Chapter 189: True Potential, Ritual Binding

After Zhang Yu returned to his apartment, he continued his cultivation of the Endless Spring-Autumn Zen.

As he practiced the forty-nine postures one by one, the immortal longevity force continuously stimulated the repair and regrowth of every piece of flesh and blood, allowing Zhang Yu's body, which had withered from brutal training and drug intake, to be reborn as if anew.

Endless Spring-Autumn Zen Level 8 (36/80)

Although he was immersed in cultivation, his conversation with Yun Ni was by no means without impact on Zhang Yu.

"Is the patrol team… investigating the matter of the evil god?"

Yun Ni's attention made Zhang Yu feel additional pressure.

Although Zhang Pianpian had asked her to take care of him, Zhang Yu didn't think that if she found out about the evil god secret hidden in him, she would still protect him.

To counter any possible investigation by the patrol team, Zhang Yu could only speed up the ritual preparation, gaining more anti-detection abilities and more capacity to interfere with information as soon as possible.

Recalling Zhang Pianpian's words, Zhang Yu sincerely sighed, "Controlling information, mastering the information gap—this is an essential skill for anyone who wants to climb the ranks in Kunxu."

The next day, as all the materials arrived, Zhang Yu brought Fuji and Bai Zhenzhen to the familiar unfinished building to prepare for Bai Zhenzhen's wish ritual, as well as their detection ritual and anti-detection ritual.

Inside a room of the unfinished building,

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were setting up the ritual site according to Fuji's instructions.

Fuji spoke glibly, "The ritual emphasizes offerings and scale. The better the offerings, the better the effect, the higher the success rate, and the less likely to be discovered by the orthodox gods. The larger the scale, the greater the ritual's range and effective distance."

"Besides that, there are the altar, the medium between humans and gods, the spiritual divine object, the symbol of the evil god, and the incantation—these are the most basic elements, indispensable..."

Meanwhile, the room was filled with red candles inserted everywhere.

Fuji had turned back into a rag doll and was placed on the bronze altar.

Two mobile phones with full data plans were placed on Fuji's left and right, serving as the medium for human-god communication.

The rented Qi Sea Spiritual Root became an excellent divine object for preserving spiritual energy, held in Fuji's hand.

As for Fuji herself, being the embodiment of the evil god... she was the most perfect symbol of the evil god.

Additionally, four antiques were placed at the four cardinal points of the ritual, the incense and wish power contained within them awaiting Fuji's extraction.

"Supreme dark underworld, shadows rise and fall, all living beings with sincere devotion, incense and wish power, come forth!"

As Fuji tapped the air, the antiques shattered one by one, and the invisible power released from them surged into her body.

"Veil the spiritual sense, make the believers wander in confusion, blur truth and falsehood, gather wishes into my bag, let it be done as the law commands!"

As strands of dark-gold divine power emerged above Fuji's head, Bai Zhenzhen, who was in the ritual, stiffened all over, and the next moment, the evil god's power poured into her body...

After a long while, as the ritual ended, Bai Zhenzhen slowly opened her eyes, looking curiously at her own body.

"How is it?" Zhang Yu asked. "A-Zhen, are you okay?"

A flash of electricity suddenly flickered in Bai Zhenzhen's eyes, and then she smiled. "Yu, is this the feeling of having one's potential awakened?"

"Is this the power that has been hidden inside me all along?"

Streaks of electric light burst from Bai Zhenzhen's eyes, and then arcs of lightning appeared all over her body.

Watching Bai Zhenzhen's hair stand on end amidst the flashing lightning, Zhang Yu exclaimed in surprise, "What exactly did your potential awaken?"

Bai Zhenzhen opened her mouth, and arcs of electricity appeared in it. "It's still hard to say. I need to do more experiments to figure out what's really going on."

As the lightning subsided, the strange phenomena emanating from Bai Zhenzhen's body gradually disappeared.

As for the specific changes inside her body, Bai Zhenzhen planned to explore them slowly after returning home.

The pressing matter for now was to complete the remaining rituals.

The two of them set things up together, and then performed the detection ritual and the anti-detection ritual separately.

When the rituals were completed, a series of runes flashed and faded on Zhang Yu's back, and he felt two distinct ritual powers added to his body one after another.

Zhang Yu tried activating the power of the detection ritual. In the pitch-black room, a certain spot suddenly lit up, emitting a unique attraction in his eyes—it was a surveillance camera they had brought.

This surveillance camera was brought by Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen specifically to test the effect of the detection ritual.

"So that's how it is." Zhang Yu looked at the camera faintly glowing in his vision. When he withdrew the detection ritual's power, the camera once again vanished into the darkness.

"By activating the detection ritual's power, I can directly see the location of the camera?"

Then Bai Zhenzhen placed the camera behind the wall on the other side.

And as the two activated the detection ritual, they could directly see the camera behind the wall.

