Chapter 704 Sharp Commentary: Top Ten College Graduates' Counterattacks
In the spirit realm, Zhang Yu watched the demonstration by the Heavenly Demon University at the press conference. He could see various items being scaled up and stored in the Heavenly Demon Treasury, and then quickly categorized and arranged together.
The Divine Lord of the Evil Lotus on the stage spoke up: "There has always been a major pain point in the retrieval scheme of spatial devices."
How can we effectively and quickly manage a vast amount of goods, ranging from 100 cubic meters to 200 cubic meters or even 500 cubic meters?
"When retrieving an item, how do users find the target item from so many things? Do they have to browse through everything every time?"
"When you need to take medicine on the battlefield, when your boss asks for work items at work, when you need to use immortal resources while studying or cultivating... do you really have to spend several minutes searching through mountains of items to find what you need to release?"
"According to the data we have collected, the average time for each retrieval of all space equipment currently on the market is about 1 minute and 33 seconds."
"And the number of times each person can retrieve items per day is 14.5."
"So every user of the space equipment has to spend 133 hours a year searching for items in their personal space. What an astonishing waste of time that is!"
"To solve this problem, my team and I finally decided... to retrieve items with just one button."
"In other words, retrieving a specific item from the Heavenly Demon Treasury from thousands of items only requires pressing a button."
"From selecting an item to loading the space and finally retrieving the item, the entire process only takes 3 seconds."
As Lord Nielian demonstrated, he said, "The ability to achieve such a one-click lightning-fast storage and retrieval function is entirely thanks to the artifact-like spirit independently developed and innovated by our school. It can effectively realize the automatic identification and registration of items, automatic stacking, automatic organization, and automatic information uploading to the spirit world..."
"Extreme space utilization and time efficiency will help you go further on the path to immortality, allowing you to live 133 hours more than others every year."
"Next, I'll introduce the trading system of the Heavenly Demon's Secret Treasury..."
In the subsequent demonstration by the Evil Lotus God, the Heavenly Demon Treasure can confirm transaction information through the connection to the spirit world.
Immediately afterward, the two bracelet-shaped Heavenly Demon Treasures touched slightly, and a transaction progress bar lit up.
When the progress bar is complete, it means that the specified item has jumped from one Heavenly Demon Treasure to another.
At the same time, the transfer of spirit coins has also been completed in the spirit world network.
Lord Nielian said, "With just a light touch, whether it's a personal transaction involving one or two magical treasures or a large-scale transaction involving hundreds or thousands of tons of commodities, the transfer of items can be easily initiated, achieving a transfer speed of 10 cubic meters per second."
"Trading has never been easier..."
Looking at the press conference content, Zhang Yu had to admit that the Heavenly Demon Treasure indeed brought amazing convenience and had an incomparably strong competitive advantage.
During the Q&A session, someone asked a pointed question: "Does 'spirit-like' refer to soul cultivation?"
The Divine Lord of the Evil Lotus's gaze flickered, and his eyes revealed all sorts of information about the other party, including recent transfer and receipt records. Everything was as he expected; this pointed question was indeed raised by someone from a rival company.
He smiled slightly and said calmly, "Spirit-like beings are not soul cultivators. Our spirit-like beings are highly intelligent spiritual beings formed from the elites selected from all realms of Kunxu after undergoing technological transformation."
Holding the Heavenly Demon Treasure in his hands, Lord Nielian sighed, "And our space management fee... is only 0.05 spirit coins per cubic meter of items per month, yet we have elites who have received complete immortal education, have university degrees, have been growing for over 20 years, and have debts exceeding 100 spirit coins, serving your personal space 24 hours a day..."
As Tian Shenggong watched the press conference of Tianmo University, he could feel a strong sense of threat.
He thought to himself, "The Netherworld... the Heavenly Demons... they're all coming on strong."
Clearly, the launch of Tianmo University's new product has made the already fierce market competition even more brutal.
The advertisements for the three products—Immortal Soldiers, Netherworld, and Heavenly Demon—have unknowingly spread like wildfire, filling everyone's eyes and seemingly obliterating even the spirit world.
Various subsidies and preferential policies have emerged one after another, leading to an increasing number of people in universities owning space equipment.
