No Money to Cultivate Immortality? - Chapter 817 (Patreon)

Chapter 817: Immortal Dao Connections, All For Profit, Work-Injury Curse

After losing his sense of the ancestral corpse, Zhang Yu’s first thought was that someone had stolen the ancestral corpse, which was why his connection to it had been cut off.

But Zhang Yu quickly realized that this guess might be wrong.

For Zhang Yu, who possessed level-four Immortal Descendant, although the entire Factory Zone was constantly changing, all of those changes were within his sight, as if he were looking at a real-time map.

On that real-time map, he could even sense the positions of the many cultivators who had entered the Factory Zone.

“Ever since I entered the Factory Zone, I’ve been able to sense all of this.”

Zhang Yu remembered everything he had seen the moment he stepped into the Factory Zone, and he knew that from the very beginning… he had held an enormous advantage when it came to exploring the Factory Zone.

“I’ve already got cheats opened this hard, and someone can still beat me to it?”

“Could it be some bloodline descendant of Ying Xintian?”

Hearing the guess that flashed through Zhang Yu’s mind, Zhanxian said, “Master Ancestor’s bloodline descendants almost all consider themselves part of the Taizhen Immortal Clan. Their ideals are very far from Master Ancestor’s, and not one of them could satisfy him. It is unlikely that Master Ancestor would give his own bloodline descendants special convenience inside the Labyrinth Realm.”

“Otherwise, he would not have allowed his descendants to be purged.”

Zhang Yu nodded slightly at this, feeling that he could understand Ying Xintian.

He sighed inwardly, “His wife put at least nine green hats on him. His sons and daughters were as close as family with their half-siblings from the same mother, and their values were completely opposite from his own. They couldn’t understand him, and even became obstacles in his path… If I were Ying Xintian, I probably wouldn’t have been able to endure it for so long.”

Fu Ji listened to Zhang Yu’s sigh. Had this been before, she would long since have started criticizing this kind of thinking from Zhang Yu. But now, she did not refute him. Instead, she silently noted it down in her heart.

“Zhang Yu is extremely conservative when it comes to Dual Cultivation. He does not accept his Dual Cultivation partner performing Dual Cultivation with others and producing offspring.”

Fu Ji knew that understanding a leader’s preferences was important information. As the saying went, whatever those above favor, those below will take even further.

From this tiny glimpse, she could already see the larger picture. Perhaps in the mountain factions under Zhang Yu in the future, they would all be extremists so conservative that they could not accept this point, and they would corrupt the atmosphere across an entire swath of Kunxu.

“Still… if Zhang Yu really can reach the top, then his atmosphere will be the good atmosphere. The old Dual Cultivation atmosphere will be the demonic wind and evil qi.”

At the same time, on Zhang Yu’s side, after a few stray thoughts flashed through his mind, he had already continued pondering the situation before him.

He recalled the process of stepping onto the Cave Heaven Bridge. “After I was transported from the Cave Heaven Bridge to the Factory Zone, I was already deeper inside the Factory Zone than those cultivators who entered from the Factory Zone entrance.”

“My starting point was different from theirs. In the entire Factory Zone, no one was closer to the ancestral corpse than I was. And after I entered the Factory Zone, I was already taking the optimal route toward the ancestral corpse.”

Although he had made many attempts regarding the Heaven-Cavern Divine Beast, or rather the Heaven-Cavern production line, with Zhang Yu’s current cultivation, speed, and thirty-two layers of avatars, all of those things had not consumed more than a few seconds.

As for subduing berserk corpse units along the way, that was even more a matter of waving his hand, distorting space, and taking them into the Heaven-Cavern. It did not delay his travel at all.

“Unless there was a cultivator who, the moment they entered the Factory Zone, discovered the ancestral corpse’s location, understood the changes in the Factory Zone’s Dimensional Structure, and then rushed toward the ancestral corpse at a speed faster than mine… only then could they have been one step ahead of me…”

“But so far, as the guy with full-map admin access, I haven’t discovered any such person.”

