Chapter 958: The 11th Immortal Emperor Is About to Ascend to the Supreme Seat
Bu Yingshu’s mood was extremely terrible.
First, because her father was worried that she would stir up trouble everywhere and get involved in the Immortal Emperor Dao Struggle, he had confined her at home.
In Bu Yingshu’s eyes, this greatly slowed down the speed of her climbing the Immortal Dao.
“Stupid old man, he has already become an obstacle to my pursuit of the Immortal Dao.”
And not long after, she saw the news of Zhang Yu dueling Venerable Myriad Affinity.
“Venerable Myriad Affinity?”
A sharp light flashed in Bu Yingshu’s eyes, and her mind already recalled the other party’s background.
As for Venerable Myriad Affinity… this member of the Joyful Union Sect’s Yin-Yang Immortal Clan who was willing to bear a fine just to have dual cultivation with her, Bu Yingshu naturally wouldn’t forget him.
“He actually had a huge battle with Zhang Yu?”
“He’s in the Tribulation Transcendence realm! How could he be paired with Zhang Yu? What if Zhang Yu gets broken by him?!”
“Honestly, I said back then that the Yang Artifact should have been hidden with me…”
But beyond Bu Yingshu’s expectations, Zhang Yu was able to both fight and endure in the duel with Venerable Myriad Affinity, displaying top-tier Immortal Dao dual cultivation techniques, dropping countless people’s jaws and triggering a wave of heated discussions in both the Spirit Realm and the Dharma Realm.
“Damn it…” Looking at these heated discussions, a hint of unwillingness and jealousy gradually surfaced in Bu Yingshu’s heart. “Zhang Yu is actually this amazing in this regard?”
Thinking of the dual cultivation partners Zhang Yu had previously exposed, Bu Yingshu thought to herself, “I suppose so. Having so many cultivation partners, he must have gone through thousands of trials. It’s only normal that he’s so capable.”
At this thought, a sense of crisis welled up within Bu Yingshu.
“Even Venerable Myriad Affinity couldn’t take him down. Doesn’t that mean… if I were to ever face him head-on in this area in the future… I’d be easily suppressed by him?”
Thinking about how she still lacked any real dual cultivation experience at her age, Bu Yingshu felt a surge of frustration.
Especially after seeing Zhang Yu’s track record, her mind conjured an image: after cultivating together, Zhang Yu would click his tongue and look at her with utter disdain, asking, “That’s it?”
Meanwhile, she would want to counterattack but wouldn’t even be able to get up, left only to collapse at his feet, glaring back at him with a mix of unwillingness, helplessness, and anger.
As soon as she thought of this, a surge of unwillingness welled up in Bu Yingshu’s heart, and she cried out loudly in her mind: No!
“How can I lose to my own underling? Lose to someone I trampled fiercely under my feet?”
Bu Yingshu couldn’t accept that Zhang Yu had already fiercely surpassed her in some aspect. If he surpassed her, she had to surpass him back as soon as possible.
“What should I do? What must I do?” Bu Yingshu’s Immortal Coins surged within her body as she shouted loudly: “Celestial Inquiry Star! Tell me!”
Looking at the Celestial Inquiry Star’s answer, Bu Yingshu secretly said in her heart: “Find someone… to practice fiercely with first? To raise my skill level?”
“Damn it… If I could find someone, I would have found them long ago.”
Thinking of the fines imposed on her, a trace of bitterness flashed through Bu Yingshu’s heart: “If I hadn’t been restricted, with my innate talent and brilliance, how could I possibly be inferior to Zhang Yu?”
“Should I go find Venerable Myriad Affinity? I was the one who rejected him before. If I go to him now, wouldn’t I be begging him? Where would I, Bu Yingshu, put my pride? He might even take the opportunity to demand an exorbitant price…”
“Forget it, I’ll self-study for now. With my innate talent, perhaps by relying purely on self-study and without a practice partner, I can still reach a profound level and be no weaker than Zhang Yu.”
A few days later, while Bu Yingshu was secretly fretting to herself as she self-studied dual cultivation techniques every day, she suddenly received a money transfer from Bu Yuangui.
Bu Yuangui: “Daughter, take this to spend. If it’s not enough, ask me for more.”
Receiving this sum of money, Bu Yingshu grew excited: “Has Dad finally come to his senses?”
“Great! With this money, if I wait until I earn and save a bit more, I’ll be able to pay the penalty myself and do some dual cultivation, right?”
