Chapter 677

Over the past few months, Xiang Shen's consciousness had been wandering within the Spirit Realm.

While gathering all kinds of information about Wanfa University and tracking Zhang Yu's whereabouts, he was also seducing and converting believers, turning the personnel in one university city after another into loyal users of the Righteous Alliance and the Dark Spirit Realm.

Such matters were not difficult for Xiang Shen, who had roamed the criminal underworld of Kunxu for many years and had long trained in the three great demonic sects.

Especially now, with the disappearance of the righteous gods and the continuation of the war, the monitoring of the Spirit Realm by teachers and students of various schools, as well as their trust in the universities, sects, and the Heavenly Court, were far less than in the past.

In the past, when the rules were strict and the power of the Heavenly Court shone everywhere, Xiang Shen felt he could still cheat all around; how much more so in such good times now? It was even more an opportunity for him to display his skills.

"We evil gods have finally caught up with a good era, reaping the dividends of the times."

Thus, from the lowest-level demon descendants and junior colleges, to assembly-line workers in factories, ox-horses in offices, elites on construction sites, and top students in laboratories, Xiang Shen gradually gained more and more eyes and ears within Wanfa University City.

But... over the past five months, he had never been able to find any trace of Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu was like a dissipated wisp of smoke, a drifting strand of green mist; in these five months... no one had seen him, no one had contacted him, no one had even received any reply from him.

Even with transfers and bribes, there was no response from the other side.

"Could he not be in the university city?"

"Was he sent somewhere else?"

Just as Xiang Shen had been without gains for a long time and was at his wit's end facing the vast university city, a believer came up with an interesting suggestion.

That was a believer Xiang Shen had discovered outside a construction site, a student from Hehuan University named Fu Xinyao.

And for Fu Xinyao, the appearance of Xiang Shen was also an unprecedented opportunity.

She had stayed at Wanfa University for far too long.

"Originally sent to Wanfa University by the Divine Lord Qiongjiang, I thought this was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to gain the appreciation of a Nascent Soul Divine Lord."

"I thought I just needed to keep a close eye on Zhang Yu, but I ended up caught in the conflict between two Nascent Souls. I thought once that matter was over I could go back, but then I encountered the dispute of the Top Ten League."

"I thought after the Top Ten League I would have a great opportunity to contribute and earn merit for the Divine Lord Qiongjiang, but I hadn't even taken the field before I had already failed. The sudden great upheaval of heaven and earth shattered all plans, and I was once again left behind at Wanfa University."

"And so... month after month, month after month, now I have been stuck in Wanfa University City for three whole years! Three whole years wasted!"

"In these three years, I, originally a top student in a flagship major at Hehuan University, have achieved nothing more than becoming thoroughly familiar with everyone on the construction site."

"I haven't gotten a single bit of benefit from the great upheaval. The Wanfa University certificate has nothing to do with me, and Hehuan University no longer recognizes me as a student, simply because Divine Lord Qiongjiang has gone missing and no one knows my identity as a mole."

"Moreover, the dangerous environment in the wilderness has cut off my path back to Hehuan."

"That casual move of Divine Lord Qiongjiang back then has completely ruined my life."

Faced with the current situation, Fu Xinyao felt anger, heartache, frustration, regret...

Especially seeing her former classmates one by one obtain Golden Core certificates and break through to Golden Core, while she still had to work every day, serving Foundation Establishment students on the construction site... she felt even greater resentment.

It was under these circumstances that she met Xiang Shen.

"Since the top ten universities no longer have a place for me, then I will join the demonic sect and worship the evil god!"

Upon learning that Xiang Shen was looking for traces of Zhang Yu, Fu Xinyao remembered a person living inside her yin vessel.

"Ping Han," Fu Xinyao said. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You don't want to live in a yin vessel forever, do you? Think carefully: is there any way in Wanfa University to find Zhang Yu?"

Hearing Zhang Yu's name, Ping Han, who had gradually become mentally numb inside the yin vessel, suddenly seemed to wake up.

"Zhang Yu..." He murmured the name softly, his spirit becoming agitated, and the yin vessel trembled slightly in response.

Even after more than three years, Ping Han still remembered that exam which had changed his life.

Ping Han had always believed that it was because he lost to Zhang Yu in the Military Certificate exam, because he failed to obtain the Military Certificate in his final year of university, that led to the series of tragedies that followed.

And as for that battle where he lost to Zhang Yu, he never thought he had actually lost to him; in his view, it was all due to Gao Chongguang's favoritism, the Civil Engineering Department's behind-the-scenes scheming, and the corruption and discord among Wanfa University's higher-ups.

Watching Zhang Yu later win the Civil Engineering Competition, transfer to the Artifact Refining Department, even participate in the Top Ten League, step by step climb to the heavens, and finally defeat Kuang Tianqing to become the strongest undergraduate among the top ten universities, made Ping Han's heart feel as if it were being gnawed by insects.

He had thought that in this life he would never again have the chance to catch up with Zhang Yu or take revenge, until this very moment...

Hearing Fu Xinyao's question, Ping Han murmured: "As long as Zhang Yu still needs to cultivate, he needs spiritual energy and magical power."

"We can get the spiritual energy flow data of the university city and check which hidden spaces maintained a Golden Core level of spiritual energy supply during the time period when Zhang Yu disappeared."

Hearing this suggestion, Xiang Shen's heart stirred; he thought it made a lot of sense, so he set his believers to work collecting data on spiritual energy and magical power supply over the past half year.

"Require that the supply of spiritual energy and mana only began within the last five months."

"Must be at the Nascent Soul level of consumption."

"Also must be a hidden space, an area inaccessible and unreachable by ordinary people..."

As locations were investigated one by one, a laboratory on the 555th floor finally caught Feng Xiang's eye.