Chapter 835: I’m Going to Ram Bai Zhenzhen to Death
Bu Yingshu’s recent fury stemmed mainly from her belief that Zhang Yu, that little bastard, had colluded with the Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators to deceive her.
This realization stirred a deeply unsettling feeling within her, shattering the illusion that she had Zhang Yu completely under her control.
Now, learning that Zhang Yu might not have deceived her after all, the discomfort in Bu Yingshu’s heart eased slightly, though a lingering trace of suspicion remained.
Simultaneously, the faintly shimmering Homicide Permit faded back into concealment.
Bu Yingshu’s earlier impulse to “kill those two three times over” gradually dissipated. However, this emotional shift was solely related to the matter of “deception.”
Her intense dislike for Bai Zhenzhen from Heavenly Sword Sect remained unchanged.
In fact, Bu Yingshu harbored a deep-seated animosity toward the entire Heavenly Sword Sect.
With a flicker in her gaze, Bu Yingshu’s Immortal Shuttle shot forward like a bolt of lightning, leaving only a single sentence echoing back to Zhang Yu.
“Clean yourself up and come see me. I’ll be waiting outside.”
Watching the Immortal Shuttle depart, Zhang Yu finally let out a slight sigh of relief. “I should be safe for now.”
He glanced at Bai Zhenzhen beside him, who sighed and said, “Sigh, Yu Zi, I was hoping you could introduce me to Dao Monarch Bu. We mother and son could have teamed up, each grabbing a leg… and clinging tightly to her thighs.”
“But now it seems this Dao Monarch Bu is utterly unpredictable. Her thighs are too dangerous to cling to. You’ve really had it rough, having to accompany such a dangerous Void Refinement Cultivator all this time.”
Fu Ji’s voice echoed in Bai Zhenzhen’s mind: “It truly hasn’t been easy. Zhang Yu almost lost his patience with that woman several times. Thankfully, I was there to cheer him on. Then again, without enduring all that, he wouldn’t have become Vice President. You two must hold back!”
At that moment, Bai Zhenzhen deeply felt that Zhang Yu’s days with Bu Yingshu were probably no better than her own while being stalked by the mysterious figure.
At the same time, a thought crossed her mind: “Fu Ji has climbed the sect ranks with us all this way. She’s practically a comrade-in-arms.”
Fu Ji laughed inwardly. “Hahahaha, this is the advantage of me, the Evil God Fu Ji! I can speak directly with Bai Zhenzhen and Yu Xinghan. Can you do that, Immortal Slayer? Can you, Desolate Ox? You’re just tools. I’m the one who has truly become a comrade in Zhang Yu’s inner circle.”
Hearing Bai Zhenzhen’s words, Zhang Yu sighed inwardly. Which thigh in Kunxu is ever easy to cling to? Even someone like Brother Dao, despite having no subjective malice, came with a price for clinging to his thigh — it meant throwing oneself into danger.
Zhang Yu said, “This is the path of the Immortal Dao, isn’t it? There’s never a smooth road, only endless thorns and infinite crises…”
Just then, the Immortal Shuttle reappeared, streaking back into the Grotto-Heaven.
Simultaneously, a notification materialized before them, and a projection of the Dao Path pressed down toward Bai Zhenzhen.
“Zhang Yu, get out of the way,” Bu Yingshu’s cold voice emanated from the Immortal Shuttle. “I’m going to ram this sword brute to death.”
“What’s gotten into this woman now?” Zhang Yu’s heart leaped in alarm. He immediately shoved Bai Zhenzhen aside and sent a mental message to her: “Run!”
Zhang Yu then stepped in front of the Immortal Shuttle, blocking its path. “Dao Monarch Bu,” he pleaded, “whatever it is, we can talk it out. There must be a misunderstanding.”
“Hmph… Misunderstanding?” Bu Yingshu’s voice dripped with ice. “Do you know who’s behind this Bai Zhenzhen? Do you know who arranged her transfer from the Heavenly Sword Sect?”
