No Money to Cultivate Immortality? - Chapter 845 (Patreon)

Chapter 845: The Technique For Building Worlds

After reading through it, Zhang Yu returned to the Immortal Grotto-Heaven and began cultivating this Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power.

This technique shared something in common with Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Might: both were related to Earthfiend Gravity.

The difference was that Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Might used Earthfiend Gravity erupting from one’s own body to tear apart the earth, move mountains, and fill seas.

Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power, meanwhile, could stir the Earthfiend Gravity contained within the earth, the sky… and even all things in existence.

“To put it simply, it’s equivalent to stripping away the gravity of everything in the world, then gathering it into my own hand.”

“With my Divine Transformation realm, once I push this technique to level 50 and unleash it at full force… it will be enough to gather all the Earthfiend Gravity within a radius of ten thousand li.”

“When that time comes, the earth will lose the restraint of Earthfiend Gravity, shatter with a boom, and the earthveins will rise up, rushing into the sky.”

“The atmosphere will also lose its restraint and begin moving violently, making all nine heavens quake together as wind and clouds surge backward.”

At this moment, Zhang Yu could almost preview the sight of streams of air racing into the heavens like dragons, all moisture rapidly vaporizing, white vapor rising everywhere, and the surface of the earth constantly approaching a vacuum state.

“All things in the world will become a scene of heaven and earth overturned.”

“And at that same moment, the weight of heaven and earth will rest between my fingers…”

Zhang Yu thought to himself, “They’re both Immortal Sect techniques, but true-transmission techniques that cost several million immortal coins really do possess power far beyond true-transmission techniques that only cost a hundred or several hundred thousand immortal coins.”

Zhanxian said, “Price is naturally the best indicator for evaluating a technique. Powerful techniques… are almost impossible for a sect to sell cheaply.”

“This also shows how large the gaps are, from the cheapest true-transmission techniques that cost around a hundred thousand immortal coins, to true-transmission techniques worth several million, then to strategic techniques worth tens of millions, sect-suppressing techniques starting at a billion, and world-opening techniques worth hundreds of billions…”

Zhang Yu nodded slightly. Ever since joining Myriad Laws Sect, especially after entering Imperial Law Pavilion to work, he had looked up the introductions of quite a few techniques, so this was not the first time he had sighed over these prices.

Fu Ji said, “Hmph, once these techniques are bought… when all’s said and done, they’re just some images, text, videos, and a copyright license. There’s basically no cost to them at all, yet they sell for millions, tens of millions, even hundreds of billions. Even if there were research-and-development costs, they should have made that back ages ago. What a profitable business with almost no overhead.”

Zhanxian said flatly, “If it weren’t for the fact that after recovering research-and-development costs, the subsequent sales costs are almost zero, how could some Immortal Sect techniques ever pass the approval of the Righteous Gods and receive official sect authorization to be granted to cultivators in the lower realms?”

Zhang Yu nodded slightly. He knew that in many cases, loans, technique copyrights, and knowledge copyrights were all things those above liked to use most as rewards, because their cost-performance ratio was high enough.

For example, in the Ten Major League he had once participated in, to those above, awarding an Immortal Sect technique, even a strategic-level technique, was ultimately just a matter of a few approval documents.

But if they wanted to award a strategic-level Immortal Sect artifact, that would involve real, solid material resources, which was a completely different matter.

Of course, this was only speaking from the perspective of cost. If it involved struggles between various factions and Kunxu planning, then the situation would naturally become even more complicated.

Zhanxian continued, “Controlling the sale and pricing of Immortal Sect techniques is itself a method for recycling immortal coins and Dao merits. Combine that with the various channels through which Immortal Sect techniques are granted, such as training techniques, prize techniques, and position-assigned techniques… and it becomes an entire system used to control the circulation of immortal-dao technology.”

“So the pricing system for all Immortal Sect techniques is not calculated entirely according to the market.”

