No Money to Cultivate Immortality? - Chapter 824 (Patreon)

Chapter 824: Suppressing Ying Aikun, Taking Control of the Labyrinth Realm

Hearing Zhang Yu steal even his words, Ying Aikun felt a surge of fury.

“Defying the heavens!”

Especially when he saw the immortal grotto-heaven Zhang Yu was now unleashing, only one thought remained in Ying Aikun’s mind.

“Mine!”

“That grotto-heaven should have been mine in the first place!”

Wave after wave of hatred surged wildly from his heart, but that hatred was not directed at Zhang Yu. It was directed at Ying Xintian, that old ancestor of his.

From childhood to adulthood, there had always been one thing Ying Aikun could never understand.

“Old bastard! Why do you always have to be like this? I just don’t understand. We descendants who pour our hearts out for the prosperity of the whole clan, who spare no effort, who go everywhere fighting and struggling against others… you ignore us.”

“And you always insist on scattering the family’s good things outside, giving them to those useless lowborn beasts, those failures and trash.”

In Ying Aikun’s eyes, Ying Xintian was simply Kunxu’s number one wastrel, the least immortal-like immortal of all.

“Even after you ruined the entire clan and made it fall apart, even after you made everyone lose everything and end up penniless, was that still not enough? In the end, you still weren’t willing to pass your own grotto-heaven to your blood descendants?”

“Ying Xintian! Just how much do you hate your own bloodline? How much do you hate your own descendants?”

With a wild roar in his heart, Ying Aikun’s body pierced through layer after layer of Dimensional Structure and began flickering around Zhang Yu at high speed.

For a moment, he seemed to split into countless incarnations, appearing in every direction around Zhang Yu.

“Old bastard, just watch carefully. Since you refused to give it to me, I’ll take back what belongs to me myself!”

In Ying Aikun’s eyes, with his cultivation, dealing with a cultivator like Zhang Yu, who had only just entered Divine Transformation, should be as easy as turning over his hand even if the other party had just gained some Grotto-Heaven Power.

Amid a furious shout, mana surged around Ying Aikun’s body. As the Dao seal in his hand changed, the entrance to the Qiankun Gourd opened wide, and the scene within it instantly enveloped the battlefield.

“Lord Fuxian? Zhanxian? Zhang Yu? Look at what kind of lowborn beasts you chose. What kind of rotten fish and shrimp are these?”

“You failed, and your successors failed too. If not for us blood descendants, who could have upheld the Ying family’s prestige?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Ying Aikun formed a Dao seal with his hand, and the Qiankun Gourd slammed toward Zhang Yu’s immortal grotto-heaven again. But this time, it was not to shake the immortal grotto-heaven. It was to temporarily block the entrance to the immortal grotto-heaven.

“Lock!”

At Ying Aikun’s command, a soft boom rang out from the atmosphere, stirring up countless ripples.

At the same time, the entrance to Zhang Yu’s immortal grotto-heaven seemed to have been temporarily blocked by Ying Aikun with the Qiankun Gourd, severing the connection between inside and outside in one stroke.

As a former Immortal Clan and Ying Xintian’s blood descendant, Ying Aikun understood Immortal Dao technology in the field of space to an incomparable degree. Naturally, he was also thoroughly familiar with how to use this kind of Immortal Dao technology in battle.

He knew that when dealing with an opponent who possessed a grotto-heaven, an independent space, the most urgent priority was to block the other party’s space and make it difficult for that space to interfere with the material world.

In this way, it was equivalent to temporarily crippling the other party’s personal space.

Of course, the price Ying Aikun paid for using this move was that his own Qiankun Gourd would also be difficult to use for the time being.

But he did not care at all.

“A poor beast from the lower realm. Bu Yingshu’s dog. Without the grotto-heaven that old bastard gave you, and now that the immortal shuttle can’t drive in either, what are you going to use to fight me?”

Ying Aikun reached out and summoned. Brilliant lights suddenly lit up all over his body, as if stars were being ignited at the same time, almost illuminating the entire experimental zone.

Before his assets were seized, Ying Aikun had made many arrangements to hide his own wealth.

One of them had been to use his position at the time to secretly extract the lifespans of many Soul Cultivators and outsourced employees under him, collecting the power driven by their burning lifespans and condensing it into a flame called Lifespan Flame.

This flame possessed vast power. Whether as pure energy, as a processing flame, or as a weapon, it had enormous market value.

Moreover, Ying Aikun’s methods had been hidden. At first glance, there was no visible change among those many Soul Cultivators and outsourced workers. On the surface, they were still a batch of high-quality talent. They had no idea that the future of this high-quality talent had long since been cashed in early by Ying Aikun, turned into raging Lifespan Flame, and stored inside Ying Aikun’s private treasury.

