Chapter 702 True Daoist Name, Understands Applause (Thanks to "Deputy Director Li" for the generous donation)
The corridor of the research association.
With a burst of intense firelight, a brand new Heavenly Sun God gradually emerged.
True Lord Xianyin nodded slowly and said, "I have almost finished building the skeleton. I will leave the finishing touches to you."
After carefully explaining things to Bei Wufeng, Yan Qianji, and the others, True Lord Xianyin left the laboratory.
After all, as a Nascent Soul True Monarch, especially after Magnetism was promoted to principal, True Monarch String Sound also took over the position of head of the Weapon Refining Department, so he was very busy and had many affairs to attend to.
If it weren't for Zhang Yu's repeated invitations, True Monarch Xianyin would never have personally come to refine the magic weapon.
After seeing off True Lord Xianyin, Yan Qianji suddenly frowned and asked, "Where is Jin Jun? Where did he go?"
Jin Jun and Yan Qianji were both assigned to the Tianri Huangshen project.
In Yan Qianji's view, this was a job that was entirely self-serving and detrimental to the public good, and they had become nothing more than private slaves who were crafting magical artifacts for Zhang Yu.
What Yan Qianji was even more dissatisfied with was that Jin Jun, as a formal employee, always pushed the tasks onto him, an outsourced employee, while he spent all his time running around Zhang Yu.
The thought that Jin Jun hadn't even shown up for such an important wrap-up task today made Yan Qianji feel increasingly dissatisfied.
Upon hearing Yan Qianji's question, Bei Wufeng's eyes flickered, and he thought to himself, "Is he asking me?"
Bei Wufeng understood that everyone in the lab knew that Jin Jun and he had the best relationship, after all, they were fellow students before they entered the lab.
Thinking of this, Bei Wufeng smiled faintly and said, "He's probably busy with something."
"Busy? What's so important that he's neglecting even the final touches for the Heavenly Sun God?" Yan Qianji said angrily. "Just now, True Monarch String Sound mentioned so many key points, but he, as the person in charge, didn't hear a single one. What will happen if there are problems with the project later?"
After saying that, Yan Qianji looked at Zi Yunzhen beside him and asked, "Little Zi, do you know where Jin Jun went?"
Zi Yunzhen, who was once a classmate of Zhang Yu in weapon crafting, has now become a legitimate Golden Core cultivator after the issuance of certificates following the great changes in the world.
But looking at Yan Qianji's arrogant demeanor, she was quite disapproving: "This guy... still thinks he's the best weapon refiner among Nascent Soul disciples."
Zi Yunzhen thought to herself, "Is 'Little Zi' your way of addressing me? We're all Golden Core cultivators now, but do you have no idea who the full-time employees are and who the outsourced employees are?"
She thought to herself, "Did I think this was still school? Everything was about grades? This is the workplace, it's about job titles, salaries, benefits... How can you compare to me in any of these aspects?"
So Zi Yunzhen didn't answer, but turned to look at her former classmate and now colleague Su Yunni and said, "It's almost time, let's go to the pharmacy to get our medicine."
The mention of the pharmacy filled Yan Qianji with embarrassment.
Because outsourced staff like him don't have the authority or benefits to take medication at the pharmacy, and even taking medication in the office or laboratory is against regulations and they would be kicked out by administrative staff, he ended up having to secretly take his medication in places like corridors and stairwells every day.
Whenever this happened, seeing the regular employees rushing to the pharmacy in groups, but no one paying attention to him, Yan Qianji would feel embarrassed.
Just then, Bei Wufeng, who was standing to the side, relieved Yan Qianji's embarrassment and said with a smile, "Yun Zhen, where did Jin Jun go? Let's ask him to go to the medicine hall together."
Zi Yunzhen then responded, "Jin Jun... he had previously stopped all the assistants from going to Zhenjun's office, insisting on going alone to report the good news to Zhenjun and the things that Tianrihuangshen had accomplished."
Yan Qianji frowned and said, "This is such a small matter, couldn't a message suffice? Did he really need to come all the way there in person? Today's mission isn't even finished yet..."
Bei Wufeng glanced at Yan Qianji and thought to himself, "You were really spoiled when you were a Nascent Soul disciple."
After this period of close contact, Bei Wufeng gradually realized that Yan Qianji was a guy who focused on his skills and was used to being a Nascent Soul disciple, and had never really stepped out of that persona.
That's why he could sense that Yan Qianji was the most unpopular outsourced employee in the entire laboratory, and he didn't get along well with almost anyone.
“After all, people used to revolve around him, but now that the situation has changed, he still hasn’t learned how to handle it.”
Meanwhile, in the corridor on the other side, Jin Jun was outside his office, silently listening to the constant thumping sounds coming from it.