“So…” Zhang Yu’s heart stirred as he thought of the movement of the previous ancestral corpse.

“It wasn’t that someone beat me to it and took the ancestral corpse. The ancestral corpse itself made some kind of move?”

While Zhang Yu thought rapidly, he was still advancing at high speed. Along the way, he became a gale sweeping forward, occasionally circulating Kunlun in the Palm together with Immortal Descendant to take a berserk corpse unit into the Immortal Heaven-Cavern. Even so, he was still moving like wind and lightning, with almost no loss in speed.

And the moment a corpse unit entered the Immortal Heaven-Cavern, it was besieged by the production lines led by the Hundred-Husk Furnace Lord, then suppressed with the cooperation of Zhang Yu’s avatars.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Could this ancestral corpse in the Factory Zone… have hidden itself?”

Zhang Yu could not be certain. He planned to personally go to the place where the ancestral corpse had vanished and see what was going on.

When Zhang Yu arrived at the target location, he found that it was actually a corpse recycling station.

Large numbers of corpses had been piled together at random, like wet garbage, releasing waves of stench that surged toward the sky.

Zhang Yu could imagine that after the various facilities inside the Labyrinth Realm were damaged, disconnected from the Spiritual Realm, and stopped operating, this corpse recycling station also ceased operations with them. These corpses had gone unprocessed for too long and had gradually begun to rot and decay, creating these waves of towering stench.

Just as Zhang Yu was wondering why the ancestral corpse had disappeared here, he sensed the ancestral corpse’s existence again.

“It’s right here.”

Although the feeling vanished in a flash, Zhang Yu could clearly sense that the ancestral corpse was in the corpse recycling station before his eyes.

“As expected… did it deliberately hide itself and lure me here?”

Zhang Yu walked through the front gate of the corpse recycling station and saw that the sign inside was actually carved with three large words: Spirit-Soothing Garden.

Zhang Yu was slightly startled. “It looks like the name of a cemetery?”

Zhanxian said, “I once heard someone say that in the beginning, a large area of the Old Days Graveyard was originally a cemetery.”

“Only, as Immortal Dao technology improved, Kunxu found more and more ways to use all kinds of corpses. This place gradually went from a cemetery to a market, and even more and more factories and office areas that used local materials were born…”

Zhanxian sighed. “The place where people were once buried eventually became a recycling station and a trading ground. People have completely lost respect and awe toward corpses. They treat all the materials on the human body as pure commodities.”

Zhang Yu nodded slightly. Looking at the old sign before him, he thought, “So… this sign should be the original cemetery sign from the past. Later, perhaps with the construction of the Spiritual Realm, Spiritual Realm information covered the sign.”

“Now that the Spiritual Realm has lost connection here, people can finally see this ancient sign.”

“Then… why did the ancestral corpse lead us here?”

Zhanxian analyzed, “If we regard the ancestral corpse’s intention as Master Ancestor’s intention, then perhaps this is a reminder.”

“He hopes that later generations will not be like this Spirit-Soothing Garden, calmly and naturally treating corpses as materials and equipment. He wants them to remember their identities as people, and remember the meaning of this cemetery.”

“The meaning of a cemetery?” Zhang Yu’s gaze narrowed slightly, and he said, “In other words… the method of handling corpses?”

Zhanxian said, “Choosing how to treat corpses is not for the corpses themselves. It is so that, over the long process of dealing with corpses as ‘human-sourced materials,’ one can hold fast to the boundary between ‘person and object’ in one’s heart, and prevent oneself from completely sliding into the abyss of the demonic path while pursuing power and wealth.”

Just then, the sense of the ancestral corpse came again. This time, Zhang Yu even heard a call from the other party.

“Come find me. Let us see what you will do.”

Zhang Yu was slightly stunned, shocked in his heart. “The ancestral corpse is speaking? Could the true spirit of this ancestral corpse be awake? Can it even manipulate the corpse’s movements?”

Recalling what the other party had said, Zhang Yu said, “He said… us? Who is this ‘us’?”

