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

Chapter 280 Where has Su Yuan's training progressed? He's practically turned to ashes! (3.6K views, please subscribe!)

In the end, Wang Zhengyu could not resist Su Yuan's temptation.

There's still a lot of earth-evil energy needed to build the foundation. If he resells it a few more times, he can earn more than 100,000 in three to five days.

What should be done about the missing portion of the Earthly Fiend Qi?
With Su Yuan's method of using live piles as a foundation, there shouldn't be any problems with the quality of the project.

Through this psychological self-hypnosis, Wang Zhengyu, against his conscience, accepted the bundle of earthly evil energy that Su Yuan stuffed into his arms.

Su Yuan saw all of this and was very satisfied.

If he's the only one cutting corners, how much can he actually save in the end?

We can't just uproot the entire construction site and drive in live piles.

Ultimately, it all comes down to the power of the masses. Even if it costs money to accumulate the earthly evil energy, it's worth it.

Wang Zhengyu was just the first...

But since you've already spent money, why not buy the Earthly Fiend Qi through legitimate channels?

This was also a helpless move by Su Yuan, because the production capacity of Jianmu Divine Needle was limited, and the school allocating the production capacity of storage room number ninety-nine was already the greatest favor to him.

The remaining production capacity has already been allocated to various projects, and even with money, it's impossible to buy enough Earthly Fiend Qi.

Let's just consider it as generating revenue for the new civil engineering students.

Besides... the act of reselling the Qi of Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends didn't just start after Su Yuan came to the Department of Earth and Wood.

Civil engineers have always done this, otherwise how could they get the black market price for the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Qi?

Next, he planned to contact the senior students at the construction site and ask them about the sources of other civil engineering students, so as to obtain a continuous supply of sufficient Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Qi.

My first day on the construction site flew by.

Over the next few days, Su Yuan actively contacted the senior civil engineering students and reached a cooperation agreement that satisfied both parties.

A large amount of high-quality and inexpensive Heavenly and Earthly Qi flowed into the Yuan Sect through certain shady channels and merged into the Calamity Moon Pearl.

In the process of collaborating with his senior in civil engineering, Su Yuan gradually discovered the truth about the civil engineering industry.

These civil engineering dogs are truly greedy; they'll steal at least half of the Heavenly and Earthly Qi they get their hands on. In comparison, Su Yuan has actually restrained himself.

Or rather, this is the unspoken rule of the industry: every civil engineering project has sufficient redundancy in the budget stage.

Even if civil engineers are this greedy, they can still ensure that the project will not have any problems.

There's a saying that goes, "It's not like we're refining a magic treasure; a little error is normal."

After witnessing the current state of the industry firsthand, Su Yuan couldn't help but lament that one shouldn't use their hobby to challenge someone else's livelihood.

Meanwhile, Su Yuan worked even harder on the reconstruction project of the teaching building.

If you take a little more money at work, you can spend less money on the black market, and before long, it's like you're making double the money.

As the construction period lengthened, the freshmen, who were originally clueless, were gradually led astray by the words and deeds of the senior students.

At first, the new civil engineering students used the correct weights and quantities of materials, but gradually, they began to secretly hide steel, "heavenly and earthly energy," and other building materials that were in high demand.

Su Yuan dared to guarantee that, apart from a few classmates like Wang Zhengyu who worked with him, he had not misled any other civil engineering freshmen.

This was a solution that civil engineering students found on their own initiative!

The civil engineering professor was clearly aware of all of this.

But he simply turned a blind eye.

Perhaps this is what he wants his students to learn: a job that will allow them to truly make a living in society.

A week later.

Having accumulated a large amount of Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Qi through various channels, Su Yuan invested half of it in the construction of the Absolute Heavenly Connection Secret Realm.

The other half was used to cultivate the Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique.

This is an ancient demonic cultivation technique. The title of Demon Lord can be used to activate it, so even if Su Yuan starts cultivating it a week late, he can catch up by relying on his doubled comprehension.

Moreover, a week spent on the construction site was not wasted.

The first hurdle of this sword technique is not condensing a sword seed, but rather comprehending the celestial and terrestrial energies.

The deeper your understanding, the faster you can condense the sword seed!

After a week of grinding away at the ash, Su Yuan had a thorough understanding of the nature of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Qi. Therefore, on the first day of cultivating the Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique, he immediately began to condense the Heavenly Fiend Sword Seed.