“Should I go directly to Zhang Yu when the time comes? No… I can’t let him see my weak side, otherwise how will I suppress and control him?”
Suddenly, a flash of spiritual light crossed Bu Yingshu’s mind, and the figures of Le Mulan and Bai Zhenzhen emerged in her eyes.
“Hehe, aren’t those two Zhang Yu’s dual cultivation partners?”
“They’ve probably long been trained by Zhang Yu to act just like him.”
“Then if I just use them as a reference, it will be equivalent to sparring with Zhang Yu from afar…”
Just as Bu Yingshu was thinking that her reasoning made more and more sense, and shortly after she continued to self-study and save money, Bu Yuangui transferred more Immortal Coins to her.
Along with waves of Immortal Coins, Bu Yuangui would from time to time seek out Bu Yingshu to personally teach her various martial arts and daoist arts.
“Good daughter, Dad’s limit in this life is just this.”
“The future of Kunxu will depend on you young people.”
Bu Yuangui’s behavior and words only seemed bizarre in Bu Yingshu’s eyes.
“Could he be testing me?”
“Sure enough… is it because I’ve revealed too many world-shaking talents? He was secretly suppressing me before and even locked me at home.”
“Now he is testing me… to see if I have the ambition to break free from the shackles of the Primordial Immortal Clan?”
“No, I must politely refuse him.”
That night, while Bu Yingshu was cultivating, she suddenly noticed Bu Yuangui standing behind her, watching her without her knowing when he had arrived.
Seeing that figure in the darkness, Bu Yingshu was startled: “Dad?”
Bu Yuangui said coldly, “Don’t get distracted. Continue cultivating!”
“You are the hope of our clan.”
“Whether Dad’s life will be a success or not all depends on you!”
As Bu Yuangui’s actions continued to escalate, pouring in more and more genuine resources, Bu Yingshu gradually came to a realization: “Is it the Dao Lineage?”
In recent days, Bu Yingshu had read quite a bit of information regarding the birth of the new Dao Lineage… However, witnessing firsthand the bizarre influence the Dao Lineage had on the people around her still caused an indescribable sense of panic to rise in her heart.
“Why is this new Dao Lineage so strange?”
“This is not my real father.”
“This is a father who has been influenced and twisted by the Dao Lineage, turned into another person entirely.”
At this moment, a sense of fear regarding the future surfaced in Bu Yingshu’s mind.
“Will we… all be twisted?”
“Will we all be turned into this by the new Dao Lineage?”
“Minister Zhang, please take good care of Ying Xin.”
“Ying Xin really works hard, and with our six wallets helping her out, she definitely will not let you down.”
The messages sent by the Ying Family appeared before Zhang Yu’s eyes once again.
And not long after, another message arrived, this time from Wang Yin’s mother, Divine Monarch Nether Spring.
This former Spirit Transformation Principal who had once descended to the lower realm was now working as an outsourced employee under Zhang Yu.
But ever since the world was gradually influenced by the Dao Lineage, she started sending Zhang Yu all kinds of messages.
Nether Spring: “Minister Zhang, is there really no way to transfer Wang Yin over?”
Nether Spring: “As long as you, Minister Zhang, can recruit Wang Yin here, you can take whatever I have on me as you see fit.”
Arriving in the hospital room, looking at Shi Yunxiang who was tied up tightly, Zhang Yu asked, “What’s the situation?”
Yu Xinghan, who was by the side, said, “He suddenly fell into a crazed state of heat, possessing an extraordinary desire to breed. We had no choice but to restrain him first, otherwise he might really jump on anyone he sees.”
Zhang Yu looked at Shi Yunxiang and found him staring fixedly at Yu Xinghan’s shoulder, revealing a gaze filled with desire.
Zhang Yu sighed helplessly and said, “Keep him locked up here for now.”
Yu Xinghan asked, “Minister, is this really… the influence of the new Dao Lineage? Will the future world become like this?”
“I don’t know either.”
Zhang Yu swept his gaze over the news reports about the skyrocketing breeding rates everywhere, and sighed inwardly, “The world… Kunxu… what exactly will it turn into?”
Zhang Yu sensed the encrypted message he had hidden within the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
Ever since obtaining this encrypted message, Zhang Yu had been dedicating a portion of his consciousness every day to study it.
And the conclusion he reached was the same as Tai Yuebai’s.
“This encrypted message is like an alarm clock. It will only release the information within it when the time set by Yun Taizhen arrives.”
