Chapter 874: Pressing Step by Step, The Two Women Reconcile, Technique Aperture Switching
Although she was furious at Zhang Yu’s insatiable greed, the moment Bu Yingshu thought about how, once the Great Sage’s Heir was exposed, she would not only have to pay off debts but also suffer the ultimate insult of working infinitely, she decided to endure it for now.
Especially when she thought of the transcendent innate talent she had just recently awakened, Bu Yingshu looked at Zhang Yu in front of her and silently told herself: “Endure humiliation and bear a heavy burden, Bu Yingshu. Wait until you break the Immortal Clan’s restraints with your astonishing innate talent and ascend to become an Immortal. Everything today will be nothing more than a bit of wind and frost.”
But what Zhang Yu said next almost made Bu Yingshu summon her Immortal Shuttle.
She only heard Zhang Yu say: “Since Dao Monarch Bu has agreed and won’t make things difficult for the people around me in the future, it just so happens that A-Zhen is coming. Everyone can meet this time and clear up the misunderstanding…”
Bu Yingshu blanked slightly: “A-Zhen?”
Zhang Yu: “Bai Zhenzhen from the Heavenly Sword Sect.”
Bu Yingshu looked at Zhang Yu in shock again: “Bai Zhenzhen from the Heavenly Sword Sect? That woman who tricked me last time? You want me to meet her? And clear up the misunderstanding with her?”
At this moment, Bu Yingshu really wanted to pilot her Immortal Shuttle and send the Zhang Yu in front of her flying.
Listening to Zhang Yu continue, “A-Zhen was coerced by the higher-ups of the Heavenly Sword Sect last time, so she was forced to lie to you, Dao Monarch Bu.”
Bu Yingshu thought to herself, How can the words of this kind of person be believed? Zhang Yu must have been deceived by her. She deceived Zhang Yu, and now she wants to continue deceiving me?
Bu Yingshu opened her mouth and said, “Little Yu, you don’t understand those people from the Heavenly Sword Sect. Not a single word of theirs can be trusted…”
But before Bu Yingshu could continue her refutation, accompanied by a surge of Grotto-Heaven force, Zhang Yu had already brought Bu Yingshu into the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, meeting Bai Zhenzhen in front of them.
Bai Zhenzhen knelt on the ground with a thud and said with a sincere face, “Dao Monarch Bu, last time, it was the higher-ups in the Heavenly Sword Sect who practiced the Blissful Sword that forced me to do that.”
Bu Yingshu looked coldly at Bai Zhenzhen kneeling on the ground. Just as she wanted to grab the other party’s head to angrily rebuke her and then kick this woman back to the First Layer where she belonged, she suddenly heard the voice transmission of Zhang Yu beside her.
“Dao Monarch, the matter you just promised me, you aren’t lying to me, right?”
Feeling the scrutiny in Zhang Yu’s gaze, Bu Yingshu secretly cursed in her heart.
But the moment she thought of her constant forbearance and all the humiliating burdens she had endured… she finally gritted her teeth and, under Bai Zhenzhen’s nervous gaze, said coldly, “After we get out of here, let’s add each other as friends.”
Seeing that Bu Yingshu was actually going to reconcile with her under Zhang Yu’s mediation, Bai Zhenzhen was both shocked and surprised, and hurriedly said, “Thank you for your forgiveness, Dao Monarch, the Dao Monarch is truly righteous.”
She could not help but use the Evil God Power to say to Zhang Yu in her mind, “What exactly did you feed her? Did you catch her evading taxes or something?”
“Damn it.” On the other side, Bu Yingshu had already made up her mind that once the other party added her as a friend, she would give her the lowest permissions, forbid her from viewing any of her things, and mute all her messages, making adding her completely pointless…
But thinking that she was actually forced to add a lower realm cultivator of the Heavenly Sword Sect, a Lower Beast who had toyed with and deceived her, a sense of grievance that she had never felt since childhood welled up in Bu Yingshu’s heart.
