No Money to Cultivate Immortality? - Chapter 836 (Patreon)

Chapter 836: Zhang Yu, Bai Zhenzhen, What Are You Doing?

Feeling the yin qi sweep in from between heaven and earth, Bai Zhenzhen breathed out a mouthful of hot air, and at once saw a fine notice for yang qi pollutants.

But at this moment, Bai Zhenzhen had no attention to spare for that. Her mind was full of thoughts about the mysterious person’s intentions.

“What exactly is he trying to do?”

Ever since Bai Zhenzhen had been targeted by that mysterious person, the other party had often guided her in all kinds of sword techniques and sword principles. Her Sword Dao cultivation had advanced day and night, far surpassing the rate of progress she had made in the past.

Aside from that, Bai Zhenzhen had also made occasional progress in the power structure of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Especially over the past half year, the other party had pushed her all the way to the position of a level-four sect affairs officer, allowing her to successfully break through to the Divine Transformation realm.

But the more things were like this, the more Bai Zhenzhen felt a kind of unease.

Because she could sense the undisguised malice from that mysterious person. She had also heard of the many examples in the Heavenly Sword Sect where people had initially been raised higher and higher, only to fall in an incomparably miserable fashion in the end.

“Those cultivators who practice Extreme Sentiment Swordsmanship will use any means available. Using power to lift a cultivator up, or to drag one down, is something they can do with ease.”

Bai Zhenzhen sighed inwardly. “And a lot of the time, when they do this… it’s nothing more than finding entertainment for themselves, while strengthening their own Sword Dao cultivation.”

As she thought, her destination appeared in Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes: the Safety Administration Bureau.

As an institution under the Management Committee, the Safety Administration Bureau was responsible for supervising production safety, construction safety, and similar matters within the development zone.

Bai Zhenzhen guessed at the mysterious person’s intention in arranging her into this position, and faintly had a bad premonition.

Just then, she heard Wen Wuya beside her say, “Zhenzhen, are we going to see Zhang Yu first, or should we visit the Safety Administration Bureau first?”

Wen Wuya had been born on the tenth layer of Kunxu. He had also once been a Divine Transformation disciple, and had followed Bai Zhenzhen to intern at the Heavenly Sword Sect for nearly a year. At last, he had also succeeded in the last Exam Sect test.

This time, as Bai Zhenzhen’s subordinate, he had come to the Old Days Graveyard with her.

Zhang Yu’s appearance surfaced in Bai Zhenzhen’s mind, and the corners of her mouth could not help curving into a slight smile. It was as if much of the unease in her heart toward the mysterious person had been dispelled.

“Let’s go see Yuzi first.”

A moment later, before the Cave Heaven Bridge at the entrance of the Labyrinth Realm.

Looking at Zhang Yu’s figure appearing before her, Bai Zhenzhen could not help smiling again. “Yuzi.”

Zhang Yu also smiled, then pointed to the Spiritual Realm projection above his head: Vice Chair of the Industrial Development Zone Management Committee.

Then Zhang Yu asked, “Handsome, right?”

Looking at Zhang Yu’s title, Bai Zhenzhen teased, “Vice Chair of the Management Committee… whose thigh did you cling to this time? They actually managed to push you into this position? My good son has become someone who can be a father in the blink of an eye.”

At the same time, Bai Zhenzhen’s Spiritual Realm profile appeared in Zhang Yu’s eyes.

“Ah-Zhen, your skill at clinging to thighs hasn’t declined since the old days either,” Zhang Yu said. “Other than me, you should be the person from the first batch of Exam Sect students who understands thigh-clinging best. As expected of my good daughter.”

Zhang Yu looked at Bai Zhenzhen before him and found that she was still the same as before, with a lithe, slender figure and long hair drifting in the wind.

It was just that between her brows, there seemed to be a mass of sorrow that could not be dispelled.

Zhang Yu asked, “What’s wrong? You look like you owe a huge debt. Do you need to kneel down and beg your father to help you pay it off?”

At the same time, he nodded at Wen Wuya beside her and greeted him.

“Father!” Bai Zhenzhen immediately gripped Zhang Yu’s hands and said, “Let’s talk inside your grotto-heaven. There are too many people here. I’ll go in and kneel for you.”

