No Money to Cultivate Immortality? - Chapter 844 (Patreon)

Chapter 844: Compensation in Hand, Back-Dragon Kunlun Flip

After a round of bargaining, Xie Lanyin still felt that medical expenses plus another ten million immortal coins was too much, and repeatedly stressed that she did not have that much cash on hand.

Xie Lanyin explained again, “I’m only a level-six sect affairs officer. In the development zone, I count as somebody, but once I go back to the Whitebone Cult, I’m just an ordinary middle manager. Most of what I have is fixed assets. I really don’t have that much cash.”

Zhang Yu looked at Xie Lanyin before him and said, “Then how about this… You don’t need to pay the later treatment costs. I’ll find a way to handle them myself.”

“But your first compensation payment of 6.4 million immortal coins must arrive in my account today.”

“As for the remaining 3.6 million, I can accept you paying it off over three years. A hundred thousand immortal coins every month.”

Xie Lanyin’s eyes shifted. She knew Zhang Yu was using “not needing her to bear the medical fees” in exchange for “paying more immortal coins.”

Hearing Zhang Yu say this, the doctor beside them was startled and advised him, “Deputy Chairman Zhang, your body matters most. With your current health condition, you may need long-term treatment. I don’t recommend giving up medical compensation…”

Zhang Yu waved his hand and said, “I know my own body. After discussing the compensation with Deputy Chairman Xie, my condition has already been getting better and better.”

“Deputy Chairman Xie, what do you say?”

Under pressure from Bu Yingshu, Xiao Yunhe, Ku Rong Tongzi, and the major enterprises, Xie Lanyin could only sigh helplessly. In the end, she agreed to this compensation sum.

And after Zhang Yu and Xie Lanyin signed the compensation contract, once 6.4 million immortal coins had been transferred into Zhang Yu’s account, under everyone’s astonished gazes, his figure moved. He hurriedly climbed out of the hospital bed while ripping off all the various therapeutic artifacts attached to his body.

His movements were so swift it was as if he feared that lying there even a moment longer would cost him another coin.

Seeing this, the doctor hurried forward to stop him. “Deputy Chairman Zhang, you’re not out of danger yet…”

Zhang Yu waved his hand and said, “After receiving these 6.4 million immortal coins, I feel much better. I probably don’t need treatment anymore.”

The doctor swept his gaze over him and observed him briefly. He could sense that Zhang Yu’s various vital signs had indeed risen. His heart sank. “Oh no. If this keeps up, the patient is going to leave the critical period!”

Zhang Yu said to everyone, “It may be the effect of the immortal inheritance. I feel that only by returning to the immortal grotto-heaven can my body recover better.”

“Bu Daojun, Chairman Xiao, Deputy Chairman Xie, I’ll head back first to heal.”

After saying this, Grotto-Heaven Power suddenly surged around him. With a single step, he was about to leave the clinic and return to the immortal grotto-heaven.

Bu Yingshu immediately followed after him and gave a cold snort. “Wait. I’m going back with you.”

The doctor watching this scene also panicked. “It’s over. The patient is being discharged!”

He hurriedly said, “Deputy Chairman Zhang, the Celestial Spirit Root that flowed out of your body…”

That was the basic Celestial Spirit Root Zhang Yu had spent twenty thousand immortal coins to buy in the past.

After it was damaged in this battle, he simply did not try to repair it. Instead, he took it out directly and used it as bargaining leverage to demand compensation from Xie Lanyin.

Now that the immortal coins had arrived, Zhang Yu was unwilling to stay in the clinic for even another moment.

As for that Celestial Spirit Root, which had already become so ruined it was basically scrap, he naturally had no interest in it either.

As for his own Feather Spirit Root, he had temporarily taken it out and hidden it away.

Thus, Zhang Yu did not even turn his head as he said, “I’m donating it to you for research. Consider it my contribution to the sect’s medical undertaking. No need to thank me.”

Chairman Xiao Yunhe reminded him, “Deputy Chairman Zhang, remember to restore the Spiritual Realm connection in the Labyrinth Realm as soon as possible.”

The next moment, the Grotto-Heaven Power dissipated. Zhang Yu and Bu Yingshu’s figures had already vanished from everyone’s sight, leaving only the doctor with a mournful expression. He sighed inwardly. “Sigh. Million-level medical fees… gone just like that.”

For a medical troublemaker like this who refused to obediently accept treatment, if he had been an ordinary cultivator, the doctor would have taken him down long ago. Unfortunately, Zhang Yu’s rank, authority, strength, and background were all extraordinary. He was no longer someone the clinic could casually treat and fleece. The doctors could only gaze after the lost sheep and sigh.