The Magnetic God, who was originally sitting high on the throne, now seemed to be teetering on the brink of collapse in the eyes of everyone, facing the challenge from the three schools.
However, Zhang Yu only glanced at the various disturbances from the outside world from time to time before refocusing his attention on his cultivation.
In particular, through the cultivation of "The Great Void Barrier of the Three Realms and Ten Directions," Zhang Yu knew that as long as he continued to advance the level of this immortal Daoist technique, he would be able to master more spatial technologies, lead the future direction of technology, and influence the ten major universities and the course of the entire war.
Unbeknownst to him, as time passed, Zhang Yu had also pushed the "Three Realms and Ten Directions Great Void Barrier" to level 25.
As he continued his cultivation that day, he received a message from Feng Tingting.
Feng Tingting (Sincerely accepting all kinds of business collaborations): My Lord, thank you for your guidance, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get this advertisement.
Zhang Yu looked at the video link sent by the other party and found that it was an advertisement video about Taixu Yunzang.
Zhang Yu knew that not long ago, Feng Tingting had started working part-time as a political commentator, occasionally posting videos to summarize the news and talk about gossip.
In Zhang Yu's opinion, this was quite suitable for Feng Tingting's part-time job.
Zhang Yu: Taixu Yunzang has a monthly promotion budget. The fact that you received advertisements is simply because you met the requirements; it has little to do with me.
Feng Tingting was still grateful, and then asked: "True Lord, the people from the Heavenly Demon, the Netherworld, and the Immortal Soldiers have been too arrogant lately. They are spreading all sorts of attacks against Taixu Yunzang online. Should we make some videos to fight back?"
Zhang Yu was also aware of what Feng Tingting had said.
During this period, the spatial products of the three schools of Heavenly Demon, Immortal Soldiers, and Netherworld competed with each other. After a period of fierce fighting, they seemed to have reached a tacit understanding and all turned their spearheads toward Myriad Laws and Magnetic Pole, wanting to drag this elder brother off the throne.
Next, Feng Tingting asked when Taixu Yunzang would release its second-generation product, to which Zhang Yu naturally declined to answer.
In the following days, Zhang Yu saw many viral videos related to this topic in the spirit world.
In the video, Tian Shenggong is criticizing the various performance aspects of Taixu Yunzang.
"Let me summarize my experience using Taixu Yunzang this past week."
"The capacity rating is too crude and doesn't take into account the usage of ordinary students at all."
"There isn't even a basic partition in the space, so it's normal to spend half a day looking for something."
"It's said to be able to deflect attacks, but the startup speed is too slow and the feel is too bad. It can only block the most rigid, unchanging, and easily dodged attacks..."
"How long has it been since Wanfa updated its products? I think their research in space technology is outdated and full of the arrogance of a big company."
After listing all the flaws of the Taixu Cloud Treasury, he threw it into the trash can and picked up the Void Box next to him.
Besides similar videos criticizing Taixu Yunzang, various rumors about Taixu Yunzang have been circulating.
Wang Yin posted on his WeChat Moments: "I heard that Taixu Yunzang secretly retrieves the items stored by users and then uploads the data to Wanfa University. Is this true?"
Similar rumors spread quickly, and although Wanfa University tried its best to explain, some people still believed them and some did not.
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In the Dark Spirit Realm, many cultivators from the Righteous Alliance also participated in this massive online traffic event.
In the video, Liangyan Zhenjun picks up the Taixu Yunzang and comments, "It's inevitable that the Ten Great Ones will censor all personal spaces. Not to mention the Myriad Laws, even the Heavenly Demons, the Netherworld, and the Immortal Soldiers will be the same. You've definitely leaked everything."
"Returning to the Taixu Cloud Storage itself, as the first generation of personal space products, it is indeed of epoch-making significance. However, it seems that it is now completely outmatched in terms of competitiveness by the products of the Tianmo, Youming, and Xianbing schools."
"In the past month, Taixu Yunzang's market share has been continuously eroded by the other three companies, and it will probably fall from its throne soon."
"But the products of Tianmo, Youming, and Xianbing are merely optimizations and functional improvements based on Taixu Yunzang."
"The fundamental problem remains that the top ten universities have reached a bottleneck in space technology."
