No Money to Cultivate Immortality? - Chapter 818 (Patreon)

Chapter 818: Accidentally Creating an Immortal Household

Before Zhang Yu’s avatar arrived in the Qingming Riftspace Immortal Shuttle, the cultivators of the Heavenly Demon Sect had already blocked the entrance to the Labyrinth Realm’s factory district, stopping the many cultivators from exploring further. They intended to seal this entrance off completely.

Some people were unhappy, of course. But faced with Ying Aikun’s avatar, faced with this former Immortal Clan member backed by the Taizhen Immortal Clan, the other cultivators could only seethe in silence. Not one of them dared cause the slightest offense.

“A pack of lowborn livestock…” Ying Aikun sneered inwardly. “These are things the old bastard left to us descendants. You think you deserve to touch them?”

Yet the moment the Qingming Riftspace Immortal Shuttle descended, the instant the many Heavenly Demon Sect cultivators caught sight of it, their blockade, once as solid as a wall of iron and bronze, already showed signs of collapse.

The Heavenly Demon Sect cultivators present were all sect affairs personnel responsible for matters in the Old Days Graveyard.

As for the previous incident where an Immortal Shuttle had smashed Ying Aikun’s flesh body apart, even those who had not personally seen it had still heard others mention it.

Even Ying Aikun had been rammed until he came apart, and supposedly he had sprayed everywhere like filth. Even his primordial spirit had been chased all the way like a panicked stray dog. So how would ordinary sect affairs personnel like them dare stand in front of this Immortal Shuttle?

“What crushing pressure!” someone cried out as he retreated. “My Law Husk is malfunctioning!”

Someone shouted while darting aside, “I’ll go draw the Immortal Shuttle’s attention! Everyone else, hold the line!”

Someone silently hid behind Ying Aikun. “Don’t be afraid, everyone! Senior Ying is here. The other side won’t dare act recklessly!”

Ying Aikun, who had been pushed to the front, cursed inwardly, “What do you know? Do you understand the Immortal Clan better than I do? Acting recklessly is their favorite thing!”

“Bu Yingshu, that madwoman, chased me straight into the Labyrinth Realm just to ram me!”

The reason this thought surged through Ying Aikun’s mind was not because he understood Bu Yingshu so well. Rather, after placing himself in her position, he realized that he himself would also chase someone down and ram them like that.

So in the very first instant the Immortal Shuttle arrived, Ying Aikun already wanted to retreat, to hide as far away as possible.

Although the one he was controlling to seal off the entrance right now was only an avatar, this avatar was not cheap. It was a Law Husk treasure-body forged through countless refinements. He did not want it lost here. If that happened on top of the flesh body smashed last time, it would only make disaster worse.

But Ying Aikun quickly reacted. “I can’t escape… This avatar of mine isn’t faster than the Immortal Shuttle.”

Seeing that the Immortal Shuttle was arriving in the blink of an eye, already crashing toward him, and that in the next moment he would suffer the tragic fate of acute Immortal Shuttle poisoning, Ying Aikun suddenly dropped to his knees with a thud and shouted, “Grandma!”

“I have something to say!”

With a soft hum, the Immortal Shuttle quietly stopped before Ying Aikun.

The many Heavenly Demon Sect cultivators who saw this scene were all secretly amazed.

“As expected of Senior Ying. One shout of ‘Grandma’ stopped the Immortal Shuttle!”

“Exactly. If it were us, we could probably shout ‘ancestor’ a hundred times, a thousand times, and this Immortal Shuttle still wouldn’t stop.”

“He was a former Immortal Clan member, after all. His face is too great.”

At the same time, Ying Aikun also breathed a sigh of relief. In his mind, he thought, “Hmph. Bu Yingshu, that woman… I stopped her with one sentence. As I once judged, this person’s Dao heart is weak, her emotions are unstable, and she is shallow in both conduct and character. She is unfit for great use and extremely easy to control with words.”

He shouted viciously in his mind, “Bu Yingshu, even if I am no longer of the Immortal Clan, my wisdom still stands above yours.”

“Last time happened too suddenly. I had no chance to react.”

“This time, watch how I use just a few words today to bewitch you and thoroughly bring you under my control…”

Just as Ying Aikun’s mind was spinning at high speed, countless pieces of information about Bu Yingshu surging madly forth as he devised one method after another to guide, train, and control her, a man’s voice came from inside the Qingming Riftspace Immortal Shuttle.

“Move.”

Ying Aikun froze slightly when he heard this, and a trace of confusion rose in his heart. “Bu Yingshu changed to a male body today? It can’t be that she lent the Immortal Shuttle to someone else, can it?”

