You dare to cultivate without money?!-Chapter 318 - 269: Yu Zi and I Are the Best in the World

As Bai Zhenzhen looked at her phone with a puzzled expression.

The ground suddenly sent a violent tremor, as if a giant beast had fiercely collided with the earth, threatening to shake Bai Zhenzhen off her feet.

A wave of alarming dread surged into her heart, making her hair stand on end, and instinctively, her lightning mana surged out furiously, transforming into blazing lightning that swept across her body.

The next moment, accompanied by a thunderous roar, a fierce wind blew in, whipping Bai Zhenzhen’s long hair into a wild dance.

She turned her head toward the source of the explosion and saw a towering apartment building, several dozen stories high, pierced by a blinding flame.

In the intense explosion, the entire building collapsed and shattered in an instant, raising a cloud of dust that enshrouded Bai Zhenzhen completely.

Amidst the earth-shaking tremor, Bai Zhenzhen only felt the ground beneath her feet undulating like waves.

"What... has happened?"

Watching the entire apartment crack open before her eyes, Bai Zhenzhen’s mind went blank at that instant.

"Yu!"

Her figure flickered for a moment as she intended to rush toward the collapsing building, but the next moment saw the rise of a second wave of explosion, sweeping a visible shockwave toward her.

With her muscles, mana simultaneously activating, bolts of lightning shot into the sky. Bai Zhenzhen stood firm against the shockwave, desperately widening her eyes, as she gazed in fury toward the source of the explosion.

As the shockwave roared through, the cloud of dust was blown away, revealing the apartment building turned into ruins.

Watching this scene, Bai Zhenzhen felt a sharp pain in her heart, a crushing sensation constantly emerging from within her.

Just then, two voices reached her from the side.

A man’s voice spoke, "The debris has been searched thoroughly; there are no living bodies found."

Another woman’s voice replied, "Why was the other outside the building? Never mind, I’ll do it myself; you handle the ruins and bury it later."

Bai Zhenzhen turned her head to see a man and a woman slowly approaching her direction.

The woman had a head full of white hair, her limbs, chest, and abdomen constituted of some jade-like magic remains, with runes flickering inside.

Bai Zhenzhen’s gaze slightly narrowed, simply the multiple magic remains on the opponent’s body indicated years of Foundation Establishment cultivation.

And the words coming from the opponent’s mouth instantaneously made Bai Zhenzhen aware that the explosion of the building was far from a coincidence but a deliberate act against them.

"Hey..." Bai Zhenzhen stared fixedly at the two, "What do you mean by no living bodies?"

The opponent clearly had no intent to answer.

Yet, looking at the collapsed building rubble before them, the answer seemed evident.

"Yu Zi."

"I..." Bai Zhenzhen clenched her fists, feeling as though the world had turned into darkness.

In her heart, she murmured, "I had originally sunk into unfathomable darkness; it was Yu Zi who accompanied me, who climbed out with me."

"We’ve come this far with great difficulty."

"Yu Zi, who always makes me call him dad every day and is the best in the world to me."

"If it wasn’t to stay with me, he could have gone to Wanfa University with his sister two years ago..."

Zhang Yu’s figure constantly surfaced in Bai Zhenzhen’s mind.

Every word he said flashed continuously in her heart.

"Azhen, let’s aim for the top ten together."

"This is your Spirit Root; then let’s call it the Zhenzhen Spirit Root."

"Sis, really can’t take Azhen with you?"

"If I stay, do you think Azhen and I could go a normal route and get into the top ten, just like you, sister?"

"In the future, we still want to pursue a master’s, a doctorate, break through to Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and enter the Wanfa Sect together."

Bai Zhenzhen’s body began to tremble, the green lotus mark at her lower abdomen flickering continuously, her Dantian’s True Spirit Root transforming into a green lotus slowly unfurling.

"The three years spent with Zhang Yu were the happiest of my life."

"He’s my best in the world..."

At this moment, in Bai Zhenzhen’s heart, rose a powerful emotion she had never felt since her birth.

An emotion surpassing her past desires to survive, to enter the top ten, to obtain the Foundation Establishment certificate...

An unprecedented extreme emotion, which erupted from her mind like a flood bursting forth.

"I will... kill you all."

Facing Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes filled with killing intent, the man and woman facing her paid no heed.

As Foundation Establishment Cultivators lingering for years on one level, even discarding the absolute advantages in Dao Heart, mana, and magic remains, just with Level 20 physical strength alone was enough to crush Bai Zhenzhen who had only recently entered Foundation Establishment less than a year ago.

Today, they came only because of an assignment from the Oasis Group.

To eliminate Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.

Though this assignment carried certain risks, for those who had stagnated on one level for long and were nearing the end of their Foundation Establishment lifespan, any opportunity to advance was worth the risk.