"It's because our Righteous Alliance's technological blockade has been effective. After multiple rounds of internal cleanup and technological upgrades, neither Magnet nor her group of cultivators can easily steal our spatial technology to make progress."
"Therefore, the top ten universities can only re-enter the competition for existing resources and return to the state of mutual infighting. This is the systemic flaw of the top ten universities, which makes them always exhaust their strength in internal strife and always hold each other back."
"Even after we've brought them down to the third level, they're still thinking about who earns more and who earns less. This is the fundamental flaw of the top ten, their fatal weakness that they can never change."
"Before long, the internal strife within the space products sector will affect the battlefield situation, further accelerating the collapse of the top ten..."
After quickly browsing through the videos, Zhang Yu thought to himself, "They really can turn anything into one of the top ten most frustrating things."
He scanned the comments section below the video and found various speculations about when the top ten universities would collapse and when the Righteous Alliance would completely occupy floors 2 to 5.
After scanning the news about the Dark Spirit Realm as usual, Zhang Yu's mind returned to the real world, and he once again devoted himself to cultivation.
His "Three Realms and Ten Directions Great Void Barrier" has unknowingly reached level 27.
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Immortal Soldier University.
Celebration banners were projected and floated in the laboratory.
With a large number of Foundation Establishment students purchasing the Void Box developed by the Immortal Soldier University, the market share of the Void Box has been soaring, and it is showing signs of surpassing the Taixu Cloud Treasury and eventually becoming the number one in market share.
Looking at the data from the past month, it seems that the Thousand Puppet God Lord has already seen the day when the Void Box will reach the top, establish the largest personal space ecosystem, and become an essential piece of equipment for every cultivator.
This made Thousand Puppet God, who had been looking unwell ever since Wanfa introduced the Taixu Cloud Treasury, smile broadly as he entered and exited the laboratory these past few days.
That day, he announced to Tian Shenggong and others in the experimental group: "Everyone, thank you for your hard work in fixing vulnerabilities and updating products during this period."
"You have half a day to do whatever you want, whether it's studying, taking exams, or doing part-time work..."
Upon hearing that they would have half a day of free time, everyone who had been working tirelessly in the lab became excited.
Tian Shenggong also breathed a sigh of relief, feeling the pressure that had been weighing on his head gradually subside.
He looked at Zhang Yu's profile picture in his contacts and thought to himself, "Now it's your turn to be nervous, isn't it?"
Tian Shenggong thought that Zhang Yu at this moment was probably just like himself in the past, feeling tense and worried every day as he watched the changes in market data.
Then Tian Shenggong saw other messages in his WeChat Moments.
A cultivator from the Heavenly Demon University shared news that the daily sales of the Heavenly Demon Secret Treasure have surpassed those of the Taixu Cloud Treasure, and it has now reached the top spot.
Some cultivators from the Netherworld University mentioned that the Xuanming Pearl has become the most frequently used magic weapon on the battlefield.
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Inside the University of the Underworld.
Looking at the latest report, Wang Yin breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Mom, has our Netherworld's Xuanming Pearl finally gained a foothold?"
Yin Quan Shenjun nodded and said, "Whether it's our Xuanming Pearl, the Void Box of Immortal Soldiers, or the Heavenly Demon's Secret Treasure, they have all taken different paths, established their own technological barriers, and have their own focused customer areas."
"It can be said that the market that was originally dominated by Magnet has now been taken away by the three of us working together. Magnet must be feeling the pain now."
Wang Yin asked, "But Magnet won't give up so easily, will it? She'll probably retaliate with the next product update."
Yin Quan Shenjun smiled faintly and said, "It's just a matter of updating whatever she updates, and then we'll update the same thing. Now that we've established a firm foothold, even if we're a step behind her in space technology, as long as the three of us maintain product differentiation, continue to build our competitive advantage, and delve deeper into our respective fields, we'll always be competitive."
"Her magnetic poles...we'll have to take a few more bites off of her flesh next."
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Kunxu has three levels.
Inside the research association near the Great Hollow.
Zhang Yu has just pushed the "Three Realms and Ten Directions Great Void Barrier" to level 29, and is getting closer and closer to pushing this technique to the Nascent Soul realm.
Just then, his gaze shifted, and he received a message from his demonic avatar.
He and Fu Ji's consciousness arrived in the Dark Spirit Realm together, and soon they saw news about the Great Master.