Zhanxian said, “If the true spirit has the ability to act, but has taken the initiative to hide instead of directly contacting us and giving us Heaven-Cavern power… perhaps it wants to test us? And if this is a test, then this ‘us’ refers to the people who set the test, as well as the people reviewing the test results.”

Zhang Yu’s gaze shifted. “A test? Is Ying Xintian also watching us?”

Zhanxian said, “I do not think it is Master Ancestor.”

Zhanxian explained, “Judging from what we currently know, the memories of the great war between the righteous and demonic paths, and some information I know, the seniors who first used the demonic path for righteous purposes… the Kunxu they wanted to see was absolutely not what it is today.”

“And many of them should still be alive now.”

Hearing this, Zhang Yu’s heart was shocked. He suddenly raised his head. “You mean… they are watching us?”

Zhanxian said, “Although these people lacked the courage and resolve to join Master Ancestor’s actions, they probably all felt sympathy for Master Ancestor’s experience.”

“This is… Master Ancestor’s network. No… it should be called his immortal network.”

“Perhaps this immortal network is what truly surpasses the Dao Seed and the Heaven-Cavern. It may be the greatest wealth Master Ancestor left to his heir.”

“Perhaps it is precisely because of this immortal network that the Labyrinth Realm has been preserved until now.”

Hearing this, Zhang Yu took a deep breath. He looked toward the sky inside the Labyrinth Realm, beneath layer after layer of spatial distortion, and thoughts surged in his heart.

Just then, Oxheart Sage said, “If certain high-ranking existences are watching, that is also very normal.”

“Nothing in Kunxu can escape the influence of Dao lineages, or separate itself from the intentions of those at the top.”

“All reforms happen because the higher-ups need reform. All changes happen because Dao lineages are pushing those changes.”

Zhang Yu sighed inwardly, “If that is so, then what meaning do our choices and efforts have?”

Oxheart Sage said, “They have meaning. As long as all Dao lineages have not yet been grasped in a single person’s hands, as long as the Ten Immortal Emperors still cannot control all the masterless Dao lineages in history, as long as immortals still have conflicts and still cannot unite as one…”

“Then, under the influence of countless Dao lineages, choosing which Dao lineage to align with and which mountain faction to join is our own will.”

“Borrow the influence of Dao lineages, borrow the assistance of the upper levels, bring them benefits in exchange for chances to rise. In the cracks between all kinds of conflicts… climb upward. Climb to a higher place. Establish your own Dao lineage. Only then is there any possibility of changing this world.”

“This Immortal Path is one of ten thousand deaths and one life. Countless people have fallen on the road. Countless people gave up halfway. There are also people who climbed up, only to forget their original intentions…”

“The future on this road is uncertain. We are not the first, nor will we be the last. What we can do is nothing but remain indomitable.”

…

Kunxu, an unknown high level.

A young boy’s voice rang out. “One of the hidden caches Senior Brother left behind has shown abnormal movement. The heir he chose should have entered.”

“Let us look together at the information being transmitted from inside.”

Another female voice rang out. “What is there to see? Senior Brother Ying has already lost, lost utterly, lost so badly it is too tragic to bear. Kunxu can no longer be changed back.”

The young boy’s voice said, “Since Senior Brother wants us to look, then let us look. Let us see whether this heir of his has anything extraordinary about him.”

The female voice said, “Even if he seems decent now, who knows how much selfishness he harbors? Perhaps after he climbs up, he will simply become another Taizhen Immortal Venerable. When the time comes, he may even become a tool for others to seize Senior Brother’s Dao lineage.”

The young boy’s voice said, “Junior Sister, you have changed too.”

“You have become someone who no longer believes what Senior Brother said, nor believes that there are still people like Senior Brother.”

…

Inside the Labyrinth Realm.

Zhang Yu looked at the mountain of corpses in the corpse recycling station before him and thought, “If this is a test arranged by Ying Xintian, and if high-ranking existences close to Ying Xintian can see the process of this test…”

“Then what they want to see… is definitely not a method that conforms to sect nature, but a method that conforms to Ying Xintian’s ideals.”

