Chapter 648: The Strongest Undergraduate

Wanfa University.

A large number of students were studying and working while simultaneously watching the decisive battle between Zhang Yu and Kuang Tianqing.

After all, for many students, observing this battle itself was a form of learning.

In the classroom, Gongshu Jin watched the image of Zhang Yu in his eye-socket and thought to himself, "Can Zhang Yu win?"

At the construction site on floor 671, the decisive battle footage of former civil engineering student Zhang Yu was directly projected.

Shi Huaiyu, his face flushed red, watched the battle footage while his eye-socket continuously refreshed the fluctuations of Wanfa's coin prices and stock prices, and shouted in his heart: "Charge! Zhang Yu! Push back all the coin prices that dropped after Dao Qiankun's death!"

Inside the Civil Engineering Department office.

Director Gao was also watching the battle between Zhang Yu and Kuang Tianqing.

During the battle, he kept sending updates on the battlefield changes to the secluded Magnetic Pole True Lord, including various screenshots and text messages.

Although the secluded Magnetic Pole True Lord had not responded to the outside world, Director Gao still hoped that she could see the news of Zhang Yu in the Top Ten Tournament as soon as she emerged from seclusion.

Director Gao: Zhang Yu succeeded in setting up the formation, Kuang Tianqing has started dismantling it...

Director Gao: The golden core is scrapped, both of them took out new golden cores and replaced them...

Director Gao: Another core swap.

Director Gao: Zhang Yu's dragon beasts are exhausted...

Director Gao: It seems Kuang Tianqing's cultivation partner power is almost used up...

Tu Lishan, standing by, watched the live broadcast and exclaimed, "They've been fighting fiercely for nearly 10 hours. I never expected Zhang Yu to make it this far."

"It's been less than two months since the Top Ten Tournament began, hasn't it? Has he really caught up to Kuang Tianqing's level?"

Director Gao sat to the side, watching and saying, "In these two months, his strength has indeed improved tremendously."

"The Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor that Magnetic Pole refined for him allows him to quickly reshape the environment. The dragon beasts he breeds can both assist in battle and help with construction. Over these ten hours, through the mutual construction and destruction of grand formations, he has worn down a considerable part of Kuang Tianqing's energy."

Director Gao did not know that Zhang Yu had also cultivated the dark art "Demon Saint Myriad Transformations Scripture". In his view, Zhang Yu was extremely talented at controlling and breeding demon beasts, and in every battle his command of the beasts was perfectly timed.

"And the Seven Ultimate Dharma Skeleton, modified for him by seven Nascent Soul masters from the Artifact Refining Department, not only strengthens the Heaven Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power, but also has a move that links other military-grade powers to drive the Immortal Path Sun."

"This Immortal Path Sun now seems to have changed again. After being scaled down for smaller applications, its frequency of use has increased, and its destructive power is still enough to threaten Kuang Tianqing."

"Plus the Core Shattering Technique he recently mastered with the principal's support, although it appears to be only at the tenth level or so, and not as perfected as Kuang Tianqing's, it is already at the Foundation Establishment level, enough to contend with Kuang Tianqing..."

Tu Lishan added, "But the most important thing is still that sword, isn't it?"

Tu Lishan looked somewhat enviously at the spiral longsword in Zhang Yu's hand and said, "Relying solely on Zhang Yu's own abilities, he is probably still a bit inferior to Kuang Tianqing."

"But this sword can be said to have gathered all the assets of that top genius from Tianjian University, turning her entire cultivation, dharma skeleton, and divine spirit root into this sword, and merging the destructive power of the Extreme Emotion Sword Path into it."

"Before and after Zhang Yu wields this sword, his overall strength is like two different people."

"With this longsword, every strike of his can threaten Kuang Tianqing, breaking through the Heaven Demon Void Technique, the Profound Abyss Return to Ruins Art, and the Curse Heaven Ten Thousand Demon Throne. Although it is still heavily weakened, at least it can injure Kuang Tianqing..."

Although he kept expressing envy over the destructive power and strength boost brought by the spiral longsword, Tu Lishan clearly knew that he did not just envy the value of the sword itself.

He felt that what he envied even more was that Zhang Yu had someone willing to sacrifice so much for him.

Tu Lishan couldn't help thinking to himself: "What exactly did Zhang Yu do to this Bai Zhenzhen? Did he lend her a lot of spirit coins? Or has he been giving her free dual cultivation? Or is Bai Zhenzhen Zhang Yu's child? Is he her father or her mother? But their ages don't match up..."

No matter how much Tu Lishan thought about it, he couldn't figure it out.

Listening to Tu Lishan's analysis, Director Gao did not speak.

He recalled the advice he had once given Zhang Yu, hoping that Zhang Yu would stay away from Bai Zhenzhen, away from that madwoman who cultivated the Extreme Emotion Sword Path.