Bu Yingshu could not help but glare at Zhang Yu and said, “Is this fine now? I am leaving, send me out.”
Looking at Bu Yingshu’s bristling state, Fu Ji secretly nodded and said, “That’s about enough, let’s stop here for today.”
Then, with a surge of Grotto-Heaven force, Bu Yingshu was sent out by Zhang Yu.
Seeing her figure completely disappear, Bai Zhenzhen let out a light sigh of relief and said to Zhang Yu next to her, “Her murderous aura was almost condensing into something solid. I almost thought she was going to kill someone. To think she could actually endure it?”
Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu with a face full of curiosity and said, “Exactly what kind of leverage do you have on her?”
Zhang Yu said proudly, “A-Zhen, I’ve told you before, don’t look at Bu Yingshu’s usual aloof appearance, she is actually completely under my control. I am the one holding the initiative, and now Bu Yingshu is just gradually realizing this.”
Fu Ji secretly said to Bai Zhenzhen, “It’s all thanks to me helping Zhang Yu be a simp every day, now that we have all-around control over Bu Yingshu, and Zhang Yu is able to manipulate her like this under my guidance. But whatever you do, don’t let him know that I told you all this.”
Bai Zhenzhen replied: “Rest assured, Fu Ji, how could I betray you? I’m still counting on you to tell me more about the situation in the palace in the future.”
In Bai Zhenzhen’s view, Zhang Yu’s mind palace had become an important place for him to make various decisions. Out of concern for her most important companion, understanding the news in the palace through Fu Ji had become a crucial information channel.
At the same time, Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu in front of her and sighed: “Yu Zi, you really are getting more and more amazing now, even the Myriad Laws Immortal Clan is being manipulated by you like this.”
“This is amazing?” Zhang Yu smiled with a crooked mouth: “A-Zhen, I have something even more amazing to show you today.”
While speaking, Zhang Yu had directly injected the Spirit Transformation Dao Body into Bai Zhenzhen’s Technique Aperture.
Accompanied by Bai Zhenzhen’s exclamation, Zhang Yu introduced: “A-Zhen, this is me sharing a part of my innate talent with you through the Evil God Power. Not only does it enhance your cultivation efficiency, but in the future, as long as you soak your Primordial Spirit in the Spirit Transformation Pool to nourish it…”
While Zhang Yu briefly described the enhancement of the Spirit Transformation Dao Body, Bai Zhenzhen on the other side was already immersed in it.
To Bai Zhenzhen, the stimulation brought by the Spirit Transformation Dao Body was far more intense than what Magnetic Pole experienced, and far more terrifying than the enhancement the Nascent Soul Sacred Body brought to Yu Xinghan.
This was because Bai Zhenzhen originally came with the Dao Seed enhancement of the Azure Lotus Sword Embryo.
Unlike the development direction of Zhang Yu’s Feather Spirit Root, under the blessing of Bai Zhenzhen’s True Spirit Root, she already learned any cultivation art exceptionally fast.
Besides that… it also gave her a profound comprehension of sword arts, even pushing the originally military-grade Extreme Emotion Sword Dao to the Immortal Sect True Inheritance-grade.
Now, with the True Spirit Root stacked with the enhancement of the Spirit Transformation Dao Body, an earth-shattering transformation was triggered within Bai Zhenzhen’s body in an instant.
Every cultivation art she had ever practiced flashed through her mind, surprisingly becoming incredibly simple and shallow.
At this moment, Bai Zhenzhen felt that all these cultivation arts seemed to have no more secrets before her. If she wasn’t limited by the Spirit Transformation Realm, she could even break them all through to above level 50 right on the spot.
In addition, the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, Pain Sword Dao, and Bliss Sword Dao that she had only just begun to adapt to recently were also faintly merging in her mind at this moment, showing signs of reconciling their conflicts.
