Chapter 232: Teaching-Grade Dharma Remains

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "The High School Sacred Body grants me a stronger drug-metabolism ability than my opponent."

"If my opponent has accumulated a large amount of medicinal toxins, it could likely damage his body and affect his performance."

"But I won't have that problem."

"Relying on the medicinal toxins stored by the High School Sacred Body, then detonating them with the Spring and Autumn Infinite Zen, and finally combining that with the burst of the Martial Dao Sacred Fetus… this is my true full power."

At the same time, Night Lingxiao sensed the fighting spirit radiating from Zhang Yu and thought to himself, "This person is very strong."

"At his level… at his level right now… if he had been in the previous session, and if he is here now, then his strength truly is formidable."

"To thoroughly defeat him, I'll have to use my full power and surpass my limits once more."

Just as Zhang Yu and Night Lingxiao were each pondering the current match situation and considering their subsequent performance, Huang Zichou began to have the two remove the Mystic Armor Divine Root, preparing for the next stage of the exam.

At the same time, a light screen flashed before Huang Zichou's eyes, and images of Foundation Establishment cultivators activating the Mystic Armor Divine Root began to play within it.

"After all, you two examinees are only at the Qi Refining level, so you can only trigger the most basic 100% power of the Mystic Armor Divine Root."

"If this Divine Root were activated by a Foundation Establishment cultivator, pouring in enough mana, its power would be more than ten times stronger."

Zhang Yu looked at the hundred-meter-long fire dragon in the image, like a tornado of wild wind, and couldn't help licking his lips again, thinking, "This is definitely an advertisement, right?"

He glanced at the audience stands: "Is this an ad for those universities?"

Then Zhang Yu reluctantly withdrew the mana from his combat suit, feeling the fire dragon behind him and the whirlwind beneath his feet gradually dissipate, watching the Mystic Armor barrier fade away, and sighed inwardly, "When will I ever get a Divine Root like this?"

Although it was only a test mode and he hadn't truly used the Mystic Armor Divine Root, Zhang Yu could already sense its power.

"The combat power of this battle-type Divine Root is on a completely different level from a Heaven-grade Divine Root."

"And this is when my strength is insufficient; if I could use this Mystic Armor Divine Root to establish my Foundation, wouldn't I be outrageously strong?"

"No, no, this Mystic Armor Divine Root is a battle-type Divine Root. My goal is above Foundation Establishment—at least the Golden Core, the Nascent Soul. I need to use a cultivation-type Divine Root instead…"

But the next moment, Zhang Yu realized he was fantasizing too much; the reality was that he couldn't even afford a Heaven-grade Divine Root, let alone this Divine Root.

After Huang Zichou retrieved the Divine Root, he began explaining the content of the second stage exam.

"As everyone knows, once your mana reaches 100 units, you can install one piece of Magical Prosthesis."

"And thereafter, the higher your mana, the more pieces of Magical Prosthesis you can equip and sustain."

"Therefore… the higher a cultivator's realm and the deeper their financial resources, the more Magical Prosthesis they carry."

"So the next stage—the second exam—will test the adaptability of your physical bodies to Magical Prosthesis, to see who is superior and who is inferior…"

As he spoke, Huang Zichou's divine power rippled as he sent over one piece of equipment after another, surrounding Zhang Yu and Night Lingxiao, as if turning the scene into an operating theater.

"In this exam, I will use Ministry of Health talismans to temporarily sever part of your connection to your own flesh, redirecting your neural signals to the Magical Prosthesis."

"This is not truly giving you a Magical Prosthesis, nor will you need to supply mana to it—it merely simulates the feeling of swapping a part of your body for a Magical Prosthesis."

"Throughout the process, you will simulate three Magical Prostheses in total. At the end, your synchronization rate with the prosthesis will represent your score in this stage…"

In Huang Zichou's explanation, the synchronization rate of the Magical Prosthesis represented the host's control over it.

The higher the synchronization rate, the more the host could unleash the prosthesis's power.

If the synchronization rate were too low, not only would the prosthesis's power fail to manifest, but there would even be a risk of the prosthesis going out of control, leading to a deviation or Qi deviation.

While Huang Zichou was speaking, Zhang Yu and Night Lingxiao had already lain down on the operating tables, surrounded by a tangle of wires, patches, monitoring instruments…

In the audience, the Husky Head watched this scene and said, "This stage is quite well designed."

"For Zhang Yu and Night Lingxiao to have gained such powerful bodies, they must have gone through brutal training and medicinal stimulation."

"Having acquired such formidable bodies through hellish training, they have used those strong bodies to break through countless difficulties, but as a result, their mind-body connection runs deep, and they easily place too much importance on their own flesh."

"Many freshmen have poor results because their original bodies were too strong, their mind-body connection too tight, making it hard to adapt to a Magical Prosthesis."

