Chapter 695: Swallowing Heaven True Lord, Great Saint's Disciple

Kunxu Third Layer, the Great Void.

Inside an office in the third-layer teaching district of Wanfa University.

Mo Shangjin, who had already been admitted to the Artifact Refining Department and officially became a graduate student there, was now receiving guidance from his advisor.

"Mo Shangjin, since you transferred from the Civil Engineering Department, you should know how hard-earned this opportunity is."

"In the past, a student like you wouldn't even have been allowed through the doors of the Artifact Refining Department."

"But ask yourself—have you worked hard enough? Don't tell me you still need to work part-time or participate in battles. The Artifact Refining Department has plenty of students who fight in wars while taking exams. Does fighting mean you can skip exams?"

"Mo Shangjin, don't think that just because President Qingmu is your teacher, you can coast under my supervision."

"I hate nepotism more than anything. No one's connections work here with me."

Mo Shangjin listened respectfully to the words of the North Sea True Lord before him, knowing that getting into the Artifact Refining Department hadn't been easy and that he owed some of it to Divine Lord Qingmu's face, so he treasured the opportunity even more.

And the North Sea True Lord before him wasn't targeting him personally; he was this strict with every student.

After finishing his lecture to Mo Shangjin, the North Sea True Lord turned to another student nearby and said, "What about that thing I told you to look at last time? What papers and literature have you read? Don't make excuses for me. Graduate students aren't undergraduates. If you keep this attitude, advisors can be changed."

"And you—what about the task I assigned three days ago? Still not done? Three whole days! In the Civil Engineering Department, they'd have built a building by now; in the Security Department, they'd have killed hundreds or thousands of people. And you can't even finish such a simple task? This isn't an ability problem—it's an attitude problem..."

Along with the North Sea True Lord's reprimands, the atmosphere in the room grew more and more oppressive.

Just then, the North Sea True Lord's gaze suddenly shifted, and then he smiled.

Mo Shangjin and the others exchanged glances, wondering who their advisor was talking to. In their memory, they rarely saw the North Sea True Lord wear such an amiable smile.

The next moment, they heard the North Sea True Lord say, "Candleblaze True Lord, everyone in the department knows your situation. At your level, what classes do you still need to take? Are we teaching you, or are you teaching us?"

As a Nascent Soul True Lord who had participated in the earlier operation to support Zhang Yu, the North Sea True Lord was already deeply aware of the Magnetic Pole's high regard for Zhang Yu.

He said humbly, "It's fine, it's fine. You can take however long a leave you want."

"It's our course scheduling that's inadequate. We must not delay the research institute's plans."

"Good... good... good... Please send my regards to the President."

After ending the call, the North Sea True Lord looked at the students before him and said calmly, "If you had even a fraction of Candleblaze True Lord's abilities, I wouldn't have to scold you every day like this."

"Alright, you're all dismissed. Carry out everything I just said, and I'll talk to you again in a few days."

The students felt as if they had been granted a pardon and quickly withdrew.

As Mo Shangjin listened to these words, he felt a surge of emotion: "Candleblaze True Lord is Zhang Yu, isn't he? I can't believe that junior I used to mentor just a few years ago has now reached this level."

On the other side, after getting his leave from the North Sea True Lord, Zhang Yu once again threw himself into his cultivation, steadily raising the level of the "Three Realms Ten Directions Supreme Void Absolute Barrier."

After all, the level of this immortal sect technique was tied to his achievements in spatial technology research.

The intensity of the war, the various schools' research into spatial technology, and the launch and competition of various spatial products all seemed like hands pushing from behind Zhang Yu, urging him to accelerate... accelerate... accelerate again.

But besides studying the "Three Realms Ten Directions Supreme Void Absolute Barrier," Zhang Yu naturally couldn't neglect his own cultivation level.

After the battle with the three Nascent Soul powerhouses and learning that the Righteous Alliance Leader had taken an interest in him, Zhang Yu placed increasing importance on improving his own strength.

In particular, raising various basic stats was not only crucial to unleashing his own abilities but also to the growth of his Nascent Soul.

As Zhang Yu cultivated the immortal sect technique, his Nascent Soul—like a human figure formed from mist—practiced martial arts not far behind him, sending out bursts of fist winds and palm shadows, continuously adapting to the power inherited from its main body.

"Each basic stat—Dao heart, magical power, physical strength—when pushed to the Nascent Soul peak and fully inherited by the Nascent Soul, triggers an evolution of the Nascent Soul."

"A Nascent Soul that has undergone three complete evolutions is the final form of a Nascent Soul stage Nascent Soul."

And just as Zhang Yu was fully absorbed in cultivation and study, more intense conflicts erupted on the battlefield.

Although the top ten universities kept rolling out spatial products, greatly enhancing the combat power of cultivators and their ability to resist spatial lockdowns.

The Righteous Alliance's technology had also upgraded, with spatial barriers that could be deployed faster, cover larger areas, and even completely isolate Lingjie signals appearing constantly.

The advancement of technology made the battles between both sides increasingly fierce.

But ordinary people couldn't see the front-line situation; they could only sense the escalating intensity of the war through the propaganda offensives in the Lingjie and Dark Lingjie.

Inside the Lingjie.

Ye Xingli sighed in the livestream: "Another letter requesting aid from the Righteous Alliance. They say that after this college student went to the Righteous Alliance, he had no work, no income every day, and could only hunt and farm for himself, living the most primitive and hopeless life."

"I want everyone to understand that the Righteous Alliance is absolutely not a paradise for college students. They take in college students just to make you idle, to cut off all your hope, and to leave you as useless people who can only believe in the demon cult and the evil gods."

Within the Dark Spirit Realm.

Liangyan True Lord projected a line chart and said, "This is the data on treasure production over the past year from the top ten universities. As you can see, production has been declining for the last three months, and it has already dropped to less than 50% of the original."

"The top ten universities are now facing wave after wave of internal unemployment. People are fighting over cement, prices have multiplied several times, and the entire society is in dire straits. Every day, tens of thousands of college students are trying to run to the Righteous Alliance."

"I dare say the top ten are about to collapse. They won't hold out much longer."

As the war between the two sides grew increasingly fierce, not long after, Netherworld University also launched its own spatial product.

Spirit Lord Yin Quan said at the press conference, "Although traditional spatial products claim to be able to deflect attacks, due to excessive mana consumption, they often cannot deflect more than a few attacks before exhausting the product's mana. Even maintaining the spatial expansion and contraction becomes difficult, gradually turning the ability to deflect attacks into a mere decoration."

"The Mystic Abyss Pearl launched by our university specifically addresses this issue. It has a greatly enhanced mana capacity, extra-long standby time, and an ultra-large space, making attack deflection a truly reliable defensive method."

"Moreover, to ensure quality, every human bone used in each Mystic Abyss Pearl is from bone material that has undergone six months of growth and refinement in the human bone farm. We never use three-month quick-grown bone!"

Watching Netherworld University's product launch, Tian Sheng Gong frowned inwardly. "This is specifically targeting the battlefield environment, trying to seize the war market."

Soon after, he learned that indeed many schools, and even numerous cultivators from the top ten, had deliberately purchased Mystic Abyss Pearls for use on the battlefield.

In response to the competition, Immortal Soldier University was the first to launch a price reduction offensive, announcing discounts on interest for all installment payments.

After the high-end market and the low-end market, the war market was gradually eroded, and competition among personal spatial products became increasingly fierce.