Chapter 989: Feather Book Immortal Foundation
“Wahahahaha…” Fu Ji laughed wildly. “I’m finally a Rank 6 Evil God! The current me is so strong that I scare even myself!!”
Watching this scene, the Auspicious God cursed inwardly, “You just slacked off and freeloaded your way to Rank 6, what’s there to be smug about? If it were me, I’d have reached Rank 6 long ago.”
Zhang Yu asked, “Are you ready?”
Fu Ji smiled slightly. “I get what you mean.”
And so, after performing a ritual inside the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, Zhang Yu’s Feather Book also began its upgrade.
Looking at the transparent mark that suddenly surfaced on his palm, Zhang Yu knew that once the black color completely filled it, his Feather Book would complete this upgrade.
“I wonder what kind of content the newly added chapter will have this time?”
Over the following days, under Zhang Yu’s expectant gaze, the transparent mark on his palm was gradually filled up bit by bit.
Inside the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, rumbling sounds echoed continuously.
Led by Gao Chongguang, Tu Lishan, Mo Shangjin, Shi Huaiyu, and the others all stepped onto the field. Building materials danced across the sky, colliding and producing a continuous series of Qi bursts.
An entire city was gradually rising from the ground under the power of their cultivation.
In addition, various certificates and licenses were being swiftly processed through official channels under Gao Chongguang’s management.
During this process, Gao Chongguang experienced the sect’s extraordinarily high efficiency, which could even be described as completely seamless.
Especially whenever they heard the names of Zhang Yu and the Myriad Laws Divine Sword backing him, Gao Chongguang could feel the other party’s respect and promptness.
All business procedures became simple and effortless, and they would even send people to his door to assist him.
At times, he could not help but sigh with emotion, “The people issuing permits aren’t as difficult to deal with as the rumors say.”
At this moment, watching the city gradually rise from the ground, Feng Tingting sent a message to Gao Chongguang: “Teacher Gao, I have a second degree in Civil Engineering. I’m an interdisciplinary talent who cultivates both artifact refinement and civil engineering. Can I join in on this real estate development?”
Based on Feng Tingting’s understanding of real estate and finance, this project spearheaded by Gao Chongguang was bound to make huge profits.
After all, throughout human history since ancient times… similar real estate projects had been carried out countless times, and Feng Tingting possessed a deep understanding of them.
“Spatial teleportation, whether for people or goods, has immense market demand among the upper realm sects. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it an essential industry.”
“Moreover, Minister Zhang used to oversee the Former Days Graveyard and later enforced the law on the 16th layer. With his prestige in both places, bringing in business is effortless.”
“Anyone who gives this project even a moment’s thought can see how high its success rate is… No wonder Teacher Gao and the others secured loans so easily, and various material suppliers were willing to front the funds for their project.”
From what Feng Tingting understood, even the numerous civil engineering cultivators led by Gao Chongguang had started working without upfront payment, all waiting to share the profits once the project was completed.
Right at that moment, Gao Chongguang replied to her message: “Tingting, you lack hands-on experience after all, so you’re not suited for on-site work.”
Gao Chongguang: “You’d better make good use of the theoretical knowledge you learned in university and handle the publicity work well.”
Inside Feng Tingting’s livestream room, she was currently broadcasting the ongoing construction within the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, promoting its spatial teleportation, logistics services, warehousing, commercial shops, residential properties, and more.
Right then, someone left a comment: “Isn’t this logistics price a bit too steep? An extra fee for anything over ten thousand tons? Minister Zhang can easily move ten thousand tons of cargo, can’t he?”
Feng Tingting immediately retorted, “Do you really need to state the obvious? Who doesn’t know that even before Minister Zhang advanced to Tribulation Transcendence, he could effortlessly lift an entire factory complex or even a minor realm? Ten thousand tons of cargo is light as a feather to the current Profound Monarch Zhang. Such common knowledge… and you thought you were the only one who knew, while everyone else was in the dark?”
“The point is… is this just lifting heavy objects? This is high-end spatial teleportation, alright! In the earliest days, spatial technology was crude, and consuming the energy of an entire minor realm to power a spatial teleportation might only transport a single person a short distance.”
“Nowadays, spatial technology has advanced tremendously, but for the same weight, the consumption of spatial teleportation is still far greater than simply lifting weight…”
As Feng Tingting spoke, she had already displayed the spatial teleportation price lists of various major companies.
“How is this price expensive? Spatial teleportation has always cost this much, okay?”
“In fact, Minister Zhang’s pricing is cheaper than most companies!”
Feng Tingting naturally had no idea that Zhang Yu relied on his clones, Dao Seeds, and Chain Formation Diagrams to provide spatial teleportation services with lower consumption and higher efficiency, which was why his prices were set on the lower side.