He thought to himself, "Is True Lord Zhuyi cultivating with True Man Baiyao again? As expected of a True Lord, he is truly diligent."
The so-called Bai Yao Zhenren is the Daoist name that Bai Zhenzhen registered after entering the Golden Core realm.
Since Bai Zhenzhen entered the research institute, she has not been assigned any tasks. Her only task every day is to cultivate with Zhang Yu.
If a junior employee were to use their work time for self-cultivation, Jin Jun would consider it slacking off, courting death, and engaging in unfair competition.
But since he was richer and stronger than him, and the Nascent Soul True Monarch under his leadership did this, Jin Jun could only sense the power of the Nascent Soul Realm and felt envy and longing.
"A true lord is a true lord. He can openly cultivate during work hours. An ordinary employee would have been fired long ago."
Just then, the clapping sounds in the office stopped. Jin Jun knew that the cultivation inside had come to an end, so the sounds of physical training had ceased.
The slapping sound was naturally the sound of flesh striking the air; what else could it be?
After submitting the application, Jin Jun entered the office as the door opened and immediately reported the completion of the Heavenly Sun God.
Bai Zhenzhen, who had regained her spiritual root, was sitting cross-legged on the ground, covered in sweat, silently breathing in spiritual energy and circulating her magic power.
Zhang Yu listened to Jin Jun's report and nodded slightly, saying, "Not bad, it was completed earlier than expected. You did a great job."
Jin Jun quickly replied, "It's all thanks to the wise leadership and skillful guidance of the True Lord. We were just following the instructions."
"Oh? Is that so?" Zhang Yu tapped his fingertip, and a work data sheet popped up: "Jin Jun, this is your lab attendance record for the past month. How come it's so much worse than Yan Qianji's?"
Looking at Jin Jun's panicked face, Zhang Yu sighed and said, "Jin Jun, as long as you work hard in the lab, I won't treat you unfairly. You don't need to keep following me around anymore."
"Go."
Watching Jin Jun hurriedly retreat, Zhang Yu shook his head and looked at Bai Zhenzhen beside him.
During this period, through the exchange of spiritual roots, Zhang Yu could feel that Bai Zhenzhen's cultivation was progressing by leaps and bounds every day.
Clearly, the enhancement of her Nascent Soul level Feather Spirit Root had given Bai Zhenzhen a tremendous boost, rapidly transforming the potential she had been forced out of the past year of battles into cultivation.
At the same time, when Zhang Yu looked at Bai Zhenzhen, the conditions for upgrading the Azure Lotus Sword Embryo to level 4 also appeared in his eyes.
"The Nascent Soul realm, followed by the nourishment of ten level 40 cultivation techniques?"
Zhang Yu understood that nourishing Bai Zhenzhen with 10 level 40 cultivation techniques was not difficult; the key was for Bai Zhenzhen to reach the Nascent Soul realm.
However, seeing her rapid progress recently, coupled with sufficient resources, Zhang Yu believes that Bai Zhenzhen's breakthrough will not be long.
The next moment, Zhang Yu felt a flash of light before his eyes, and a white sword aura carrying lightning was slashing towards him.
Amidst a series of explosions, Zhang Yu had already clashed with Bai Zhenzhen's sword energy several times, and with each collision, Zhang Yu felt that the destructive power of the sword energy had increased several times.
"This is the direction of Ah Zhen's true spiritual root evolution."
"Her attacks adapt to the target, constantly increasing the power of her sword techniques, and causing greater and greater damage to the target she attacks."
"There is currently no opportunity to test where the limit of power growth lies."
Zhang Yu thought to himself, "But as long as she has enough time and space to launch a sustained attack, she might have a chance to kill a Nascent Soul True Monarch."
Withdrawing her sword energy, Bai Zhenzhen let out a long breath and looked at Zhang Yu, saying, "Yu Zi... this guy is getting more and more muscular."
"Compared to you now, the gap between us is huge."
Bai Zhenzhen sighed, "Even if I were to cut your roots, I feel like I couldn't cut them myself!"
She clenched her fists, saying with a mixture of relief and resentment, "It's impossible to sever them!"
Zhang Yu felt a chill run down his spine and quickly said, "You son of a bitch... stop bringing up such dangerous topics!"
Bai Zhenzhen said, "Where is this dangerous? This is clearly safe. Even if my Extreme Emotion Sword Dao gets out of control in the future, I don't have to worry about killing you."
After saying that, she couldn't help but glance at Zhang Yu's body again, and then stroked him for a while: "Sigh, if we used the extra parts of your body to make a flying sword, it would definitely be hard and strong."