Originally, the various Emotional Sword Arts of the Heavenly Sword Sect, although theoretically allowing a person to be strengthened whenever they produced various emotions, were prone to conflict with each other and ultimately lead to Qi Deviation.
But Bai Zhenzhen forcibly relied on the adaptability of the True Spirit Root, coupled with her own innate talent, to work hard to bridge the conflicts within them. She wanted to try melting multiple sword techniques into a single furnace, so that from then on, every movement and every change of thought in her heart could be used to drive the strengthening of her power.
And now, superimposed with the Spirit Transformation Dao Body, Bai Zhenzhen felt that she had taken another important step on this path.
It was as if she had finally found a certain crucial element, making a very long stretch of her future path… to become entirely smooth.
“Dad! Since when did you cheat so ruthlessly? And you haven’t been caught yet?”
Bai Zhenzhen fiercely hugged Zhang Yu’s thigh: “Truly a well-deserved Immortal’s Heir.”
Zhang Yu chuckled and said, “This is nothing yet. There are many other variations, do you want to try them out?”
Bai Zhenzhen nodded repeatedly.
So after Zhang Yu spoke, he swapped the Technique Aperture for Bai Zhenzhen to Qi Meridian Everflow. Feeling the magic power in her body flowing endlessly and continuously.
Bai Zhenzhen exclaimed, repeatedly saying, “It’s full….. so much magic power, I feel like my Dantian is going to overflow!”
Then, amidst Bai Zhenzhen’s exclamations, Zhang Yu swapped the Technique Aperture to Formless Martial Art. In an instant, Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes brimmed with radiant light.
“Yu Zi…… don’t stop…… this is it….. don’t stop…..”
The Chain Formation Diagram of Formless Martial Art allowed the user to simulate cultivation arts, even simulating two cultivation arts at once and fusing them together.
And right now, accompanied by the power of Formless Martial Art flowing through her, Bai Zhenzhen had directly activated its ability, fusing her Extreme Emotion Sword Dao and Bliss Sword Dao together.
“Almost there……. right here……. right here…….”
After a long time, Bai Zhenzhen finally stopped with a satisfied look on her face. “So that’s how it is? It’s actually like this?”
In Bai Zhenzhen’s mind, a fused sword technique was gradually taking shape. Although it was still a bit rough for now, it revealed a trace of world-shocking Sword Intent.
Zhang Yu also immediately felt the sharp aura exuding from Bai Zhenzhen’s body.
Zhang Yu looked at Bai Zhenzhen, who had a dull and dazed expression on her face, and probed, “A-Zhen?”
Bai Zhenzhen seemed to just snap back to her senses and excitedly said, “Yu Zi, this feels so good. It’s simply mind-blowing, way more thrilling than swapping Spirit Roots!”
Zhang Yu didn’t expect the Chain Formation Diagram’s effect of the Formless Martial Art to have such a great impact on Bai Zhenzhen.
However, he thought about it. The martial dao fusion effect of this set of Chain Formation Diagram inherently surpassed the simple imitation effect of the Formless Martial Art series of cultivation arts. Encountering suitable circumstances, it was perfectly reasonable for it to produce unexpectedly good results.
Thus, Zhang Yu said, “Then I’ll just keep giving you this from now on?”
Bai Zhenzhen shook her head. “This ability, I just need to use it when comprehending cultivation arts. The one most suitable for my daily cultivation is still the first one.”
Zhang Yu knew that the first one Bai Zhenzhen referred to was the Spirit Transformation Dao Body.
Zhang Yu asked again, “Then do you want to try something else?”
Bai Zhenzhen nodded repeatedly and said expectantly, “There are others?”
So Zhang Yu changed the Chain Formation Diagram in Bai Zhenzhen’s Technique Aperture to Inverted Kunlun, and then to the Civil Engineering Sacred Body.
Bai Zhenzhen shook her head repeatedly and said, “These two are not very good. They give me a very tiring, bitter, and… useless feeling.”
Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Chain Formation Diagrams have different levels of compatibility with different people. Some Chain Formation Diagrams that are very useful to me may not be effective for others. And some Chain Formation Diagrams that are not suitable for me… might have miraculous effects on others.”
“Perhaps, when I have free time in the future, I should also unearth some Chain Formation Diagrams that I can’t use myself and give them to others to use?”
After trying out the various Chain Formation Diagrams, Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu in front of her and could not help but say, “The Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor is not surnamed Zhang either… Yu Zi, could you be the Immortal Emperor’s illegitimate son?”
Zhang Yu said, “If I were the Immortal Emperor’s illegitimate son, would I only be at Spirit Transformation now?”
Zhang Yu sighed faintly, “I am nothing more than a genius under the Kunxu system, who, despite having a peerless talent, can only slowly climb my way up.”
Ultimately, Bai Zhenzhen still let Zhang Yu infuse her with the enhancement of the Spirit Transformation Dao Body, and conveniently left her Primordial Spirit to soak at Zhang Yu’s place.
Before leaving, Zhang Yu transmitted a list of basic cultivation arts for the Spirit Transformation Realm to Bai Zhenzhen, telling her to remember to cultivate diligently so she could obtain higher enhancements.
As a result, apart from himself, Zhang Yu’s Spirit Transformation Dao Body now had Magnetic Pole and Bai Zhenzhen cultivating to improve it for him.
The Nascent Soul Sacred Body, on the other hand, had Yu Xinghan and Ye Xingli strengthening it.
Zhang Yu silently called up a list, which displayed the Chain Formation Diagram currently being used by every Dao Seed owner, as well as the cultivation arts Zhang Yu had assigned them to prepare to cultivate.
“If there are more and more Dao Seed owners strengthened by me in the future, this list will also get longer and longer, and scheduling the cultivation arts for everyone to cultivate will become more and more frequent.”
On the other side, after Bu Yingshu left the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, the more she thought about it, the angrier she became.
Especially when she realized that when she left, Bai Zhenzhen was still in the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, and she didn’t know what she and Zhang Yu were going to do next.
“The women of the Heavenly Sword Sect are the best at deceiving people. Alas, how did my Little Yu fall for her tricks?”
So she thought about it and forwarded various news articles she found online, about the evil deeds committed by the higher-ups of the Heavenly Sword Sect, to Zhang Yu, hoping that Zhang Yu would wake up after reading them.
Bu Yingshu: “Little Yu, read the news I sent you.”
Zhang Yu: “Dao Monarch Bu, didn’t you promise me that you wouldn’t make things difficult for the people around me? Are you lying to me? Does that mean your promise to marry me today was also a lie?”
Bu Yingshu: “No, I’m not. Don’t talk nonsense.”
Zhang Yu: “A-Zhen is right beside me now. I asked her. She really was just coerced by the higher-ups of the Heavenly Sword Sect. Even if there’s a problem, it’s those higher-ups’ problem. She is innocent.”
After Fu Ji typed out these words, she thought to herself, “This should do it, right?”
Bu Yingshu looked at the message Zhang Yu had sent, feeling a pang of unprecedented heartache flash through her. “Little Yu! That bad woman is lying to you! I’m the one doing this for your own good! Why don’t you believe me!”
But Bu Yingshu knew that once someone fell into the lies of those scumbags from the Heavenly Sword Sect, it wasn’t so easy to climb back out.
Bu Yingshu couldn’t just watch helplessly as her little pet was tricked away, especially when it concerned the secret of the Great Sage’s Heir and her own peerless talent…
So, looking at Zhang Yu’s reply, Bu Yingshu’s heart suddenly stirred. “Right, at least Zhang Yu wasn’t wrong about this point. There must be someone behind Bai Zhenzhen; she’s nothing more than a pawn herself.”
“The person behind this must be trying to deal with me indirectly through Bai Zhenzhen.”
