Hearing Zhang Yu’s question, Zhang Pianpian paused, then spoke, “Is there truly one in this world who lacks not coin? I am indeed gathering a sum, though yet somewhat short, it should be amassed soon!”

Upon hearing Zhang Pianpian’s reply, Zhang Yu’s heart whispered, “Could it merely be a deficit of fifty spirit coins?”

Yet, he held no certainty if the fifty spirit coins reflected in the seed type truly signified the very sum Zhang Pianpian sought to gather, nor did he possess the means to voice this, thus he could only inter the doubt within his breast for the time being.

Simultaneously, Zhang Yu felt the spirit coins upon his person were becoming increasingly insufficient for his needs!

“Throat, indeed, spiritual flesh integration, I should first endeavor myself; if I cannot achieve it, then I shall expend coin!”

In the days that followed, Zhang Yu and his three companions continued their routines of learning, cultivation, and labor, as if naught untoward had transpired!

On that day, Zhang Yu, as was his custom, practiced the breathing method within the confines of the graveyard!

Through these days of arduous cultivation, he had already mastered the seventh gate of the Jie Pulse Changliu breathing method and was currently practicing the eighth gate – the Spirit Summon Body Refining Technique!

Observe at this very moment the flow of his magic power, the dense spiritual energy surging within his meridians, continuously escaping and silently tempering the muscles throughout his entire form!

During his toil and cultivation in the graveyard, due to spending prolonged hours in seated breathing each day, Zhang Yu had specifically chosen such a breathing method that could refine muscles during the breathing process, ensuring his body refining progress did not suffer undue decline!

However, as he cultivated the seventh and eighth gates of the breathing method, he also felt his cultivation efficiency beginning to wane!

And this decline was not wrought by the environment, nor did his state alter; it was solely due to the breathing method Zhang Yu practiced becoming progressively more arduous!

“Yet, this is also inevitable!”

Zhang Yu contemplated, “The breathing methods pertaining to the Jie Pulse Yiliu suit number merely a score in total; the simplest I have already cultivated. The remainder are quite intricate, each cycle around the world consuming a great deal of time!”

“Thus, even I, in all likelihood, shall require more than half a moon, perchance even a full month, to elevate a single gate of the breathing method to the twentieth level!”

Zhang Yu knew well that if any were to overhear his current sentiments, they might be eager to deliver him a beating!

Yet, for him, who had grown accustomed to the swift ascent of cultivation technique levels, a month to elevate a technique to the twentieth level was indeed somewhat disheartening!

After a considerable span, Zhang Yu felt the medicinal potency he had last consumed was exhausted, thus he slowly concluded his endeavors and seized the opportune moment to inspect the missives accumulated within his gaze!

He first responded to the pharmaceutical group’s missives regarding medicine mixing, then cast a glance upon sundry class group homework missives, Zhang Yu perused them one by one!

Following this were all manner of jumbled missives within various groups!

There was a forging system Night Xingli who had drawn him into a certain forging group, where two factions debated the merits of Jin Gang Xu Zao and Tiangong, arguing which brand’s leg tendon method was superior!

Furthermore, within the Songyang hometown group, another missive concerning expenses had appeared; a student from Shuizhou Monster Race Vocational College, in an effort to conserve coin, had foregone medicine, enduring prolonged periods of staying awake, resulting in a sudden cessation of heart function, almost succumbing to abrupt demise. Now, within the group, he sought to borrow coin to procure energy gel capsules, hoping to endure his sleepless nights in tranquility!

Jin Gang University Chu Qiuhua: Borrow not coin within the group, this is a singular warning, the second instance shall see you expelled!

Tianyao University Xiong Wenwu: Fellow townsmen, he merely seeks to borrow a modicum of coin to avoid slumber, there is no need for such rigor!

Jin Gang University Chu Qiuhua: If coin you possess not, then go to sleep!

