Chapter 646: Dao Seed Activation Conditions, Fighting for Tens of Thousands of Jihu Users

Chapter 646: Conditions for Awakening the Dao Seed, Fighting for the Myriad Ji Hu Users

Seeing this, Zhang Yu's heart trembled, and he thought to himself, "Almost all of Zhen's assets are on her person; staking her life on this battle is no different from selling one's house to speculate in the stock market."

In this moment, Zhang Yu sensed the unwavering resolve in her heart.

"Leaving her lower body to me, letting me take over at the first opportunity... was it so I could return the spiritual root and avoid leaving any flaws?"

"To have even considered this detail, Zhen has truly made up her mind."

He instinctively wanted to persuade Bai Zhenzhen not to fight so desperately against Kuang Tianqing, but feeling the steadfastness and determination in her words over and over, he knew his words would be in vain.

"This Top Ten Tournament is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Zhen; how could I possibly persuade her to give it up?"

"Just as no one could dissuade me from my resolve to fight for first place, who could dissuade her?"

Zhang Yu sighed, seemingly recalling the days in high school when the two of them had firmly resolved to get into the Top Ten.

"On this path of the Immortal Dao, how many have walked it without risking bankruptcy at every turn? Without giving it their all? And who has the right to tell another to give up?"

Zhang Yu shook his head, secretly making a vow: "If Zhen truly falls in battle, even if it means sinking into massive debt, I will bring her back to life."

Ending his connection with Bai Zhenzhen, Zhang Yu turned his gaze back to the corpse of Dao Qiankun before him.

Ever since Dao Qiankun's body had been placed in the mourning hall, Zhang Yu had been continuously trying to sense the Dao Seed within the corpse, attempting to replicate it.

It was only recently that the Dao Seed on Dao Qiankun's corpse finally stabilized and manifested in his vision, allowing Zhang Yu to perceive the information it contained.

"To elevate Dao Qiankun's physical body to the state of perfection attainable in its current form."

"How is this to be done?"

Staring at the corpse before him, Zhang Yu truly could not fathom how a corpse could be elevated. How could it reach a state of perfection? Could it be that he had to resurrect the man first?

"In the end, I will only know if I try."

After a moment's thought, Zhang Yu approached Dao Qiankun, cupped his hands in a respectful salute, and said, "Brother Dao, what I am about to do is for your own good."

"If you have any objections, just say so, and I will change it immediately."

Having spoken these words, Zhang Yu began to wipe down Dao Qiankun's corpse.

During the process, the artifact spirit of Dao Qiankun flickered into existence from time to time due to Zhang Yu's touch, chatting idly with him.

After finishing, Zhang Yu tilted his head and thought to himself, "Was it useless?"

Next, Zhang Yu tried massaging the corpse, stretching its legs and feet to exercise its tendons and bones...

Zhang Yu made these attempts daily in his spare time, constantly checking the condition of the corpse, yet even until the day before his battle with Tian Shenggong, he had still not succeeded.

"Sigh, what exactly does it mean to elevate the physical body to a state of perfection?"

Zhang Yu thought, "How could the conditions given by the Dao Seed Manual be so vague?"

Just as Zhang Yu felt a wave of helplessness, the artifact spirit emerging from the corpse suddenly spoke: "Data lost in the left mana circuit module; mana circulation precision decreased by three percent, but operation can continue."

Zhang Yu was slightly taken aback, thinking, "Is this a status report on Brother Dao's magic skeleton?"

"Brother Dao hasn't been dead for long, and the magic skeleton is already malfunctioning?"

Zhang Yu pressed his palm against the back of the corpse, injecting his mana into it to probe the magic skeleton on Dao Qiankun's body.

He thought to himself, "Hmm?"

"This magic skeleton and this corpse do not seem to be in harmony."

"Does physical perfection have something to do with this?"

Unfortunately, Zhang Yu was not given much time; the semifinals were about to begin, so he could only leave the mourning hall with a lingering trace of doubt in his heart.

Returning to the flying ship, Zhang Yu began to install the brand-new Seven Absolutes Magic Skeleton.

The projection of True Lord Xianyin descended, looking at Zhang Yu and saying, "Time is too tight. This modified Seven Absolutes Magic Skeleton has not undergone much debugging, so there may be many aspects you will need to adjust in actual combat."

As piece after piece of the magic skeleton was loaded onto his body and surging mana connected them one by one, Zhang Yu felt waves of immense power coursing back and forth within him.

Zhang Yu took a deep breath, feeling the entirely new changes within his body, and said, "My thanks to all the True Lords."

"This new Seven Absolutes Magic Skeleton is exactly what I wanted."

Watching Zhang Yu's retreating figure, True Lord Anzhen asked, "Has this new Seven Absolutes Magic Skeleton reached military grade?"

True Lord Xianyin replied, "Without passing the evaluation, it will not be officially classified as military grade."

"But looking solely at performance, I can only say that after our modifications, this Seven Absolutes Magic Skeleton can be called a monster among Grade Twenty magical treasures, possessing the potential for military grade."

"As for its specific performance, it remains to be seen how Zhang Yu will use it."

...

Meanwhile, with the opening of the Top Ten Tournament semifinals, the popularity of live streams across major platforms had surged violently. In particular, various advertisements related to Ji Hu flowed endlessly, almost making one think the entire tournament was sponsored by Ji Hu.