After leaving the Immortal Grotto-Heaven and reconnecting to the Spirit Realm, Bu Yingshu, out of caution toward the Heavenly Sword Sect, had looked up some information.
What she found reignited the killing intent that had just begun to fade.
“It’s the Primordial Chaos Dao Lineage of the Heavenly Sword Sect…”
“It’s that old fiend who cultivates the Bliss Sword Dao…”
“Is he targeting Zhang Yu? Or me, Zhang Yu’s master?”
Thinking of the secrets Zhang Yu held, her talent breakthrough and her status as the Great Sage’s Heir, Bu Yingshu’s killing intent flared like a wildfire, growing stronger and more intense.
She decided she had to protect her little pet. She couldn’t let that old fiend from the Heavenly Sword Sect target him. So, she planned to ram Bai Zhenzhen to death as a warning.
At this moment, staring at Zhang Yu who was trying to block her, Bu Yingshu said calmly, “This Bai Zhenzhen approached you with ill intentions. I’ll explain after I ram her to death.”
With that, the Immortal Shuttle streaked past Zhang Yu in a flash of light, continuing on its course.
But in the next instant, Bu Yingshu’s vision blurred, and she found herself ejected from the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
Bu Yingshu’s expression froze in shock, then twisted with fury.
“He… kicked me out of the Immortal Grotto-Heaven?”
“How dare he! I’m trying to protect him, and he throws me out for that woman? This is outrageous!”
With a deafening roar like thousands of thunderbolts exploding at once, Bu Yingshu’s Immortal Shuttle shot back toward the Grotto-Heaven Bridge where the corpse components were registered, forcing its way back into the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
Meanwhile, inside the shuttle, Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting watched in stunned silence, cold sweat trickling down their backs.
They exchanged a look, their eyes filled with terror.
Just moments ago, when Bu Yingshu had confronted Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, suspecting they weren’t dual cultivating, the tension had been palpable.
Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting had been dying to shout, “They must be dual cultivating!” After all, everyone in the Lower Realm knew that Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu often spent long periods together in private, and every time they emerged, they looked exactly like this. What else could they possibly be doing?
When Zhang Yu quickly de-escalated the situation, the two women had breathed a sigh of relief.
But now, for some unknown reason, the conflict had erupted again, even more fiercely than before.
Shi Huaiyu thought despairingly, “It’s over, it’s over! Zhang Yu has offended Dao Monarch Bu. Are we all going to lose everything? Ugh, if it’s going to happen anyway, I might as well gamble it all before we go bankrupt.”
Just as she was about to wager all her funds, she remembered that within the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, the connection to the Spirit Realm was severed. She couldn’t spend her money even if she wanted to. A wave of hopelessness washed over her.
Feng Tingting thought, “I need to write this all down, so at least someone will know how we died.”
Meanwhile, Bu Yingshu, having re-entered the Grotto-Heaven, could no longer find any trace of Bai Zhenzhen.
“She ran?”
With a whoosh, the Immortal Shuttle materialized before Zhang Yu. Bu Yingshu’s voice was ice-cold. “Zhang Yu, where did that woman go?”
Feeling the terrifying pressure emanating from the Immortal Shuttle and the killing intent laced in the words of Bu Yingshu — a Void Refinement Dao Monarch of the Myriad Laws Immortal Clan — Zhang Yu could only brace himself and say, “Dao Monarch Bu, Bai Zhenzhen and I were truly just dual cultivating a moment ago.”
“She and I climbed up to the sect together from the First Layer of Kunxu. We’re the kind of people who can borrow together, repay debts together, and fight to the death together. She would never harbor ill intentions toward me…”
Bu Yingshu sneered. “Fool. So what? Even closer bonds can be betrayed. What use is a past relationship? She’s now a cultivator of the Heavenly Sword Sect, of the Bliss Lineage. They sent her here.”
