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Chapter 374 - 323: Cemetery Blind Box

Chapter 374: Chapter 323: Cemetery Blind Box

By mid-April, Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, Li Xiao, and other students had already arrived at the tenth underground level.

For this cemetery restoration project, besides first-year students, more outstanding upper-year students had also signed up to participate.

For example, leading the team at the front was a sixth-year student named Tian Yang, who was responsible for leading, supervising, and coordinating the work of these students.

Zhang Yu walked through the wide underground passage, and the further he went, the more he could feel the concentration of spiritual energy in the air becoming denser.

According to Zhang Yu’s knowledge, the underground spirit veins of Wanfa University City were not naturally formed but were gathered into eighty-eight spirit veins at this location by adjusting the terrain when the university city was built.

The passage they were walking through led to one of these spirit veins.

Moments later, a massive metal door loomed in front of everyone.

Feeling the faint mana flowing from behind the door, Zhang Yu sensed the powerful array forces surging on the other side.

Leader Tian Yang said, "Ahead is the cemetery area. Everyone line up and pass through one by one, don’t crowd together."

In Zhang Yu’s eye mechanism, a line of writing also appeared on the door: Huilong Garden Mana Production Co., Ltd.

Zhang Yu understood that cemetery, underground cemetery was just a folk term, while this company’s name was the official appellation.

The next moment, as the closed door opened, a stream of cold air rushed in.

At that instant, the air around seemed to thicken.

When Zhang Yu stepped inside, not only did the air become thicker, but he also felt the humidity around him increasing, as spiritual energy began to float in the air like droplets, forming a mist of vibrant colors.

Zhang Yu took a deep breath, and as the mana circulated within him, he felt a surge of spiritual energy, slightly increasing his mana and nourishing his flesh and blood.

Beside him, Yu Xinghan exclaimed, "No wonder this project has application requirements, working here... just breathing is a benefit."

Hearing this, Zhang Yu nodded slightly, thinking that if the spiritual energy on the second floor was as valuable, they might all have to bring oxygen tanks to work.

Besides the gradually thickening spiritual energy, the temperature in the air was also decreasing.

Zhang Yu speculated this might be to cool down the cadavers perpetually channeling mana and absorbing spiritual energy.

At the same time, a notification and several options appeared in Zhang Yu’s eye mechanism.

Welcome to Huilong Garden!

Guided Tour

Paying Respects to Friends and Family

Product Showcase

Purchase Souvenirs

Contact Us

Job Openings

Zhang Yu casually selected the guided tour and discovered the entire map of Huilong Garden appeared before him, featuring the Festival Area, Benevolence Area, Gratitude Area, Family Area, and so on...

"What is the Festival Area?"

Zhang Yu looked over out of curiosity, only to realize that the so-called Festival Area was for space savings, where low-value cadavers had unnecessary parts removed, then underwent structural optimization and compression, to be stored into cadaver cabinets and integrated into the absorption cluster with minimal space.

Just then, Li Xiao said, "Look at the souvenir blind boxes they’re selling here, there’s good stuff inside!"

Hearing this, Zhang Yu also looked at the merchandise displayed in his eye mechanism, thinking, "Are discarded cadavers decomposed and sold as blind boxes?"

Eyeing the potential contents of the blind boxes, like skin, flesh, limbs, meridians, and dantian, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but frown, "They can actually sell this stuff?"

Beside him, Yu Xinghan added, "Yep, the organs dismantled from these cadavers, running 24/7, are so old! Older than me, can they even be used?"

Unable to hold back, Li Xiao said, "But if you could draw a Golden Core, or even a Nascent Soul organ..."

Yu Xinghan disapprovingly remarked, "Oh Li, you always have such speculative thoughts? You’re drawing the blind box, but the people filling the blind boxes aren’t blind. Do you think you’ll get lucky with genuinely valuable finds?"

"The Immortal Path frowns upon shortcuts like these, they’re for the wealthy. We poor cultivators need to be down-to-earth, borrowing step by step, repaying step by step, stop dreaming of overnight riches."

"Plus, consider how many cadavers need to be discarded here annually, can blind box sales handle it all? There must be other channels for processing them, what’s really coming and going with these cadaver parts and organs, and of what quality..."

While Yu Xinghan was passionately explaining, a voice suddenly interrupted him.

"Dear student, Wanfa University is a legitimate university, and Huilong Garden is a legally operated cemetery, unlike Nether University that sells the living as cadavers. Every organ and cadaver here is from legal deaths, with clear origins and destinations."

Everyone turned toward the young man speaking, and the leader Tian Yang promptly said, "Manager Sun, this junior of mine knows nothing, just talking nonsense, you can ignore him."

The man known as Manager Sun gave a cold glance at Yu Xinghan but said nothing more, turning to Tian Yang, "The cemetery restoration area is quite large this time, thank you for your hard work."

After Manager Sun assigned tasks, he departed, and Tian Yang began distributing assignments.

Soon, guiding arrows and task instructions started appearing separately in everyone’s eye mechanisms.

Zhang Yu followed the guiding arrows to continue moving forward, gradually separating from his classmates.

He looked at the rows of densely arranged iron containers on both sides, thinking to himself that these must contain corpse parts.

