Chapter 328: Hot-Blooded Civil Engineering

Zhang Yu switched to Qi Meridian Circulation, feeling his mana rapidly restoring. He nonchalantly said, "It's nothing, you just focus on improving the quality of your mana."

"You should be able to sense it, right? The mana within you is about to break through a major bottleneck."

Le Mulan nodded. Recently, she felt that the mana within her was becoming increasingly Yin and cold. Although it wouldn't harm her, it would sometimes leak out uncontrollably, causing various phenomena in the outside world.

Le Mulan had a feeling that if she continued at this pace, in another week or two, her mana would undergo a qualitative change!

This rapid improvement in mana quality was inseparable from Zhang Yu. The improvement in mana quality also made her cultivation more efficient, accelerating her progress, and leading the second tier of the Le family to invest even more resources in her!

Thinking of this, Le Mulan looked at Zhang Yu and sighed slightly in her heart. She never expected that the investment she had initially made in him would be returned to her in this way, many times over!

Just then, Zhang Yu handed another measuring cup to Le Mulan. "Oh right, here's this batch too!"

Le Mulan nodded and said, "I'll transfer the spirit coins to you as soon as they arrive!"

Feeling the warmth emanating from the measuring cup, Le Mulan immediately judged with her rich experience, "It must have been produced not long before I came. That's fast!"

"Zhang Yu's recent production efficiency is so high! Is it because he's been taking a lot of tonics?"

After Zhang Yu recovered his mana, he hurried to leave the dormitory and rushed to the construction site again!

The renovation of the cemetery was more than halfway complete. Now, he needed to seize the remaining time and try to absorb as much spiritual energy as possible within the cemetery construction site!

"It's a pity that King Wang won't be accompanying me for the rest of the time!"

Walking through the familiar underground passage, Zhang Yu arrived at the work point he was assigned to today.

Then, as usual, he activated the detection ritual within his body. Zhang Yu glanced at the position of the nearby cameras!

After all, he had many secrets. Zhang Yu had habitually checked and memorized the location of cameras to avoid causing unnecessary trouble!

But this time, feeling the feedback from the ritual power within him, Zhang Yu looked at a wall on the left and suddenly frowned slightly. "There's a hidden camera here?"

"Could it be specifically there to film me?" Thinking this, Zhang Yu activated the power of the monitoring ritual within his body, trying to control the camera. The next moment, he gained access to the camera's monitoring perspective!

This is...

Looking at the content in the monitoring screen, Zhang Yu found that it was a multi-angle camera that could simultaneously see the construction site and a secret passage behind a wall!

"There's a secret passage here!"

Zhang Yu controlled the monitoring camera, looking at the messy pit behind the wall, and thought to himself, "This doesn't look like an official project, but rather like someone secretly dug it!"

Zhang Yu became curious. Who exactly dug this secret passage?

But after thinking about it, Zhang Yu decided not to interfere. Who knew what kind of secrets were involved, what kind of interests were at stake, or what kind of dangers there might be?

So, in the next few days, Zhang Yu acted as if he hadn't discovered the secret passage, continuing to work and absorb spiritual energy as usual!

That day, he received a message from True Person Jiao Lei in the class group, sent to everyone!

True Person Jiao Lei: Students who want to participate in this year's Architecture Competition can now register. Interested students can talk to me!

Seeing this message, Zhang Yu's eyes flickered. He knew that with the opening of various competitions, students had more channels to improve their comprehensive score!

So, relying solely on academic performance was not enough to consistently rank at the top of the school!

Thus, Zhang Yu contacted True Person Jiao Lei to learn more about this Architecture Competition!

He learned that this was an annual important competition for architecture and civil engineering students, encompassing both architectural design and civil engineering aspects!

The competition arrangements were as follows: first, there would be an internal selection competition within the colleges of Ten Thousand Dharma University, and then the selected teams would be sent out to compete with representative teams from other universities. This year's finals would be held at Heavenly Demon University at the end of the year!

"But the departmental selection competition will begin in the second half of the year!"

Although the official competition would take place in the next semester after the end of this semester's final exams, registration and team formation were already starting now. After all, once the competition team was formed, they still needed to work together!

Soon, Tu Lishan also sent a message to Zhang Yu!

Tu Lishan: You know about the Architecture Competition, right?

Tu Lishan: There's a team recruiting, you can give it a try.

Tu Lishan: After all, you're only a freshman, don't worry about the results, just accumulate experience.

So, on Tu Lishan's recommendation, Zhang Yu specifically took time the next day to come to the construction site on the 667th floor.

After arriving at the agreed location, he saw a slender female student doing warm-up exercises!

Looking at her not-so-bulky body and the ranking above her head, Zhang Yu was surprised in his heart. "Are there any female students in the civil engineering department with this physique?"

Cong Na, a fourth-year Foundation Establishment student in the civil engineering department, ranked fifth in her class, said indifferently, "You're Zhang Yu, right? Here's the situation."