After testing back and forth for a few minutes, Zhang Yu confirmed that once the detection ritual's power was activated, it allowed him to detect cameras within a radius of 30 meters, and ordinary obstacles could not block this detection.

"In just a few minutes, nearly half the power of the detection ritual has been consumed." "Fortunately, once the detection ritual is complete, as long as it's in a network environment, it will automatically steal power from the divine power network to recover."

"Calculating it, I get about 10 minutes of detection time per day."

Ten minutes didn't sound like much, but for detection it was already enough in Zhang Yu's view.

Next, the two picked up the pre-prepared detection patches and planned to test the power of the anti-detection ritual.

Zhang Yu, whose mana should have exceeded 90 units, now tested at only 85 units, and after he continued to activate the anti-detection ritual's power, his mana test data dropped to a minimum of 50 units.

"The anti-detection ritual can maintain a duration of 1 hour per day."

"It can conceal test data for mana and physical strength."

Zhang Yu said with satisfaction, "Not bad, not bad. With this, the upcoming monthly exams won't need to be so flashy."

Seeing their satisfied expressions, Fuji said proudly, "See? Wasn't I right? These two rituals are extremely helpful to you."

"That's how evil god rituals work. If you want to make big money in the future, develop in the underground tutoring world, or even achieve something in fraud, smuggling, business warfare, and other fields, the stronger the ritual power on you, the better."

Zhang Yu knew that Fuji said these things hoping he would help her continue to raise her rank and increase her strength, so she could activate more rituals.

No error, no beginning, no sending, no content, no in, no look!

Like the four antiques consumed in the ritual just now, Zhang Yu strongly suspected that Fuji had inflated the number of antiques required to replenish more evil god power for herself.

But for now, this seemed like a win-win move, and Zhang Yu couldn't be bothered to argue with her.

Hearing Fuji's words, Zhang Yu asked, "How many rituals can you maintain now?"

Fuji said, "I can maintain a total of 10 rituals right now."

"Subtracting the wish ritual, detection ritual, and anti-detection ritual on the two of you, that leaves room for 4 more rituals."

"But don't rush. The remaining rituals all cost a lot of money, so you can leave them open for now and choose rituals as needed later."

Zhang Yu asked again, "Then what needs to be done so you can maintain more rituals?"

Fuji laughed slyly and said, "Two methods: either devour the ranks of other colleagues, and with every step closer to a level 2 evil god, the number of rituals I can maintain increases."

"Or steal the authority of righteous gods—but you don't need to consider that for now."

"In short, as long as my rank continues to rise, you two will also gain stronger and stronger ritual enhancements. One day, you'll leap out of the Three Loans and be free from the Five Insurances, living a life of cultivation freedom and wealth freedom."

"Otherwise, no matter how strong your strength, you'll just be beasts of burden for the ten major sects."

Next, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen tidied up a bit and returned to the apartment near Ziyun High School.

As they entered the apartment building, Zhang Yu tried activating the detection ritual and immediately saw all the surveillance cameras inside the building.

After entering the apartment room, he activated the detection ritual once more.

Although he and Bai Zhenzhen had already checked once before, now using the detection ritual's power to inspect front and back and seeing no cameras in the room, he felt more at ease.

Then Bai Zhenzhen kept trying physical changes and gradually figured out what she could do with her potential activated.

Her mana had gained a lightning attribute, turning into special mana.

Under the boost of this special mana, she found that her performance of the Lightning Step and training of the Lightning Strike True Body were greatly improved.

In particular, the mana circulation constantly stimulated her muscles and nervous system, greatly enhancing her reaction, speed, agility, and explosive power.

Aside from that, she felt that if she practiced similar techniques in the future, she would achieve twice the results with half the effort.

And finally—

Zhang Yu watched Bai Zhenzhen sticking her fingers into a power socket, sparks of electricity flickering all over her, as she laughed heartily: "Yu! Look, I can recharge mana by charging, and charging has a body-tempering effect! From now on, I'll get stronger by charging!"

"Once my true spiritual root adapts to this new cultivation method, the efficiency will be even higher..."

Zhang Yu nodded slightly at first, but then his expression changed sharply as he suddenly looked at their electricity meter.

Watching the meter spinning wildly, Zhang Yu quickly shouted: "Stop! Stop right now!"

"If you keep cultivating like this, Le Mulan might kick us out of this apartment."

Bai Zhenzhen reluctantly pulled her finger out of the socket: "Fine, fine."

"Then I'll go steal electricity at school tomorrow to cultivate."

"Heh heh, while stealing electricity, I can use the detection ritual to avoid the cameras..."

With the ritual matters successfully completed, Zhang Yu turned his attention back to his own cultivation.

In the blink of an eye, a night passed. As the Eternal Life Dharma circulated, Zhang Yu felt his physical body growing purer, and the Spring-Autumn Endless Zen broke through once more.

Spring-Autumn Endless Zen Level 9 (24/90)

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