Zhang Yu argued, “Dao Monarch, those cultivators from the Bliss Sword Dao lineage have only ever wanted to use A-Zhen for their own amusement. A-Zhen is not one of them…”
Bu Yingshu retorted, “Those Bliss Sword Dao cultivators are masters of deception. She’s been at the Heavenly Sword Sect for two years. Do you really think she wouldn’t lie to you?”
Zhang Yu said, “She’s different. I trust her.”
Bu Yingshu laughed in fury. “Fine, fine, fine! So you’re still going to protect her, are you? Do you think I can’t find her just because you’re shielding her?”
“I’ll take you with me and make you watch as I ram her to death.”
The next moment, the Immortal Shuttle coiled around Zhang Yu, pulling him aboard. With a faint flicker, it shot toward the Grotto-Heaven Bridge once more.
But as the Immortal Shuttle passed through the bridge, it found itself still within the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
Bu Yingshu realized with a jolt that the Grotto-Heaven Bridge before her had been closed.
She whipped her head around to face Zhang Yu. “You closed the Grotto-Heaven Bridge? You locked me in here?”
Just then, Fu Ji’s voice echoed in Zhang Yu’s mind, initiating a lightning-fast mental exchange between them.
Fu Ji: “Zhang Yu, if you want to stop Bu Yingshu from killing Bai Zhenzhen, you can’t just confront her head-on. You need to consider this from her perspective.”
“And to do that, you first need to understand why she despises the Heavenly Sword Sect and the Bliss Sword Dao lineage behind Bai Zhenzhen…”
Before Fu Ji could finish, Immortal Slayer, a former sect cultivator, spoke up: “The Heavenly Sword Sect is the most skilled among the Ten Great Sects in flying sword technology, Spirit Realm communication technology, logistics and transportation technology, and various ultra-long-range strike technologies.”
“Before I left the sect, the Heavenly Sword Sect was already initiating a new technological revolution, aiming to condense Sword Intent and sword qi from emotions. It seems that through this new technology, they’ve likely overcome their previous shortcomings in energy and resources, and their strength has surged.”
Zhang Yu asked, “Then why is Dao Monarch Bu so hostile toward them? Is there a conflict of interest in this area?”
Immortal Slayer replied, “It might be a conflict of Dao Lineages. The Myriad Laws Immortal Clan supports the Primordial Chaos Dao Lineage. The Bliss Lineage of the Heavenly Sword Sect should also support the Primordial Chaos Dao Lineage.”
Fu Ji asked in confusion, “If they share the same Dao Lineage, shouldn’t they be allies?”
Just then, the Desolate Ox, who had been silent for a long time, spoke: “If a Dao Lineage is not completely controlled by a single cultivator but has multiple controllers, they can work together to operate the Dao Lineage, expand its influence, and make it stronger.”
“But they can also compete, devour, and seize control from one another, ultimately determining the sole master of the Dao Lineage.”
Immortal Slayer said, “Dao Lineages that transcend sects but aren’t controlled by a single person can become either allies or rivals, depending on the situation. The Primordial Chaos Dao Lineage, for example, fundamentally encourages competition, chaos, and war… so internal strife is naturally common.”
The Sect Examination Clone declared, “Then what else is there to say! We are loyal to Myriad Laws and the Immortal Clan, so we must obey Dao Monarch Bu’s command! Let’s lure Bai Zhenzhen out and let Dao Monarch Bu crush her!”
Fu Ji added, “Besides the competition between Dao Lineages, I suspect Bu Yingshu… might have suffered a loss at the hands of the Bliss Lineage before, and there’s personal enmity involved. And…”
Fu Ji spoke with confidence, “Zhang Yu, don’t we still hold the secret of Bu Yingshu’s talent enhancement and her identity as the ‘Great Sage’s Heir’? Could her urgency be related to this?”
Although the exchange of information in their minds was extensive, it happened in an instant in the outside world.
And in that instant, they had already begun to formulate a plan to stop Bu Yingshu.
Just then, Bu Yingshu stared at the silent Zhang Yu and shouted, “Zhang Yu! Are you going to defy me again and again for this Bai Zhenzhen?”