At this very moment, as Ying Aikun circulated his mana, surging Lifespan Flame suddenly erupted, pouring out from his sleeves and sweeping toward Zhang Yu.

The blazing flames instantly lit up the entire sky until it was brilliantly clear. Merely looking at them from afar gave the spectators the illusion that their vitality was being extracted.

And this was precisely the terrifying part of Lifespan Flame. It could accelerate the decay and aging of matter, turning any powerful physique, any indestructible magical treasure… all of it into a pile of scrap metal in an instant.

Witnessing the Lifespan Flame that filled the sky, the many cultivators who had originally been observing in secret were all inwardly alarmed. Sensing a tremendous threat, they once again retreated a long distance outward.

“I never thought Ying Aikun still had a move like this.”

“It seems he really was holding back just now.”

“Zhang Yu has lost the support of his grotto-heaven and has been struck by such a vast amount of Lifespan Flame. I’m afraid things look grim for him. In the end, this immortal inheritance will still fall into the hands of the Ying family…”

On the other side, watching Zhang Yu be swallowed by Lifespan Flame in an instant, Ying Aikun sneered. “Unable to withstand a single blow.”

“Sure enough, just like those disciples and followers that old bastard chose before, they’re all useless failures.”

He roared up at the sky, “Ying Xintian! Did you see that?! You old ghost failed again and again. You failed your whole life!”

“Your successors also failed generation after generation! Now this new successor is going to be trampled under my feet too!”

“Whether you’re willing or not, your inheritance, your power, will eventually fall into our hands! And in the end, only we, your true descendants, can carry it forward…”

Just as Ying Aikun was roaring toward the heavens, ripple after ripple appeared in the atmosphere.

The Lifespan Flame that had completely enveloped Zhang Yu moments ago now seemed to have been wiped away by an eraser, vanishing one patch after another from the air.

At the same time, with Zhang Yu’s body as the source, the landscape of heaven and earth inside the immortal grotto-heaven suddenly emerged.

It was as if a canvas called the immortal grotto-heaven had been overlaid atop the canvas called the real world, making Ying Aikun’s heart jolt with shock.

“This is…”

Zhang Yu said calmly, “Grotto-Heaven Manifestation.”

This was the ability Zhang Yu had obtained when his Immortal Descendant reached level six. It allowed him to temporarily overlay reality with the immortal grotto-heaven, turning the space within a thousand meters around Zhang Yu into a superimposed state of the real world and the immortal grotto-heaven.

As long as his will moved, within this thousand-meter range… one second it could still be the real world, the next second it could become the immortal grotto-heaven, and the second after that it could turn back into the real world again.

And just now, Zhang Yu had used this move to transform all the surrounding space into the domain of the immortal grotto-heaven, taking in all the Lifespan Flame that filled the sky.

After doing all this, Zhang Yu looked at Ying Aikun and said, “Grotto-Heaven Manifestation… you don’t know how to do it? Then it seems I really am more suited than you to wield Senior Ying Xintian’s inheritance.”

“Arrogant!”

Ying Aikun shouted furiously. His body instantly broke through layer after layer of Dimensional Structure, as if shattering sheet after sheet of glass. Wrapped in Lifespan Flame that filled the sky, he shot toward Zhang Yu like a dazzling crimson meteor.

But as the surrounding space shifted, it seemed that in the very next moment, Zhang Yu was going to use Grotto-Heaven Manifestation to drag him into the immortal grotto-heaven.

Yet as if he had sensed the spatial change around him one step in advance, Ying Aikun’s figure flashed and appeared on the other side, continuing his charge toward Zhang Yu.

Relying on his skilled mastery of spatial technology, Ying Aikun actually dodged Zhang Yu’s Grotto-Heaven Manifestation in advance again and again, never once being taken into Zhang Yu’s immortal grotto-heaven.

At this moment, from afar, what the spectators saw was a crimson meteor constantly leaping, flickering, and charging, drawing closer and closer to Zhang Yu amid ceaseless flashes and assaults.

“I bear the bloodlines of two great immortals, and I have the Taizhen Immortal Clan behind me! Standing behind me is the Taizhen Immortal! What right do you have to fight me?”

“Ying Xintian was a failure who failed his whole life. Every successor he chose was a failure too. Today, you are destined to be defeated by my hand as well!”

Zhang Yu said coldly, “Lose?”

“Perhaps in your eyes, he is a failure.”

“But in my eyes, he is a victor.”

“He is a victor who persisted until now in a battle doomed to fail and passed hope on to those who came after him.”

Amid a thunderous boom, Zhang Yu’s figure moved. He did not dodge or evade. Instead, he shattered the atmosphere all the way forward and actively slammed into Ying Aikun as Ying Aikun shot toward him.

“Now, he has chosen me as his new successor.”