"The path of body cultivation requires the ability to pick up and let go; while continuously strengthening one's own body, one must also be able to continuously accept newer, stronger Magical Prostheses—this is the true path of the immortal sect…"

For this evaluation from the Husky Head, the Cat Head beside him did not respond, only speaking after seeing the first Magical Prosthesis that Huang Zichou brought out: "Is that an eye Magical Prosthesis from the Tianyan Company?"

"Tch, it really is an ad aimed at us."

"Do they want a few more universities to purchase their teaching-grade eye prostheses?"

At the same time, two crystalline, gem-like eyeballs floated in front of Huang Zichou on the examination ground. He introduced them, saying, "These are the latest eye-type dharma remains developed by Tianyan Company—Farsight…"

Listening to Huang Zichou’s introduction, Zhang Yu learned that dharma remains are classified into grades: instructional, professional, and enterprise.

Above enterprise grade are the military grade and immortal sect grade, the same as magical treasures and cultivation techniques.

The item Huang Zichou was holding right now was an instructional-grade eye-type dharma remains.

Once implanted, these dharma remains not only allowed visual retrieval of various data, but the tool spirit within also possessed simple intelligent recognition, smart search, marking, and other functions.

Of course, beyond these basic functions, the most important capability was connecting to the network and observing the spirit realm.

Huang Zichou continued, “…In daily university life, using eye-type dharma remains to connect to the network for payments, communication, inquiries, and so on—that’s all perfectly ordinary.”

“The spirit realm is even more common on campus; without eye-type dharma remains, you’d be no different from a blind person at university…”

At the same time, Huang Zichou thought to himself, “That’s exactly why, after all students enroll, their university will issue eye-type dharma remains uniformly, so they won’t have trouble living there.”

“These eye-type dharma remains are purchased in bulk by each university and then charged to the students.”

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“Students either pay in installments or temporarily mortgage their own eyes.”

“But eye-type dharma remains aren’t that expensive—most people can pay them off before graduation. It’s just that unless you stay on the Second Layer, eye-type dharma remains are useless on the First Layer. Most returning university graduates switch back to their own eyes and sell the ones they used in college to recoup some cost.”

However, Huang Zichou understood that while individual instructional-grade eye-type dharma remains weren’t pricey, the sheer volume of bulk purchases by universities made it a big market.

Tianyan Company, which specialized in eye-type dharma remains, had clearly set its sights on this market and invested money in advertising here.

Looking at each representative in the audience, Huang Zichou thought the advertisement fee they charged was still too low.

Right after Huang Zichou finished his introduction, as the talisman of the Health Department activated, Zhang Yu felt a searing divine power pierce through his eyes.

In the next moment, everything went black before his eyes, and he lost all his vision.

It wasn’t just the loss of vision—with Zhang Yu’s control over his own body, he couldn’t even feel the presence of his eyeballs at all. It was as if that blazing radiance had forcibly gouged his eyes out.

This feeling made Zhang Yu very uncomfortable, even stirring a vague sense of tension.

Meanwhile, Huang Zichou said, “Don’t panic. It’s only temporarily disconnecting you from your eyes; your eyes are still perfectly intact.”

“Now I’m going to reroute your neural signals to the Tianyan-brand eye-type dharma remains—Farsight.”

“These are eye-type dharma remains that even Qi Refining students can adapt to, as long as they have 100 units of mana. The process is simple and the burden is light—no need to be nervous…”

Before Huang Zichou could finish, Zhang Yu felt a sharp sting in his eyes, and then a blur of hazy light and shadow appeared.

Huang Zichou continued, “Farsight will automatically adapt to your visual system. It might be blurry at first, but it’ll clear up in a moment.”

Like the focusing process of a camera, at first everything Zhang Yu saw was blurry, as if covered in pixelation.

But soon he felt his eyeballs seemingly contracting and expanding, and everything around him became increasingly clear.

Yet the scene before his eyes was already completely different from the examination ground of moments ago.

“This is…”

Looking up, there was a vast, boundless blue sky with not a single cloud.

Looking down, there was a magnificent, infinite ocean, spreading out like a boundless blue silk carpet.

At the same time, Huang Zichou’s voice sounded again: “We’ve temporarily spread a layer of the spirit realm over the examination ground. You should all be able to see this spirit realm scene now, right?”

The next moment, as Huang Zichou’s divine power swept across, the sea and sky before their eyes vanished without a trace.

But the originally cold examination ground now appeared in their eyes covered with all kinds of advertisements for spirit roots and dharma remains, various promotional videos, and discount and coupon information.

Zhang Yu was slightly stunned and thought to himself, “Is this the examination ground as seen by the representatives of the universities on the Second Layer?”

“Information that can only be seen after implanting eye-type dharma remains.”

At this moment, Zhang Yu mused, “If… the spirit realm entered through a spirit realm mask is a virtual world…”

“Then what they call the unfolding of the spirit realm in reality is like AR technology—merging the virtual environment with reality. It’s a real world that can only be seen clearly with eye-type dharma remains.”

“Without eye-type dharma remains, you’re not even worthy of seeing advertisements up there.”