Thinking of this, Bu Yingshu immediately had a goal in mind. “As long as I catch the person behind this and show the evidence to Zhang Yu, he will understand.”
Thus, the next moment, Bu Yingshu’s figure abruptly vanished from the Former Days Graveyard.
“Dad!”
Looking at Bu Yuangui in front of her, Bu Yingshu said, “Help me find out who is behind that Bai Zhenzhen from the Heavenly Sword Sect in the Former Days Graveyard.”
“Oh.” Bu Yuangui casually agreed, then suddenly said, “Yingshu, speaking of which… you are quite old now, yet you haven’t even had a proper dual cultivation session once. When I was your age, I was already an expert in this field.”
Bu Yingshu looked impatient and said, “Why are you suddenly bringing this up? It’s not like there’s something wrong with me, isn’t it all because of the fines I’m burdened with?”
Bu Yuangui said, “Recently, an Immortal Clan noble from another sect is willing to cover ninety percent of the fines to give it a try with you…”
Bu Yingshu’s gaze suddenly sharpened as she said, “Who needs him to pay my fines for me?”
“Say no more! I am not interested.”
Watching Bu Yingshu stand up and flash away like a bolt of lightning, Bu Yuangui thought to himself, “Huh? I haven’t even said who it is yet. Why is she more agitated than usual?”
On the other side, after Bai Zhenzhen returned to the office, she received a message from Zhang Yu.
It seemed like a casual greeting, but Bai Zhenzhen knew that according to their prior agreement, this greeting meant that Bu Yingshu had started investigating the person behind Bai Zhenzhen.
Bai Zhenzhen understood that using Bu Yingshu to counterbalance the person behind her, or at least to figure out their identity and depth, was a plan she had agreed upon with Zhang Yu and Fu Ji.
Closing the communication window, Bai Zhenzhen recalled the feeling of fusing the two great sword techniques while being enhanced by the Formless Martial Art diagram.
The next moment, the Extreme Emotion Sword Intent and Extreme Bliss Sword Intent emanated from her body one after another.
The mysterious person’s light chuckle rang out, “Are you really trying to fuse the Extreme Emotion Sword and the Blissful Sword? I advise you against it. It’s not something someone of your level should be doing. If you’re lucky, you’ll only suffer Qi Deviation. If you’re unlucky… you might lose everything you have.”
Bai Zhenzhen smiled faintly and said, “I’m just casually trying it out.”
“Oh right, I’ve recently added Bu Yingshu as a friend.”
“Oh?” The mysterious person seemed to suddenly become interested and hurriedly asked, “How did you do it?”
On the other side, Zhang Yu had already arrived in the Supreme Clarity Realm and met Zhang Pianpian, whom he had not seen for a long time.
Within this Spirit Realm Grotto-Heaven opened by the Supreme Clarity Talisman, the siblings could also communicate without any misgivings.
“Little brother.” Zhang Pianpian looked at her younger brother in front of her and smiled, “You have really caused a huge disturbance recently. It has completely affected the Soul Cultivator Industry up and down Kunxu.”
Zhang Yu first tried to see if he could load the Chain Formation Diagram in the Technique Aperture for his Elder Sister in front of him within the Supreme Clarity Realm. As he expected, he failed.
Then, listening to Zhang Pianpian’s words, he said in surprise, “Sis, the main area I affected is just the Former Days Graveyard, right? Saying it is up and down Kunxu… it is not that exaggerated, is it?”
Zhang Pianpian shook her head and said, “By changing the ecology around the Former Days Graveyard, you triggered a change in the Soul Cultivator Dao Lineage, which in turn caused a series of chain reactions.”
“Among them, the biggest matter is that a few prominent figures, led by the Reincarnation Immortal Emperor, want to promote the upward and downward mobility of Soul Cultivators.”
Zhang Yu’s heart shook, and he asked, “The upward and downward mobility of Soul Cultivators?”
