Chapter 636: Chapter 575: Latest Version of [Heaven and Earth Destruction Invisible Heart Soldiers]
Wanfa University.
Inside the laboratory.
Jin Jun looked at Zhang Yu’s award-winning design drawings, a complex expression flashing across his eyes.
As the design competition’s award ceremony concluded, more and more people learned about Zhang Yu winning the championship.
Although in their previous direct competition, Jin Jun lost to Zhang Yu in the Heavenly Sun Divine competition, he never lacked the desire to strive for a comeback.
This time, after obtaining Zhang Yu’s award-winning design drawings, he harbored a slight intention to find fault.
But after studying it multiple times, Jin Jun had to admit to himself that, at his level, he was not capable of finding and fixing any flaws in the design.
Thinking of this, Jin Jun lightly exhaled and sighed softly: "If only I had won first place in the design competition."
His assistant, hearing this, slightly pouted and thought, "I wish that were me."
The assistant imagined that if he had won the first prize back then, who knows who would be whose assistant now.
Meanwhile, the assistant glanced at his own email inbox, checking whether there was any reply to the resume he sent to Zhang Yu, as he too wanted to leave Jin Jun’s team for Zhang Yu’s project group.
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With the spread of Zhang Yu’s winning,
more and more people in the Artifact Refining Department, with different purposes such as admiration, learning, nitpicking, and analysis, started downloading Zhang Yu’s award-winning drawings.
Zhang Yu, however, did not pay attention to the news circulating outside, focusing entirely on refining the Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword.
Just now, he had finished a conversation with Bai Zhenzhen.
What surprised Zhang Yu was that Bai Zhenzhen didn’t ask much about the Divinity Transformation Remains, making his prepared explanations go to waste.
At that moment, accompanied by a surge of true fire, the sword embryo in front of him gradually took the shape of a sword.
Before participating in the design competition, he had already completed the refinement of the first Level 20 Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword, and now to complete the sword array, he needed to refine 11 more Level 20 Taihao Sacred Law Flying Swords.
Not long after, while Zhang Yu was refining flying swords in the laboratory, he received a Military Certificate Class B.
However, this time the certification process was low-key, without any special instructions from the Magnetic Pole True Monarch.
Outside of Zhang Yu, who could see the flickering military certificate in his eyes, even the assistants around him didn’t know that amidst this tranquility, Zhang Yu had already achieved another leap forward.
With a thought, three military certificates appeared in front of Zhang Yu.
Looking at these three military certificates, Zhang Yu felt a deep sense of satisfaction, feeling that the efforts during his university years had paid off.
"Time rewards the diligent indeed, such is the Heavenly Dao rewarding hard work."
Soon after receiving the military certificate, Zhang Yu’s eyes flashed again as Magnetic Pole True Monarch sent him the electronic version of the "Heaven and Earth Destruction Invisible Heart Soldiers" manual.
After scanning through the contents, Zhang Yu was pleased to see a new entry on Yu Shu: Heaven and Earth Destruction Invisible Heart Soldiers Level 0 (0/1)
"With my talent, practicing this cultivation technique won’t be slow."
"But the essence of this artifact refining technique lies in Taoist skill, and the cost of cultivation is significant."
Having scanned through the contents, Zhang Yu already understood the general outline of "Heaven and Earth Destruction Invisible Heart Soldiers."
To cultivate this technique, one needs to gather various calamity energies from heaven and earth.
The so-called calamity energies are collected during natural disasters as well as during many man-made disasters and hardships.
In ancient times, collecting these calamity energies would have required a massive layout, spending decades and vast amounts of manpower and resources.
But in today’s Kunxu, you only need to spend money to buy them.
However, due to being in today’s Kunxu, "Heaven and Earth Destruction Invisible Heart Soldiers" has been updated year after year, its power growing ever more immense, requiring not just more calamity energies but also increasingly more supplementary materials for cultivation.
The greater the investment during cultivation, the more miraculous the technique when activated, capable of invoking the powers of wind, water, fire, and even mental disasters.
Looking at the electronic manual’s introduction, Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Wind disaster symbolizes flow, which can boost the spiritual realm’s speed of magic treasures or interfere with others’ spiritual realm flows."
"Fire disaster symbolizes energy, able to enhance mana for magic treasures, swiftly recover mana, or even activate overload mode, exponentially increasing the magic treasure’s power."
"Water disaster symbolizes nurturing everything, temporarily transforming ordinary plants, stones, and other objects into magic treasures."
"Mental disaster has been the focus of this cultivation technique’s updates in recent years, emphasizing the interconnection of all things, unifying heaven and earth’s magic treasures."
Flipping further, Zhang Yu could see the subsequent introduction of "Heaven and Earth Destruction Invisible Heart Soldiers," describing the technique’s path beyond Level 20, claiming to reach up to Level 80, achieving interconnection of heaven and earth, atmosphere, spiritual mechanism, thoughts, memory... all connected into a unified whole, creating a wise Kunxu, and simulating the world of the mind.