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And as time continued to pass, the freezing of Law Edicts still advanced in an orderly manner.
But even though Zhang Yu had made every effort to freeze the laws and tried to stop the descent of the new Dao Lineage, the entire Kunxu World was still being twisted step by step by the new Dao Lineage right before his very eyes.
In the video before Zhang Yu, reports regarding the Immortal Clans of various sects constantly emerged.
An Immortal Clan cultivator, who had just passed down his Immortal Abode, magic artifacts, and company shares to his heir, was talking eloquently, “Our generation of cultivators advance wave upon wave, generation after generation, for only then can we climb to the Apex of the Immortal Dao. My life is already set as it is, but I hope that by passing my assets to my descendants, it will enable them to climb to even higher places in the future…”
Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Is this still fucking Kunxu?”
“Did the birth of every new Dao Lineage in the past bring about these changes?” he asked in his heart.
Immortal Slayer replied, “Not necessarily… not every Dao Lineage is related to people’s hearts. But as long as it’s a worldwide change, it will more or less impact the existing concepts of intelligent life, and the vast majority of living beings have no choice but to adapt when faced with such changes.”
In the following news report, Zhang Yu also saw Venerable Myriad Affinity, whom he had met not long ago.
It was unknown how many cauldrons this Tribulation Transcendence Profound Monarch of the Yin-Yang Immortal Clan controlled, or how many descendants he had bred to serve as his past Immortal Dao Materials.
Now, he was preparing to hold a children’s tournament. The champion would receive his full cultivation and become his sole successor.
In the video, Venerable Myriad Affinity spoke with assurance: “All my blood descendants will engage in one-on-one combat. The final victor will stay by my side and receive my personal teachings, becoming the heir to my future assets and cultivation…”
Looking at Venerable Myriad Affinity’s earnest appearance, Zhang Yu said in his heart, “The impact of the Dao Lineage on this world is too great.”
“The whole world is being easily twisted along with the completion of the Dao Lineage.”
“From morals, to concepts, and then to customs… all the way to every person’s thoughts, all of this is casually handled and kneaded like clay in the hands of the Dao Lineage creator.”
Immortal Slayer said, “This is Kunxu, the strongest dictate everything. As long as they wish it, their will can rape the entire world, and insult the will of all the common people in the world.”
Fu Ji looked at Venerable Myriad Affinity in the news, and said fearfully, “What the hell is this bullshit Dao Lineage trying to do? Once it’s complete… we won’t all turn into this ghastly appearance, will we?”
Auspicious God said, “I don’t see Zhang Yu changing. The influence of this Dao Lineage doesn’t seem to take effect on everyone.”
Herald God analyzed, “From what we can see so far, the most affected are the numerous monsterfolk of the Celestial Monster Sect, as well as the Material Human factories of Netherworld and White Bone, and the Immortal Clans of various sects that have bloodline descendants…”
Under Herald God’s reminder, Fu Ji’s eyes lit up, and she said, “So you’re saying… it’s all the ones making monsters and making humans that are affected? Zhang Yu hasn’t had any descendants yet, so he’s temporarily unaffected?”
The Herald God said, “That might be the reason.”
Just then, Immortal Slayer suddenly said coldly, “The current situation is only the state where the Dao Lineage has not yet been completely formed.”
“After the Dao Lineage is completed, there will inevitably be a qualitative change. At that time, its influence on the sentient beings of heaven and earth, and the changes it brings to the trillions of beings in Kunxu, will definitely far exceed this moment.”
“It’s very likely…” Immortal Slayer analyzed, “that when that time comes, everyone will be affected, regardless of whether they have blood descendants or not.”
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“There is no sign of it stopping at all.”
Sensing the continuous subtle changes in the world, Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Sure enough, the Immortal Emperors never intended to stop the birth of the Dao Lineage, did they? Waiting for the Dao Lineage to be completed, and then suppressing and devouring it — this is probably their true plan.”
“Then Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor… demanding that I freeze the Law Edicts, was it just to slightly weaken the new Dao Lineage? To make it easier for them to feed? To negotiate with the Celestial Monster Immortal Emperor? To compete?”
One possibility after another surfaced in Zhang Yu’s mind.
“But what exactly does Yun Taizhen mean by this?”
Zhang Yu couldn’t help but ponder in his heart, “Damn it, we know too little, our strength is too weak, and we have too little information. We can only be used by others…”
At this moment, Zhang Yu felt that even though he knew the Immortal Emperors’ chess game was right in front of him and their plans were in motion, he remained completely ignorant and helpless. He could only watch everything unfold, and a deep sense of powerlessness welled up in his heart.
