Chapter 364: Four Hearts as One, Director Gao's Guidance

Bai Zhenzhen said, "Didn't your Myriad Methods University teach you any battlefield first aid?"

Zhang Yu was startled, then said enviously, "You guys have a first aid class?"

Bai Zhenzhen said, "Probably because all the insurance companies currently refuse to cover our department."

"Really, I'll just project over. Give me full visual access, and then follow my movements."

With a flash of Bai Zhenzhen's figure, she had already projected herself in front of Zhang Yu.

And with the full visual access granted, Bai Zhenzhen now appeared inside the dormitory as if she were actually there.

She crouched beside Le Mulan and said to Zhang Yu, "Stretch out your hands and follow my movements..."

So Zhang Yu's hands overlapped with Bai Zhenzhen's projected hands, gently brushing over Le Mulan's lower abdomen to examine her injuries.

After a moment, Bai Zhenzhen nodded slightly and said, "It's fine, no big problem—just a little damage to the internal organs."

"This kind of minor issue, just do as I say, and we'll fix her up before she wakes up."

Zhang Yu's fingertips overlapped with Bai Zhenzhen's again, gently pressing on several spots on Le Mulan's lower abdomen.

Bai Zhenzhen continued, "Didn't you say you have some ice magic power now? Inject it to freeze her wounds."

As the ice magic power was infused, Le Mulan's eyelids twitched and slowly opened, feeling waves of cold spreading inside her body.

"What... what happened to me?" Le Mulan frowned slightly.

She only remembered sending messages to her brother when suddenly there was a loud bang, and then everything went black and she lost consciousness.

Now, half-conscious, Le Mulan watched Zhang Yu pressing his hand on her stomach, feeling the magic power he kept channeling into her. She instinctively began to accept it, just like the daily magic infusion she had received every day.

"Starting the magic infusion, huh?"

The cold in her internal organs made her shiver uncontrollably, and she instinctively reached out to hug the Zhang Yu in front of her.

Watching Le Mulan wake up and cling tightly to Zhang Yu from the cold, Bai Zhenzhen circled around the two, filming while nodding approvingly. "Not bad, not bad—looks like her body is fine. Yu, now you don't have to worry about paying compensation."

But Zhang Yu felt Le Mulan squirming in his arms, her icy-smooth limbs brushing against him. He couldn't help but shake her and said, "Stop squirming."

Le Mulan's shaken brain was still a bit fuzzy; she nuzzled against Zhang Yu and murmured, "Not warm enough."

Bai Zhenzhen said, "Didn't you hear her say it's not warm enough? Heat up quickly—don't let Le Mulan get frostbite."

Zhang Yu had no choice but to activate his muscles to raise his body temperature to warm Le Mulan.

But feeling Le Mulan still twisting in his arms, feeling his sweat gradually sticking to hers, Zhang Yu found himself unable to stop getting distracted.

Especially with his mind divided four ways, the quadruple thoughts in his brain brought quadruple distractions—like pressing down a gourd only for a ladle to pop up, all kinds of stray thoughts flying like snowflakes, making it impossible to calm down.

Bai Zhenzhen reminded him from the side, "Why has your pressing posture changed?"

"Zhang Yu, when I fought you just now, I noticed that your thinking is very active now—your moves are free and unconstrained, but they don't form a coherent whole. You always lack unified coordination."

"I don't know what's causing this, but you must remember: no matter how your thoughts jump, they must all be carried through by a single will. Otherwise, the more thoughts you have, the more they become scattered soldiers, harmful to yourself with no benefit..."

Hearing Bai Zhenzhen's instruction, it was as if a flash of lightning suddenly struck Zhang Yu's mind.

"Carried through by a single will."

Scenes from his fight with Bai Zhenzhen just now appeared before his eyes.

"Yes, with a mind divided four ways, there must be a primary and secondary focus, or else they'll contradict each other."

In Zhang Yu's mind, ever since the Inner Dharma Body of Infinite Heart had last risen to level 20, the originally roaring two-headed white ox had transformed into a four-headed white ox.

