Chapter 688: Kunxu Underground Level 19, Nascent Soul Saint Body

Just as Baoshen was thinking about it, 007 sent another message asking about the arrangements for the frozen people on the flying boat.

Baoshen: Proceed as planned. Take good care of them. If even one dies, I'll hold you accountable.

The same 007 and his two companions who had been attacking the frozen people during the battle now suddenly became their protectors.

At this moment, like Dipò Zhenjun, they were willing to protect the lives of the frozen people at all costs.

They piloted the flying boat and rendezvoused with the other hijacked frozen people.

Here, the frozen people would participate in training for the Righteous Alliance, join the effort to expose the demon university, and also use the power of the Spirit Realm and the Dark Spirit Realm to communicate with relatives and friends, encouraging them to sneak into the Righteous Alliance.

…

Meanwhile, news of the large-scale attack on the demon university swept through the Spirit Realm.

The hijacking of over a million college students shocked countless people, and the upper echelons of the demon university immediately denied it, insisting that no such thing had happened—at most, tens of thousands had gone missing in the war.

The top brass of the demon university were furious about the hijacking of over a million college students.

Many wanted to severely retaliate against the Righteous Alliance and seize more things from their territory, but that was clearly not easy to do.

For most people, the immediate priority was recovering the losses.

Even Nie Lian Shenjun, who had been holed up in the lab, had to divert a fraction of his attention to this matter.

He came to the Spirit Realm meeting room, looked at the Nascent Soul True Lords present, and said coldly, "You disappoint me. The esteemed Nascent Souls of the demon university actually lost to a bunch of wild babies?"

"Do you know how much the stock price has dropped because of this? How much the coin price has dropped? And how much the major companies have lost?"

"Unless you give all the shareholders a satisfactory explanation, you'll take the blame for this together."

Dipò Zhenjun was about to speak when another Nascent Soul cut in, "It's not that we lack skill, but this time the enemy sent forces that were too strong—absolutely peak Nascent Soul level, and they already mastered Immortal Sect techniques."

Another Nascent Soul said, "There might even be a Divine Transformation cultivator among them pretending to be something else. If I hadn't acted quickly, I'd probably have been killed or kidnapped to the Righteous Alliance."

"There must be Nascent Souls from other schools who have defected to the Righteous Alliance!"

"Nascent Souls? I think it's some Divine Transformation cultivator from another school fishing in troubled waters."

Hearing the other Nascent Souls' words, Dipò Zhenjun thought, "Damn... each of them is bragging even more than me—they're even imagining Divine Transformation cultivators coming to steal college students?"

Meeting Nie Lian Shenjun's sweeping gaze, Dipò Zhenjun quickly said, "Exactly, the demonic Nascent Soul I encountered might be some big shot from Netherworld University or Demon Beast University."

The many Nascent Soul True Lords uploaded their battle recordings one by one.

Projections of battle scenes flickered rapidly before everyone's eyes.

Among them, the scene of Zhang Yu withstanding Dipò Zhenjun's blow caught many people's attention, as it stood out among the fierce battles of numerous Nascent Souls.

"What a formidable demon monkey?!"

"Could this not be a monkey from Demon Beast University?"

"We should hold Demon Beast University accountable—they must have been infiltrated by the Righteous Alliance."

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The Great Void.

Institute of Space Technology Research.

Back in the lab, Zhang Yu looked as if he had just returned from a leisurely stroll, showing no signs of having been through a fierce battle.

His eye-prosthetic flickered faintly as he browsed news in the Spirit Realm.

At first, various schools were reporting that the demon university had been attacked, suffering heavy losses and widespread devastation.

But soon, it was as if some mysterious force emerged, an invisible hand suppressing these stories one by one.

Immediately afterward, news about the infiltration of demonic descendants from Demon Beast University started going viral.

The next moment, a photo of a monkey demon caught Zhang Yu's eye.