Zhang Yu strolled through the mountain of corpses and thought, “The best way to find the ancestral corpse among them is to use Immortal Descendant.”

He knew that as long as the ancestral corpse was taken into the Immortal Heaven-Cavern, it would immediately be liberated, and he would obtain the Heaven-Cavern power contained within it.

“As long as I take the corpses here into the Immortal Heaven-Cavern in huge batches… I’ll naturally be able to find the ancestral corpse hidden among them.”

“But after taking them into the Heaven-Cavern, how should I handle them?”

The next moment, the voice of the Exam Sect avatar rang out in Zhang Yu’s mind. “Hmph. Wasn’t this place originally a recycling station? What else is there to handle? Keep the valuable ones and sell them after we get out. Throw away the worthless ones right here.”

Hearing this, Zhanxian objected and said, “If you treat people as people, then this place should return to its original state as a cemetery. After taking these corpses away, you should bury them one by one, rather than treat the corpses as pure resources.”

“Otherwise, once the boundary between people and objects gradually blurs, you will ultimately fall completely into the demonic path.”

…

Kunxu, an unknown high level.

The female voice said, “According to the thinking of the demonic path, naturally, those that can be sold should be sold, and those that cannot be sold should be thrown away.”

The young boy’s voice said, “If they are simply buried, then that is nothing but old-fogey thinking. Even if one can uphold the righteous path’s ideals in the short term, under long-term losses, it will ultimately be impossible to continue.”

“Senior Brother should not choose such a person.”

“If the righteous path’s ideals want to keep developing in the current Kunxu, then they must adapt to change. They cannot cling to the old and refuse to move…”

…

Listening to Zhanxian’s explanation, the Exam Sect avatar sneered and said, “If we bury so many corpses one by one, how much time would that take?”

“You want to treat people as people? Sure. People should work. People should be used to their fullest. People should be squeezed dry until they die.”

“If you treat these corpses as people, then you should keep using them and process them into all kinds of products.”

“That is what it means to treat people as people. That is what it means for the righteous and demonic paths to become one. That is the proper use of the demonic path for righteous ends.”

Hearing this, Zhanxian immediately objected. “Absurd. If we do that, how are we any different from the demonic path?”

The Exam Sect avatar laughed. “Were we ever different to begin with? Did you not use those corpse components? You were perfectly happy using corpse components, but once they are corpses, they have to be buried? Foolish!”

Zhanxian said, “How can these be lumped together? The boundary within this is precisely the difference between righteous and demonic!”

Listening to the debate between the Exam Sect avatar and Zhanxian, Zhang Yu gradually furrowed his brow as well.

“The Exam Sect avatar’s method might not conform to Ying Xintian’s ideals.”

“But… if we follow Zhanxian’s explanation and simply bury the corpses… while that does sound very righteous, this purely ancient righteous-path style will not work in the current Kunxu.”

“What Ying Xintian wanted to do was change Kunxu. A method that does not work… should not be his choice either.”

Looking at the old sign of the garbage dump, Zhang Yu’s heart suddenly stirred.

“Building this place into a cemetery should look like a righteous-faction idea no matter how you look at it. But could the person who built it really not have known that this method might not last?”

“Or rather, did the person who built it also have their own answer?”

Zhang Yu’s figure flickered. After inspecting the entire garbage dump from top to bottom, an answer gradually formed in his heart.

“This cemetery is not merely a cemetery. Rather, by burying corpses, building a forest of steles, it created an artificial spirit vein.”

“It is both burial and profit.”

Zhang Yu sighed inwardly. “But this spirit vein counts as a kind of public welfare facility. The area covered by its surging spiritual essence can almost encompass the entire Labyrinth Realm.”

Fu Ji analyzed, “Then this definitely won’t work. Doing public welfare for the entire region? It would be more cost-effective to recycle and process the corpses and sell them for money.”

Zhanxian said, “Precisely because of that, this cemetery eventually became what it is now.”

