Chapter 310

The night wind swept across the 666th floor of Wanfa University City, rustling several colorful banners.

Ying Xin and Zhang Yu stood facing each other in the moonlight, watched by many workers.

As their gazes clashed, two streams of martial will seemed to contend in the air, exuding a heavy pressure.

Yu Xinghan, standing in a nearby corner, looked at Ying Xin—a woman with a burly build and muscles like granite—and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

He thought to himself, "That waist… those breasts… those arms… and those legs… clearly a body tempered through a thousand refinements. She could probably pour hundreds of tons of cement in a single night without breaking a sweat. No wonder she's a sixth-generation civil engineer, a prodigy who grew up on construction sites."

Big means strong; strong means you can do more work and earn more money.

And earning more money naturally makes you more attractive.

Yu Xinghan deeply understood this, and at that moment he also felt a certain charm emanating from Ying Xin.

So the next moment, he quietly activated the camera function of his eye skeleton and began recording the scene, his lens occasionally sweeping over Ying Xin and Zhang Yu.

Meanwhile, Ying Xin's sharp gaze scanned Zhang Yu before her, and she thought to herself, "This guy's energy and spirit seem even fuller than half a month ago. Looks like he took some medicine to replenish his strength and recover his stamina in advance, knowing he'd have to fight me?"

But the thought only flashed through her mind; she didn't dwell on it.

After all, her ranking was already above Zhang Yu's half a month ago.

And over the past half month, she had continued as before, not only persisting in her daily hard training but also never daring to be the slightest bit frugal with her spending.

Whether in effort or expenditure, she dared not relax in the slightest.

In contrast, Zhang Yu had taken half a month off from classes, spending a lot of time on work every day, wearing down his body again and again…

Ying Xin looked at Zhang Yu and thought, "The gap between you and me now is probably even bigger than it was half a month ago."

On the other side, Li Xiao looked at Ying Xin, then at Zhang Yu. He felt that one was a classmate he often studied and trained with, and the other was a fellow villager who had helped him.

Especially Zhang Yu, who had helped him several times on the construction site before, tossing him from the danger zone to the entrance.

If it weren't for him, he might not have made it through.

Thinking of this, he felt a pang of regret for Zhang Yu.

Li Xiao sighed inwardly, "Zhang Yu really… if he were like me, spending more time with Ying Xin and the others in usual times, he would have had more room to ease the situation, not ending up like this…"

"After Zhang Yu loses, I'll drag him over to get reacquainted with Ying Xin and patch things up."

"I've been training with Ying Xin and the others for so long; she should at least give me face on this, right?"

Just then, Tu Lishan, his dharma skeleton gleaming with golden light, walked over and looked at the two. "Are both of you ready?"

Ying Xin looked at Tu Lishan and said respectfully, "Teacher Tu, I can start anytime. But how will this contest be conducted?"

Zhang Yu also looked at Tu Lishan curiously. After all, this was a contest between civil engineering prodigies, with a high technical threshold—it couldn't be just a brawl like street thugs.

Tu Lishan smiled faintly and pointed at the piles of construction waste nearby. "Since Zhang Yu was selected as a model worker for cleaning up trash, let's use hauling construction waste as today's competition event."

"We'll set a limit of five hours, and see which of you can haul more construction waste."

Hearing this, Zhang Yu's eyes narrowed. He thought to himself, "This guy… could he be using the contest as an excuse to make us work for him for free?"

Tu Lishan continued, "Don't underestimate the task of hauling construction waste."

He said solemnly, "As your teacher, I can tell you that there is a great Dao in hauling."

"From the moment you step onto the immortal path, the first thing you do is haul spiritual energy."

"And as you climb the immortal path, all you do is haul spiritual energy from one place to another, haul mana from one place to another."

"Eventually, you haul blood and qi, haul water, haul heat, then haul electric charge, haul spirit coins… As your immortal cultivation realm rises, you can haul more and more things, and haul them farther and farther."

"One might say the essence of the immortal path is hauling."

Listening to this, Li Xiao's eyes lit up with sudden enlightenment. "Right! From entering the immortal path to cultivating at university, everything I do every day is hauling spiritual energy, hauling mana, hauling blood and qi, hauling building materials… cultivation is hauling!"

Yu Xinghan's eyes also flickered. "That makes sense. The stronger an immortal cultivator, the more they can haul. From hauling their own mana and blood qi to hauling external wind, rain, and lightning."

"And not just that—stepping beyond the immortal path itself, hauling information from one place to another, hauling spirit coins from one place to another, even hauling people from one place to another… that is the true Dao."

Thinking this, Yu Xinghan had a vague realization and aimed his dharma skeleton's camera at Ying Xin. "I can't haul spirit coins or people yet. But as for hauling information… I wonder how effective that would be."

Hearing Tu Lishan's words, Fu Ji couldn't help but sigh, "Your teacher is a great talent. In just a few sentences, he has illuminated the mysteries of the immortal path… What a shame he didn't become a dark god."

Tulishan continued, "Returning to this competition's subject, as Foundation Establishment students of the Earth and Wood Department, your transportation naturally embodies more immortal techniques."

"If you want to defeat your opponent and transport more and faster, you must pay attention to the flow of Gang Qi and apply the principles of Gang Qi fluid dynamics."

