Chapter 673: The Fifth Layer Completely Falls (Thanks to 'Mu Dong Chen Xi')

Chapter 673 The Fifth Layer Completely Falls (Thanks to 'Twilight Winter Dawn' for the Alliance Leader donation)

Just as Zhang Yu buried himself in arduous cultivation, more than three months had passed since the connection between heaven and earth was established and the six layers vanished.

Every night, when the cultivators of the Second Layer looked up, they could see the skies of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Layers.

And at the highest point of those layered night skies, the heavens belonging to the Fifth Layer were perpetually engulfed in fierce crossfire; streaks of lightning and scorching flames constantly exploding out were like twinkling stars, continuously blooming with light in the darkness.

But at some unknown time, the intensity of the crossfire in the Fifth Layer's night sky began to decline steadily, the twinkling stars becoming fewer and fewer, until one night, people could no longer see any trace of battle within it.

Countless hearts among the people of the Second Layer surged with a guess... The Fifth Layer had been captured.

As if responding to everyone's speculation, accompanying the end of the war on the Fifth Layer, a black canopy descended between the sky of the Fifth Layer and the sky of the Fourth Layer, completely blocking all prying eyes.

From that day on, observers of the Second Layer could no longer observe the situation of Kunxu's Fifth Layer; no one knew what shape the Fifth Layer behind the canopy had become, nor what events would unfold.

Everyone could only see that layer of black canopy standing high above the horizon, quietly situated there, reminding the people below of the failure of the Fifth Layer's resistance.

In correspondence with this, the Fourth Layer in the night sky began to light up with the fires of war; speckles of combat brilliance seemed determined to illuminate the entire night sky, telling people of the brutal battles erupting within.

Changes in the celestial phenomena seemed to remind everyone to accelerate their actions.

For Zhang Yu, it was the same; watching the black canopy in the video, he felt a torrent surging toward the Second Layer step by step, in an unstoppable manner.

He needed a higher realm, stronger power to face this torrent.

……

Although focused on cultivation, recently Zhang Yu still spent a minute or two scanning the news every day while cultivating, to avoid being completely cut off from the outside world.

At this moment, streams of news floated forth within his Eye Skeleton.

"Tianyao University is deeply embroiled in a riot by lower-level demon descendants; yesterday another campus pharmaceutical factory of Tianyao University was attacked. The factory owner claimed the economic loss exceeded 5,000 Spirit Coins. This is already the 12th case this month where economic losses surpassed 3,000 Spirit Coins..."

"Tianmo University raised taxes again, intending to increase anti-banditry expenditures. It is reported that the population of poverty and unemployment at Tianmo University has reached a historic high; some Golden Core cultivators have been forced to sell their Golden Cores..."

"Youming University experienced a collective demonic transformation event; over a thousand cultivators became members of the Demon Sect, blowing open the Central Corpse Repository. The Unemployed Sect claimed responsibility, planning this virus incident. Three Nascent Soul True Lords went bankrupt due to this event..."

Zhang Yu glanced at the news and seemed to see wealthy individuals from other schools drowning in trouble, with someone going bankrupt almost every day.

Then he scanned the internal school news.

"Our school has launched special activities such as cracking down on bandits again, recovering multiple campuses. Currently, the number of factories operating normally accounts for 34% of the total number of factories operating normally on the Second Layer, ranking first on the Second Layer..."

"To adapt to the current economic environment and reasonably adjust material distribution, our school has launched the fifteenth drug price adjustment. Striving for the rich to have medicine to eat, further strictly controlling the resource acquisition rate of Qi Refining cultivators, and cracking down on the black market. Experts claim this move benefits the corpse export industry, and related companies may welcome performance growth..."

In the footage, an expert said: "The school's policy has always been to strictly protect the interests of Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators, and guarantee the basic survival of Foundation Establishment cultivators. Qi Refining? After natural adjustment, once a certain number die, the supplies will be sufficient. The main reason the economy has not recovered for so long is that there are too many low-quality populations like Qi Refining, dragging down the university..."

Watching the internal school news, Zhang Yu could feel that the living environment for the wealthy within the school was good; the interests of Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators were being strictly protected.

The rich get richer, are more valuable, should receive more supplies, and have more right to live. As for the poor, well, if they die, it serves them right; who asked you to have no money? This was the normal thinking of Kunxu people.

Zhang Yu: "Truly speechless..."

Furthermore, as a second-generation student, Zhang Yu knew better that the four Deity Transformations of the school were currently like four black holes, crazily swallowing massive amounts of funds and resources, or constantly exchanging resources with the school, all solely to improve their cultivation.

Zhang Yu thought silently: "Deity Transformation is like nuclear weapons in various countries on Earth. All top leaders of the ten major universities understand that to deal with the upcoming war, they must go all out to prioritize protecting the power of Deity Transformation."

The environment seemed to be deteriorating day by day.

Facing the enemies gradually descending from the sky, everyone was doing their utmost to prepare.

……

In the blink of an eye, another month passed.

Zhang Yu's Dao Heart reached Level 27 (11.47%), his Mana reached 3,785 units, and his Physical Strength improved to the level of 28.01.

At this moment, it had only been four months since he broke through to Golden Core, and merely three months since he completed the Golden Core Saint Body.

"Although during this period, because the Dao Heart couldn't keep up, nearly half the time and resources were divided to cultivate the Dao Heart, failing to reach the original goal of raising Physical Strength to Level 30 in three months."