Yet he never expected that in this Top Ten Tournament, Bai Zhenzhen would display extraordinary strength, not only pushing the Extreme Emotion Sword Path to a peak capable of threatening Kuang Tianqing, but also sacrificing herself, turning her body into a sword to help Zhang Yu win the championship.

And after the man and the sword together entered the battlefield, it seemed to trigger some mysterious reaction. Zhang Yu's own strength seemed to increase by a notch, and the endurance of the Extreme Emotion Sword Qi surged repeatedly.

Director Gao's expression was complicated, and he thought to himself: "Betting her own life to help Zhang Yu fight... the relationship between these two is deeper than I imagined."

"Especially after the unity of man and sword, setting aside the destructive power of the Extreme Emotion Sword Qi, his own combat strength has also increased astonishingly. I'm afraid..."

Director Gao naturally did not know the inside story of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen swapping spirit roots—that the dual spirit roots had merged into one when Zhang Yu took up the sword, constantly influencing and enhancing each other—and he also did not know that at this moment, the Feather Spirit Root and True Spirit Root were together enhancing the effect of Zhang Yu's Chain Law Diagram set.

So in Director Gao's view...

"Could it be... it's not just Bai Zhenzhen who cultivated the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao." Director Gao thought to himself, "Has Zhang Yu secretly cultivated the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao as well? Is that why their dual swords combine to unleash such power? Was this orchestrated by the Seven Emotions Divine Lord?"

Thinking this, Director Gao felt a wave of helplessness.

Just then, Kuang Tianqing's aura in the live broadcast surged repeatedly, instantly approaching the Golden Core stage, and she even detonated her Golden Core and her physical body, unleashing her strongest strike against Zhang Yu.

Watching this scene, Director Gao's gaze sharpened, and he thought, "A true life-risking blow."

"Detonating the Golden Core and the physical body—this kind of move is also perfectly suited for offense with the Netherworld Disintegration Method."

"Originally, Kuang Tianqing's experience in this area far surpassed Zhang Yu's, and using this as her final strike to force a head-on clash drags Zhang Yu into the domain she excels in."

"After ten consecutive hours of fierce combat, she was just waiting for this final opportunity."

"Now, even if Zhang Yu also stakes his life and fights with self-detonation, he absolutely cannot match the experienced Kuang Tianqing in this aspect."

Watching this, Director Gao couldn't help but think, "How should Zhang Yu block it?"

On the battlefield.

Watching Kuang Tianqing charge in to kill, Zhang Yu's expression was unprecedentedly calm.

Somehow, he remembered a conversation he had with Fuji.

It was a conversation after he had copied a Dao Seed from Dao Qiankun.

After obtaining the power of an Immortal's Descendant and possessing that spatial ability, Zhang Yu felt shocked.

Because ever since he came to Kunxu, he had never seen any application of immortal techniques in spatial manipulation.

Things like storage rings, storage treasures, spatial attacks, spatial distortion—Zhang Yu had never seen any of them.

No... Zhang Yu suddenly recalled that he had seen them.

When descending from the first layer of Kunxu to the second layer, there was a drastic spatial change, and the technique involved should be related to space.

But that was all; he had never encountered spatial-related powers in the university, and there wasn't even a place to study them.

"Spatial techniques must be extremely advanced stuff."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "If spatial techniques begin to spread widely, the world will probably undergo a huge change."

So after gaining the power of the 'Immortal's Descendant' and mastering the formidable ability to open up a 10-cubic-meter space, Zhang Yu was a bit puzzled.

Especially after sensing the information in the Dao Seed, he felt even more hesitant.

So he thought of Fuji.

"Fuji, if you had the ability to open up space, how do you think it should be used in Kunxu?"

That was how Zhang Yu asked Fuji.

Hearing Zhang Yu's question, Fuji said casually, "Are you kidding? To meddle with Kunxu's spatial structure—that would require an incredibly high authority! An incredibly high status!"

Zhang Yu's heart stirred, and he asked, "How high?"

Fuji said, "Stop daydreaming. The 36 layers of Kunxu were designed and built by the Immortals as a spatial structure. It's set in stone. Do you think people can just mess with it?"

"Theoretically, all space in Kunxu is the property of the Immortals, given for free use. You think they'd let you cut it up and remodel it however you want?"

"If it were really possible, I bet within a few years, all kinds of companies would turn Kunxu into 365 layers or more..."

Hearing Fuji's answer, Zhang Yu knew his hesitation was justified. He thought to himself, "Sure enough, the spatial ability of the Immortal's Descendant cannot be used lightly. Once discovered, it will definitely cause trouble."

"And the 10 cubic meters of space that the Immortal's Descendant can open up, plus a 30 square centimeter... about fist-sized opening..."

