Chapter 339: Bai Zhenzhen Practices Sword, Zhang Yu Defrosts

After Le Mulan awakened her Dao Seed, the Deep Cold Meridian, Zhang Yu couldn't wait to copy that Dao Seed into the Dao Seed Spectrum.

Thus, in addition to the Three-Eyed Divine Ability (Spiritual Root) Level 1, the Dao Seed Spectrum now had a Deep Cold Meridian (Magic Power) Level 1.

And as Zhang Yu activated the Deep Cold Meridian, his entire body fell into a state of stagnation, his consciousness became drowsy and dim, and his perception of the outside world grew fuzzy.

At that moment, it seemed his thinking, too, had entered an unprecedented standstill because of the Deep Cold Meridian.

Zhang Yu could only faintly sense that some indescribable change was happening inside his body under the influence of a terrifying deep cold.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Yu suddenly felt a warmth on his back; something soft seemed to press against him, driving away the chill inside him, bringing him strands of warmth.

Zhang Yu, whose mind had gone rigid, couldn't think; he instinctively craved this warmth, and as his body gradually regained mobility, he subconsciously embraced that soft, gentle thing.

Little by little, Zhang Yu came back to his senses, feeling something pulsing before his eyes.

"Hmm?"

"Is someone contacting me?"

Somewhat dazedly, Zhang Yu opened the other person's avatar, then suddenly remembered something: "Right, is it time for the call with A-Zhen today?"

Thinking still sluggish, Zhang Yu instinctively accepted the communication request.

The next moment, Bai Zhenzhen's spiritual world projection appeared in his eye socket.

Seeing A-Zhen's face covered in sweat, her whole body steaming, billowing white vapor, Zhang Yu said, "Just finished training?"

A-Zhen nodded, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and asked in confusion, "Just finished practicing swordsmanship. Why did it take you so long to answer today?"

Zhang Yu was briefly stunned and thought to himself, "Just now I seemed to be…"

As his thinking gradually recovered, Zhang Yu's mind flashed through the day's various experiences and finally stopped at Le Mulan's Dao Seed.

He thought, "Hmm? After I activated Le Mulan's Dao Seed, I seemed to have passed out for a while?"

Just then, looking at Bai Zhenzhen, who was steaming hot before him, Zhang Yu suddenly felt hot himself, as if waves of heat were constantly coming from Bai Zhenzhen's body.

"Why is it a bit hot? It can't be that A-Zhen's heat is affecting me through the spirit world network, right?"

The next moment, Zhang Yu suddenly realized.

With the activation of the Three-Eyed Divine Ability, he saw Le Mulan behind him, clinging to him like an octopus, pressed tightly against him.

Zhang Yu quickly messaged Le Mulan privately through his Dharma Shell: What are you doing?

He was about to stand up, but felt a pair of long, powerful legs clamping tightly around his waist, continuously delivering blazing heat.

At the same time, Le Mulan's messages started flashing rapidly.

Le Mulan: Don't move. Your magic power got frozen by me. I'm circulating my energy to warm you up.

Le Mulan: Your whole magic power was like it was frozen just now—it was too dangerous.

To warm Zhang Yu, Le Mulan had deliberately boosted her blood and Qi to raise her body temperature, making her whole body scorching hot.

Now, her legs, chest, and abdomen were sticky with sweat, smeared between the two of them.

Le Mulan: You're mostly thawed now. Let me warm up your dantian a bit more.

Le Mulan: Don't move around recklessly, or you might leave hidden injuries.

The next moment, Le Mulan's hands reached around from behind and gently pressed against Zhang Yu's lower abdomen.

Zhang Yu: "Hiss!"

Bai Zhenzhen said suspiciously, "Yu-zi, what's wrong?"

Zhang Yu thought to himself: "I absolutely can't tell the truth. If A-Zhen finds out, she'll definitely make fun of me and look down on me."

Frowning, Zhang Yu said, "I'm practicing."

At the same time, he silently adjusted the communication mode to only show the upper half of his body.

Meanwhile, Le Mulan's little hand moved downward, and her somewhat surprised voice came from behind Zhang Yu's head: "Eh? It's not cold here."

Zhang Yu took a deep breath, suddenly grabbing Le Mulan's hands tightly, stopping her from moving anymore.

Zhang Yu: I'm fine. If you keep moving, I'll charge you.

Le Mulan: I should have given you money earlier. How much do you need?

Fuji watched this scene and thought to herself, "Hmph? With that little self-control, you want to go to Joyous University? What a virgin boy."

At the same time, Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu's strange expression and revealed a hint of contempt: "You, kid."

"You're not doing that thing again, are you?"

"Tsk, no wonder it took you so long to connect."

"You're not, like, messing around while talking to me right now, are you?"

Bai Zhenzhen sighed and said, "Sigh, sure enough, once you got to college and I'm not around, you start indulging yourself."

"If I'd known, I should have cut off your source of trouble before I left."

Zhang Yu's face turned red as he said, "What nonsense are you talking about! I'm not Yu Xinghan!"

Bai Zhenzhen said, "Then stretch out your hands. Both of them."

Zhang Yu, who was pressing down on Le Mulan's hands with both of his, was slightly taken aback.

The next moment, just as he reacted and was about to use his protective qi, Bai Zhenzhen's contempt deepened even more. She curled her lips and said, "Alright, don't I know you? If you want to watch me do it, then do it. Who says we're not brothers? If I don't help you, who will?"

"You motherf—" Zhang Yu said angrily, "I'm not doing anything!"

"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm." Bai Zhenzhen looked sideways and moved on to the next topic.