"A junior college graduate encounters a player from one of the top ten leagues on the battlefield, and defeats ten schools with only a junior college degree. Is this a personal victory or a failure of the Kunxu education system?"
The video features a robust female player named Mu Qiansi, whom Zhang Yu had previously encountered in the Top Ten Leagues, from Hehuan University.
Opposite Mu Qiansi was a middle-aged man with a buzz cut and an ordinary appearance, who was none other than the True Lord of the Righteous Alliance.
The college graduate said, "The prodigies of the top ten universities, I used to look up to you, but now... it's your turn to look up to me."
Having said that, Mu Qiansi, who was at the Golden Core stage, was blasted away by a sudden jolt.
She shouted angrily and tried to run away, but was pulled back by an invisible force time and time again.
Mu Qiansi shouted, "You dog, if you're so capable, try burying me in money. What kind of skill is it to rely on cultivation?"
The True Monarch of the College said calmly, "Money...money...money...you guys from the top ten universities, all you have on your minds is money, you have already deviated from the essence of the immortal path."
"Today I will defeat you ten prodigies and show you what a true prodigy is, what a true immortal genius is."
The next moment, Mu Qiansi seemed to be crushed back and forth by an invisible force.
Seeing this, Zhang Yu understood that it was the Nascent Soul of the Great Master True Lord attacking Mu Qiansi.
He thought to himself, "A Nascent Soul cultivator attacking a Golden Core cultivator... what kind of reverse strike is that?"
In the video, Mu Qiansi struggles against the attack while shouting, "You traitorous college graduate! If I weren't still a Nascent Soul cultivator, how could you possibly be my match?"
The True Monarch of the College coldly said, "You are from one of the top ten universities, and I am from a junior college. Yet you have reached the Golden Core stage, while I have already reached the Nascent Soul stage. Doesn't this prove who the real genius is?"
"I graduated from junior college, yet I was able to completely crush your top ten school prodigies in terms of cultivation. Isn't that a junior college graduate defeating a student from a top ten school?"
As the Great Master attacked, Mu Qiansi's body quickly became a bloody mess. She screamed and suddenly shouted, "Wait, I surrender, I surrender!"
The Great Master snorted coldly and said, "This is the Top Ten, this is your genius. Of all the Top Ten students I've encountered, not one fought to the death, and not one surrendered at the last moment."
"Unlike the cultivators of my Righteous Alliance, even Nascent Soul True Monarchs can calmly face death, resist to the end, and fight to the last moment."
Zhang Yu wasn't surprised at all by Mu Qiansi's surrender in the video; after all, expecting the people of Kunxu to fight to the death in a war was asking too much.
After saying this, the college student Zhenjun in the video looked at Mu Qiansi and shouted, "Kneel down."
Mu Qiansi immediately knelt down obediently and said respectfully, "True Lord, I am convinced. You are the true genius, the real immortal cultivator. I am far from being your match."
When a student from one of the top ten schools, especially one that participated in the top ten leagues, speaks like this in front of the camera, it naturally gains terrifying popularity in the Dark Spirit Realm.
Countless cultivators from the Righteous Alliance cheered below the video, denouncing the injustice of the Top Ten, the failure of the existing immortal education system, feeling excited for the victory of the College True Monarch, and delighted by Mu Qiansi's surrender.
"I've watched this video ten times already, it's still awesome."
"We college students have finally turned the tables! Even fantasy novels wouldn't dare write something like this, it's so awesome!"
"Don't stop! Don't stop! Keep stomping on her, insulting her! Trampling on her! I'm almost done!"
In the video, the college student laughed and asked Mu Qiansi, "How does my strength compare to the elites from your ten schools?"
Mu Qiansi quickly replied, "Naturally, the True Lord is stronger."
The college student asked again, "If I participate in the Top Ten Leagues, can I sweep aside all the top talents from the ten schools?"
Mu Qiansi thought to himself, "Only Foundation Establishment cultivators can participate in the Top Ten Leagues. How could a Nascent Soul cultivator like you possibly participate?"
Despite her many thoughts running through her mind, she outwardly replied without hesitation, "Yes."
The Great Master's smile grew even wider, and he said, "Oh? Is that so? Then how do I compare to Zhang Yu and Kuang Tianqing? You've met them, so you should know them, right?"