Sensing the information in the Dao Seed, Zhang Yu thought to himself, "The significance of these parameters is to prevent easy detection of changes in spatial structure, to avoid spatial surveillance."

"To safely open up larger spaces and larger openings, one would need to elevate the Dao Seed of the Immortal's Descendant and obtain higher authority."

Zhang Yu suddenly realized one thing: the ability of the Immortal's Descendant wasn't just about opening space, but about opening space stealthily—and that stealth was extremely important.

Thinking this, another doubt arose in Zhang Yu's mind.

Zhang Yu said, "Fuji, according to that, changing space... is that the domain of Immortals? Only Immortals can do it?"

Fuji said, "A very small number of Immortal Sect techniques can also do it."

Zhang Yu said, "What about the immortal's... disciples? Their offspring? Can the immortal's descendants do it?"

Fuji laughed, "Isn't that possible by learning immortal sect techniques? But the relevant immortal sect techniques should be extremely hard to get."

Zhang Yu said, "Can't the immortal's descendants directly do it? For example, directly mastering a portion of the immortal's authority, abilities..."

Fuji said, "I've never heard of that. But if bloodline power really is related to space, wouldn't that be too outrageous?"

"Such an immortal's descendant, born with smuggling talent, stowaway talent, tax evasion talent? They'd be a natural-born criminal genius."

"It would be a miracle if such a person could resist committing crimes. If an immortal creates such offspring, aren't they afraid that offspring will throw Kunxu into chaos?"

"If that were really the case, other immortals would have opinions too, right? They should oppose it."

Hearing Fuji's words, Zhang Yu's mind once again flashed to Dao Qiankun's figure. This genius of Wanfa University seemed far from as simple as he had once assumed.

And through sensing the Dao Seed's information and communicating with Fuji, Zhang Yu became even more unwilling to reveal the abilities of the immortal's descendant.

But this was only from Zhang Yu's own perspective. He didn't want to be discovered and tried his best to achieve that, but what the final outcome would be could only be a matter of doing his best and leaving the rest to fate—it wasn't entirely under his control.

However, for cultivators who hadn't mastered spatial abilities, it was already unlikely for them to detect changes in spatial structure.

"Moreover, the reason the immortal's descendant opened up a space of this size was precisely because under the spatial authority they currently hold... the structural change of a space this size is the hardest to detect. It was designed precisely to avoid spatial detection."

"In comparison, what might be easier to detect could be visual changes."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "For example, if someone directly sees me sending things into the space, even an idiot would notice something wrong."

"Especially in the decisive battle against Kuang Tianqing, no one knows how many people are watching me through the livestream. And who knows how many times it will be replayed later. So visual concealment is very important."

"Then, if I want to use the immortal's descendant's abilities in the decisive battle..."

"It will be in the next moment."

On the battlefield, Zhang Yu looked at Kuang Tianqing.

Accompanied by Kuang Tianqing's life-risking strike, a fierce gale swept up, and a surging shockwave erupted with his movement.

The exploding golden radiance of the core shot straight into the sky, like a sun being ignited and detonated on the horizon, filling Zhang Yu's vision with blazing light.

Although Zhang Yu had decided to use the immortal's descendant's power, he understood that relying solely on that single ability wouldn't work.

After all, Kuang Tianqing's strike would surely shake heaven and earth, with the attack range and destructive range completely covering Zhang Yu's entire body.

Relying on a mere thirty square centimeters—a fist-sized spatial opening—to completely block this move was undoubtedly wishful thinking.

"The immortal's descendant is an excellent aid," Zhang Yu thought to himself. "But whether it's to cover up the immortal's descendant or to completely defeat Kuang Tianqing, I can't rely solely on the immortal's descendant..."

Facing the life-risking Kuang Tianqing, Zhang Yu also needed to push all his assets, all his power, all his spirit.

"Kuang Tianqing, do you think you've pulled me into your lane?"

"You're wrong, Kuang Tianqing. Desperate fighting... that's my lane."

The light of a shattered core shone on Zhang Yu's body.

Then a second! Third! Fourth!

A full four cores shattered one after another, blinding golden light bursting through Zhang Yu's body, as if about to tear him limb from limb.

The power of shattered cores, almost material, flowed out from within Zhang Yu, wrapping around his body like flames, pushing him forward!

"Come on, Kuang Tianqing."

"Let this final strike decide the outcome of this battle."

Countless spectators watched this scene in disbelief.

At this moment, Ye Xingli felt an immense shock: "Shattering four cores in succession? That requires four minds working in unison, simultaneously controlling four breakthroughs to core, four core shatterings—what kind of calculation and control is that?"

Jiutian Liu watched this scene, his eyes shining with astonishment. "Can his physical body really withstand the backlash of quadruple core shattering? What's the difference between that and self-detonation?"