Chapter 963 My Son Zhang Yu
In the Bloodline Network, Yun Taizhen could feel… her own power retreating step by step within it.
All avenues of retreat had already been sealed off.
All her assets and descendants had been frozen or placed under supervision.
Every means she could employ had also been suppressed one by one.
At this moment, Yun Taizhen felt like an Emperor at the end of a dynasty, able only to watch helplessly as a great army breached the capital and attacked her final imperial city.
Even though she had fought back and struggled with all her might, she could only watch as the city gates were captured one after another, and her belongings were taken away piece by piece…
At this moment, Yun Taizhen understood perfectly well that under the suppression of the Ten Immortal Emperors, let alone escaping, even attempting to hide some of her legacy would be exceedingly difficult.
After all, in the past, hiding her cultivation, laundering illegal income, and illegally transferring assets… all invariably relied on exploiting the loopholes and conflicts between the ten great sects.
“Their goal… is to completely control me, isn’t it?”
After a round of confrontation, Yun Taizhen had also deduced the goal of the Ten Immortal Emperors.
Once she, an Emperor trapped within the Imperial Palace, was captured… she would become a controlled Puppet Emperor.
If not for this purpose, the Ten Immortal Emperors could have long since reduced the entire Imperial Palace to ashes and killed her, the Emperor hiding inside, along with it.
Thinking of this, Yun Taizhen had already secretly made up her mind: “Even if I fail, I must at least send out some of my legacy.”
“Everything I have cannot be completely seized by the Ten Immortal Emperors.”
“How can the achievements and efforts of my entire life… all be turned into the resources of the Ten Immortal Emperors?”
“I must at least leave a little Fire Seed on the outside…”
Although she had made a decision in her heart, how could the blockade of the Ten Immortal Emperors be broken so easily?
Whenever Yun Taizhen made the slightest attempt to transmit information outwards, it would immediately be intercepted by the Immortal Emperors.
“The outside has already been completely controlled by the Ten Immortal Emperors. The only thing I can still retain control over right now… is this Bloodline Network, but even here, twenty percent of its territory has already been taken.”
If information was transmitted out, it would be directly seized by the Immortal Emperors.
Then what if someone took the initiative to contact her and enter the Bloodline Network? What if Yun Taizhen handed the legacy over to them from within the Bloodline Network?
Yun Taizhen did not dare to try this lightly.
Indeed… at this very moment, many of her bloodline descendants were logging into the Bloodline Network and sending her various messages. There were those persuading her to surrender. There were those asking about issues regarding her inheritance. There were also those who wanted to succeed her and continue her great cause…
But Taizhen knew without a doubt that there were inevitably many of the Immortal Emperors’ minions among them. Giving things to them… would probably end up in the hands of the Ten Immortal Emperors in the blink of an eye.
Watching as another ten percent of the Bloodline Network was conquered, Yun Taizhen sighed inwardly, “Could it be that my life’s work will ultimately benefit the Ten Immortal Emperors? If that’s the case, I might as well destroy it all.”
Just as Taizhen was thinking this, she suddenly detected… someone connecting to the Bloodline Network using a bloodline identity that even surprised her.
“My biological son?”
At the same time, accompanied by his own call, Zhang Yu felt as if countless eyes within the entire Bloodline Network were gazing at him, giving him a start.
“My message just now should have been sent to Taizhen, so why did so many people hear it? Did they all discover me?”
Just as Zhang Yu was startled and wondering if he should temporarily log out of the Bloodline Network, those gazes seemed to simultaneously transmit a thought to him.
“What did you call me?”
A flash of understanding crossed Zhang Yu’s mind. Those thoughts gazing at him were entirely Taizhen — countless clones of Yun Taizhen.
Hearing the other party’s question, Zhang Yu was just about to say Senior Yun, Immortal Venerable Supreme Truth, or Immortal Emperor Supreme Truth… when the next moment, thinking of the other party’s Dao Lineage and the current situation, a sudden inspiration hit him:
“Mom! I am your biological son!”