In her explanation, Zhang Yu understood that this competition team had already gathered five students and now needed to recruit another civil engineering student to be responsible for engineering implementation!

Cong Na twisted her limbs, making a series of crackling sounds, and chuckled, "I'm here to give you a test!"

"Although you're a student recommended by Teacher Tu, and you're ranked second in the class, you're still just a freshman after all!"

Although she didn't say it explicitly, in Cong Na's view... Putting a freshman on the competition team? That was purely a burden!

Even if the other party came, they would only be doing odd jobs, maybe even thinking of getting a place!

Even if the other party was truly strong, Cong Na would prefer to choose a senior student with the same strength. After all, senior students had more construction experience!

So, Cong Na's idea was very simple!

"Let him back down!"

Cong Na thought to herself, "Let this kid understand that competitions are not something freshman students should participate in!"

Zhang Yu nodded and asked, "How do we test?"

Cong Na sent the blueprints to Zhang Yu and then pointed to a piece of scaffolding, saying, "I've already sent you the blueprints. If you can assemble the rebar in the blueprints within 10 minutes, you'll pass the test!"

"But just like competitions simulate wartime environments, I will attack from time to time while you're assembling the rebar to prevent your work!"

"Any questions?" Zhang Yu looked at the blueprints and thought to himself, "Damn it, are you using the test as an excuse to make me do free labor again? As expected of a team recommended by Tu Lishan, it's all in the same vein!"

Despite his thoughts, Zhang Yu nodded and said, "No problem!"

So, with a countdown of 3, 2, 1, Zhang Yu's figure flashed, already rushing out with surging Astral Qi. He saw him strike out with a palm, and the rebar dozens of meters away was swept over, falling onto the scaffolding one after another. Then, he lightly flicked his fingers, and waves of Astral Qi flashed past, and the tie wire a few meters away had already jumped up, wrapping around the rebar!

Looking at Zhang Yu's swift movements, Cong Na nodded slightly. "His movements aren't slow!"

"Then let me give you some more pressure!"

She saw Cong Na take a step forward, already striking out with a palm towards Zhang Yu's back, using the Tendon Severing Palm that could twist most rebar!

With the Tendon Severing Palm force contained in Cong Na's palm, she was confident that a single strike would twist all the rebar Zhang Yu had erected, rendering his work completely useless!

Even if she hit Zhang Yu a few times, Cong Na felt that his bones might be twisted off by her. Zhang Yu, who had the Three-Eyed Divine Power, had already observed Cong Na's situation. Almost the moment Cong Na moved, he also struck out with a palm, Astral Qi bringing layers of spirals rushing towards her. With a bang, Cong Na shattered Zhang Yu's Astral Qi with a palm and continued to approach without stopping!

She coldly snorted in her heart: "The Astral Qi conduction rate is too low, this little bit of power can't even make me slow down! As expected, freshmen are unreliable!"

Snorting coldly, Cong Na had already arrived next to Zhang Yu, bringing heavy palm shadows to attack him, forcing Zhang Yu to turn around and block!

Zhang Yu thought: "This competition is passionate civil engineering, right? You have to fight while building!"

But under Cong Na's interference, Zhang Yu found that he could no longer continue to build!

As an excellent senior student, her strength and speed were above his. Once the battle started, even if Zhang Yu used the 50-50 fighting style, imitating her movements and fighting her head-on!

Then he could only block her, but it was difficult to continue working, let alone repel her!

At this time, Zhang Yu showed the shortcomings of his combat system!

"He can take a beating!" Cong Na suppressed Zhang Yu while judging in her heart: "But participating in the competition, being able to take a beating is useless!"

Looking at his work progress that had completely stopped under her offensive, Cong Na thought: "Is his project stagnating with just hand-to-hand combat? Real competitions are countless times more treacherous than this!"

Cong Na thought to herself: "The difference is too far, it's time to back down!"

Just as Cong Na was thinking this, a humanoid Astral Qi flashed before her eyes, pouncing towards her!

"What's the use of turning into a human shape with this little Astral Qi conduction rate?"

Just as Cong Na was about to casually break open this humanoid Astral Qi, she discovered that this humanoid Astral Qi was using the exact same moves as her!

Using Astral Qi to imitate my moves?

"Nonsense!" With a loud bang!

Cong Na's palm and the humanoid Astral Qi's palm collided fiercely together, and then she was surprised to find that not only were the moves the same, but even the force exerted in the Astral Qi was the same, it was all Tendon Severing Palm force!

"Hmm?"

But after one strike, this humanoid Astral Qi had already dissipated into the air!

But the next moment, just as Cong Na stepped out, another humanoid Astral Qi pounced towards her, blocking her path!

One humanoid Astral Qi dissipated, and then another humanoid Astral Qi attacked!

In Cong Na's astonished gaze, each humanoid Astral Qi used the same moves and the same palm force as she did, and they were just blocking her like this!

Under the protection of the Astral Qi, Zhang Yu turned around and continued to work, his hands bringing heavy afterimages, sweeping back and forth on the rebar!