Chapter 274: Agreement with Bai Zhenzhen

Fu Ji couldn't see the projection on Zhang Yu's retina, but she could hear Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's conversation and see Zhang Yu holding Le Mulan.

"Talking to Bai Zhenzhen while holding Le Mulan."

"This kid... he really has a knack for the Joyful Union Sect."

"Maybe I should have persuaded him to apply to Joyful Union University?"

"If he cultivated the Path of Joyful Union and drained Bai Zhenzhen dry... that would also be a path to great success."

Fu Ji shook her head internally. "Sigh, it's useless to think about it now. Bai Zhenzhen is about to be 'served up' by someone else. Zhang Yu should just stick to working on construction sites."

Meanwhile, Bai Zhenzhen turned her head aside, seemingly listening to others, then said, "Yu-zi, let's stop here for today. I have to go to class now."

Zhang Yu nodded. "Go ahead. Oh, by the way... if you have time, let's keep in touch every day."

Bai Zhenzhen felt a stir in her heart, knowing that Zhang Yu was ultimately a little uneasy about her being alone and wanted to call her daily to check on her status.

"Consider it filial piety. I can probably rest for a bit around 2 AM every day; I'll contact you then."

With that, Bai Zhenzhen smiled brightly and waved at Zhang Yu. "Bye!"

With a whoosh, Bai Zhenzhen's projection vanished, and Le Mulan appeared before Zhang Yu.

Seeing Le Mulan's puzzled expression, Zhang Yu rapidly tapped his fingers, swiping across the projected buttons in the air, already beginning to adjust the settings of his Chrono-Rupture Demonic Eye.

"Seriously, why make these projections so realistic?"

"I need to increase the projection's transparency by 50%, otherwise, I can't tell what's real and what's fake."

As Zhang Yu was setting up his ocular Dharma Bones, Le Mulan curiously asked, "Zhang Yu, were you just talking to someone?"

"Mm." Zhang Yu gave an awkward laugh and explained, "I was just contacting A'Zhen."

Le Mulan: "So... Bai Zhenzhen's projection just landed on me, and you mistook me for her... no, did you accidentally hug me while you were hugging her?"

Zhang Yu felt increasingly strange after hearing this, but it seemed everything she said was true, so he could only nod. "Mm."

Upon receiving Zhang Yu's affirmative reply, an emotion she had never felt before surged within Le Mulan.

This emotion was so unfamiliar that she couldn't immediately understand what was happening to her. She merely thought to herself, "Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's relationship... it really is good."

"Former high school friends, even if one has become a disciple of the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch, their feelings haven't soured."

"Did they add each other as friends immediately upon reaching the second layer, wanting to hug even across the Spiritual Realm network?"

And at the mention of Bai Zhenzhen, Le Mulan couldn't help but feel a pang of emotion.

The first time she met Bai Zhenzhen, Le Mulan was the heiress of a prominent family in Songyang City, a noble young lady, while Bai Zhenzhen was merely a pauper burdened with immense debt.

But three years later, now in university, Bai Zhenzhen had become a Divine Monarch's disciple, a holder of a Divine Spirit Root, a Heavenly Sword Noblewoman, and had established her Foundation at high school.

As for her, Le Mulan... she was now just a Qi Refining university student from a small place.

Whether it was background, wealth, cultivation, or academic achievements... at this moment, she had to look up to Bai Zhenzhen.

This transformation from rich to poor, from pauper to wealthy, made Le Mulan deeply realize 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 see me about something?"

Le Mulan snapped out of it and replied, "We're about to disembark. I came to ask for your Spiritual Realm account to add you as a friend."

"After all, once we're at Ten Thousand Dharma University, we'll be in different departments, and you're in the Foundation Establishment class. It might be hard to contact you if we don't add each other as friends."

So, they added each other as friends and prepared to queue up to disembark.

Along the way, lines of messages appeared on Zhang Yu's retina.

Zhao Tianxing from Fengdu Information Vocational and Technical College has sent you a friend request.

Accepted.

Zhao Tianxing: Zhang Yu, I've finished my registration and just moved into the Ghost King Banner in Fengdu.

Zhao Tianxing: I joined a group, and everyone there is from our Songyang City. You should join too.

They invite you to join the group chat 'Happy Songyang People'.

Zhang Yu entered the chat and found that not only were Zhao Tianxing, Qian Shen, and Xiong Wenwu, whom he had added as friends, present, but also a bunch of other Songyang City graduates, both familiar and unfamiliar.

Chu Qiuhe from Vajra University: Newcomers, remember to change your name to "University Name Real Name." Those who don't change it will be kicked after 24 hours.

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

Zhang Yu remembered him as one of the opponents he had defeated in the Martial Arts Competition... afterward, the guy seemed to have stayed on a stretcher until the end of the competition.

But considering he was a frequent top-ten finisher in various competitions in Songyang City, it was quite reasonable for him to get into one of the top ten universities.

Zhang Yu then changed his group nickname to "Zhang Yu from Ten Thousand Dharma University."

A moment later, the group chat suddenly became lively.

Le Jingchen from Ten Thousand Dharma University: [Fireworks] Welcome, junior, to the group! [Clapping]

Mo Tianyi from Fengdu University: Welcome, great Zhang Yu!

Chu Qiuhe from Vajra University: Welcome, great Zhang Yu!

