Chapter 343: Zhang Yu's Construction Team

Chapter 343: Zhang Yu's Construction Team

August.

Yu Xinghan's Three-Eyes Divine Ability had finally advanced to Level 2.

With his hands moving so fast they left afterimages, Yu Xinghan repeatedly tapped, kneaded, and pressed the massive slab of meat before him, constantly adjusting its structural stress points and relaxing the overworked flesh and blood.

Under the influence of his Three-Eyes Divine Ability, the structure of the flesh and blood seemed to become incredibly clear. Every point of wear, injury, or weakness appeared vividly before his eyes, greatly enhancing the effectiveness of his massage.

With a single finger press, the client beneath his hands trembled violently, letting out a long, drawn-out moan.

Watching this scene, a flicker of pride flashed in Yu Xinghan's eyes.

"I've broken through again."

"Now... I can raise my massage fees."

But the next moment, as he glanced at the messages in the Songyang Hometown Group, Yu Xinghan's brow suddenly furrowed. "It's that guy Lian Tianji again."

In the group, Lian Tianji from Joy Union University was once again sharing video links, asking his fellow townsfolk for likes.

While massaging and watching Lian Tianji's videos, Yu Xinghan couldn't help but sigh. The other's video metrics were over ten times better than his own.

"Joy Union University truly has a natural advantage in video creation."

Titles like *The Temptation of the Homeroom Teacher*, *The Secret Inspections of the Patrol Team*, and others involving climax, sensitivity, *aphrodisiacs*, and *chastity*... made Yu Xinghan feel an immense gap.

"Ten Thousand Techniques University has fallen too far behind in this area compared to Joy Union University."

"And that guy Lian Tianji... it seems he started making videos back in high school. Could it be he was already preparing to debut in university?"

"Indeed, none of us from Songyang City who made it into the Top Ten Universities are simple. Not only was Zhang Yu selected for the field construction site, and I successfully joined the Dark Massage World, but Lian Tianji's videos are also thriving."

As he pondered, Yu Xinghan sent a message to Lian Tianji: Tianji, could we collaborate on a video? Or maybe you could help share mine?

Lian Tianji: For business collaborations, please send a private message to...

Yu Xinghan twitched the corner of his mouth, thinking to himself, "This guy. In high school, he could only appear beneath Le Mulan's shadow, and now he won't even give me face."

Meanwhile, Zhang Yu was also studying his newly upgraded Level 2 Three-Eyes Divine Ability.

With his eyes closed, the ability seemed to penetrate his skin and flesh, allowing him to see the various parts of his own body.

Zhang Yu saw his intestines and stomach, encased in No. 15 Secret Steel, slowly writhing.

He saw the flow of blood throughout his body.

He saw the subtle damage to his meridians from today's work, slowly repairing under the influence of his vitality.

He also saw the uneven distribution of No. 20 Secret Steel on his bones.

"Using the Three-Eyes Divine Ability for external observation only reveals some weaknesses in others. That's not very interesting."

"But for internal observation, it allows me to detect all sorts of subtle changes in my body."

If before, when Zhang Yu stimulated his body's vitality for self-healing, it was like a blind man touching an elephant—relying entirely on feeling—now, with the assistance of the Level 2 Three-Eyes Divine Ability, he felt his self-healing become more precise and effective.

"If I had this ability back when I was digesting No. 20 Secret Steel, my bone reinforcement could have been more balanced and efficient," Zhang Yu thought.

"For now, the Level 2 Three-Eyes Divine Ability mainly helps me better avoid bodily wear and tear from daily activities and further improve my self-healing efficiency. Secondly... it's for the future."

"In the future, when I switch to the Artifact Refining Department and start refining my body into a Dharma Skeleton, this ability might prove very useful."

...

Inside the construction site on the 667th floor.

Zhang Yu sat cross-legged, breathing in spiritual energy, refining his magical power, and advancing the 10th breathing technique of the Qi Vein Long Flow.

Around him, several human-shaped energy currents flickered back and forth, continuously pushing forward the construction work under Zhang Yu's control, completing one task after another.

Until this breathing technique was also advanced to Level 20, his Qi Vein Long Flow finally reached its ultimate state.

Ultimate - Qi Vein Long Flow (10/10): Converts the user's physical stamina and vital essence into magical power. The more breathing techniques mastered, the higher the conversion efficiency.

Looking at this final effect, Zhang Yu's gaze sharpened slightly as he thought to himself, "Is this... trading blood for mana?"

Zhang Yu tried activating it slightly and immediately felt strands of power being forcibly squeezed out from his flesh and blood, converting into magical power and gathering in his dantian.

"Is this the conversion of stamina into magical power?"

During the conversion process, Zhang Yu felt as though every part of his body was undergoing intense exercise, gradually beginning to feel fatigued.

As Zhang Yu deepened his focus, the vital essence he had accumulated through eating and taking medicine over the past days seemed to stir restlessly, ready to convert into magical power at any moment.

But of course, he didn't do that. This essence served as the foundation of his body, the basis for advancing his cultivation and enhancing his physical strength, and he couldn't easily expend it.