“That’s right,” Zhang Pianpian said. “Bringing Soul Cultivators from the Lower Realm to the Upper Realm to get more cheap Soul Cultivators for the sect.”
Hearing this, Zhang Yu’s heart sank. “If this happens, then the Lower Realm…”
Zhang Pianpian looked at Zhang Yu in front of her, seeming to understand what he meant. She nodded and said, “That’s right. If the Reincarnation Immortal Emperor succeeds, the Lower Realm will definitely be greatly affected.”
“Do you still remember when Wang Yin represented the company and went to the First Layer of Kunxu to push for breeding reform?”
“If the circulation of Soul Cultivators between the two realms is allowed, I’m afraid there will be a lot of Soul Cultivator conversion businesses in the Lower Realm. More and more cultivators will actively commit suicide to convert themselves into Soul Cultivators in order to work in the Upper Realm. This will be seen by many as a shortcut to the Upper Realm…”
Zhang Yu sighed inwardly. He didn’t expect that, without realizing it, he had become someone capable of triggering a massive change in the Lower Realm.
The impact of his actions transmitting to the Lower Realm might even cause a greater change than when Wang Yin went to the First Layer back then.
After this conversation with Zhang Pianpian, Zhang Yu agreed to meet her in reality next time.
And after learning the content of their conversation, in Zhang Yu’s mind, Immortal Slayer had suddenly started guessing: “Reincarnation Immortal Emperor… he wants to promote the upward and downward mobility of Soul Cultivators? Could it be that he wants to use this to accelerate the consumption of Soul Cultivators?”
Fu Ji guessed: “It is also possible that… he wants to expand the scale of the Soul Cultivator market, to prepare for extracting Reincarnation Gold from the Soul Cultivators later.”
Sect Examination Clone said: “I said it long ago, we cannot cooperate with Reincarnation Immortal Emperor!”
Immortal Slayer sighed: “Our salary increase for the Soul Cultivators clearly changed their ecosystem for the better, but as the effect transmits into Kunxu, it might actually trigger a deterioration of the situation in the Lower Realm.”
Desolate Ox said: “This is the problem with the overall structure of Kunxu. All costs will ultimately be transmitted downwards, so just changing one place is meaningless.”
In the following days, the entire Soul Cultivator Industry of the Former Days Graveyard continued to change.
The Former Days Alliance, which Xiao Yunhe, Xie Lanyin, and others took the lead in forming, completely dissolved, and the ban had long existed in name only.
In the advertisements of the Spirit Realm, Xiao Yunhe was taking Xie Lanyin along, shouting: “Serving Soul Cultivators, ensuring that every Soul Cultivator lives better after death than when they were alive, has always been our purpose.”
Meanwhile, the market share of Zhang Yu’s Soul Cultivator Company was also growing steadily along with the replacement of sect positions and Soul Cultivator contracts.
Fa Liuyuan sent a message to Zhang Yu: “What is the market share now?”
Zhang Yu replied: “It just reached 14.8% this month, and it will definitely break 15% by the end of the month.”
Fa Liuyuan: “Very good. Originally, the higher-ups wanted to give you a Superior Merit this month, but we rejected it for you. Try to push the market share to 20% before the end of this year, and we will directly fight for an Extraordinary Merit for you then.”
“With this Extraordinary Merit, we can later help you secure an excellent opportunity to take on third-generation Law Edicts together with a true pillar of the Reformist Faction.”
Zhang Yu naturally agreed and expressed his gratitude.
Fa Liuyuan: “Also, rest assured about the Immortal Emperor’s side. Once the market share breaks 20%, we will claim credit for you and definitely won’t let you suffer a loss.”
Zhang Yu thought to himself: “A market share of 20%?”
He still remembered the message Dugu Ming passed to him on behalf of the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor: if the market share exceeded 20%, there would be another heavy reward.
At present, breaking through the 20% market share was only a matter of time, which also made Zhang Yu look forward to this heavy reward from the Immortal Emperor.