In Ying Aikun’s view, minor everyday matters such as changing flesh bodies and changing gender were far more common than something like lending out an Immortal Shuttle.

But in the next moment, Ying Aikun’s brow suddenly twitched. “No.”

“Just now, after being charged by this Immortal Shuttle, all I could think about was how to deal with Bu Yingshu… But I forgot one thing.”

Ying Aikun remembered the information Su Lingyou had previously given him.

“According to Grandma, Bu Yingshu only descended here in passing because of that person named Zhang Yu. She has now been stopped by someone, so for the time being, she can’t interfere with the Old Days Graveyard.”

As for the accuracy of the information Su Lingyou provided, Ying Aikun naturally believed it without question.

Thus a flash of inspiration appeared in his mind. “Could it be… Bu Yingshu isn’t on this Immortal Shuttle at all?”

“And the Spiritual Realm connection here has already been cut. Even if Bu Yingshu wanted to descend remotely, it would be impossible.”

Thinking of this, Ying Aikun abruptly glanced at the Immortal Shuttle and said, “Might I ask whether Bu Daojun is aboard the Immortal Shuttle?”

At the same time, as the Qingming Riftspace Immortal Shuttle advanced along its route, splitting the sky above the Labyrinth Realm, it was witnessed from various disordered spaces.

Large numbers of cultivators who were exploring followed the traces of light and shadow left behind by the Immortal Shuttle, heading all the way toward the factory district entrance.

Qin Chuan, the Ghost Letter Department minister of the Myriad Laws Sect, was also hurrying toward the factory district entrance with Deputy Minister Jiang Xunyi and several other cultivators, chasing after the light and shadow left by the Immortal Shuttle.

“There!”

Minister Qin Chuan glanced at the Immortal Shuttle hovering in front of Ying Aikun, his gaze grave. He thought to himself, “Bu Daojun really did come after all!”

He thought, “Sure enough, Bu Daojun has been laying plans for so long, and her target was this Labyrinth Realm. Now that changes have occurred one after another in the Labyrinth Realm, she has directly driven the Immortal Shuttle here!”

“If this time there is anywhere Bu Daojun can make use of me, if I can latch onto the leg of this Myriad Laws Immortal Clan figure…”

Zhang Yu’s figure appeared in Qin Chuan’s mind. “If I could even replace Zhang Yu and obtain Bu Daojun’s favor, wouldn’t my future Immortal path be bright beyond measure?”

Just as Qin Chuan was imagining this, he saw the Immortal Shuttle ahead flash slightly. A projection had already descended from within the Immortal Shuttle, and it was unmistakably Zhang Yu’s appearance.

Looking at the many Heavenly Demon Sect cultivators before him, Zhang Yu said flatly, “Whether Bu Daojun is here or not, what does that have to do with any of you?”

Zhang Yu did not intend to pretend that Bu Yingshu was aboard the Immortal Shuttle, because such a thing could be disproven very easily. When the time came, it would only bring him trouble instead.

In any case, Bu Yingshu had lent him this Immortal Shuttle. Whether Bu Yingshu was here or not, he could still pilot it all the same.

Originally, Zhang Yu had still needed to worry about other people discovering that he could operate the Immortal Shuttle. He had worried that he would draw too much attention, making it inconvenient for him to explore the Labyrinth Realm.

But now, he wished he could be as high-profile as possible. He wished he could use the Immortal Shuttle to draw everyone’s attention, so as to win more time for his true body, allowing it to subdue the berserk Corpse Canisters deep in the factory district and search for his predecessor’s corpse.

Zhang Yu said to himself inwardly, “I can be a little arrogant.”

At this moment, countless images of rich people he had encountered in the past flashed through Zhang Yu’s mind.

Zhang Yu said coldly, “Move aside immediately. Don’t block the road. Otherwise, don’t blame me for showing no mercy under the shuttle.”

After seeing Zhang Yu’s projection and hearing his words, Ying Aikun immediately felt certain. “If Bu Yingshu were on the Immortal Shuttle, this absolutely wouldn’t be the response.”

“As expected! As expected, Bu Yingshu probably isn’t on the Immortal Shuttle at all.”

“No wonder the Immortal Shuttle stopped so quickly. How would Zhang Yu dare ram me? No matter how much Bu Yingshu favors her subordinate, she could never give him that kind of authority.”

“This Immortal Shuttle is probably just Zhang Yu borrowing a tiger’s might, piloting it out to frighten people.”

Thinking of this, Ying Aikun, who had still been somewhat alarmed, was now completely calm. With a cold laugh, he said to Zhang Yu, “Zhang Yu! Who do you think you’re talking to?”