Another monster race student sprang forth and responded: You compel him to slumber each day within the university, and desire his demise; what difference is there? He is a college student, he merely wishes not to slumber, desires to rise and study, what transgression is this?

Jin Gang University Chu Qiuhua: Who can say if this is not a ruse! If he is so impoverished he cannot even afford to remain awake, what manner of immortal cultivation is this?

Having merely glanced at the disputes within the group, Zhang Yu then surveyed the information of others he had amassed!

It was then he discovered a missive from Cong Na of the competition team!

Cong Na: The others within the team have all consented, I shall transmit to you the competition data, and also add you to the group.

Zhang Yu first accepted the competition data, and after a brief perusal, also consented to the other party’s invitation to add him to the group!

Zhang Yu: Greetings to all, a newcomer I am, pray take care of me in learning, Chang, after all.

Cong Na: Welcome

Ma Xuan: Welcome to join

Zhang Yu offered his greetings, yet apart from Cong Na and Ma Xuan, no third individual came forth to offer welcome, and their chat records were swiftly inundated!

Zhang Yu observed for a brief period, discovering that within the group, there were still three individuals conversing with fervent enthusiasm about talismans, their words soaring rapidly, occupying the entirety of the chat box!

Zhang Yu also scrutinized the information of the other five individuals within the group besides himself!

He observed that apart from Cong Na, who merely displayed her class ranking as fifth, the others, besides their class rank, also displayed their overall department rank!

Amongst them, Ma Xuan held the thirty-fifth position within the entire department, the remaining three also hovered around the fortieth or fiftieth mark!

Including Zhang Yu himself, a sum of six individuals, forming a competition team!

Zhang Yu also examined their grades, finding them at most in their fifth year of university!

Zhang Yu comprehended that to attain the top fifty ranks within the entire department at this juncture, these individuals were clearly the elites and foremost students within Civil Engineering!

“No wonder none pay me heed!”

Zhang Yu fully grasped this; students of high rank in competition, even those of lower rank, are quite ordinary, and to ignore those of lower rank is indeed a great courtesy!

At this very moment, a student named Bu Ziran sent a short video, the content being a newly unpacked lung talisman relic!

Bu Ziran: The latest lung method of Wan Dao Craftsman Sect, bang! Knock!

Bu Ziran: Subscribe to Wan Dao Craftsman Sect’s monthly service, and there are twenty-three varieties of sword energy that may be exchanged!

Bu Ziran: 18.88 spirit coins to purchase.

Zhang Yu, upon seeing this price, wished to voice its exorbitant nature, yet he observed another student named Yang Yan reply: This price is modest, you received a discount.

Bu Ziran: I have an uncle who toils within Wan Dao Craftsman Sect, I procured this at an internal price.

Observing the myriad conversations regarding relics, medicines, talismans, and treasures within the group, Zhang Yu recollected the flour brick he had desperately struggled to seize not long ago, feeling himself increasingly out of place within this assembly, unable to partake in these topics!

And upon seeing these senior students in their fourth and fifth years, none of whom ranked within the top twenty of the entire department, Zhang Yu sighed faintly: “Real Fire True Person, this elder, still bid me enter the Civil Engineering department then transfer to the Forging Department, does he comprehend the difficulty of transferring departments within the university in this era?”

“To attain the top twenty of the entire department before the conclusion of the third year is exceedingly arduous!”

Zhang Yu knew that to surpass the middle and senior students in comprehensive scores during the early years, he would need to pre-study the courses of the middle and senior years!

This demanded not only terrifying talent, but also a significant amount of coin!

And students such as Ji Yuan Shu within their class are proud and aspire to transfer departments!

During this period, Zhang Yu also gradually comprehended the routine cultivation plans of transfer students aiming for such a transfer!

“During the freshman and sophomore years, they are fundamentally still laying the foundation, elevating basic data to the peak of Foundation Establishment!”

“Commencing from the third year, they embark upon early learning, accelerating through the spiritual realm, completing a multitude of advanced courses within the department prematurely, and passing examinations!”