As they spoke, Zhang Yu had already begun circulating Kunlun in the Palm. He took large swaths of corpses into the Heaven-Cavern, then buried them beneath the forest of steles deep within the cemetery, gradually activating the artificial spirit vein.

Sensing the artificial spirit vein gradually showing signs of revival, Zhang Yu thought, “Doing righteous deeds, yet creating profit like the demonic path. Perhaps this is the way for the righteous path to rise again in the new era.”

“But in this process, as the one building the artificial spirit vein, while I increase the returns of the entire region, I may reduce my own returns. I’m afraid it is not as profitable as corpse recycling.”

Zhang Yu thought of the lower-realm reform Ying Xintian had launched. It had likewise brought enormous benefits to lower-realm cultivators, but had damaged his own interests.

“Brother Dao, is this what you wanted to tell me?”

“Is this also the reason you launched the lower-realm reform?”

Just then, as the artificial spirit vein revived little by little, Zhang Yu gradually noticed berserk corpse components converging toward the cemetery, the source of this artificial spirit vein.

Zhang Yu struck out with a palm from afar, and a corpse component had already been taken into his Immortal Heaven-Cavern.

But the next moment, even more berserk corpse components swarmed over. Zhang Yu had no choice but to flicker at high speed, collecting them one by one into the Immortal Heaven-Cavern.

Looking at this scene, the Exam Sect avatar sneered. “Hmph. You’re not taking these berserk corpse components to bury them?”

Just then, Desolate Ox, who had not spoken for a long time, said, “In today’s Kunxu, not using corpse components is unrealistic. Wanting to ban all kinds of demonic-path technology is even more unrealistic.”

“All under heaven bustle about for profit. All under heaven rush about for gain. There is nothing wrong with all living beings under heaven wanting to profit.”

Fu Ji said, “I think so too.”

Desolate Ox continued, “If one wants to change Kunxu, reverse the atmosphere, and allow righteous-path ideals to appear and gain the upper hand, one should provide additional choices, allowing the people of Kunxu to benefit through righteous-path methods. Then they will naturally choose the righteous path on their own.”

“Burying corpses to form an artificial spirit vein is the same. It is only an additional choice, not a demand to ban Kunxu’s current corpse industry.”

“Use additional choices to form positive profit feedback. Otherwise, merely banning things by force, or relying on a small number of people’s blind sacrifice… will not last long.”

Zhanxian sighed and said, “Master and the others… probably thought this way originally too. But wanting to use another technological style to surpass today’s Kunxu in technological profit efficiency… is too difficult.”

The Exam Sect avatar sneered. “So they still gave up, didn’t they? Even Ying Xintian couldn’t do it, and you think you can surpass the sects? Wishful thinking! Pledging loyalty to the sects and putting sect ideals first—that is what cultivators like us should do!”

“Long live Myriad Laws Sect! You traitors will all fail in the end!”

Desolate Ox said, “As long as one can grasp a Dao lineage and step onto the peak of the Immortal Dao, then not everything is without opportunity.”

Fu Ji thought, “Sigh. It’s way too chaotic in his head right now… even Zhang Yu himself can barely get a word in, let alone me.”

At the same time, the Hundred-Skeleton Melting Lord inside the Immortal Heaven-Cavern, as well as each of Zhang Yu’s avatars, were all attacking with full force, suppressing one berserk corpse component after another.

Facing the berserk corpse components swarming in like this, his collection speed far surpassed what it had been when Zhang Yu had only been doing it in passing.

The number of corpse components inside the Immortal Heaven-Cavern abruptly surged. Zhang Yu had no choice but to seize the time to extract their Heaven-Cavern power and subdue them one by one.

As strands of Heaven-Cavern power poured into his body, Zhang Yu’s Immortal Heaven-Cavern expanded once again. In the blink of an eye, its length, width, and height had all already exceeded four hundred and twenty meters.

At the same time, with the large number of subduing actions, the various traits Zhang Yu had previously been unable to complete also began to come together one after another.