Next, Zhang Yu merely continued converting stamina into magical power, testing this ability.

Zhang Yu thought, "This is an ability to instantly burst out more magical power, allowing my disposable magical power to far exceed my natural limits. What if I combine it with my..."

As his thoughts shifted, another human-shaped energy current materialized behind him.

With stamina continuously converting into magical power, Zhang Yu's expended magical power was quickly replenished, and another Formless Warrior appeared behind him.

But soon, he dispersed both Formless Warriors, thinking, "I need to find a cover story. Otherwise, my magical power capacity will attract too much attention."

So, on the construction site the next day, Zhang Yu held a bottle of Life-Draining Celestial Powder, pretending he had already taken it, while silently converting his stamina into magical power.

As his abundant stamina transformed into surging magical power in his dantian, Zhang Yu felt his flesh and blood burning fiercely, continuously refining waves of magical power that rushed toward his dantian.

Feeling the swelling sensation in his dantian, Zhang Yu directly summoned five Formless Warriors.

But under the influence of Qi Vein Long Flow's mana recovery speed and the continuous conversion of stamina into magical power, he soon felt a faint swelling sensation in his dantian again.

So, Zhang Yu continued summoning one Formless Warrior after another.

In the blink of an eye, ten Formless Warriors stood before him. With a shift in Zhang Yu's thoughts, they charged out with a roar, sweeping away all the construction debris around them.

"By converting stamina into magical power, I can maintain up to ten Formless Warriors..." Zhang Yu estimated silently. "At full operation, maybe for over half an hour."

"If I purely pursue quantity, then dozens of Formless Warriors might last a few minutes."

"This..." A flicker of excitement flashed in Zhang Yu's eyes. "I alone can practically match an entire construction team. How much will this improve construction efficiency?"

"I'm essentially my own foreman."

Zhang Yu knew that many tasks on the construction site were paid by the piece, meaning more work equaled more pay.

This was also why his income had risen steadily as his cultivation improved.

And now, with another increase in work efficiency, his income would rise again.

However, when Zhang Yu summoned the seventh Formless Warrior, he realized he was struggling to control them all, finding it difficult to make all seven perform precise actions.

By the time he had ten Formless Warriors, if he tried to move them all, they could only perform vague operations.

He could barely control three or four of them to execute martial arts moves, while the remaining Formless Warriors could only perform basic human movements.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "I still need to practice."

"As my cultivation continues to improve, and my stamina and magical power increase, my actual disposable magical power will keep growing, and the number of human-shaped energy currents I can create will also increase."

"That means I need stronger control to manage more Formless Warriors."

"Otherwise, having more of them is useless."

Just as Zhang Yu was controlling his "construction team" to work, Li Xiao, passing by not far away, watched with eyes wide in shock.

"Zhang Yu can now wield so much astral energy to work all by himself?"

"How many times higher is his income compared to mine?"

But this was only his initial thought.

As he observed further, what truly shocked Li Xiao was not this, but the pill bottle Zhang Yu held in his hand.

"Wait, Zhang Yu is taking that kind of fierce and potent medicine again, forcibly extracting his inner spiritual power to refine astral energy? Just to work?"

"Even if his wages have increased, the damage to his body is significant. For a regular job... is it worth risking his life like this?"

This was what truly stunned Li Xiao the most.

He felt his mindset was on the verge of collapsing: "Working like this, even if he can earn a bit more, after deducting future medical expenses, how much extra can it be? It's too competitive... damn it, it's just too competitive."

After today's work ended, Zhang Yu looked at his earnings, feeling a sense of satisfaction welling up inside him.

From the initial 0.05 spirit coins per night, to later 0.07 or more spirit coins per night, and today... his nightly wage directly broke through to 0.1 spirit coins.

"As long as you're willing to endure hardship in civil engineering, you can really save money."

...

When Zhang Yu successively completed the Flowing Qi Meridian and the Three-Eyes Divine Ability in August.

His journey of unifying spirit and flesh once fell into a predicament.

Day after day of attempts, he always felt on the verge of a breakthrough, yet never succeeded.

And on this day, when Zhang Yu logged into the Heart Forge Residence again and entered the simulation environment, the backend administrators of the Heart Forge Residence began observing Zhang Yu.

In a pure white control room of the spirit realm.

Manager You Chuan of the Heart Forge Residence said to the customer service representative beside him, "He's here again?"

The customer service representative replied, "The user has entered the simulation environment."

Looking at Zhang Yu's relevant data, You Chuan couldn't help but frown repeatedly.

Starting a few days ago, because Zhang Yu had not made a breakthrough for so long, the relevant user alert had been sent to You Chuan.

To increase the success rate of his breakthrough, You Chuan had no choice but to raise his permissions, allowing him to log into the simulation environment three times a day.

But even with triple the efficiency, there was still no sign of a breakthrough.

"If Zhang Yu drags this out any longer, our team's average breakthrough time for clients this month will increase again."

"And this kid... taking so long without a breakthrough, I think he has the potential to surpass the 29-day record."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yu had become an unprecedented adversary in Manager You Chuan's eyes.

(End of Chapter)