Countless Ji Hu fans from countless schools were all focusing on this battle, eager to witness the moment Tian Shenggong would use the power of Ji Hu to thoroughly defeat Zhang Yu.

Conversely, the championship favorite Kuang Tianqing received little attention today; after all, in the eyes of the vast majority of the audience, Kuang Tianqing would win this match just as easily as the last.

In the waiting area.

Kuang Tianqing looked at Bai Zhenzhen before him, a hint of surprise in his eyes: "Bai Zhenzhen, I can sense the fighting spirit in your heart."

"It seems you have made up your mind for today's battle."

Kuang Tianqing smiled: "Truly a practitioner of the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao; even knowing the vast gap between us, you still choose to fight."

"I don't know whether to call you brave or foolish."

Hearing this, Bai Zhenzhen's gaze shifted, and she faced him, saying, "Kuang Tianqing, I will give my all in this battle."

"I will shatter every ounce of the humiliation you have left for me and for Zhang Yu."

Kuang Tianqing grinned: "Then I shall taste your flavor on the battlefield."

In the next moment, the two were enveloped in layers of divine light, shooting straight into the sky and flying toward the battlefield.

At the same time, on the other side, Tian Shenggong had already arrived before Zhang Yu and directly started his live stream.

"Zhang Yu," Tian Shenggong began, "Are you ready? After you lose, you will change into a Ji Hu magic skeleton. I have already prepared it for you."

Zhang Yu evaluated without yielding an inch: "A Ji Hu provocation."

As they spoke, the two were likewise transported onto the battlefield.

With a loud shout from Tian Shenggong, the colossal puppet beneath his feet shot into the sky, floating in mid-air like a fortress.

"Zhang Yu, in today's battle, I fight not only for the Immortal Armaments and for Ji Hu, but even more for the millions of students across the world who cannot afford high-end magic skeletons or expensive magical treasures."

"To let everyone in the world use the highest-performance products, to push this world to peak performance, ensuring everything is used to its fullest and every person to their utmost potential, I must not only defeat you, but also defeat Kuang Tianqing and claim first place in this Top Ten Tournament!"

Tian Shenggong's voice echoed over the battlefield like rolling thunder, heard not only by Zhang Yu but also by the countless viewers watching the live stream, instantly sparking a chorus of cheers in the Spirit Realm.

On the other side of the land, surging torrents burst forth, transforming the earth into a vast expanse of water in the blink of an eye.

Simultaneously, the sun formed by the Heavenly Sun Radiant God rose from these floods, casting blinding rays that illuminated heaven and earth.

Zhang Yu had no objections to either Wandao or Ji Hu; in his eyes, it was all just commercial competition within Kunxu, with no one being nobler than another.

However, since Wandao had now invested in advertisements and sponsored his named moves, and also for the sake of his own popularity, Zhang Yu naturally would not remain silent at this moment.

Thus, Zhang Yu was seen stepping out from within this sun step by step, looking at Tian Shenggong and declaring loudly, "Tian Shenggong, does your so-called using everything to its fullest and every person to their utmost potential simply mean endlessly plagiarizing and endlessly stitching things together?"

Tian Shenggong let out a cold snort, saying, "Every Jihu product is independently developed; if you take issue with it, feel free to sue."

As he spoke, the colossal puppet beneath his feet shuddered, shedding countless components and modules like flakes of skin and swarming lice, which coalesced in midair into automatons half the height of a man.

"Zhang Yu! I know you hail from the Earthworks division and excel at spell arrays, so today, face my Jihu Array-Shattering Strike."

The smaller automatons shed from the colossus burrowed straight into the earth, tearing through bedrock and reshaping the ley lines, denying Zhang Yu the slightest opportunity to lay his arrays.

"This is the Jihu Earthworks Construction Brigade, and under their relentless terraforming, you shall not weave a single array today."

"Now, face my next move, Sea-Filling Strike!"

The colossal puppet clawed at the empty air with both palms, unleashing a thunderous burst of invisible Earth-Fiend gravity that caused distant mountain ranges to abruptly crumble.

"This is the Jihu Earth-Fiend Module, capable of channeling anti-gravity waves to pulverize mountains and shatter stone."

Watching the massive avalanche of rock surge toward the torrent conjured by the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor, as if to bury the waters entirely, Tian Shenggong threw back his head and laughed, "Even if you were to summon an entire ocean today, I would fill it all the same."

"Now endure my Force-Breaker, Sword-Breaker, and Fire-Breaker—three strikes in one!"

At Tian Shenggong's sharp command, a constellation of orbs materialized behind the colossus, twelve spheres orbiting its frame and erupting with surges of Earth-Fiend gravity to counter the mountain-moving divine might of Heavenly Kunlun.

Within the puppet's core, massive fluctuations of spiritual energy violently erupted, striving to suppress the Taihao Holy Law Sword Array.

Across the hull of every automaton, a layer of luminescent fluorescence bloomed, showcasing Jihu's latest high-temperature resistance technology.

Witnessing this spectacle, a sudden realization dawned upon Zhang Yu: "Have you made targeted preparations for every single one of my techniques?"

"Yet all these preparations..."

Scenes and streams of data from the battlefield flickered within Zhang Yu's eye sockets as he mused inwardly, "The technologies you employ are all merely derivative of the Myriad Methods, aren't they?"

"Truly, the Jihu combat doctrine lives up to its name. End of this chapter."