Beside them, Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting were sent flying by the Void Refinement pressure, slamming hard against the wall and pinned there.
Zhang Yu felt Bu Yingshu’s increasingly oppressive gaze, and his body was forced back step by step.
At that moment, a look of struggle and helplessness flashed across Zhang Yu’s face. He finally sighed and said, “Zhang Yu wouldn’t dare. Dao Monarch, please calm your anger… You promoted me, and I owe my current position to you. Whatever you command, I will carry it out without hesitation, even if it costs me everything.”
“Since you want to crush Bai Zhenzhen, I will help you lure her out.”
Hearing Zhang Yu’s words, Bu Yingshu nodded slightly, thinking, “That’s more like it. It seems Zhang Yu is still under my control. He was just temporarily bewitched by that sword brute from the Heavenly Sword Sect.”
Zhang Yu continued, “But Dao Monarch… killing one Bai Zhenzhen is nothing. I’m just afraid it might jeopardize your plans.”
Bu Yingshu frowned. “What plans could it jeopardize? Are you still trying to protect that Bai Zhenzhen?”
Zhang Yu explained, “Dao Monarch, if Bai Zhenzhen had merely offended you in passing and you casually crushed her to death, that would naturally be nothing.”
“But she has likely returned to the Safety Supervision Bureau by now. If we go to great lengths to lure her out just to kill her, it will inevitably arouse suspicion.”
Bu Yingshu said arrogantly, “So what? Do I need to fear suspicion for killing someone?”
Zhang Yu replied, “I’m afraid this is precisely the Heavenly Sword Sect’s purpose in sending Bai Zhenzhen here.”
Hearing this, Bu Yingshu’s brow tightened. “Continue.”
Zhang Yu said, “Lately, rumors have been spreading in the Former Days Graveyard, speculating about the relationship between you and me. They claim I’m here to bear your child and nurture the fetus in the graveyard.”
Bu Yingshu snorted coldly. “Nonsense. Why bother with such baseless rumors?”
Zhang Yu replied, “It is indeed nonsense, but it reveals one thing: everyone is trying to guess why you value me so highly.”
Bu Yingshu’s heart stirred. She recalled the scenes of her and Zhang Yu reviewing the Sect-Guarding Technique, her talent soaring until she finally became the Great Sage’s Heir.
These were the crucial reasons she valued Zhang Yu.
Zhang Yu continued, “A mere Bai Zhenzhen is insignificant and certainly not an important figure in the Heavenly Sword Sect.”
“But if the Heavenly Sword Sect learns that you hunted Bai Zhenzhen relentlessly just because she met me once, wouldn’t they think your reaction was excessive? Wouldn’t it make them wonder… if I possess something crucial to you, something you’re desperate to keep Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators away from?”
Hearing this, Bu Yingshu’s heart sank. “Was… my reaction too extreme?”
Reflecting on her actions today, she thought to herself, “It seems… my reaction was indeed too extreme. Aside from someone like Ying Aikun… I wouldn’t normally hunt down a minor figure like Bai Zhenzhen.”
“Damn it, it’s those Heavenly Sword Sect bastards. And it involves the secret of my talent and my status as the Great Sage’s Heir. That’s what made me so agitated.”
Observing the change in Bu Yingshu’s expression, Zhang Yu continued, “Dao Monarch, Bai Zhenzhen knows nothing right now. But if you insist on killing her, the director of the Safety Supervision Bureau, it will only draw more attention from the Heavenly Sword Sect and arouse suspicion from others.”
“Instead, it’s better to just scare her away, as we’ve done.”
Bu Yingshu nodded, then turned to Zhang Yu and said, “Very well, we’ll leave it at that. But remember, you are forbidden from contacting Bai Zhenzhen ever again.”
“Also, delete her as a friend, block her, and sever all ties with her completely.”
“It’s not just her. I despise the Heavenly Sword Sect, especially cultivators from the Bliss Lineage. Remember, you are never to contact them again. Understood?”