After a moment, as the communication ended, Zhang Yu glanced at Le Mulan beside him: "You..."

"Sigh, my lifelong reputation has been ruined by you."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "How will Ah Zhen see me from now on?"

"I feel like I'll never be able to hold my head up in front of her again."

Le Mulan hesitated and asked, "Were you... just communicating with someone?"

"Yes." Zhang Yu said irritably, "I'm telling you, from now on, don't touch me without my permission, understand?"

Le Mulan explained, "I was afraid you'd get frostbite. The state you were in just now was really scary."

Hearing Le Mulan's words, Zhang Yu remembered: "Right, it's the Deep Cold Meridian."

He quickly sensed the changes in his body and saw that his mana throughout his body carried a trace of chill, flowing through his meridians like clumps of ice crystals.

His entire network of meridians seemed to have become forged from ice and snow, causing his body temperature to be far lower than usual.

Next, Zhang Yu did a little testing and found that he could now unleash a kind of cold toxin from his mana. The cold toxin could be injected into others' bodies along with his mana and its derivatives, such as martial arts protective qi.

This cold toxin was not noticeable at first, but after gradually accumulating and then suddenly erupting, it could actually freeze a person's blood energy and mana solid.

"Cold toxin? This really increases the power of my protective qi again."

Zhang Yu recalled the times when he and Le Mulan had both been frozen stiff; it must have been the result of this cold toxin appearing in his body for the first time, and even he himself hadn't adapted yet.

However, after this adaptation, using the Deep Cold Meridian in the future wouldn't cause that problem anymore.

Zhang Yu thought, "Earlier, when I copied the Deep Cold Meridian and then got frozen stiff, even if Le Mulan hadn't come to help, I probably wouldn't have been in real danger."

"But Le Mulan doesn't know I can copy her Dao seed... Ah well, I can't blame her either."

Zhang Yu also recalled his fight with Cong Na today and thought, "If I'd had the Deep Cold Meridian during the fight with Cong Na, it probably would have been easier."

Then Zhang Yu did some more experimenting on himself.

Looking at the frozen protective qi in his palm, he tested how hard that clump of frozen qi was and thought, "Freezing protective qi doesn't seem to be just for dealing with enemies; I can also use it to change the form of my own qi."

While Zhang Yu was lost in thought, Le Mulan beside him exclaimed in surprise, "You also have my ice mana now?"

Zhang Yu had no intention of hiding this, since unlike the Third Eye ability, this was too easy to expose.

So Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Probably I was affected by you when you broke through."

During the subsequent trials and sensing, Zhang Yu also discovered that under the influence of the Deep Cold Meridian, his mana could kill bacteria, freeze wounds, and produce a healing effect.

"Not bad."

"But exactly how to apply it still needs some study."

Zhang Yu thought, "Apart from that, I also need to see if it has any other functions, and whether I might discover something..."

At that moment, Zhang Yu's gaze sharpened slightly as he felt the flow of his icy mana, and he thought incredulously, "No way?"

Ever since he had consumed large quantities of life-shortening drugs, fortified his foundation, and continuously used bodily reactivation to repair himself, Zhang Yu had become more acutely aware of the depletion of his lifespan—or rather, the ebbing of his life essence.

And just then, he suddenly sensed that under the influence of the Deep Freeze Mana Vein, the rate at which his lifespan was draining seemed to have slowed slightly.

"This Deep Freeze Mana Vein... can slow the loss of lifespan?"

"Can it extend life?"

Zhang Yu wasn't certain; he felt that the details needed further investigation.

After some thought, he nevertheless told this possibility to Le Mulan beside him.

Le Mulan was startled by this and said, "My mana has this kind of effect?"

She said thoughtfully, "Then we need to study it carefully."

"I'll use the conditions at the Pharmacy Academy to run some experiments."

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Before that, don't reveal this information to anyone, to avoid unnecessary trouble."

As he spoke, Zhang Yu looked at the Dao Seed on Le Mulan's chest.

In his perception, the next upgrade of the Deep Freeze Mana Vein required raising the mana quality to 200%.

"That's not something that can be done in a short time."

"I wonder what changes the next level of the Deep Freeze Mana Vein will bring."

Over the next few days, Zhang Yu spent his spare time from work and cultivation continuously experimenting with the effects of the Deep Freeze Mana Vein.

That day, on the construction site inside the tomb, a humanoid mana aura appeared behind Zhang Yu.

But unlike the flickering, unstable humanoid mana aura that Zhang Yu used to casually create in the past,

This time, the humanoid mana aura not only emitted a chilling cold but also possessed a special texture.

In Zhang Yu's perception, inside this humanoid mana aura were ice-crystal-like bones, which were precisely the mana aura frozen by Zhang Yu.

"Using frozen mana aura as bones..."

Zhang Yu watched as the humanoid mana aura performed various chores under his control, and he thought to himself, "This way, the efficiency of the mana aura transmitting force is higher, but the mana consumption increases, and the speed of the humanoid mana aura becomes slower."

Suddenly, a wisp of mana aura swept past in front of him, as if it had caught something.

Zhang Yu's gaze sharpened, and he saw a few strands of white powder falling from it.

"This is... medicinal powder? No, it's flour."

"Where did flour come from here?"

After a search, Zhang Yu suddenly turned his gaze toward the secret passage.

With the activation of the ritual power inside his body, the image from the surveillance camera appeared before his eyes.

Seeing the scene there, Zhang Yu's heart trembled, and a thunderous thought flashed through his mind: "The Dark Seed Realm?"