Carefree Path of Dreams
Chapter 967: Gift

“The psionic crystal is also known as the ‘anti-matter crystal’ or ‘God’s crystal’. It was first discovered in the Tarenma Galaxy on Planet A-23. It contains powerful and stable energy…

“In the Year 19087, the Father of Gundam, the creator of mecha, Undead Immortal Construct—Xuan Jinzi—and the West’s Grand Arcanist Ovo joined hands to create the first psionic reactor to extract energy from the psionic crystal. In the same year, they created the first Gundam mecha!

“As of now, the psionic crystal has turned into a mandatory energy center for mechas. Its price continues to increase as time passes. However, the most disappointing part is that the Human Alliance has been unable to find any other way to form it. All of the psionic crystals have to be extracted from mines!

“Research has also shown that psionic crystals can help cosmic behemoths grow and develop. There are rumors that psionic crystals can stimulate the birth of Zerg Empresses as well…

“In the past, scholars suggested that we shouldn’t entangle with the cosmic lifeforms, but instead turn toward the exploration of more unknown galaxies. However, when we discovered the Devil Galaxy, we found many large psionic mines. Scientists predicted that if the Cosmic Lifeform Alliance obtained this place, they would be able to take over every corner of the universe, and humanity would become extinct!

“As the matters around the Devil Galaxy continued to evolve, the conflict between the Human Alliance and the Cosmic Lifeform Alliance escalated! The Cosmic Lifeform Alliance gave birth to several kings using the psionic crystals. Meanwhile, humanity developed many newer generations of mecha. Before the psionic crystals are completely mined out, this bitter war of attrition must continue!”

…

Fang Yuan was currently browsing through all the top-secret information.

Not only did these cost a lot of credits, but they also required a certain level of jurisdiction as well.

However, after meeting the principal, his jurisdiction was elevated, and it was sufficient for him to browse these materials.

Recalling the day he declared his wish to enter the mecha department and Han Yunfeng’s shock, disbelief, and confusion, a smile appeared on his face.

For him, the pharmacy department did not have many secrets to unravel.

His objective for coming to this world was for psionic crystals!

Considering the situation and his objective, entering the mecha department was logical!

“I’ve already consumed the psionic crystal from the Wings of the Sky. I still need to consume at least nine hundred more from mechas of that level before I can break through the bottleneck of the Heaven Devouring Mystic Technique. I wonder if I consume those from the standard K9999 Gundams, how many more do I need? Ten thousand? One hundred thousand?”

Fang Yuan thought regretfully, “Unfortunately, psionic crystals are a top-grade military resource. I can’t obtain them at all! I can’t buy them even if I have credits!”

As he thought about this, he pulled out another piece of information that he had bought casually. It contained information about this world’s highest combat power, an introduction to Undead Immortals:

“When you reach level twenty Mystic, it is known as Soul Transformation! At level twenty-one, you turn into an Undead Immortal! This isn’t an arbitrary distinction. It’s a difference in concepts between ancient and modern cultivation! Ancient cultivators believed that after achieving Soul Transformation, they had to transcend their tribulation at once. However, this has been scientifically proven false. Current cultivators believe that after Soul Transformation, the three energies within their bodies would fuse. With the power of Soul Transformation, it’ll bring you to the pinnacle of cultivators. If you wish to improve any further, the only way is to change your lifeform!

“The so-called Undead Immortal, in essence, is only a foundation… The main benefit is the ability to hold unlimited energy! With this foundation, you can continue to increase your level endlessly in the future! Whether Undead Immortals that have surpassed level fifty can break through the universe remains a myth!

“A few days ago, Undead Immortal Honest Ghost published a study claiming that he managed to make a breakthrough in the transformation of an Undead Immortal. If this result is true, it will become possible to perform a transformation surgery at the Nascent Soul stage to become an Undead Immortal. However, on the same day he announced his results, the West’s Grand Arcanist Walker declared that it was academic fraud. The various experimental data from Honest Ghost came from Walker’s research on Western lich transformations, and he reserves to right to take legal action!”

…

“Undead Immortals… it should be related to lich transformations! But they’re not the same!”

Fang Yuan rubbed his chin.

The most significant difference was that Undead Immortal began after Soul Transformation. On the other hand, the Western lich transformation only required certain conditions to be fulfilled, and even a low-level necromancer could do it.

Of course, the resulting liches from such a transformation were weaklings.

Furthermore, due to the various flaws of a lich, there were few Arcanists that were willing to do this. Even if they wanted to transform, they would wait until they ascended to Grand Arcanist before undergoing the perfect lich transformation ritual. Following this, they would transition to live an ordinary person’s lifestyle and completely abandon their past bodies.

“With my cultivation speed, I’ll probably form my Nascent Soul after a month. It’s a little slow, but after all, I’m in East Dragon University right now. I can’t use my Demon God power as I like to absorb the energy of the universe.”

Fang Yuan looked around.

He was currently in the best cultivation room. It was not cheap, but the concentration of the energy particles left him very satisfied.