After watching Zhang Yu follow her instructions, Bu Yingshu nodded in satisfaction. “Alright, that’s all for today. I’m here representing the Myriad Laws Immortal Clan for an investment. Prepare the necessary materials and show them to me in a few days.”
With that, Bu Yingshu released Zhang Yu, Shi Huaiyu, and Feng Tingting from the Immortal Shuttle.
“Aren’t you going to open the Immortal Grotto-Heaven?”
As the Immortal Shuttle streaked away, Zhang Yu breathed a sigh of relief. “For now, I’ve managed to cover it up…”
He touched his lower abdomen, feeling Bai Zhenzhen’s True Spirit Root still circulating within his Dantian. He thought to himself, “Thank goodness for Fu Ji’s Evil God Power. A-Zhen and I can still communicate remotely if we find the right opportunity.”
“But if I’m going to continue meeting her and swapping Spirit Roots… I absolutely cannot let Bu Yingshu find out again.”
As he pondered, Zhang Yu turned to Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting. “There’s nothing else. You can go back to work.”
“Remember, not a word of what happened today to anyone.”
Feng Tingting thought to herself, “Sigh, Vice President Zhang has it tough, constantly having to deal with Dao Monarch Bu.”
News of Bu Yingshu’s arrival at the Former Days Graveyard, her entry into the Grotto-Heaven, and her meeting with Zhang Yu quickly spread throughout the graveyard.
However, the fact that Bai Zhenzhen had been hunted by Bu Yingshu remained unknown, as the entire incident had occurred within the Grotto-Heaven, leaving no witnesses to spread the tale.
Inside the Safety Supervision Bureau office.
The mysterious figure spoke. “Oh? So Bu Yingshu didn’t ‘accidentally’ crush you to death?”
“You must have been driven away, then? How does it feel?”
Bai Zhenzhen glared at the mysterious figure before her and gritted her teeth. “You did this on purpose, didn’t you?”
“You knew Zhang Yu had Bu Yingshu and the Myriad Laws Immortal Clan behind him. You knew about the conflict between your factions, so you openly assigned me here, didn’t you?”
“And this Safety Supervision Bureau… it’s meant to be a check against Zhang Yu’s faction, isn’t it?”
The mysterious figure chuckled. “Aren’t you at the Sect Devotee Realm? Fighting against the Myriad Laws for the sake of the sect, isn’t that exactly what you should be doing?”
“Besides, don’t you want to stand against Bu Yingshu?”
“Or do you want to be chased out like a dog again, just like this time?”
Bai Zhenzhen touched the Feather Spirit Root in her abdomen, feeling the stimulation it provided, but said nothing.
Her mind was filled with the image of Bu Yingshu driving her away, and Zhang Yu’s now-grayed-out profile picture.
“Bu Yingshu… That woman uses the Myriad Laws Immortal Clan’s power to constantly bully Zhang Yu. She even wants to sever his connection with me, the one who was supposed to ascend the sects with him.”
“Damn it… If I were stronger, if I were an Ascension Realm Cultivator or even an Immortal, how could I have let this happen?”
Sensing the surging Extreme Emotion Sword Intent and Grief Sword Intent emanating from Bai Zhenzhen, the mysterious figure smiled. “Now this is getting interesting.”
With the news of Bu Yingshu’s arrival, Zhang Yu’s work of clearing and collecting corpse components became much smoother. At the very least, his subordinates, including Tu Mu, and all the search teams became even more cooperative.
Yu Xinghan reported, “Currently, all search teams are delivering the corpse components they capture each day to us immediately. The corpse components in the Office District are now almost completely cleared…”
Zhang Yu nodded. His next step was indeed to open up the Factory District.
As he suppressed and contained one corpse component after another, Zhang Yu specifically selected those with power equivalent to the Spirit Transformation level.
Among them were Road-Clearing Corpse Components, capable of moving mountains and splitting the earth, which would be used to repair roads.