Now, as Zhang Yu moved his mind, he saw one of the heads suddenly swell and enlarge, as if becoming the master brain, while the other three ox heads shrank and flanked the master head.

Roar!

With a howl, the master head bellowed, "You! Be in charge of controlling the hand, compressing the wound!"

"You! Be in charge of circulating the magic power, maintaining the infusion!"

"You! Be in charge of activating the muscles, heating the body."

"Me? I'll suppress the stray thoughts."

The changes in the technique's operation seemed many, but the series of transformations in his mind took only an instant relative to the outside world.

At this very moment, Zhang Yu's ability to multitask with four minds underwent a qualitative change: no longer were the four streams of thought working in unison, but instead one stream centrally directed while the other three each independently carried out their assigned tasks.

Moments later, although Zhang Yu still felt a few stray thoughts floating in his mind, the large hand pressing on Le Mulan was exceptionally steady, and the other processes—mana circulation and body heating—were no longer affected in the slightest.

Feeling Zhang Yu's body radiating heat like a furnace, Le Mulan gradually calmed down as well.

A flash of insight appeared in Zhang Yu's mind: “This must be the proper way to use multiple streams of thought—there needs to be a hierarchy among them, otherwise they interfere with each other and become a hindrance.”

Zhang Yu said with feeling, “Azhen, thank you. You helped me break through an obstacle.”

Bai Zhenzhen smiled faintly, waved her hand, and said, “Guiding my own son—that’s just what I ought to do.”

“Also, remember the damage assessment procedure I taught you today.”

“I’ll send you the recorded video later. Study it well. Next time you hit someone, you can review it.”

“Time’s almost up—I’ll be going now.”

Hearing Bai Zhenzhen’s words and watching her figure dissipate, Zhang Yu imagined the content of today’s recording and cursed inwardly: “These Kunxu people really are… what do they take people for? They completely alienate a person.”

“So hot.” Le Mulan felt a searing heat from Zhang Yu’s body and was jolted fully awake.

Seeing that Le Mulan was fine now, Zhang Yu said, “You okay? If you’re fine, get up.”

Le Mulan stood up, puzzled, “What happened to me just now?”

Zhang Yu’s face reddened. “I knocked you unconscious.”

“But I checked you out—you’re healthy, nothing wrong.”

Le Mulan’s eyes moved, glancing at her sweat-drenched body, and noticed her coat and pants lying on the ground nearby.

At the same time, she sensed her internal organs and understood that Zhang Yu had treated her with ice-cold mana.

She felt helpless: “Zhang Yu checked my body and treated the injury urgently; logically, I should thank him.”

“But he was the one who hit me…”

Le Mulan helplessly pouted, “Don’t make such big moves in the dorm from now on.”

Zhang Yu nodded casually in agreement, but thought to himself, “Now that I’ve understood the true use of multiple streams of thought, I’ll always have one stream controlling the whole situation—no more careless mistakes.”

…

After school the next day.

Zhang Yu, as agreed with Supervisor Gao, arrived early at a training room in the Earth-Masonry Department.

The Nascent Soul grandmaster Azurewood True Lord has entered within 10 meters of you. Please remain quiet and do not randomly project advertisements.

Soon, as the Nascent Soul domain emerged, Supervisor Gao, wearing a Daoist robe, appeared before Zhang Yu.

Without any pleasantries or small talk, Supervisor Gao got straight to the point and began teaching Zhang Yu.

“What I’m going to teach you today is the first of the Seven Earth-Masonry Peaks—the Xuanhuang Earth Suppression Seal.”

“This seal is not only the foundation of the Seven Peaks but also greatly beneficial to many large-scale construction techniques in our Earth-Masonry Department.”

Supervisor Gao extended a finger, and a clump of black-gold mana suddenly appeared at his fingertip.

“This is the Xuanhuang Qi that must be condensed to cultivate the Xuanhuang Earth Suppression Seal.”

“This Qi simulates gravity from earthly nether forces. When attached to an object, it can alter its weight—making metal as light as a feather, or cotton as heavy as a thousand jun.”