Xie Lanyin watched this scene. At first, she was slightly startled, amazed by how quickly Zhang Yu’s condition had recovered, and sighed at how formidable the immortal inheritance was.

But then she thought of the 6.4 million immortal coins she had transferred over, and the hundred thousand immortal coins she would have to send every month afterward, and sorrow welled up in her heart.

“This is what you call heavily wounded and on the verge of death?” Xie Lanyin said coldly. “He’s clearly extorting me.”

Xiao Yunhe said mildly, “Deputy Chairman Xie, do you want to go around announcing that you, a deputy chairman of the Administrative Committee, a sixth-rank Void Refinement cultivator, failed to severely injure Deputy Chairman Zhang with one strike, and he instead remained perfectly lively afterward?”

Hearing this, Xie Lanyin felt another wave of gloom.

She knew that she absolutely could not publicize such a thing.

The loss… she had already taken it. She had already paid the compensation. If she now publicized anything about Zhang Yu being lively and energetic, it would only affect her own strength.

She not only could not publicize it, she had to actively keep it confidential and suppress this sort of news.

As her thoughts raced, the more Xie Lanyin thought about it, the angrier she became.

“This matter absolutely cannot end here.”

Her gaze turned toward Lu Hengzhang in her contacts, toward this level-four sect affairs officer belonging to the Imperial Law Pavilion.

Xie Lanyin thought to herself, “Zhang Yu borrowed Whitebone Cult sect enterprises and leaders to deal with me… So why can’t I borrow the hands of you Myriad Laws people to deal with you?”

“The grievances and conflicts between the Artifact Spirit faction and the Soul Cultivator faction… run very deep indeed.”

…

On the other side, as soon as Bu Yingshu followed Zhang Yu back into the immortal grotto-heaven, she suddenly kicked Zhang Yu.

“Zhang Yu! Were you not that badly injured from the very beginning?!”

Without carrying the Feather Spirit Root, and without the enhancement of the hegemon-body effect, Zhang Yu, under Bu Yingshu’s Void Refinement-level strength… could not help collapsing straight to the ground. Bu Yingshu pressed him fiercely to the ground with one foot, leaving him unable to move.

As Bu Yingshu recalled how anxious and furious she had been when she had thought this beast was about to die earlier… she stomped hard on Zhang Yu a couple more times and said, “Zhang Yu! Did you think that just because you left the land of Myriad Laws, you could toy with me like this?”

“Think clearly about where your own roots are!”

Feeling the terrifying power coming from Bu Yingshu’s long leg, Zhang Yu hurriedly explained, “Daojun, I truly didn’t lie to you. At that time, I really felt like I was about to die. After all, I’m only a mere Divine Transformation cultivator. How could I possibly block a Void Refinement cultivator’s finger for real and still not be severely injured?”

Hearing this, Bu Yingshu could not help slowing down. In her heart, she already believed him thirty percent, and without realizing it, she eased the force under her foot by a few degrees.

She herself was a Void Refinement cultivator, and she knew better than anyone how great the gap between Divine Transformation and Void Refinement was. Zhang Yu being severely injured by one strike, even to the point of near death, was the normal state of affairs.

Feeling that the strength in Bu Yingshu’s foot had weakened a little, Zhang Yu also let out a slight breath of relief inwardly. He thought, “Sure enough, this woman still trusts me quite a bit.”

Fu Ji also said, “Zhang Yu! Although right now it looks like she’s on top and you’re below, the real initiative is actually in your hands! You’re the one who’s truly standing tall!”

Zhang Yu thought inwardly, “Fu Ji, your judgment of the situation is getting more and more accurate.”

Fu Ji thought to herself, “Hehe, sure enough… Zhang Yu still trusts me quite a bit. Under normal circumstances, when a subordinate sees such an embarrassing scene involving a leader, the best move is to enter a transparent state. But I just have to do the opposite and join in, so that every time Zhang Yu remembers this profound memory, he’ll be able to think of me.”

Fu Ji reminded him, “Zhang Yu! Don’t stop. Keep licking her boots! She’s starting to press down harder again.”

The exchange in his mind had already completed a full round in an instant. Zhang Yu felt Bu Yingshu’s half-believing, half-doubting gaze and continued, “Later, it may have been because of the immortal inheritance that I felt my injuries gradually improving.”

“But when I contacted you, Daojun… I really thought I was about to die. I glanced at my savings and figured I didn’t have the money to revive myself either. There was only one thought left in my heart, and that was to contact you, Daojun.”