“A tiny lowborn beast from the lower realm. You think just because you gained the favor of the Immortal Clan, you can look down on everyone and forget how vast heaven and earth are?”

“Those who don’t know better might think you’re carrying the Immortal Clan’s bloodline.”

As he spoke, Ying Aikun waved a hand and said to the Heavenly Demon Sect cultivators beside him, “None of you need to fear him. Bu Daojun isn’t on the Immortal Shuttle. Today, this is Zhang Yu acting on his own initiative and forcing his way into the Labyrinth Realm.”

“He has no authority to control the Immortal Shuttle and ram people.”

“Stand here with me. I want to see—”

Boom!

By the time Ying Aikun reacted, all he could see was the avatar’s vision wildly spinning, heaven and earth whirling around him.

This treasure-body, tempered through countless refinements, supposedly indestructible and forged from all kinds of precious materials by a major sect enterprise and a major brand, seemed so fragile before the Immortal Shuttle, so unable to withstand a single blow.

Almost before he could even form a thought of resistance, Ying Aikun’s avatar had already been smashed apart by the Immortal Shuttle like a glass cup slammed hard into a wall.

His head shot upward with a bang, which was why his vision was shaking so wildly. Only then did he see his body burst apart like fireworks.

And as Ying Aikun’s avatar shattered with a crash, the surrounding Heavenly Demon Sect cultivators also cried out and instantly broke apart in every direction.

One Heavenly Demon Sect cultivator happened to pass by the avatar’s head and reached out to catch it.

Ying Aikun stared at this scene in mingled shock and fury.

If this place had still been connected to the Law Realm, perhaps Ying Aikun would first have taken a shot of Pill Infusion to steady his mind.

But at this moment, all he could do was widen his eyes and stare at the Immortal Shuttle, shouting in furious shock, “Filthy beast! Bu Yingshu isn’t on the Immortal Shuttle at all. You, a doglike thing, actually dare ram me?!”

“You think because Bu Yingshu rammed me, you can ram me too? Even she won’t spare you when she finds out!”

At that moment, the Immortal Shuttle that had been hovering lightly moved. It abruptly turned and once again aimed in Ying Aikun’s direction, aiming straight at the head of his avatar.

The Heavenly Demon Sect cultivator who saw this trembled all over. He hurriedly let go of Ying Aikun’s head and darted aside.

With a soft thud, Ying Aikun’s head dropped to the ground.

At the same time, Zhang Yu’s voice once again came from inside the Qingming Riftspace Immortal Shuttle. He had decided to be a little more high-profile.

“Ying Aikun, you are right. Bu Daojun is indeed not aboard this Immortal Shuttle, nor is she controlling this Immortal Shuttle.”

After saying this, without giving anyone present time to react, Zhang Yu once again activated the Immortal Shuttle.

Thus, at this very moment, all the cultivators present received a notification sent out by the Immortal Shuttle to its surroundings.

“Warning! You may already be standing on the travel route of Sect-Defense Flying Shuttle XXXXXXXX. Please withdraw immediately and do not obstruct sect affairs.”

A projection lowered by the Immortal Shuttle also appeared.

The travel route displayed by the projection directly pierced through the factory district entrance and covered Ying Aikun’s head as well. It was as though telling everyone that he was about to run over the head Ying Aikun had dropped on the ground.

The travel route of this Immortal Shuttle was the correct road. If someone blocked it, then that person was standing in the wrong place. If a building covered it, then that building had been constructed in the wrong direction.

And right now, Ying Aikun’s head had clearly been placed in the wrong position.

At the same time, Zhang Yu’s voice came again. “Bu Daojun has already lent this Qingming Riftspace Immortal Shuttle to me and allowed me to use it as I wish.”

“You… still won’t move?”

Looking at the travel route covering him, Ying Aikun’s heart was filled with shock.

“Has Bu Yingshu gone mad? She even gave Zhang Yu this level of Immortal Shuttle authority?!”

At the same time, on the other side, Minister Qin Chuan and Deputy Minister Jiang Xunyi of the Ghost Letter Department were also staring at this scene in shock.

When Zhang Yu had said Bu Daojun was not present, Minister Qin Chuan had still been filled with alarm and uncertainty. But now, listening to Zhang Yu’s words and looking at the projection descending from the sky, he no longer knew what to say.

“Bu Daojun actually lent the Immortal Shuttle to Zhang Yu and even lets him fly it however he wants? Lets him ram people however he wants?”

“What exactly is their relationship?”

He could not figure it out. Qin Chuan truly could not figure it out.