"Demon Beast High-Ranking Official Suspected of Joining Righteous Alliance? Massacring One Hundred Thousand College Students…"

"Warning: There May Be Righteous Alliance Scammers Posing as Missing College Students to Make Contact…"

Zhang Yu was taken aback and thought to himself, "When the hell did I kill one hundred thousand college students? They're pinning this black hat on me, on Demon Beast University, aren't they?"

Fuji chuckled and said, "The Tianyao University only has one Spirit Transformation cultivator—who else would we bully if not them?"

Zhang Yu watched as the heat around the monkey demon's bounty grew higher, especially after it stirred up related topics about demon-race discrimination, immediately causing various factions to start flinging insults at each other in the Spirit Realm.

During this time, Tianyao University issued several announcements stating that the monkey demon had no connection with the school, suspecting someone had used some kind of technology to impersonate them, but the topic's heat was quickly suppressed.

As for the original topics from Tianmo University about various frozen people and junior college students, they were all completely drowned out.

Just then, Yu Xinghan came up to Zhang Yu and began discussing the engineering issues outside.

"By the way, have you seen the news?" Yu Xinghan said. "That monkey demon's news—he single-handedly ambushed Tianmo University and killed a hundred thousand junior college students. His strength is earth-shattering."

Yu Xinghan sighed, "And there's that video of him taking the full-power Heavenly Demon Reconfiguration Technique from the opponent's Nascent Soul member at max state... so impressive, truly impressive. Has a great demon like that actually joined the Righteous Alliance?"

Zhang Yu smiled faintly and said calmly, "You can't believe everything in the news. I think this is just fake news from Tianmo University to cover up the truth."

A moment later, Zhang Yu returned to his office.

His office was more of a cultivation room than an office, with various cultivation supplies neatly arranged. It was much larger than his dormitory at Wanfa University.

At the same time, Zhang Yu had logged into the Dark Spirit Realm.

Unlike the trending topics about demon-race, monkey demons, and Tianyao in the Spirit Realm, the Dark Spirit Realm was filled with topics about Tianmo University exploiting frozen people, illegally operating corpse parts, and excessively draining the lifespans of frozen people.

Various discussions, curses, and insults... were all focused on Tianmo University.

Even the Divine Lord Evil Lotus, who could not be mentioned in the Spirit Realm, was utterly trashed in the Dark Spirit Realm, even made into various insulting meme packs.

Furthermore, junior college students from various places left messages one after another, saying they wanted to leave the governance of the Ten Greats and sneak into the Righteous Alliance.

Various smuggling services also emerged in response.

It was only then that Zhang Yu realized the Righteous Alliance had been supporting all kinds of smuggling businesses, using their control over the Sky Vault to guide junior college students from Layer 2 to smuggle into Layer 3.

After seeing the situations in both the Spirit Realm and the Dark Spirit Realm, Zhang Yu couldn't help but feel a slight pang of emotion. Even though they were in the same world, the focus and topics of discussion in the two places were completely different, as if they were in two different worlds.

Just then, a message from the Report God arrived: "Fortune God, you have a powerful subordinate."

A considerable portion of an Evil God's strength is reflected through their underlings and believers.

Zhang Yu's performance this time had apparently elevated the Fortune God's strength and status in the eyes of other Evil Gods.

Especially a powerful demon-race subordinate made the various Evil Gods think wildly, suspecting that the Fortune God had deeply infiltrated Tianyao University.

Fortune God: "And the reward?"

Report God: "Don't worry, I keep my word."

As the two communicated, the Fortune God felt his authority in the Righteous Alliance skyrocket. In the blink of an eye, he went from Apprentice to Disciple, then from Disciple to Executor, and then from Executor to Helmsman, jumping three ranks in one go.

At the same time, a massive amount of Evil God power surged toward Fuji, who frantically absorbed it.

Although the Fortune God originally held the status of a second-rank Evil God, he had never had enough Evil God power to fuel it and had always struggled to exert his full strength.

