Chapter 281: P

Fuji couldn't see the projection on Zhang Yu's retina, but she could hear what Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were saying and see Zhang Yu holding Le Mulan.

"Talking to Bai Zhenzhen while holding Le Mulan."

"This kid... really has some talent for the Hehuan Sect."

"Maybe I should have advised him to apply to Hehuan University back then?"

"In that case, cultivating the Hehuan Dao, draining Bai Zhenzhen dry and devouring her completely... that would also be a straight path to heaven."

Fuji shook her head inwardly: "Sigh, thinking about it now is useless. Bai Zhenzhen is about to be put on someone else's plate. Zhang Yu should just honestly work on the construction site."

At the same time, Bai Zhenzhen turned her head to one side, as if listening to someone else, then said: "Yu Zi, that's it for today. I have to go to class."

Zhang Yu nodded: "Go ahead. By the way... if you have time, let's contact each other every day."

Bai Zhenzhen's heart stirred, knowing that Zhang Yu was ultimately a bit uneasy about her being alone and wanted to talk with her every day to check on her condition.

"Alright, you're being considerate. I can rest a bit around 2 AM every day, I'll contact you then."

With that, Bai Zhenzhen gave a brilliant smile and waved at Zhang Yu: "I'm off."

With a whoosh, as Bai Zhenzhen's projection disappeared, Le Mulan appeared in front of Zhang Yu.

Seeing Le Mulan with a face full of question marks, Zhang Yu mentally tapped his fingers, swiping over the projection buttons in the air, and began adjusting the settings of his Time Fragment Demon Eye.

"Really, why make this projection so realistic?"

"Need to increase the projection's transparency by 50%, otherwise I can't tell real from fake anymore."

Just as Zhang Yu was setting the eye-based magical remains, Le Mulan asked curiously: "Zhang Yu, were you just talking to someone?"

"Yeah." Zhang Yu smiled awkwardly and explained: "I was just contacting A-Zhen."

Le Mulan: "So... just now, Bai Zhenzhen's projection was cast onto me, and you treated me as her... no, is it that while you were hugging her, you incidentally hugged me?"

After hearing this, Zhang Yu felt even more that something was off, but it seemed like what she said was true, so he could only nod: "Yeah."

Upon receiving Zhang Yu's affirmative answer, Le Mulan felt a surge of... an emotion she had never experienced before.

This emotion was so unfamiliar that she couldn't initially understand what was happening to her, only thinking to herself: "The bond between Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen... is really strong."

"Even though one of them has become a disciple of the Seven Emotions Divine Lord, their high school friendship hasn't changed."

"After arriving at the second layer, they immediately added each other as friends. They even had to hug through the spirit world network?"

And mentioning Bai Zhenzhen, Le Mulan couldn't help but feel a trace of lament in her heart.

The first time she met Bai Zhenzhen, she was the heir of a wealthy clan in Songyang City, a noble lady, while Bai Zhenzhen was just a pauper deep in debt.

But three years later, now that they've entered university, Bai Zhenzhen has become a disciple of a Divine Lord, the holder of a divine spiritual root, a noble lady of the Heavenly Sword, and established her foundation in high school.

And she, Le Mulan... now is just a Qi Refining university student from a small place.

No matter background, wealth, cultivation, grades... at this moment, she has to look up to the other.

This kind of reversal between rich and poor, between the destitute and the wealthy, made Le Mulan deeply feel that what is called poverty or wealth is never absolute.

Looking at Le Mulan who was lost in thought, Zhang Yu asked: "Did you come to see me for something?"

Le Mulan snapped back to attention and said: "We're about to get off the ship. I came to ask what your spirit world account is, to add you as a friend."

"After all, once we reach Wanfa University, we'll be in different departments, and you're in the foundation establishment class. If we don't add each other as friends, it might be hard to stay in touch."

So the two added each other as friends and prepared to queue up to disembark.

On the way, lines of messages appeared again on Zhang Yu's retina.

Zhao Tianxing from Fengdu Information Vocational Technical College requests to add you as a friend.

Accepted.

Zhao Tianxing: Zhang Yu, I've finished registering and just moved into the Ghost King Banner in Fengdu.

Zhao Tianxing: I joined a group, all from our Songyang City. You should join too.

The other party invites you to join the group chat 'Happy Songyang People'.

Zhang Yu entered and saw that not only were Zhao Tianxing, Qian Shen, and Xiong Wenwu, whom he had added as friends, there, but also a bunch of Songyang City graduates he was familiar with or not.

Chu Qiuhe from Vajra University: Newcomer remember to change your name, university name + real name. Those who don’t change will be kicked out after 24 hours.

“Chu Qiuhe? Did he get into Vajra University?”

Zhang Yu still remembered that the other party was one of the opponents he had taken down in the martial arts tournament... Later, that guy seemed to have lain on a stretcher until the competition ended.

But thinking about it, as one of the regular top ten finishers in Songyang City’s various competitions, it was only reasonable for him to get into the Top Ten.

Then Zhang Yu changed his group nickname to Zhang Yu from Omnismethod University.

Moments later, the group suddenly became lively.

Le Jingchen from Omnismethod University: [fireworks] Welcome junior to the group [applause]

Mo Tianyi from Fengdu University: Greetings to the great Zhang Yu!

Chu Qiuhe from Vajra University: Greetings to the great Zhang Yu!

