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

Chapter 278 Su Yuan's Reputation and Strategic Vision! (2.6K views, please vote!)

As the two sides remained deadlocked, some people present recognized Su Yuan.

When Su Yuan heard that he wanted to join the Civil Engineering family, some people sensed a conspiracy.

As for where this feeling comes from?
It has nothing to do with intuition; it's purely because Su Yuan's reputation is strong enough!
It's black and hard!

Has this kid ever been quiet since he became a disciple of Master Taibai?

But... even knowing that Su Yuan came with ulterior motives, the civil engineering students couldn't bring themselves to refuse him.

Although the risks of recruiting Su Yuan into the civil engineering program are high, the potential rewards are also enormous!
He was clearly a disciple of a Nascent Soul True Monarch, untouched by worldly dust, and a prodigy cherished like a treasure by the Exorcism Sect. Yet, he was tainted by the dust and grime of the Civil Engineering Department, and lost his brilliance.

This is a chance to personally defile a demon-slaying lord; which civil engineering student could resist?

For a moment, the civil engineering students looked at Su Yuan as if he were a hungry wolf looking at a lamb that had wandered into its den, their eyes gleaming with greed!

After a long pause, a senior civil engineering student finally suppressed his urge to agree immediately and said:
"This matter is of great importance, and we cannot give you a direct guarantee. We need to consult your supervisor."

"If nothing unexpected happens, you should be able to join the reconstruction of the teaching building."

Su Yuan nodded repeatedly:

"Then I'll have to trouble you senior students."

But then, the civil engineering senior changed the subject again:
"While there's no problem with the Civil Engineering Department, whether the Demon Extermination Academy will release you depends on your own efforts."

Su Yuan immediately assured him:
"Don't worry, senior. I'll talk to the teacher about this before class starts, and we can start working today if all goes well!"

After discussing the matter, the two parties exchanged contact information and went their separate ways.

After Su Yuan returned to his dormitory and washed up, it was already seven o'clock in the morning.

He figured that True Monarch Yang Hao and his own master should be free at the moment, so he sent them the same message.

The message was simple: Su Yuan, under the pretext of focusing on studying the Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique, decided to stay in the Jianmu Divine Needle for a few more days to prepare for the monthly exam.

Therefore, he will not be attending classes for the foreseeable future.

If other students said that, Yang Hao Zhenjun and Tai Bai Tianji would only think it was nonsense.

But Su Yuan, Chi Le'an, and Qi Hanya are different; they have the authority to skip class by imperial decree.

The content of the first month of the Demon Extermination Seed Class is not much different from that of the preparatory class, and it caters more to students in the Qi Refining stage.

Even if Su Yuan skips classes for a month, it will not affect his subsequent studies at all.

On the contrary, if one were to use this time freely and devote oneself to learning swordsmanship, one might achieve better results.

They also believed that Su Yuan wouldn't waste time on useless things like Qi Hanyue, so they readily approved it.

Then, Su Yuan sent a notification to Qi Hanyue, Chen Nuoyi, and others so that they wouldn't be unable to find him.

At the same time, the School of Civil Engineering agreed to Su Yuan's request and offered him a very good salary, which was 50% higher than that of first-year students!

Su Yuan didn't even go to the classroom; he ate breakfast and went straight to the School of Civil Engineering.

At eight o'clock in the morning, in front of an abandoned teaching building of the School of Civil Engineering.

Civil engineering professors and some senior students are explaining the precautions for construction sites to the first-year students.

This batch of selected civil engineering freshmen who came to the construction site numbered one hundred, including Wang Zhengyu, a fellow villager of Su Yuan.

After yesterday's shock from the Demon Slayer, the civil engineering freshmen have clearly lost their initial enthusiasm.

Their eyes, which should have revealed clarity and naivety, now appeared somewhat numb.

However, everything changed after Su Yuan appeared wearing a helmet!
"Hello everyone, I am Su Yuan, a newcomer to civil engineering. You are all my seniors, so please take good care of me in the work ahead."

Su Yuan greeted the group of civil engineering freshmen with shyness, just like a complete newcomer.

Seeing this, Wang Zhengyu and the others' eyes lit up again; they believed in civil engineering once more!
"Wang Zhengyu, you and Su Yuan are from the same hometown, right? Why don't you mentor Su Yuan? You two can work together later."

The civil engineering professor said with a smile.

"Yes!"

