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

Chapter 565 Infiltrating a Sect?
After explaining the gift-giving arrangements to Zhang Yu, Magnet True Lord inquired about Zhang Yu's preparations for the design competition.

Magnet Master: What kind of work are you planning to design? Do you have a direction yet?
Zhang Yu: I'm currently doing some research on junior college students with my senior colleague...

So Zhang Yu talked about how he had been collecting information on college students and planned to create a product suitable for college students and even those from lower-level schools.

Hearing Zhang Yu's words, Magnetism True Monarch frowned slightly and replied: "It does indeed have commercial potential."

Magnet Master: But you should know that there are no college graduates among the judges.

Magnet Lord: If your design is too overtly specialized, the judges might not be impressed.

Zhang Yu: I understand.
Zhang Yu: From what I understand, college students don't actually like the smell of their college diploma, so I will make adjustments in that regard.

Magnet Lord: You know what you're doing.
Magnet Lord: After you finish the design drawings, can you send me a copy to take a look? I'll help you check them out.
Magnet Master: Although you can participate in design competitions and win awards by submitting only design drawings, it's much easier to stand out and impress the judges if you include a physical product.

Magnet Lord: Of course, you need to have the skill to forge weapons. If you don't have time to forge a good one after you finish the design, don't send the product out.
With some guidance from Magnet Master, Zhang Yu gained a better understanding of the key points for participating in the design competition.

In the following days, Zhang Yu also received more and more daily videos from college students.

With a burst of speed within Taiqing territory, the daily lives of college students appeared before Zhang Yu.

The shattered earth, the collapsed school buildings, and the destroyed campuses appeared before Zhang Yu's eyes, making him think he had arrived in a war zone.

He even saw a flying sword coming from the sky and heading towards their campus from the perspective of a college student.

According to the college students, similar sounds of flying swords and thunderous noises frequently rang out over the campus.

They had also become accustomed to immediately taking refuge in underground fortifications after each rumble of thunder.

"Were colleges and universities really that severely affected by the war?"

Zhang Yu couldn't help but recall the civil engineering work he had done in college: "It was much more intense than before."

Besides the shadow of war looming over various colleges and universities, Zhang Yu also saw the financial scars left by the battle of the Divine Transformation Realm, such as half of the teaching buildings being sold off, campus land being used to build factories, and dormitories being forcibly demolished...

Under the shadow of war, the spread of various cults in colleges and universities seems to be becoming increasingly concentrated.

Although Zhang Yu didn't see a single member of the Demon Cult, the constant anti-Demon Cult propaganda, inspections, and advertisements he saw from the perspective of a college student made him feel the urgency of the situation even more.

Zhang Yu had witnessed more than once that college students walking on the street were subjected to surprise inspections, especially those who were walking on the street during working hours or class time, who were suspected of being members of the "Demon Cult".

Rumors of various factories being attacked and forced to shut down have been circulating. Some say it was done by rival schools, while others say it was done by cultists who wanted to take a break. The chaotic mix of information makes it difficult to discern the truth.

The aftermath of war, cults, and financial crises... all these factors have led to a sharp increase in the pressure on college students.

"Drug prices have gone up again."

"Sigh, the principal said that the pharmaceutical factory must first meet the needs of the giant corporations above, so the production of medicines for the school's teachers and students can only be reduced."

Giant corporations... Zhang Yu had heard some people mention them before.

That was a giant enterprise headquartered on the 7th to 10th floors of Kunxu, with a large amount of business serving the ten major sects.

Its status is even higher than that of the top ten universities in some aspects, and compared with ordinary companies, it is on a completely different level.

Although the primary task of these giant corporations is to serve the sect, in the process of doing so, they inevitably have an impact on the first to sixth levels of Kunxu.

Although their headquarters are located on floors 7 to 10, they have a large number of subsidiaries on floors 1 to 6, which are either responsible for import and export trade on each floor or involved in local businesses.

If the primary goal of these giant corporations is to serve the sects, then their secondary goal is to make money like crazy, acquire resources, and produce products... because only in this way can they satisfy their primary goal.

As the videos progressed, Zhang Yu finally saw the last daily college life video she had received that day.

This junior college student is named Shui Haiyu. He comes from a junior college under Wanfa University called Shanhai Vocational University.

In the video, he is eagerly signing up for a club.

"Hello? Is this the Dual Cultivation Club?"

"Will it really improve grades?"

"Okay, then I'll sign up."

……

end of June.

Zhang Yu looked at his account and sighed inwardly.

"Sigh, more than 100 spirit coins are gone just like that."

Not long ago, Magnetism True Lord took him to meet several judges in the reception room of the spirit world and gave them the prepared spirit coins.

Fortunately, Zhang Yu now earns a considerable monthly income, so the expenditure of 100 spirit coins did not delay his weapon-refining plan.