Hearing this, Zhang Yu’s mind stirred, recalling the Heaven Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power used by Mo Shangjin, which directly controlled nether gravity and, with one move, snatched up an entire flying boat of people and objects, bringing them all down to the ground at once.

“Although the Xuanhuang Earth Suppression Seal cannot directly control nether gravity, its simulation can adjust weight—truly worthy of being the foundation of the Seven Earth-Masonry Peaks.”

As Supervisor Gao continued his explanation, Zhang Yu also understood more clearly the difference between the Xuanhuang Earth Suppression Seal and the Heaven Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power.

Heaven Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power could be applied remotely to people and objects, dragging and tearing matter at will.

In contrast, the Xuanhuang Earth Suppression Seal required attaching Xuanhuang Qi to an object before it could adjust weight.

Moreover, if a person resisted with mana after the Xuanhuang Qi was attached, the Qi could be dispelled, making it hard to take effect.

Although it was much weaker than the Heaven Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power, it was still the foundation of the Seven Earth-Masonry Peaks, so Zhang Yu studied it very seriously.

Especially because adjusting weight was clearly very useful for construction on a worksite, further increasing his work efficiency and raising his salary level. Naturally, Zhang Yu studied with even more dedication.

Director Gao patiently guided Zhang Yu through the circulation route of the Xuanhuang Zhenyue Seal once, then said, “If the Xuanhuang Zhenyue Seal is the foundation of the Seven Absolute Techniques of Earth and Wood, then the Xuanhuang Qi is the foundation of the Xuanhuang Zhenyue Seal.”

“However, this Xuanhuang Qi can only be condensed a strand at a time by stirring the balance of yin and yang within the body and the changes of the five elements. It requires the most meticulous, water-polishing effort.”

“An ordinary student can’t expect to get started in less than several weeks; even the top student of each class often takes several days to begin…”

A few minutes later, after running the first circulation route of the Xuanhuang Zhenyue Seal full of errors, Zhang Yu knew that he had already learned this technique.

But of course, he wasn’t about to casually announce that he had mastered it.

“If I just blurt that out, who knows how Director Gao would look at me.”

“Besides, it’s rare to have time to spend a little longer with a superior—what’s wrong with that?”

So next, Zhang Yu slowly improved, bit by bit, following the cultivation experience that surfaced in his mind.

After all, for him, as long as he ran it once, there would be progress on the Feather Book. Whether the running process was clumsy or excellent made no difference.

One hour later.

Zhang Yu asked, “Master, this Xuanhuang Zhenyue Seal really is hard to get started with. I wonder, among all the past fastest starters, how much time did it take them to master it?”

Director Gao said calmly, “I told you this technique is vast and profound, hard to learn and hard to master. It’s perfectly normal for you to cultivate it for several days.”

“As for those who got started quickly, the fastest was half an hour.”

“Even when I learned this technique back then, it took me about an hour.”

So another fifteen minutes passed, and Zhang Yu condensed his first strand of Xuanhuang Qi.

Total time: one hour and fifteen minutes. The Xuanhuang Zhenyue Seal had officially been started.

Looking at the strand of black-gold mana at Zhang Yu’s fingertip, Director Gao knew that the “one hour” he had claimed was a bit exaggerated, while Zhang Yu’s one hour and fifteen minutes were genuine.

He thought to himself, “The time I spent back then… was it about two hours?”

“This kid…”

Meeting Zhang Yu’s gaze, Director Gao slowly nodded and said, “Not bad. The Xuanhuang Zhenyue Seal emphasizes gradual accumulation. When you go back, cultivate it diligently, and never slack off in the slightest.”

Watching Zhang Yu’s retreating figure, Director Gao took a deep breath and sent a message to Magnetic Pole True Lord.

Director Gao: Guess how long it took my new disciple to get started on the Xuanhuang Zhenyue Seal?

Director Gao: 1 hour 15 minutes!

Magnetic Pole True Lord: Your disciple is awesome! [Smile]