Bu Yingshu snorted. “What? You wanted me to lend you money? Or had you already planned then to have me help you make Xie Lanyin pay compensation?”

Zhang Yu said, “At the time, I was thinking that if I couldn’t live on and continue serving you, Daojun, then I would die and become a Soul Cultivator under your command, and continue working for you.”

“What kind of nonsense is that? What would I want with a Soul Cultivator from the lower realm like you?”

Bu Yingshu turned her head aside. “Zhang Yu, remember this. You are my person. What I want is a living person who can refine techniques together with me. Once you’re dead, you have no value to me at all. I have no interest in a Soul Cultivator of your level!”

She thought again of the effect Zhang Yu had had on the breakthrough of her own talent, and could not help thinking inwardly, “Useless Zhang Yu. The work he does is becoming more and more dangerous. If I weren’t shielding him, he would have been beaten to death long ago… I need to find a chance to drag him along to refine techniques with me and hurry up so my talent can be completely stimulated.”

“Hmph… Once I have squeezed every last drop of your utility value out of you and achieved my peerless talent, why would I care whether you live or die?”

Thinking of this, Bu Yingshu withdrew her long leg. Then she lightly kicked Zhang Yu a few more times and urged him, “All right. Why are you still lying there during work hours? Hurry up and get up to work.”

“Restore the Spiritual Realm connection first. After that, strive to finish the Administrative Committee’s other work a few days earlier too. I still have plenty of tasks to assign you.”

Zhang Yu’s figure flashed, and he was already floating upward. He said, “I’ll go restore the Spiritual Realm connection first.”

Watching his departing figure, Bu Yingshu suddenly said coldly, “The newly acquired 6.4 million. Where do you plan to use it?”

Zhang Yu was slightly stunned and said, “I haven’t decided yet.”

Bu Yingshu said casually, “Once you’ve decided, send me a list of what you want to buy.”

Seeing Zhang Yu’s confused expression, Bu Yingshu suddenly felt a surge of impatience and inexplicable anger. She said, “I get discounts when I buy things. Understand?”

Zhang Yu felt helpless. “Why is she angry again?”

He could only hurry to say, “Understood, Daojun. Once I’ve decided, I’ll send you the list.”

“I’ll go work first, then.”

Watching Zhang Yu’s figure vanish on the Cave Heaven Bridge, the trace of irritation in Bu Yingshu’s heart finally began to gradually settle.

“A lower-realm person is a lower-realm person. He doesn’t even understand this… and still needs me to explain. What a bother.”

“This grotto-heaven is also crude to the point of death. A doghouse is a doghouse.”

Bu Yingshu lifted her foot and was about to leave, but before stepping onto the Cave Heaven Bridge, she seemed to think of something. Suddenly, her hand formed a spell sign, and in an instant she roughly scanned the entire grotto-heaven.

After discovering no people who should not exist, nor any traces of inexplicable Sword Aura or Sword Intent, Bu Yingshu was finally slightly satisfied.

…

On the other side, inside the Labyrinth Realm’s office area.

In this region that had lost its Spiritual Realm connection and was currently in a temporary full shutdown, Zhang Yu’s figure quietly appeared.

Seeing Zhang Yu appear safe and sound, Bai Zhenzhen also let out a breath of relief in her heart.

Zhang Yu had secretly come to meet Bai Zhenzhen precisely because he had temporarily hidden his Feather Spirit Root inside Bai Zhenzhen’s dantian.

Through grotto-heaven manifestation, Zhang Yu could exist simultaneously within the immortal grotto-heaven and the material world. He could also connect at any time to the Dark Spirit Realm inside the immortal grotto-heaven and grasp the situation throughout the entire grotto-heaven.

Only after seeing Bu Yingshu leave the grotto-heaven did Zhang Yu bring Bai Zhenzhen into the immortal grotto-heaven with him.

After the two of them went through a round of familiar trembling, Bai Zhenzhen smoothly sent the Feather Spirit Root back into Zhang Yu’s body.

Then the two began communicating in their minds through the power of the Evil God.

Bai Zhenzhen asked, “Yuzi, is it settled?”

Zhang Yu smiled faintly, a trace of pride flashing across his face, and briefly recounted what had happened.

When Bai Zhenzhen heard that Zhang Yu had received 6.4 million in one go, with another hundred thousand every month in the future, she wished she had been the one beaten.

She could not help saying, “Damn it. Fu Ji was right after all. Sure enough, the career with the most potential in Kunxu is still fraud! This makes money way faster than working.”