Desolate Ox suddenly said coldly, “This is a serious obstruction of the upward and downward circulation of immortal-dao technology. This is immortal-dao technological tyranny. They use absolutely superior immortal-dao technology to control violence and capital, then expand their power and control the world.”

The exchange in his mind flashed past, while Zhang Yu’s attention remained focused on the technique before him.

Although Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power possessed vast might, far surpassing the military-grade Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Might, hidden beneath that immense power was an uncontrollable flaw.

“Once this technique operates at full force, the damage to the environment is too great. If it were used in a bustling urban district, I’m afraid a single activation would bankrupt me.”

“That makes sense. If it weren’t for that, this true-transmission technique might be priced at six or seven million immortal coins.”

Shaking his head, Zhang Yu thought that the most suitable place to use this technique would probably still be an approved construction environment.

Thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning, while his progress in cultivating the technique advanced by leaps and bounds.

After all, with Zhang Yu’s current Divine Transformation Dao Body, the support of his many avatars, and the specialization effect of the Feathered Tome, cultivating this technique could be described as advancing a thousand li in a single day.

In just one short day, rumbling sounds continued to come from within Zhang Yu’s body, like the low groans produced by rising mountain ranges and colliding crustal plates.

As that rumbling gradually faded away, Zhang Yu had already pushed this true-transmission technique to level 50.

During this period, the basic immortal spirit root worth twenty thousand immortal coins that Zhang Yu had purchased also arrived and was stuffed into his dantian. Of course, unlike an Immortal Sect technique from Myriad Laws Sect such as Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power, this immortal spirit root could be gifted by Bu Yingshu.

Thus, for a spirit root worth twenty thousand immortal coins, Zhang Yu ultimately spent only fourteen thousand immortal coins through Bu Yingshu’s channel.

And now, after Zhang Yu had pushed Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power to level 50, he was finally going to test its so-called wondrous use.

“Desolate Ox, according to you, if this Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power is used together with the other eight techniques of Back-Dragon Kunlun Flip…”

As he spoke in his mind, Zhang Yu had already followed the Cave Heaven Bridge to the factory district.

Mana surged within him, and his entire body seemed to become an endless abyss, frantically absorbing the Earthfiend Gravity contained within all things between heaven and earth.

Boom!

The entire factory district shook violently. Immediately afterward, all the factory buildings, apartment blocks, the earth, and even the air, corpse components, and equipment all lost the restraint of Earthfiend Gravity at the same time and were about to rush into the sky.

But in the next instant, as the Civil Engineering Seven Absolutes operated one after another, Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Might activated with a roar, and all the Earthfiend Gravity Zhang Yu had absorbed was released back piece by piece.

And in the space between that intake and release, the Earthfiend Gravity between heaven and earth seemed to use Zhang Yu’s body as its center, continuously cycling, revolving, and surging back and forth.

At this moment, a wondrous feeling arose in Zhang Yu’s heart. It was as if the weight of the entire factory district was held in his hand.

As long as he extended his five fingers, whether it was a skyscraper or a sacred mountain, he could lightly uproot it and toss it into the sky.

But Zhang Yu could still sense…

“It’s still missing something. There are still techniques missing…”

As he pondered, Zhang Yu suddenly pushed the Immortal Sect technique Kunlun in the Palm.

At this moment, as all nine techniques that belonged to Back-Dragon Kunlun Flip operated together, Kunlun in the Palm immediately underwent a wondrous change as well.

Along with the back-and-forth cycle of Earthfiend Gravity between heaven and earth, Zhang Yu felt that as the center of this cycle, he could sense the existence of space with increasing clarity. He could even see plane after plane of space displaying various scenes of folds and stretching under the influence of Earthfiend Gravity.

The range Kunlun in the Palm could cover also expanded rapidly.

With a single thought, Zhang Yu suddenly stretched out one hand, and a giant palm descended from the sky. With a gentle grab… it seized a broken factory building spanning tens of thousands of square meters into its hand.

When Zhang Yu withdrew his hand, he saw that the factory building had become like a miniature toy, lying quietly in his palm.

