Chapter 708: Human or Immortal?

The hall fell into a heavy, deathly silence, so quiet that even the sound of a needle dropping could be heard.

Divine Hands True Lord stared fixedly at Zhang Yu's palms, watching the two cubes formed by spatial barriers in his left and right hands.

At the same time, his mind kept replaying the scenes that had just unfolded.

As the Nascent Soul Lords on both sides struck fiercely, illuminated by those blazing onslaughts, Zhang Yu, standing at the center of the two factions, clasped his hands together. The distorted space swallowed light, sound, and signals... like a bottomless abyss, it absorbed all the attacks—even the magical treasures—from both sides.

"Zhang Yu... while we were attacking, he positioned himself right in the middle and, with his own strength, managed to take on all our strikes."

Reaching this conclusion, Divine Hands True Lord was immensely shocked, and intense doubts surged in his mind as he rapidly analyzed the situation.

"The reason he could absorb our attacks lies primarily in the Immortal Sect technique 'Kunlun in the Palm.' It's precisely because of this technique that he could shrink our attacks and take them into his palms."

"But then what? What method did he use to seal off the power we unleashed?"

"Void Cloud Cache? No, Void Cloud Cache can't do this... Is this some kind of portable spatial barrier?"

Divine Hands True Lord looked at the cube in Zhang Yu's left palm. Inside, thunderous flames, various types of Qi, and sword energy—precisely the attacks released by the Nascent Soul Lords of the two factions—raged violently, colliding and churning in an extremely unstable state. Divine Hands True Lord believed that if not for the suppression of the spatial barrier, the power inside would have already detonated completely, engulfing both Zhang Yu and the entire hall.

At that moment, Zhang Yu, facing this power directly, would surely be the first to be blown to pieces.

"But even if it's a spatial barrier, how long can it endure against so many attacks all at once?"

Divine Hands True Lord was obviously not the only Nascent Soul Lord with similar thoughts. They stared at Zhang Yu as if watching a person holding a bomb—a bomb that could detonate at any moment and blow Zhang Yu to bits.

But in the next moment, under the astonished gazes of the many Nascent Soul Lords, Zhang Yu gave a slight smile and suddenly clenched his left hand into a fist, as if he was going to crush the cube in that hand.

When Zhang Yu opened his palm again, it was completely empty. Both the cube formed by the spatial barrier and the raging, surging power had vanished without a trace.

"What?!" Watching this scene, Divine Hands True Lord's eyes widened sharply. His gaze rapidly scanned Zhang Yu's hand, as if trying to find where those vanished powers had gone—how had they evaporated just like his recent stock market funds?

It wasn't just Divine Hands True Lord. Everyone present—whether it was String Music True Lord and Thunder Pole True Lord of the insistent faction, or Heaven Slaughter True Lord and Heaven Chapter True Lord of the withdrawal faction—all stared fixedly at Zhang Yu's completely empty palm.

At the same time, Zhang Yu said calmly, "This power was too unstable. For safety's sake, I dispersed it."

"As for these magical treasures..."

Hearing Zhang Yu's words, the many Nascent Soul Lords in the room were startled, afraid that Zhang Yu might similarly clench his fist and make their magical treasures disappear.

But in the next moment, Zhang Yu raised the palm of his right hand and said, "Please take them back."

With that, Zhang Yu's palm gave a slight tremor. The many magical treasures that had been sealed inside the cube suddenly expanded, shooting out from his palm like fish breaking free from a trap.

The many Nascent Soul Lords present, sensing their magical treasures reconnected, hurriedly retrieved them.

After doing all this, seeing that the many Nascent Soul Lords had lost their fighting spirit, Zhang Yu breathed a slight sigh of relief.

In the series of moves he had just made, although Zhang Yu appeared calm and composed, his spiritual power was being consumed at a furious rate.

Zhang Yu understood that the reason he had so easily taken on the attacks of the two factions' Nascent Soul Lords was, first, thanks to his level 40 "Kunlun in the Palm," which contracted space and gathered all attacks into his palms.

Next, he relied on the spatial barriers set up by level 40 "Three Realms and Ten Directions Ultimate Barrier" to seal them off.

Without either of these Immortal Sect techniques, Zhang Yu could not have accomplished what he just did.