Arm-Hanging Ghost, trait: Hundred Forms of the Furnace (1/10)

After the berserk corpse component named Arm-Hanging Ghost was subdued by Zhang Yu, it directly leaped onto the Hundred-Skeleton Melting Lord and merged with it.

As corpse component after corpse component merged into the Hundred-Skeleton Melting Lord, its trait quickly accumulated to 6/10 as well, gaining its first-layer effect.

Hundred Forms of the Furnace (6/6): production line yield rate increased by 100%, production efficiency increased by 100%.

Aside from the Hundred-Skeleton Melting Lord, another group of corpse components was being collected even faster.

Sorting Demon, trait: Work-Injury Curse (0/10)

They were a series of sorting devices, like dark clouds formed from masses of tentacles, drifting in the sky above the Immortal Heaven-Cavern.

This series of sorting corpse components were almost all at the Divine Transformation level. Zhang Yu had to expend no small amount of effort before he finally cooperated with his avatars to subdue them one by one.

And their trait also surprised Zhang Yu.

Work-Injury Curse (6/6): distorts another person’s movements, causing operational errors.

Work-Injury Curse (8/8): distorts operational errors, transferring the operation target.

Work-Injury Curse (10/10): distorts the operation target, causing work-injury backlash.

In Zhang Yu’s view, this Sorting Demon was not a production-type Heaven-Cavern Divine Beast at all, but a kind of combat divine beast.

After an ordinary attack was twisted by its tentacles, it would shift targets, and even cause backlash.

“If I open the Immortal Heaven-Cavern, this Sorting Demon will be enough to form a very powerful backlash field within one meter of my body, making those who attack me suffer backlash and causing work injuries.”

Zhang Yu thought, “Looks like this series of Heaven-Cavern Divine Beasts left behind by Ying Xintian is not only usable for production. It also includes combat.”

“Then if I can find a way to subdue some corpse components at the Void Refinement level, will I also be able to unleash a tiny bit of Void Refinement-level combat strength?”

Looking at the berserk corpse components still swarming in, Zhang Yu recalled his earlier thought. “I originally thought burying corpses was an act with stronger altruistic qualities.”

“But this wave of berserk corpse component gains has allowed me to obtain even more benefit while burying the corpses.”

Sensing Zhang Yu’s thoughts, Zhanxian said, “The benefits from these corpse components are what Master Ancestor left for you.”

“This is also Master Ancestor’s idea. In Kunxu… the strongest possess the highest technology and the most resources. Only by starting from the strongest and distributing more benefits downward can the entire world be changed level by level… from top to bottom.”

“Also… since Master Ancestor has allowed us to collect so many berserk corpse components here, perhaps he is also explaining that these things will be very useful for the exploration that follows.”

Zhang Yu nodded slightly. Suddenly, he walked step by step above the artificial spirit vein. Then he pointed, and a Heaven-Cavern Bridge had already been laid down.

In this way, of the four Heaven-Cavern Bridge slots, Zhang Yu had already used two.

And as this Heaven-Cavern Bridge was laid down, a large amount of spiritual essence surged into the Immortal Heaven-Cavern, raising the spiritual essence concentration of the entire Heaven-Cavern.

Zhang Yu thought, “This way, more of the artificial spirit vein’s spiritual essence will flow into my Heaven-Cavern, which makes it even more beneficial for me.”

Thus, in the time that followed, Zhang Yu collected corpses and searched for the ancestral corpse, buried corpses and activated the artificial spirit vein, and subdued the berserk corpse components that were attracted over.

Without realizing it, the concentration of spiritual essence inside his Immortal Heaven-Cavern grew higher and higher, and the Heaven-Cavern Divine Beasts it contained also became stronger and stronger.

…

Kunxu, an unknown high level.

A young boy’s voice rang out. “Judging from the information transmitted from the Labyrinth Realm, he has a bottom line, but he also knows how to adapt.”

The female voice snorted coldly. “People like that change the fastest once they climb to a high place.”

The young boy’s voice said, “Let us keep watching. If he can pass this trial of the Labyrinth Realm, we can give him an opportunity to climb higher.”