That night, as if to confirm Immortal Slayer’s words, Zhang Yu received money transfers from Old Gao and Magnetic Pole.
He said to the two of them, “Teachers, you don’t need to transfer money to me. I have enough.”
Old Gao said, “Just take what we give you. At our age, what use do we have for money?”
Magnetic Pole said, “We plan to pawn all our magical artifacts and Bionics. You can use the money to cultivate properly.”
Zhang Yu was shocked to hear this. He immediately descended as a projection and saw that the two were already registering their magical artifacts and Bionics.
Zhang Yu quickly tried to stop them, “Teachers! What are you doing? Stop right now!”
He hurriedly revealed the twenty-plus million in his account and said, “I don’t need your hundred thousand or so Immortal Coins, so please stop putting things up for mortgage.”
Old Gao said, “In Immortal Dao cultivation, there is never enough money to spend. If we transfer it to you, just take it.”
Magnetic Pole said, “Right, you don’t need to worry about us. You are our successor, aren’t the things on our bodies going to be dismantled and given to you sooner or later?”
“If there is anything else you need help with, just say the word.”
Old Gao said, “Right, do you want us to join you in dual cultivation today?”
The two of them went back and forth, and somehow ended up wanting to sell their physical bodies.
Magnetic Pole looked at Zhang Yu with eager anticipation, “Zhang Yu, you must achieve immortality.”
Old Gao followed up and said, “As long as you can achieve immortality, it will be worth it even if the two of us sell our lives. Before we sell them, why don’t you engage in dual cultivation with us and try to squeeze us completely dry…”
Looking at the faces of the two teachers in front of him, Zhang Yu only felt an extreme sense of unfamiliarity.
These were simply no longer the Magnetic Pole and Old Gao that he knew.
Zhang Yu had no choice but to knock the two of them unconscious, lest they do all kinds of chaotic things after losing control, or even ultimately head towards death.
Then, while paying the fine, he kept the two of them physically restrained.
“I have no blood relation with the two teachers, but it seems they have also been severely affected by the new Dao Lineage.”
“So… even without a bloodline, one can still be affected.”
Recalling the recent reactions of Old Gao and Magnetic Pole, a chill welled up in Zhang Yu’s heart: “Just as you said, Immortal Slayer, perhaps the moment the Dao Lineage was established, everyone was affected.”
“Furthermore, this proactive behavior is completely abnormal. I suspect…”
Immortal Slayer interjected: “The Aspiration for the Immortal Dao. This new Dao Lineage… has already merged with the Aspiration for the Immortal Dao. The two are mutually influencing each other, jointly twisting all the common people in the world.”
“Under the empowerment of the Aspiration for the Immortal Dao, the people of the world will intensely compete toward achieving Immortality even when nurturing descendants and training successors, thereby draining everything they have.”
The Sect Examination Clone said with heavy worry: “Then won’t the Immortal Emperor also be affected when the time comes? If by chance he chooses us as his successors and passes everything to me, what should we do?”
Hearing this, Fu Ji laughed out of sheer exasperation: “Could there possibly be such a good thing?”
Immortal Slayer said, “How could the Immortal Emperors be affected? I’m only afraid that when the time comes… they will instead use this Dao Lineage to oppress the world.”
“For example… when the time comes, the Ten Immortal Emperors will probably fight to become the sons of everyone in the world.”
“The Immortal Emperor of each sect would become the son of all the cultivators in their entire sect, receiving the full support and offerings of everyone from top to bottom, making the cultivators willing to sacrifice everything to transfer all they have to the Immortal Emperor.”
Just thinking about this scene sent a chill down Zhang Yu’s spine.
At this moment, he deeply understood the twisted nature of the entire Kunxu.
Whether it was morality, ethics, rules, or laws, they were all nothing more than tools in the hands of the Immortal Emperors to oppress the world.
As long as they wished, they could casually distort the definitions of these tools, turning everyone in the world into resources for them to cultivate the Immortal Dao.
As time continued to pass, the chaos spread unceasingly.
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Knocking out Old Gao and Magnetic Pole in front of him once again, a sense of panic suddenly welled up within Zhang Yu.
Because at this very moment, he suddenly felt an urge rise in his own heart — an urge to procreate.
“Damn it, am I starting to be affected too?”
“I have no successors, no descendants, so under the influence of the new Dao Lineage, it’s urging me to produce offspring?”
