Chapter 687: Zhang Yu's Nascent Soul! (Combined)

Chapter 687 Zhang Yu's Nascent Soul! (Combined)

Since breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm not long ago, the first thing Zhang Yu did was naturally begin cultivating the Immortal Sect technique, Kunlun in the Palm.

He cultivated continuously, cultivated without cease, pushing this technique toward the peak of level 40 Nascent Soul.

With every level increase of the technique, its power became more vast; not only could the range of execution constantly expand, but the control over captured targets also grew more exquisite.

Especially during the cultivation process, combining the power of Descendant of Immortals with Kunlun in the Palm allowed him to reveal even more of its intricacies.

Thus gradually, Zhang Yu discovered that besides ordinary items, he could also capture air currents and sounds, sucking them into the space opened by Descendant of Immortals to create a silent void.

Then he captured vast amounts of spiritual energy, vast amounts of heat, Earth Fiend gravity... manufacturing a cold, desolate world.

Later he further discovered he could capture light, dragging lamp light, electric light, firelight... all sorts of radiance into the space opened by Descendant of Immortals, able to create a domain of absolute darkness.

And these were merely the capturing capabilities of Kunlun in the Palm combined with Descendant of Immortals.

Besides capturing, Zhang Yu was also capable of releasing.

At this very moment, when absolute darkness and silence descended upon Feng Yuhao, Fu Xinyao, and Ping Han, two people and one soul, tension and panic inevitably rose in their hearts.

Facing this situation, they each made different choices due to differences in cultivation, experience, and ability.

Vast lightning surged out from Feng Yuhao, as if trying to forcibly break through the darkness before him with power accumulated within his body.

But the lightning had barely erupted before it was endlessly swallowed into the darkness ahead, like a matchstick, lit up again and again, extinguished again and again.

Amidst this flickering light, Fu Xinyao retreated violently backward with all her might, wanting only to escape the darkness before her, to escape this eerie environment.

Ping Han began to vibrate with all his strength.

But in the next instant, whether Feng Yuhao, Fu Xinyao, or Ping Han, they all saw a faint light ignite from the center of that bottomless darkness.

As the light grew brighter, Zhang Yu's figure gradually emerged behind it, and Feng Yuhao then realized that the surging light was flowing from Zhang Yu's clasped palms.

In the next moment, Zhang Yu's hands transformed like blazing suns, rising slowly from that endless darkness.

Surging power exploded from Zhang Yu's palms, tearing through the darkness in an instant, drowning everything before his eyes.

It was like in the deep, dark universe, a great explosion suddenly swept in.

Boom!

Violent tremors and explosions engulfed Feng Yuhao's body; feeling the familiar thunder-fire within the blast, he was horrified in his heart: Is this the Taoist art I just cast?

He swallowed my Taoist art and then hit me back with it?

On the other side, Fu Xinyao hiding behind Feng Yuhao had already been blown away half her body, completely losing consciousness, fainting dead away.

Like having attacked himself with full force, Feng Yuhao struggled to stand up, then saw Zhang Yu floating slowly down from mid-air.

Looking at the Feng Yuhao revealed by the explosion before him, Zhang Yu thought silently: Indeed, the data level of Nascent Soul Peak...

Zhang Yu understood very well that while he forcefully rushed to Nascent Soul during the Golden Core stage and completed the breakthrough quickly, he lacked far too much accumulation; the military-grade powers once used to sweep aside enemies were now still at Foundation Establishment level 20.

So even though he was now in the Nascent Soul realm, his hard power was among the weakest tier within Nascent Souls; he feared he couldn't defeat most Nascent Souls...

Of course, this was excluding Immortal Sect techniques.

If casting Kunlun in the Palm and Descendant of Immortals, then Zhang Yu was confident that the vast majority of Nascent Soul cultivators would not be able to hurt him before his mana exhausted.

Even under my full strength, except for Deity Transformation, no one can stop me!

And at this very moment, was the time for Zhang Yu to exert his full strength.

Seeing him block the opponent's killing move with Immortal Sect techniques, he had already used this intense explosion and vibration to unleash his own distress signal.

Full defense + full request for aid!

In an instant, the Spirit Realm Network inside and outside the laboratory was instantly activated, the Nine Heavens Primordial Yang Tower crashed down, sweeping across all directions.

