In the southeast corner of the martial arts system, the horns are covered by a towering tree dozens of meters high.

A seven-story reinforced concrete building as rough as a fortress, covered in mutated creepers, and vines peeking out of the windows, looked a little bleak.

It used to be the main teaching building of the Martial Arts Department.

There are seven floors above ground and three floors of martial arts laboratories underground.

Later, the Agricultural University rose to prominence and became a "monster university", with the support of funds and resources from all sides, and built more, larger, and more luxurious teaching buildings and laboratories, which gradually became vacant and turned into dormitories and classrooms for advanced courses.

Gu Jianbo settled the social students, took Meng Chao into the depths of the teaching building, opened a rusty, creaking door, and followed the spiral staircase into the damp darkness underground.

"Brother Bo, you still hide such a secret stronghold?"

Ma Hong and other social students also knew for the first time, and they wanted to go down to see it together.

Gu Jianbo couldn't resist it, and beckoned Ma Hong as a representative to go down together.

The three floors are as cold as a morgue.

Take a breath and your nose will feel like an ice pick popping.

The dim light illuminates both sides of the narrow corridor, and there are all kinds of blood vessels and nerves soaked in preservatives and completely peeled off.

Gu Jianbo took Meng Chao and Ma Hong to a laboratory to be opened with a password.

It was filled with all kinds of cultivation equipment that looked like torture tools.

There is a device in the center, which even looks like an electric chair for executing prisoners.

Gu Jianbo took out two large stacks of experimental notes and manuscripts, as well as two large file bags, from the safe in the corner.

Inside the file bag is a thick stack of medical records, the results of various physiological parameters, and scans of various levels of the body.

There is also a yellowed photo.

In the photo, Gu Jianbo, who is ten years younger, handsome and handsome, and Li Yingzi, who is also ten years younger, are holding hands.

They stood with another high-spirited young man, looking at the direction of the red sun, as if they saw a bright future, and smiled happily.

"His name is Zong Ye, the best student of our class, far stronger than me."

Gu Jianbo lightly touched the photo and muttered, "In fact, he is the leader of the '1024 Project', and I was just pulled into the water by him." ”

Meng Chao nodded: "I read the original articles, which were mainly published by him. ”

"That's right, now many people say that the martial arts department of Agricultural University more than ten years ago was the era when the 'twin stars' of me and Mr. Li shined and crushed the beast control department, in fact, how can there be any 'twin stars'? At best, we are two moons, reflecting the brilliance of Zong Ye's 'supernova'. ”

Gu Jianbo smiled and said, "Zong Ye is the youngest son of Dean Zong, and he is also the most outstanding one, he has already broken through the Heavenly Realm and become a four-star transcendent in his junior year. ”

"What!" Meng Chao was shocked.

In the transcendent realm, the third level is a big step.

In undergraduate colleges, many talented Tianjiao can rush to the three-star realm before graduation and become the "pinnacle of the realm".

But from the "Earth Realm" to the "Heaven Realm", it is not only the accumulation of spiritual energy progressions, nor is it as simple as connecting a few more spiritual veins and strengthening a few more organs.

It is necessary to have a very deep understanding of the magnetic field of life, soul power, spirit and will, in order to elevate the realm of carbon-based intelligent life to a new level.

It's incredible to rush to the heavenly realm in your junior year.

"Zong Ye's talent and talent are far ten times better than mine, and his deviance and ambition are more like a volcano that erupts at any time, terrifying, but full of fiery attraction."

Gu Jianbo said, "Zong Ye thinks very highly of himself, thinking that in the entire martial arts department of Agricultural University, only Li Yingzi and I can barely understand his ideas, we often discuss the most cutting-edge martial arts concepts together, in the eyes of outsiders, it is an inseparable and comparable 'iron triangle', only we know that Li Yingzi and I are completely shocked and impressed by him."

"Not long after he rushed to the heavenly realm, on a rainy night, he suddenly came to me and Li Yingzi and said that he felt that he was on the wrong path.

"Naturally, we were taken aback.

"At that time, he had just beaten the Beast Control Department with one as ten, and he also refreshed many records of the Martial Arts Department for decades, and even several surrounding universities and Long University, far away in the west of the city, had heard his name.

"If even he 'went the wrong way', who would be on the right path in the entire martial arts department of the Agricultural University?

But he didn't say a word, took out a ghostly notebook, and expounded a new combat concept, well, this one.

Gu Jianbo picked up a monster leather notebook with a peeling cover, picked it up with both hands, and carefully opened the title page.

There is a line of big characters written on it: "Only death is the limit of life!" ”

This line is written heavily, through the back of the paper, as if it were imprinted on it.

"Zong Ye spat and explained to us all night, and at first we didn't agree with his philosophy."

Gu Jianbo sighed and said, "Cultivating the branch veins to fight, it sounds beautiful, but if you think about it carefully, you know that it is impossible—the branch veins are thin and fragile, how can it be possible to use the method of cultivating the main veins to penetrate simply and rudely?"

