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

Chapter 279 Cutting corners is the true essence of civil engineering, and one must not miss out on it!

"I've told you all before, the most important thing for a sword cultivator is integrity and a spirit of dedication!"

"If one only weighs the pros and cons and is greedy for petty gains, how can one achieve immortality?"

"Now, Su Yuan, as a prodigy of the Demon Extermination Sect, has given you all a very good lesson. You should all watch carefully and learn from him!"

The civil engineering professor reprimanded his students, then turned to Su Yuan with a friendly expression:

"Student Su, once you enter the foundation, you can do whatever you want without worry. If anything goes wrong, I will rescue you immediately."

As he spoke, the civil engineering instructor took out a transparent bead, which was a storage bead that could collect the celestial and terrestrial energies.

Su Yuanchao, the civil engineering instructor, nodded solemnly, and then drew his Crimson Yuan Sword.

With a flash of sword light, chunks of soil as tall as a person were cut away, revealing the foundation that had not seen the light of day for more than 150 years.

However, the foundation beneath it is now vastly different from what it was when it was built.

Because the underground space is now hollow, the metal piles that were once driven into the ground, as well as the soil inside the foundation, have all been assimilated by the afflictive energy of the earth.

Looking down from the pit dug by Su Yuan, everyone could clearly see a murky, semi-transparent earth dragon slumbering underground.

This is why they don't simply dig up the foundation and collect the earth's evil energy in the open.

Because the earthly evil energy has already developed a certain level of consciousness, once exposed to the outside world, it will either fiercely resist or escape into deeper underground layers.

Su Yuan stared greedily at the earthen dragon and jumped into the pit without hesitation.

The next second, with a slight tremor in the foundation, the already small pit was reburied.

Because of the interference of the Earthly Fiends' power with spiritual energy, no one knows what happened below.

Everyone could only wait quietly.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Half an hour later, there was still no movement underground, and Su Yuan did not climb out of the foundation.

This made the senior students present somewhat worried.

They were worried that Su Yuan, a novice in civil engineering, might overdo it and cause some trouble.

Although the project is scheduled to take three hours, it doesn't mean you have to stay underground for three hours. You still need to come up for some fresh air from time to time.

However, given that the civil engineering professor on the side remained calm and showed no intention of intervening, the senior students kept quiet.

Another hour and a half passed.

Finally, just as everyone was getting impatient, the earth swelled up, and Su Yuan's figure, enveloped in crimson sword light, burst forth from the ground.

"Teacher, fortunately you have fulfilled your duty."

The boy, spotless and smiling, looked at his civil engineering mentor and presented the energy storage bead.

"Good...you did a good job!"

The civil engineering instructor accepted the energy storage bead with a kind expression, and was about to praise Su Yuan again when he gently weighed it and found that the weight of the energy storage bead was wrong.

He looked down and saw an earth dragon lying inside the originally transparent gas-storing bead... Wait, can this thing really be called an earth dragon?

It was thin and small, as if it had been drained dry countless times by some being, and it looked more like an earth snake.

The civil engineering professor was a little confused.

"Su Yuan, is all the earthly evil energy from the foundation here?"

Yes, they're all here!

Su Yuan answered without hesitation, his tone as firm as if he wanted to join the army.

Looking into Su Yuan's sincere eyes, which showed no sign of lying, the civil engineering instructor hesitated for a moment, but ultimately chose to believe him.

He simply couldn't understand the point of Su Yuan stealing the Earthly Fiend Qi.

Isn't the Heavenly and Earthly Qi in Storage Room 99 at his disposal?

Even if it were a large-scale engineering machine, it couldn't possibly drain an entire Earthly Fiend Storage Chamber dry.

Thinking about all this, the civil engineering professor felt that it couldn't possibly be Su Yuan's fault.

It's the foundation's fault.

"It seems the construction team from 150 years ago cut corners!"

The civil engineering professor sighed:
"It must be because their foundation was not solid, which caused a large amount of the earth's evil energy to dissipate over the years, leaving only this little bit."

"But don't worry, Su Yuan, your teacher will never deduct your salary. It's 500 yuan per minute, so two hours would be 60,000 yuan, not a penny less." With that, he immediately contacted the finance department to transfer the money to Su Yuan.