With a tremendous bang, a shock like the collision of sun and moon erupted from the point where the two struck each other. Surging airwaves turned into layer upon layer of storm and swept out in all directions, mixed with scattered sparks of Lifespan Flame, crushing countless buildings in the experimental zone to dust.

“I will make you understand that his choice was completely correct.”

As Lifespan Flame continuously burned all over him and his flesh gradually began to decay, Zhang Yu shouted and slammed a ruthless punch into Ying Aikun’s body.

Ying Aikun roared furiously and swung his hand in counterattack, blasting a vast sheet of Lifespan Flame toward Zhang Yu.

At the same time, Ying Aikun’s figure flickered repeatedly. While avoiding Zhang Yu’s offensive, his fists wrapped in Lifespan Flame struck Zhang Yu again and again.

Ying Aikun howled, “Filthy beast! Lose!”

But in the next instant, Zhang Yu’s figure also began to flicker, vanishing for a moment, then appearing again.

Ying Aikun’s gaze sharpened, and he understood in an instant. He knew this was Zhang Yu using Grotto-Heaven Manifestation, appearing in the real world one moment and slipping into the immortal grotto-heaven the next, allowing him to flicker in and out of sight like this.

And by relying on this move, Zhang Yu, who had only been able to passively take blows moments ago, could now begin dodging his attacks and even, amid his unpredictable appearances and disappearances… strike back and wound him.

“Why?!” A trace of unwillingness surged in Ying Aikun’s heart. “Why can he grasp Grotto-Heaven Power so quickly? Why can he use Grotto-Heaven Manifestation so skillfully so soon?”

“Could it be that in this regard, he really does have this much talent? More talent than all of us…”

In the next instant, Ying Aikun had already suppressed the stray thoughts in his heart.

“You like hiding? Then let’s see where you can hide!”

Ying Aikun became like a sun. Blazing radiance suddenly erupted from every part of his body, scattering Lifespan Flame across the entire battlefield.

In this way, no matter how Zhang Yu dodged, as long as he appeared anywhere nearby, he would still be within Ying Aikun’s attack range.

But amid collision after collision and strike after strike, Zhang Yu, who was being violently burned by Lifespan Flame, remained full of surging battle intent. The power he unleashed showed not the slightest sign of weakening, making even Ying Aikun feel alarmed.

On one hand, this was because Zhang Yu was relying on the physical defenses he had tempered step by step from Qi Refinement until now, constantly resisting the damage that Lifespan Flame inflicted on his body.

On the other hand, Zhang Yu was secretly using Blood-Tide Essence Saint Visualization to turn the various muscles, tendons, and organs inside his body into flame, allowing him to better resist Lifespan Flame.

In addition, during every process of vanishing and appearing, one avatar after another took his place, drilling out of the immortal grotto-heaven to battle Ying Aikun.

And whenever an avatar suffered somewhat serious injuries, it would hide inside the immortal grotto-heaven to circulate its cultivation and heal.

At this very moment, Zhang Yu was not fighting Ying Aikun alone. He was controlling more than thirty avatars, taking turns healing and fighting. Through the power of Grotto-Heaven Manifestation, they lined up to collide with Ying Aikun in sequence.

“Impossible!” The more Ying Aikun fought, the more unbelievable he found it. “He only just entered Divine Transformation. Why can he fight me to this extent?”

“Ying Aikun…” Just then, Zhang Yu suddenly said, “I’m about familiar enough with Grotto-Heaven Power now. So…”

“The warm-up is over. Let’s decide the outcome.”

Hearing these words, Ying Aikun’s eyes abruptly narrowed, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning.

“What did he say? The warm-up is over? What kind of big talk is this guy spouting? He must be bluffing!”

But in the next instant, an intense sense of threat surged up, and the direction from which that threat came was…

“Myself?”

Just as Ying Aikun sensed that the threat was coming from his own body, thirteen Cave Heaven Bridges had already thunderously opened on him in succession.

This was another enhancement Zhang Yu’s Immortal Descendant had obtained after reaching level six. At this moment, he could open a total of eighteen Cave Heaven Bridges.

And just now, while exchanging blows with Ying Aikun, he had successively left thirteen Cave Heaven Bridges on the other party’s body.

At the same time, at the other end of the Cave Heaven Bridges, inside the immortal grotto-heaven, Zhang Yu’s more than thirty avatars, along with the combat corpse components he controlled—the Light Cannon Array Dragon and the Sorting Demon—had all finished gathering their power.

The remaining immortal crystals Jiang Xunyi had given him earlier also burned fiercely all at once at this moment, turning into streams of pure immortal qi and spiritual inspiration that poured violently into the many corpse components, pushing their output to the limit in one stroke.

In the next instant, layers of offensive power had already crossed the Cave Heaven Bridges and landed directly on Ying Aikun’s body.

