Chapter 404: Golden Armored Warrior

As Zhang Yu controlled the Gang Qi and the Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill, the golden-armored divine general before him trembled, then swung its fists and feet, already executing one martial art move after another.

Between each punch and kick, the Formless Warrior wrapped in the Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill emitted sounds of wind and thunder, and the power it unleashed was clearly greater than that of a mere Formless Warrior.

Zhang Yu thought to himself: "The liquid metal produced by the Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill, once shaped, is the highest-strength metal I can currently create."

"It's far higher than the defensive strength of my flesh in normal state."

"Only in the extreme near-death state, with the blessing of the Earth and Wood Divine Body, could my pure defensive power surpass the Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill."

Looking at the Formless Warrior clad in golden armor before him, Zhang Yu decided to name this Formless Warrior armed with the Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill the Golden Armored Warrior.

"If the Golden Armored Warrior is further aided by the Heavenly Azure Sand, one of them could probably fight against ten previous Formless Warriors."

"And if combined with the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud Force..."

Zhang Yu also thought that his martial divine body could bless his Gang Qi, which meant it could also bless the Golden Armored Warrior.

"I'm afraid that ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators, if only considering close combat, would be no match for my Golden Armored Warrior."

But on second thought, Zhang Yu suppressed these distracting thoughts.

"What am I thinking? What's the use of being good at fighting?"

"Let's try seeing how it works for labor instead."

As Zhang Yu willed it, the golden armor covering the Golden Armored Warrior's surface suddenly shrank a great deal, while in its hand appeared a golden hammer.

With a burst of force from his Gang Qi, the golden hammer whistled as the Golden Armored Warrior swung it, leaving afterimages in the air.

"The Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill can be shaped into various tools as needed, which really improves work efficiency."

As Zhang Yu mused, the golden hammer in the Golden Armored Warrior's hand changed again, turning into various different tools.

The following days passed one by one, and Zhang Yu continued to immerse himself in study and cultivation.

One day in his dormitory, Zhang Yu, who was training in the Spirit Realm's simulation laboratory, was forcibly called out by someone constantly sending him spam messages.

A tall young woman, barely dressed, appeared before him and said, looking at him, "What do you think?"

Zhang Yu said uncertainly, "You... are you Wen Wuyue?"

Wen Wuyue, who had descended as a Spirit Realm projection, nodded, rubbed his own chest muscles, and said, "Zhang Yu, you were right."

"Ever since I turned into a woman, Bai Zhenzhen has indeed talked to me more."

"But I think I can still optimize a bit. Help me adjust my appearance into what Bai Zhenzhen likes the most."

Zhang Yu said helplessly, "No... how am I supposed to help you adjust?"

Wen Wuyue said casually, "I've shared the projection's appearance adjustment function with you."

"Just adjust directly on my projection. When the time comes, I'll follow the model you adjusted and get the modification surgery."

Zhang Yu really didn't want to look at Wen Wuyue's body in front of him anymore, so he turned his head away and said, "That's too much trouble."

Wen Wuyue said casually, "What trouble? Some people who like to change their appearance change it dozens of times a day as routine. A vessel like this—swapping out a whole body isn't a big deal, let alone a few patches and trims?"

Zhang Yu really couldn't empathize with that rich person's mindset and said helplessly, "I'm not very good at this kind of thing."

Wen Wuyue said, "Ten spirit coins."

Zhang Yu said solemnly, "I'll do my best."

Wen Wuyue beckoned: "Alright, hurry up. If you feel any size isn't right, just gesture on my projection."

"Yeah, adjust it like that."

"Oh? So that's how it is? Bai Zhenzhen likes women with that size?"

"Standard classical aesthetic. Some Divine Transformation cultivators like this too nowadays."

"Is Bai Zhenzhen a retro taste kind of person?"

Kunxu Second Layer.

Shuizhou Demonkin Vocational College.

Zhang Yu walked along the street and asked Shi Yunxiang beside him curiously, "This time it's a pharmaceutical factory project, right?"

"But on the way here, I didn't see many medicine fields nearby."

Shi Yunxiang walked beside Zhang Yu. Wherever the two passed, the surrounding demonkin all stepped aside, their gazes toward Zhang Yu and Shi Yunxiang filled with reverence.

However, what surprised Zhang Yu slightly was that the demonkin here seemed to be mainly of rat-demon bloodlines.

Looking around, the streets were full of upright rats walking back and forth.

Hearing Zhang Yu's question, Shi Yunxiang smiled slightly, looked at the rat demonkin nearby, and casually asked, "Who can tell me what the local specialty is?"

Seeing a rat-demon raise its hand, Shi Yunxiang nodded and said to Zhang Yu beside him, "You see, that's the specialty."

Zhang Yu: "Huh?"

Shi Yunxiang continued, "It's not just plants that can be used as pharmaceutical raw materials. Some animals are also raw materials for making medicine."

Zhang Yu couldn't help looking at the rat demons around and said, "Are they going to process these rat demons?"

Shi Yunxiang waved his hand and said, "Compared to rat-type beastbeasts, rat-type demonkin are still too expensive..."

Zhang Yu nodded, thinking that while this reasoning was still very Kunxu-like, it was at least more acceptable than using rat demons for processing. At least beastbeasts were closer to animals and lacked true intelligence.

Shi Yunxiang continued, "The rat-demon component in the medicine is only one percent; the bulk still uses beastbeasts, so they can claim to have used Shuizhou rat demons."

Seeing Shi Yunxiang's perfectly composed expression, Zhang Yu couldn't help saying, "Doesn't it bother you—using demonkin to process medicine like this?" Shi Yunxiang directly cut him off, saying seriously, "Lion demons are lion demons, rat demons are rat demons. Although both belong to demonkin, they are actually completely two different species."

