Chapter 269: Yu-boy is the Best in the World to Me
Just as Bai Zhenzhen was looking at her phone in confusion.
A violent tremor suddenly came from the ground, as if a giant beast had slammed into the earth, threatening to throw Bai Zhenzhen off her feet.
Waves of heart-pounding danger washed over her, causing the hairs on her body to stand on end. Her thunder magic power subconsciously surged out, transforming into streaks of lightning that coursed over her entire body.
In the next instant, with a deafening boom, a fierce wind blew, making Bai Zhenzhen’s long hair whip about wildly.
She turned her head toward the source of the sound and saw the apartment building, dozens of stories high, being pierced by a dazzling light of fire.
In the violent explosion, the entire building collapsed and shattered in an instant, kicking up a sky-filling cloud of smoke and dust… completely engulfing Bai Zhenzhen’s figure.
Amidst the intense tremors, like a great earthquake, Bai Zhenzhen felt the ground beneath her feet undulate like waves.
“What… what happened?”
Witnessing the collapse of the entire apartment building, Bai Zhenzhen’s mind seemed to go blank for a moment.
“A’Yu!”
Her figure flashed as she tried to rush toward the collapsed building, but in the next moment, a second wave of explosions erupted, and a visible shockwave swept toward her.
With her muscles and magic power circulating in unison, streaks of lightning shot into the sky as Bai Zhenzhen held her ground against the shockwave, straining to open her eyes, which were wide with fury, as she stared in the direction of the explosion.
As the shockwave roared past, the thick cloud of smoke and dust was completely blown away, revealing the apartment building that had been reduced to a pile of ruins.
Seeing this, Bai Zhenzhen felt a sharp pang in her heart, a feeling of suffocation welling up from within.
Just then, two voices came from the side.
A male voice said, “Ruins scanned. No living bodies.”
Another female voice said, “Why is the other one outside the building? Whatever, I’ll handle it. You deal with the ruins, we’ll bury her in them later.”
Bai Zhenzhen turned her head and saw a man and a woman slowly walking in her direction.
The woman had a full head of white hair, and her limbs and torso were composed of some kind of jade-like bionic, with runes flickering within them.
Bai Zhenzhen’s gaze narrowed slightly. The multiple bionics on the woman alone indicated that her cultivation was at least at the level of someone who had been in the Foundation Establishment realm for many years.
And the words coming from her mouth made Bai Zhenzhen instantly understand that the explosion was no accident; someone was trying to deal with them.
“Hey…” Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes were fixed on the two of them. “What did you just mean by ‘no living bodies’?”
The two clearly had no intention of answering.
But looking at the ruins of the collapsed building, the answer seemed obvious.
“Yu-boy.”
“I…” Bai Zhenzhen clenched her fists, feeling as if the entire world had turned gray.
She murmured in her heart, I had already sunk into a bottomless darkness. It was Yu-boy who accompanied me, who climbed out with me.
We had finally come this far.
The best person in the world to me, the Yu-boy I could always count on.
If it wasn’t to accompany me, he could have entered Myriad Laws University with his sister two years ago…
Zhang Yu’s image repeatedly surfaced in Bai Zhenzhen’s mind.
Every word he had said, every syllable, flashed in her mind.
“Zhen, let’s get into the Ten Greats together.”
“This is your spiritual root, so let’s call it the Zhenzhen Spiritual Root.”
“Sis, is there really no way to take Zhen with us?”
“If I stay behind, do you think Zhen and I could get into the Ten Greats through the normal route? Just like you did, sis?”
“We’re going to get Master’s degrees, PhDs, break through to the Golden Core and Nascent Soul realms together, and enter the Myriad Laws Sect together.”
Bai Zhenzhen’s body began to tremble. The blue lotus mark on her lower abdomen flickered continuously, and the True Spiritual Root in her dantian slowly unfurled like a blue lotus.
“These three years with Yu-boy have been the happiest of my life.”
“He was the best in the world to me…”
At this moment, an intense emotion Bai Zhenzhen had never felt since birth arose in her heart.
An emotion that surpassed her past desires to live, to get into the Ten Greats, to obtain the Foundation Establishment certificate…
An extreme emotion, unlike any she had ever experienced since birth, burst forth from her will like floodwaters through a broken dam.
“I will… kill you all.”
Faced with Bai Zhenzhen’s murderous gaze, the man and woman opposite her paid it no mind.
As Foundation Establishment cultivators who had lingered on the first layer for many years, even setting aside their absolute advantages in Dao heart, magic power, and bionics, their Level 20 physical strength alone was enough to crush Bai Zhenzhen, who had been in the Foundation Establishment realm for less than a year.
And today, they had come here for a single commission from the Oasis Group.
To eliminate Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.
Although this commission carried a certain risk, for them, who had stagnated on the first layer for a long time and were about to exhaust their Foundation Establishment lifespan, any opportunity to ascend was worth the risk.
After all, they didn’t have many years left to live anyway.
With a loud bang, and the appearance of airwaves, the female cultivator shot toward Bai Zhenzhen’s position.
But in the next moment, her expression changed drastically.
