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Chapter 117 The Path to the Great Nine Ranks of the Green Furnace

Everyone in the conference room woke up.

One by one they coughed, spitting out small bottles or blood-stained instruments, seemingly bringing back considerable assistance from the celestial realm.

One by one, they were all quite excited.

Li Huaiyin forcefully pried a wooden compass out of his mouth, nearly tearing his lips apart, but he was still beaming with joy. He took a tissue from the table and wiped the saliva and stomach acid off the surface of the wooden compass.

"Alright, everyone, tell us what you brought back from your families."

But then Chen raised his hand, signaling Mai Daduo, who was about to speak, to step back.

He brushed his hair aside, revealing an icy eye on his forehead.

"What I brought back was the eye of an eighth-rank imperial censor and inspector."

"From now on, all the work of the investigation team must be reviewed by me before being reported to the Celestial Realm."

"Anything I am unaware of, anything I have not been involved in... I will consider it as acting on my own initiative, as something fishy is involved, and I will not acknowledge its authenticity, nor will I bear any corresponding responsibility."

In the conference room, everyone looked at each other, feeling quite disgusted.

This Chen Xie, not only does he not contribute, but he also keeps causing trouble.
Mai Daduo glared at Chen Xie, her throat tightened, and she swallowed back what was in her throat.

……

Blah blah blah...

The morning rain fell on the protective shell of the giant black cloud.

On the surface of the black cloud, Wu Yun and a dozen minks sat around a dining table, eating fried dough sticks and drinking soy milk.

While licking the foam from the corner of his mouth, Diao Huhu glanced at the table with a smug look on his face.

He bought the soy milk maker online!
She learned how to make fried dough sticks from the internet!
This was my first time frying dough sticks, and they turned out golden and crispy. It's true that mink is born to cook and is naturally suited to be an official in charge of logistics!
While eating, Wu Yun opened her phone to check her location.

"In just one night, we followed the source of the spiritual energy and arrived in the capital."

"This place also has spiritual energy?"

"Waaaaah, woof woof woof!"

"Waaaaah!"

Mink Claw and Mink Tooth quickly put down the fried dough sticks and reported to the boss.

Right now, the amount of spiritual energy gathered by the Spirit Gathering Array from the eight directions is basically the same.

The source of spiritual energy is right here!

Wu Yun sipped her soy milk while looking at a map on her phone.

"Is this... Beijing University?"
Why does this place have spiritual energy?

……

A torrential downpour enveloped Peking University.

But the campus doesn't seem to have been affected much.

The lights in the teaching building were already on, and students carrying umbrellas and wearing rain boots filed in in groups of three or five, some carrying breakfast and others carrying schoolbags, ready for their early morning classes.

The lights in the laboratory building stayed on all night, and professors, doctoral students, and master's students were busy in the corridors, all walking briskly.

"Has this university suspended classes?"

A giant black cloud, concealing its tracks, flew over the school, from the dormitory building to the teaching building, and then all the way to the laboratory building.

A dozen or so minks stood with the owner at the edge of the dark clouds, looking down.

The boss looked surprised, and so did they.

Even though they don't understand what it means to suspend classes.

"The source of spiritual energy lies in this experimental building."

Wu Yun could see with his naked eye that the more than ten-story experimental building would occasionally emit a wisp of spiritual energy, which would drift into the wind and rain, only to be drawn back by the spirit-gathering array of the black giant cloud.

"Alright, let the Heavenly Rat go in and take a look."

A giant cloud hovered beside the side of the laboratory building. The Sky Rat, concealing its tracks, slipped into the lobby on the first floor and began its investigation.

But I saw that most of the people in the building were young students.

How is your crystal?

"reply."

"Are you ready to start preparing for your thesis defense?"

"I mean a pile of dissertations."

……

"Have you heard? The immortal officials of the Non-Natural Department have risen up and recently launched a frenzied crackdown across the country, arresting a lot of criminals involved in immortal-related crimes."

"Haha, awesome!"

"How did it suddenly become so powerful? Did it achieve a breakthrough in some area?"

"We don't know either."

……

The Celestial Rat climbed up the stairs.

After exploring the first floor, I also explored the second floor.

After exploring the second floor, we went to the third floor.

This is a laboratory building of the School of Chemistry. Students are generally wearing white lab coats, some with goggles around their necks, and some with aprons.

Some people were talking about their studies and experiments, while others were talking about the Non-Natural Department, Celestial Officials, and the world situation.

"He looks perfectly normal."

On the surface of the black clouds, Wu Yun and a dozen minks sat on the sofa, looking at the Tianji Rat's perspective in the mirror.

And so they watched the Sky Rat climb all the way up to the seventh floor of the experimental building.

This floor is much more spacious, but you need to swipe a card to pass through the access control. There are also more cameras, watching every corridor, every doorway, and even every window without any blind spots.

After searching for a long time, Tianji Mouse only found some strange equipment, a desk piled with documents, and Academician Yan's personal introduction hanging on the wall.

"Yan Cengge, an academician of the School of Chemistry, born in 1984... is only in his forties?"
"So young to become an academician?"

"He is skilled in organic synthesis, and his biomimetic shearing and recombination strategy has overturned traditional synthetic routes. He has significantly simplified the paclitaxel synthesis route... He was the first person in the world to conquer marine cyclic peptides..."

"He is skilled in physical chemistry, created the 'dynamic bond orbital' theory, predicted and verified the photo-rotation of carbon-carbon bonds, and was featured on the cover of Nature magazine..."

This explanation left Wu Yun and the mink employees equally confused.

Marine cyclic peptides, carbon-carbon bond photo-rotation... these are all new terms I've never seen before.

But Wu Yun understood one thing.

"Is this floor Academician Yan's laboratory?"

The Celestial Rat continued its search.

Before long, the sound of cursing could be heard.

"...I've said it so many times, the document must be written well! It must be written well!"

"Documents reflect your work ethic and your collaborative approach to scientific research!"

"Look at this garbage! How can anyone take over your work?"

A forty-year-old academician has an exceptionally loud voice when reprimanding people!

The laboratory door even trembled slightly!
But it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the source of spiritual energy?
The Sky Rat crept up to the base of the conference room wall, found a ventilated louvered window, and quietly slipped inside!

His small eyes scanned the entire room and spotted Academician Yan sitting on one side of the conference table, spitting furiously with a face full of anger!
Seeing the postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students sitting on the other side of the conference table, all of them looking disheveled and humiliated after being scolded!
On the conference table, rows and piles of glass jars were stacked, forming small mountains. Each jar contained a murky liquid, which was none other than the corpse tears that contained spiritual energy!
Academician Yan's roar continued.

"Don't take your damn immortal official hats too seriously!"
"A ninth-rank official, a fire-manager, is that considered an official? He's just someone who tends the fire!"
"Do those gods understand scientific research?"
How much do they know about quantitative analysis? How much do they understand about microscopic principles? How much do they know about physical chemistry?

"In the end, aren't all elixirs made using our methods?"
"I am a ninth-rank celestial official, and I have more knowledge about celestial elixirs than any of you!"
"I can tell you with absolute certainty that most of that knowledge is unregulated and a small portion is incorrect; you could call it shit!"

(End of this chapter)