Chapter 510

Zhang Pianpian: "You're a master of the Civil Engineering Department—hasn't anything at the construction site caught your attention?"

Zhang Yu's heart suddenly stirred at Zhang Pianpian's words. All kinds of thoughts, inspirations, and speculations surged violently in his mind, and memories of the construction site flickered one after another.

Zhang Yu licked his lips and replied, "It seems like there are quite a few problems."

Zhang Pianpian: "Logically speaking, a dignified Nascent Soul True Lord could easily rake in money by casually running a lab, launching a bunch of projects, or securing a pile of patents."

Zhang Pianpian: "For someone like him to still sit in an office and make money by such exploitation—even if he's the junior disciple of Magnetic Pole True Lord—he's probably not a big shot among Nascent Soul cultivators. But it's normal; many old Nascent Soul cultivators like him rose up early in a bygone era but didn't keep learning, so it's common for them to lose out to the newer ones."

Zhang Pianpian: "Let's check him out first. If he truly has an indestructible body with no flaws, then so be it."

…

A few days later.

Out in the wild.

Zhang Yu activated the Heaven Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power, treading on empty air and hovering tens of thousands of meters above the ground.

At this moment, Zhang Yu carried nothing on him—not even any magic treasures, and he had even temporarily removed his Eye Relic. He was in a purely physical state, also often called a Spirit-Desolate Body, to avoid any kind of tracking from the spiritual world.

His gaze swept over the brightly lit construction site on the ground, and his figure gradually began to dissipate.

This was the first time Zhang Yu had used the power of this Divine Spiritual Root since copying Bai Zhenzhen's Green Lotus Sword Embryo Dao Seed.

Aside from its adaptation and enhancement abilities, Bai Zhenzhen's Divine Spiritual Root also possessed a hidden ability she had gradually mastered through years of training.

Especially after the spiritual root evolved from a Heavenly Spiritual Root to a Divine Spiritual Root, its hidden ability had made a qualitative leap.

It was precisely by relying on this hidden ability that Bai Zhenzhen, in the previous Flying Sword Competition, not only concealed herself but also concealed her flying sword, using an invisible flying sword technique to dominate and achieve a respectable ranking.

However, ordinarily, Zhang Yu was in the university town, surrounded by all kinds of surveillance equipment, and his magical relics and treasures were all connected to the spiritual world. Under these heavy constraints, he had never used this ability of the Divine Spiritual Root, for fear of exposing himself.

Now, having flown to the wild and being in a purely physical state, as Zhang Yu activated the hidden ability of the Divine Spiritual Root, his entire body disappeared into the world like a wisp of air.

Feeling this formless and invisible state, Zhang Yu channeled his mana, and his body slowly descended toward the construction site.

Fuji, also sensing all this, felt a chill in her heart: "When did Zhang Yu get this ability? Could it be related to Bai Zhenzhen's Divine Spiritual Root?"

She wanted to open her mouth to ask, but after thinking it over, she didn't. She muttered inwardly, "This kid Zhang Yu has many secrets he doesn't want to tell me. Asking is useless. I'll just keep observing."

Controlling his speed, Zhang Yu descended deep into the construction site almost without making a sound.

Watching the workers around him look right through him, Zhang Yu felt a strange sensation rising in his heart.

"Zhenzhen's Divine Spiritual Root ability is really suitable for causing trouble."

But thinking that Bai Zhenzhen's sword qi aimed at him in the future might also be this invisible and hard to detect, Zhang Yu's expression immediately turned serious.

"After all, the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao is such that any strong emotional fluctuation—whether happy or unhappy—will shoot out sword qi."

"I still need to hurry up and improve my strength."

Next, Zhang Yu floated in mid-air, continuing deeper into the construction site. Along the way, for safety, besides relying on the Divine Spiritual Root to hide his form, he also used the evil god's detection and monitoring rituals to constantly sense the presence of various surveillance devices and avoid them one by one.

With this double insurance of Divine Spiritual Root and surveillance avoidance, Zhang Yu strolled around as if no one was there, searching everywhere until he finally found a few workers in a corner of the site carrying materials.

"Sure enough, these guys are stealing things from the site."

Zhang Yu pulled out an old phone, opened the camera mode, and started recording.

Worried that the Eye Relic might leave unnecessary traces, Zhang Yu even used a disconnected old phone he hadn't used in ages to shoot the video.

But soon his eyes widened.

"Could this be… material from the artifact refining factory?"

If it were before, Zhang Yu, who didn't know how to refine artifacts, probably wouldn't have been able to tell these materials apart. But now, with a certain level of skill in artifact refining, he quickly recognized what these workers were up to.

"These guys are replacing artifact refining materials? Using inferior materials to swap out the high-quality ones from the factory?"

Zhang Yu did a rough mental calculation—there was at least a tenfold price difference in the swap.

Zhang Yu hadn't expected that what started as just wanting to film some construction site dirty tricks would directly uncover a bigger case. He inhaled sharply: "They've got some nerve—this factory is invested by Magnetic Pole."

"Wait, could it be on Magnetic Pole's orders?"

Zhang Yu shook his head, feeling it unlikely. As far as he knew, Magnetic Pole had been evaluating for Nascent Soul in recent years and would never mess up his own reputation or lower his brand value at such a critical moment.

"These people alone couldn't have done something like this. There must be someone from artifact forging guiding them—and they wouldn't even trust it to anyone less than a confidant..."

So Zhang Yu filmed and tracked along the way, and soon saw a person who appeared to be an artifact forging apprentice.

Bian Hao, a disciple of Thunderclap True Lord, unwittingly exposed himself on camera, patiently directing everything.

A few hours later, Zhang Yu handed the video over to Zhang Pianpian.

After glancing at the contents of the video, Zhang Pianpian gave a faint smile and said, "It's enough."

Zhang Yu asked, "Senior Sister, how do you plan to use it? Report it to the higher-ups? Or send it directly to Magnetic Pole True Lord?"

Zhang Pianpian said, "If we report it, we'll be making enemies of the entire artifact forging department."

"If we send it to Magnetic Pole True Lord, her spiritual realm abilities are strong. Sending it to her would require guarding against her counter-tracking... very troublesome."

"And even if she learns of this matter, she will definitely find a way to quietly suppress it."

"This knife... is more suitable to be sent to those in the artifact forging department who oppose Thunderclap True Lord."

Zhang Yu asked again, "Then what about my project payment?"

Zhang Pianpian said, "Don't speak about this matter yourself—let someone else speak on your behalf."

"In front of Magnetic Pole True Lord, all you need to do is maintain your identity as a good disciple and a good experimental subject."

Inside the laboratory.

The Nascent Soul Dharma Skeleton was pressed against Zhang Yu's forehead, accompanying him as he participated in various tests.