In an era where everyone is cultivating immortality, the system wants me to become a demon?

Chapter 277 Schrödinger's Gas Storage Chamber! (3.4K views, please subscribe!)

Although the Jianmu Divine Needle contains the character for "wood," it is not a real tree.

It is more like a colossal building crafted from top-grade wood-based spiritual materials, so the interior of the Jianmu Divine Needle is not solid, but rather contains a separate space.

Take, for example, the interior space that Su Yuan is currently entering.

After entering through the wooden door, Su Yuan was still faced with another door, which was a security door resembling a bank vault.

Although it is unclear what material the door is made of, it is certain that any power below the Nascent Soul stage would not be able to budge it in the slightest.

Behind the gate lies Su Yuan's destination: the storage room for the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Qi within the Jianmu Divine Needle.

According to the counselor, the Jianmu Divine Needle has a total of 108 storage rooms inside.

The storage rooms with different serial numbers also differ in the amount of Heavenly and Earthly Qi they store.

Storage Room No. 1 has the largest amount of Heavenly and Earthly Qi, while Storage Room No. 108 has the smallest amount.

This design is intended to meet the needs of civil engineers at different levels.

For example, the storage rooms ranked from first to thirty-six are known as the Thirty-Six Heavenly Generals. The Heavenly General and Earthly Fiend Qi inside are extremely dense, and only cultivators at the Golden Core stage or above can collect and use them.

For an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator to enter this place is simply courting death.

The storage rooms ranked from thirty-seventh to one hundred and eightth are known as the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends. The concentration of Heavenly and Earthly Fiend Qi inside is relatively low, making them suitable for use by foundation-building civil engineers.

In particular, the 108th storage room, which has the lowest concentration of Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Qi, is even open to Qi Refining Peak cultivators who can freely enter and exit.

Su Yuan looked up and glanced at the serial number above the security door.

Number 99.

"Sigh, it seems my counselor doesn't trust me enough, only assigning me such a late-numbered storage room."

Su Yuan sighed:

"Hopefully, the celestial and terrestrial energy inside is enough to absorb."

With this in mind, Su Yuan strode to the security gate, took out the access card given to him by his counselor, and swiped it on the card reader.

Rumbling--

The heavy door slowly opened, leaving a gap large enough for one person to pass through. Before Su Yuan could step inside, a strong suction force emanated from within.

Even with Su Yuan's physical strength, he was pulled off balance by the suction force and entered the storage room.

The heavy security door closed again.

The spirit stone lamps embedded in the walls emitted a soft glow, illuminating this enormous storage room, which spanned over 500 square meters and had a ceiling height of 20 meters.

However, the light from the spirit stone lamp was not very bright, just like the thin moonlight, which only allowed Su Yuan to see things with difficulty.

There was no way around it; under the influence of the celestial and terrestrial energies, the magnetic field of this storage room had long been in chaos. Electrical appliances were completely useless here, and even creations powered by spiritual energy could only barely function.

These so-called creations also include cultivators.

Being in the storage room, Su Yuan felt like an ordinary person in an environment with excessively high carbon dioxide concentration, finding it difficult to breathe.

That's secondary; the most important thing is the change in the spiritual energy within the dantian.

The originally obedient spiritual power has become restless due to the tearing force of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends, and it feels like it wants to break free from the body.

Fortunately, Su Yuan only slightly activated his divine root to suppress this restlessness.

The fact that the problem of spiritual energy disturbance was resolved so easily surprised Su Yuan.

After all, both True Monarch Yang Hao and his tutor had repeatedly warned him about the impact of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Power on cultivators... and this is what happened!
But upon closer reflection, Su Yuan realized what was going on.

The power of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends does have a strong influence on cultivators, but it depends on what level of cultivator it affects.

Cultivators without spiritual roots or with ordinary spiritual roots have weak dantian and unstable spiritual power, so they naturally cannot stabilize their own spiritual power.

