Chapter 325: Graveyard Blind Box

Chapter 325: Graveyard Blind Boxes

By mid-April, students like Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, and Li Xiao had already descended to the tenth underground level.

For this graveyard restoration project, aside from first-year students, many outstanding upperclassmen had also signed up to participate.

For instance, walking at the front of the group was a sixth-year student named Tian Yang, who was responsible for leading, supervising, and coordinating the work of these students.

As Zhang Yu walked through the spacious underground passage, the further he went, the more he could feel the spiritual energy in the air growing increasingly dense.

According to Zhang Yu’s knowledge, the underground spiritual veins beneath the Wanfa University City were not naturally formed. Instead, during the initial construction of the university city, the terrain was adjusted, and spiritual veins were redirected, converging a total of eighty-eight spiritual veins here.

The passage they were currently walking through led to one of these spiritual veins.

A moment later, a massive metal door appeared before the group.

Sensing the faint flow of magical power emanating from behind the door, Zhang Yu could feel the powerful energy of a formation surging on the other side.

Tian Yang, leading the group, said, “Ahead is the graveyard area. Everyone, line up and pass through in order. Don’t crowd together.”

In Zhang Yu’s vision, a line of text also appeared on the door: Huilongyuan Magical Power Production Co., Ltd.

Zhang Yu understood. “Graveyard” or “underground graveyard” were merely colloquial terms used by the public; the company name was the official designation.

The next moment, as the sealed door opened, a chilling airflow rushed toward them.

For an instant, the air around everyone seemed to thicken abruptly.

As Zhang Yu stepped inside, not only did the air grow increasingly viscous, but he could also feel the humidity around him rising. Spiritual energy began to float in the air like droplets of water, forming a multicolored, dense mist.

Zhang Yu took a deep breath. As the magical power within his body circulated, he felt a vast amount of spiritual energy surging toward him. His magical power grew slightly, and his flesh and blood felt nourished.

Beside him, Yu Xinghan sighed, “No wonder this project has application requirements. Working here… even breathing is a benefit.”

Hearing this, Zhang Yu nodded slightly, thinking to himself that if the spiritual energy on the second level weren’t so worthless, they’d probably have to bring oxygen tanks to work here.

Aside from the increasing density of spiritual energy, the temperature in the air was also dropping.

Zhang Yu analyzed that this was likely to cool down the “corpse units” that operated day and night, circulating magical power and absorbing spiritual energy.

At the same time, a notification and a series of options appeared in Zhang Yu’s vision.

Welcome to Huilongyuan!

Tour Guide

Pay Respects to Loved Ones

Product Display

Purchase Souvenirs

Contact Us

Recruitment Information

Zhang Yu casually selected “Tour Guide” and found a map of the entire Huilongyuan appearing before him, divided into sections: the Thrift Zone, the Universal Love Zone, the Gratitude Zone, the Family Zone…

“What’s the Thrift Zone?”

Curious, Zhang Yu looked closer and understood that the so-called Thrift Zone was designed to save space. Low-value corpse units had unnecessary parts removed, underwent structural optimization and compression, and were then stored in corpse cabinets, connected to the absorption cluster with minimal space usage.

Just then, Li Xiao beside him said, “Look at the souvenir blind boxes they sell here! There are good things inside!”

Hearing this, Zhang Yu also glanced at the “Purchase Souvenirs” option displayed in his vision, thinking, “Discarded corpse units, after being disassembled, can be sold as blind boxes?”

Looking at the various possible contents of the blind boxes—skin, flesh, hands, feet, meridians, dantians… Zhang Yu couldn’t help but frown. “Can this stuff really be sold?”

Yu Xinghan beside him said, “Yeah, the corpse units here operate 24/7. How worn out must the organs disassembled from discarded units be? They’re probably older than I am. Are they even usable?”

Li Xiao couldn’t help but say, “What if you could draw a Golden Core, or even a Nascent Soul organ…”

Yu Xinghan said dismissively, “Xiao Li, why do you always have this speculative mindset? You’re drawing blind boxes, but the people packing them aren’t actually blind. Do you really think you’d get the good stuff?”

“On the path of immortality, this kind of shortcut mentality is the most taboo. Shortcuts are for the rich. For us poor folks cultivating immortality, we need to be down-to-earth, borrowing step by step, repaying step by step. Don’t always dream of getting rich overnight.”

“And think about it—how many corpse units are discarded here every year? Can they really handle it all just by selling blind boxes? There must be other disposal channels. Who knows the origins or quality of the large number of corpse units and organs coming in and out…”

Just as Yu Xinghan was speaking eloquently, a voice suddenly interrupted him.

“This student, our Wanfa University is a legitimate institution, and Huilongyuan has always been a legally operated graveyard. It’s not like those places at Netherworld University that sell living people as corpse units. Every organ and every corpse unit here comes from legitimate deaths, with clear origins and destinations.”

Everyone turned to look at the young man who had spoken. Tian Yang, leading the group, quickly said, “Manager Sun, this junior of mine doesn’t know anything. He was just talking nonsense. Please ignore him.”

The man called Manager Sun cast a cold glance at Yu Xinghan but said nothing more. Looking at Tian Yang, he said, “The graveyard area requiring restoration this time is quite large. I appreciate everyone’s hard work.”

After Manager Sun explained the tasks, he left. Tian Yang then began assigning duties.

Soon, arrows and individual task assignments appeared in everyone’s vision.