Now, with a sea of Evil God power filling him, Fuji felt her might greatly increase. She could do much more in both the Spirit Realm and the Dark Spirit Realm.

Fuji said with satisfaction, "Excellent. I like Evil Gods who pay up this promptly."

Report God: "As long as you do the tasks I give you well, you'll find I've always been generous."

Report God: "Is there anything you want to say about Tianyao University?"

Fortune God: "No comment."

The Report God was not offended by the other's unwillingness to volunteer information; he simply chuckled and replied, "Many of my colleagues and the Alliance Leader are very interested in you."

Report God: "In the future, there's a major event we want to invite you to join."

Fortune God: "What event?"

Report God: "About detonating and splitting the Fifth Layer of Kunxu."

Report God: "Once this is accomplished, the Heavenly Court will be delayed by at least another year."

Report God: "And if you perform well, I can take the liberty of allocating ten of the several hundred small worlds split off from the Fifth Layer to you."

Report God: "Then, when those small worlds are reorganized into the Nineteenth Underground Layer, you'll become the new great landowner, laying the foundation for becoming a King of Evil Gods."

In the Report God's view, the temptation he offered was enough to make any Evil God work desperately for him.

After all, with financial freedom and cultivation freedom, eventually becoming a carefree evil god king is the ultimate dream of countless evil gods.

On the other side, Fuji was indeed shaken by these words, and after ending her communication with Baoshen, she felt waves of heartache.

"This carrot is so delicious, but I can't reach it... I just can't reach it."

Fuji knew that everything Baoshen said had nothing to do with her.

Because, having been kidnapped by Zhang Yu, the only path left for her was to charge into the sect together with him.

Zhang Yu, meanwhile, was shocked by the information revealed in Baoshen's words: "Can the Fifth Layer be transferred downward? To become Kunxu's 19th Layer?"

Fuji sighed, "Theoretically, it's possible. After all, Kunxu's spatial structure was artificially constructed. Since it could be made like this, then changing the number of layers... theoretically, it is indeed possible."

"In fact, as far as I know... the space of the lower eighteen layers of Kunxu has been growing silently, but no one knows where this growth comes from..."

The topic was too far removed from them, so Zhang Yu and Fuji discussed it briefly and then stopped paying attention, focusing instead on gathering intelligence. But Zhang Yu realized one thing: to prevent the Fifth Layer from being detonated, the ten major universities and the Righteous Alliance would inevitably launch an unprecedented decisive battle on the Fifth Layer.

Coming to the Anling Realm and busying himself with this and that, Zhang Yu's original goal was to collect the Righteous Alliance's intelligence on Kongtu.

Now, using Fuji's authority as a branch leader of the Righteous Alliance, Zhang Yu went to the intelligence area and immediately saw a large amount of data and information that had been previously hidden from him, now open for his access.

"Although it doesn't directly show the Kongtu reserves or storage locations..."

While browsing the intelligence, Zhang Yu thought to himself, "But based on battlefield intelligence, along with the current information on the Righteous Alliance's various factories, transportation, and transactions... after gathering all these clues, I can still roughly determine where Kongtu is likely produced and stored."

Zhang Yu understood that the immortal cultivation industry chain in Kunxu had a traceable pattern. Many factories were interconnected as upstream and downstream operations, and they strictly adhered to the most reasonable, optimal, and profitable layouts.

Moreover, the ten major universities had already acquired a significant amount of intelligence on the original layout of the Third Layer; what they lacked was the operational situation of the Third Layer under the Righteous Alliance's governance.

Zhang Yu knew that he didn't even need to make the judgment himself—just by handing over this intelligence to the ten major universities, there would be plenty of talented people capable of making precise assessments.

"So... who should I give it to?"

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Who wants to seize the Righteous Alliance's Kongtu the most right now?"

Having obtained all sorts of data and information from the Righteous Alliance, Zhang Yu naturally couldn't just go and submit it directly himself.

Given his current status, there was no need to seek credit through such matters; instead, doing so might easily invite unnecessary suspicion.