At this moment, with the nine techniques operating together, Zhang Yu felt that the entire factory district of the Labyrinth Realm had turned into a sandbox model. As long as he casually fiddled with it, he could easily shift, move, and rotate factory buildings, warehouses, and equipment of this sort…

At the same time, Desolate Ox said in Zhang Yu’s mind, “This is a World-Building Martial Art. At the very beginning, these techniques were created one by one to transform worlds.”

“But as world construction was largely completed, these techniques were gradually sealed away into dust.”

Zhang Yu gently set it down with a casual motion. Along with a switch in the manifestation of the grotto-heaven, the abandoned factory building in his palm had already been placed into the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.

He continued seizing and setting things down like this, and large blank spaces quickly appeared in the factory district, while Zhang Yu’s Immortal Grotto-Heaven was packed full of factory buildings one after another.

Zhang Yu sighed inwardly. This Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power, when used together with the other eight techniques, was simply like turning the real world into a construction game.

The technique’s flaws were made up for. While unleashing heaven-shaking might, it also possessed fine control and field-control ability, making it as easy for Zhang Yu to relocate factory buildings as stepping on mushrooms.

The commotion Zhang Yu caused quickly drew the attention of Magneto, Yinquan, Ye Xingli, and the others inside the grotto-heaven.

Looking at the three who had arrived, Zhang Yu gave a simple explanation of the situation, then handed these ruined factory districts over to them to collect whatever materials could still be used.

In the days that followed, with more secondhand materials and Zhang Yu’s continued investment of immortal coins, the construction of the production lines and laboratories inside the grotto-heaven could be described as advancing by leaps and bounds.

Inside a factory building, Zhang Yu and Magneto were designing an artifact together. They planned to modify the Heaven-Sun Radiance Deity, so that this puppet artifact could control the Upper Yang Qi leaking from the World-Casting Furnace.

Heaven-Sun Radiance Deity was a military-grade puppet technology Zhang Yu had mastered during university. It could control flames, produce high temperatures and explosions, and alter its own form along with the flames, adapting to all sorts of work.

It was just that in the past few years, Zhang Yu’s Heaven-Sun Radiance Deity had never had a chance to upgrade, and he had not had time to advance Artifact Refinement technology either, so he had not used this puppet in a long time.

Magneto said, “Right now, you’re directly relying on grotto-heaven power to move Upper Yang Qi. This method of use is too crude, and far too wasteful.”

“If we can modify the Heaven-Sun Radiance Deity and make this puppet use Upper Yang Qi as its core, it might be able to break through military-grade standards and approach the might of an Immortal Sect-level artifact.”

With Magneto and Zhang Yu working together, the two continuously activated Heavenly Craft Opens Creation. Their knowledge collided again and again as they began designing, modifying, and refining the artifact over and over.

Zhang Yu thought, “With the knowledge I’ve accumulated over my entire life, my heaven-reaching wisdom, and the foundation I’ve gained from reading widely across the world—burn for me! Heavenly Craft Opens Creation, let me see your limit!”

Magneto thought, “What is a Gundam? Did I see that somewhere in the sect?”

“EVA? Positron cannon? What are those things?”

“Blood-Tide Essence Saint Visualization? A sect-suppressing technique? I even know the technology inside it?!”

In the process of activating Heavenly Craft Opens Creation again and again, Magneto felt more and more shocked.

“Could I have awakened memories of a previous life?”

“Just who was I in my previous life? How could I know all these things?”

In the end, Zhang Yu and Magneto not only successfully completed the upgrade of the Heaven-Sun Radiance Deity, they even raised Magneto’s Dao seed, Heavenly Craft Opens Creation, to level 2.

In the past, the gap between Zhang Yu and Magneto had been too great. Ever since obtaining the Dao seed, he had never really had much chance to upgrade it, and this time, his wish was finally fulfilled.

