Chapter 371: Block His Immortal Path, Block Mine

That night.

Zhang Yu, who was channeling his mana into Le Mulan, kept flashing back to the advertisement video he had seen that day in his mind, feeling nothing but a surge of restlessness.

The Le Mulan in his arms seemed to grow hotter and hotter in his eyes.

Zhang Yu couldn't help but think to himself, "What if I go to the bathroom for a bit?"

Fuji said, "Is that really what you want to do? Think about your goal—you're someone who's going to enter one of the top ten sects! How can you do something that affects your results?"

Le Mulan twisted slightly from the heat and whispered, "Zhang Yu, you're burning me down there."

Just as Zhang Yu's breathing grew heavier, Bai Zhenzhen's call lit up again, like a bucket of cold water dousing him, letting him temporarily suppress the urge inside him.

He answered the call, and Bai Zhenzhen scanned the scene before saying sternly, "You're selling mana to Le Mulan?"

Zhang Yu couldn't explain the Feather Book or the Dao Seed, so he could only nod in confirmation.

But Bai Zhenzhen frowned and said, "Do you realize how dangerous this is right now?"

"What's your own condition? Do you even know how fragile you are right now?"

"Can you handle it? Just sitting here holding Le Mulan and selling your mana?"

Bai Zhenzhen said with deep concern, "Are you really holding Le Mulan? You're holding a direct ticket to a drop in your grades."

"If you lose control and go into Qi deviation, how many days of cultivation will you have wasted?"

"Don't throw away the big for a little money."

"Don't you remember we agreed to participate in the Top Ten League together?"

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Don't worry, A Zhen, I still have things under control. I can hold on."

Bai Zhenzhen said, "Then every time you trade with Le Mulan from now on, record the whole video and send it to me."

"It's not that I don't trust you, but this also counts as a kind of supervision to remind you, and to add another lock on you."

Zhang Yu felt reluctant inside, but he knew Bai Zhenzhen was doing this for his own good, and he thought about the heavy coursework at the university and his grand goals...

"Adding another layer of insurance isn't bad."

"Alright, A Zhen, I promise you."

After the call ended, Le Mulan asked, "Was that Bai Zhenzhen?"

Seeing Zhang Yu nod, Le Mulan wasn't surprised, since she often saw Zhang Yu receiving calls from Bai Zhenzhen at all hours lately.

But at this moment, Le Mulan asked a question that had been weighing on her mind for a long time.

"Zhang Yu, do you want to have children?"

"Hiss..." Zhang Yu sucked in a cold breath, feeling like he only had a sliver of health left.

He looked at Le Mulan with annoyance and said, "What are you talking about?"

Le Mulan said, "The company wants to buy your reproduction rights..."

Without any hesitation, Zhang Yu refused, "Not selling."

"And remember, no speaking out of turn at times like this."

Time kept passing amidst Zhang Yu's efforts and torment, and before he knew it, another month had gone by, arriving at the end of October.

Zhang Yu's Martial Saint Body had cultivated four techniques, and his savings, with several pay raises, had finally broken through 9 spirit coins. Adding the 5 spirit coins his sister paid back this month, he reached 14 spirit coins in total.

Inside the simulated construction site.

Yu Xinghan was giving Che Yufei a massage, strands of force accompanying the operation of his finger Dharma Fragments, striking deep into Che Yufei's body.

Che Yufei's brows relaxed as he asked, "Really a discount?"

Yu Xinghan said, "Of course I give teammates a discount, Senior. If you think it's good, you can recommend me to your classmates. Let's add each other as friends. For every successful recommendation you make, I'll give you a commission."

"By the way, does Senior Sister Shi Huaiyu usually get massages? I can tell from one look that she has damp-cold in her body, she really needs a massage."

As he spoke, Yu Xinghan was also using his Three-Eye Divine Ability to observe the two people fighting on the field, constantly gaining insights into both sides' techniques.

The two sides in the battle were none other than Shi Huaiyu and Zhang Yu.

With every move Shi Huaiyu made, he stirred up a massive amount of sand and gravel, pressing down on Zhang Yu like a mountain collapsing and the sea overturning.

"Zhang Yu, among the opponents we'll encounter, we're likely to run into someone who has been first in the class for three consecutive terms and has mastered three of the Seven Ultimate Techniques of Earth and Wood, capable of executing the Small Triple Union."

Feeling wave after wave of sand and gravel surging like a tsunami, as if about to swallow his body whole, Zhang Yu could only repeatedly use the Xuanhuang Town Mountain Seal to weigh down the sand and gravel, then blast them apart with the Heaven-Overturning Seal's explosive smash.

At the same time, the image of Ma Xuan, who had also mastered the Small Triple Union, surfaced in his mind.

It was from Ma Xuan's attacks that Zhang Yu had first witnessed the Small Triple Union.

The Small Triple Union, formed by mastering the first three of the Seven Ultimate Techniques of Earth and Wood, could command the earth's energy, manipulate the ground beneath one's feet with an invisible force field, and control a range that included the vast majority of metals and minerals.

Shi Huaiyu continued, "Your body is tough and your defense is astonishing. Once they realize that, they definitely won't try to defeat you—they'll want to trap you."

"That's when the Small Triple Union becomes even more effective."

"You need to learn how to endure under the Small Triple Union for longer."

Zhang Yu stamped his feet, and a surging wave of Xuanhuang Qi rushed into the ground, instantly weighing down the rising sand and gravel, temporarily suppressing them.

He shouted, "Broke asshole, you got no money left? You can't even hit with any strength!"

