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

Chapter 568 Magnetic Pole Treasures This Disciple
Magnetism True Monarch repeatedly scanned the blueprints sent by Zhang Yu, but found that even with her foundation, cultivation level, and years of experience in weapon forging, she couldn't offer any directions for modification for the time being.

At most, she might offer some suggestions on certain details, but it's also possible that she doesn't understand college students or the design concepts of this market.

Even more so, she felt a sense of satisfaction when looking at the design drawings, as every clever idea in them suited her taste perfectly.

"At least from a technical point of view, these boots have achieved the ultimate balance between performance and cost at the Qi Refining level."

"It's practically impossible for something with better performance to be cheaper."

"Those cheaper than it are hard to surpass it in performance."

"If I were to make a similar magical artifact, I would probably design it the same way."

Thus, a question arose in the mind of the Magnetic Pole True Lord: "Was this really designed by Zhang Yu?"

"Did he contact someone?"

But after looking at the design drawings again, Magnetism True Monarch thought to himself that to create a design of this caliber, it was probably not something that just anyone could do.

Therefore, Magnetism True Lord couldn't help but inquire about Zhang Yu's design concept and communicate with Zhang Yu about some of the details.

When Magnetism True Monarch saw Zhang Yu explaining the design process while sending other design drawings, he was shocked.

Looking at those blueprints, Magnetism True Monarch immediately realized that these designs were most likely made by Zhang Yu.

After all, even if the other party hired someone, it's impossible for them to create so many design drawings.

Moreover, although these designs appear whimsical and unconventional, they share a consistent style.

Magnetism True Lord could even see the underlying logic and sense that as the designer gained a deeper understanding of college students, their grasp of the content became more refined, and their design style became increasingly mature.

"Could Zhang Yu really be a genius at weapon crafting?"

"If he continues at this pace, and wins a few more awards and has a few more copyrights bought by big companies, he'll probably be considered an expert in the field of weapon forging in just a few years."

Magnetism True Monarch's gaze was incredibly complex at this moment, and he thought to himself, "I never imagined that the student I paid money to recruit back then would be the one with the best talent in weapon crafting that I have received in all these years."

“Great. In two years, let Zhang Yu graduate early, then get a master’s degree, and once he passes the Golden Core Certificate exam, he can come to the lab and help me generate revenue.”

……

After receiving affirmation from the Magnetism True Lord, Zhang Yu's confidence also increased greatly.

However, Magnet Master also reminded him: Your product design is very good.

Magnetism True Lord: But it's a bit too good. Those old guys who are judges at the design competition might mistakenly think you had someone else design it for you.

Magnet Lord: They might even think I designed it for you.

Zhang Yu was startled and quickly asked, "Teacher, what should we do?"
Magnet Lord: It's not a big problem.
Magnet Master: Your work will definitely be selected into the top ten of the 100 schools and you'll be invited to the award ceremony.
Magnet Lord: They will inevitably have to test the contestants' design skills to determine the final rankings of the top ten.

Magnet Lord: You better prepare well and get a top-three finish.
Upon seeing Magnet Lord's reply, Zhang Yu breathed a slight sigh of relief, feeling that the design competition was now relatively secure.

After submitting the design as an entry, Zhang Yu refocused his attention on forging the Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword.

……

Time flies, and it's already early May.

Inside the laboratory, amidst flashing sword light, the level 20 Taihao Holy Law Flying Sword slashed towards the Secret Steel before it.

With a crisp sound, the entire piece of secret steel was smoothly sliced ​​in two.

The level 20 Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword's cutting ability is only the most basic aspect; the important thing is that the Taihao Moral Sword Intent on it has finally acquired military-grade power.

However, sword intent alone was not enough to convince Zhang Yu to choose this military-grade magic weapon.

Only after all 12 Taihao Sacred Law Flying Swords are completed, forming a sword array and establishing the Taihao Minor Spirit Realm, will the true power of this military-grade magic weapon be revealed.

At this moment, Zhang Yu was simply testing the performance of the level 20 Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword and the effect of the sword intent on it.

Through this period of testing, Zhang Yu gradually gained a better understanding of the sword intent he had condensed.

"In theory, although morality is defined by humans, it is inevitably influenced by the whole society. People are in society and will gradually construct their own moral standards according to the influence of the whole society."

"Although I was also influenced by Kunxu, I ultimately came from Earth and lived on Earth for a longer period of time."

"Maybe I will be completely changed in the future?"

Zhang Yu wasn't sure, but at least at this moment, he had eight billion people on Earth standing behind him, and he still had a set of moral standards from Earth in his mind.

In Zhang Yu's mind... there were no good people in the entire Kunxu, and the higher you went, the fewer good people there were.

His refined Taihao Moral Sword Intent, upon testing, revealed that it was more powerful against people than against objects.

Zhang Yu wondered to himself, "Could they be targeting the Kunxu people specifically? The higher the level of the Kunxu people, the more powerful this sword intent can be."

Whenever Zhang Yu thought of this, he felt the four white oxen in his mind roar, as if calling out to something.

Shaking his head, Zhang Yu temporarily ended the flying sword test and looked at Zi Yunzhen and Su Yunni beside him: "Aren't you done yet?"

Just as the level 20 Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword was completed, Zhang Yu's mastery of the blueprints had also reached level 20.

