Chapter 275: Agreement with Bai Zhenzhen

Chapter 275: The Agreement with Bai Zhenzhen

Fuji could not see the projection on Zhang Yu's retina, but she could hear the words exchanged between Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, and she could see his arms wrapped around Le Mulan.

"Talking to Bai Zhenzhen on the phone, while holding Le Mulan at the same time."

"This kid... really has some talent for the Sect of Joy."

"Perhaps I should have advised him to apply to Joy University back then?"

"In that case, cultivating the Way of Joy, draining and consuming Bai Zhenzhen completely... would also be a grand path to heaven."

Fuji shook her head in her mind: "Ah, it is useless to think about it now, Bai Zhenzhen is about to be served on someone else's plate anyway. Zhang Yu had better just honestly work at the construction site."

Meanwhile, Bai Zhenzhen turned her head to the side, seemingly listening to someone else speak, before continuing: "Yuzi, let's stop here for today, I have to go to class."

Zhang Yu nodded: "Go ahead, right... if you have time, let's touch base every day."

Bai Zhenzhen's heart stirred, knowing that Zhang Yu was ultimately uneasy about her being all alone, wishing to speak with him daily to confirm her safety.

"Consider it your filial piety, I can usually rest for a bit around 2 a.m., I'll contact you then."

With that, Bai Zhenzhen gave a brilliant smile, waving her hand at Zhang Yu: "I'm off."

Whoosh, as Bai Zhenzhen's projection vanished into thin air, Le Mulan appeared right before Zhang Yu.

Looking at Le Mulan whose face was full of question marks, Zhang Yu's fingers tapped rapidly in his mind, sweeping across the projected buttons in the air, already beginning to adjust the settings of the Chrono-Remnant Demon Pupil.

"Seriously, why make this projection so realistic?"

"I need to raise the projection transparency by fifty percent, otherwise it's impossible to tell the real from the fake."

While Zhang Yu was configuring his ocular dharma-skeleton, Le Mulan asked curiously: "Zhang Yu, were you talking to someone just now?"

"Mm." Zhang Yu smiled with a touch of awkwardness, explaining: "I was just contacting Ah Zhen."

Le Mulan: "So... just now Bai Zhenzhen's projection was cast onto me, and you mistook me for her... no, you embraced me in passing while you were hugging her?"

Zhang Yu felt it sounded stranger the more he listened, but it seemed the other party was stating the exact truth, so he could only nod in the end: "Mm."

Upon receiving Zhang Yu's affirmative reply, Le Mulan felt a surge of... an emotion she had never experienced before.

This emotion was so foreign that she failed to comprehend what was happening to her at the very first moment, only thinking to herself: "The bond between Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen... is truly wonderful."

"Former high school friends, even though one has already become a disciple of the Lord of Seven Emotions, their feelings haven't degraded."

"They added each other as friends the moment they reached the second layer, hugging each other even across the spiritual network?"

And at the mention of Bai Zhenzhen, a faint sigh could not help but rise within Le Mulan's heart.

When she first met Bai Zhenzhen, she herself was the scion of a prominent clan in Songyang City, a noble young lady, while Bai Zhenzhen was just a pauper drowning in debt.

Yet three years had passed, and now having entered university, Bai Zhenzhen had become a disciple of a divine lord, the possessor of a divine spirit root, a noble lady of the heavenly sword, establishing her foundation back in high school.

Whereas she, Le Mulan... was currently nothing more than a Qi-refining university student from a small place.

Be it background, wealth, cultivation, or grades... at this moment, she already needed to look up to the other girl.

This reversal between having money and lacking it, between the poor and the rich, made Le Mulan feel deeply that so-called poverty or wealth was never absolute.

Looking at Le Mulan who was lost in thought before him, Zhang Yu asked: "Did you come to find me for something?"

Le Mulan snapped out of it and said: "We are about to disembark, I came to ask for your spiritual network account, to add you as a friend."

"After all, once we arrive at Wanfa University, we will be in different departments, and you are in the Foundation Establishment class, it might be hard to stay in touch without adding each other."

Thus, the two parties added each other as friends and prepared to line up to disembark the flying vessel.

Along the way, rows of messages surfaced once again upon Zhang Yu's retina.

Zhao Tianxing from Fengdu Information Vocational and Technical College requests to add you as a friend.

Approved.

Zhao Tianxing: Zhang Yu, I've finished registering, just moved into Fengdu's Ghost King Banner.

Zhao Tianxing: I joined a group chat, everyone is from our Songyang City, you should join too.

The other party invites you to join the group chat 'Happy Songyang People'

Zhang Yu entered to take a look, finding that not only were Zhao Tianxing, Qian Shen, and Xiong Wenwu, whom he had already added, present, but there was also a bunch of Songyang City graduates he was familiar or unfamiliar with.

Chu Qiuhe from Jingang University: Newcomers remember to change your names, university name + real name, those who don't change within twenty-four hours will be kicked

"Chu Qiuhe? Did he get into Jingang University?"

Zhang Yu still remembered that the other party was one of the opponents he had eliminated during the martial arts tournament... later on, that guy seemed to have lain on a stretcher until the competition ended. But thinking about how the guy was a regular in the top ten of various competitions in Songyang City, getting into one of the top ten universities was quite reasonable.

Then Zhang Yu changed his nickname within the group to Zhang Yu of Wanfa University.

A moment later, the group suddenly grew lively.

Le Jingchen of Wanfa University: [Confetti] Welcome junior to the group [Applause]

Mo Tianyi of Fengdu University: Welcome Boss Zhang Yu!

Chu Qiuhe of Jingang University: Welcome Boss Zhang Yu!

