Chapter 488

Early March.

Tianyao University.

Xiangshan of the Civil Engineering Department walked inside the Breeding Department’s farm.

With his massive frame resembling a small mountain, every step he took shook the ground, causing the nearby cubs to panic and scurry about.

But upon seeing the Breeding Department’s top student before him, Xiangshan curled his trunk and slightly restrained his own imposing aura.

The Breeding Department’s top student who appeared before him was a pig demon over eight meters tall, with a physique like a mountain of flesh.

A string of prayer beads hung around the pig demon’s neck, his entire body overflowing with surging blood and qi, and beneath his skin, countless demonic faces seemed to struggle and wail.

The pig demon opened his mouth and spat out a large number of fresh cubs covered in slime, letting them fall into the farm, where they struggled and began to feed.

Xiangshan knew this pig demon was called Zhu Mianseng, not only a prodigy of the Breeding Department at Tianyao University but also a participant in several top ten leagues, a master of three military-grade powers.

Zhu Mianseng panted a few times, then slowly said, “Xiangshan, instead of preparing well for the competition, why come looking for me?”

If it were an ordinary student or even an outstanding one from the Civil Engineering Department, Zhu Mianseng might not have bothered to respond.

But Xiangshan was not an ordinary Civil Engineering Department elite; he was a rare prodigy who had mastered two military-grade powers and already qualified for the top ten leagues.

For instance, in this upcoming Civil Engineering final, Zhu Mianseng knew that if Xiangshan could single-handedly defeat Zhang Yu and Mo Shangjin, both cultivators of military-grade techniques, he would be permitted to join the school team as a Civil Engineering student, breaking the usual rules.

To countless demon descendants at Tianyao University, this was like turning the world upside down, a groundbreaking event that broke professional and ethnic restrictions.

But Zhu Mianseng knew that this was a reform some high-ranking figures among the demon clan wanted to push, changing the habit at Tianyao University of students choosing their major based on their race, and further unleashing the students’ potential.

Zhu Mianseng didn't care much about this, or perhaps his mind was solely focused on the top ten leagues a few months later. If Xiangshan could prove his strength to be worthy as a teammate, he wouldn't mind him joining the school team.

Xiangshan said calmly, “I want to borrow the Dharma Relic from you.”

Zhu Mianseng’s pig snout twitched as he said, “You want to defeat Wanfa while simultaneously breeding their bloodline offspring on the spot?”

Xiangshan said, “I know our school has secretly been running human farms, breeding a batch of humans for production and research just like breeding demons.”

“The Breeding Department must have gained plenty of experience by now, right?”

Zhu Mianseng curled his lip and said, “I can lend you my bionic Dharma Relic, but Qiongjiang Divine Lord’s technique supposedly involves multiple immortal arts, including Dharma Relics, bloodlines, reproduction, and techniques.”

“It’s hard to say how much useful data can be extracted from just one Zhang Yu alone.”

Xiangshan smiled slightly and said, “At least many people want to buy the materials. After breeding his cubs, we can immediately turn them into raw totems, which neither violates the human farming laws nor allows us to recycle materials and sell them.”

“Besides…”

Xiangshan’s trunk curled back, and the tusks in his mouth suddenly elongated: “If I don’t crush these two thoroughly, how will the demon tribes know my ferocity? How will they willingly accept me breaking the old habits and joining the school team?”

Carrying Zhu Mianseng’s bionic Dharma Relic as he left the farm, Xiangshan’s gaze suddenly sharpened. He had received further news about the finals a few days later.

Among various arrangements, he focused his attention on the champion’s prize.

“Design drawings for a military-grade armor… This armor is the Bishui Jinjing Armor?”

…

At the simulation construction site of Wanfa University Town.

Under the control of invisible earthly gravitational force, a large area of sediment was tightly bound in midair.

Meanwhile, the three Golden Thread Jade Disks behind Zhang Yu shone like three suns. After each flashed once, the left and right disks shot out beams of red light that poured into the middle disk.

Then the middle Golden Thread Jade Disk surged with red light, blasting out a arm-thick sun-ray that violently struck the sediment ahead.

In an instant, the sediment rapidly crystallized under high heat, turning into a glass-like state.

Next, Zhang Yu tried injecting deep-cold mana into the Golden Thread Jade Disk, releasing a deep-cold ray to lower the temperature.

Then he tested the effect of the Level 2 Deep-Cold Vein, attempting to transfer the heat from his body outward.

Watching the three Golden Thread Jade Disks flash in sequence, then blast out deep-cold rays that continuously heated the sediment ahead, Zhang Yu thought to himself: “Indeed, by combining the Deep-Cold Vein with the Golden Thread Jade Disks, I can remotely transfer heat out of my body.”

“This way, during battle, by continuously operating the Deep-Cold Vein and Golden Thread Jade Disks, I can keep cooling myself down while constantly heating up the opponent.”

Zhang Yu mused that this was like continuously applying buffs to himself while applying debuffs to the opponent—one rises, one falls—gradually widening the gap in combat strength.

Besides increasing the number of Golden Thread Jade Disks to three in recent days, Zhang Yu had also begun cultivating the third technique of the Chain-Art Diagram set, the Refining Prodigy.

The technique is called the Imperial Fire Divine Mirror. It requires purchasing various types of fire seeds to refine a strand of Imperial Fire True Qi, which can command all kinds of true fires, improving the efficiency and level of material refinement during artifact crafting.

On top of that, adding maintenance of other magical artifacts, cultivation of artifact crafting techniques, and so on, Zhang Yu's savings suddenly dropped to less than 10 spirit coins.

Fortunately, he usually deployed the three Gold-thread Jade Walls for his employees to use while working, which increased his daily passive income by about 0.03 to 0.04 spirit coins.

"Fortunately, the more magical artifacts and means of production you have, the higher your passive income. Otherwise, the multiple-artifact tactic really isn't something a poor person like me could afford."