"There is also the issue of heat dissipation during prolonged exertion, the friction between flesh and mana, wind resistance under high-speed movement, and using force mechanics to keep the transported items from falling or tipping over... In short, while the whole thing seems simple, every single detail reflects the application of immortal techniques."

"The ultimate victor will inevitably be the one with superior application of Earth and Wood immortal techniques."

At the same time, a map projection appeared before everyone, showing the route from the construction waste pile on the 666th floor of Wanfa University City to the waste processing plant on the 1st underground floor—a total distance of 21 kilometers.

Tulishan said, "Your goal is to transport the construction waste from here to the waste processing plant within five hours."

"I have already contacted the processing plant; they will separately tally the weight you each transport."

"After the competition ends, whoever has transported more weight wins."

"And the winner will earn the opportunity to participate in next month's field project internship."

Having said that, Tulishan looked at the two and asked, "Do either of you have any further questions?"

Ying Xin said calmly, "I have no questions."

Zhang Yu, however, raised his hand and said, "Teacher, does this competition come with a salary?"

Tulishan replied flatly, "You can choose not to compete."

Zhang Yu cursed inwardly, "Damn, this guy definitely pocketed a transport fee."

Then Zhang Yu looked at Ying Xin and said, "Classmate, how about we make a deal—the loser pays the winner double the normal fee? We'll base it on the standard waste removal rate."

In Ying Xin's view, this was simply the other party handing her money, so she agreed without hesitation.

Tulishan said, "Since neither side has any problem, the competition will officially begin in three minutes."

With a loud bang, a resonant sound erupted from Ying Xin's body, accompanied by waves of mana and muscle tremors as she began warming up.

Zhang Yu twisted his body, and the vertebrae in his spine clattered against each other, producing sounds like boulders smashing.

As the two warmed up, their muscles gradually swelled, and their entire figures inflated like balloons, breaking past the three-meter mark and turning them into two small giants.

Clearly, in preparation for the upcoming competition, both had chosen to relax their muscles and bones to allow for smoother power output.

Three minutes later, as the countdown in the spiritual projection reached zero, Ying Xin and Zhang Yu moved simultaneously.

Ying Xin struck out with her palm, and blazing Gang Qi roared forth like a long dragon, sweeping up a mass of construction debris as she charged toward the magnetic channel.

Zhang Yu, meanwhile, stirred up clouds of mist, as if riding a cloud-dragon, wrapping himself in a torrent of construction waste as he surged forward.

Within Ying Xin's ocular implant, all advertisement projections were blocked, leaving only the navigation route and various obstacles and pedestrians highlighted in red.

Amid the booming thunder, she resembled a towering god commanding the winds and clouds, racing forward with a sky full of construction debris, growing faster and faster.

Every thread of Gang Qi flow, every trajectory of construction waste, every obstacle on the road, and every prediction of pedestrians' movements were displayed in her ocular implant's vision.

Ying Xin wasn't sure if Tulishan's lengthy speech was just to get them to haul trash for free.

But she understood his words were not wrong—transportation... involves a vast amount of immortal techniques.

Having grown up on construction sites of the Earth and Wood Department, Ying Xin had a deep understanding of this.

"Once scale and speed increase, the difficulty skyrockets, and the required technology must keep pace..."

"And right now, I'm carrying 25 tons of material, moving at nearly 200 meters per second."

"Every single motion, every flex of muscle, every burst of Gang Qi—these are the crystallizations of immortal techniques I have painstakingly cultivated and poured countless funds into..."

Boom!

With the air roaring, every strand of Gang Qi under Ying Xin's control erupted along paths pre-simulated by her ocular implant, in a manner most in line with martial force mechanics and Gang Qi fluid dynamics.

At the same time, the heat within her body was rapidly expelled through the flow of sweat, which vaporized explosively amid the Gang Qi.

And when Ying Xin's first foot landed on the magnetic channel, the mana in her dantian surged and completed its transformation in an instant, allowing both feet to firmly adhere to the channel.

Meanwhile, she twisted her waist and abdomen, feeling tons of force transmitting through her muscles, her whole body transforming into a high-strength rail that dragged the blazing Gang Qi and the mass of construction waste into the magnetic channel.

With explosive bangs, as each of Ying Xin's steps on the magnetic channel created shockwaves, she accelerated continuously within the channel, and the construction debris wrapped in streams of Gang Qi followed her like meteors, hurtling from the 666th floor all the way down to the 1st underground floor.

Whether it was the explosion of physical power, the manipulation of Gang Qi fluid, the reduction of wind resistance, the transformation of magnetic mana, or the selection of movement trajectories—at this moment, Ying Xin felt she had executed everything flawlessly.

"Zhang Yu, take a good look at the gap between you and me..."

The next moment, before Ying Xin could finish her thought, a white dragon carrying vast clouds had already passed over her body, accelerating downward like a shooting arrow.

Looking at the figure in front of the long dragon formed by Gang Qi, that figure belonging to Zhang Yu.

Sensing the terrifying heat emanating from him, the bulging veins on Zhang Yu's skin, the reddened epidermis...

Ying Xin's expression changed slightly: "War Demon Lifespan Sacrifice Art?"

"What the hell? You're coming at me to fight to the death right from the start?"