Mu Qiansi said, "How can they be compared to you?"
The Great Master stepped on Mu Qiansi's head, then asked with a smile, "Kuang Tianqing is only a mere Golden Core cultivator now, indeed not worth my attention."
"I heard that Zhang Yu has already broken through to the Nascent Soul realm. Do you think he can compare to me?"
Mu Qiansi quickly said, "No, no, he only reached the Nascent Soul True Monarch level because he was bet on by Wanfa University and had capital backing him up. How can you compare to him, who reached this level through his own talent and hard work?"
The True Lord of the College laughed and said, "Alright, Zhang Yu! Did you hear that? If you encounter me on the battlefield in the future, you'd better give way, or don't blame me for being ruthless and killing you, the top undergraduate student from the ten schools."
"Of course, you can also challenge me. Just tell me the time and place, and I'm ready to accompany you anytime and accept your challenge."
Although Mu Qiansi knew that Zhang Yu was already a graduate student, not an undergraduate, she naturally wouldn't take the initiative to point out the mistakes in his words.
In the video, the smile of the College True Monarch became increasingly unrestrained, and his actions of first stepping on the Twilight Silk and then demoting Kuang Tianqing and Zhang Yu further boosted the video's popularity, making it a must-watch video for every college student in the Dark Spirit Realm.
After all, only a dozen months have passed since the top ten leagues began, and the scale of the event back then was known to everyone. Zhang Yu and Kuang Tianqing were even known as the pinnacle of college students, and were known to countless junior college students.
The fantasy of stepping on Zhang Yu and punching Kuang Tianqing is probably a fleeting thought in the mind of every college student.
As a result, the video's popularity continued to grow, and it even spread to the spirit world, circulating among college students and even lower-level students.
Watching the video, Fuki couldn't help but say, "How about it? Want to give it a try?"
Zhang Yu said calmly, "I don't have time to waste doing such things."
"And this video..." Zhang Yu thought to himself, "It's practically on par with a web series, a standard provocative video, a promotional video. It's probably just meant to motivate the Righteous Alliance cultivators. Who would fall for it?"
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Demon University.
Having just attended the celebration party for the Heavenly Demon's Secret Treasury, Kuang Tianqing listened to what the College True Monarch said in the video and sneered: "Low-level provocation."
After saying that, he recorded the matter in his notebook archive.
"I'm not the same Kuang Tianqing I used to be, holding grudges over such trivial matters."
"It's just something to record temporarily as resources for the Hatred Heart Technique."
Kuang Tianqing said, "If Zhang Yu said these words, since he has the memories of an immortal's past life, I can pretend I didn't hear them, after all, they are not useful as resources for the Hatred Heart Technique."
“A lousy college degree… very good, very good… it is the perfect resource for my spiritual practice.”
Hehuan University quickly issued a statement regarding Mu Qiansi's situation, declaring that Mu Qiansi had disgraced the university, betrayed the ten universities, and was expelled from the university and her family property confiscated.
Soon, various messages appeared on Mu Qiansi's social media accounts, such as registering second-hand Daoist accounts and acquiring spare Dharma Bodies and spare magic treasures.
Watching all this, Zhang Yu felt that Mu Qiansi, who had surrendered to the Righteous Alliance, was like a corpse. Everything she left in the camp of the top ten universities was quickly decomposed, recycled, and eventually disappeared without a trace.
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Time continued to pass, and regardless of the outside world's disturbances, Zhang Yu finally pushed the "Three Realms and Ten Directions Great Void Barrier" to level 30. He was only one level away from raising this technique to the Nascent Soul realm at level 31.
Meanwhile, Bai Zhenzhen went back to Tianjian University because of the matter there.
As a former Nascent Soul disciple, Bai Zhenzhen stood in front of the vice principal's office, but waited for almost two hours before being allowed to enter.
The vice principal lowered the projector screen, not giving Bai Zhenzhen a chance to speak, and directly ordered: "The school must concentrate its resources to promote a new round of sword manufacturing. The swords in the sword armory are also school assets, and they cannot be wasted like this any longer."
"Considering you are a disciple of the Seven Emotions, I can leave you three swords from the sword armory. Go and open the sword armory."
(End of this chapter)
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