After spending so many credits, this was finally worth his money.

“There’s Wu Wudi too. After his previous failure, he’ll come for revenge after recovering from his wounds!” Fang Yuan rubbed his eyebrows. “Well, he can come if he wants. I’ll play with him and consider it a form of relaxation.”

‘Ding! Student Lin Meng, you have a visitor!’ a robotic voice sounded. Fang Yuan looked at the screen, slightly surprised. “It’s him? Let him in!”

After a moment, the student council president, Qi Yunshan, walked in with a face full of smiles “Haha, Junior Lin Meng. I’m here to see you. I wonder if you’ll welcome an uninvited guest like me?”

“Of course, you’re welcome!”

Even though Fang Yuan felt that something was off, he showed a sincere smile anyway and stepped forward to greet him. “Senior, please have a seat. May I ask why you’re here today?”

“There are some matters I want to discuss. After all, I’ve been harassed by that family for a long time!” He smiled bitterly.

“About that, I’ve already donated the parts of the mecha. I don’t have any rights over them anymore!”

Fang Yuan shrugged. However, he knew that Qi Yunshan did not come all the way here just to talk about that. It was probably an excuse.

“Mmm…” Qi Yunshan took a sip of tea and suddenly lowered his voice. “The school’s contract lawyer came to me. He told me that Wu Wudi was instructed to remain silent. The same goes for the other university students. The school sent the purgers to tie up loose ends as well. This is the treatment for the highest level of confidentiality. Even Wu Wudi hasn’t experienced it before!”

“If it were him, he wouldn’t like it, right?” Fang Yuan smiled dryly. “But I don’t like crowds, so this is just right for me!”

“Don’t you understand? This is the school’s efforts in nurturing you as a top seed of humanity!” Qi Yunshan explained. “The Cosmic Lifeform Alliance has always planted spies among humanity. Other than steal secrets, they’ve also sent assassins to kill the top geniuses and researchers. Of the two, they prefer killing. Unfortunately, even Wu Wudi has encountered this before…”

The research abilities and combat effectiveness of the best scholars in this world were linked. To be on the hit list, they were at least level fifteen and above. Naturally, they paid no heed to those assassins.

On the other hand, people like Fang Yuan who had low cultivation but great research results were their favorite targets.

It was no wonder that East Dragon University’s principal, Venerable Three Star, started protecting Lin Meng after receiving news about him.

“So…” Fang Yuan turned to Qi Yunshan.

“I’m not sure what your contributions are for the school to treat you like this, but the biggest threat to you might have turned into cosmic lifeforms…”

Qi Yunshan continued solemnly, “Also, someone might leak that information!”

Even though the school had signed confidentiality agreements, it was not impossible to get around it. For instance, if they were to leak the information before they signed it, it would not be a problem.

“I understand. Thank you for the advice. I’ll take note!” Fang Yuan nodded.

“By the way, are you going to skip a grade?” Qi Yunshan changed the topic. “For you, studying first-year content is a waste of time.”

“That’s right. I’ll be transferring to the mecha department!” Fang Yuan said.

“The mecha department, huh… I’m a student there!” Qi Yunshan’s enthusiasm sparked. “Do you want me to introduce a mentor to you? Even if you’re looking for a position in Professor Fu Hongxue’s research group, I can get one. Considering the matter on the Wings of the Sky, he won’t reject!”

“Then, thanks in advance!”

Regarding his goodwill, Fang Yuan did not reject it.

Furthermore, he suspected that Qi Yunshan came because he had heard his intentions.

With his talents, even after excluding his talent in alchemy, he would have been scouted anyway.

“Oh, right!” Before leaving, Qi Yunshan smiled mischievously. “I’ve prepared a gift for you. I’ll send her in later. For things that we couldn’t get as youths, when you get them after growing older, you’ll realize that it was nothing much!”

His statement was inexplicable. But when Fang Yuan saw the ‘gift’, he was really surprised.

“Mas-Master!”

Ling Fei’er was wearing a maid outfit. She bit her red lip as she walked forward slowly and bowed to Fang Yuan.

“What’s going on?” Fang Yuan furrowed his brows.

Ling Fei’er bowed. “I’ve withdrawn from school. I am now employed by the Yunshan Group as Mr. Meng’s maid! Everything has legal effect!”

“Oh?” Fang Yuan nodded, knowing that for her to end up like was already pretty lucky.

Furthermore, he did not have the slightest bit of sympathy for her at all. Instead, he was speechless.

Obviously, Qi Yunshan had investigated everything about Lin Meng. He knew about Lin Meng’s relationship with Ling Fei’er and that Lin Meng had confessed to her in the past, which was why he had put in the effort to bring her here.

However…

What does this have to do with me?

Fang Yuan spotted Ling Fei’er’s miserable expression and rolled his eyes. “Why are you giving me such a wronged look? Do you think it’s embarrassing to be my maid because you’re rich?”

“The Ling Group has fallen into bankruptcy and been acquired. I’m not rich anymore!” Ling Fei’er answered miserably.