Chapter 615: Close Friend In Foreign Land (1)

Chapter 615: Close Friend In Foreign Land (1)

"You're here. Feel free to look around."

Hu Xiansheng had complicated emotions.

Su Yu smiled. Beside him, Huang Feng said, "Faculty Head, just sell it. Why are you even sad? You have spent countless money on your research over the years. It's not a bad idea to stop while you still can. You might have reached the Sunmoon Realm long ago without this research."

"You don't understand..."

"Yeah, I don't." Huang Feng said, "There are so many subjects to research. Why do you insist on this subject? So that you can look cool?"

"..."

Su Yu looked at the two in astonishment. What was up with these two? Were the teachers here allowed to talk with their faculty heads in this manner?

Hu Xiansheng looked at Su Yu and said, "What are you looking at? She's my student. All four Cloudbreaches and eight Skysoars of the single character faction are my students."

"..."

Holy shit!

Su Yu was shocked. Was this for real? They were all his students?

Huang Feng explained, "The Faculty Head is very old. He's over three hundred years old. We're indeed all his students."

"..."

Su Yu was speechless.Fiind updated novels at novelhall.com

Hu Xiansheng was indifferent. He was already used to the lack of manners in his students. He sighed and said, "Great Ming's multiple character faction has always been a pointless existence. Back then, I was the sole member. And I only started the faction due to Great Xia's first principal. But eventually, the first, third, and fifth principals all ended up dead. I no longer have any interest in their affairs."

Su Yu was speechless. This was someone who had lived since the first principal's time. But he was still a seventh-stage Mountainsea. This...cough, cough. It would be improper for him to say anything here.

Hu Xiansheng could guess Su Yu's thoughts. He grumbled, "Strength is not everything. I specialize in space. Not even Sunmoons can catch up to me. As cultural researchers, fleeing is the priority. Nothing is more important than preserving your life. You're not a warrior. Kid, stop thinking that Great Xia is a big deal. How big of a deal can they be? All those fellows are dead while I'm still alive."

"Come on in."

Hu Xiansheng waved his hand, causing the air to ripple.

"This is the first Sunmoon formation, capable of preventing eavesdropping. But it does not work against Invincibles. It only works against those up to the Sunmoon Realm."

Next, he showed the second formation and said, "This is the second formation, capable of detecting all intruders. It can instantly detect even a Sunmoon and ring the alarm. This is the third formation, the offensive formation. Even a Mountainsea can be killed while a Sunmoon will be delayed for quite a while."

Su Yu was quite amazed by the three formations.

He was already aware of the existence of these formations, but he was still shocked when he saw them. These formations were much more powerful than the ones in Wentan Research Center. Naturally, they were also a lot more powerful than the one in his previous Source Soul Research Center.

Behind the three formations was a door.

"This is not a regular door."

Hu Xiansheng introduced, "I forged this door myself. Consider it my gift to you. This is an incredible door, something I spent many years to forge. It is in actuality a teleportation formation. But it is not meant for transportation. Rather, it is meant for killing. If a Sunmoon intruder carelessly attacks this door, they will be rapidly dragged into the door before being cut apart by chaotic spatial currents."

Hu Xiansheng smiled and said, "Most of the time, people will relax after getting through the three major formations. They won't waste their time slowly opening this door. Instead, they will try to deal with it with force. And they will come to regret that choice."

Su Yu asked in astonishment, "Faculty Head, is Great Ming so dangerous?"

"It's alright." Huang Feng explained, "Great Ming isn't exactly dangerous. But Great Ming is also not feared. There are a lot of cultists active here. And some of them are rather brave. At times, they will even sneak into the capital itself. Since there are way too many research centers here, the cultists also have their eyes on our research centers. Thus, the more important research centers still need to be cautious."

Soon, they arrived at the fourth floor.

There, Hu Xiansheng grew excited as he introduced, "This is the main research floor. There are a few important rooms on this floor. Firstly, you have the Spatial Cutting Room."

As he said that, he opened the door to a laboratory. The moment the door was opened, Su Yu felt a pulling force coming from within the room.

Pointing at the floating fragments in the room, Hu Xiansheng said, "Don't look down on them. These are spatial fragments. Do you know that these spatial fragments are one of the components making up a grotto? Great Ming doesn't have a lot of powerful grottos, but we have a lot of minor grottos here. Do you know why?"

"Is it related to this?" Su Yu asked in surprise.

Hu Xiansheng nodded, "In Great Xia, there are Marks of Culture. You're aware of that, right?"

