I cultivate the Purple Mansion Golden Elixir Dao on Earth

It was the same night.

It was just as Jiang Songjing was formally cultivating the "Heavenly Guiding Immortal Technique" and preparing to enter the embryonic breathing stage.

It was in a studio apartment near Kyoto University.

Yang Xiyi sat at her computer desk, her fingers fluently typing on the keyboard.

Next to the mouse were stacks of books, each with a few pages turned up.

She just kept frowning, constantly modifying the charts on the computer screen, and then flipping through the pages of the books.

"Short-stem bacterial peptides..."

Yang Xiyi muttered this term to herself.

That was the path Lin Yu had pointed out to her, and it was something she had been pondering ever since she boarded the plane back to Jingzhou.

At this point, as I searched through past research areas and revisited theoretical books, the previously vague experimental blueprint in my mind became clearer and clearer.

"...If you look at it from this perspective, it is indeed possible..."

As the experimental blueprint became clearer in her mind, Yang Xiyi's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

And the sunlight outside the window gradually broke through the darkness to dawn.

Night turns into day.

The sun rises in the sky.

Just as the sun was high in the sky, Yang Xiyi finally finalized the complete experimental plan.

"If we proceed in this way, it should be possible... Even if it fails, it can still serve as a path to falsification. However, we need an interferometer with sufficient precision. Otherwise, it won't have enough falsification value..."

Yang Xiyi's eyes were slightly red, but she let out a long sigh of satisfaction.

After thinking for a while, a scene from a few months ago suddenly popped into her mind, and her eyes changed slightly.

Then, Yang Xiyi searched for more information.

However, it is no longer related experimental data, but seems to be some news reports and information.

Finally, after seemingly confirming some information, she saved the original experimental plan and subsequent news reports onto a USB drive.

She took the USB drive, and despite having stayed up all night, she still walked steadily into the room.

……

The seventh floor of the Biotechnology Building at Kyoto University.

Yang Xiyi swiped her IC card skillfully, then pushed open the door and entered the laboratory.

But as soon as she pushed open the laboratory door, she heard a roar coming from the cleanroom.

"I've already told you! When using a centrifuge, you must control the speed, control the speed! Why don't you understand? Why are you still following the old method this time!"

"But teacher, this is what you wrote in your instructions..."

"Guidance my ass! I forgot to correct something in my instructions. Don't you have a brain? Can't you tell the difference?! In that case, I might as well do the experiment myself!"

"Hurry up and clean up this mess you've made, buy another batch of materials, and start over!"

"But teacher... we've used up the money for the application materials, and we're short two thousand yuan..."

"You're asking me about two thousand yuan? Do you even have a brain? Didn't you just receive your graduate student stipend?!"

"Professor, but my graduate student stipend has already been deposited into my meal card..."

"Several thousand a month, you'd just deposit it into your meal card? Are you that greedy?!"

"Okay, I had a project before... Could you finish that horizontal project for me first? Once it's done, I'll pay you when I get the money for that project, and you can use it to buy materials!"

"But teacher..."

"Shut up and shut up!"

"Zhang Xuyan, remember this: it's you who needs to publish your paper to graduate, not me begging you to! If you have to extend your doctoral studies or even fail to graduate at all, it won't be my problem!"

After a shout, the door to the cleanroom opened, and a middle-aged man with a square face walked out.

The man was clearly still angry, but when he saw Yang Xiyi standing quietly at the door, his expression changed seamlessly from a moment of surprise to a kind smile.

It's like a lotus flower blooming in the mud.

"Ah, Xiyi, it's you!"

"...Hey, I have some good news for you. Your previous paper has passed NMI and only needs minor revisions to pass. You should receive an email notification in the next couple of days."

"That reviewer is a professor at Berkeley and also a former classmate of mine. After hearing about you from me, he praised you highly. After learning your age, he was even more amazed by your genius and wanted to steal your work from me... But how could I possibly give you up?! Hehehe."

The middle-aged man's good news and flattery did not cause Yang Xiyi's expression to change in the slightest. She merely lowered her head slightly and said:

"Thank you, Professor Fang."

But such a cold response did not cause Professor Fang's expression to change in the slightest.

He continued to chuckle, the lotus flower on his face remaining perfectly still.

With a nonchalant smile and nod, he walked past Yang Xiyi.

As he passed by, he gently patted her on the shoulder before leaving the laboratory.

Whether standing in front of Yang Xiyi or passing by her and leaving the room, it all seemed like the conversation that had just taken place in the cleanroom was an illusion.

Yang Xiyi's expression remained unchanged as she went straight into the clean room.