"Even if it is penetrated, the runoff of the branch veins is so small, how can it output a strong enough spiritual power? If you can't release a single skill, how can you compete with the strong people who are flying all over the sky with the 'Beast Soul Flow' and the 'Super Killing Flow'? ”

"If someone else comes up with such a ridiculous thing, I'm afraid that it will be thrown into the trash by me and Li Yingzi as soon as possible, but it is Zong Ye, this extremely smart martial arts genius.

"Once again, we were impressed by his whimsical ideas and eloquence, and we were dragged onto a high-speed train and into uncharted territory all the way, which is the '1024 Project'."

Meng Chao listened attentively: "What happened later? ”

Gu Jianbo said calmly: "Later, he died. ”

Meng Chao: "What! ”

"The cultivation method of the transcendent that Longcheng has explored for decades is mainly to swallow the secret medicine rich in spiritual energy, and then use meditation, pile gong and battle to refine, if it is an undergraduate college or a super enterprise, it will provide a 'cultivation cabin' to stimulate the cultivator's nerves and blood veins with bioelectric currents, accelerate the flow of spiritual energy, and impact and strengthen the spiritual veins, but this method is mainly suitable for the main veins."

Gu Jianbo sighed, "Zong Ye had a whimsical idea to transform the elixir formula and the structure of the cultivation cabin, greatly reducing the concentration of the elixir and the strength of the biocurrent, hoping to penetrate and strengthen the 1024 branch veins.

But he far underestimated the complexity and fragility of the branches, and also underestimated the piercing pain of the heart when crossing the branches, and the disturbance that this pain can cause to the mental index.

"Eventually, on the eve of our graduation, during an experiment, he went mad and died, leaving only half of his unfinished graduation thesis, as well as a large number of medical records and research materials.

"After reading these medical records, we realized that all kinds of extreme experiments had seriously damaged his body, and the subtle dark injuries were staggered between his blood and meridians, and he seemed to be healthy, but he was simply crazy overdrawing his life, so that the fire of life that could last for a hundred years was burned out in just a few years!

"He was very aware of his fate.

"In a letter to us, he said that he knew what a terrible price would be paid to move forward with the '1024 Project'.

"It's just that he is very optimistic that he still has several years to live, enough to persist until the 1024 project is completed, and the new martial arts concept can shine, and when the time comes, even if he is broken as a sacrifice, it will be worth it."

Meng Chao took the case that Gu Jianbo handed over tremblingly, and flipped through it with great shock.

The shocking data and images clearly show how a talented and powerful martial arts genius can ruthlessly destroy his body and move towards destruction step by step.

Every experiment is like actively jumping into a meat grinder, dismantling oneself into eight pieces, dissecting every organ and even every nerve.

Only in this way can we get first-hand data, change the concentration of genetic medicines, fine-tune the strength of biocurrent, and transform the cultivation equipment suitable for penetrating the main vein into a cultivation branch vein!

"To be honest, in fact, I don't believe that the 1024 project can be successful, from day one, I have great doubts and often complain in front of Zong Ye."

Gu Jianbo smiled, "However, seeing his blurred flesh and blood in the cultivation cabin, I feel that I should inherit his will and not let the 1024 project be suspended, otherwise, wouldn't Zong Ye die in vain?"

"It was Li Yingzi who was heartbroken because of Zong Ye's death, thinking that it was the 1024 project that caused him to go crazy, and the two of us were both 'accomplices' who killed him, she blamed herself deeply, and from then on, she turned to the 'Beast Soul Fusion Technique' and didn't look at the '1024 Project' again.

At this time, Dean Zong Yue had fully presided over the work of the Academy of Martial Arts and Life Sciences, and he was naturally heartbroken about the death of his young son, but growing up in the war-torn years, the older generation's view of life and death was even more indifferent, and he did not completely deny the 1024 project.

"Since I am willing to continue Zong Ye's research, he does not object, but instead comes up with a lot of resources to support me, if the project can really succeed, Zong Ye's spirit in the sky will also be pleased, right?"

When Meng Chao heard this, he was curious: "In this case, how can the project stagnate?" ”

"Because, I don't have 'talent'."

Gu Jianbo said with a hollow look in his eyes, "After Zong Ye fell, many people transferred their praise and various auras to me, and I also vowed to carry his legacy and complete his unfinished business."

"But deep down, I know very well that the gap between myself and Zong Ye is too big.

"A 'top student' like me can only bury his head in the route planned by others, and can only get a perfect score on the test paper with the only correct answer, and only perfectly interpret every game rule and win.

"But if there are no test papers, no rules, on a blank canvas, I can't do anything.

"In the following years, the 1024 project has been dragging its feet forward, I seem to have researched a lot of potion formulas, also transformed some cultivation equipment, and even occasionally treated some patients with withered spiritual veins, helped them penetrate three or five main veins, published some articles, and received countless honors and praises.

"But these are all skins, I can't touch the soul of the 1024 project like Zong Ye, and make a radical change to the existing battle mode!

"I'm anxious, my soul is tormented, I can see Zong Ye's eyes full of anticipation for me in my dreams, I even, I have a strong jealousy, the same is known as 'genius', the same is the '1024 project leader', why am I so different from him, the real genius has long fallen, and I am useless when I survive, just a person who sells fame and reputation!

"Entangled by these diabolical thoughts, I became eager for quick success, and my research style became more and more radical, and finally, I made a big mistake."