In the Bloodline Network, it seemed as if countless Yun Taizhens burst into laughter all at once.
The heaven-shaking laughter transformed into waves of thoughts, transmitted into Zhang Yu’s mind, shaking his meridians, dantian, and even every strand of his flesh and blood so violently that it felt like they were going to be completely shattered.
“I have given birth to everyone in the world, and everyone in the world gave birth to me alone. But at this moment… everyone in the world only wants to snatch my inheritance. Even the Ten Immortal Emperors are unwilling to sincerely call me mother.”
“To think that in the end, it was Ying Xintian who sent me a son?”
As she spoke, a young girl draped in a black-and-gold imperial robe seemed to appear before Zhang Yu, looking at him and saying, “How did Ying Xintian know of my current situation?”
Zhang Yu explained, “I freed an ancestor’s corpse in the Myriad Gold Mystic Realm and obtained Senior Ying’s message from it. In the message… after learning of your current situation, he specifically ordered me to contact you…”
Before Zhang Yu could finish speaking, the young girl’s gaze sank. “An ancestor’s corpse in the Myriad Gold Mystic Realm? There’s a message from Ying Xintian on it? Are you sure he understands my current situation? Isn’t that a message from several years ago?”
Zhang Yu said, “It’s Senior Ying’s latest message.”
Hearing this, the young girl’s expression suddenly shifted again: “Is it a message he left recently?”
A hint of excitement and hope suddenly appeared on her face: “Has Ying Xintian returned? Has he descended upon the Myriad Laws Sect? If he joins hands with me, we might just be able to break through the blockade of the Ten Immortal Emperors.”
“Hahahaha, the common people of this world are saved!!”
Saying this, the young girl, acting as if she had just found a lifeline in a desperate situation, suddenly turned her head to stare at Zhang Yu: “Hurry up and tell me, what message did he ask you to pass on?”
Looking at Supreme Truth’s rapidly changing demeanor, under her hopeful gaze, Zhang Yu could only bite the bullet and prepare to speak…
“Senior Ying Xintian said you’re dead for sure, and told you to give me as much of your inheritance as possible before you perish.”
Zhang Yu thought to himself, “If I really say that… I feel like things will go south, right? Besides, without any proper context, it will easily arouse her suspicion.”
“At this very moment, there are probably many people scheming for her inheritance. Therefore… this is also the moment when her paranoia is at its peak.”
Looking at Yun Taizhen in front of him, Zhang Yu felt as if he were looking at a dying billionaire surrounded by countless schemers fighting to claim her fortune.
“I must have sufficient reasons to explain my purpose and origins in order to gain Supreme Truth’s trust.”
“And any lie in front of her could be directly exposed.”
During his lightning-fast thoughts, Zhang Yu had already made a decision: “I’ll speak directly and tell the absolute truth.”
Especially after Zhang Yu pondered it over, he felt that even if he told Supreme Truth the information about the future now, he wouldn’t have to worry about her giving herself away and arousing the suspicion of the Ten Immortal Emperors.
Zhang Yu said, “Mom, to be exact, you were the one who told us to come…”
Thus, as soon as Zhang Yu opened his mouth, he first explained the matters regarding the future information, recounting the causes and consequences of the World Rollback…
“World Rollback?” Hearing these words, Yun Taizhen’s gaze narrowed at first, but after listening to the pieces of information Zhang Yu revealed, she gradually realized that what he said was very likely true.
Especially after comparing it with the current situation…
“No wonder… No wonder the Ten Immortal Emperors could so easily unravel my many methods.”
“It’s because they had already experienced it once, and were able to make preparations early on after the World Rollback to target and counter me…”
Taizhen, who had just felt a sliver of hope rise in her heart, now wore a look of desolation on her face, as if she had been thoroughly sentenced to death. She knew she had no possibility of being saved.
She sighed and said, “Hehe, to think that before my defeat… I actually placed my last hope on Ying Xintian.”