Fu Ji said, “I said it ages ago. How to climb upward in Kunxu and how to get rich—I told you all that back on the first level.”

Just then, seeing the footprints on Zhang Yu’s body, Bai Zhenzhen’s gaze shifted slightly. She knew those were the marks Bu Yingshu had left on Zhang Yu.

Bai Zhenzhen asked, “Was it that Bu Yingshu person stepping on you again?”

Zhang Yu waved his hand and said, “It’s fine. It looked like she was stepping on me, but in reality, I had the initiative. She just agreed to help me buy things. You know the Myriad Laws Immortal Clan gets discounts on lots of things, right?”

Before her, her good brother looked confident, but in Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes, it was only Zhang Yu forcing himself to save face. In the end… how could someone being stepped underfoot possibly have the initiative?

Moreover, the footprints were only the parts Bai Zhenzhen could see. Who knew what earth-shattering humiliation Zhang Yu had experienced while being stepped on?

After all, when they had been on the first and second levels, the ways rich people humiliated poor ghosts were already endlessly varied in Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes.

As a member of the Myriad Laws Immortal Clan inside the sect, an upper-class existence of Kunxu’s eleventh to twentieth levels, how insane would Bu Yingshu be? Bai Zhenzhen could not help patting Zhang Yu on the shoulder just from casually thinking about it.

“…I kind of want to watch. But I can’t exactly ask Yuzi to record it for me, can I? Wouldn’t that be rubbing salt in his wound? He isn’t like me, the sort of person willing to kneel for money. When Bu Yingshu was bullying him, his heart must have been in great pain, right?”

“If this were Yuzi back on the first or second level, perhaps he wouldn’t have been able to endure something like this.”

Thinking of this, Bai Zhenzhen sighed inwardly. “Sigh. The sect… without us realizing it, it has changed both me and Zhang Yu.”

Facing Zhang Yu’s forced smile, Bai Zhenzhen could not bear to expose him. She only said, “You can actually make an Immortal Clan member help you get discounts. Yuzi, you’re getting more and more impressive.”

And as a companion who had spent years with her day and night, who had climbed up from the first level together with her, how could the emotional shift in Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes escape Zhang Yu’s gaze?

“Is it because of the influence of Extreme Sentiment Swordsmanship and Grief Sword Dao? We’re clearly the closest partners, but because of Bu Yingshu, we can only meet secretly. Ah-Zhen must feel terrible inside, right?”

Zhang Yu thought inwardly, “Endure a little longer, Ah-Zhen. Once I reach the seventh rank and break through to the Tribulation realm, surpassing Bu Yingshu, she will never again be able to stop us from meeting openly.”

Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu and thought inwardly, “Endure a little longer, Yuzi. Once I push the old version of Extreme Sentiment Swordsmanship to the sect-suppressing level, or even the Heaven-Opening realm, and win the Heavenly Evolution Award, I’ll definitely be able to protect you.”

…

After sending Bai Zhenzhen away, Zhang Yu first restored one-third of the Spiritual Realm connection in the Labyrinth Realm’s office area.

Of course, he did not plan to restore the Labyrinth Realm’s Spiritual Realm connection all at once with a wave of his hand. Instead, he planned to restore it gradually over ten days.

On the one hand, this could show how difficult restoring the Spiritual Realm connection was. On the other hand, during this period, he could more safely organize manpower to subdue the Void Refinement corpse pieces without Spiritual Realm coverage.

That way, he would not need to worry about anyone else randomly interfering again.

At the same time, Zhang Yu also began considering how to spend the 6.4 million immortal coins in his hands.

He knew that in Kunxu, especially in a place like the sect, there were truly far too many places where money could be spent.

6.4 million looked like quite a lot, but if invested into the Immortal Path, it could also be spent in minutes.

Thus, Zhang Yu began carefully planning the uses of this sum of immortal coins.

“What do I need right now?”

Zhang Yu recalled the process of exploring the Labyrinth Realm alone, fighting Ying Aikun, and leading a team to suppress the Void Refinement corpse pieces.

He could feel that although his abilities in life preservation and support were already very complete, and could even be said to look down upon cultivators of the same realm, he ultimately still lacked strength in direct confrontation.

“Strength… whether for work or combat, this has already become one of my shortcomings.”

“What I need right now is a method capable of unleashing pure, powerful strength.”

“If I can possess even more formidable strength, not only can it increase my efficiency in subduing the Void Refinement corpse pieces next, it can also make the corpse pieces suffer… less damage during the suppression process.”

Zhang Yu also thought of how, after the development zone was fully cleared, various construction projects would follow.