This made Su Yuan feel somewhat embarrassed.

Even with his greed, he felt guilty taking this salary.

After all, he had greedily taken seventy percent of the earthly evil energy contained in that earth dragon.

The corrupted Earthly Fiend Qi is enough to increase the progress bar of the Desolate Secret Realm by 50%.

If such pure earthly evil energy were sold as a commodity, it would definitely be worth a fortune.

Despite feeling guilty, Su Yuan didn't hesitate to take the money, happily accepting the 60,000 yuan.

Hasn't he made enough ill-gotten gains?
Moreover, although he is already the leader of a sect and has hundreds of thousands of dollars at his disposal, 60,000 dollars is still a considerable sum, enough to cover his living expenses for a month.

During the time Su Yuan spent deep underground, the garbage removal work was almost completed.

After the foundation issue was successfully resolved, the civil engineering professor gave the order, and the engineering team composed of freshmen officially started construction!
As the saying goes, a tall building starts from the ground up. The construction team's first task returned to the foundation, which was to completely renovate the foundation and reinforcing it with earth-evil energy.

Su Yuan and Wang Zhengyu were one of the pairs.

They received their share of the Earthly Fiend Qi and went to the designated area to fill in soil and drive piles.

After finishing, Wang Zhengyu took out the Qi Storage Bead and prepared to inject the Earthly Fiend Qi into the foundation.

But just then, a strong hand suddenly grabbed his arm.

Turning around, I saw it was Su Yuan.

"Su Yuan, what's wrong...?"

Just as Wang Zhengyu was about to ask a question, he saw Su Yuan swiftly reach out and snatch the Qi storage bead from his hand.

Then, as clearly seen, Su Yuan completely absorbed all the earthly evil energy within.

Wang Zhengyu was dumbfounded, and suddenly understood why the earth dragon from before had been so thin and small.

So Su Yuan was embezzling from the earth dragon, draining it dry?!

What is this? This is stealing resources from the Civil Engineering Department and enriching themselves!

What an evil demon-slaying lord! On the surface, he's here to serve as a beast of burden, but in reality, he's here to weaken the Civil Engineering Academy in order to strengthen himself!

After a difficult internal struggle, Wang Zhengyu gritted his teeth and decided to expose Su the devil's shameless behavior!
He wants to be a hero in the civil engineering department.

But at that moment, Su Yuan suddenly stuffed a ball of earthly evil energy into Wang Zhengyu's arms, startling the latter into trembling.

That mass of earthly evil energy was like a hot potato, something he desperately wanted to get rid of.

But just then, a seductive voice entered his ears:

"Wang, the most important thing in civil engineering is to be a bit muddleheaded."

"As long as you live a carefree life, wealth will keep flowing in, just like this wisp of earthly evil energy?"

"Do you know how much this top-grade earth-evil energy extracted from the Jianmu Divine Needle can sell for outside?"

"Just the one I gave you, you could easily sell it for ten or twenty thousand."

"If you don't know how to dispose of stolen goods, you can go directly to the Yuan Sect's offline stores in Shixian City, and they will take care of them all."

Tens or twenty thousand? Just this little bit of earthly evil energy? Worth ten or twenty thousand?!
Wang Zhengyu was suddenly jolted.

"I remember your family's situation is actually quite ordinary. Rice is expensive in the Immortal City, and it's not easy to live there. Moreover, you need money for cultivation and Foundation Establishment everywhere. Is that meager salary from the construction site enough?"

Su Yuan's seductive voice continued, striking Wang Zhengyu's greatest weakness.

He clutched the Earthly Fiend Qi tightly in his arms, opened his mouth, and looked slightly dazed:

"But if we divide this earthly evil energy, what will happen to the foundation? Will the quality be compromised?"

"You don't need to worry about that. I have a batch of sword slaves. They are the best materials for making live training dummies, much better than the power of the Earthly Fiends."

"Driving the live stake..."

Wang Zhengyu felt a shiver run through his body.

He suddenly realized that the person speaking to him was not a classmate of the same age as him, but a demon lurking in the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect.

Once you agree to his conditions, there's no going back...

(End of this chapter)