For Zhang Yu, how far this cultivation technique can ultimately reach is not his current concern.
He is more concerned with how many spirit coins are needed to cultivate this technique to Level 20.
Looking at the line-by-line cultivation requirements, Zhang Yu thought to himself: "This cultivation technique is indeed updated diligently, and the cost of cultivation grows more expensive year by year."
He shook his head helplessly, and silently calculated in his heart: "Cultivating the latest version of ’Heaven and Earth Destruction Invisible Heart Soldiers’ to Level 20 is a bit more expensive than I had anticipated, costing around 300 spirit coins."
Zhang Yu looked at the sword embryo beside him, thinking, "The next 11 flying swords will probably cost me more than 200 spirit coins."
At the same time, his eye socket displayed a balance of 230 spirit coins.
"Recently, in order to push the first Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword to Level 20, along with various purchases for the design competition, researching college students, and hiring assistants... Although I’ve spent quite a bit of spirit coins, luckily, I’ve also made quite a lot during this period."
"Next, I’ll continue to complete the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Formation first. After finishing the sword formation, I’ll proceed to cultivate the ’Heaven and Earth Destruction Invisible Heart Soldiers.’ If I calculate..."
In his heart, Zhang Yu mused, "It’s already May. With an income of over a hundred spirit coins per month, I’ll definitely have enough spirit coins for this cultivation technique before the top ten leagues in September."
"But if I could earn more spirit coins..."
Zhang Yu knew that a major reason restricting his cultivation speed had always been spirit coins.
This cultivation technique, ’Heaven and Earth Destruction Invisible Heart Soldiers,’ despite his extraordinary talent, still forces him to gather money while practicing due to insufficient spirit coins, which causes interruptions in the cultivation process.
"Currently, completing the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Formation and Heaven and Earth Destruction Invisible Heart Soldiers by September doesn’t seem problematic."
Zhang Yu thought of the Green Water Gold Crystal Armor: "But whether I can complete a military-level force depends on whether I can earn more."
Speaking of earning more spirit coins, Zhang Yu then thought of his design diagrams; judging by Mo Sha True Man’s enthusiasm, it looks like these designs could fetch a good price.
He pondered inwardly, "I just wonder how much they can sell for."
Just then, Mo Sha True Man outside the laboratory sent a message.
Mo Sha True Man: Zhang Yu, how about adding dividends to the patent fee?
Zhang Yu’s gaze sharpened, thinking, "Interesting."
Zhang Yu replied: Elaborate
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Meanwhile, outside the laboratory, Mo Sha True Man, seeing Zhang Yu’s reply, couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
He immediately began replying cautiously.
After all, the current relationship with Zhang Yu affects the investment management department’s performance, and it’s under the attention of Taihe True Monarch, making it necessary for Mo Sha True Man to approach carefully.
If Zhang Yu demanded dual cultivation now, Mo Sha surely wouldn’t dare.
But if asked to kill someone, he might indeed consider it.
And if asked to cozy up to college students, he’d definitely figure out his way around it.
The unfortunate reality is that Zhang Yu has no demands from him now.
"Zhang Yu isn’t someone easily swayed."
Reflecting on his interactions with Zhang Yu, he thought, "Zhang Yu must have realized that his design can fetch a pretty good price."
Mo Sha True Man pondered: "In his eyes, the investment management department is only one of the buyers; he’s waiting for the highest bidder."
Mo Sha True Man knew that the big enterprises’ Master Yun Yang is eager to discuss the design patents with Zhang Yu.
If both parties were to meet directly, the investment management department might struggle to be involved, as it couldn’t offer better terms than the big enterprises.
"But that’s under the competition scenario with big enterprises."
"What if the relationship shifts instead?"
"Not us competing against big enterprises, but collaborating with Zhang Yu against them."
Mo Sha True Man thought, "This way, the buyer-seller relationship with Zhang Yu could transform into a shared-interest alliance."
He then replied: Zhang Yu, based on the latest information I have, Wanda Group wants to buy your design.
Mo Sha True Man: But as a student, Wanda Group has too many ways to lower your price.
Mo Sha True Man: Plus, negotiating will consume a lot of your focus and time.
Mo Sha True Man: I suggest... let the university represent you and negotiate with Wanda Group.
Mo Sha True Man: We are confident in securing a payment method of patent fee + dividends for you.
Mo Sha True Man: It’s a win-win.
Seeing the long pause in the reply, Mo Sha True Man believed Zhang Yu would eventually agree.
With the information gathered, it’s clear that Zhang Yu needs money and prefers spending all his time in the lab, avoiding even award ceremonies.
At Wanfa University, the investment management department is best suited to negotiate with big enterprises, be it dividends, lawsuits, or any hauls; they are more apt for this than Zhang Yu.
In this regard, even Zhang Yu’s mentor, Magnetic Pole True Monarch, can’t compare to them.
Zhang Yu provides the patent, while they offer protection, manpower, legal aid, negotiation assistance, and various resources, jointly earning spirit coins from the big enterprises.