Chapter 567: Latest: Heaven-Earth Calamity Invisible Heart Soldier

Wanfa University.

Inside the laboratory.

Jin Jun looked at Zhang Yu's award-winning design drawings, a flicker of complexity passing through his eye sockets.

With the design competition awards ceremony concluded, more and more people learned that Zhang Yu had won the championship.

Although he had lost to Zhang Yu in the previous direct competition for Tianri Huang Shen, Jin Jun still harbored thoughts of catching up.

This time, upon obtaining Zhang Yu's award-winning design drawings, he held an even stronger desire to find faults.

But after repeated study, Jin Jun had to admit to himself that, with his current level, he was not yet capable of finding any omissions or errors in this design.

Thinking this, Jin Jun let out a gentle sigh and murmured, "If only I had taken first place in the design competition."

Hearing this, the assistant beside him gave a slight pout and thought to himself, "I wish it had been me."

The assistant thought that if he had won first place back then, who knows who might be whose assistant now.

At the same time, the assistant glanced at his mailbox to check if there was any reply to the resume he had sent to Zhang Yu, hoping to jump from Jin Jun's team to Zhang Yu's project group.

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As news of Zhang Yu's award continued to spread.

Within the Artifact Refining Department, more and more people began downloading Zhang Yu's award-winning drawings for various purposes—admiration, study, fault-finding, analysis, and so on.

Zhang Yu, however, paid no attention to the news spreading outside and continued to devote himself wholeheartedly to refining the Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword.

Just moments ago, he had finished a call with Bai Zhenzhen.

What surprised Zhang Yu was that Bai Zhenzhen didn't ask many questions about the Nascent Soul Dharma Relic, making all the prepared explanations he had ready go to waste.

At that moment, as a surge of True Fire roiled, the sword embryo before him gradually took the form of a sword artifact.

Before participating in the design competition, he had already finished refining the first Level 20 Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword; now, to complete the sword formation, he needed to refine another eleven Level 20 Taihao Sacred Law Flying Swords.

Not long after, Zhang Yu, who was refining flying swords in the laboratory, received the Class-B Military Certificate.

However, this time, without any specific instructions from Magnetic Pole True Lord, the entire certificate-issuing process was very low-key.

Apart from Zhang Yu being able to see the military certificate flickering in his eye sockets, even the experimental assistants around him had no idea that, amidst this calm, Zhang Yu had just undergone another leap.

With a thought, three military certificates appeared before Zhang Yu.

Looking at these three certificates, Zhang Yu felt a profound sense of satisfaction from within, realizing that all his efforts during these university years had not been in vain.

"Time does not disappoint those who put in the effort—truly, Heaven rewards the diligent."

Shortly after the military certificate arrived, Zhang Yu's eye sockets flickered again; it was Magnetic Pole True Lord sending him the electronic copy of the *Heaven-Earth Calamity Invisible Heart Soldier* manual.

After scanning through the contents of the manual, Zhang Yu was pleased to see that a new entry had appeared on his Feather Book: *Heaven-Earth Calamity Invisible Heart Soldier* Level 0 (0/1).

"With my talent, cultivating this technique won't be slow."

"But the essence of this artifact-refining technique lies in Dao arts, so its cultivation costs will be considerable."

Having scanned the manual, Zhang Yu already understood the general framework of the *Heaven-Earth Calamity Invisible Heart Soldier*.

To cultivate this technique, one needed to gather all kinds of calamity energy from heaven and earth.

This so-called calamity energy included some that could only be collected during various natural disasters, as well as others only collectible during man-made calamities.

In ancient times, gathering all these kinds of calamity energy would probably have required extensive planning, decades of effort, and countless manpower and resources.

But in today's Kunxu, one simply needs to spend money to buy them.

However, precisely because of today's Kunxu, the *Heaven-Earth Calamity Invisible Heart Soldier* has been updated year after year, its might growing ever greater; cultivation now requires not only larger amounts of calamity energy but also an increasing number of auxiliary materials.

The more one invests in cultivation, the more miraculous the technique becomes when activated, capable of drawing upon wind calamity, water calamity, fire calamity, heart calamity, and other different powers.

Reading the introduction in the electronic manual, Zhang Yu thought to himself: "Wind calamity symbolizes flow; it can grant a magic treasure ultra-high spiritual realm data throughput, or interfere with the spiritual realm throughput of other people's treasures."

"Fire calamity symbolizes energy; it can boost a magic treasure's mana, rapidly restore mana, and even activate an overload mode, multiplying the treasure's power."

"Water calamity symbolizes the nourishment of all things; it can temporarily turn ordinary grass, wood, bamboo, and stone into magic treasures."

"Heart calamity has been the highlight of the technique's updates in recent years, focusing on the interconnection of all things and the integration of heaven, earth, and magic treasures as one."

Zhang Yu flipped backward and could still see the subsequent introduction of the Heaven-Earth Calamity Formless Heart Soldier, which described the direction of this technique after level 20. It claimed to directly reach level 80, achieving a connection between Heaven and Earth—atmosphere, spiritual mechanism, thoughts, memory… all linked together into one, forging a wisdom Kunxu, a mind-evolved world.

Where this technique could ultimately reach was not yet Zhang Yu’s concern.

What he cared about more now was how many spirit coins it would take to cultivate this technique to level 20.

Looking at the rows of cultivation requirements, Zhang Yu muttered to himself, “This technique really gets updated diligently, and the cost of cultivation gets more expensive every year.”