Just then, Zhang Yu said, “Senior, you didn’t lose. After you finally broke through to the Immortal Emperor realm in the last cycle, you rendered the entire Kunxu helpless. If the Ten Immortal Emperors hadn’t cheated and pulled off a World Rollback, you would currently be the 11th Immortal Emperor of the Ten Great Sects.”
Hearing this, Yun Taizhen revealed a faint smile and suddenly said, “Did Ying Xintian send you here so you could take more of my legacy before I am completely controlled by the Ten Immortal Emperors?”
“Very well. Whether it’s passing on information or leaving behind a fire seed, at least it proves that my life was not in vain.”
“Take it, take as much as you can…”
With that, accompanied by Taizhen’s long laugh, Zhang Yu once again felt the flesh and blood of his entire body vibrating violently.
Only this time, amidst the vibrating flesh and blood, Zhang Yu felt something being born.
“Senior!” Zhang Yu exclaimed in surprise. “What are you doing?”
Yun Taizhen asked coldly, “What did you call me?”
“Mom!” Zhang Yu said. “What happened to my physical body?”
Yun Taizhen laughed, “Ying Xintian indeed chose a good successor, but starting today, you are my successor. Naturally, I must strengthen you first.”
Zhang Yu asked curiously, “Strengthen? How will you strengthen it?”
Yun Taizhen said calmly, “First, I’ll give you a Dao Seed…”
Zhang Yu asked, “Are you passing it to me through the Bloodline Network?”
Yun Taizhen pointed at the vast and boundless Bloodline Network and said, “What you can sense right now is the sixty percent of the Bloodline Network under my control. The other forty percent that you can no longer see is entirely controlled by the Ten Immortal Emperors.”
“This Dao Seed of mine is rather special. If it were transmitted solely through the Bloodline Network, it would be too slow, and transmitting even a little bit more would make it easy for the Ten Immortal Emperors to discover…
“So we have to use another method. Besides the Bloodline Network, we will add another channel…”
Zhang Yu asked curiously, “What channel?”
Just as Zhang Yu was wondering how the other party would give it to him, he saw the Feather Book suddenly appear in front of him. Then, as if flipped by a pair of large hands, it turned directly to the page of the Dao Seed Register.
Zhang Yu cried out in shock in his heart, “I didn’t summon the Feather Book!”
Yun Taizhen: “I called it.”
“I am borrowing your treasure book for a bit today.”
Under Zhang Yu’s shocked gaze, Yun Taizhen reached out a large hand and wrote on the Dao Seed Register: Emperor Creation Seed.
As she wrote, Yun Taizhen smiled, “Since you have this thing, it will be much easier to handle.”
Right as Yun Taizhen wrote down the name of the Dao Seed, Zhang Yu felt the surges of power in his flesh and blood transform into surging vitality, instantly sweeping through his entire body, causing it to continuously shatter and be reborn.
Immediately after, a number emerged behind the Creation Dao Seed on the Dao Seed Register: Level 1. But just as this level 1 appeared, Yun Taizhen pressed a hand over it: “Too little, give a bit more!”
Boom!
Under Zhang Yu’s somewhat horrified gaze, Yun Taizhen reached out and erased the number 1, then filled in a 3.
“Level 1 is too little. Let’s make it level 3. Level 3 is enough for now, and you won’t have to worry about being discovered.”
Zhang Yu only felt his physical body instantly explode into a mist of blood, and then gradually reorganize into human form.
At the same time, a massive amount of information surged frantically out from the Dao Seed Register, allowing him to sense the abilities of this Dao Seed.
But in Zhang Yu’s heart, there was only one thought at this moment: “Is this the Immortal Emperor Realm?”
“To be suppressed by ten peers of the same level, yet still able to achieve this?”
Seeming to have noticed Zhang Yu’s shock, Yun Taizhen casually said, “Don’t worry, the other Immortal Emperors don’t know you and this book of yours… as well as I do.”
“After all, you now possess my bloodline and are connected to my Bloodline Network, while I have also mastered a part of the Dao Seed Dao—”
At this very moment, Zhang Yu was completely and deeply captivated by the profound mysteries of the Emperor Creation Seed.