The whole process of giving money was quick, fast, and simple. In Zhang Yu's view, there was almost no nonsense; it was just about meeting people, introducing them, and then slipping them money.

Zhang Yu even suspected that these Nascent Soul True Monarchs who served as judges might have arranged for artifact spirits to receive them, because their actions of collecting money were too procedural.

"I wonder how many contestants gave them money in this year's design competition."

"If there are more than 10, wouldn't each of them be able to get several hundred spirit coins?" Zhang Yu secretly envied the judges for making money so easily.

However, he quickly put aside his distractions and focused his attention on the lab bench.

Today is the day Zhang Yu officially begins refining the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Formation.

This military-grade magical artifact consists of a sword formation made up of 12 flying swords, which not only incorporates a large number of flying sword techniques, but also contains the mysteries of formation.

If it weren't for the blessing of the Feather Book and the acceleration from the Taiqing Realm and the refining prodigy, Zhang Yu probably wouldn't have been able to start refining even after another year.

Unlike now, as he practiced the blueprints of each prerequisite magic weapon to level 20, the various techniques related to the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Formation had been deeply ingrained in his mind.

"First, the first flying sword."

Zhang Yu's next plan is to first forge the first Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword, and then gradually refine it to level 20.

Once you've mastered the level 20 technique, it will be much easier to forge 11 more level 20 flying swords.

With a swirling of his magical power, a surge of true fire began to boil under his control. At the same time, the sword embryo materials he had purchased were being firmly locked in place by the electric light generated by the refining equipment on the experimental table.

On the other side, Zhang Yu also extracted the level-three spiritual energy that had been cleaned and purified by his assistants.

Spiritual energy also has different levels. After being refined and impurities are removed, spiritual energy plays various roles in the process of casting spells and crafting artifacts.

However, Zhang Yu naturally didn't have time to do these tasks; they were all done by Zi Yunzhen and Su Yunni.

As the sword embryo gradually unfolded, Zhang Yu began to imbue it with a spiritual realm restriction.

"The communication technology of the Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword is extremely crucial; it is the key to enabling the sword formation to transmit sword intent and sever the spirit realm in the future..."

In the days that followed, besides watching the daily lives of college students and collecting relevant information, Zhang Yu devoted most of his energy to forging the Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword.

But an event that day pulled him away from forging the flying sword.

……

Dark spirit world.

Fuki and Zhang Yu's projections were sitting in chairs, looking at the thousand-legged, thousand-armed goddess before them, and said, "Oh? You want my help?"

"Hmph, I've helped you more than once, haven't I?"

"The reward they gave you was vague and insincere. Why should I help you anymore?"

During this time, Fuki also communicated with the evil gods from time to time, both to collect information about them, to understand their current situation, trends and circumstances, and to build a deeper level of trust with them.

The existence of the Dark Realm, due to its safe zone characteristics, allows evil gods a basic space for communication, preventing them from immediately resorting to violence.

Previous collaborations and exchanges had established a basic level of trust between Fuki and Heishin.

Fuki is very interested in the evil gods' plans and whereabouts.

Xi Shen was also interested in Fu Ji's arrangements and power at Wanfa University, and repeatedly hinted that she wanted Fu Ji to join their plans.

But whenever Fukihime asked what their plan was, Hijin would always laugh and change the subject.

However, through repeated tests and exchanges, Xi Shen increasingly sensed Fu Ji's seniority. The fact that she frequently mentioned the deeds of the Evil God King made Xi Shen realize how unfathomable this Fu Shen was, as she even knew the secrets of the various Evil God Kings like the back of her hand.

Just today, it seemed the time was right, and Xi Shen said, "Fu Shen, haven't you always wanted to know what we're planning to do?"

Fu Ji and Zhang Yu were both intrigued and pricked up their ears to listen to what the other had to say next.

Xi Shen said, "To show my sincerity, before asking for your help this time, I can tell you a little more."

"Our goal is to target the reincarnations of powerful figures within those sects."

Fu Ji's heart skipped a beat: "The Divine Lord of the Jade Nectar?"

The thousand eyes on Xi Shen's thousand hands and feet seemed to narrow, revealing a hint of a smile: "Indeed, the Jade Nectar God has secretly transferred the cultivation of countless reincarnated powerful beings. The amount of Heavenly and Human taxes they escaped is astronomical."

"The disciples from the sects involved here are enough to shake the ten major sects and make even immortals frown."

"However, our purpose is certainly not to help the immortals fight corruption."

"Our goal is to find out the list of reincarnated powerful beings through the Divine Lord of the Jade Nectar, as well as the ledgers of their secret transfer of cultivation and tax evasion."

Fu Ji was shocked: "You intend to use this method to coerce these reincarnated powerful beings? To infiltrate the sects?"

"You are so brave."

"But you can't do this on your own."

"Are there even higher evil gods above you?"

"You'll need someone to meet you at the sect. Who is it?"

(End of this chapter)