In the next moment, as the intent of the Divine Lord of Magnetic Pole fell into the battlefield, Feng Yuhao felt his entire Dharma Skeleton connection to his thoughts severed.

Damn it... Feng Yuhao's body slowly knelt to the ground, looking at Zhang Yu before him, thinking silently: Is this the power of Kunlun in the Palm?

Broke through to Nascent Soul not long ago, yet reached such power... no, this spatial power... could it be that Magnetic Pole breaking the spatial blockade relied not on herself... but on Zhang Yu?

Yes, so she has been stalling time all along, always giving Zhang Yu a chance, waiting for Zhang Yu's breakthrough.

Zhang Yu is the key to this war...

Realizing this point, Feng Yuhao was both excited and thrilled, feeling he had grasped a key piece of intelligence.

Suicide!

As long as I take this intelligence to the Righteous Alliance, its value is enough to make me...

But just as lightning-fast thoughts flowed through Feng Yuhao's brain, as he wanted to commit suicide, wanted to bring the intelligence to the Evil God, the Nine Heavens Primordial Yang Tower shook again, a force invaded his flesh through his Dharma Skeleton, directly cutting off the connection between his body and mind.

As thoughts gradually lost all control over the body and Dharma Skeleton, Feng Yuhao successively lost various perceptions of the outside world.

Darkness re-cloaked his vision, thoughts like falling into an endless abyss.

At this moment, Feng Yuhao, let alone committing suicide, even hearing or seeing anything... had become a luxury.

Damn it...

Feng Yuhao was shocked and angry in his heart: If not for being blasted and severely injured, I wouldn't be unable to withstand even a glance from Magnetic Pole's avatar, wouldn't be unable to have even a chance to commit suicide... Zhang Yu!

Zhang Yu!

Looking at Feng Yuhao twitching like a dead fish before him, Zhang Yu sighed in his heart: Under my full defense and full request for aid, how many below Deity Transformation can block it?

Then he looked toward the direction of the Nine Heavens Primordial Yang Tower and asked: Master, has he lost consciousness?

After a moment of silence, the voice of the Divine Lord of Magnetic Pole came from the Nine Heavens Primordial Yang Tower: Mm, I temporarily sealed his thoughts; someone will come to handle them later, you don't need to worry.

As the war progressed, various Immortal Dao technologies continued to innovate.

For example, to deal with the Dark Spirit Realm's resurrection function, Deity Transformations developed various technologies to seal consciousness and prevent suicide.

The Divine Lord of Magnetic Pole continued speaking: Your friend seems to have encountered trouble; since you have already broken through to Nascent Soul, solve it yourself.

I still have matters to attend to; arrangements after your breakthrough can be discussed later...

Watching the Nine Heavens Primordial Yang Tower disappear after speaking, Zhang Yu could feel the sense of haste between the other party's words and actions.

Looks like the pressure on the front line is great, Zhang Yu thought silently: Even with Master's Deity Transformation strength, he actually cannot spare time or energy to say a few more words?

At the same time, Zhang Yu had already received the intelligence left for him by the Divine Lord of Magnetic Pole.

My friend encountered trouble?

...

Just when Feng Yuhao was dispatched to capture Zhang Yu.

Another group of people was dispatched by Xiang Shen to capture another target.

Le Mulan. Xiang Shen looked at the data while thinking silently: Known Zhang Yu for eight years, lived together for five years, reportedly often contacted and preserved Zhang Yu's biological materials.

From this woman, perhaps many of Zhang Yu's secrets can be obtained.

Since Feng Yuhao and Fu Xinyao, Ping Han entered the laboratory and lost contact, Xiang Shen had a feeling: This capture might fail again.

Thinking of this, he already began urging the other side: Hurry up, after catching Le Mulan withdraw immediately, your side could be watched at any time.

...

Meanwhile, outside the underground factory.

Le Mulan's aura of chilling cold surged violently. Fighting her way back step by step, the four Golden Core cultivators behind her pursued relentlessly, about to encircle her within moments.

"These four Golden Cores possess immense strength."

Watching the four disguised Golden Cores, Le Mulan thought inwardly: "They are definitely not ordinary Upper Cadets or Lower Cadets who broke through without authorization."

"These four fellows must be from the Ten Schools... but how did they infiltrate the University City? Or were they originally cultivators of Wanfa University? Just having joined under the Evil God?"