“Finally, within the third year, they amass a substantial amount of comprehensive scores! Attaining a ranking within the top fifty, they may then transfer departments!”

“And for Civil Engineering to transfer to Forging, the requirements are even more stringent, at least within the top twenty!”

Zhang Yu mused: “Starfire Old Man may have been away from the university for too protracted a period!”

“And elder sister believes, even if one cannot achieve it, later they can undertake the postgraduate entrance examination to transfer to Forging!”

“But!” Zhang Yu’s moonlight flickered, stating decisively: “I must enter the top ten sects, I must seize the moment, before the channels to enter the top ten sects are closed, I must pass the entrance examination!”

“And the top ten sects accept not Civil Engineering!”

Zhang Yu thought: “I must join the Forging Department earlier, commence cultivating the content of the Forging Department at an earlier juncture!”

“Postgraduate entrance examination then transfer to Forging, it is too slow, far too slow!”

Upon observing the rankings of Bed Xuan and others, the urgency within Zhang Yu’s heart surged once more, he continued cultivating in haste!

But the efficacy of the last dose of medicine had already been depleted, now the efficiency of his breathing was significantly diminished!

Zhang Yu then resolved to seize this opportunity, before consuming another dose of medicine, to attempt the spiritual flesh integration!

“According to Dao Heart Teacher Feng Jiu’s words, the realm of the mind method’s operation!! Twenty-four hours of operation is merely the foundation!”

“Above this, is to attain the semi-instinctive realm!”

“And above the semi-instinctive, is the fully instinctive spiritual flesh integration realm!”

Zhang Yu sensed the current operation of his mind method within his thoughts, recalling the sensation he experienced when he was on the first floor, as the building collapsed and his body was buried, he entered a state of feigned death!

“In those days, I seemed to be entirely unconscious externally, yet in truth I still retained the last thought of survival!”

At that moment I thought of naught, pondered upon naught, merely felt that within a dark world of consciousness, I fully activated the vitality of my body, maintaining the growth of flesh and blood!

“This state of maintaining the last vestige of clarity within the mind is approximately at the semi-instinctive level!”

“And the state of spiritual flesh integration is one where even if one truly loses consciousness, descends into a deep coma, it is akin to breathing, still maintaining the operation of the mind method!”

Zhang Yu attempted to activate the feigned death state of Spring and Autumn Infinite Zen, continuously erasing the distractions within his mind!

Yet no matter how he eliminated the numerous thoughts within his mind, that last thought would always persist, maintaining his final trace of clarity!

“Truly arduous!” Zhang Yu secretly mused: “To lose consciousness yet still be required to maintain the operation of the mind method!

This is truly beyond human capability!”

“In the time that followed, Zhang Yu, each day during cultivation, whenever time permitted, attempted the state of spiritual flesh integration!”

Although he had yet to succeed in any instance, he could also sense that the operation of his mind method was slightly smoother once more.

Especially each time he entered that state where only the last trace of thought remained within his mind, the speed of entering became progressively faster!

As time passed swiftly, it was already the early days of June!

Since Zhang Yu first stepped into the graveyard project, more than a month had elapsed!

In this period of over a month, with the initial support of General Wang, though it later ceased, yet relying on daily tiger wolf medicine and the unique environment of the graveyard, Zhang Yu’s magic power still made great strides, soaring to a level of 661.3!

The quality of magic power increased with its value, the efficiency of improvement slowed, but also reached 168!

The Dao Heart, under the operation of the mind method, also steadily improved, reaching level 14 (64.8).

His physical strength, due to focusing on breathing these days and lacking significant training time, only increased to 15.18 levels!

And the conduction rate of Gang Qi and the furthest transmission distance also increased steadily alongside the basic values, reaching 42 and 44 meters respectively!

On that day, Ma Xuan contacted Zhang Yu once more, inviting him to participate in the team’s trial training!