Zhang Yu had not expected that Bai Zhenzhen would really kneel just because he said it casually.

In his mind, Songyang High from that day in first year seemed to surface again, along with the sight of Bai Zhenzhen kneeling on the ground while hugging his thigh.

“Has Ah-Zhen owed a lot of money recently?”

He reached out and pulled Bai Zhenzhen along, and the two of them, together with Wen Wuya following behind, crossed into the immortal grotto-heaven.

As Bai Zhenzhen and Wen Wuya crossed the Cave Heaven Bridge and looked at the vast world that appeared before them, a trace of surprise rose in both their eyes.

Especially recently, as Zhang Yu had absorbed large amounts of Grotto-Heaven Power from the berserk Breathing Corpses every day, the entire immortal grotto-heaven had expanded by several degrees. It looked more and more like a small world.

At the same time, the two of them could also sense that the Spiritual Realm connection had been cut off.

This was because Zhang Yu’s immortal grotto-heaven was not yet connected to the Spiritual Realm.

Sensing the Spiritual Realm connection completely severed, as well as the Dimensional Structure changing all around them, Bai Zhenzhen also relaxed slightly.

But to be safe, she still used Evil God power to communicate with Zhang Yu inside their minds.

“Relax. Your mother hasn’t gone into debt. It’s just… recently, I’ve been targeted by some higher-up in the Heavenly Sword Sect… I feel like that guy will use all kinds of methods to monitor me.”

Bai Zhenzhen briefly explained some of the situation, explaining why she had been contacting Zhang Yu remotely less and less recently.

Because she was worried the mysterious person might discover their secrets, she rarely held deep conversations through the Spiritual Realm.

And because Zhang Yu had spent these days inside the small realm of the Old Days Graveyard, they had been in different spaces, making it difficult to communicate through Evil God power as well.

The same was even more true of exchanging Celestial Spirit Roots. On top of that, Bai Zhenzhen was afraid that the transfer would cause too great a disturbance and draw the mysterious person’s attention, so she had not even had Zhang Yu temporarily leave the Old Days Graveyard to exchange spirit roots.

Listening to Bai Zhenzhen’s account, Zhang Yu could not help frowning. “What exactly is this mysterious person’s background? Ah-Zhen, do you know?”

Bai Zhenzhen shook her head. “All I know is that this person occupies a high position in the Heavenly Sword Sect. Even my appointment to the development zone this time was arranged entirely by him. Whether in strength or authority, I’m afraid he’s extraordinarily terrifying.”

Listening to Bai Zhenzhen’s account, Fu Ji had already begun analyzing things in Zhang Yu’s mind. “This mysterious person said he was looking for entertainment. Could he be trying to help Bai Zhenzhen soar to the heavens, then crush her viciously and flatten her, enjoying the thrill of manipulating someone’s life?”

Zhanxian said, “The madmen of the Heavenly Sword Sect have long since grown tired of that kind of pleasure. Since they’ve rarely encountered someone who has successfully cultivated the old version of Extreme Sentiment Swordsmanship, I think they would naturally start from that angle.”

“Perhaps they want to deepen our relationship with Bai Zhenzhen, then take her away afterward and humiliate her harshly, savoring the emotional torment that has already become extremely rare inside the sect.”

Hearing this, the Exam Sect avatar snorted coldly and scoffed. “Absurd. How could the experts of the Heavenly Sword Sect care about the filthy feelings of lower-realm people? And if they don’t care, how could they gain pleasure from destroying them?”

Fu Ji asked, “Then what do you think it is?”

The Exam Sect avatar said, “I’m not an expert of the Heavenly Sword Sect. How could I possibly guess the strange and wondrous ideas in their minds?”

At the same time, Bai Zhenzhen waved at Wen Wuya and said, “I’m going to talk to Zhang Yu alone for a few words. Wuya, wait here for me.”

After she finished speaking, two rays of Divine Light rose into the sky. Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu had already arrived at an empty place.

The next moment, Bai Zhenzhen had already wrapped her arms around Zhang Yu from behind. As she worked to line up their spirit roots, she said anxiously, “Yuzi, I’m coming in.”

