Chapter 266: The Zhou Family’s Evil God, a Sprint Before the College Entrance Exam
Inside the Zhou family’s grand residence.
Patrol team members were coming and going everywhere.
The entire estate was being turned upside down, and the faces of the Zhou family members being led away were pale, their hearts like dead ashes.
“Zhou Yang has gone mad! This has nothing to do with us!”
“We didn’t collude with the Oasis Group…”
“Where is your captain? I know your captain.”
Zhang Yu stood to the side, watching the members of the Zhou family being taken away, feeling a mix of emotion and nervousness.
I wonder if the patrol team will find out about the evil god behind the Zhou family, and if it will implicate me and Zhen.
Perhaps because Zhou Yang had hidden the evil god so well, the patrol team, after a thorough search, failed to find any information about it. Instead, they found one of Zhou Yang’s secret hiding places.
Arriving in the depths of Songyang City’s sewer system, Yun Ni looked at the underground fortification before her and explained, “This is a place Zhou Yang secretly funded and built himself. If we hadn’t conducted a thorough investigation of all his personal belongings this time, we really wouldn’t have found it…”
With a loud bang, the underground fortification was violently forced open by the patrol team members.
The crowd swarmed in and began to conduct a thorough search of the interior.
Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen followed Yun Ni to the deepest part, where they saw countless coils, antiques, chains, and other objects wound around, with a hard drive at the very center.
Seeing this, Fu Ji immediately transmitted her voice into Zhang Yu’s mind, “It’s a ritual! And one that can suppress an evil god!”
“That guy, Zhou Yang, actually suppressed his evil god here?”
“Damn, that bastard has some serious nerve.”
At the same time, Yun Ni circled the hard drive and said, “This seems to be a ritual?”
Fu Ji reminded him, “Zhang Yu! Touch that hard drive. I’ll try to devour this evil god.”
“If we let these patrol team guys take my colleague away, and if that thing knows about our existence… that would be trouble.”
Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen first used the power of the detection ritual within their bodies to check the surroundings for any cameras.
After confirming the location and angle of the surrounding cameras…
The two exchanged a look, and in the next moment, Bai Zhenzhen pointed to a camera in the corner and said, “What’s that thing? It seemed to move!”
Just as everyone turned to look, Zhang Yu had already activated the time-lag ability of his Time-Lag Demon Pupil. To him, the entire world seemed to slow down in an instant.
The expression on every person’s face, the direction of their gaze, their every movement—all were reflected with perfect clarity in Zhang Yu’s eyes at that moment.
He even calculated the camera’s line of sight into his reckoning.
Taking advantage of the blind spot created as everyone turned away, and from an angle the camera could not capture, Zhang Yu gently extended his palm and pressed it against the hard drive.
With Zhang Yu’s Foundation Establishment realm skills, assisted by the Time-Lag Demon Pupil, Yun Ni and the others noticed nothing unusual when they turned back.
Yun Ni said excitedly, “That must be a camera Zhou Yang installed.”
“Have someone download the records immediately and see if there’s anything useful.”
At the same time, Fu Ji’s somewhat weak voice entered the minds of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, “I forcibly dragged that thing over to my side.”
“Next… I need to slowly suppress it… and then digest it… I might have to sleep for a while…”
After saying this, Fu Ji’s voice disappeared completely, without any further response.
Zhang Yu thought to himself, After Fu Ji awakens this time, the Feather Book should be able to open a new chapter, right?
At this thought, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but feel a sense of anticipation, though he didn’t know how long Fu Ji would be asleep this time.
He mused internally, This time she forcibly dragged the evil god over, so digesting it will probably take even longer than last time.
Next, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen followed the patrol team as they continued their search. Yun Ni had already confirmed Zhou Yang’s identity as a cultist from the traces of rituals.
But to Yun Ni’s regret, the cameras at the scene only stored seven days of surveillance footage, and nothing useful was found.
And with no evil god found in the entire base, Yun Ni suspected it had already left long ago.
Seeing that Zhou Yang had left no information about him or Bai Zhenzhen, Zhang Yu breathed a small sigh of relief, thinking to himself that he wouldn’t have to rack his brains to destroy evidence.
With the Zhou family’s matter temporarily concluded, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen waited for Fu Ji to awaken while continuing to immerse themselves in their cultivation.
In the training ground in the city center.
With a crackling sound, True Person Starfire’s fingertip lightly pressed against Zhang Yu’s chest, sending him flying in an instant.
At the same time, True Person Starfire’s other hand flicked Bai Zhenzhen’s palm, flinging her a hundred meters away.
Seeing the two slow down, True Person Starfire frowned and said, “Don’t stop moving. Pick up the pace.”
Bai Zhenzhen’s figure flashed, and with the activation of the Formless Wind Demon, she was already treading on a fierce wind, charging toward True Person Starfire once more.
True Person Starfire reminded her, “Don’t stop your body tempering cultivation technique. Keep circulating your strength to the limit at all times.”