Following the arrow’s guidance, Zhang Yu continued forward, gradually separating from his classmates.

Looking at the densely packed rows of iron cans on both sides, he thought to himself that these must contain the corpse units.

A moment later, Zhang Yu saw a large area of iron cans crushed on the ground, twisted and deformed.

There was also extensive damage to the surrounding infrastructure: the ground, formation foundations, spiritual energy circuits, nutrient pipelines, spiritual network, surveillance cameras, and more.

Zhang Yu thought, “Is this the area I’m responsible for repairing?”

“Even the network is disconnected?” A flash in his vision brought up the pre-downloaded project files and repair blueprints.

“By the way… why did such severe damage occur here?”

“Although the official explanation is that the high concentration of spiritual energy caused corpse transformation, resulting in zombies… whether it’s universities or companies in Kunxu, I always feel their surface explanations can’t be trusted lightly.”

Zhang Yu shook his head, temporarily suppressing his distracting thoughts, and prepared to start working.

As for the preparations before work, of course, it was time to take medicine.

After all, for Zhang Yu, freeloading was the main reason he came to the worksite; work was just incidental.

Thanks to Dean Gao’s special care, Zhang Yu could still receive up to ten free life-shortening drugs daily upon entering the worksite.

Blood Plunder Powder—temporarily and violently expands blood vessels and meridians, stimulates the dantian and heart, and wildly accelerates the circulation of blood, energy, and magical power throughout the body…

Spiritual Root Stimulant—stimulates the spiritual root center, increases spiritual root sensitivity and thickness, temporarily improves spiritual root efficiency and endurance…

Zhang Yu injected one conventional potent drug after another into his body.

This time, because he needed to focus on absorption techniques, most of the drugs he chose were related to the circulation of magical power.

He sat cross-legged and began circulating the sixth set of absorption techniques from the Qi Vein Long Flow—the High-Grade Foundation Building Magical Power Formula.

The reason Zhang Yu chose this absorption technique, aside from it being part of the Qi Vein Long Flow set, was because it could slightly improve the quality of magical power while gathering spiritual energy and circulating magical power.

As Zhang Yu activated the absorption technique, the already wildly stimulated magical power surged like a dragon through his meridians, as if emitting roars.

At the same time, his Sea of Qi spiritual root, with a fusion rate of 100%, grew thicker and more powerful under the drug’s stimulation, frantically absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.

The dense spiritual energy, which had been floating in the air like colorful clouds, was now drawn toward Zhang Yu as if by a tornado.

“It’s too dense… the spiritual energy is too dense…”

Feeling the spiritual energy accumulating wildly in his meridians, like jade liquid, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but sigh inwardly, feeling that he had made the right choice in selecting this project.

After circulating the absorption technique for a while, the High-Grade Foundation Building Magical Power Formula also achieved a breakthrough, reaching Level 3.

At the same time, Zhang Yu waved his hand, releasing streams of astral energy. He wielded the Formless Cloud Astral to sweep across the area, beginning to clear the site and start his work.

Although this slowed down his work efficiency, Zhang Yu, in order to practice the breathing technique while working, couldn't be bothered with such concerns and was willing to earn a little less.

Thus, in the following days, Zhang Yu immersed himself daily in breathing exercises and work, spending most of his time on the construction site, savoring the thrill of his magical power and breathing technique steadily improving.

During these days on the site, Zhang Yu encountered Che Yufei and Shi Yunxiang again.

According to these two senior students, compared to field projects, the cemetery project was like a wellness retreat—not only much safer but also highly beneficial for the body, as one could soak in the rich spiritual energy all day long.

One day, Zhang Yu and Shi Yunxiang walked together toward the area they were responsible for.

Just as the two reached a fork in the path, Shi Yunxiang said, "Zhang Yu, could you accompany me a little further? It's not far, just a few steps."

"Hmm?" Zhang Yu looked puzzled at his classmate with a rugged face and a lion's head, asking, "You... are afraid of the cemetery?"

"What's there to fear about a cemetery? Would you be afraid in a magic bone shop?" Shi Yunxiang shook his head. "I'm afraid of people."

"Haven't you noticed... many colleagues have covetous eyes on me?"

Zhang Yu: "Huh?"

Shi Yunxiang sighed. "Every year, solitary demon descendants get eaten, sometimes even by groups. The cemetery area, being sparsely populated, is a hotspot for such incidents, so I usually avoid being alone."

"I can sense that your gaze lacks that kind of desire."

Zhang Yu curled his lip. Although he was also hungry and craving meat, he truly had no interest in eating intelligent beings.

Zhang Yu asked, "Since you're a demon descendant, why didn't you go to the Celestial Demon University?"

Zhang Yu remembered that back in Songyang City, most of the top students from Red Tower had tested into the Celestial Demon University.

Shi Yunxiang shook his head. "Celestial Demon University assigns majors based on bloodline. I could only get into the fertility department, and I didn't like studying that, so I worked hard to test into the Ten Thousand Techniques University."

As they spoke, Zhang Yu had already escorted Shi Yunxiang to his work location and then headed back alone.

But on his way back, as he passed through a severely damaged area with no network or surveillance, Zhang Yu's gaze suddenly sharpened.

In the all-encompassing perspective provided by his Three-Eyes Divine Ability, he saw a figure dart out from the darkness, charging toward him like a black lightning bolt.

(End of Chapter)