Chapter 255: Mid-Battle Improvement
Just as Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen’s joint attack carried Wang Yin flying, and as they used the Primordial Magnetic Vibration Sword to continuously break through the layers of the Netherworld Blood-Shadow Veil, with the sword tip drawing ever closer to Wang Yin’s brow.
The numerous company personnel observing the battle immediately moved, all rushing over anxiously.
“Mr. Wang!”
“Quick, cover Mr. Wang!”
“Charge! Get those two animals!”
The Oasis Group employees were genuinely anxious seeing Mr. Wang in danger, wishing they could instantly appear in front of him to take the sword blow for him.
“Mr. Wang has given me three raises! A scholar dies for the one who appreciates him!”
“Those two bastards! The company cultivated them so much! Is this how they repay the company?”
“Hahahaha, as long as I can catch Mr. Wang’s eye, it’s worth going bankrupt in this fight! Eight Directions Platform, max out my Immortal Dao potential! I want to rent a combat Heavenly Spiritual Root!”
Just as the Oasis Group employees were surging with emotion and charging toward the battlefield, groups of experts with varying demeanors appeared one after another, blocking their path. It was the numerous contractors sent by Deng Bingding.
Elsewhere, the Songyang City Director of the Immortal Resonance Group took a light step. In just a few moments, this Foundation Establishment expert could cross several kilometers and enter the battlefield.
But in the next moment, he stopped, looking at the silver-haired woman before him.
“Li Xuelian,” the director said faintly. “You’re supposed to be neutral, aren’t you?”
Li Xuelian smiled at him and held out her hands, signaling that she had no hostile intent. Then she said with a smile, “I just came over today to earn an extra paycheck. Let’s not fight if we don’t have to.”
The director said coldly, “Someone is about to harm Wang Yin in front of me. How am I supposed to explain that?”
Li Xuelian pouted. “Immortal Resonance Group’s backer is the Myriad Laws Sect, not the Netherworld Palace. What are you so anxious about?”
She continued, “If your superiors haven’t given you any orders, could it be that they hope you’ll let nature take its course and not interfere in Oasis Group’s affairs? Earn money when you can, avoid trouble when it comes. Isn’t that better?”
“Besides, the money Wang Yin gave you isn’t enough to cover a fight with me, is it?”
The director didn’t speak, but he knew Li Xuelian was right.
The profit Wang Yin offered him couldn’t cover the potential losses from a battle with Li Xuelian.
However, it was enough for him to stand here and hold each other in check.
Watching the two who were ‘mutually checking’ each other, Deng Bingding thought to herself, Two wage thieves, getting paid to stand around.
She then looked toward the entire battlefield and could already see countless Oasis Group employees, contractors, and security personnel all rushing toward Wang Yin.
The contractors sent by Deng Bingding also took the initiative to intercept the people from Oasis Group.
At the same time, the divine power network was in chaos as the righteous gods on both sides engaged in their struggle.
From time to time, talismans would fail, accounts would be frozen, tax discrepancies would appear… all sorts of phenomena happened to one person after another.
Although the great battle before them had only just begun, and the vast majority of people had not yet truly made a move, for a righteous god like Deng Bingding, that one instant was enough for her to analyze the entire field.
There still wasn’t enough time. Too few contractors arrived, not enough to stop the majority of the Oasis Group’s people.
If the full-scale battle continues, more people from all over Songyang City will join the fight and support Oasis Group. The few contractors who rushed here won’t last long.
But thankfully, at least the key person has arrived.
Just then, a dazzling fiery light flared in the sky. Like a meteor falling to earth, it landed directly in front of the main force of Oasis Group.
Gazing at True Person Starfire within the towering flames, all the Oasis Group employees charging toward the battlefield came to a halt.
True Person Starfire swept his faint gaze over the crowd. He didn’t say much, but just by standing there, he alone was enough to stop thousands upon thousands of cultivators.
From the Oasis Group members charging out, to the contractors intercepting them, and then to True Person Starfire entering the field—although the commotion was great and many people were in motion, with the skills of these cultivators, the entire process happened very quickly, taking only a few seconds.
But in those few seconds, the situation at the center of the battlefield had already been reversed.
The sword that had pierced the Netherworld Blood-Shadow Veil shattered upon impact with Wang Yin’s brow.
The unharmed Wang Yin let out a ferocious roar. His arms bent slightly, his hands forming fists, and a powerful fist force blasted out.
Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen had just unleashed all their power to push the sword. Now, their old strength was spent, and new strength had not yet been generated. It was a moment when they were full of openings.
Boom!
Wang Yin’s fists slammed viciously into Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen’s stomachs.
A huge indent formed in Bai Zhenzhen’s stomach. She spat out a large mouthful of blood mist and was sent flying dozens of meters away in an instant.
A rumbling sound echoed from within Zhang Yu’s bones. His internal organs were violently compressed by the punch. He was knocked back several meters, dragging two long trails in the ground.
Feeling the fractures on all his bones and his constantly bleeding internal organs, Zhang Yu knew that without enough time to heal, if he continued to fight at high intensity, it would only be a matter of time before all his bones were shattered and his five viscera were incinerated.
But watching Wang Yin striding toward him, Zhang Yu still forced himself to muster his magic power and stood in his opponent’s way.
He knew that behind him was the even more severely injured Bai Zhenzhen.
Wang Yin walked over step by step, his cold gaze sweeping over Zhang Yu. “A newly minted Foundation Establishment and a mere Qi Refinement, and you delude yourselves into thinking you can harm me?”
“To the point of leaving yourselves wide open, your internal organs shattered by a single punch of mine.”