After some comprehension, Zhang Yu gained an understanding of the effects of level 2 Heavenly Craft Opens Creation.

“All knowledge that has been read through will be directly integrated into the foundation of Heavenly Craft Opens Creation.”

“It’s a very simple, yet very practical ability.”

Zhang Yu knew that in this way, any knowledge that he and Magneto had looked over once, even if they had not fully mastered it yet, would be directly integrated into the artifact’s design blueprint during the activation of Heavenly Craft Opens Creation.

“It’s equivalent to possessing a kind of ultra-high-speed learning ability… with a restricted scope of use.”

After their modifications, Heaven-Sun Radiance Deity was designed into an entirely new puppet and named Upper Yang Radiance Deity, a puppet driven by Upper Yang Qi.

Looking at the things on the design diagram named Positron Cannon, Upper Yang Force Field, and Upper Yang Vibration Sword… Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Teacher Magneto’s absorption ability is really strong.”

Magneto said, “Upper Yang Radiance Deity has already surpassed military-grade artifacts. Its power, speed, and destructive force can even rival some Immortal Sect true-transmission-grade artifacts.”

Zhang Yu nodded slightly, thinking that if he had the chance, he should go register Upper Yang Radiance Deity, submit it for approval, and confirm the copyright.

If one day Upper Yang Radiance Deity continued to be modified and became a true Immortal Sect-grade artifact, then that copyright would be valuable.

Magneto continued, “The production line modifications are more or less complete for now. Batch manufacturing can already be achieved.”

“After all, this puppet was designed by me based on the factory district’s existing materials, with the help of your funds.”

“With the current resources, manufacturing and maintaining a few dozen of them next… should not be much of a problem.”

Listening to Teacher Magneto’s words, Zhang Yu could already seem to see the astonishing working power that would burst forth when his thirty-two layered avatars controlled over a hundred Upper Yang Radiance Deities.

In particular, puppets that controlled Upper Yang Qi made up for one of Zhang Yu’s major shortcomings, giving him considerable destructive power and strengthening his high-speed flight ability.

“My working power is already skyrocketing! Soaring! Exploding! At the same realm, who can out-grind me now? What work could I still fail to complete? What work could I possibly fail to complete now?! I’m going to work myself to the bone for the sect!”

The Exam Sect avatar roared, then burst into wild laughter inside Zhang Yu’s mind.

While Zhang Yu was building his puppet army, Ye Xingli had also been cooperating with Zhang Yu over the past few days to construct the laboratory.

“Law Husk of the Seven Absolutes?” Ye Xingli asked. “Junior Brother, are you sure you want to modify this Civil Engineering Department Law Husk? Aren’t you afraid people will call the Civil Engineering Department your dark history?”

Zhang Yu said, “Civil Engineering is not my dark history. It is the road I came from.”

“And from what I’ve seen in the sect, Civil Engineering has great prospects.”

“Senior Sister, you should also learn more civil engineering technology. It will help you design Law Husks in the future.”

Ye Xingli said, “But I… have never had any contact with Civil Engineering.”

Zhang Yu said, “There’s something Shi Huaiyu once said that I think is right. A gentleman averages down; ten years is not too late. The best time to buy a stock was ten years ago. The second-best time is now. Senior Sister, it’s not too late for you to start learning now.”

As the two of them carried out Artifact Refinement design together, they also smoothly pushed Spirit Rhythm Artifact Heart to level 4.

Level 2 Spirit Rhythm Artifact Heart could choose a fusion direction, while level 3 could fuse up to three blueprints.

As for level 4 Spirit Rhythm Artifact Heart, not only did it grant Zhang Yu and Ye Xingli a powerful blueprint-learning ability, it also changed the original maximum of three fused blueprints into a maximum of four.

And Zhang Yu and Ye Xingli’s first work was, after several rounds of synthesis, to synthesize the Law Husk of the Seven Absolutes from Myriad Laws Sect University’s Civil Engineering Department into an ocular husk close to Immortal Sect grade.

