Chapter 500

Every time he felt the touch of True Monarch Magnetic Pole, Zhang Yu's body couldn't help but tremble, giving him the feeling that he had become meat on a chopping board, being picked over by the other party.

Especially after participating in the experiments presided over by True Monarch Magnetic Pole and undergoing his tests time and time again, this feeling became increasingly distinct.

However, upon hearing True Monarch Magnetic Pole's question, he still suppressed his emotional fluctuations and spoke: "I turned down the invitation from the Finance Department."

True Monarch Magnetic Pole said calmly: "The conditions offered by the Finance Department were not bad—they could even be said to be the best that no other department could give."

"By rejecting them just like that, won't you regret it in the future?"

Zhang Yu said firmly: "Because I know the Finance Department isn't suitable for me; the Artifact Refinement Department is the Dao I should walk."

Hearing these words, Director Gao's gaze darkened, his expression extremely complicated.

But True Monarch Magnetic Pole gave a slight smile, as if looking at a fine piece of material, the best experimental subject, as he stroked Zhang Yu's arm and said: "Whether you're suitable for artifact refinement is hard to say, but you are indeed very suitable as artifact refinement material."

"Aren't you afraid that after transferring to the Artifact Refinement Department, I'll use you for refining artifacts in the future?"

"Whether it's the effect of Heavenly Kunlun's mountain-moving divine power, using your body's materials to enhance the earthly fiend gravitational force in artifacts..."

"Or comprehending the mysteries of the Nascent Soul Transformation Dharmic Skeleton, using the materials on your body to forge yang artifacts..."

"Both seem like good choices."

Zhang Yu's body trembled slightly, gritting his teeth and saying: "Master, as long as I can enter the Artifact Refinement Department, I am willing to take these risks."

Director Gao, watching from the side, suddenly narrowed his eyes, and his breathing seemed to become heavier.

True Monarch Magnetic Pole chuckled, pinching Zhang Yu's little hand, and said: "This pair of hands has been manipulating the mountain-moving divine power of Heavenly Kunlun, tempered day and night by the earthly fiend gravitational force—they are becoming more and more suitable for modification."

"By the way, do you really want to enter the Artifact Refinement Department that badly?"

Zhang Yu looked seriously at True Monarch Magnetic Pole, his gaze extremely resolute, speaking word by word: "Master, you know that I have a dream, one day to be accepted into the sect."

"As long as I can enter the sect, I am willing to take any risk."

"And compared to the Finance Department, the Artifact Refinement Department is the most suitable path for me."

True Monarch Magnetic Pole said: "Zhang Yu, the possibility of you entering the sect is very low, you could even say nonexistent. Even so, you are willing to bet everything?"

Zhang Yu: "I am willing."

Seeing this, Director Gao trembled slightly, murmuring in his heart: "Enter the sect? Zhang Yu actually has this kind of idea? Why hasn't he ever told me..."

True Monarch Magnetic Pole sighed: "If you want to enter the sect, the Civil Engineering Department indeed cannot support your ambition. But why didn't you directly join the Artifact Refinement Department in the first place?"

Zhang Yu said helplessly: "Because I am poor. If I directly joined the Artifact Refinement Department, I wouldn't even have the money to properly complete all the artifact refining courses and independently finish all the experiments."

"A teacher I met in high school told me that I could first join the Civil Engineering Department, earn some money, and then find a way to transfer to the Artifact Refinement Department."

Hearing this, Director Gao opened his mouth, but now he had to admit in his heart that the Civil Engineering Department indeed could not support Zhang Yu's ambition.

If he had heard Zhang Yu's idea of wanting to enter the sect... what would he have said?

Besides persuading Zhang Yu to give up, there seemed to be no other possibility.

Because if there was still a faint, impossible possibility in the Artifact Refinement Department, then in the Civil Engineering Department it was absolutely, completely, utterly impossible.

And with Zhang Yu's poverty, directly joining the Artifact Refinement Department would be a dead end.

The only path before him... was to earn money and then transfer to another department.

But even so, the difficulty involved was extraordinary.

Recalling the hardships Zhang Yu had faced over the past three years, Director Gao couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

At the same time, True Monarch Magnetic Pole continued to ask: "Then what plans and thoughts do you have about entering the sect? After joining the Artifact Refinement Department, what do you intend to do?"

Zhang Yu said: "I want to participate in the military competition of the Ten Great Leagues and win the Immortal Gate level cultivation method. If I can win the Immortal Gate level cultivation method, won't the chance of being accepted into the sect be somewhat greater?"

Looking at Zhang Yu's stubborn expression, Director Gao sighed again in his heart.

Participating in the Ten Great Military Competition to strive for first place in all events and win an Immortal Gate cultivation method—this was something absolutely impossible in the Civil Engineering Department, and he, as the director, could not help at all.

Even if Zhang Yu had expressed this intention in the Civil Engineering Department, he would only have been dismissed as delusional.

But watching Zhang Yu take steps day by day to reach where he is now, though the goal is still far off, he is getting closer day by day. Director Gao had to admit that the other party was extremely serious and extremely focused on wanting to do this.

In terms of future prospects, the Civil Engineering Department does not have the soil to support Zhang Yu's ambition.

In terms of benefits, Zhang Yu would gain more by joining the Refining Department, and according to the contract between them, it could also bring more profit to Director Gao in the future.

In terms of assistance, he himself was no longer able to support the other party, and might even become a rope that bound the other.

Watching Zhang Yu, bearing ambition and forging ahead without looking back, Director Gao found that he no longer had any reason whatsoever to keep the other; letting go voluntarily seemed to be the most reasonable and correct choice.

At the same time, many professors, experts, leaders, and teachers from the Civil Engineering Department were also sending messages.