First, the Sorting Demon’s Work-Injury Curse characteristic erupted, causing the Lifespan Flame all over Ying Aikun’s body to ignite on its own.

Then the Light Cannon Array Dragon’s Bloodfiend Divine Light swept over, winding around Ying Aikun’s primordial spirit and corroding it madly.

The other corpse components also extended tentacles and sprayed out blood vessels at the same time, exhausting all their strength to suppress Ying Aikun.

As for Zhang Yu’s more than thirty avatars, they unleashed layer upon layer of Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Might.

At the same time, Zhang Yu gently pressed down with one palm from afar.

In the end, together with Zhang Yu’s main body, a total of thirty-three layers of Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Might erupted with a crash. It was as if an entire continental shelf had been smashed onto Ying Aikun’s body, striking him down like a falling meteor. With a thunderous boom, he crashed into the ground of the experimental zone.

Seeing that he could only use Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Might to suppress his opponent, Zhang Yu could not help sighing faintly in his heart.

Earlier, he had used Kunlun in the Palm to suppress opponents because the opponents had been different.

After all, Kunlun in the Palm only expanded and contracted space. It did not suppress through power. Once he encountered an opponent like Ying Aikun, who was powerful and also skilled in spatial technology, mere spatial expansion and contraction would not be very useful. Even if the space were compressed, if the opponent’s power was not suppressed by him, the opponent could still jump out at any time.

If Zhang Yu wanted to suppress Ying Aikun, he needed to erupt with sufficiently overwhelming power.

And he felt that although his abilities in survival, support, and work had become very complete, in the end, he still lacked an Immortal-Class Technique with sufficiently overwhelming power. Perhaps he should consider cultivating one next…

Under the crushing pressure of that enormous force, Ying Aikun sprawled at the center of the crater. No matter how he struggled, he could not even lift his head.

“He has corpse components? Is it the power of those rampaging corpse components? Inside the grotto-heaven that old bastard gave Zhang Yu, he even stored combat corpse components in advance?”

“Damn it! If my physical body hadn’t been destroyed before, how could I possibly have been suppressed by him!”

“Old bastard! If not for you causing me to be expelled from my master’s sect, causing Myriad Laws Sect to take back all my sect-suppressing techniques, how could I have let this little beast gain the upper hand?”

Although Zhang Yu had suppressed him, at this moment, ten thousand parts of defiance surged up in Ying Aikun’s heart.

“Ying Xintian! If not for you spending your whole life favoring outsiders and dragging down your own descendants… how could I have been defeated today? How could I have lost?”

At the same time, not far away, the many Divine Transformation cultivators all stared at this scene in shock.

In truth, the entire battle had not lasted long. From Ying Aikun taking the initiative to attack, to the two of them fighting each other, to Zhang Yu finally slapping Ying Aikun down to the earth and suppressing him with one palm, only a few instants had passed from beginning to end.

At first, perhaps everyone had still been wondering whether they could fish in troubled waters and reap the benefits, finding an opportunity during the clash between the two sides to seize the immortal grotto-heaven…

But now, after seeing Zhang Yu suppress Ying Aikun with a backhanded move and display all kinds of mysteries of Grotto-Heaven Power in the process, they no longer had the slightest thought of looking for an opportunity.

“I didn’t expect this… I truly didn’t expect this…” Deputy Minister Jiang Xunyi looked at this scene and thought inwardly, “Originally, I thought this immortal inheritance was most likely reserved for Ying Aikun. But in the end, it was actually given to Zhang Yu?”

“Could all of this be part of Bu Daojun’s calculations? Could Zhang Yu have long since been the candidate selected by the Myriad Laws Immortal Clan… to compete for the immortal inheritance?”

At this moment, in Jiang Xunyi’s eyes, both the distant Bu Daojun and the Zhang Yu before him became increasingly profound and unfathomable.

At the same time, Ling Chiye, who had been observing from the entrance to the experimental zone, frowned slightly.

For some reason, ever since just now, the Divine Light emitted by Ying Aikun had first brightened sharply, then begun flickering in and out, and finally dimmed rapidly, as if it had been seized by a giant hand.

“What happened?”

“Could it be… Senior Ying obtained the grotto-heaven and is now trying to go in and out a few times? And then stayed inside the grotto-heaven?” Thinking this, Ling Chiye nodded slightly, feeling that he had guessed correctly.

Inside the experimental zone, the giant corpse looked at Zhang Yu and said, “Young friend, the immortal inheritance has already been taken by you. From now on, this Labyrinth Realm will be under your control.”

“But this news cannot be hidden for long. In fact, very soon, it may become known throughout the world. Countless sect higher-ups, Righteous Gods of Heavenly Court, and even the gazes of immortals will gather upon you. Even Yun Taizhen will not let you go. Have you thought about how to deal with that?”

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