It had been a long time since she had nourished the Celestial Spirit Root, and a long time since they had exchanged and stimulated each other’s Celestial Spirit Roots to adapt and raise their strength.

Bai Zhenzhen, who was devoted to charging toward the peak of the Immortal Dao, had already become impatient the moment she saw Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu said, “We’re inside the immortal grotto-heaven now. You don’t have to worry about being discovered. We can directly transfer it and exchange from a distance. There’s no need for it to be as troublesome as before.”

Bai Zhenzhen advised, “That’s too rough. I feel like slowly guiding it in gives better effects for spirit root adaptation and nourishment.”

Zhang Yu asked in confusion, “Really?”

Bai Zhenzhen said, “It’s my spirit root. I’m definitely more sensitive to it than you are! Just listen to me.”

A moment later, Bai Zhenzhen took a deep breath and said, “Yuzi, it’s been so long since we last exchanged… you’ve changed so much. It feels like adapting is a bit slow. If I go out now and someone sees me, they’ll probably notice something strange very quickly.”

Zhang Yu nodded. Sensing the unique sensation spreading wildly out from within the Celestial Spirit Root, he said, “No rush. We’ll take it slowly. I’m the vice chair of the Management Committee now. No one can disturb us.”

“If someone asks where you went for so long, just say I was holding a meeting with you.”

At the same time, Zhang Yu looked at the Greenlotus Sword Embryo on the Dao Seed Codex and thought, “To raise Ah-Zhen’s Greenlotus Sword Embryo to level five, I need to nourish thirty level-fifty cultivation techniques.”

“Perfect. I’ve cultivated quite a few Divine Transformation techniques over the past half year. I can use them one by one to nourish this Celestial Spirit Root.”

“This Greenlotus Sword Embryo is already a Celestial Spirit Root. I wonder what it will become if it continues advancing.”

…

At the same time, a streak of flowing light passed across the sky above the Old Days Graveyard. Countless pieces of Spiritual Realm information were stirred up, instantly causing a great number of Soul Cultivators to tense.

“What is that? An immortal shuttle?”

“Is that Vice Chair Zhang’s immortal shuttle?”

“Doesn’t seem like it… it’s an even more powerful one.”

Inside the immortal shuttle, Bu Yingshu was resting her chin on one hand, frowning as she looked at the contact list that had appeared before her. She sent Zhang Yu another message.

“That guy Zhang Yu… where did he go? Why aren’t you replying to my messages? Why didn’t you come pick me up?”

Bu Yingshu knew Zhang Yu had not come to pick her up because she had not told him in advance that she was coming.

But Bu Yingshu simply did not want to inform him in advance.

After all, having to personally come over and talk to Zhang Yu about investment matters had already left Bu Yingshu feeling somewhat displeased.

“If I communicate with him in advance, won’t that make it seem as if I’m making an appointment with him? As if I’m submitting an application to him?”

Who went to their own cat or dog’s nest and had to make an appointment in advance?

Of course, the moment the owner went over, the cat or dog should happily gather around, roll over to expose its belly, and let the owner do whatever they pleased.

Bu Yingshu felt that this was how a master and pet should get along. This was only natural.

So she decided to come whenever she wanted. After she arrived, she would directly contact the other party and have him come pick her up.

Bu Yingshu recalled the way the previous few meetings with Zhang Yu had gone, and thought, “Logically speaking, this stinking pet has already been completely handled by me. He’s obedient and submissive toward me. If he knows I’m here, shouldn’t he hurry up and come receive me?”

Thinking of how Zhang Yu had not contacted her of his own accord during this period, Bu Yingshu’s eyes narrowed bit by bit. “If he doesn’t perform well, that means this stinking pet really has developed some disloyal thoughts after becoming vice chair.”

Looking at the profile icon that still had not replied, Bu Yingshu’s brows also knitted tighter and tighter.

She flipped through the Spiritual Realm information and directly drove the immortal shuttle to the place where Breathing Corpses were registered.

With the immortal shuttle’s arrival, the line of people who had originally been waiting and registering at the site immediately descended into chaos.

“The immortal shuttle is here!”

“Careful! Don’t get hit! We can’t afford compensation!”