Xiong Wenwu of Tianyao University: Welcome Boss Zhang Yu!

Hu Yuntao of Tianyao University: Welcome Boss Zhang Yu!

Lian Tianji of Joy University: Welcome Boss Zhang Yu!

Seeing Lian Tianji's name, a strange look appeared on Zhang Yu's face: "This fellow Lian Tianji certainly knows how to pick a school."

Lan Ling of Shanhe University: Old Zhou, come welcome the boss together @Zhou Chechen of Tianhai University

Zhang Yu thought to himself: "These two guys are actually in this group as well?"

"And Zhou Chechen... it seems the cataclysm of the first-layer Zhou family didn't implicate him since he had already come up for university? Or was he implicated, but simply let off because he didn't collude with the evil god?"

Meanwhile, Zhou Chechen's avatar had quietly turned grey without anyone noticing.

After a bout of pleasantries with everyone in the group, they requested Zhang Yu to invite Yu Xinghan over as well, and the group was instantly flooded with another wave of compliments, though this time primarily driven by the graduates of White Dragon High School.

While casually scanning the group chat, Zhang Yu also lined up alongside Le Mulan, Yu Xinghan, and Li Xuelian, gradually stepping off the flying vessel.

At this moment, the flying vessel was docked at the spaceport inside the university town, and only after passing through customs and crossing the spaceport gates did they truly enter the university town of Wanfa University.

This was the six-hundredth layer of the university town, with a ceiling height of about ten meters; the streets within sight were very narrow, and both sides were crowded with various buildings packed tightly together.

No vehicular lanes could be seen along the way, and most of those coming and going were people moving at high speeds.

Simultaneously, Zhang Yu's eyes beheld two worlds at once.

Within his native flesh-and-blood left eye, the city before him was encased in reinforced concrete, the entire world seemingly composed only of grey and white, exuding an aura of utter lifelessness.

Yet within the dharma-skeleton of Zhang Yu's right eye, the entire world was a riot of colors, filled everywhere with signboards, advertisements, and slogans projected from the spiritual network,

The merchants on both sides of the street appeared incredibly clamorous, with all sorts of potions, textbooks, and dharma-skeletons... countless commodities virtually wishing to rush out from the shops and crash into the eyes of passersby.

Furthermore, every pedestrian carried various titles above their heads, while their bodies, clothes, and backs flashed with multicolored special effects.

In addition to this, Zhang Yu could see colossal road signs floating in the air, marking out the directions of different zones and floors.

Notifications of a certain Foundation Establishment cultivator approaching surfaced on his retina from time to time, forcing Zhang Yu to choose to ignore notifications for Foundation Establishment cultivators and highlight only those for Golden Core cultivators and above.

Meanwhile, beside him, Yu Xinghan covered her eyes and said: "Holy crap... it's so laggy! The whole world is stuttering!"

"Let's hurry up and go, I'm lagging too much here."

Li Xuelian rolled her eyes and smacked Yu Xinghan on the back of the head, saying, "You little brat... how much money did you actually embezzle? To buy such a piece of junk second-hand? Swap it out as soon as you get the chance."

As she spoke, Zhang Yu and the others followed Li Xuelian forward, arriving at a place marked as the Yuan Magnetic Passage.

The Yuan Magnetic Passage resembled massive pipes, connecting different floors of the university district.

Zhang Yu watched as pedestrians one moment walked on the road, and the next, they followed the passage onto the walls, moving upward or downward.

Li Xuelian reminded them, "The Yuan Magnetic Passage has an enhanced electromagnetic field. Convert your thunder magic power, and you can walk freely along the passage walls."

"By the way, you’ve all subscribed to the monthly transportation fee, right? Otherwise, you won’t be able to use the Yuan Magnetic Passage."

Converting special magic power was something Zhang Yu had started learning in his first year of high school.

Now, following Li Xuelian’s reminder, he, Yu Xinghan, and Le Mulan slightly converted their magic power. As soon as they stepped into the Yuan Magnetic Passage, they felt a force dragging their bodies, pulling them firmly against the passage wall.

Or rather, at that moment, the wall became the ground beneath their feet.

At first, Zhang Yu could still feel that he was walking on a wall, but after a while, especially after seeing shops, vending machines, and advertisements on both sides of the passage... he gradually felt no significant difference from walking normally on the ground.

Li Xuelian casually remarked, "Although this university district spans a total area of over 6,600 square kilometers across 666 floors, it’s all concentrated within a three-dimensional space no more than 10 kilometers in height and about 3 kilometers in length and width."

"The high utilization of three-dimensional space means the straight-line distances between various locations here are actually quite short. For cultivators, moving back and forth in the Yuan Magnetic Passage at high speed is the most flexible and fastest method."

"Of course, besides the Yuan Magnetic Passage, there’s also the central anti-gravity passage, which allows for faster access to each floor, but that requires an additional transportation fee. It’s generally not used unless there’s an urgent matter."

"This time, I’m guiding you. In the future, when you travel on your own, remember to make good use of navigation."

After switching Yuan Magnetic Passages several times, Zhang Yu walked... sometimes with his head up and feet down, sometimes with his head down and feet up, and sometimes with his head and feet parallel...

Moreover, with no sky or ground as reference points in this university district, Zhang Yu felt as if space and gravity were constantly flipping and distorting as he walked. Gradually, he couldn’t tell which direction was the sky and which was the ground.

Watching countless cultivators moving up and down in these complex passages, Zhang Yu felt... as if he were looking at an enormous beehive.

After a period of high-speed movement, Zhang Yu finally arrived at his destination.

(End of Chapter)