However, Feng Tingting understood that this price was yet another major advantage that needed to be well publicized, as it could attract far more passenger traffic to the transportation hub in the future.
Just as the outermost layer of the Immortal Grotto-Heaven was bustling with excitement, within its innermost layer, after several days of waiting, Zhang Yu finally brought about the upgrade of his Feather Book.
As the black color on his palm was once again fully filled, Zhang Yu’s Feather Book emerged before his eyes, followed by what seemed to be a new page surging within it, gradually being completed…
At the same time, as if sensing something, the Dao-Seeking Feather Book inside the clone’s body also began to vibrate slightly at this moment.
The next moment, before Zhang Yu could react, his upgrading Feather Book gave a violent shudder, drawing in the Feather Book from the clone’s body across the air and merging them into one.
“What?!”
Seeing that the Feather Book from Fa Liuyuan had also turned into a single page and actively merged into his own Feather Book, Zhang Yu was even more shocked.
Watching his Feather Book spiral out of control like this for the first time, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but wonder, “Is this Feather Book really the manifestation of my potential? Or is it… an external object just like the other books?”
“Is it precisely because it is an external object of an extremely high divine authority that it is going out of control like this?”
“But if that’s the case, why… does the Feather Book level up whenever Fu Ji enhances my potential?”
“Or could it be… that I ultimately fell into the Immortal Emperor’s trap? Is it a method deployed by the Immortal Emperor that caused the Feather Book to lose control and forcibly merge?”
A flurry of thoughts flashed through Zhang Yu’s mind like lightning as the two Feather Books before him were about to become one.
Yet right at this moment, a woman’s voice rang out from Zhang Yu’s Feather Book.
“Hmph! You’re exactly what I’ve been waiting for!”
Sensing this will, Zhang Yu was shocked once more. “Senior Supreme Truth?!”
The merged Feather Book trembled slightly, and in the next moment, two glimmers of light — one black and one white — were spat out, drilling back into Zhang Yu’s clone.
Immediately after, the female voice sounded again, though it now seemed infinitely weaker.
“My son, Zhang Yu, the will I left in your book back then was precisely to guard against the prying eyes of the Immortal Emperors.”
“You must remember, if you wish to defeat an Immortal Emperor, you must never let them see through your every detail.”
Zhang Yu’s heart stirred as the scene of Supreme Truth picking up the Feather Book that day surfaced in his mind.
He heard the will continue, “Fortunately… the methods of these two Immortal Emperors checked and balanced each other, so they likely did not notice… I have diverted them into your clone, rendering them temporarily unable to pry into the intelligence of your true body, but this has also exhausted all the power of this trace of my will…”
“From now on…”
“You will have to rely on yourself.”
As that trace of Supreme Truth’s will completely vanished, the fully merged Feather Book floated quietly before Zhang Yu, turning to a new page.
Shocked, Fu Ji asked, “What just happened? Was it the power left behind by Immortal Emperor Supreme Truth that protected us?”
The Sect Examination Clone said with deep emotion, “Mother used the final will she left before her death to once again… protect us from the clutches of those two Emperor Beasts!”
Herald God thought to himself, “Was it a method left behind by one of the two Immortal Emperors… that caused Zhang Yu’s Feather Book to lose control? And did that, in turn, trigger the method left behind even earlier by… Immortal Emperor Supreme Truth?”
Thinking up to this point, Herald God secretly marveled inwardly, “To think that a mere Zhang Yu could successively draw the secret interventions of three Immortal Emperors. He truly is a rare and precious commodity.”
At the same time, the Sect Examination Clone sighed. “I am… far too weak. If not for Mother’s help, I’m afraid I would have already fallen into a pit dug by who knows which Emperor Beast.”
Immortal Slayer said, “Everyone starts out weak before becoming strong. Senior Supreme Truth and Grandmaster Ying Xintian were only able to reach this stage because of the support and nurturing of their seniors as well. It is precisely this generational inheritance that allows a glimmer of hope to still exist in this world.”
“And now, this legacy has been passed into our hands.”
Zhang Yu nodded slightly and looked at the new page that had emerged in the Feather Book before him — the Immortal Foundation Chapter.
This was a new chapter born after Zhang Yu’s Feather Book was upgraded and merged with the Feather Book from Fa Liuyuan.
Zhang Yu looked at the information that appeared on the Immortal Foundation Chapter. On the left, it still displayed his innate talents along with the associated Dao Lineages.
On the right, it still showed [World-Domain Dao Lineage] and Dao-Seeking Progress: 0%.