Although cultivators who have established their foundations with Heavenly Spiritual Roots and Immortal Spiritual Roots are stronger, they cannot completely avoid being affected.

But the divine root is different.

Su Yuan's divine spiritual root was an ultimate spiritual root that evolved after absorbing the power of six artificial immortal spiritual roots, making it as stable as Mount Tai.

Perhaps only cultivators at the Golden Core stage or above have a more stable dantian than Su Yuan.

The difficulty of Storage Room 99 is completely beneath the talent of a divine spirit root.

Having figured this out, Su Yuan was completely relieved and began to get down to business.

He raised his hand and took off the necklace hanging around his neck. At the very center of the necklace was a blood-red bead, about the size of a thumb.

The Moon-Stealing Pearl! Activate!

As strands of spiritual energy flowed into the Calamity Moon Pearl, the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Power in the storage room was immediately drawn in and absorbed.

The Nine Heavens Qi was light and pure, floating in the air above the storage room like clusters of milky white clouds, yet sharp bursts of Qi would occasionally flash through the clouds.

The Nine Netherworld Qi was heavy and turbid; although it was gaseous, its density was greater than that of Su Yuan, a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

From the moment Su Yuan entered the storage room, his feet were constantly stepping on the Nine Netherworld Evil Qi.

When the Moon-Catching Pearl was activated, the clear-cut balance between the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends was broken.

Guided by the suction force, the two came into contact and, through mutual generation and repulsion, naturally formed the shape of Tai Chi.

Two forces rapidly surged into the space of the Calamity Moon Pearl, and Su Yuan's consciousness immediately entered into it, mobilizing these two forces to begin the construction of the two secret realms of Absolute Heaven and Earth.

The progress of the system task began to slowly increase.

The process of building a world is intoxicating, like piecing together a complex jigsaw puzzle step by step. Once you're immersed in it, you lose track of time and become completely absorbed.

Su Yuan fell into this state when he was building the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.

It wasn't until an unexpected event occurred that he came to his senses.

As for what this change was?
The Heavenly and Earthly Qi has been exhausted, and there are no more building materials.

Without the tearing force of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends, the spirit stone lamp finally regained its proper power, illuminating the large storage room as bright as day. Being interrupted while fully focused on his work naturally displeased Su Yuan.

But when he looked up and saw the empty, unobstructed storage room, his eyes suddenly became clear.

"That's it? Empty?"

Su Yuan glanced at the mission progress subconsciously; the progress of the two secret realms had only advanced by ten percent.

In other words, ten storage rooms numbered ninety-nine would need to be drained to meet the construction needs of the Jedi-Tiantong project.

But if Su Yuan remembered correctly, it would take at least a month to fully accumulate the Heavenly and Earthly Qi in a Earthly Fiend-level storage room.

There are a total of 72 Earthly Fiend-level storage rooms, and he alone accounts for one-seventh of the monthly production capacity. Even a fool would think that the school would never agree to that!

I remember the counselor saying that the production capacity of Storage Room 99, even with simultaneous consumption and storage, was enough for Su Yuan to practice the Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique for a year.

In less than a day, Su Yuan had embezzled all of it. How was the guide supposed to explain this?
Su Yuan had anticipated that building the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm would be very costly, but he never expected it to be this expensive!
Moreover, he hadn't even practiced the Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique at all.

He was sweating a little.

If he gets caught, he'll probably be fined.

That would be worse than killing him.

"Forget it, let's just pretend nothing happened."

After thinking for a long time, Su Yuan decided to give up.

Anyway, he has the right to use storage room number ninety-nine, and other people generally don't go in.

As long as no outsiders enter, this is Schrödinger's storage room, and no one knows whether the celestial and terrestrial energy inside is full or empty.

He composed himself, pushed open the door to the storage room, and then pushed open the wooden door to walk out of the Jianmu Divine Needle.

It was already the early hours of the second day, and the sky was beginning to lighten, indicating that dawn was approaching.