“The level 1 Emperor Creation Seed can connect to the Bloodline Network and possess various privileges… Does this replace the original cultivation art requirements?
“No, using the Emperor Creation Seed to connect to the Bloodline Network… grants much higher privileges than logging in through a cultivation art. It is also more concealed and less likely to be discovered.”
Comprehending the traces of profound mysteries within the Emperor Creation Seed, Zhang Yu suddenly sensed a massive amount of technical traces of the Bloodline Network within it.
This was also Zhang Yu’s first time sensing traces of Immortal Dao Technology inside a Dao Seed; this was something he had never encountered in the past.
“Senior Ying Xintian said that Senior Supreme Truth’s Dao Seed… was designed by herself? Is that why I can sense the technical traces within it?
“Did she combine her own Immortal Dao Technology to create the Emperor Creation Seed?”
Immediately after, Zhang Yu perceived various pieces of information regarding the level 2 Emperor Creation Seed and felt a new ability taking root and sprouting within his body.
“The privileges in the Bloodline Network continue to elevate, and next is… my physical body…”
At this moment, Zhang Yu felt as if a loud boom echoed within his body, having broken through some invisible barrier.
At the same time, he heard Yun Taizhen say to him, “My son Zhang Yu, have you ever wondered why on the path of the Immortal Dao, the various cultivation realms have a unified upper limit for dao heart, magic power, and physical body?”
Zhang Yu thought for a moment, various pieces of information flashing through his mind like lightning, and said, “This is because after the Ten Great Sects established the Immortal Dao framework, they explored the human body’s limits in each realm, ultimately standardizing and digitizing Immortal Dao cultivation…”
Yun Taizhen snorted coldly and said, “That’s all bullshit!”
“Let me tell you the truth I discovered after years of underground archaeology, exploring ancient sects and the Immortal Abodes of ancient cultivators…”
“The so-called theoretical limits of the various cultivation realms did not exist in ancient times. Where the ultimate upper limit of each cultivation realm lay depended entirely on individual talent and Immortal Dao resources.”
“At that time, there was no shortage of cultivators who could use a Golden Core to defeat a Nascent Soul, or a Spirit Transformation to defeat a Void Refinement.
“There were even those in the Ascension Realm who could rival Immortals. Although these were extreme cases, they were not completely nonexistent.”
Yun Taizhen sighed, “Precisely because of this, the gap in cultivation realms back then wasn’t absolute. If there were a few more lower-level cultivators, they might not necessarily fail to kill a cultivator one or even two realms higher.”
“This resulted in frequent periods of global turmoil, where lower-tier cultivators, driven by profit and ambition, would collaborate to take down upper-tier cultivators.”
“There were even Immortals slain by lower-tier cultivators, causing their Dao Lineage to fall into the hands of others, or even lose control, triggering massive disasters and creating countless crises.”
“So… for the sake of world stability, to reduce turmoil, and to prevent any more Immortals from falling and Dao Lineages from losing control and causing further global unrest, the founder of the Immortal Armaments Bureau established a Dao Lineage that dictated the upper limits of each cultivation realm.”
“Since then, the gap between each cultivation realm has been difficult to surmount. No matter how much of an unparalleled genius one is, they will find it hard to break through the realm restrictions, and it became extremely difficult for lower-tier cultivators to defeat upper-tier cultivators.”
Hearing Yun Taizhen’s words, Zhang Yu was shaken, but he thought of another point: “Then the monsterfolk… don’t seem to fall under this exception?”
Yun Taizhen smiled faintly and said, “Correct.”
“Because where there is turmoil, there is suppression, and where there is suppression… there will be rebellion.”
“Back then, the Second Monster Saint also established a Dao Lineage to rebel and slay the Immortals. He forcefully broke through the physical body’s limits, forcefully carving out a flaw in the Immortal Armaments Bureau’s Dao Lineage.”