Now, he only needs to forge 11 more level 20 Taihao Sacred Law Flying Swords to complete the forging of the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Formation.

However, just as his skills were improving rapidly, his assistant's progress lagged behind, and he began to slow down the project. "It seems we still need to find some more experienced assistants."

Time is of paramount importance to Zhang Yu this year. He doesn't mind spending more spirit coins as long as it can speed up the project's progress.

As for the targets for poaching, Zhang Yu has already identified several targets with the help of information from Feng Tingting and Ye Xingli.

Opening the friends list, Zhang Yu greeted each of his targets and waited for their replies.

Just then, he saw a video sent by a college student.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Really, didn't they say they'd already stopped receiving videos?"

However, seeing the urgent tone in the title, and noticing the unanswered recruitment request from his target, Zhang Yu opened the video and sped up the viewing.

The video was recorded by Shui Haiyu from Shanhai Vocational University. Zhang Yu remembered that the other party seemed to feel that the Dual Cultivation Club he joined was secretly spreading the concept of dual-life. Therefore, he chose to leave the club.

In subsequent videos, Shui Haiyu repeatedly tried to persuade his classmates to quit the club. When that failed, he prevented them from taking leave and urged them to go to work or school.

He soon discovered that the Dual Cultivation Society was rife with corruption, using various methods such as getting members drunk, drugging them, and deceiving them to get them to take leave and have weekends off.

In the video, Shui Haiyu can be seen angrily shouting, "What's the difference between you going with them to the weekend and just throwing your life away? You'll be ruined!"

During the argument, the two sides parted on bad terms.

In the final shot, Shui Haiyu is shown facing a mirror.

Shui Haiyu said with a gloomy expression, "I feel like they've been following me lately."

“My report was useless; they have already bribed the school leaders.”

"They might arrest me next and force me to take weekends off."

"I will do my best to collect evidence. If anyone receives evidence from me later, please report it to the righteous god..."

As Zhang Yu watched the video of Shui Haiyu end, a thoughtful look appeared on his face, and then another message came in.

One of his targets was Liu Xiangqiao, a seventh-year student in the weapon crafting department.

Liu Xiangqiao: Is something the matter, junior?

Zhang Yu: I am currently refining the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Formation. I wonder if you would be interested in joining me?
Liu Xiangqiao: No need, I'm very satisfied with my job here and have no plans to change jobs for the time being.
Zhang Yu: Senior, is Senior Brother Wufeng really able to satisfy you?

The person Zhang Yu is now trying to recruit is the assistant in the laboratory of Bei Wufeng, the second-ranked student in the weapon-refining department.

After all, as the student in the weapon crafting department who was most skilled in crafting flying swords, Bei Wufeng had already completed the crafting of the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Formation and had also completed several updates to the sword formation.

As an assistant involved in the project, Liu Xiangqiao is also very experienced in this area, possessing the kind of assistant experience that Zhang Yu urgently needs.

Zhang Yu: Don't you feel empty doing odd jobs on the project every day, senior?

Zhang Yu: Come work for me, I can offer you 1.2 times the salary.

Zhang Yu: You manage all the assistants.

Zhang Yu: It will definitely give you an experience you can't get from your senior.
Upon seeing the message from Zhang Yu, Liu Xiangqiao felt a slight stirring in her heart.

After all, Bei Wufeng's laboratory has been established for several years and has a large number of talented people under him. Many of his assistants have already obtained their own independent projects and have broken away from the role of assistant. Liu Xiangqiao, who is still doing odd jobs, must have her own ideas.

She wanted to switch to another lab and get promoted to a management position.

However, Zhang Yu's qualifications are too shallow, his age is too young, he doesn't even have his own independent laboratory, and his funding is even more meager.

Even if Zhang Yu is indeed exceptionally talented and has the master Magnetism True Lord, and could reach the level of Bei Wufeng or even Yan Qianji in the future, Liu Xiangqiao is already a seventh-year student and will graduate in a few years. She can't wait any longer.

In Liu Xiangqiao's view, Zhang Yu was not a good choice for her as a boss.

On the contrary, after Bei Wufeng participated in the Top Ten Leagues this year, his reputation will soar even higher, and the scale of his laboratory will expand again.

As for salary, it's not the most important thing in Liu Xiangqiao's eyes. If Yan Qianji had come to poach her today, she would have been willing to jump ship even if it meant a pay cut.

After being rejected again, Zhang Yu sighed helplessly.

……

Just as Zhang Yu was scrambling to recruit talent and accelerate the project's progress.

The judges of the design competition have begun to organize the design drawings of the contestants.

Of course, given how busy Nascent Soul True Monarchs are, they can't possibly look at all the blueprints.

The contestants' design drawings will be screened by staff before being sent to the judges.

At this moment, the blueprints of the contestants appeared in front of True Lord String Sound.

Just as he was watching silently, a message from another judge popped into his mind.

Tianzhi Zhenjun: Xianyin, take a look at Zhang Yu's blueprints [smirking]
"Zhang Yu?"

Xianyin's eyes flickered, and after scanning the QR code, she couldn't help but shake her head helplessly: "Magnetic pole...is this apprentice too precious? He's personally doing all the work?"

(End of this chapter)