Once the Heavenly Fiend Sword Seed is formed, every move a sword cultivator makes will attract the strange power of heaven and earth.

When applied to sword techniques, the weight of each sword strike can be increased tenfold or even dozens of times through the Earthly Fiend Gravity.

For example, a vertical slash that originally weighed only a thousand jin can be amplified to ten thousand jin, or even one hundred thousand jin, under the influence of the Earthly Fiend's gravity!

For example, when drawing a sword, one can invoke the gravitational force of the heavens, instantly reducing the weight of the sword by ten or even dozens of times.

The already lightweight flying sword will become incredibly fast after being reduced in weight by dozens of times.

What's even more terrifying is that, as long as the swordsman's skill level is high enough, the effect of the sword moves can be switched at will between the Heavenly Gang Gravity and the Earthly Fiend Gravity.

It can be extremely fast at times, and extremely heavy at others!

To the enemy, Su Yuan's swordplay was like the fast and slow sword techniques of a Soul Wanderer boss—tricky, unpredictable, and impossible to defend against using conventional methods.

And this is merely the enhancement of the Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique in terms of sword moves.

But the sword seed can not only amplify sword moves; the heavenly Fiend power it attracts can also be applied to the sword cultivator himself, and even to the enemy.

Through the Heavenly Fiend Gravity, Su Yuan can, in an instant, become as light as a feather and rise with the wind, or in an instant, fall like a meteorite and crush everything with sheer weight.

The Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique truly lives up to its reputation as one of the top sword techniques inherited by the Demon Slayer Sword Sect.

Moreover, Su Yuan also possesses the Demon Heart Sword Seed, which can be linked with the Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique to further amplify the power of this sword technique.

Su Yuan's Demon Heart Sword Seed effect lies in "concentration".

It can merge multiple sword energies into one, greatly increasing the power of Su Yuan's sword strike.

Combined with the fast and slow sword techniques brought by the Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique, it becomes a double fast and slow sword technique.

His future enemies and rivals are in for a treat.

However, the Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique is indeed extremely difficult. Forming the Heavenly Fiend Sword Seed is only the first step, and can only be considered as just entering the field.

There are three subsequent stages: minor success, major success, and perfection.

Su Yuan could easily master the sword techniques he learned in the preparatory class.

But the Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique can only reach the minor mastery level within a month at most.

However, the minor-level Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique is sufficient. Although it cannot achieve the hundredfold amplification of the strange power of heaven and earth at the perfect level, it can still achieve an amplification of around tenfold. "With the minor-level Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique, combined with the Demon Heart Sword Seed and various demonic arts, it shouldn't be difficult to get into the top five in the monthly exam."

"If I can surpass Chi Le'an in this monthly exam, I can also defeat this Foundation Establishment Demonic Prodigy and complete the system mission."

Late at night, Su Yuan gazed at the scenery of the university town outside his dormitory and murmured to himself:

"However, being in the top five in the monthly exam is not enough to get 100 hidden points."

"A few days before the monthly exam, we need to get Qi Hanya to refine a Human Pill. This will allow her to condense the Boundless Dao Seed without affecting her performance in the exam."

"With the effect of 'mountains of corpses and seas of blood,' getting into the top three or even the top two shouldn't be a problem."

"The only thing I'm still not confident about is the first stage of the Nascent Soul inheritance that the Holy Son of Tianze has mastered."

"I should have finished refining the Absolute Heavenly Connection Secret Realm before the monthly exam."

"Even if I don't use these two secret realms in the monthly exam, the transformation of the Tribulation Moon Pearl into the Yuan Sect's treasure for stabilizing fortune might bring me unexpected help in terms of luck."

Thinking of this, Su Yuan couldn't help but feel a greater sense of urgency.

How can the Moon Pearl be transformed before the monthly exam if we are only wasting time on the project of rebuilding the teaching building?

It looks like I'll need to take on more engineering projects.

Su Yuan acted immediately, and the very next day, through the connections of his senior in civil engineering, he joined one off-campus civil engineering project after another.

Engineering projects that require a large amount of Heavenly and Earthly Qi should not normally accept students like Su Yuan, who specializes in exorcising evil spirits. However, Su Yuan cannot be judged by conventional standards.

His Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique is comparable to the top-tier inheritance of the Civil Engineering Department of the Evil Extermination University.