But even so, drawing and absorbing the attacks of so many Nascent Soul Lords all at once was like a child wielding a heavy hammer—during this process, Zhang Yu consumed an enormous amount of spiritual power every moment.

In just that brief instant, his internal spiritual power had been depleted by eighty percent.

And once his spiritual power ran out, the sealed power would lose control, and he would be the first injured.

So he needed a third step—the Descendant of the Immortal.

The moment Zhang Yu clenched his fist, he opened an entrance to the Descendant of the Immortal's domain within his palm, pouring the captured raging power into it.

It was precisely because of the independent space opened by the Descendant of the Immortal that Zhang Yu had the confidence to take on the attacks of all the Nascent Soul Lords present.

At this moment, Heaven Slaughter True Lord looked at Zhang Yu with a grave expression and asked, "Zhu Yi, what did you do?"

Zhang Yu said calmly, "Ever since I obtained the Immortal Sect technique 'Kunlun in the Palm,' I have been studying its mysteries day and night, and I have finally advanced it to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage—level 40."

Hearing Zhang Yu's words, some Nascent Soul Lords present showed signs of shock, seemingly amazed that Zhang Yu had cultivated the Immortal Sect technique to such a level in such a short time.

Those like Heaven Slaughter True Lord and Divine Hands True Lord, who had seen Zhang Yu's previous displays, revealed expressions that suggested they had expected this.

Zhang Yu continued, "Spatial techniques are far too profound and unfathomable. The more I practice, the more I feel their depth and difficulty."

"Fortunately, the spatial barrier set up by the Righteous Alliance gave me considerable inspiration, allowing me to integrate the strengths of both sides..."

As he spoke, Zhang Yu extended a finger, and light and air gradually twisted around his fingertip, ultimately forming a spherical space made of spatial barriers.

None of the many Nascent Soul Zhenjuns present were weak, nor were any of them poor, and they had long since become adept at using the Void Vault.

Under their close observation, they could sense that this spherical space was extremely similar to the Void Vault they commonly used.

Zhang Yu toyed with the spherical space and continued, "It was precisely because of this that I was able to research together with Teacher Ciji, creating the Boundary Breaker and the Void Vault, ushering in a revolution in spatial techniques."

"And the first step in this, naturally, was the technique of spatial scaling."

Upon hearing this, Miaoshou Zhenjun stared intently at Zhang Yu's fingertip, at the spherical space on the tip, and thought to himself: "Research together with Ciji Shenjun? Could this sphere be a Void Vault refined by Zhang Yu himself?"

He looked at the spherical space, feeling it grow larger and larger, taller and taller, as if it were suddenly expanding violently, about to fill his entire field of vision in the next moment.

Even Zhang Yu's finger seemed to be stretching and rising continuously, like a towering mountain, a majestic peak, about to lift the spherical space towards the heavens.

At that moment, Miaoshou Zhenjun felt as though he were an ordinary man standing before this mountain, forced to watch as Zhang Yu's finger pressed down like a mountain.

The next moment, when Miaoshou Zhenjun came back to his senses, the spherical space was still a spherical space, and the finger was still a finger—everything had returned to its normal size and proportions.

But Miaoshou Zhenjun knew that what he had just seen was no illusion, and from the exchanges and reactions of the other Nascent Soul Zhenjuns around him, they had clearly perceived a similar scene.

"Did space change?"

Miaoshou Zhenjun thought to himself: "Just now... did Zhang Yu make his fingertip larger, or were we all shrunk together?"

On the other side, Xianyin Zhenjun was also staring at Zhang Yu in disbelief, thinking: "What background does this kid have? To be able to master spatial techniques to such a degree? And... did he just say he researched together with Ciji Shenjun, creating the Boundary Breaker and the Void Vault?"

At the same time, as if to prove himself, Zhang Yu sent the evidence that Ciji Shenjun had left him to the many Nascent Soul Zhenjuns present.

Quickly scanning through this evidence, the Nascent Soul Zhenjuns present changed expressions several times, looking at Zhang Yu as if he were a freak.

Zhang Yu then continued, "After that, the Void Vault gained a spatial locking function, and the most crucial Immortal Dao technique in this was the screening of passing matter by the spatial barrier."

As he spoke, the spherical space at Zhang Yu's fingertip gradually changed color, first turning red, then orange, then yellow...