Chapter 332: Bai Zhenzhen Is Practicing Her Sword, Zhang Yu Is Thawing

Chapter 332: Bai Zhenzhen Practices Swordplay, Zhang Yu Thaws Out

After Le Mulan awakened her Dao Seed, the Deep Chill Meridian, Zhang Yu eagerly replicated this Dao Seed into his Dao Seed Compendium.

Thus, in addition to the Third Eye Divine Power (Spiritual Root) at Level 1, the Dao Seed Compendium now also included the Deep Chill Meridian (Magical Power) at Level 1.

Upon activating the Deep Chill Meridian, Zhang Yu’s entire body fell into a state of stagnation. His consciousness grew hazy, and his perception of the outside world became blurred.

At that moment, his thoughts also seemed to stagnate unprecedentedly due to the influence of the Deep Chill Meridian.

Zhang Yu could barely sense that some indescribable changes were taking place within his body under the astonishing deep chill.

He had no idea how much time had passed when he suddenly felt a warmth on his back, as if something soft was pressing against him, driving away the chill within his body and bringing him threads of warmth.

With his thoughts frozen stiff, Zhang Yu couldn’t think. He only instinctively craved this warmth. As his body gradually regained mobility, he subconsciously embraced this warm, soft presence.

Slowly, Zhang Yu began to regain his senses, feeling something flickering before his eyes.

"Hmm?"

"Someone is contacting me?"

Zhang Yu, still somewhat dazed, clicked on the other party’s avatar and suddenly remembered something. "Right, is it time for my call with A’Zhen today?"

His thoughts still moving slowly, Zhang Yu subconsciously accepted the communication request.

The next moment, Bai Zhenzhen’s spiritual realm projection appeared in his vision.

Seeing A’Zhen covered in sweat, steaming all over, and emitting white vapor, Zhang Yu asked, "Just finished exercising?"

A’Zhen nodded, wiping the sweat from her forehead, and asked curiously, "Just finished practicing swordplay. Why did it take you so long to answer the call today?"

Zhang Yu was slightly taken aback and thought to himself, "I was just..."

As his cognitive abilities gradually recovered, the day’s various experiences flashed through his mind, finally settling on Le Mulan’s Dao Seed.

He thought, "Huh? After using Le Mulan’s Dao Seed, I seemed to have passed out for a while?"

At that moment, looking at the steaming Bai Zhenzhen before him, Zhang Yu suddenly felt warmth on his own body, as if heat were continuously radiating from A’Zhen across the spiritual network.

"Why is it a bit hot? It can’t be that A’Zhen’s heat is affecting me through the spiritual network, can it?"

The next moment, Zhang Yu abruptly realized what was happening.

With the activation of the Third Eye Divine Power, he saw Le Mulan behind him, wrapped around him like an octopus, pressed tightly against him.

Zhang Yu quickly sent a private message to Le Mulan through his spiritual device: What are you doing?

Just as he was about to stand up, he felt a pair of long, powerful thighs tightly gripping his waist, transmitting waves of scorching heat.

At the same time, messages from Le Mulan rapidly appeared.

Le Mulan: Don’t move. You were frozen stiff by my magical power. I’m using my energy to warm you up.

Le Mulan: Just now, all your magical power seemed frozen. It was too dangerous.

To warm Zhang Yu, Le Mulan had deliberately stimulated her entire body’s blood flow to raise her temperature, making her feel incredibly hot.

At that moment, her legs and torso were covered in a sticky sweat, clinging to both their skins.

Le Mulan: Your body has mostly thawed now. Let me warm your dantian a bit more.

Le Mulan: Don’t rush or move around recklessly, or you might sustain hidden injuries.

The next moment, Le Mulan’s hands reached out from behind, gently pressing against Zhang Yu’s lower abdomen.

Zhang Yu: "Hiss!"

Bai Zhenzhen asked curiously, "Yu Zi, what’s wrong?"

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "I absolutely cannot tell the truth. If A’Zhen finds out, she’ll definitely laugh at me and look down on me."

Frowning, Zhang Yu said, "I’m practicing my cultivation."

At the same time, he quietly adjusted the communication mode to display only the upper half of his body.

Meanwhile, Le Mulan’s hands moved downward, and her surprised voice came from behind Zhang Yu’s head: "Huh? This part isn’t frozen."

Zhang Yu took a deep breath and abruptly gripped Le Mulan’s hands, stopping her from moving any further.

Zhang Yu: I’m fine. If you keep moving around, I’ll charge you.

Le Mulan: I should have paid you long ago. How much do you want?

Fuji, watching this scene, thought to herself, "Tsk? With such little self-control, you still want to go to the Joy Union University? Just a little virgin boy."

At the same time, Bai Zhenzhen, seeing Zhang Yu’s strange behavior, showed a hint of disdain. "You little rascal."

"Are you at it again?"

"Tsk, no wonder it took you so long to connect."

"Are you seriously doing that while talking to me right now?"

Bai Zhenzhen sighed. "Sigh, as soon as you started university and I wasn’t around, you began to indulge."

"I should have helped you cut off the root of trouble before I left."

Zhang Yu’s face flushed. "What nonsense are you talking about! I’m not Yu Xinghan!"

Bai Zhenzhen said, "Then stretch out your hands, both of them."

Zhang Yu, who was using both hands to hold Le Mulan’s hands, was momentarily stunned.

The next moment, just as he realized he needed to use his martial energy, he saw the disdain on Bai Zhenzhen’s face deepen. She curled her lip and said, "Fine, I know you all too well. If you want to watch me do it, go ahead. What are brothers for? If I don’t help you, who will?"

"Damn it..." Zhang Yu said angrily, "I’m not doing anything!"