"We have been fighting for over ten seconds. If we can hold out a little longer, reinforcements should arrive."

While Le Mulan pondered, she saw an invisible giant hand descend upon her, striking her away with a boom.

And at the instant Le Mulan landed, the four Golden Cores had already surrounded her front and back.

Watching the Golden Core cultivator who released the invisible giant hand, Le Mulan thought inwardly: "Qi Invisible Giant Hand Seal? Someone from the Finance Department?"

The Golden Core cultivator who released the Qi Invisible Giant Hand Seal to intercept Le Mulan was none other than Jiutian Liu, the top scholar originally of the Finance Department.

However, at this moment he was disguised as another female form, showing no trace of Jiutian Liu's original image or temperament.

"I never thought I would return so soon."

Jiutian Liu, returning to the University City again, felt somewhat emotional. In just over a year, the once familiar city had become an incredibly dangerous hostile environment.

Had the Evil God not issued a mission ordering him to capture Le Mulan, he probably would not have used the secret path left by the Finance Department, combined with the power of the Evil God ritual, to infiltrate his old grounds.

"Unfortunately, now is not the time for nostalgia."

Jiutian Liu knew that although the main strong ones of Wanfa University had gone to deal with the war, leaving the city currently empty, even so, every moment spent here increased the danger coefficient.

"Next time, I will return here openly and reclaim everything."

In the next instant, Jiutian Liu snorted coldly: "Attack."

But just as the four Golden Cores were about to strike, a powerful tremor transmitted over.

Immediately following, a figure flew rapidly towards the four of them. Seeing the attacking Zhang Yu, Jiutian Liu's heart jumped, but then his gaze hardened: "Capture him!"

As the executor of the mission to capture Le Mulan, Jiutian Liu naturally did not know the situation of Feng Yuhan capturing Zhang Yu on the other side.

Only at the very first moment Zhang Yu appeared, based on the intelligence currently possessed, did Jiutian Liu instinctively make his own judgment.

Jiutian Liu thought inwardly: "Zhang Yu broke through to Golden Core at the same time as us, just over a year ago."

"Even if he was once the strongest undergraduate, his accumulation time is insufficient now. We are four working together. With four against one, the possibility of defeating him is considerable."

At the same time as the four of Jiutian Liu attacked, Le Mulan had also sent a message to Zhang Yu: Zhang Yu! These four people are Golden Cores from the Ten Schools, do not entangle with them, wait for support!

Watching the four approaching, Zhang Yu walked slowly towards the four of Jiutian Liu, speaking lightly: "I hate fighting few against many, and I dislike fighting weak against strong even more."

"But when these two appear in contradiction, I do not dislike it."

"Just like right now, I will use my individual 'strength' to crush your four people's 'weakness'."

Feeling the attack of the four close at hand, Zhang Yu smiled faintly: "Four Golden Cores... then doesn't that mean I become a Nascent Soul?"

In the next moment, Zhang Yu's momentum surged violently, exploding with the pressure of the Nascent Soul realm under everyone's gaze.

At the same time, the Golden Core powerhouse rushing at the very front screamed, as if colliding with some invisible wall. His entire body snapped bones and tendons, covered in blood, and fell to the ground.

Watching this scene, Jiutian Liu's gaze hardened: "Nascent Soul?"

Looking at Zhang Yu, he shouted hoarsely: "Zhang Yu! You broke through to the Nascent Soul realm?!"

Zhang Yu looked at Jiutian Liu and said lightly: "You should call me True Lord."

In the next moment, another Golden Core cultivator seemed to be grabbed and squeezed by an invisible force, twisted into a bundle of twists in an instant, and fainted dead away.

Watching this scene, Jiutian Liu's heart shook, recalling the intelligence regarding Nascent Soul cultivators.

"It is a Nascent Soul!"

He knew the thing currently attacking them was precisely Zhang Yu's Nascent Soul.

The reason it could not be seen was because only Nascent Soul cultivators could see the Nascent Soul.

Jiutian Liu knew that as the essence of a cultivator's power gathered, merged with the practitioner's intent, after the Nascent Soul was fully completed, it could not be observed by conventional means, nor seen with naked eyes or ocular shells.

Only cultivators who similarly mastered the Nascent Soul and entered the Nascent Soul realm could see the existence of the Nascent Soul.