Xiong Wenwu from Heavenly Demon University: Greetings to the great Zhang Yu!

Hu Yuntao from Heavenly Demon University: Greetings to the great Zhang Yu!

Lian Tianji from Joyous Union University: Greetings to the great Zhang Yu!

Seeing Lian Tianji’s name, a strange expression appeared on Zhang Yu’s face: “That bastard Lian Tianji really knows how to pick a school.”

Lan Ling from Mountains and Rivers University: Old Zhou, come and join us in greeting the big shot @Zhou Chechen from Tianhai University

Zhang Yu thought to himself: “These two bastards are also in this group?”

“And Zhou Chechen... It seems the upheaval in the Zhou family on the first layer didn’t involve him since he’s already in university? Or did it involve him, but he wasn’t colluding with the evil god, so they let him off?”

At the same time, Zhou Chechen’s profile picture had quietly turned gray.

After a brief round of pleasantries with the group, they asked Zhang Yu to invite Yu Xinghan over, and the group was immediately flooded with another wave of flattery, this time mainly from graduates of White Dragon High School.

While casually scrolling through the group chat, Zhang Yu, along with Le Mulan, Yu Xinghan, and Li Xuelian, all queued up and gradually walked down the flying boat.

The flying boat was now docked at the air harbor inside the university city. After passing through customs and exiting the air harbor gate, they finally truly entered the university city of Omnismethod University.

This was the 600th layer of the university city, with each layer about 10 meters high. The streets visible were all very narrow, with various buildings crowded together on both sides.

There were no vehicle lanes along the way; most of the traffic consisted of people moving swiftly on foot.

At the same time, Zhang Yu saw two worlds at once with his eyes.

In the organic eye on his left, the city before him was wrapped in steel and concrete, as if the entire world was composed only of gray and white, exuding an air of lifelessness.

But in the mystical eye on his right, the world was dazzling with color, with signs, advertisements, and slogans projected everywhere from the spirit network.

The shops lining the streets were extremely noisy, with countless goods—various potions, textbooks, mystical eyes—nearly bursting out of the stores and crashing into passersby’s eyes.

And every pedestrian had various titles above their heads, while their bodies, clothes, backs, and other spots sparkled with colorful special effects.

In addition, Zhang Yu could see huge road signs floating in the air, indicating directions to different areas and layers.

Notifications of some Qi Condensation cultivator approaching occasionally popped up on his retina, forcing Zhang Yu to choose to ignore notifications for Qi Condensation cultivators and highlight those for Golden Core cultivators and above.

Meanwhile, Yu Xinghan covered his eyes and said, “Damn... it’s so laggy! The whole world is stuttering!”

“Let’s hurry up and get out of here, I’m too laggy here.”

Li Xuelian rolled her eyes and smacked Yu Xinghan on the back of the head, saying, “Kid... how much money did you fucking swallow? Buying such a crappy second-hand piece of junk? Swap it out as soon as you get a chance.”

As they spoke, Zhang Yu and the others followed Li Xuelian forward and arrived at a place marked as a magnetic track passage.

These magnetic track passages were like huge pipes running through different layers of the university city.

Zhang Yu watched as pedestrians, one moment walking on the road, the next moment went up the walls along the passage, then headed upward or downward.

Li Xuelian reminded them, “There’s a reinforced electromagnetic field in the magnetic track passage. Convert your thunder law power, and you can walk freely along the passage walls.”

“By the way, you all subscribed to the monthly traffic fee, right? Otherwise, you can’t use the magnetic track passage.”

Converting specialized law power was something Zhang Yu had started learning since his first year of high school.

Now, hearing Li Xuelian’s reminder, he, Yu Xinghan, and Le Mulan slightly converted their law power. As soon as they stepped into the magnetic track passage, they felt a force dragging their bodies, sucking them firmly onto the passage wall.

Or rather, at that moment, the original wall had become the ground beneath their feet.

At first, Zhang Yu could still feel that he was walking on a wall, but after walking for a while, especially when he saw all kinds of shops, vending machines, and advertisements on both sides of the passage… he gradually felt not much different from walking normally on the road.

Li Xuelian said casually beside him, "Although this University City has a total of 666 floors covering more than 6,600 square kilometers, all of it is concentrated within this three-dimensional space of the University City, which is no more than 10 kilometers from top to bottom and about 3 kilometers in length and width."

"With such a high degree of use of three-dimensional space, the straight-line distances between any two points here are actually very short. For cultivators, moving back and forth through the Magnetic Channels using their own high speed is the most flexible and fastest method."

"Of course, besides the Magnetic Channels, there is also the central Anti-gravity Channel, which can get you to each floor faster, but that requires paying an extra transportation fee, so we generally don't use it unless it's urgent."

"I'm taking you along for the first time; in the future, you'll go on your own. Remember to make good use of the navigation."

And as he switched Magnetic Channels several times in a row, Zhang Yu, while walking… sometimes had his head above his feet, sometimes his head below his feet, sometimes his head and feet parallel…

Plus, in this University City, there was no sky or ground to serve as reference, so when Zhang Yu walked through it… before he knew it, he felt as if space and gravity were constantly being flipped and scrambled, gradually making it impossible for him to tell which direction was the sky and which was the ground.

And looking at the countless cultivators around him going up and down in this complex network of passages, the feeling he got… how to put it… was like seeing an enormous beehive.

After a series of high-speed movements, Zhang Yu finally arrived at his destination.