There were Prison Corpse Components, which could monitor the offices to prevent employees from secretly working unpaid overtime.
And there were Office Building Corpse Components, which could transform into office buildings and change the work environment at will…
In this way, Zhang Yu selected a total of seven Spirit Transformation-level corpse components, intending to use them as his combat force to subdue the Void Refinement Corpse Components next.
Besides the gains from the corpse components, Zhang Yu’s Directors and the leaders of the various search teams also sent him vast quantities of Immortal Crystals.
Gazing at the Immortal Crystals stacked in neat rows within his Immortal Grotto-Heaven, Yan Qianji, who was in charge of the inventory, exclaimed excitedly, “Divine Monarch, these Immortal Crystals add up to over one million Immortal Coins!”
Zhang Yu said, “Qianji, from now on, don’t mention Immortal Coins when we’re outside. I’ve never received any Immortal Coins. Remember, these are all Immortal Crystals voluntarily donated to the sect by everyone.”
Reviewing the list of Immortal Crystals, Zhang Yu nodded and sighed inwardly, “Sigh, this is so much faster than earning a fixed salary as a Sect Staff member…”
Fu Ji said, “One million Immortal Coins, Zhang Yu! What are you planning to buy?”
Fu Ji hoped Zhang Yu would buy something for her too, preferably valuable sect antiques. The cheap antiques he bought for her each month were simply not enough.
Immortal Slayer, however, interjected, “These Immortal Crystals must remain in the Grotto-Heaven and be used slowly. They cannot be converted into cash.”
Fu Ji retorted angrily, “What’s wrong with secretly converting some of them? Zhang Yu is in desperate need of money right now. Converting a small portion could significantly boost his strength!”
Immortal Slayer said, “The origin of these Immortal Crystals is questionable. If we keep them in the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, we can still claim they were donated to the sect’s assets, and we’re just incidentally absorbing some immortal aura. But if we convert them into cash, what does that make us?”
Fu Ji countered, “Are we the only ones who’ve ever cashed in on something like this?”
Immortal Slayer replied, “Zhang Yu is different from them. Since the higher-ups want us to be the banner of reform, countless eyes will be watching us in the future.”
“To others, these Immortal Crystals might be a minor matter, but for us, they could become a weakness that others will exploit to attack us.”
Fu Ji sighed, “Just a little bit, then?”
Immortal Slayer said, “Small amounts add up. The more we take now, the more vulnerabilities we’ll have later. The outcome of a future battle might hinge on that tiny difference.”
Zhang Yu stopped their argument. “We won’t convert them. We’ll just use them directly in the Grotto-Heaven.”
“I just broke through to the Spirit Transformation Stage and still need to increase my magic power. With these Immortal Crystals, I can greatly accelerate the speed at which I refine my magic power.”
With so many Immortal Crystals, Zhang Yu could increase his magic power accumulation rate several times over, helping him reach the one-million-point magic power cap of the Spirit Transformation Stage much faster.
Zhang Yu knew that both the cultivation arts he mastered, like the Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Contemplation, and the Immortal Grotto-Heaven itself required his magic power to function.
This was especially true for the upcoming task of subduing the Void Refinement Corpse Components, which would demand an immense reserve of magic power.
“It’s a shame we can’t cash them in, but using them to rapidly increase my magic power and enhance my work efficiency isn’t a waste either.”
Just then, a notification appeared: the President of the Management Committee was convening a meeting and had invited Zhang Yu and the other Vice Presidents to attend.
Zhang Yu frowned slightly. “Why the sudden emergency meeting?”
He glanced at the message Yu Xinghan had sent him earlier: “Rumors are spreading that the other Vice Presidents on the Management Committee are very unhappy with us. I’m worried they’ll try to sabotage us.”
As the representative of Myriad Laws, Zhang Yu knew that once he began to truly wield the power of a Vice President, no longer just a figurehead dismissed due to his lower cultivation realm, he would inevitably be viewed with suspicion and targeted by the high-ranking members of the Management Committee who represented the interests of other sects.