“After the college entrance exam, you’ll be heading to the second layer.”
“And right now, every single day, those geniuses up there are widening the gap between you and them.”
“You must seize every second just to slightly close the gap between you and those geniuses above.”
At this moment, True Person Starfire was not conducting combat training with the two but was using himself as a piece of training equipment to temper their physical strength.
He was like a boundless ocean, exerting immense pressure on them, and as their body tempering cultivation techniques circulated, he madly increased the resistance, amplifying the load and effectiveness of their body tempering.
Zhang Yu felt him repeatedly tapping the weak points of his body, constantly increasing the burden of his body tempering and enhancing the training’s effect. It was like a great iron hammer, pounding every muscle and bone in his body again and again, removing impurities and forging him to be ever more refined, ever more formidable.
Spring and Autumn Endless Zen Level 18 (98/180)
Physical Strength Level 10.52
Watching the two of them gasping for breath on the ground, True Person Starfire thought to himself, What a terrifying rate of progress.
Especially that kid Zhang Yu. If he keeps cultivating his Spring and Autumn Endless Zen like this, he’ll reach Level 20 before graduating from high school, right? This level of comprehension for a cultivation technique… it’s simply unimaginable.
Even if he doesn’t have the legendary Martial Dao Holy Body, he’s probably not far from it.
I really look forward to seeing what he’ll be like when he steps into the Golden Core, or even the Nascent Soul realm, in the future.
At this thought, however, True Person Starfire sighed internally, But with my remaining lifespan, I’m afraid I won’t live to see the day they truly rise.
But at the very least, the seeds I’ve sown in them over these past nine months should one day take root and sprout.
If one were to say that True Person Starfire’s guidance of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen was entirely selfless, born purely out of appreciation, not even he himself would believe it.
It was just that, unlike the funds invested in Yu Xinghan, which were bound by a contract…
In True Person Starfire’s view… the things he invested in Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were maintained by something called human sentiment.
These days… there are fewer and fewer people in Kunxu who still cherish old ties.
True Person Starfire mused, It’s so different from when I was young. The Kunxu of today, the cultivators of today… they speak almost exclusively of interests, not feelings.
Those who still cling to the old ways have either died of old age or have been eliminated, just like an old fellow like me…
But perhaps Zhang Yu is an exception.
Although I won’t live to see them rise, I hope my investment in them can help Xuelian and Xinghan in the future.
Time continued to fly by as Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen cultivated, with only half a year left until the college entrance exam.
On this day in the apartment, Zhang Yu’s eyes suddenly flew open as the Crippled Ox Body-Sacrifice Heart Art roared in his mind.
Crippled Ox Body-Sacrifice Heart Art Level 20
Dao Heart Level 11 (43.8%)
At that moment, Zhang Yu felt as if his thoughts had penetrated deep into every cell of his body, his flesh and blood more active than ever before.
“Finally, Level 20.”
He looked at his hands and thought, After Level 20, even if my hands and feet are severed, I feel like my will can remain within the detached limbs.
The effect of this Level 20 can be called residual activity. Even flesh and blood that falls from my body can retain my will for a few minutes.
As long as I pick it back up within those few minutes, it can grow back.
And as my Dao heart level continues to rise, the effect of the Crippled Ox Body-Sacrifice Heart Art should only get better.
Feeling his self-healing ability grow ever stronger, a satisfied smile flashed across Zhang Yu’s face. After all, this meant he was becoming less afraid of injury and had less need to go to the hospital.
Just then, the doorbell rang.
Zhang Yu opened the apartment door, looked at Le Mulan standing outside, and said, “You’re here?”
After leading Le Mulan inside, Zhang Yu asked, “Are you sure you don’t want money?”
During the 1.3 times donation drive, Le Mulan had lent Zhang Yu five million.
However, when Zhang Yu tried to repay her later, Le Mulan returned it, saying she didn’t want money, but something else.
After confirming with her several times, he learned that she, like the Red Pagoda Group, also wanted his seed.
Although money from the first layer was useless on the second, five million could still be exchanged for some resources.
To Zhang Yu, that five million was definitely more useful than his seed, and worth more than his seed.
After all, he knew very well that his strength was not related to his bloodline, but was a strength of soul and will.
But for an old friend like Le Mulan, Zhang Yu still gave a well-intentioned reminder, “This thing… I don’t think it’s very useful. You should really think it over.”
Le Mulan bit her lip and insisted, “This is what I want.”
Zhang Yu nodded. “Alright then, wait a moment.”
Le Mulan watched Zhang Yu turn and leave, but after waiting for a long time, she found that he had not returned.
Just then, her phone vibrated. Le Mulan opened it to see a message.
Le Jingchen: Have you gotten the Yu-juice?
Le Jingchen: Remember, you must personally confirm it’s the real deal. Red Pagoda hasn’t made any research breakthroughs after all this time. I suspect that fellow Zhang Yu might have given them a fake.