's team should be about to truly demonstrate the power of intelligent buildings."

……

In the arena.

Su Yanyang's gaze seemed to penetrate through the many barriers, allowing him to see Zhang Yu and the other two who had already entered his formation.

But the three people, whose every move should have been under his observation, suddenly vanished without a trace the next moment.

The soul cultivators who are currently working on the array spirit sent a message: they dug a hole and went underground themselves.

Su Yanyang: Useless! How did he find out?
Soul Cultivator: We are too short-handed.
Su Yanyang: Do you want a bad review?

Seeing that the other party had shut up, Su Yanyang shook his head slightly: "That's the problem with soul cultivators, they always like to make excuses. In comparison, artifact spirits are much more obedient."

Su Yanyang had the privilege of trying out a highly intelligent spirit artifact. In his opinion, its obedience, work efficiency, work initiative, and learning ability were all superior to most soul cultivators.

"But it's a pity it's too expensive."

After considering the price difference between highly intelligent artifact spirits and soul cultivation, Su Yanyang decided to make do with soul cultivation.

……

As the dragon-shaped qi swept through, the soil in front of them churned up, and a passage half a person's height was quickly cleared.

Zhang Yu and Tian Yang followed behind Xiao Qingxuan, watching him dig faster and faster, both of them feeling a sense of surprise.

Zhang Yu exclaimed in surprise, "This isn't the Starry Sky Meridian Opening Technique, is it? What kind of martial art is this? How can it dig the ground so fast?"

Xiao Qingxuan did not answer, but thought to himself, "I can't possibly tell them... that this is the tomb-raiding technique that the ancient Golden Core cultivator accumulated over many years of tomb raiding."

So Xiao Qingxuan didn't answer, but said, "The enemy has probably set up a Ten Thousand Ghosts Bewitching Array. However, they have only set it up hastily in such a short time. As long as you escape the building's area, you will be unaffected."

"But underground, it's hard to tell where things are... Zhang Yu, can you sense where the spiritual energy is converging?"

Through his three-eyed divine ability, Zhang Yu could sense the direction where spiritual energy was converging. Upon hearing this, he marked it in his eye sockets to guide Xiao Qingxuan.

Xiao Qingxuan thought to himself, "The direction where the spiritual energy is converging, even if it is not the core of the formation, is still an important node of the formation. If we can cause damage, it should greatly delay the opponent's construction progress."

At the same time, Zhang Yu was also investigating the Ten Thousand Ghosts Bewitching Array mentioned by the other party, and asked curiously, "So just now, it was the array spirit of this array that was impersonating Shi Huaiyu and Yu Xinghan to send us a message?"

Having temporarily escaped the influence of the formation, Zhang Yu also re-established contact with Shi Huaiyu and the others on the other side.

In the competition group, Shi Huaiyu said, "It's called a formation spirit, but Su Yanyang usually uses a soul cultivator."

"Soul cultivators?" Zhang Yu asked in confusion, "Soul cultivators are also helping them in the competition? Then their numbers don't exceed six?"

Shi Huaiyu asked in confusion, "What number of people are considered soul cultivators?"

She felt like Zhang Yu was asking whether the artifact spirit counted as a contestant... Wasn't that just pure nonsense?

Zhang Yu fell silent upon hearing this. He realized that this was the first time since entering Wanfa University that he had truly felt the status of soul cultivators in the eyes of others.

"But this should only apply to soul cultivators who don't have money," Zhang Yu thought to himself. "For soul cultivators who have money, it's probably a different story."

……

Su Yanyang smiled slightly: "Three little mice."

Although the spirit of the formation had lost track of the three after they started digging, Su Yanyang could still see the map of the entire arena before his eyes.

The map contains data on various temperature changes, spiritual energy flow, construction progress, spiritual vein parameters, underground seismic sources, and so on.

It is composed of various detection methods from the six members of their team, and can comprehensively show the situation of the entire arena.

At this moment, Su Yanyang looked at a rapidly moving epicenter on the map and knew that it should be Zhang Yu and the other two.

……

boom!
Amidst the swirling mud and sand, Zhang Yu and his two companions crashed headfirst into an underground space.

As soon as it appeared, a series of data usage fee notifications appeared in front of them.

"Your account is 35 Spirit Coins in arrears. Service will be suspended in 1 minute. Please recharge immediately to resume use..."

Tian Yang was slightly taken aback when he saw the message, feeling his heart skip a beat.

Xiao Qingxuan shouted from the side, "We've entered the formation again, and there are all sorts of illusions... Don't get lost in them!"

……

Su Yanyang felt the tremors coming from the ground, looked at the video message sent by the array spirit, and snorted coldly: "Have we arrived yet?"

At this moment, the great formation beneath his feet seemed to become an extension of his thoughts. Su Yanyang unleashed a palm strike towards the location of Zhang Yu and the other two, then clenched his fist tightly. ...

Zhang Yu and the other two felt as if the earth around them had come alive, as if it had instantly transformed into a high-strength alloy, closing in on them.

Feeling the terrifying pressure coming from all directions, Zhang Yu threw a punch, and a series of dragon roars suddenly rang out.