He only knew that Zhang Yu must be tremendously important in Bu Daojun’s heart, so important that it far surpassed all his original estimates.

At the same time, whether it was Qin Chuan or Jiang Xunyi beside him, a deep trace of lingering fear flashed through their hearts.

“We actually wanted to deal with him before?”

“We spent so long around someone who could kill us for free at any time?”

At this moment, Qin Chuan made up his mind. “Zhang Yu… no, Senior Zhang… From now on, you are the true number one of the Ghost Letter Department. I’ll listen to you from now on.”

Jiang Xunyi, beside him, rushed out even more directly, looking as though he wanted to stop others from rescuing Ying Aikun.

“Senior Zhang,” Jiang Xunyi said, “would you like me to help straighten this head a little?”

At the same time, Ying Aikun had already reacted. “No matter what madness Bu Yingshu has fallen into, and no matter what her relationship with this Zhang Yu is, now is not the time to fight him.”

Ying Aikun’s avatar shouted, “Wait, Zhang Yu, listen to me…”

Zhang Yu said flatly, “Go tell Bu Daojun.”

“You look like a speed bump right now.”

In the next moment, the Immortal Shuttle traced an elegant arc and instantly pierced through Ying Aikun’s head, blasting it apart.

Watching this scene, Jiang Xunyi’s heart trembled, and a trace of reverence appeared in his eyes as he looked toward the Immortal Shuttle.

At the same time, Zhang Yu’s voice came over. “Deputy Minister Jiang Xunyi, did I hit anything?”

Before Jiang Xunyi could answer, Minister Qin Chuan had already rushed up from the other side.

He glared at Jiang Xunyi, then hurriedly said, “Senior Zhang, just now you were only driving the Immortal Shuttle backward to take a look, and you even issued a travel route warning in advance. Who knew Ying Aikun would leave a head lying here to scam you?”

Zhang Yu smiled slightly. He had not expected that Qin Chuan before him would also have some understanding of the Way of Fortune insights Bu Yingshu had taught him.

And since he had already made the Immortal Shuttle’s existence public, Zhang Yu also took the opportunity to exchange a few words with these two colleagues of his.

On one hand, this would make future work in the Ghost Letter Department easier. On the other hand, and more importantly, he could make a few arrangements in passing to prevent the two of them from running around recklessly next.

Zhang Yu said, “Minister Qin, take a look and see whether the front of my Immortal Shuttle was damaged.”

Minister Qin Chuan had just seen Ying Aikun smashed apart. How could he dare stand in front of the Immortal Shuttle? He hurriedly waved his hands and said, “It’s not damaged, not damaged. How could such a fine Immortal Shuttle be damaged so easily?”

Zhang Yu turned the shuttle’s nose around and asked, “Then did any dirty thing stick to it?”

Qin Chuan hurriedly dodged to the side while shouting toward Jiang Xunyi, “Jiang Xunyi, go check whether Senior Zhang’s shuttle nose is dirty.”

“Me?” Jiang Xunyi looked at the shuttle nose turning toward him and hurriedly dodged to the side as well. At the same time, he looked toward the other Ghost Letter Department cultivators and said, “Hurry over and inspect Senior Zhang’s Immortal Shuttle.”

Seeing that everyone in the Ghost Letter Department had been sufficiently beaten into line by this performance, Zhang Yu felt he had established enough authority. He immediately stopped and said, “For the next Labyrinth Realm exploration mission, I will pilot the Immortal Shuttle and take the first step. Remember to follow the Immortal Shuttle’s trail and tail me the whole way.”

After finishing these arrangements, the Immortal Shuttle flashed and plunged straight into the factory district.

Qin Chuan and the others followed all the way.

In fact, it was not only Qin Chuan. At this moment, the cultivators from the other exploration teams all chased in the Immortal Shuttle’s direction as well.

In everyone’s eyes, the origin of such an Immortal Shuttle was extraordinary, and the one piloting it must know far more inside information than they did. Following the other party would definitely allow them to find more gains inside the Labyrinth Realm.

And this was precisely Zhang Yu’s goal: to draw the eyes of all cultivators in the Labyrinth Realm, gather everyone’s attention, and cover for his other self.

At the same time.

On the other side, inside the factory district, Ying Aikun, who had lost contact with his avatar, suddenly straightened his body. What remained in his mind was still the final image of the Immortal Shuttle pressing down and covering his entire field of vision.

Ling Chiye, who was beside him, asked, “Senior Ying, what happened?”

