Chapter 620: Brother Dao's Seed

After entering the university, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's first attempt at exchanging Divine Spirit Roots was during the Flying Sword Competition held at Wanfa University. At that time, Bai Zhenzhen injected her Divine Spirit Root into Zhang Yu's body.

The second exchange of Divine Spirit Roots took place in the civil engineering arena of Tianjian University, where Zhang Yu injected a copied Green Lotus Sword Embryo into Bai Zhenzhen's body, giving her dantian two Divine Spirit Roots at once.

Only this third time did the two truly strike their Spirit Roots into each other's dantian, a genuine exchange of Spirit Roots in the truest sense.

Zhang Yu's Feather Spirit Root began to adapt to Bai Zhenzhen's adaptation.

Bai Zhenzhen's True Spirit Root began to adapt to Zhang Yu's adaptation.

The two Divine Spirit Roots each began adapting to the other's Spirit Root and body, and as the other's Spirit Root's adaptation changed, new adaptations arose.

Intense changes spread from the Divine Spirit Roots, forcing both Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen to grit their teeth and endure.

But the next moment, Zhang Yu suddenly exclaimed, "A-Zhen, your sword qi..."

Bai Zhenzhen also discovered in shock that her scarlet sword qi, as if attracted by her own Divine Spirit Root, surged straight toward Zhang Yu's body.

And the presence of her Divine Spirit Root seemed to make the sword qi recognize Zhang Yu as part of its own body; the sword qi of the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao surged over without causing any harm.

Bai Zhenzhen exclaimed in surprise, "Could it be... that after we 'did that,' my sword qi can no longer hurt you?"

Zhang Yu said, "I don't know. Let's try again."

After some attempts, the two immediately discovered that this adaptation to sword qi also had its limits; if the amount was large, it would still hurt Zhang Yu's body.

But Zhang Yu could sense that this was only because the exchange of Divine Spirit Roots hadn't lasted long enough; if it lasted longer, they would surely be better able to adapt to Bai Zhenzhen's sword qi.

Even the black sword qi, filled with annihilation and ominous aura that erupted when she fully drove the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao... might not be impossible to adapt to in the future.

A thought suddenly arose in Zhang Yu's mind: to continue maintaining this state of Spirit Root exchange.

When he briefly expressed his intent, Bai Zhenzhen also agreed to the idea; she could feel Zhang Yu's Divine Spirit Root continuously strengthening her physical body through adaptation, and the longer it lasted, the stronger the effect of this enhancement would be.

"Mmm..." Feeling the stimulation from the Divine Spirit Root, Bai Zhenzhen gritted her teeth and let out a light groan, then said, "Then you should go quickly, Yu Zi. Don't let anyone notice anything."

Zhang Yu stepped back and said toward the small cave entrance, "I'll go first then, A-Zhen. You be careful not to get discovered too."

As Zhang Yu left, Bai Zhenzhen could sense that the changes in the Divine Spirit Root did not stop but became more and more intense, until after reaching a peak, they gradually calmed down.

Just then, Wen Wuyuan came to Bai Zhenzhen's flying boat and asked curiously, "Zhenzhen? Are you here?"

"I was looking for you just now, why weren't you online?"

Wen Wuyuan looked at Bai Zhenzhen in the room and said, "You look a bit strange. What's wrong?"

Feeling the Divine Spirit Root acting up again, Bai Zhenzhen endured the increasingly intense reaction in her body and said through gritted teeth, "What do you want?"

Wen Wuyuan said, "It's about the finals—I need to discuss it with you."

Inside Zhang Yu's flying boat laboratory.

Ye Xingli was using the lab to maintain her dharma skeleton.

Seeing Zhang Yu return, Ye Xingli asked curiously, "Junior Brother, you look a bit tired?"

She reminded, "The final match will start in just a few days. No matter how much you cultivate, you can't improve much more. It's better to keep yourself in good condition."

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "I just want to prepare a bit more, so I can... get a better rank at the end."

Ye Xingli sighed, "Besides first place, what difference is there really between second and the other rankings this time?"

"As it seems now, we are nothing but foils for Kuang Tianqing and Dao Qiankun."

Zhang Yu looked at Ye Xingli in surprise, sensing an emotion from her that he had never felt before.

Ye Xingli seemed to notice something off about herself as well, smiled, and said, "But I'm not really qualified to lecture you."

"Knowing that I'm just a foil, haven't I been working hard to prepare these past few days too?"

"This thing called effort seems to be carved into our very bones. Even when we know there's no hope, we can't help but give it our all. That might be the charm of the immortal path—it always makes countless people advance wave after wave, willing to sacrifice life and forget death..."

Zhang Yu thought for a moment and said, "There's no helping it. Kunxu is like this, and so are we."

"If we didn't have such an indomitable character and make such choices, we couldn't have reached this step on the immortal path."

"At this moment, on this battlefield, which contestant isn't the same?"

……

Inside Yan Qianji's laboratory, he was remotely operating the factory's production line, producing batch after batch of puppets that closely resembled Zhang Yu, Kuang Tianqing, and Dao Qiankun.

Inside Jiu Tianliu's room, countless streams of data from the spirit realm continuously converged, forming a fortune model for his reference, helping him occasionally post videos to boost fortune.

Before the Heavenly Saint Workshop of Immortal Soldier University, all the contestants' artifacts and magic-corpse materials appeared in his eye-corpse for his reference and inspiration.

Within the clouds of the sky, a dragon silhouette appeared and vanished, inhaling and exhaling the sea of clouds. It was Ying Mingchi of Heavenly Demon University. His pair of dragon eyes gazed at the floating continent below, a fierce fighting spirit flickering within them.

Yan Xiang of Netherworld University was immersed in a boiling pool of blood, looking at Kuang Tianqing and asking, "Still not enough?"

Kuang Tianqing laughed heartily and said to all the students present, "Come! Lend me your strength. I will be the one to claim first place in the Ten Great Universities League!"

……

On Dao Qiankun's flying boat.

The night before the finals.

Before Zhang Yu entered the flying boat, he faintly glimpsed what seemed to be the divine light of a Nascent Soul Deity sweeping across the sky, stirring a trace of curiosity in his heart.

Upon seeing Dao Qiankun standing at the bow with his hands behind his back, Zhang Yu asked directly, "Brother Dao, did the Nascent Soul Deity come to see you just now?"

"Mm." Dao Qiankun said calmly, "Discussing the immortal sect techniques with me."