“Do you have any idea that any random piece of my skin is more expensive than the two of you combined? On what basis do you fight me?”
Just as Wang Yin was about to strike Zhang Yu again, his clenched fist slowly loosened. He said coldly, “Old man, what is the meaning of this?”
True Person Starfire had appeared on the battlefield at some point, standing between Zhang Yu and Wang Yin.
Hearing Wang Yin’s question, he chuckled. He first glanced at Zhang Yu, who was still in a fighting stance, squeezing out the last traces of his Formless Cloud-Astral Qi from his body.
This kid… he’s just like I was when I was young.
Just as audacious, just as passionate, just as talented.
It would be a real pity for such a young man to fall here.
True Person Starfire shook his head and thought, Heh, I really still don’t like hiding behind a young man like this.
So be it. Even a high school student has stepped up.
How can these old bones of mine continue to be a coward?
I… I’ll help him bear half of it.
True Person Starfire’s fiery long hair swayed slightly as he looked at Wang Yin. “Give me some face…”
Wang Yin snorted coldly. “Do you think you’re still the peak Golden Core, the Doctor of Myriad Laws, that you used to be?”
“An optimized half-Golden Core. What face do you think you have?”
“Young man, don’t be so hot-headed.” True Person Starfire smiled helplessly. “It’s fine if you don’t give me face, but you have to respect the company’s profits.”
“As long as you agree to my next request, for the next year, I will no longer interfere in your affairs on the first layer.”
“How about it?”
Wang Yin didn’t answer immediately, because his opponent was right. He could disrespect True Person Starfire, but he had to consider the company’s interests.
For some time now, Oasis Group’s progress had been obstructed by True Person Starfire. If they could proceed for the next year without his interference, Oasis Group’s plans for the first layer would surely advance by leaps and bounds, bringing huge profits.
So Wang Yin asked, “What is your request?”
True Person Starfire said, “Pause your battle for three hours. Continue again in three hours. How about it?”
Wang Yin frowned. “What are you planning to do?”
Starfire: “During these three hours, let this kid get some treatment, and let me teach him a few moves. Then you can fight again. How about it?”
Wang Yin’s brow twitched slightly. He thought, This old man… thinks that three hours will be enough for Zhang Yu to defeat me?
After a quick mental calculation, Wang Yin knew it was absolutely impossible.
But he still said, “One and a half hours at most.”
True Person Starfire frowned and turned to look at Zhang Yu, who was still full of fighting spirit behind him.
Zhang Yu felt a voice transmit directly into his ear.
“Good disciple, I’m using voice transmission with you right now. Just nod or shake your head slightly. Don’t make a sound.”
“Let me ask you, from watching your fight just now, have you already mastered the Nine Heavens Cloud-Sky Force?”
True Person Starfire had briefly observed Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen’s final explosive attack.
However, their powers were stacked on top of each other, and there was the obstruction of the Netherworld Blood-Shadow Veil. He was also extremely far away, so he could only vaguely tell that Zhang Yu had mastered the Nine Heavens Cloud-Sky Force, and that it was likely above level one.
Zhang Yu looked at the level five Nine Heavens Cloud-Sky Force on his Feather Book and nodded slightly.
True Person Starfire asked again, “Level two?”
Seeing Zhang Yu nod, Starfire suppressed the shock in his heart and continued to ask, “Level three?”
Seeing Zhang Yu still nodding slightly, Starfire’s face remained impassive, but his heart was already filled with utter shock.
Unlike those rich people who loved to sit in offices, play with investments, and engage in finance, True Person Starfire, as a combat-oriented Doctor, was well-versed in numerous cultivation techniques. Even for many military-grade techniques that he couldn’t practice, he had done his best to find information and study them carefully.
And in his memory, the Nine Heavens Cloud-Sky Force was a classic example of a technique that was difficult to learn and difficult to master.
Although its moves were simple, it could be applied to all kinds of martial astral qi. The mysteries of astral qi circulation within it were vast and profound.
True Person Starfire thought to himself, The Nine Heavens Cloud-Sky Force opens empty apertures in the astral qi to accumulate power. It’s a superior martial art that uses astral qi to imitate the human body. The various cultivation paths within it are said to be unconventional and go against the common principles of martial arts, being greatly different from most other techniques.
Even a genius at the Foundation Establishment stage would need two or three days to master this technique and open the first empty aperture.
After that, with each level of improvement, each additional aperture opened, the difficulty would increase exponentially, and the time and effort required would also multiply.
This kid just reached Foundation Establishment today, yet he has already cultivated the Nine Heavens Cloud-Sky Force to the third level?
Could this be the legendary Martial Dao Holy Body?
At this thought, True Person Starfire sighed inwardly. Sigh, if only I hadn’t met Yu Xinghan back then.
Although a multitude of thoughts had flashed through his mind in an instant, his face showed no trace of abnormality. He just looked at Wang Yin and said, “One and a half hours it is.”
Thus, under the astonished gazes of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, True Person Starfire and Wang Yin signed a contract under the watch of numerous righteous gods.
Watching this scene, Deng Bingding thought to herself, I knew it…
A dignified Golden Core True Person, even a half-Golden Core, would not fall to the first layer so easily.
I’m afraid his coming down here was a pre-arranged move by his superiors, all to help Zhang Yu at a critical moment.
Just then, Wang Yin spoke to True Person Starfire, “By the way, in this next fight, tell the righteous gods on your side not to randomly block the divine power network. It will affect my livestream.”
“I won’t use talismans, it’s fine.”
“After all, to beat him, it makes no difference whether I use them or not.”