"The Nascent Soul itself is a collection of high-concentration power. If control is improper, even a slight collision can cause destruction."

"And once completely stepping into the Nascent Soul realm, completing free control of the Nascent Soul, then the Nascent Soul will not only no longer cause destruction arbitrarily, but can inherit the cultivator's physical data, explode with power equal to the cultivator, and due to its special form, possess movement speed far exceeding the flesh, and can penetrate most matter..."

"Those two..." Jiutian Liu glanced over the two fallen Golden Cores, thinking inwardly: "They must have been attacked by the unseen Nascent Soul."

"Without a chance to fight back, simply because Zhang Yu, who broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, has physical strength that completely surpasses ours."

"So the Nascent Soul inheriting such power can easily slaughter us."

At this moment, Jiutian Liu felt as if all the hair on his body stood on end, a shadowless and formless terrifying existence in the surrounding air staring directly at him.

"Run!"

In the next moment, Jiutian Liu and another Golden Core cultivator shot electrically out in two different directions.

Jiutian Liu even directly summoned his Nine Heavens Ten Earths Safety Shuttle, retreating quickly like a streak of flowing light.

And while he fled wildly, more intelligence regarding the Nascent Soul constantly rose up in Jiutian Liu's mind.

"Basic strength, speed, these are still not the most terrifying places of the Nascent Soul."

"After the Nascent Soul is achieved, the extraordinary meridians opened in the Golden Core realm can be transferred onto the Nascent Soul. From then on, without the cultivator's body practicing energy, the Nascent Soul can independently cast techniques matching the extraordinary meridians."

Jiutian Liu knew this meant every Nascent Soul had a matching technique. This technique was strengthened by the cultivator starting from the Golden Core realm, and could be said to be a cultivator's signature skill.

"This technique, strengthened by the Nascent Soul and extraordinary meridians, can explode with several times the power."

"Even as the Nascent Soul continues to grow, this power increase can break through to dozens of times..."

In the next moment, another scream sounded. Jiutian Liu did not need to turn around to know another companion had been suppressed.

And in Le Mulan's eyes, she could see that Golden Core cultivator floating in mid-air, as if caught by the feet by some shadowless and formless thing, held upside down.

Immediately, the magical frames all over the body were violently dismantled piece by piece, falling to the ground one by one.

Moments later, Jiutian Liu, already withdrawn several kilometers away, also felt his Nine Heavens Ten Earths Safety Shuttle seem to sink into a pool of mud. Under the obstruction of massive forces, it became slower and slower...

Finally, under violent shaking, the shuttle slowly stopped in mid-air.

"The Nascent Soul has caught up."

Watching his Nine Heavens Ten Earths Safety Shuttle seem to be grabbed by an invisible giant hand, pinched tightly in mid-air, Jiutian Liu sighed in his heart: "My Nine Heavens Shuttle is merely Golden Core level after all, fundamentally unable to shake off Zhang Yu's Nascent Soul."

At the same time, Jiutian Liu could feel a hurricane approaching him; it was Zhang Yu's true body getting closer and closer.

"I am actually curious..." Zhang Yu looked at the Safety Shuttle unique to the Finance Department and said lightly: "How did you guys from the Finance Department infiltrate? Can you trouble yourselves to tell me?"

Jiutian Liu gritted his teeth fiercely, his heart extremely bitter: "The gap is too large. Before a Nascent Soul, a Golden Core has absolutely no chance to fight back."

Thinking of this, he had already made up his mind: "I can only commit suicide."

He knew that with his identity as a traitor of the Finance Department, staying in the hands of Wanfa University, he feared dying would be difficult, and this life would be finished.

On the contrary, committing suicide and then resurrecting through the Dark Spirit Realm, although suffering great damage to vitality, might not lack a chance to rise again.

Hearing a roar of anger, Jiutian Liu had already practiced energy to explode the poison sac buried inside his body, and fierce toxins were about to surge towards his limbs and bones.

This was the tactic the Righteousness Alliance employed to counter the Ten Schools' attempt to block resurrection, allowing their subordinates to commit suicide faster, more rapidly, and more freely.

But in the next moment, Jiutian Liu felt the violently bursting poison sacs as if they had been pinched by something, the diffusion of the toxin forcibly blocked.