Zhang Yu quickly slapped Bai Zhenzhen's hand away and said, "I don't have any extra parts on my body."
Just then, an important news item popped into Zhang Yu's eyes: Immortal Soldier University was about to release its latest space product.
As the leader of the research association, Zhang Yu also received an invitation to the press conference.
Zhang Yu's heart skipped a beat: "The Extreme Tiger Space Bag has arrived?"
...
At the joint launch event by Xianbing University and Jihu Company, the new generation of space products was officially unveiled.
The Thousand Puppet God Lord held up a palm-sized box and said, "This is the Void Box, a personal storage terminal that our Immortal Soldier University has created for the millions of cultivators in Kunxu."
"In order to allow everyone to enjoy the convenience brought by space technology, and to allow all living beings to share the benefits brought by immortal technology, on the first day of developing the Void Box, I told the True Lords in our group that I wanted to make the Void Box affordable for every college student."
"They tried their best to stop me, to persuade me, to tell me it was impossible, absolutely impossible, impossible to reduce costs so low."
"But after 89 hours of meetings, 151 arguments, and 12 fierce battles, I finally convinced all the team members."
“During this time, some old friends left, some team members quit, and some even broke down and cried after removing their eyelids, telling me that this would result in a loss. But I was still determined to do it, even if the Void Box didn’t make a single penny!”
"I want the whole world to know that I made the first generation of Void Box even though it didn't make money. So what about the second generation of Void Box? Give me a round of applause if you understand."
Applause immediately erupted at the press conference. Zhang Yu, who had descended in the form of a spirit projection, couldn't help but raise his hand and clap along. He thought to himself, "It's a good thing that everyone can use a personal storage terminal... right?"
Following that, various technical parameters of the Void Box, as well as related services, were projected one by one.
Then, True Monarch Qiankui continued, "To allow more people to enjoy the convenience brought by space technology, we have adapted an advertising system to every Void Box, so that you can open the Void Box simply by watching ads every day."
"As long as you watch the ads, you can open the Void Box for free and collect items for free. You can store items for one more day by watching the ads once a day."
"The Void Box, with R&D funding exceeding one million spirit coins, can be stored for free for life by simply watching an ad! It's a lifetime storage service!"
"Traditional space storage devices, in pursuit of maximum storage capacity, have unilaterally increased the volume of scalable matter without considering that the mass of the matter does not decrease after scaling. Things that are too heavy are difficult for many people to bear."
"During the design of the Void Box, we considered that a large number of people have limited carrying capacity. Therefore, in order to make the Void Box easy for everyone to carry, we launched a lightweight version, which allows the Void Box to be scaled up to 10 cubic meters of matter, so that even those in the Qi Refining stage can easily pick it up and put it down..."
Meanwhile, Wang Yin from Youming University was also watching the press conference.
Looking at the lightweight version of the Void Box, which was priced at 10 spirit coins and only accepted installment payments, he felt a strong sense of crisis.
Wang Yin thought to himself, "This Void Box is targeting the low-end market; it seems they want to monopolize all Foundation Establishment students."
Yin Quan Shenjun, who was standing to the side, analyzed in his heart: "The Taixu Cloud Treasury launched by Wanfa University can only be used by Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators. Foundation Establishment students can only look on with envy. The Foundation Establishment market is almost a blank market."
"Now that this Void Box has come out, it will probably quickly take over the low-end market and become widely circulated among Foundation Establishment cultivators."
Looking at the various parameters of the Void Box, Kuang Tianqing thought to himself, "To promote this product, Jihu Company will probably throw money at advertising like crazy."
Just as Kuang Tianqing had predicted, large areas of Void Box advertisements began to appear on the battlefields of the second and even third levels of Kunxu.
When Zhang Yu looked through the research institute's building towards the center of the large void, he could see beams of light and shadow projected into it, revealing the image of the Void Box.
As for the various websites and news in the spirit world, there is an endless stream of content about the Void Box.
Meanwhile, various celebrities from the spirit world and streamers with huge followings received orders from Jihu Company one after another and began to promote the Void Box.
For example, Zhang Yu saw in Tian Sheng Gong's live stream that the other party was holding a Void Box and said, "I only use the Void Box for storing items."
"This is making space products at cost price, unlike Wanfa's Taixu Yunzang, which is all about paying an IQ tax and pure brand premium. Let whoever is stupid and rich buy it, I'm not buying it."
The overwhelming advertisements made many schools and companies feel the overwhelming momentum of Xianbing University and Jihu Group.
The project teams from Tianmo and Youming schools were immediately spurred on, sensing a huge threat. They accelerated their research and development, eager to launch their own space products, compete for the market, and expedite the establishment of a space ecosystem.
(End of this chapter)
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