"Yeah. A Mountainsea can leave behind a character that will be produced into a Mark of Culture."

"There aren't a lot of Marks of Culture in Great Ming." Hu Xiansheng proudly said, "In fact, we're not useless like what everyone believes. For example, we are involved in a lot of grotto renovations, earning a lot of money from that. Generally, anyone with a Mountainsea character suitable to be modified into a grotto will come to me. I will use my spatial cutting facilities to transform their character into a grotto that can be entered by living beings."

Su Yu blanked out slightly. Then, his eyes lit up as he asked, "With this, why were you..."

So broke? He left those words unsaid.

He was truly surprised. This was most likely a service Hu Xiansheng had produced in the course of his research. It might only be a side project, but the creation of a grotto could probably net him a lot of money, right? Why was he so broke?

Hu Xiansheng's expression turned awkward. Huang Feng mercilessly said, "You should keep your expectations tempered. How many Mountainseas are there in Great Ming? And how many of them will die each year? We don't have that many characters left behind by dead Mountainseas. It's not like we can use the characters of Skysoars and Cloudbreaches. Those characters are too weak to withstand the pressure of being transformed into a grotto. Think about it. How many cultural researchers will die in Great Ming each year? How many characters can we get each year? Even at a premium price of ten thousand merit points per job, we will only get a job every three to five years. That's not enough."

Su Yu nodded in understanding. But he was still shocked. He said, "But you can expand that service outside Great Ming. I believe nobody will refuse to have more grottos, right?"

Hu Xiansheng coughed and said, "I can't do that without my facilities. And these facilities are too cumbersome to move around. Thus, I can only provide the service here. But a completed grotto is also very hard to move around. Why else would most grottos remain in the same place for so many years? If it's within Tiandu itself, they can still get some experts to help them move the completed grotto. How about those from outside Tiandu?"

"Why don't you build the same room in the other prefectures? Or you can simply sell this technology to others..."

Hu Xiansheng said, "Even so, I still need to be there. That's too troublesome. And it is not my dream to rely on something like this to build a fortune."

Fine. In short, this was a faculty head with a dream. Because of his dream, he suffered from destitution. Su Yu couldn't help but give the room a few more gazes. What a valuable room.

Hu Xiansheng warned, "These spatial fragments are very limited and rare. Also, don't cut them rashly. If you cut them too frequently, they might fail to recover in time and turn into a black hole that can devour everything. Generally, you can do it once every three months. Don't do anything rash. If you accidentally create a massive black hole, you might end up destroying the entire academy or even Great Ming. That will be disastrous."

Su Yu asked in surprise, "Is this thing destructive? In that case, you can use it as a weapon, right?"

"Don't think about fighting all the time. It's too slow. If you try to do this in the Allheaven Battlefield, an Invincible will notice it before the black hole even finishes its formation and slap you into a pile of mincemeat."

Realization dawned on Su Yu.

Next, they arrived at the fifth floor. The fifth floor was massive as well. There was a Character Peeling Room, a Preservation Room similar to Bai Feng's laboratory back in Great Xia, an Automatic Source Qi Generation Room, a Puppet Room, a small Teleportation Room, and so on. In short, this was a floor filled with high-end research facilities.

This was an eye-opening experience for Su Yu. And the sixth floor was even more impressive. There were four sectors on the sixth floor, each representing a different season. The Spring Sector was filled with a gentle breeze, swaying willow trees, blooming flowers, and a curtain of blue sky above the sector. The Summer Sector was filled with sandy shores, seawater, and swimming pools. The Autumn Sector was filled with fluttering leaves and a setting sun in the sky above. The Winter Sector was filled with floating snowflakes, gentle ice pavilions, and warm fireplaces.

This was no research center. This was a resort. Furthermore, different music was playing in each sector. Different small animals could be seen frolicking in all four sectors as well.

Su Yu was truly speechless. Impressive. Great Ming's cultural researchers were really good at enjoying life.

He had thought that the cultural researchers here all lived a hard life. But he was wrong. They were all living very well here. While the cultural researchers of the other prefectures were fighting with their lives on the line, the cultural researchers here were living life to the fullest.

Everyone believed that Great Ming's cultural researchers were useless, but in truth, they were all living well. Unfortunately, they were relatively weaker. After all, they had lived in peace for too long. They lacked the sense of crisis that was present in all the other prefectures.

In the event of war inside the Human Realm, Great Xia would be able to react immediately and turn into a war machine. That was not the case for Great Ming.