“Don’t look! Don’t take photos! Hurry and run!”

Looking at the many cultivators scattering like birds and beasts, Bu Yingshu paid it no mind.

She looked at the rows of on-site personnel profiles appearing inside the immortal shuttle and directly drove it in front of Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting. The contract cultivators who had originally maintained a transparent state also directly appeared.

Sensing the oppressive force surging from the immortal shuttle, and looking at the countless Spiritual Realm warnings appearing before them, Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting had already fallen to their knees with a thud, shutting their eyes and awaiting death.

They only heard Bu Yingshu ask, “Where is Zhang Yu? Have him come see me immediately.”

Hearing Bu Yingshu’s question, Feng Tingting’s heart surged with the wild joy of escaping death. She hurriedly answered, “Vice Chair Zhang should be staying inside the immortal grotto-heaven. The Spiritual Realm doesn’t cover that place, so sometimes he replies more slowly.”

Bu Yingshu nodded, but in the next moment, she frowned slightly and thought, “This reason is indeed valid, but… is it really not just brushing me off?”

Bu Yingshu wanted to see whether Zhang Yu truly had not received her message, or whether he had received it and was neglecting her.

So the immortal shuttle trembled slightly and had already swept Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting inside.

“You two, come with me into the grotto-heaven to find him.”

The next moment, the immortal shuttle flashed. Like a bolt of lightning, it rushed toward the nearby Cave Heaven Bridge in the blink of an eye.

This Cave Heaven Bridge had been established here by Zhang Yu. It had always remained open to the outside, used for receiving Breathing Corpses each day.

At this moment, with a single charge, the immortal shuttle passed through the Cave Heaven Bridge and directly entered Zhang Yu’s immortal grotto-heaven.

The instant the immortal shuttle entered the immortal grotto-heaven, a terrifying fluctuation rose from the shuttle’s body and directly swept across the entire grotto-heaven space, scanning every corner.

“He really is in the immortal grotto-heaven? So he didn’t receive my message.”

After checking the scan results, Bu Yingshu’s brows relaxed slightly. But in the next moment, her gaze sharpened. “Someone from the Heavenly Sword Sect? Why are they so close to Zhang Yu’s coordinates?”

When she said the words Heavenly Sword Sect, an intense disgust seemed to rise in Bu Yingshu’s eyes.

In the next instant, there seemed to be a buzzing sound in the air.

The immortal shuttle vanished in an instant, then appeared again in the next instant, stopping directly above Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.

Looking at the immortal shuttle that had suddenly appeared, Bai Zhenzhen was startled. Instinctively, she let go of Zhang Yu in her arms, her whole body surging with Sword Aura as she stood in front of him.

On the other side, Zhang Yu also reacted very quickly. He immediately guessed that the immortal shuttle before him most likely belonged to Bu Yingshu.

Afraid that Bai Zhenzhen would offend the other party, he immediately pulled her behind him and said, “Bu Daojun, why have you come? If I’d known you were coming, I would definitely have pushed aside everything to welcome you.”

Listening to what Zhang Yu said and looking at the immortal shuttle before her, Bai Zhenzhen thought, “Has Zhang Yu always been dealing with such a dangerous woman?”

Through Evil God power, she said to Zhang Yu, “Yuzi, didn’t you say you’d already brought Bu Yingshu completely under control? This doesn’t look like that at all.”

Bu Yingshu was fairly satisfied with Zhang Yu’s attitude, but looking at the Heavenly Sword Sect cultivator nearby, she still asked in puzzlement, “What were you doing? The immortal shuttle tells me that there are traces of each other’s mana inside both of your bodies.”

“This immortal shuttle can even see that?” Zhang Yu was slightly startled and thought, “I absolutely can’t talk about the spirit root exchange.”

So Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen looked at each other. Bai Zhenzhen had already said, “I’m the newly appointed director of the Safety Administration Bureau. I came to ask Vice Chair Zhang to guide my work, and came to find him for… Dual Cultivation!”

Bai Zhenzhen understood that compared to something like exchanging Celestial Spirit Roots, superior-subordinate Dual Cultivation was an utterly normal official matter in the Myriad Laws Sect and among the sect layers.