“Ever since then, because of their different innate talents, monsterfolk could slightly break through the cultivation realm’s upper limits in physical strength and magic power.”
“I traveled throughout the underground floors, collecting the Second Monster Saint’s inheritances and bloodlines, recreating the technology he once used, and after updating it, integrating it into my Dao Seed.”
Hearing this, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but ask, “Why didn’t you use this new technology to create a cultivation art? Wouldn’t that be better for spreading and applying it?”
Yun Taizhen said, “You know that the Great Sects all have Heaven-Opening cultivation arts for sale, but do you know that the truly most supreme Heaven-Opening cultivation arts all have no copyright and cannot be bought anywhere?”
Zhang Yu was slightly taken aback, but he reacted the next moment, “The most cutting-edge technology is in the hands of the Immortal class. It will not be made public, and it doesn’t even need a copyright review.”
“Correct.” Yun Taizhen continued, “And the true top-secret technologies of Kunxu can’t even be found within Heaven-Opening cultivation arts.”
Amidst Zhang Yu’s surprised listening, Yun Taizhen revealed more secrets regarding Kunxu’s Immortal Dao Technology.
“The Dao Lineage of the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor allows him to spy on the mysteries of various cultivation arts.”
“No one knows his limits, and no one knows to what extent he can actually go. Therefore, ever since the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor became famous, the various sects have modified their Heaven-Opening cultivation arts in order to protect the mysteries of their own arts.”
“Nowadays, their Heaven-Opening cultivation arts often need to be used in conjunction with other exclusive methods to exert their full effect. For example, coordinating with medicinal pills, magical artifacts, as well as bloodlines, Primordial Spirits…”
“Various sects have all used the methods they excel at to maintain Immortal Dao Technology secrecy. Otherwise, if someone worked painstakingly to create a peerless Heaven-Opening cultivation art, only for it to be stolen by that kid Myriad Laws, wouldn’t it be a huge loss?”
Hearing this, Zhang Yu secretly grew alert in his heart: “Another pitfall. Fortunately, I haven’t created my own Heaven-Opening cultivation art yet, otherwise the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor would have reaped the benefits.”
The Sect Examination Clone said, “Create what on your own? Reaping benefits for the Immortal Emperor? It has always been the Immortal Emperor reaping benefits for you!”
Yun Taizhen said, “Naturally, I also had to guard against the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor, so my Innate Dao-Vindication Scripture must also be paired with the Emperor Creation Seed to cultivate. A massive amount of my technological achievements have also been integrated into the Emperor Creation Seed.”
“For example, using the Second Monster Saint’s Immortal Dao Technology to break the physical barrier…”
At the same time, Zhang Yu felt that after his physical body broke through that invisible barrier, it was no longer restricted by the 60.00 points barrier. He could continue to cultivate and keep increasing his physical strength until reaching a new limit.
What was the new limit?
Zhang Yu sensed it slightly and estimated his physical strength; the current new limit was around 61 points.
Zhang Yu knew that this was an improvement from continued cultivation, rather than a temporary boost like from the Blazing Sun Meridian or the Kunpeng Swallowing Heaven Manual.
Once he cultivated his physical strength to the new limit, and then used the Blazing Sun Meridian and the Kunpeng Swallowing Heaven Manual to enter the Overlimit State, he would be able to temporarily erupt with even more fierce physical power.
Immediately after, the information of the level 3 Dao Seed swarmed in.
This time, Zhang Yu felt a surge of expansion and contraction in all the meridians across his body. Under the enhancement of the level 3 Emperor Creation Seed, his magic power limit was also forcibly broken.
“Not bad, but for me to directly elevate it… level 3 is the maximum. Any higher and it will be discovered.”
“Next, to continue upgrading your Dao Seed, you must absorb my bloodline information on your own through the Bloodline Network.”
The next moment, Zhang Yu felt a massive amount of bloodline information rushing over him. Under the infusion of this vast sea of information, his Dao Seed and the bloodline of his physical body were continuously activated. They began to grow intensely, advancing toward level 4.