Just as he and Xiao Qingxuan were digging their way here, the other side injected 20 Nine Dragons Heavenly Palms into his body.

At that moment, 20 strikes erupted in an instant, the air seemed to boil, turning into waves of air that swept towards the entire underground space, tearing apart and shattering the converging earth.

After a swift attack, Zhang Yu and his two companions retreated into the cave and followed Xiao Qingxuan as they quickly dug their way away.

Zhang Yu: He seemed to have been prepared for this.
Tian Yang: It must be because we were making too much noise digging the tunnel that he detected it.
Xiao Qingxuan: Dispersed Action
……

Looking at the sudden increase in the number of epicenters on the map, Su Yanyang thought to himself, "Have they dispersed?"

"No, it's not just that the three of them were separated; they probably also used human and dragon-shaped qi to deceive others."

As a cautious person, Su Yanyang never fights a battle he is unprepared for.

He carefully inquired about the course of the battle from Ma Xuan, and was already very familiar with the methods of Zhang Yu and the others.

He knew that Zhang Yu was skilled in using a technique that could create a human-shaped aura, with a maximum range of about sixty meters.

They also knew that Xiao Qingxuan was skilled in the Nine Dragons Heavenly Palm, whose qi could be transmitted over a hundred meters.

"They are probably using the transmission of Qi over long distances to create an earthquake source and interfere with my detection."

"That's fine."

Su Yanyang checked the construction progress: "Is it 50% complete?"

He sent a message to his competition group: "Next, let's do the stakeout."
Meanwhile, in each of the five corners of the construction site, a mummified corpse was injected into the ground, and then a connection to the spirit world was made, infusing it with souls from the spirit world.

……

Within the spirit realm.

Jiao Lei's eyes lit up and he said, "Is it Smart Pile? Construction Butler?"

Wei Huai nodded repeatedly and said, "That's not all. It incorporates live pile technology, intelligent building technology, and blood sacrifice technology."

"If I'm not mistaken, those five living corpses are probably the original bodies transformed into original souls."

"This greatly increased the progress of the formation, made the formation more efficient, and significantly improved the strength of the buildings."

As observed by everyone, a large amount of spiritual energy began to converge along the spiritual veins toward the buildings built by Su Yanyang and others, and the proportion of spiritual veins had reached 40% in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Lang Yougong thought to himself, "This is going to be difficult. What will Zhang Yu and the other two do?"

"Hmm? Should we continue to separate?"

"With the increased strength of the formations and buildings, it will be difficult for them to cause damage if they continue to disperse."

But the next moment, Lang Yougong was slightly surprised: "Eat?"

Zhang Yu opened his mouth and swallowed a large piece of food into his stomach. Then he quickly circulated his internal energy and patted his body to digest it.

Seeing this, Lang Yougong nodded slightly, seemingly lost in thought, and said, "Eating... is indeed a good idea."

"Eating is the best way to hide building materials, tools, and even fellow workers on a construction site, and it is almost an essential skill for every worker."

"If Su Yanyang is fighting with a big project, a major undertaking, and a focus on the overall situation."

"Zhang Yu is using petty tricks and techniques, and he's using the methods of a worker to fight back."

However, Lang Yougong did not underestimate Zhang Yu's strategy, because he knew that a thousand-mile dike can be breached by an ant hole, and many large and important projects were destroyed in one fell swoop through such gradual corruption.

Especially now that construction materials cannot be replenished on the field, "eating" them is a very effective way to stop the opponent's construction.

"But Zhang Yu will only eat a few bites before leaving, which is too inefficient. What will you do next?"

However, Zhang Yu and his two companions soon changed their modus operandi.

Tu Lishan, standing nearby, noticed something amiss and thought, "Zhang Yu is hiding in the deepest part, focusing on consuming building materials. Hmm? Not just consuming them, he's starting to process them too. Is he planning to build something on the spot?"

"Xiao Qingxuan dug tunnels to establish a comprehensive underground network, while also locating and marking the storage locations of materials."

"Tian Yang then moved around, bringing building materials to Zhang Yu for him to eat and process."

In Tu Lishan's eyes, the three of them were like a production line, constantly picking up and transforming building materials on the construction site to slow down the construction progress of Su Yanyang's team.

One of the teachers nodded and exclaimed, "Zhang Yu and his two companions were able to figure out the construction site layout, build the transportation network, transport materials at high speed, identify materials, and even eat and process them so quickly. These three have learned civil engineering skills very well."

Hearing the analysis from some of the civil engineering professors, Magnetism True Monarch asked, "That's good, so it seems your disciple is going to win again?"

Director Gao messaged privately: We're going to lose, don't ask anymore.

Magnet Lord: Oh? Why?
Director Gao: Su Yanyang has already won. Now he wants to reduce Zhang Yu's team's building completion rate as low as possible.

Director Gao: If the building's completion level is low enough, Zhang Yu and his teammates will also rank low in the top ten.

Director Gao: Su Yanyang has a higher chance of getting into the top seven.
Director Gao: The overall ranking of the war faction will also be lower.
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