Just then, the漫天 sand and earth suddenly dispersed, and Shi Huaiyu frowned tightly, clutching his waist.

Zhang Yu exclaimed in surprise, "Senior..."

Shi Huaiyu shook his head: "It's got nothing to do with you. If you can't handle provocation during training, what will you do during the competition?"

"It's mainly that my kidney is acting up again. Just now, I vaguely seemed to see a family of three appear in front of me."

"It's fine. I'll watch some ads, earn some coupons to calm down. You guys continue training."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "This senior of mine has been first in the class for several years, so how can she be this broke?"

"Shi Huaiyu, failed in stock trading, went bankrupt once last year. Now not only are her Dharma remains second-hand goods, even her right kidney is a ghost kidney left over from a residual thought."

"Che Yufei, hanging by a thread, a poor wretch racing against time every day. One of these days he might die of old age on the construction site."

"Shi Yunxiang, heh... a demon descendant."

"Tian Yang, a mediocre talent with unremarkable results in every category."

"Xiao Qingxuan, the one who needs the most attention in this team."

Ji Yuanshu looked at the data on each member of Zhang Yu's competition team and thought to himself, "Apart from Xiao Qingxuan, what a bunch of trash the rest are?"

"Zhang Yu, you actually put together a competition team like this?"

Ji Yuanshu shook his head, no longer worried about the opponent in his mind.

"From now on, I just need to focus on myself and make sure our team gets a good ranking."

After all, in Ji Yuanshu's view, no matter what, his ranking would definitely be higher than Zhang Yu's.

Outside Zhang Yu's dormitory.

Li Xiao looked at Xuan Ge, who stood before him, and nodded familiarly: "Here again?"

Although the two were far from friends, they often ran into each other at Zhang Yu's dormitory door, so they could be considered nodding acquaintances.

Li Xiao thought to himself, "This kid... also wants to worm his way into Zhang Yu's circle, huh?"

Xuan Ge thought to himself, "This guy... also wants to cultivate alongside Zhang Yu and the others, right? I've been seeing him since last year. He sure knows how to pester."

Moments later, as the door opened, Le Mulan walked out from inside, and Zhang Yu's voice came out: "Xuan Ge, come in."

Upon hearing this, Xuan Ge smiled smugly, looking at Li Xiao and thinking, "I'm already one step ahead of you. You just keep waiting outside."

Watching Li Xiao shut out by the door, Xuan Ge felt as if he were seeing himself from the year before.

Li Xiao's heart trembled: "How does this kid seem even closer to Zhang Yu than I am?"

Then, thinking about how he couldn't even sit next to Zhang Yu in class lately, and how his application to the competition team had been rejected, Li Xiao felt that the distance between himself and Zhang Yu was growing ever more vast.

Inside the dormitory, Zhang Yu sent the video he had just taken with Le Mulan to Bai Zhenzhen.

Tianjian University.

Bai Zhenzhen quickly scanned the video Zhang Yu had sent, a perplexed expression appearing on her face.

"Why does it feel like Zhang Yu is both in pain and very happy at the same time?"

Just then, the voice of the Seven Emotions Divine Lord reached Bai Zhenzhen's ears: "This is lust and desire. If you want to understand it, you could undergo a restoration surgery and try the feeling yourself."

Bai Zhenzhen refused instantly: "Who wants to know that kind of feeling? It's useless for cultivation, a waste of time."

Seven Emotions Divine Lord: "Lust and desire are also included in the Ultimate Emotion Sword Dao. How could they be useless?"

"Every emotion can be transformed into nourishment for the Ultimate Emotion Sword Dao."

"For example, when you heard them discussing having children, did you have any emotional changes?"

Bai Zhenzhen frowned slightly and said, "At first, I was indeed a bit surprised."

"But from the later content, they were only discussing selling the reproduction rights."

"If it involves the business of selling seeds, all the details should be clarified. It's perfectly reasonable for Zhang Yu and Le Mulan to discuss this—what's the problem?"

Seven Emotions Divine Lord: "But considering Zhang Yu's interest in biological females, don't you think he will eventually start a family and even have children someday?"

"He will have real family members."

"You will no longer be the person closest to him."

"Your bond will gradually fade..."

Bai Zhenzhen laughed upon hearing this, "How is that possible? Zhang Yu is now at a critical moment on his sprint toward the immortal path—how could he possibly do something like that?"

"Starting a family and having offspring is something one should only do when their immortal path has hit a bottleneck and there's no hope of progress."

"Besides, we agreed to participate in the Top Ten Tournament together. He would never get distracted by something that wastes his immortal path potential."

Seven Emotions Divine Lord asked, "But what if he did think that way?"

Bai Zhenzhen replied without hesitation: "He is my best brother, and I am also his second mother. Blocking his immortal path is blocking mine."

"Of course I would stop him and prevent him from making a wrong choice."

"When the time comes, I'll personally perform a sterilization surgery on him."

"Speaking of which, I've long wanted to cut off that root of trouble with one sword."

"Although he doesn't want it now, he's just controlled by the hormones in his body. I believe that once he returns to normal, he will understand my good intentions."

The Seven Emotions Divine Lord was silent for a moment, then sighed: "You young people of this generation... your way of thinking is indeed different from the past, but it's not bad."

Bai Zhenzhen stood up: "Alright, I should continue my cultivation now."

"The Flying Sword Competition is about to start soon."

Time flew by as Bai Zhenzhen cultivated; in the blink of an eye, most of November had passed, and she set off on her journey to Wanfa University.

There is a 515 Q&A collection in the bonus chapter after this chapter. Leave a comment in that event bonus chapter, and I'll pick a few to reply to on 5/15.