Whether it's using the earth's evil energy to lay the foundation or incorporating the heavenly energy into building materials, Su Yuan, who can manipulate the strange forces of heaven and earth, is more skilled than other civil engineers.

Given Bai Tianji's influence, the foreman naturally had no reason not to hire him.

In this way, Su Yuan could act recklessly in the project, making money hand over fist both openly and secretly!

time flies.

October 20th.

Twenty-five days have passed since Su Yuan left the Exorcising Seed Class.

October 25th is the date of the joint monthly exam with the second-year seed class.

This monthly exam will have a significant impact on the deputy director ratings of Yang Hao Zhenjun and Tai Bai Tianji, so both of them are taking it very seriously.

He cared not only about his own apprentices, but also about Su Yuan and the other two.

After all, these two Nascent Soul True Monarchs' opponents are not only each other, but also the Deputy Director's rating requirements.

If they don't meet this requirement, even if the two of them fight until the sky falls, the school will not promote either of them.

They might just parachute in one of them.

That afternoon, True Lord Yang Hao and Tai Baiji sat separately in the administration office of the first batch of students, one in the south and one in the north, like two poles.

"How have Chi Le'an and Qi Han'ya been doing lately?"

Looking at the slightly trembling counselor standing between the two, True Lord Yang Hao asked calmly.

The counselor quickly replied:
"Student Chi has been practicing the Heavenly Heart Sword Technique since high school. Because this sword technique is even more difficult than the Heavenly Extreme and Heavenly Fiend foundation-building sword techniques, he has only barely mastered it so far."

"However, if he is paired with his natal magic sword 'Absolute Heart', he might be able to compete with the top three, or even the top two, of the second-year seed class."

True Lord Yang Hao nodded slightly:

"I have always been at ease with Le'an."

The counselor continued:

"Qi Hanyue has been late and leaving early lately, slacking off and not taking it easy."

"But every time she slacked off, Su Yuan and her roommate Chen Nuoyi would catch her and force her to practice swordsmanship with the spiritual power of the abyss and some kind of sword energy with a hypnotic effect, for more than ten hours at a time."

"Relying on her unparalleled swordsmanship talent and intense training, she has already achieved minor mastery of the Heavenly Sword Technique."

Tai Baiji immediately laughed and said:

“Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi are both my apprentices. These two kids are indeed responsible and understand what it means to never abandon or give up on someone.”

"That's right. With the two of them leading the way, Qi Hanyue might have a chance to compete for a top-five spot in the monthly exam."

Yang Hao Zhenjun glanced at Tai Bai Tianji, slightly displeased that he had taken credit for teaching Qi Hanyue, but ultimately said nothing.

After the comments were made, a certain silence fell over the Academic Affairs Office.

However, soon after, True Lord Yang Hao and Tai Bai Tianji spoke up at the same time, asking the same question in unison.

"Where is Su Yuan? He said he's been cultivating within the Jianmu Divine Needle. How far has he progressed in his Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique?"

Upon hearing this question, the counselor's expression immediately changed.

Upon seeing this, True Monarch Yang Hao subconsciously said:
"The Heavenly Fiend Sword Technique is extremely difficult, only slightly inferior to the Heavenly Heart Sword Technique. It's normal that Su Yuan hasn't mastered it within a month. Feel free to speak your mind."

Tai Baiji remained silent.

To be honest, he didn't believe that Su Yuan's cultivation progress would be slower than Qi Hanyue's.

Qi Hanya has already mastered the basics of swordsmanship, so Su Yuan's progress will only be faster.

So... the strange expression on the counselor's face had nothing to do with Su Yuan's swordsmanship progress, but something else?

A bad feeling suddenly arose in Tai Baiji's mind.

Su Yuan wouldn't be up to something behind his back again, would she?

And the next second, his guess came true.

Then I heard the counselor say cautiously:

"Su Yuan... he's been practicing until he's covered in dust lately."

"Beat...beat the ashes?"

Yang Hao Zhenjun and Tai Bai Tianji both had a big question mark appear above their heads.

"Yes, dusting."

"According to the instructors in the Civil Engineering Department, Su Yuan's mortar-making skills have reached their peak, no less than those of the senior students. He is a born genius in the Civil Engineering Department!"

Yang Hao Zhenjun, Tai Bai Tianji: "..."

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