Ying Aikun said gravely, “That Zhang Yu is driving Bu Yingshu’s Immortal Shuttle and has charged headfirst into the Labyrinth Realm…”

After listening to Ying Aikun recount the matter of the Immortal Shuttle, Ling Chiye, this level-five sect affairs officer, was also surprised. “Such a thing actually happened? Why would Bu Daojun lend the Immortal Shuttle to Zhang Yu and allow a lower cultivator like him to use it at will?”

Lightning-fast thoughts flashed through Ling Chiye’s mind. Then he said, “Could it be that Bu Yingshu has also taken a liking to this Labyrinth Realm? Didn’t the Myriad Laws Sect say they weren’t interested and wouldn’t interfere? Was that because they had actually wanted to make a move here long ago?”

At this moment, Ying Aikun was no longer facing the Immortal Shuttle’s impact. Without the risk of losing property, his thoughts became increasingly clear.

He said coldly, “What won’t interfere? What temporarily won’t bother with the affairs of the Old Days Graveyard?”

At this moment, one piece of information after another that he had grasped in the past appeared in Ying Aikun’s mind.

The Immortal Shuttle had appeared in the Old Days Graveyard before.

Last time, when he was borrowing a Soul Cultivator, Bu Yingshu had personally entered the field and smashed him apart.

This time, the Labyrinth Realm had changed. He had already seen through the secrets of the Labyrinth Realm and was just about to break through the final barrier. Once again, it was Bu Yingshu’s subordinate piloting the Immortal Shuttle to cause trouble for him.

“Once might be a coincidence. Twice in a row… That means deliberate planning and long-premeditated intent.”

Ying Aikun said solemnly, “Bu Yingshu… no, Bu Yingshu should also be nothing more than a chess piece. It should be the people of Myriad Laws behind Bu Yingshu who have seen that I am the key to unlocking the Labyrinth Realm, which is why they keep targeting me again and again.”

Ling Chiye nodded inwardly when he heard this, feeling that what Ying Aikun said did indeed make sense.

Ying Aikun suddenly laughed. “Bu Yingshu, that woman, has also become clever. She doesn’t want to get dragged in herself, which is why she sent a lower cultivator like Zhang Yu, handed her Immortal Shuttle to him, and had Zhang Yu act as her dirty glove.”

“In the future, even if something happens, everything can be pushed onto this Zhang Yu. After all, a lower cultivator’s achievement is the upper cultivator’s credit, and an upper cultivator’s mistake is the lower cultivator’s responsibility.”

Ling Chiye nodded slightly. “But this Zhang Yu, based on what you said, seems rather carried away.”

Ying Aikun smiled calmly and said, “It’s very normal for lower-realm people to become arrogant after suddenly latching onto a powerful backer. And now that he has the chance to be used as a blade by those above, perhaps he is even deliberately behaving this way, hoping to gain an opportunity to climb higher.”

“These lower-realm people will do anything to climb upward.”

“Next, perhaps he will continue piloting that Immortal Shuttle and come looking for trouble with us.”

At this point, Ying Aikun had already given his order. “Stop exploring the surroundings. For now, do not bother with those rioting berserk Corpse Canisters either.”

“Everyone is to gather here and protect me. Do not give him even the slightest opportunity.”

Ling Chiye smiled faintly and said with confidence, “Senior Ying, don’t worry. If this were outside, I could only turn and run if I encountered this Immortal Shuttle.”

“But here, without a Spiritual Realm connection and without various forms of supervision, how much of this Immortal Shuttle’s power can Zhang Yu, a mere Divine Transformation cultivator, bring out?”

“It won’t be difficult for me to stop him.”

“In the end, if this Zhang Yu had not been chosen by Bu Daojun and had not obtained such an Immortal Shuttle, what would he count for on his own?”

Ying Aikun nodded, but still said, “I only fear that Bu Yingshu and the people behind Bu Yingshu have more arrangements than just Zhang Yu.”

Ling Chiye said, “With Peak Master Su present, she has probably already isolated all information concerning the Labyrinth Realm from the entire Old Days Graveyard. Zhang Yu likely does not know that there will be no support behind him.”

Thinking of his grandmother Su Lingyou, whom he should already have summoned to oversee the situation, Ying Aikun calmed down considerably. Even so, he continued, “Caution keeps a ship sailing for ten thousand years. Have everyone return.”

Next, Ying Aikun focused his attention on the spatial barrier at the entrance to the laboratory before him.

Not long after, accompanied by a violent tremor through heaven and earth, the spatial barrier before them suddenly dispersed, revealing a path toward the experimental zone.

Looking at this scene, Ling Chiye praised, “Senior Ying, you succeeded!”

Ying Aikun froze slightly. In the next moment, he also nodded and said, “Let’s go. Let’s see what exactly the old bastard left inside.”

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