Wang Zhengyu immediately straightened his back and loudly agreed.

Looking at the person who walked up to him and regarded him as a senior, Wang Zhengyu felt that he had never been so honored in his life.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the legally mandated construction time finally arrived, and the project officially began.

The first step is the demolition of the old teaching buildings.

The teaching building has been heavily reinforced, making it sturdy enough to withstand the full force of a Foundation Establishment cultivator's attack, thus making demolition extremely difficult.

Fortunately, although the Civil Engineering department is poor, it has professional demolition tools.

A colossal machine, resembling a siege engine, slammed into the teaching building, causing nearly half of it to collapse and destroying all the internal reinforcement arrays and runes. The freshmen then used engineering greatswords to cut off pieces of building materials, sorting the usable from the unusable.

Soon, the demolition work reached the foundation section.

As Su Yuan stepped onto the ruins, feeling the surging earthly evil energy forming the foundation beneath the ground, his heart began to stir with excitement.

In the construction industry, the main use of celestial energy is to incorporate it into building materials, significantly reducing the weight of buildings.

If there are enough celestial sites inside the building, the building can even become so light that it can float away.

The most obvious example is the Ten Immortals City, which is suspended 10,000 meters in the air.

However, because the celestial energy is hidden in many building materials, it is difficult to recover.

The Earthly Fiend Qi is different; its main purpose is to lay foundations, and it can be completely recycled when a building is demolished.

The earthly evil energy beneath the teaching building naturally made Su Yuan extremely covetous.

"Teacher, how do we recover the earth's evil energy that has been integrated into the foundation?"

Like a diligent and inquisitive student, Su Yuan asked his civil engineering mentor a question.

The civil engineering tutor patiently explained:

"The method is very simple. Just bring a special energy storage bead to collect the energy of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends, enter the ground, and absorb all the Nine Nether Fiends energy there."

After a pause, he said again:

"However, buildings of such high standard as the Civil Engineering School teaching building were constructed with an excessive amount of earth evil energy injected into their foundations."

"After a full 150 years of nurturing, the concentration of the Earthly Fiend Power below has reached an absolutely unbelievable level."

"If we start construction without extracting this evil energy, the new teaching building will be invaded by evil energy and become uninhabitable."

"But if ordinary students rashly go down there, they will inevitably be attacked by evil energy. Rheumatism and bone pain are the least of their worries. There is even a high probability that they will suffer from qi deviation!"

Upon hearing the word "drawn out," the group of Qi Refining stage freshmen immediately tensed up.

Wang Zhengyu asked cautiously:
"Teacher, isn't there any engineering equipment that can directly extract the earth's evil energy?"

Upon hearing this, the civil engineering professor sighed and said:

"Our own engineering equipment has been transferred to various engineering teams in the department, leaving us with no time, and if we were to rent it, the budget wouldn't allow it."

"what is it now?"

The civil engineering mentor said:
"Let the seniors here go down; they're in good health."

As he spoke, he looked at the group of senior students:

"Five hundred per minute. You have three hours to clear the evil energy from the foundation. Whoever is willing to go down there will get the bonus."

At 500 yuan per minute, that's 90,000 yuan in three hours, which is definitely not a small amount.

However, the senior students seemed to have already experienced the evil energy in the foundation. Even with such a huge temptation in front of them, they still shook their heads like rattles.

The civil engineering professor looked at him with a disappointed expression:

"They're already so concerned about their health before they've even entered the workforce. How will they ever succeed on construction sites?"

"If you don't endure hardship, how can you expect to make it big and have the next generation get into the swordsmanship department or the evil-slaying department?"

"If you don't even have this much ambition, don't call me your teacher when you get out!"

After saying that, the civil engineering professor took out his phone, seemingly preparing to spend money to rent engineering equipment.

But just then, a voice suddenly rang out.

"Teacher, let me try."

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look in the direction from which the voice came.

Then, they met Su Yuan's resolute gaze.

Then Su Yuan said with a serious expression:

"I'm quite confident in my physique, and I'm confident I can solve the problems inside the foundation without getting injured."

The civil engineering teacher remained silent for a while before pointing to the group of students around him and saying:
"Now do you know why Su Yuan is the chosen one of the Demon Extermination Department, while you are just ordinary civil engineering students?"

"This is what you call vision! This is what you call vision!"

　P.S.: I didn't manage to write 10,000 words today, but I still managed 9,000. I'll keep trying tomorrow!

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