"But a Level 27 Dao Heart, Level 28 Physical Strength..." Zhang Yu thought silently: "My data for these two items has firmly reached the level of late-stage Golden Core. Only Mana remains at the mid-to-early stage of the Golden Core realm."

Besides the improvement of basic data, Zhang Yu's Gang Qi transmission distance also rose accordingly, reaching the level of 312 meters.

With the continuous injection of potions, the physical expression factors required for the Seventh and Eighth Layers of the Dao Foundation fully manifested.

Among them, the Hunyuan Yiqi Dao Foundation could stabilize blood and qi, effectively resist various diseases, stabilize injuries, and offset part of the injury with mana.

The Xuehai Wuliang Dao Foundation could increase blood and qi, make physical endurance more lasting, and comprehensively improve resistance to all types of physical strikes.

With a loud bang. Yu Xinghan was suddenly blasted backward, his body spiraling and rolling several times, shedding force repeatedly, only managing to stop with great difficulty.

He looked at Zhang Yu with a surprised face: "What is your Physical Strength now?"

During the test just now, Yu Xinghan felt that Zhang Yu's martial arts skills had hardly improved at all, but relied purely on an unreasonable, brute force, blasting him away with an absolute gap.

Zhang Yu smiled slightly and did not answer Yu Xinghan.

He knew that breaking through to Golden Core and then skyrocketing basic data to this extent in just over four months would inevitably seem incredible to outsiders.

And if others knew his current cultivation expenses, they would probably fall into shock.

"A monthly expenditure of hundreds of Spirit Coins for leveling; if a Golden Core cultivator cultivated like this for a few years, that would be an expenditure of tens of thousands of Spirit Coins. Even so, a few years might not be enough for those ordinary cultivators to cultivate to the peak of Golden Core."

Zhang Yu thought silently: "Fortunately, with my peerless talent and efficiency, I shouldn't stay in Golden Core for as long as a few years."

But for Zhang Yu, he only despised that all this improvement was still too slow.

To assault Nascent Soul, besides Dao Heart, Mana, and Physical Strength needing to meet standards, the Dao Foundation and Extraordinary Meridians also needed to be completed.

Regarding the Dao Foundation, Zhang Yu could simply rely on injecting potions; at most, the 13th Layer Dao Foundation would require more time and money.

But the opening of the Extraordinary Meridians would subsequently require him to do it step by step himself.

Besides these, the quality of Mana was also better the higher it was.

"Mana, Mana Quality, and the 10 Extraordinary Meridians; these, after I finish training the Dao Heart and Physical Strength, I will do together."

"After finishing these, the remainder is the personalized customization service for Nascent Soul before assaulting Nascent Soul, which also requires spending a large amount of time and money."

On the other side, after sparring with Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan pushed three objects resembling ash boxes in front of Zhang Yu: "I have not failed my mission. Zhao Tianxing, Mo Tianyi, and Hu Yuntao, the three of them are inside."

Zhang Yu's gaze moved, looking at the three boxes before him, and said to Yu Xinghan: "Thank you for your hard work."

With the descent of the Blood Moon, universities everywhere turned into information islands at night, causing Soul Cultivators to be unable to work remotely at night.

In addition, colleges were becoming increasingly chaotic and unsafe.

So Zhang Yu provided manpower and funding, bringing his Soul Cultivator friends over.

Moments later, accompanied by the successful transfer of consciousness, three Taihao Holy Law Flying Swords floated up beside Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu said: "Next, you will serve as Sword Spirits for a while and live inside the flying swords."

Zhao Tianxing, full of gratitude, said: "Thank you, Mr. Zhang. If not for you, I wouldn't know what to do next. You even provide us with free accommodation..."

Under such chaos, Zhao Tianxing and the others were naturally infinitely grateful to Zhang Yu for bringing them to a safe area like Wanfa University.

Zhao Tianxing and the three of them secretly resolved that after continuing to work at Zhang Yu's company to save up some money, they would find a way to move into the Calculation Pool of Wanfa University.

After arranging things for Zhao Tianxing and the others, Zhang Yu began new procurement of cultivation materials.

Watching the prices continue to rise, he thought silently: "It seems that pushing Golden Core cultivation earlier, buying cultivation materials continuously for the past three months, actually turned out to be profitable in hindsight."

Just as Zhang Yu continued to devote himself wholeheartedly to cultivation, just as he thought he could quietly cultivate until Nascent Soul just like the past four months.

One matter dragged him out, making him feel the helplessness of wanting the tree to be quiet but the wind would not cease beneath the tide of the era.

……

This day.

Fu Ji interrupted Zhang Yu's cultivation and said, "Zhang Yu, I feel something is amiss."

While circulating his body-refining technique, Zhang Yu said, "What is wrong?"

Fu Ji said, "Yu Xinghan, Shi Huaiyu, and the others clashed with people at the construction site."

"Clash?" Zhang Yu asked in confusion, "Did they give out my name?"

Fu Ji said, "They did give out your name, yet the other party still sought trouble with Yu Xinghan. That is what makes it strange."

"Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan is a devotee of the Evil God. He and Shi Huaiyu know much concerning you. If he encounters trouble, it will surely be no small headache."

Zhang Yu furrowed his brow, a decision already formed in his heart to ask his sister to investigate the other party's background.

(End of Chapter)