Of course, during this process, Zhang Yu’s assistance with Heavenly Craft Opens Creation was indispensable as well.

Zhang Yu called this ocular husk the Kunlun Eye.

Once the Kunlun Eye was fully installed, Zhang Yu felt the Earthfiend Gravity inside his body surge. Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Might received layer upon layer of reinforcement, and in the process of Earthfiend Gravity cycling, it also drove the power of Kunlun-Uprooting Heaven-Flipping Divine Power and Kunlun in the Palm to a higher level.

Aside from that, the Kunlun Eye’s greatest function was helping Zhang Yu achieve beyond-visual-range guidance of Earthfiend Gravity, as well as linking to the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.

In the Kunlun Eye’s display, as Earthfiend Gravity swept outward, amid wave after wave of Earthfiend Gravity cycles… all kinds of feedback data were counted, synthesized, and finally integrated into a real-time map of the surroundings, fully displaying the surrounding terrain and landforms.

By relying on the Kunlun Eye’s guidance ability, Zhang Yu could exert relatively precise Earthfiend Gravity control over matter within a radius of ten thousand li and carry out beyond-visual-range construction.

“This way, I’ll be even less afraid of causing unnecessary damage while operating the technique and losing money afterward.”

Aside from that, under the effect of the Kunlun Eye, and combined with Zhang Yu’s grotto-heaven manifestation ability, he could connect to the Immortal Grotto-Heaven more conveniently and apply his power within it.

At this moment, within Zhang Yu’s senses, countless enormous metal cubes were slowly floating up in a remote corner of the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.

This was Black Nether Heavygold that Zhang Yu had specifically purchased through Bu Yingshu’s channel.

As an ultra-high-density material, Black Nether Heavygold itself was not especially expensive. Zhang Yu spent just over a hundred thousand immortal coins and piled up a small mountain of it.

And now, under the coordination of the Kunlun Eye, as Zhang Yu operated his technique, he condensed the weight of an entire mountain made of Black Nether Heavygold into his palm.

Zhang Yu could feel that if he unleashed this power, it would be like smashing out an entire stretch of mountains and rivers, enough to erupt into a super earthquake.

“This way, I no longer need to borrow force from the outside world. I only need to connect to the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, and I can erupt with immense power at any time.”

And Zhang Yu knew that whether it was the production line or the laboratory, these developments were only the beginning.

Up to now, he had only burned through a little over one million immortal coins.

As he continued investing in the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, and as Teacher Magneto, Senior Sister Ye Xingli, and the others continuously improved their standards and Dao seeds…

In the future, as the production lines and laboratories kept improving, producing all kinds of artifacts and Law Husks… they would be enormously helpful to his future ability improvements. They would also be more cost-effective and safer than directly spending money to buy and maintain artifacts on the market.

“Once product quality keeps improving in the future, I can even sell them for profit, letting the production lines and laboratories earn money to feed back into me.”

“Otherwise, always relying on wages, bonuses, scams, and methods like groveling, flattering, enduring, and lying low ultimately won’t last.”

“I need a cash cow. I need a place that can continuously produce immortal coins for me.”

…

While Zhang Yu kept burning money and continuously advanced his cultivation, immortal research, and grotto-heaven development, the Labyrinth Realm’s Spiritual Realm connection also gradually recovered within his plans.

And along with the recovery of the Spiritual Realm, the various tasks in the Labyrinth Realm were also pushed forward once again.

On a battlefield in the experimental zone, a vigorous Black Dragon was flickering back and forth, roaming in front of one Divine Transformation cultivator after another.

That was a Void Refinement corpse component named Celestial Track Seat.

It was a conveyor belt sewn together from countless corpse skins. The conveyor belt then twisted and tangled, finally forming an appearance closely resembling a Black Dragon.

This Void Refinement-level corpse component not only possessed boundless strength and an indestructible body, it could also pierce through the void and swap positions with matter within a certain range. It could truly appear and vanish like a ghost, impossible to guard against.