As the leader in charge of this area, he also needed even more formidable strength to improve work efficiency and maintain authority.

“And compared to things like artifacts, Law Husks, or talismans, what I need really is an Immortal-Class Technique, isn’t it?”

“After all, for me, who possesses the Feathered Tome and has mastered these current Dao Seeds and Chain Diagrams… a technique can produce even more miraculous effects in my hands. I don’t need to spend time and effort to master it like other people do.”

And when he thought of formidable strength and construction ability, Zhang Yu thought of Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Might, as well as its Chain Diagram, Back-Dragon Kunlun Flip.

Back-Dragon Kunlun Flip on Zhang Yu’s Chain Diagram had already reached the level of eight out of eight through Civil Engineering Seven Absolutes and Kunlun in the Palm. He was still missing two techniques before he could gather ten and activate the third-layer effect.

Thus, Zhang Yu opened up the techniques he had recorded in the past one by one.

Back when Zhang Yu was in the Imperial Law Pavilion, he often searched all kinds of techniques, checked what Chain Diagrams they belonged to, and recorded the information on techniques he valued as future targets.

What Zhang Yu was looking through now were the only two techniques he had been able to find at the time that belonged to the Chain Diagram Back-Dragon Kunlun Flip.

One of them was called Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power. It belonged to the true-transmission techniques of the Immortal-Class level, and unlike the cheap price of the Formless Martial Performance series of techniques, this Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power required a full three million immortal coins and five thousand Dao merits.

Zhang Yu also understood that some true transmissions were cheap. The techniques in the Formless Martial Performance series were relatively cheap per volume because of the issue of being split apart, and because multiple sets were needed for them to take effect.

But for many Immortal-Class true-transmission techniques, it was perfectly normal for their prices to break a million immortal coins.

The other technique was called Great Freedom Inconceivable Strength. It belonged to the sect-suppressing techniques of the Immortal-Class level, and its price was even more terrifying, requiring a full 1.5 billion immortal coins and five million Dao merits.

Of course, this price was also normal among sect-suppressing techniques. Back when Zhang Yu had checked techniques in the Imperial Law Pavilion before, sect-suppressing level techniques had started at one billion immortal coins.

And every time he thought of the prices of these sect-suppressing techniques, Zhang Yu felt a wave of emotion. On one hand, he sighed at how expensive sect-suppressing techniques were. On the other, he felt fortunate that he had previously used the convenience of the Imperial Law Pavilion’s technique review process to secretly learn the sect-suppressing technique Blood-Tide Essence Saint Visualization.

“Sect-suppressing techniques… are simply not prepared for middle- and lower-level sect affairs officers.”

“Great Freedom Inconceivable Strength… I won’t be able to consider it in the short term.”

“Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power, however, is something I can afford right now.”

In terms of immortal coins, Zhang Yu’s current 6.4 million immortal coins were naturally enough.

As for Dao merits, their sources were not as widespread as immortal coins. They could often only be obtained through sect rewards.

Fortunately, after Zhang Yu had previously been praised as one of Kunxu’s heroes, he had been rewarded with five thousand Dao merits. Counting the Dao merits he himself had originally accumulated, he had a full five thousand five hundred Dao merits.

The only pity was that this Immortal-Class true-transmission technique belonging to the Myriad Laws Sect could not be gifted to others, so Zhang Yu had no way to enjoy Bu Yingshu’s discount effect.

But a trace of hesitation surfaced in Zhang Yu’s heart.

“Spending three million immortal coins to buy a true-transmission technique… is that worth it for the current me?”

The reason this thought surfaced in his heart was because Zhang Yu had mastered a strategic-level technique like Kunlun in the Palm, and had also cultivated a sect-suppressing technique like Blood-Tide Essence Saint Visualization. Now, he looked down on true-transmission techniques a little.

If not for the fact that this Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power belonged to Back-Dragon Kunlun Flip, he would not have checked it at all.

Just as Zhang Yu hesitated inwardly, Desolate Ox suddenly said, “Choose this one.”

Zhang Yu’s heart stirred, and he asked curiously, “Is there something special about this technique?”

Desolate Ox said silently, “The techniques of the Back-Dragon Kunlun Flip lineage should all have been created by the same person. If my memory hasn’t gone wrong, then this Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power, when coordinated with the other techniques you have mastered, will have another profundity when nine techniques circulate together…”

Zhang Yu listened to Desolate Ox’s explanation, and in the end, he decided to buy the technique.

Thus, in the next moment… along with the disappearance of three million immortal coins and five thousand Dao merits, the copyright to Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power had already been granted to Zhang Yu, and the main text of the technique also appeared before him.

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