"Uh-huh, uh-huh." Bai Zhenzhen glanced sideways at him and changed the subject.

A moment later, as the communication ended, Zhang Yu looked at Le Mulan beside him. "You..."

"Sigh, my lifelong reputation has been ruined by you."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "How will A’Zhen see me from now on?"

"I feel like I’ll never be able to hold my head up in front of her again."

Le Mulan hesitated and asked, "Were you... communicating with someone just now?"

"Yes," Zhang Yu said irritably. "Let me tell you, from now on, you’re not allowed to touch me without my permission. Do you hear me?"

Le Mulan explained, "I was afraid you’d get frostbite. Your condition just now was really frightening."

Hearing Le Mulan’s words, Zhang Yu remembered. "Right, the Deep Chill Meridian."

He quickly sensed the changes within his body and saw that the magical power throughout his body carried threads of chill, flowing through his meridians like clusters of ice crystals.

His entire meridian system seemed to have turned into ice and snow, making his body temperature much lower than usual.

Zhang Yu tested it slightly and discovered that his magical power could now activate a type of chill toxin. This toxin could follow his magical power and its derivatives, such as martial energy, and inject it into others’ bodies.

Initially, this chill toxin went unnoticed, but after gradually accumulating, it would suddenly erupt, capable of freezing the target’s blood, energy, and magical power.

"Chill toxin? This has increased the power of my martial energy again."

Zhang Yu thought about how both he and Le Mulan had been frozen stiff earlier. It was likely the result of this chill toxin appearing in their bodies for the first time, before they had adapted to it.

However, after this adaptation, using the Deep Chill Meridian in the future would no longer cause such problems.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "When I replicated the Deep Chill Meridian earlier and was frozen stiff, even if Le Mulan hadn’t intervened, nothing would have happened in the end."

However, Le Mulan did not know that I could replicate her Dao Seed... Ah, forget it, I can't blame her.

Zhang Yu recalled his encounter with Cong Na earlier that day and thought to himself, "If I had possessed this Deep Cold Law Vein during the fight with Cong Na today, it would likely have been a bit easier."

Following this, Zhang Yu conducted a series of experiments on himself.

Observing the frozen Gang Qi in his palm and testing its hardened state, he mused inwardly, "Freezing Gang Qi doesn't seem useful only against enemies; it can also alter the form of my own Gang Qi."

Just as Zhang Yu was lost in thought, Le Mulan beside him exclaimed in surprise, "You also possess my Frost Law Power?"

Zhang Yu had no intention of hiding this, as unlike the Three-Eyes Divine Ability, it was far too easy to expose.

Thus, he nodded and said, "It might have been influenced by you during your breakthrough."

In subsequent experiments and perceptions, Zhang Yu also discovered that under the effect of the Deep Cold Law Vein, his magic power could eliminate pathogens, freeze wounds, and provide a certain therapeutic effect.

"Not bad."

"But how to apply it specifically still requires further study."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Besides, I need to see if there are other effects I haven't yet discovered..."

At that moment, Zhang Yu's gaze sharpened slightly as he felt the flow of the Frost Law Power. He thought with disbelief, "Could it be?"

After consuming large quantities of life-shortening drugs to consolidate his foundation and continuously revitalizing his body for repairs, Zhang Yu had developed a sharper sense of his own lifespan depletion, or rather, the loss of life essence within him.

And at this very moment, he suddenly felt that under the influence of the Deep Cold Law Vein, the depletion of his lifespan seemed to have slowed down slightly.

"Could this Deep Cold Law Vein... slow the loss of lifespan?"

"Could it extend life?"

Zhang Yu wasn't entirely certain; he felt the details required further investigation.

After some contemplation, he still shared this possibility with Le Mulan beside him.

Upon hearing this, Le Mulan was also startled. "My magic power has such an effect?"

She pondered thoughtfully, "Then we need to study it carefully."

"I'll use the resources of the Pharmacy College to conduct some experiments."

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Before that, let's not disclose any related information to avoid unnecessary trouble."

As he spoke, Zhang Yu looked at the Dao Seed on Le Mulan's chest.

In his perception, the next upgrade of the Deep Cold Law Vein required elevating the quality of magic power to 200%.

"This isn't something that can be accomplished in a short time."

"I wonder what changes the next level of the Deep Cold Law Vein will bring."

Over the next few days, Zhang Yu continued to experiment with the effects of the Deep Cold Law Vein while balancing work and cultivation.

One day, on the construction site of the tomb, a human-shaped Gang Qi materialized behind Zhang Yu.

However, unlike the ethereal and unstable human-shaped Gang Qi he had casually created in the past, this one not only exuded a chilling cold but also possessed a unique texture.

In Zhang Yu's perception, this human-shaped Gang Qi contained ice-crystal-like bones inside, formed from the Gang Qi he had frozen.

"Using frozen Gang Qi as bones..."

Zhang Yu watched as the human-shaped Gang Qi performed various tasks under his control. He thought to himself, "This way, the efficiency of Gang Qi in transmitting force is higher, but the consumption of magic power increases, and the speed of the human-shaped Gang Qi slows down."

Suddenly, a swirl of Gang Qi swept before him, seemingly grabbing something.

Zhang Yu's gaze sharpened as he saw wisps of white powder falling from it.

"This is... medicinal powder? No, it's flour."

"Where did this flour come from?"

After a thorough search, Zhang Yu suddenly turned his gaze toward the direction of the secret passage.

Activating the ritual power within him, the footage from the surveillance cameras appeared before his eyes.

Observing the scene within, Zhang Yu's heart trembled, and a bolt of shock flashed through his mind: "The territory of the Dark Seed?"

(End of Chapter)