The inside was a complete mess.

Whether it's the petri dishes left unattended after a failed experiment or the centrifuge still running, it's enough to show the dejected mood of the other person in the clean room.

The young man, who looked to be in his late twenties and named Zhang Xuyan, was wearing a simple short-sleeved shirt.

When he saw Yang Xiyi walk in, his eyes lit up slightly.

But then he lowered his eyelids in frustration and said with a bitter smile:

"...I've made a fool of myself in front of my junior sister."

"It's alright. I already knew about the professor's temperament and personality from the other senior students. It's not surprising."

"Junior sister, you still dared to apply to be Professor Fang's graduate student back then..."

Zhang Xuyan shook his head.

"Of course, because Professor Fang is a top scholar in this field."

"Researchers in their thirties or forties, with several top-tier journal publications and academic positions, are the main force in a certain field. They are far more agile in thinking and have a higher level of research than big names in their seventies or eighties who only have a reputation."

"and……"

Yang Xiyi said calmly, her words carrying no praise or criticism, as if she were simply stating a fact.

But these words, which were completely inconsistent with her appearance and Zhang Xuyan's previous impression of her, made the young man stare wide-eyed in astonishment.

"...Professor Fang is a person who flatters the powerful and belittles the weak, but he is also a very rational person. So he will exploit the students he can bully to the fullest extent; but he will also fully cooperate with the students he cannot bully... Not to mention, when I was a graduate student, the Yang family provided his research team with a grant of 20 million yuan."

"..."

Yang Xiyi's words left Zhang Xuyan silent for a long time.

After a long silence, he finally spoke again:

"It's so good to be rich... No wonder she's the apple of the eye of a multi-billion dollar tycoon's eye; she gets pampered wherever she goes. Unlike us, who come from humble backgrounds..."

"...Like Professor Fang, I have to tutor his child in my spare time... One of the papers I wrote before could have passed the second-tier zone, but he took it and put his name on it for his own child, and it even won the first prize of Jingzhou Youth Scientific Research Award, which was supposedly used to apply for independent enrollment... But I didn't even get a second authorship."

In the past, Yang Xiyi was the center of attention in the laboratory, but she always kept to herself. Even with Professor Fang, she would only exchange a few words, and when her fellow students chatted, she would just listen quietly.

She rarely speaks, whether in group chats or offline.

When asked about Yang Xiyi, she would only give a few perfunctory replies.

Today, she revealed a rare, realistic... or rather, ruthless side.

This allowed Zhang Xuyan to glimpse part of her true appearance, but it also stirred something within him.

"Yang Xiyi...why did she tell me all this?"

So Zhang Xuyan poured out his grievances, recounting how he had been exploited and oppressed.

These were secrets he had kept to himself, but as he confided them, Zhang Xuyan felt that his relationship with this young lady had inexplicably grown closer.

However, when Zhang Xuyan looked at Yang Xiyi with a hint of expectation in his heart, he did not see any sympathy or frown.

The girl looked at him with a strange expression, but softly asked:

"Since you're worried about not graduating without a high-quality thesis... I have an experimental design here, and I'd like to invite you to join me. Would you be willing?"

These words were even better than Zhang Xuyan's best idea, which made him have even deeper expectations.

...Could it be that the kind of good fortune that only exists in fairy tale love stories is about to fall upon me?!

On his face, he agreed without hesitation:

"Of course! Of course! Even if my junior sister wants to be the first author and I have to be the second author, I'm willing!"

"Yes, it's alright, don't worry. We can work together."

"Okay, okay!"

Zhang Xuyan readily agreed, but then heard Yang Xiyi continue:

"However, there's a problem with this experiment. I need an advanced micro-interferometer. But we don't have any interferometers of that precision in China. We need to apply to CERN... So, I'll have to trouble you again, senior."

These words left Zhang Xuyan speechless.

"Junior sister, what are you saying! CERN... how could I possibly do something that even you couldn't do?!"

"But I heard that there is a Professor Gu in the Department of Biophysics. He switched from particle physics to biophysics and used to work at CERN. He still frequently conducts joint research with CERN remotely. If we could invite Professor Gu..."

Zhang Xuyan immediately burst into laughter.

"Junior sister is joking. That's Professor Gu's connections and influence; what does it have to do with me?!"

He said it without any hesitation.

But the next second, Yang Xiyi still had that calm expression.

But then he uttered a sentence that made the world lose its color and terrify him:

"...But Senior Brother Zhang, haven't you recently been helping Professor Gu plot against Professor Fang in order to secure one of these 'Top Young Scholars' positions for Professor Gu?"