As illusory blue lotus figures unfurled behind Bai Zhenzhen, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth seemed to spiral out of control, surging madly toward her. Even the two peak Foundation Establishment cultivators were unable to absorb the slightest bit of spiritual energy at that moment.
The female cultivator roared in her mind, This… could it be a Divine Spiritual Root?!
A Divine Spiritual Root, surpassing the Human, Earthly, and Heavenly Spiritual Roots, was strictly controlled by the Ten Great Sects. It was a spiritual root absolutely forbidden to appear among the populace, and many cultivators referred to it as a military-grade power.
In the common understanding of cultivators, within the same realm, unless one also possessed a military-grade power, the chance of victory was zero.
The female cultivator grit her teeth and circulated all her magic power. “Full-power attack! Let’s kill her together!”
In her view, Bai Zhenzhen had only just broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm; if they both attacked with all their might, they might still have a chance.
But in the next instant, she noticed the male cultivator’s figure flash and disappear into the night sky. He had fled directly.
“Damn it!”
Just as she hesitated for a fraction of a second, debating whether to run or fight, Bai Zhenzhen’s figure before her dissipated into the air like a puff of smoke.
In the next moment, flashes of thunderous sword-light continuously appeared in the air, slashing fiercely at the female cultivator’s body.
After dodging several thunderous sword-lights, the female cultivator’s expression grew increasingly grim.
She couldn’t sense her opponent, couldn’t touch her opponent. Even when she launched area-of-effect counterattacks all around her, it seemed she couldn’t hit her.
It was as if her opponent existed in a different space, where only she could attack, but could not be attacked in return.
“A Divine Spiritual Root…” The expression on the female cultivator’s face grew uglier. After only a few seconds of fighting, the thought of retreat had already sprouted in her mind.
However, just then, pillars of light descended from the sky, enclosing a thousand-meter radius like a prison cell.
A dozen minutes later.
As rescue vehicles arrived one after another, the ruins were gradually excavated, and one body after another was carried out.
The man in charge of the on-site rescue work looked at True Person Starfire beside him and said carefully, “True Person, please accept my condolences.”
True Person Starfire said flatly, “You think he’s dead?”
After eight months of guidance, True Person Starfire dared to say that, apart from Zhang Yu himself, he was the person who understood Zhang Yu’s body the best in this world.
He understood it better than any of Zhang Yu’s past teachers, any of his classmates, better than Bai Zhenzhen or Yu Xinghan.
He believed that body, with its extraordinary damage resistance and terrifying self-healing ability, would absolutely not die so easily.
Hearing True Person Starfire’s question, the man was slightly taken aback. He looked at the ruins before him and thought, How could he not be dead after this?
Even if he’s not dead, he’s mostly crippled. Who knows how much it will cost to treat him. His Immortal Dao potential is utterly destroyed.
Sigh, for something like this to happen a month before the college entrance exam.
At this thought, the man’s face was filled with regret.
Just then, True Person Starfire took a step forward, and in the next instant, a surging martial astral qi erupted from him, instantly peeling back layers of the ruins and revealing a large number of bodies within.
True Person Starfire walked among them and, a moment later, emerged carrying a humanoid figure of mangled flesh and blood.
Murmurs came from the crowd, “Is that Zhang Yu?”
“Sigh, what a pity.”
Just then, True Person Starfire’s flat voice was heard, “He’s not dead yet. Get the doctors over here.”
Looking at Zhang Yu, True Person Starfire, who was incredibly knowledgeable about all kinds of martial cultivation techniques, narrowed his eyes slightly and had already made a judgment.
He thought to himself, The feigned death state of the Spring and Autumn Endless Zen?
This kid, he actually pushed this body tempering technique to Level 20… It’s only been eight months since he obtained this technique, right?
At the same time, although he hadn’t carefully examined the boy’s body, True Person Starfire could faintly sense an unquenchable will within him, like a blazing kindling, transmitting a desire to live.
It seems that under this crisis, Zhang Yu has actually made another breakthrough in his heart art. Even with his body severely injured and his consciousness unclear, having entered the feigned death state of the Spring and Autumn Endless Zen, he can still maintain the circulation of his heart art as if by instinct.
This is already a level higher than his previous ability to divide his mind and constantly circulate his heart art.
And so, under the puzzled, strange, and disbelieving gazes of the crowd, several doctors came before Zhang Yu at True Person Starfire’s command.
“Multiple comminuted fractures throughout the body, spinal fracture and dislocation…”
“Over eighty percent of the body’s surface muscles have severe crush injuries.”
“Cranial brain injury…”
“Renal failure…”
“But…”
Initially, they also thought that the Zhang Yu before them had no signs of life, but after a round of examinations, a look of astonishment gradually appeared on the doctors’ faces.
“It seems… he really is still alive.”
“Let’s try some medicine.”
“The wounds are closing on their own.”
“The medicine is taking effect so quickly…”
“What astonishing life force.”
Under the shocked gazes of the numerous doctors, the wounds on Zhang Yu’s body quickly began to heal. Strands of flesh and blood, as if they had a will of their own, actively closed and intertwined, continuously accelerating the healing of his injuries.