After Shi Yunxiang's repeated explanations, Zhang Yu gradually understood that while demonkin appeared united externally, internally among demonkin, different demon tribes also had a deep chain of contempt.

For weaker groups like rat demons, facing upper-class demons like lion demons and tiger demons, they were at the bottom of the contempt chain.

Shi Yunxiang warned, "There are especially many demonkin here, so you can't conflate their bloodlines. That's a major taboo among demonkin."

Fuji chuckled, "In the end, lumping all demons—whether wolf demons, bird demons, insect demons, or fish demons—into 'demonkin' is itself humanity's arrogance, an instinctive discrimination against all non-human races. The various groups within demonkin are just barely banding together to survive in Kunxu."

Zhang Yu nodded slightly, thinking that the internal situation of demonkin was far more complicated than he had previously believed.

Next, they arrived at the field construction site. After a round of handovers with the demonkin workers on site, Zhang Yu and Shi Yunxiang began construction.

Shi Yunxiang's figure flashed back and forth, transporting large quantities of building materials.

Meanwhile, Zhang Yu swept his Gangqi outward, manifesting a full twenty Formless Enforcers, which began working like a small construction team.

Watching this scene, Shi Yunxiang sighed inwardly, "Zhang Yu's progress is so fast."

"Maybe with the next civil engineering competition, he can take us into the top five?"

Just then, accompanied by a tremor of the earth, a massive beastly shadow over ten meters tall charged into the construction site.

Shi Yunxiang's gaze swept over, and he muttered inwardly, "A Foundation Establishment beast from the ranch? How did it escape?"

"With this momentum... Body Strength level 20, it might not be easy to confront head-on."

Shi Yunxiang knew that even at the same Body Strength level, a beastbeast with a naturally larger body size would inherently have an advantage in physical power.

"Can't let it get near the construction site."

Shi Yunxiang was about to rush out to intercept the beastbeast when he saw a golden figure flash like lightning, landing right in front of the beast.

With a thunderous boom, the golden figure had already collided violently with the beastbeast—yet it didn't retreat a step, instead sending the charging beastbeast staggering backward.

The one who intercepted was none other than the Golden Armor Enforcer summoned by Zhang Yu.

Claws and fangs tore at the golden armor, producing sharp scraping sounds, but they never took effect.

Empowered by the level 20 Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill and the Martial Dao Saint Body, the beast's every attack was completely ignored by the Golden Armor Enforcer, and its surging strength was devoured by the Nine Cloud Sky Emptiness Force, then rebounded.

The Golden Armor Enforcer was like an indestructible puppet—letting the beastbeast ram and tear at it wildly, then punched it again and again, driving the Foundation Establishment beastbeast dozens of meters backward, until finally the beastbeast lay prostrate on the ground, its eyes clear, daring not to rise again.

Not far away, several demonkin staff members hurried over. Looking at the prostrate beast and the Golden Armor Enforcer before it, their eyes filled with admiration.

"I heard the ones constructing here are students from Wanfa University."

"Subduing a Foundation Establishment beastbeast so quickly—worthy of a student from the Top Ten."

But when they tried to step forward and apologize to the Golden Armor Enforcer, they watched as it dissolved into a stream of gold-and-white qi, returning to the direction of the construction site. The faces of the several demonkin staff members were filled with shock.

"Just a clone manifested from Gang Qi?"

"Is this the strength of a top ten student? Just a single stream of Gang Qi has this kind of power?"

After completing the collaboration project with the yao-descended in Shuizhou, Zhang Yu immediately rushed to the next project.

In the construction of dormitories for vocational college students, his figure could be seen.

At the magic tool factory where Sha Qi was leaking, the golden-armored warriors could be seen making emergency repairs.

In the underground tomb, Zhang Yu's figure also flashed by as he excavated corpse parts.

As for artifact refining techniques, Zhang Yu continued to learn and practice, and every time he returned to Wanfa University City, he made the most of his time in the spiritual realm's simulation lab.

……

June.

Inside the artifact refining laboratory.

Zhang Yu was in the process of refining a Ground Sha Bottle.

Although Zhang Yu had mastered many artifact refining techniques over this period, he did not attempt to physically refine each one, after all, his funds were limited.

The reason he chose the Ground Sha Bottle was because…

Zhang Yu thought to himself: "Once this Ground Sha Bottle is successfully refined, it can be used to collect Sha Qi and deal with environmental pollution, as well as to contain and refine materials, and even to process concrete, further increasing my work income."

"It can be described as adding wings to a tiger."

However, the refinement of the Ground Sha Bottle involved the processing and purification of Ground Sha Qi, which was quite dangerous.

Even with Zhang Yu's physique and resistance, he was extremely cautious at this moment, not daring to be careless in the slightest.

A few hours later, accompanied by a flash of brilliant light, a bottle that at first glance was entirely crystalline, like glazed glass, appeared in Zhang Yu's palm.

The bottle's surface was covered in dense mana circuits, occasionally flickering with blue-white glimmers.

Inside the bottle, a mass of Sha Qi resembling electric light could be faintly seen, surging back and forth like a living creature.

When Zhang Yu's gaze swept over the Ground Sha Bottle, lines of relevant parameters appeared in his eye socket.

"Remaining mana: 99%, usable time: 3 hours 45 minutes."

"Remaining Ground Sha Essence: 100%…"

"Containable capacity: 100%…"

"Current operating mode: None"

Zhang Yu glanced at the various parameters and smiled slightly: "Level 20 Ground Sha Bottle… success."