Jiutian Liu suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, feeling that power drilling into his body, and exclaimed in shock, "Your Nascent Soul?"

He felt that not only were the poison sacs pinched shut, but every part of his body seemed to be gripped by pairs of large hands, unable to move a fraction.

Zhang Yu watched Jiutian Liu being lifted out by the Nascent Soul and said indifferently, "In the presence of a Nascent Soul, a Golden Core has no freedom to choose life or death."

But in the next moment, a strange flame began to burn on Jiutian Liu's body.

Jiutian Liu cried out in surprise, emitting a series of mournful screams before Zhang Yu's astonished gaze.

However, in the blink of an eye, he stopped screaming and looked at Zhang Yu with a calm yet eerie gaze.

Sensing the change in the other's expression, Zhang Yu's heart suddenly stirred: "Who are you?"

"You may call me Baoshen," spoke Jiutian Liu, who was gradually being consumed by the flames: "Thank you for taking care of my believers today."

Zhang Yu's gaze tightened, thinking inwardly: "Can an Evil God actually control a believer's body? Does Fuji possess this ability? Or is... this also a new power the Evil Gods developed to cope with the war? A new technique?"

Baoshen said indifferently, "Zhang Yu, someone asked me to ask you some questions."

"Are you... certain you wish to make enemies with us?"

Zhang Yu stared into Jiutian Liu's eyes and said coldly, "What do you wish to say?"

Baoshen continued, "Dao Qiankun values you highly, believing you can create a new world alongside us, so we have always been offering you opportunities."

"But judging from your various behaviors recently, many believe you are merely a pitiful soul addicted to Kunxu's existing system, corroded by wealth, cultivation, status, and reputation."

Zhang Yu smiled, "Is that so? Your Righteousness Alliance... are you not using these things to manipulate believers, to manipulate all living beings?"

Baoshen said indifferently, "All living beings... are destined to be manipulated, it is just that we can guide them toward different directions, one more fitting for Dao Qiankun, for me, for the direction many of our companions wish to go."

"Zhang Yu, do you truly like this current world, like the current Kunxu, like your current life?"

"I trust Dao Qiankun's judgment, and I believe there is also a flame within your heart that has not been completely extinguished."

"As long as you are willing to join the Righteousness Alliance, I am willing to recommend you to achieve a position second only to one person and above ten thousand within the alliance, to preside over the opening of the new world with us, to guide the world toward the shape you truly desire, to use your will to choose the future direction of the world."

Zhang Yu smiled and said, "Very well, then could you trouble yourself to hand over the list of your subordinate Evil God believers, and the locations of the Evil Gods within the Righteousness Alliance to me now? For convenient management."

Baoshen sighed, "Zhang Yu, I can feel... your prejudice against the Evil Gods is too deep, always thinking I am deceiving you, always thinking I haven't told you a single truth."

"Sigh, do you not feel it? This is the tragedy of Kunxu, you who grew up in this environment cannot even manage to trust others."

"Such a Kunxu is also destined to head toward failure, whether it is the Ten Great Universities, or the Magnetic Pole, and if you continue walking on this wrong path... the result will be the same, nothing but failure."

Accompanied by the violent surge of the flames, Jiutian Liu's body was gradually swallowed, his flesh and blood slowly turning to flying ash.

And with the drifting of the ashes, only Baoshen's voice remained floating in the air.

"Zhang Yu, regardless, I trust Dao Qiankun's judgment, and I trust his choice, you will absolutely not be an ordinary person completely corroded by Kunxu."

"I hope you can realize your mistakes, jump out of Kunxu's evil path, do not walk down a dead end together with this sinking ship, do not walk toward inevitable defeat."

"I await your joining in the Righteousness Alliance."

Watching Jiutian Liu and Baoshen vanish completely, Zhang Yu seemed to fall into some kind of contemplation.

Fuji said, "You are not actually believing them, right? To deceive people, the Evil Gods can even sell themselves out; not a single word of what they say can be trusted."

Zhang Yu said, "Of course I will not believe a group of fellows who just wanted to attack me and capture my companions."

"I am simply watching the news."

The appearance of the Evil God, the infiltration of the Finance Department traitors, the haste of the Magnetic Pole Divine Lord... everything made Zhang Yu feel the tension of the situation, making him eager to understand what exactly happened during the five months he was in seclusion.

(End of Chapter)