Bu Yingshu thought, “So that’s it. Zhang Yu is engaging in outward relations for the sake of the sect… that’s also very normal.”

Just when Bu Yingshu felt everything was normal, she suddenly looked at the detection report sent by the immortal shuttle, and her brows furrowed again.

“No. You, the Heavenly Sword Sect person, have already been completely sterilized.”

“They weren’t doing Dual Cultivation. What exactly were they doing? Why did they lie to me?”

Bu Yingshu asked coldly, “Zhang Yu, were you two really only doing Dual Cultivation just now?”

Zhang Yu hurriedly nodded and said, “Yes, Daojun. After Bai Zhenzhen and I entered the grotto-heaven, we came here and cultivated together until you descended just now…”

Seeing Zhang Yu’s admission, Bu Yingshu snorted coldly in her heart. “Still lying to me? In front of me, joining hands with an outsider from the Heavenly Sword Sect to deceive me? This little beast has quite some nerve!”

Bu Yingshu took a deep breath and forcefully suppressed the anger in her heart. Then she said, “How do you know each other?”

Zhang Yu knew that his and Bai Zhenzhen’s past could not be hidden, so he immediately said, “Ah-Zhen and I are old classmates who climbed up together from the first layer of Kunxu. It’s just that we hadn’t seen each other in a long time, so we cultivated together a little…”

“Climbed up together from the first layer?” Hearing this, Bu Yingshu looked at Bai Zhenzhen with a trace of disgust flashing through her eyes. She only felt that her own little pet had been led astray by this stray dog who had climbed up from below together with him.

Too lazy to keep listening to Zhang Yu’s nonsense, Bu Yingshu directly said, “Since you were doing Dual Cultivation together, do you have monitoring logs? Surveillance footage? Let me see how you did Dual Cultivation.”

Hearing this, Zhang Yu’s heart sank. “What’s going on? If it were normally, a few casual words should be enough to brush off this woman Bu Yingshu.”

“Why is she clinging to this matter now?”

“Could she have sensed something abnormal?”

But if Zhang Yu was asked to hand over footage, he naturally could not produce any. He could only smile bitterly and say, “Daojun, we didn’t turn on the monitoring just now.”

“Still lying to me?!” Bu Yingshu looked at Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen before her, killing intent gradually rising in her heart. The Kill Permit behind her flickered in and out of sight.

Bu Yingshu sneered and said, “That’s fine too. You two can do Dual Cultivation together again, right in front of me.”

When Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen heard this, alarm bells rang loudly in both their hearts.

Zhang Yu thought, “Not good. Did this guy really discover something?”

Bai Zhenzhen thought, “Yuzi… this is completely different from the work environment you described before. Have you been played with and repeatedly humiliated by Bu Yingshu like this all the way until now?”

Seeing the two of them hem and haw, Bu Yingshu said indifferently, “What’s wrong? You can’t? Zhang Yu, do the two of you not know how to cultivate, or are you unable to cultivate?”

Helplessness surged in Zhang Yu’s heart. “Unless it’s absolutely necessary, I must not become enemies with Bu Yingshu.”

He communicated with Bai Zhenzhen in his mind. “Ah-Zhen, I’ll try to satisfy her demand.”

Bai Zhenzhen replied, “Say it. What do we do?”

The next moment, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen pressed their palms together and began transmitting mana to each other.

Bu Yingshu said flatly, “Continue.”

Zhang Yu said, “Daojun, this is how we do Dual Cultivation.”

Bu Yingshu was slightly stunned. Her first reaction was that Zhang Yu was playing her for a fool.

This counted as Dual Cultivation? Then in the past, she had stepped on Zhang Yu a few times, and even touched his hand and head. If it came from his mouth, would that count as Dual Cultivation with her too?

But then she reacted. Although no one in the sects nowadays did Dual Cultivation this way anymore, in ancient times, this method of sending mana into each other’s bodies was indeed defined as a type of Dual Cultivation.

Connecting that with the detection report given by the immortal shuttle, Bu Yingshu could not help believing it a little more.

“Could it be that Zhang Yu didn’t lie to me? Were they really only doing Dual Cultivation?”

Thinking this, Bu Yingshu’s originally furious mood also eased slightly.

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