The female voice said, “And if we give him the opportunity, but he still fails?”

The young boy’s voice said, “Then he fails.”

The young boy’s voice sounded extremely cold. “It would not be the first time. On the road of the Immortal Dao, people dying and going bankrupt are both perfectly normal. In this Kunxu… if one does not experience the most brutal competition, how can one climb up?”

…

Another corner of the Factory Zone.

Ying Aikun’s brow furrowed slightly.

After repeated comparison, he could confirm that the place before him was the entrance to the experimental zone.

But after making a round of attempts, Ying Aikun discovered that the spatial barrier before him was not something he could crack in a short time.

“This old bastard…”

After thinking for a while, Ying Aikun said to Ling Chiye beside him, “I suggest sealing off the entrance to the Factory Zone, so the next stage of exploration will not be disturbed.”

“Also… I vaguely sense that the berserk corpse components in the Factory Zone are showing some unusual movement. Investigate what happened.”

Ling Chiye had long since regarded Ying Aikun as a Labyrinth Realm expert, so upon hearing this, he immediately began making arrangements.

One after another, yin flames suddenly lit up. Soul Cultivator after Soul Cultivator spontaneously ignited without fire, turning into signal beacons for the Heavenly Demon Sect as they were deployed toward the entrance of the Factory Zone.

Ying Aikun also used this opportunity to control an avatar, planning to seal off the entrance to the Factory Zone.

At the same time, several Heavenly Demon Sect cultivators controlled large numbers of Soul Cultivators, tracking and investigating the unusual movements of the berserk corpse components in all directions.

…

Zhang Yu’s gaze shifted. Sensing the situation inside the Factory Zone, he thought, “It seems that on the Heavenly Demon Sect’s side… someone wants to seal off the entrance to the Factory Zone?”

“Also… more and more people have noticed the abnormality with the berserk corpse components and are starting to explore in this direction.”

Although the other party’s exploration speed was very slow within the chaotic space, Zhang Yu knew that if he left them alone, his actions here could be disturbed.

“And… I also cannot ignore the matter of sealing off the Factory Zone entrance.”

“If they really pull it off and truly lock me in here, wouldn’t that be closing the door to beat the dog?”

After all, Ying Aikun of the Heavenly Demon Sect was a descendant of Ying Xintian. Zhang Yu was not sure how far the other party’s research into Heaven-Cavern power had progressed, or whether he could trap him.

But regardless of whether the other party could do it or not, Zhang Yu had no intention of giving him this opportunity.

Yet with the power he currently possessed, directly going to stop the Heavenly Demon Sect would clearly be extremely risky.

“It’s your turn… my great fortune.”

…

In the sky above the Ghost Letter Department.

Not long after one of Zhang Yu’s avatars left the dorm, a streak of azure light shot into the sky. The Qingming Riftspace Immortal Shuttle, which ordinarily maintained a dust-mote state, had already soared upward. Under the shocked gazes of countless people, it shot like lightning toward the Labyrinth Realm and plunged straight into it.

Inside the Labyrinth Realm, in the office area.

Qin Chuan, who was slowly exploring, suddenly furrowed his brow and said, “What’s that sound?”

A thunderstorm-like rumble rang out above the office area. And because of the chaotic Dimensional Structure, the thunder sounded now left, now right, now in front, now behind, as if thunderbolts were exploding everywhere.

The next moment, looking at that streak of jade light tearing across the sky, Qin Chuan said in surprise, “It’s the immortal shuttle! Has Bu Daojun come?”

“Hurry, let’s follow it!”

Aside from the cultivators of the Ghost Letter Department, many other exploring cultivators also saw the immortal shuttle’s light, and all of them tried to follow it.

At the same time, at the entrance of the Factory Zone, Ying Aikun, who was preparing to seal it off, narrowed his eyes and had already seen the immortal shuttle shooting toward him like lightning.

Seeing this familiar immortal shuttle, Ying Aikun instantly felt his soul nearly leave his body, as if he were about to break out in a cold sweat from fright.

“Why is this guy here again?!”

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