Although Zhang Yu had been cultivating diligently these past few days, the increase in his Dao-Seeking Progress was clearly extremely slow, which made him realize… no wonder Fa Liuyuan had needed to possess a Feather Book for the long term.
“If I were to rely purely on bitter cultivation like this, even without bottlenecks, it would take years of gradual, painstaking effort to grind it up bit by bit.”
At this moment, however, an extra line of information had appeared beneath the Dao-Seeking Progress.
“Great Dao Essence? 36 points?”
As his eyes swept over it, Zhang Yu sensed the information from the Immortal Foundation Chapter to understand its functions.
“Checking innate talents and related Dao Lineages — there are no changes to these functions.”
“Dao-Seeking… is also the same as before the fusion; I can select a target Dao Lineage to improve, and switch at any time. The biggest difference is this Great Dao Essence.”
Zhang Yu thought to himself, “It is actually obtained… by devouring other Books?”
“The two low-grade Books I devoured earlier gave me 6 points of Great Dao Essence.”
“And devouring Fa Liuyuan’s Feather Book provided me with 30 points of Great Dao Essence.”
“As for the effect of this Great Dao Essence…”
With a single thought from Zhang Yu, that Great Dao Essence surged violently into his Dao-Seeking Progress.
In an instant, his Dao-Seeking Progress, which had remained at 0%, soared with a roar. First, it surged to 10%, then quickly broke through 20% and 30%, only stopping when it reached 36%.
Zhang Yu said in astonishment, “It can actually increase so dramatically?”
Immortal Slayer analyzed, “According to the intelligence we gathered earlier, these books seem to be used to inherit and connect… the Dao Lineages from ancient times to the present. Could the so-called Great Dao Essence be the key to this? Used by the Feather Book on us, deepening our connection with the World-Domain Dao Lineage?”
Zhang Yu nodded slightly, sensing the changes within himself at the same time.
Just as his Dao-Seeking Progress skyrocketed moments ago, he felt three layers of transformation take place in his body.
“First, when it broke through to 10%, my talent improved once again.”
Zhang Yu glanced at his spatial talent. His originally world-shaking talent had surprisingly improved further, becoming a the level 9 peerless talent, only one level away from the level 10 talent maximum.
At this moment, Zhang Yu felt that he had gained a fresh understanding of all the various spatial technologies he had previously mastered.
In later attempts, he discovered that even without relying on the specialization function of the Feather Book, learning any spatial technology cultivation art was effortless and remarkably fast for him. In as little as a few hours, or at most within a day… he could master it to the peak of his current cultivation realm.
“The second transformation occurred when my Dao-Seeking Progress reached 20%. My spatial technology capability directly improved, or perhaps… my spatial affinity increased?”
At this very moment, Zhang Yu felt increasingly familiar with the entire spatial structure of Kunxu. Whether it was spatial distortion, spatial teleportation, or spatial isolation… they had all improved tremendously in power, range, and efficiency.
Even manipulating the Immortal Grotto-Heaven had become ever smoother and more effortless.
“In my current state, the cost of running the transportation hub will be cut by more than 50%.”
“The final transformation occurred at 30%…”
As Zhang Yu’s thoughts shifted, a colossal change had already taken place within the entire Immortal Grotto-Heaven without anyone realizing it.
Gao Chongguang looked up, a slight look of surprise crossing his face. “Huh? Where did the other compartmentalized layers of the Immortal Grotto-Heaven go?”
Originally, although Zhang Yu had divided the Immortal Grotto-Heaven into twelve inner and outer layers, cultivators residing in the outer layers could still vaguely sense the presence of the inner layers and even glimpse faint spatial barriers.
At this moment, however, as Zhang Yu’s Dao-Seeking Progress reached 30%, his connection with the World-Domain Dao Lineage grew ever tighter. His execution of spatial technology became utterly seamless and natural, vastly increasing its concealment.
As a result, no trace of separation could be seen within the Immortal Grotto-Heaven anymore.
When the cultivators in the outer layer looked up at the sky, they could not sense the existence of any partition at all. They even felt as though the entire Immortal Grotto-Heaven consisted solely of the world before their eyes, spanning only the size of this outermost layer.
“Can 1 point of Great Dao Essence raise my Dao-Seeking Progress by 1%?”
Sensing the information from the Immortal Foundation Chapter, Zhang Yu instantly calculated, “In other words, I only need 22 low-grade Books, 7 mid-grade Books, or 3 high-grade Books to push my Dao-Seeking Progress to 100%.”
At this thought, Zhang Yu felt immensely invigorated. “If I can raise my Dao-Seeking Progress so quickly, does that mean I could… choose a few more Dao Lineages?”