At this moment, Celestial Track Seat suddenly appeared in front of Tu Mu. A huge dragon claw lunged toward his face, seeming to carry the wails of countless corpses and bones.

Facing this Void Refinement-level claw, Tu Mu panicked, only to see a large hand lightly scoop forward. As if scooping up a fish, it scooped Celestial Track Seat into midair.

Tu Mu knew that the person who had acted was the Administrative Committee’s vice chairman, his direct superior, Zhang Yu.

Watching a Void Refinement-level corpse component actually being flicked back and forth by Zhang Yu like a toy, Tu Mu sighed inwardly. “I heard that although Vice Chairman Zhang withstood a Void Refinement strike back then, he was beaten so badly the whole thing was directly aborted, and he suffered heavy injuries.”

“But afterward, Xie Lanyin was forced to kneel and pay compensation, and under the stimulation of immortal coins, Vice Chairman Zhang sat up in shock from his deathbed and ultimately recovered without medicine.”

If this made Tu Mu feel envious, then Zhang Yu’s changes during this period made him feel even more shocked.

Space structures shifted, and fire dragons emerged one after another around Zhang Yu.

That was the thirty-two layered avatars operating Demon Saint Myriad Transforming Nerves, transforming into thirty-two Flood Dragons, wearing Upper Yang Radiance Deities that controlled Upper Yang Qi, and drilling out from Zhang Yu’s Immortal Grotto-Heaven.

As the thirty-two fire dragons opened their mouths and spat, thirty-two Positron Cannons based on Upper Yang Qi had already surged out with a roar, blasting the Black Dragon until it howled again and again. It repeatedly swapped positions in an instant, only to be dragged back by Zhang Yu.

Watching the frenzied Void Refinement corpse component actually being toyed with in Zhang Yu’s palm, Tu Mu could not help but feel secretly shocked. “Although he had Xie Lanyin’s massive compensation payment, in such a short time… his strength has actually increased by such a huge margin again. This immortal inheritance is way too abnormal.”

Just then, Zhang Yu said flatly, “Attack together and suppress this corpse component.”

Although Zhang Yu’s strength had greatly increased, and even if he faced a Void Refinement corpse component alone, he could already gain a slight upper hand…

If he wanted to completely subdue it, relying on himself alone would inevitably require a huge amount of consumption and quite a bit of time.

Naturally, Zhang Yu would never be the sort of leader who had subordinates but did not use them. With a single order from him, the many Divine Transformation cultivators all attacked with full force, striving to show off in front of him.

A moment later, Zhang Yu reached out and grabbed Celestial Track Seat in his hand like a black loach, then threw it into the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.

“Let’s go. On to the next place.”

In the days that followed, Zhang Yu cultivated and developed his forces on one side, while subduing one Void Refinement corpse component after another on the other.

The Spiritual Realm was gradually restored, and the disordered space structures were corrected one by one.

The cleanup work across the entire development zone advanced rapidly and steadily.

Although there were only a few days left until the promised twentieth day arrived, neither Tu Mu nor the other Divine Transformation cultivators felt that Zhang Yu would fail to complete this promise.

But amid these seemingly calm and uneventful days, one night, Xie Lanyin, the vice chairman of the Administrative Committee, frantically contacted Lu Hengzhang.

Looking at Lu Hengzhang, this Myriad Laws Sect Artifact Spirit faction member and supporter of the Innate Dao Lineage, and watching the other party’s projection finally descend, Xie Lanyin suppressed a trace of anger and panic in his heart and said, “Destroy the realm and flood the district? Have you people gone insane?”

Seeing that Lu Hengzhang did not speak, Xie Lanyin enunciated every word. “The small world where the Old Days Graveyard is located has always been impregnable. It is one of the sect-level foundational small worlds. If damage appears and causes a collapse… then someone must have secretly tampered with it.”

Lu Hengzhang said flatly, “Vice Chairman Xie, how can there be any impregnable small world in this world?”

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