A moment later, Zhang Yu saw a large area of iron containers twisted and deformed, crushed on the ground.

There were also extensive damages to the surrounding ground, array foundations, spiritual mechanism circuitry, nutrient pipelines, Spirit Realm Network, surveillance cameras, and other infrastructure.

Zhang Yu thought, "Is this the area I’m responsible for maintaining?"

"Even the network is down?"

His eyes flickered, and the project files and repair blueprints he had downloaded in advance began to surface one by one.

"Speaking of which... why did such serious damage occur here?"

"Although the official explanation states that the high concentration of spiritual mechanism caused corpse transformation and zombies, the universities and companies here in Kunxu—somehow I feel their surface explanations can’t be fully trusted."

Zhang Yu shook his head, temporarily suppressing the stray thoughts in his mind, preparing to start his work.

As for the preparations before work, of course, it was taking medicine.

After all, for Zhang Yu, snagging some food and drink was his main reason for coming to the site; work was merely secondary.

And thanks to Director Gao’s special care, Zhang Yu could still get no more than ten doses of life-shortening drugs for free each day upon entering the site.

Blood Robbing Powder, capable of violently expanding blood vessels and meridians temporarily, stimulating the Dantian and heart’s pounding, rapidly accelerating the circulation of qi and mana throughout the body...

Spirit Root Stimulant, stimulating the central spirit root, increasing the sensitivity and thickness of the spirit root, temporarily improving its efficiency and endurance...

Only to see Zhang Yu inject one portion of these regular vigorous medicines into his body.

And this time, due to the need to focus on breathing techniques, most of the medicines he chose were related to mana circulation.

He sat cross-legged, already operating the sixth set of Qi Vein Flow breathing technique—Superior Foundation Establishment Mana Technique.

Besides the Qi Vein Flow set, the reason Zhang Yu chose this breathing technique was that it not only absorbed spiritual mechanism and regulated mana but also slightly improved mana quality.

As Zhang Yu operated the breathing technique, the already wildly frenzied mana under the medication’s stimulation surged through his meridians like a colossal dragon, seeming to howl with a whistling sound.

Meanwhile, his Qi Sea Spirit Root, reaching full integration under the medication’s stimulation, also became thicker and more robust, crazily absorbing the surrounding spiritual mechanism.

The originally floating, colorful cloud-like dense spiritual mechanism in the air seemed to be drawn towards Zhang Yu as if swept by a tornado.

"It’s too dense... This spiritual mechanism is too rich..."

Feeling the furious accumulation within his meridians, akin to jade-like spiritual mechanism, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but marvel inwardly, thinking that this project choice was correct.

After running the breathing technique for a while, the Superior Foundation Establishment Mana Technique had a breakthrough, reaching level 3.

At the same time, Zhang Yu waved his hand, casting strands of Gang Qi, wielding the Formless Cloud Gang to sweep across and begin site cleanup.

Even though this slowed the work efficiency, Zhang Yu, keen to cultivate the breathing technique alongside working, didn’t mind earning a bit less.

So in the following days, Zhang Yu immersed himself in breathing practice and work, spending most of his time at the site, reveling in the joy of constant improvement in mana and breathing techniques.

During his days at the site, Zhang Yu also encountered Che Yufei and Shi Yunxiang.

According to these two older students, the cemetery project, compared to field projects, was considered a wellness project; it was much safer, and soaking in the rich spiritual mechanism daily was also quite beneficial for the body.

One day, while Zhang Yu and Shi Yunxiang were walking together towards their designated area,

when they arrived at a fork in the path, Shi Yunxiang said, "Zhang Yu, could you walk with me for a bit longer? It’s not far, just a few steps?"

"Hmm?" Zhang Yu looked curiously at the rough-featured, lion-headed student in front of him and asked, "Are you...afraid of the cemetery?"

"What’s there to fear about a cemetery? Would you be afraid in a Magic Remains store?" Shi Yunxiang shook his head, "I’m afraid of people."

"Haven’t you noticed...many colleagues have coveted intentions towards me?"

Zhang Yu: "Huh?"

Shi Yunxiang sighed, "Every year, there are solitary demon scions who get eaten, even being shared among several— in the cemetery area, because it’s less populated, such cases are frequent, so I try to avoid moving alone."

"I can feel that your gaze doesn’t have that kind of desire."

Zhang Yu smirked; although he was hungry and craved meat, he indeed had no interest in eating sentient beings.

Zhang Yu asked, "If you’re a demon scion, why didn’t you go to Sky Demon University?"

Zhang Yu remembered that back in Songyang City, the top students from Red Tower usually went to Sky Demon University.

Shi Yunxiang shook his head, "Sky Demon University assigns majors based on bloodlines; I could only get into the reproduction department, and I didn’t want to study that, so I worked hard to get into Wanfa University."

As they talked, Zhang Yu had already escorted Shi Yunxiang to his work site and then walked back.

But on the way back, when passing through a severely damaged area with no network or surveillance, Zhang Yu’s gaze suddenly sharpened.

Within the all-encompassing view provided by his Three-Eyed Divine Power, he saw a figure darting from the darkness, rushing towards him like a black lightning bolt.