“If this continues, will I just go around looking for people to breed with?”
At the same time, messages from various individuals popped up before Zhang Yu’s eyes.
Bu Yingshu: “Where are you? Send your location.”
Bai Zhenzhen: “Yu Zi, take a look at these, which model do you like? [Best-Selling Yin Artifacts Selection]”
Le Mulan: “Zhang Yu, let’s open a breeding factory together. We’ll use our bloodlines for production. What do you think?”
Ye Xingli: “Junior Brother, can I buy a little of your time and body materials?”
Looking at these messages, Zhang Yu initially felt a surge of excitement and joy at the opportunity to breed, but in the next moment, this emotion transformed into a deep chill.
Because Zhang Yu realized that the feeling he just experienced didn’t stem from his own true desires, but rather from the influence of the Dao Lineage.
“My thoughts are being unknowingly distorted, making me happy to accept this kind of situation.”
“The same is true for the others.”
“Especially under the synergistic effect of the Aspiration for the Immortal Dao, what they are thinking about isn’t just procreation, but high-quality procreation. That’s why they want to find me to produce descendants together, to birth even more outstanding offspring.”
Zhang Yu’s gaze flickered slightly as he saw not only an increasing number of people sending him messages, but even a growing number of cultivators charging straight towards him…
Boom!
The over two-meter-tall Shi Huaiyu shot forward like lightning. Her sturdy, small-giant-like body… barged directly into Zhang Yu’s office, only to catch a glimpse of his gradually dissipating figure.
“No! Minister! Please, grant me a child! Just one will do!”
“If I can’t reproduce with someone as outstanding as you and give birth to an heir who can climb to the Apex of the Immortal Dao, what is the point of my life? What does it matter how much money I make trading stocks?!”
Propelled by the Grotto-Heaven Force, Zhang Yu had already escaped into the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
However, the sight of Shi Huaiyu’s frenzy remained deeply etched into his heart.
“This new Dao Lineage… it has already twisted people’s hearts.”
“Coupled with the influence of the Aspiration for the Immortal Dao, it’s simply adding chaos to chaos.”
Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Maybe I can still notice it now, but what about what comes next? If I can’t keep resisting this, I’ll eventually end up like everyone else — frantically breeding offspring, and then sacrificing everything I have, no matter the cost, just to give it all to my descendants.”
“No, it can’t go on like this.”
“Is there really no way to stop all this?”
Zhang Yu’s mind raced, and at the same time, he sent a message to Tai Yuebai: “Big Brother Tai, the new Dao Lineage is about to be formed. I feel like I’m going to be affected by it too.”
Besides that, after thinking for a moment, Zhang Yu also sent a secret email to the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor.
Although the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor was still in a closed-door meeting with the Celestial Monster Immortal Emperor and Yun Taizhen at this moment, they were only restricted from sending messages outward; they could still receive messages from the outside world to stay informed and monitor changes in the external situation at any time.
However, this wasn’t the first time Zhang Yu had sent a secret email to the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor to report the situation and ask for advice.
Yet, no matter what kind of email it was, Zhang Yu had never received a single reply.
Looking at the message Zhang Yu had sent, Tai Yuebai sighed and looked up towards the higher levels of Kunxu, towards the location of the Immortals and Immortal Venerables.
At this moment, he was also sending messages to Fa Liuyuan and the Immortals.
Fa Liuyuan said, “The new Dao Lineage is about to be born, and next will be the battle of the Ten Emperors. This is no longer a matter we can interfere with. Let’s just watch how things unfold.”
Immortal Roujia: “The direction of the world is not something you should be considering right now. If you want to persist with your reform ideals, you must first learn to protect yourself.”
Immortal Yi Xuan: “The impact of this new Dao Lineage on the world is too severe. What kind of model the future Kunxu will turn into, even we cannot say for sure. But the most urgent task is to do your best to preserve your cultivation and assets. Absolutely do not stick your neck out, so that you can cope with the new era to come.”
“Tai Yuebai, you can knock yourself out first to avoid making the wrong choice due to the influence of the Dao Lineage. When you wake up, you can see what the New Kunxu has become…”
Looking at these messages, Tai Yuebai sighed and thought to himself, “Senior Ying, if it were you… what would you do right now?”
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A terrifying aura surged into the sky, instantly filling every corner inside and outside the sect.
“It’s here,” Tai Yuebai’s heart sank heavily. “The 11th Immortal Emperor… is about to ascend to the Supreme Seat.”