With a desire to escape, Su Yuan decided to leave the School of Civil Engineering.

But at that moment, he saw several civil engineering students going in and out of other entrances of the Jianmu Divine Needle.

Each time they came out, they would have an extra bead in their hand that seemed to have a yin-yang symbol circulating within it.

Su Yuan immediately recognized that the yin-yang fish inside the bead was the solidified celestial and terrestrial energy.

A thought suddenly occurred to him, and he vaguely came up with a way to make up for the deficit.

So Su Yuan immediately abandoned the idea of ​​escaping the Civil Engineering Academy and walked towards a Civil Engineering student holding a precious pearl with a smile on his face.

"Excuse me, senior, what are you doing?"

Su Yuan asked, feigning curiosity.

Upon hearing this, the civil engineering senior didn't mince words and casually replied:

"Isn't it because an old teaching building in the college is going to be demolished and rebuilt? We're preparing materials in advance."

"To ensure the teaching building remains stable and can withstand the impact of Foundation Establishment and even Golden Core experts, a large amount of Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Qi is essential and is the most important part of the infrastructure."

Su Yuan was not surprised by this answer.

He first glanced greedily at the pearl, then asked in an admiring tone:

"As expected of a senior in civil engineering, he already took it upon himself to build the world while still in school. He is truly a role model for us all!"

"To be honest, I am very passionate about civil engineering. If it weren't for my grades, I would definitely have applied to the School of Civil Engineering."

Hearing Su Yuan's admiring and longing tone, the civil engineering senior, who had been nonchalant, suddenly straightened his back.

He turned his head, raised his hand and patted Su Yuan on the shoulder, and said:
"It doesn't matter if your score doesn't meet the admission requirements for the Civil Engineering department. As long as your heart is in civil engineering, you will eventually step into it..."

When the senior was halfway through his sentence, he finally noticed the school badge on Su Yuan's chest.

The gleaming emblem of the Exorcism Department, like a sun, scorched the eyes of the Civil Engineering senior.

He withdrew his hand from Su Yuan's shoulder as if he had been electrocuted.

"You little brat... you didn't meet the reverse score requirement, did you!"

The civil engineering senior was furious:

"Trying to show off in our Civil Engineering department! Don't think you're so great just because you're some kind of evil-slaying master!"

"There are seven third-year civil engineering students here. If we all attack together, you can't possibly kill us all before you run out of spiritual power!"

Su Yuan: "..."

The commotion immediately caught the attention of the six civil engineering seniors mentioned by the other party, who rushed over.

Seven civil engineering students surrounded Su Yuan, and a sense of oppression immediately surged towards him...

Just kidding. In fact, Su Yuan didn't feel any pressure from these seven senior students.

Although these seven people have reached the Foundation Establishment stage, they have only established their foundation with Heavenly Spiritual Roots and only have the cultivation level of the early Foundation Establishment stage.

Clearly, they barely managed to accumulate enough credits to exchange for a Heavenly Spiritual Root in the latter half of their sophomore year, and had only recently reached the Foundation Establishment stage.

Such a college student might be considered a prodigy outside of the top ten immortal sects, but in the eyes of Su Yuan, who ranked second among the freshmen of the Demon Extermination Department... he was somewhat of a laughing stock.

As expected, he's a menial disciple... cough cough, I can't let this damn system influence me. The system of menial disciples, outer disciples, inner disciples, and true disciples has long been abolished. I can't go against the grain.

Suppressing his strange emotions, Su Yuanqiang said with a sincere expression:

"Seniors, I'm serious!"

"I really want to get involved in civil engineering and contribute to building the world."

"If you don't believe me, I can skip classes starting tomorrow and come to our Civil Engineering College for further studies!"

After his heartfelt words, the many civil engineering students looked at each other in bewilderment.

Is this kid serious?
Even the Demon Slayer has times when he needs help from those earthwork dogs.
　P.S.: One more chapter!
　　
　
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