Chapter 570: Discrimination? Talk to My Flying Sword!

Inside the construction site, after sensing the entire field had shut down with the earth's tremors, Yu Xinghan now had a legitimate excuse to avoid work.

The Shuangxiu Virus inside his body seemed to grow even more rampant, plunging his mana and blood energy into a deeper lethargy, as stagnant as a pool of dead water, completely immobile.

Realizing this, Yu Xinghan's heart chilled, and he muttered, "If Zhang Yu hadn't raised wages in advance, perhaps this shutdown would have spread the Shuangxiu Virus even more severely through the site."

Just then, another violent tremor surged from deep within the earth.

Outside the demon-kin workers' site, with the earth's violent shaking, Shi Huaiyu, Ying Xin, and the others who had been protesting were all flung away.

Xiangshan, his trunk curled back like an elephant's, turned his massive body—like a small mountain—and paced step by step toward the scattered crowd.

With every step he took, the ground shook violently, billowing astral energy erupted skyward, mixed with the power of a military-grade dharma skeleton, unleashing a startling pressure.

With both the Xumi Mountain King Sutra and the Jie Liu Ming Wang Type 4 activated, Xiangshan could sense that if a river lay before him, he could blast it into flowing backward; if a mountain range stood in his way, he could shatter it.

Who on this site could stop him? Who could block him?

Until the next moment, when he saw Xiao Qingxuan—burdened with tens of thousands in debt—standing before him, Xiangshan immediately calmed down. This one, he absolutely could not recklessly ram.

"Hmph! If you have problems, figure them out yourselves. Come disturb our work again, and I'll directly report you to the leadership of Wanfa University, accuse you of discriminating against demon-kin and sabotaging the unity of the two schools."

With a cold snort, Xiangshan turned and stalked away, leaving the people of Wanfa University furious but helpless.

As Xiangshan returned to work, a flash of his eye-skeleton revealed an incoming message.

"How's it going?"

Xiangshan replied: Very smoothly

Xiangshan: Rest assured, with me here, Zhang Yu's company won't get a single day of work done

Xiangshan: That investment?

The other party replied: As long as you keep your end of the deal, the investment will come

On the other side, Shi Huaiyu clenched her fists tightly. The Earth Fiend Gravity seemed to rise and dissipate within her body. She suppressed her impulse, knowing that even activating the Tiankunlun Mountain-Shifting Divine Power now would be useless and would only expose her.

Just as everyone on the site was worrying, the sound of piercing air rang out, accompanied by a wave of displaced air, and Zhang Yu's figure appeared on the scene.

At the same time, Xiangshan's figure shot into the sky, his gaze toward Zhang Yu filled with hostility.

In last year's Civil Engineering Competition, he had lost to the other by the narrowest of margins.

Back then, his strength had far exceeded Zhang Yu's, but a strategic mistake had cost him first place in the competition, countless opportunities, and a catastrophic drop in his reputation at Tianyao University.

Now, seeing Zhang Yu again, Xiangshan's eyes burned with resentment.

Xiangshan shouted, "Zhang Yu!"

Over the past year or more, Xiangshan's experiences could be described as turbulent.

At first, due to his failure in the Civil Engineering Competition, his standing at Tianyao University was severely damaged. He became the target of countless demon-kin's scorn in the spirit world, his income plummeted, and he racked his brains to repay debts.

But later, Wanfa University and Tianyao University began cooperating, and Wanfa University's Finance Department poured large sums of money into Tianyao University.

Students like him, who excelled, could even obtain scholarship loans from the Finance Department more easily than Wanfa University's own students.

And since coming to work at Wanfa University, both his income and working environment had improved steadily.

Now, through an introduction from a friend in the Finance Department, he had leased a military-grade dharma skeleton, acquiring three military-grade powers.

Seeing Zhang Yu before him, Xiangshan's fighting spirit surged; he only wanted to duel the other man again and thoroughly wash away his shame.

"Zhang Yu has only transferred departments for a little over a year; he only masters two military-grade powers: Tiankunlun Mountain-Shifting Divine Power and Tianri Huangshen."

"He recently won the Design Competition, but that contest tests artifact design ability, not personal power."

"And I now possess three military-grade powers; my actual work capability far exceeds his."

Xiangshan took a deep breath and thought to himself, "Right now, Zhang Yu—from the Artifact Refining Department—has a big reputation but inferior actual work capability. He's the perfect stepping stone for me to regain fame at Tianyao University."

"Tianyao University Civil Engineering student crushes Wanfa University Artifact Refining student?"

Just imagining that news headline made Xiangshan unable to suppress a laugh.

Of course, the 'crushing' Xiangshan had in mind wasn't actually defeating the other in combat; after all, with Artifact Refining students... who knew how many spirit coins you'd have to pay to compensate for their damaged items.

What Xiangshan wanted was to compete with the other using construction-site methods, forcing him to concede for the sake of the project.

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Looking at the Elephant Mountain before him, Zhang Yu's expression remained unchanged as he said calmly, "Elephant Mountain, I'll ask you just once: can you control your strength a bit and not affect our construction over here?"

Elephant Mountain bellowed, "Zhang Yu, are you discriminating against the Monster-Descendants?"

Zhang Yu was slightly taken aback, thinking to himself, what did he say to be accused of discriminating against the Monster-Descendants?

And within the visual field of Elephant Mountain's Monster-Descendant perception, as the Anti-Monster-Descendant Discrimination Registry activated, a layer of red had already stained Zhang Yu's head.

This was an inter-realm talisman specially developed by the Finance Department of Wanda University, spending money to have the Talisman Department create it for Monster-Descendant students, in order to promote unity between the two schools.

Any Monster-Descendant, when encountering discrimination, could upload the discriminator's information to the inter-realm, where it would be recorded in the Anti-Monster-Descendant Discrimination Registry.

The more times one was recorded for discrimination, the brighter red the target would appear in the Monster-Descendants' inter-realm vision.