Xiong Wenwu from Heavenly Demon University: Welcome, great Zhang Yu!

Hu Yuntao from Heavenly Demon University: Welcome, great Zhang Yu!

Lian Tianji from Joyful Union University: Welcome, great Zhang Yu!

Seeing Lian Tianji's name, Zhang Yu showed a peculiar expression on his face. "This Lian Tianji really knows how to pick a university."

Lan Ling from Mountain and River University: "Old Zhou, come join us in welcoming the great one!" Zhou Chechen from Sky Sea University.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "These two guys are in this group too?"

"And Zhou Chechen... it seems the upheaval in the Zhou family on the first layer didn't involve him, who had already come up to attend university? Or was he involved? Perhaps he was spared because he didn't collude with evil gods?"

Meanwhile, Zhou Chechen's profile picture had subtly turned gray.

After exchanging pleasantries with everyone in the group, they asked Zhang Yu to invite Yu Xinghan. Instantly, the group chat was flooded with compliments again, though this time primarily from White Dragon High School graduates.

While casually scanning the group chat, Zhang Yu, Le Mulan, Yu Xinghan, and Li Xuelian queued up together and gradually disembarked from the airship.

The airship was currently docked at an air base inside the university city. After passing through customs and exiting the air base gate, they truly entered Ten Thousand Dharma University's university city.

This was the 600th floor of the university city, with a floor height of about 10 meters. The streets visible were very narrow, and both sides were lined with tightly packed various buildings.

There were no vehicle lanes visible along the way; most of the traffic consisted of fast-moving people.

At the same time, Zhang Yu saw two worlds simultaneously through his eyes.

Through his left, natural eye, the city before him was enveloped in steel and concrete, the entire world seeming to consist only of gray and white, exuding a lifeless dullness.

However, through Zhang Yu's right ocular Dharma Bone, the entire world was vibrant with color, filled with signs, advertisements, and promotional slogans projected from the Spiritual Realm network.

Merchants on both sides of the street seemed incredibly boisterous, with countless goods—various potions, textbooks, Dharma Bones—practically eager to burst out of their shops and leap into the eyes of passersby.

And above every pedestrian's head were various titles, while their bodies, clothes, and backsides shimmered with colorful special effects.

Additionally, Zhang Yu could see massive signposts floating in the air, indicating directions to different areas and floors.

Notifications of approaching Foundation Establishment cultivators occasionally appeared on his retina, forcing Zhang Yu to choose to ignore them and instead highlight notifications for Golden Core cultivators and above.

At the same time, Yu Xinghan, beside him, covered his eyes and exclaimed, "Holy cow... it's so laggy! The whole world is stuttering!"

"Let's hurry up and move; it's too laggy for me here."

Li Xuelian rolled her eyes, slapped Yu Xinghan on the back of the head, and said, "You brat... how much money did you actually swallow? You bought such a broken second-hand piece of junk? Replace it as soon as you get the chance."

As they spoke, Zhang Yu and the others had already followed Li Xuelian forward, arriving at the location marked as the Magneto-Spiritual Channel.

These Magneto-Spiritual Channels resembled gigantic pipes, connecting the different floors of the university city.

Zhang Yu watched as one moment, pedestrians were walking on the ground, and the next, they were moving along the channel walls, heading up to higher floors or down to lower ones.

Li Xuelian reminded them, "The Magneto-Spiritual Channels have enhanced electromagnetic fields. If you convert some lightning spiritual energy, you can walk freely along the channel walls within them."

"Oh, and you all paid for the monthly transportation pass, right? Otherwise, you can't use the Magneto-Spiritual Channels."

Converting specialized spiritual energy was something Zhang Yu had started learning in his first year of high school.

Now, hearing Li Xuelian's reminder, he, Yu Xinghan, and Le Mulan subtly converted their spiritual energy. As soon as they stepped into a Magneto-Spiritual Channel, they felt a force dragging their bodies, powerfully pulling them onto the channel walls.

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

Initially, Zhang Yu could still feel that he was walking on a wall, but after a while, especially seeing various shops, vending machines, and advertisements lining both sides of the channels... he gradually felt it was not much different from walking on a normal street.

Li Xuelian casually remarked from the side, "Although this university city has 666 floors totaling over 6600 square kilometers, it's all concentrated within a three-dimensional space of the university city that's no more than 10 kilometers up and down, and a little over 3 kilometers in length and width."

"The high utilization of three-dimensional space means that the straight-line distances between various points here are actually very short. Cultivators using their own high speed to move back and forth within the Magneto-Spiritual Channels is the most flexible and fastest method."

"Of course, besides the Magneto-Spiritual Channels, there's also the central anti-gravity channel, which can get you to different floors even faster. However, that costs extra in transportation fees, so it's generally not used unless there's an emergency."

"This first time, I'm guiding you. From now on, when you walk by yourselves, remember to make good use of navigation."

As he changed Magneto-Spiritual Channels several times in a row, Zhang Yu found himself walking... sometimes head up, feet down; sometimes head down, feet up; sometimes head and feet parallel...

Furthermore, with no sky or ground as reference points in this university city, Zhang Yu, walking within it... gradually felt as if space and gravity were constantly inverting and shifting, making him increasingly unable to distinguish which direction was sky and which was ground.

And seeing countless cultivators moving up and down in these complex channels all around him, how should Zhang Yu describe the feeling... it was like seeing an immensely colossal beehive.

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