After all, they only had a few years left to live.

With a thunderous boom, accompanied by the emergence of surging airwaves, the female cultivator had already launched herself toward Bai Zhenzhen’s position.

But at the next moment, her expression suddenly changed dramatically.

As a series of green lotus phantoms unfurled behind Bai Zhenzhen, the spiritual mechanism of heaven and earth seemed to lose control, surging madly towards Bai Zhenzhen, even the male and female Foundation Establishment peak existences couldn’t gather the slightest bit of spiritual energy at this moment.

The female cultivator roared wildly in her heart: "This... is it a Divine Spirit Root?!"

The Divine Spirit Root, surpassing Human Spirit Root, Earth Spirit Root, and Heavenly Spirit Root, is strictly controlled by the ten major sects and is absolutely not allowed to appear among the common people, referred to by many cultivators as a military-grade force.

In the perception of the vast majority of cultivators, under the same realm, unless possessing the same military-grade force, the winning rate is zero.

The female cultivator gritted her teeth fiercely, already using all her mana: "Attack with all our strength! Kill her together!"

In her view, the time Bai Zhenzhen had spent breaking through to Foundation Establishment was simply too short, the two of them working together with full force might not be without a chance.

But at the next moment, she noticed the male cultivator’s figure flash and he had disappeared into the night sky, directly fleeing.

"Damn it!"

Just as she hesitated for a fraction of a second, pondering whether to flee or fight, Bai Zhenzhen’s figure had already dispersed into the air like a puff of smoke and dust.

In the next moment, lightning sword lights continuously flashed through the air, fiercely slashing towards the body of the female cultivator.

Dodging several thunder swords in a row, the female cultivator’s face grew increasingly grim.

Unable to perceive the opponent, unable to touch the opponent, even retaliating in all directions seemed unable to hit the opponent.

The opponent seemed to be in a different space from her, only able to attack her while she was unable to attack the opponent at all.

"Divine Spirit Root..." The expression on the female cultivator’s face grew more and more unsightly, after only a few seconds of battle, the thought of retreat was already growing in her heart.

Yet just then, beams of light descended from the sky, encircling a kilometer area like a prison.

...

More than ten minutes later.

As rescue vehicles arrived, the ruins were gradually excavated, and corpses were pulled out one by one.

The man in charge of the on-site rescue looked at Master Xinghuo beside him and said cautiously, "Master, please accept my condolences."

Master Xinghuo said flatly, "You think he’s dead?"

After eight months of guidance, Master Xinghuo dared to say he was the one who understood Zhang Yu’s body best in this world, aside from Zhang Yu himself.

Better than any of Zhang Yu’s past teachers, any classmates, better than Bai Zhenzhen, Yu Xinghan.

That body with extraordinary resilience and terrifying regenerative power, he believed would not easily die.

Hearing Master Xinghuo’s question, the man was slightly taken aback, looking at the ruins in front of him and thinking, "How could anyone survive this?"

"Even if not dead, the person is mostly crippled, who knows how much it’ll cost to heal, the potential on the Immortal Path can be considered ruined."

"Alas, encountering such an event just a month before the college entrance exams."

Thinking of this, the man’s face was filled with endless sighs.

Just then, however, he saw Master Xinghuo step forward, and in the next moment, surge of martial arts Gang Qi erupted, instantly peeling away layer after layer of the ruins, revealing a significant number of corpses.

Master Xinghuo walked into the midst of them, and moments later emerged holding a bloodied human form.

Around him came the voices of people: "Is it Zhang Yu?"

"Alas, what a pity."

But at this moment, Master Xinghuo said flatly, "He’s not dead yet, call the doctors over."

Looking at the Zhang Yu in front of them, Master Xinghuo, with unparalleled knowledge of various martial arts cultivation techniques, squinted slightly, and already had a judgment, he thought to himself, "Is it the death-like state of Spring and Autumn Endless Zen?"

"This kid, indeed pushed this Body Refining Technique to Level 20... hasn’t it only been 8 months since he obtained this technique?"

At the same time, though not having thoroughly examined the other’s physique, Master Xinghuo could faintly sense a stubborn will in Zhang Yu’s heart, like an intense seed of fire, conveying a desire to survive.

He thought to himself, "Looks like under this crisis, Zhang Yu has gained yet another breakthrough in the mental method, even with severe physical injuries, unconsciousness, entering into the death-like state of Spring and Autumn Endless Zen, but he still maintains the operation of the mental method, as if it were instinct."

"This is already a notch above the previous state of dividing one’s heart to various tasks, always operating the mental method."

Thus, under the puzzled, strange, and unclear gazes of the crowd, several doctors came to Zhang Yu at Master Xinghuo’s command.

"Multiple comminuted fractures throughout the body, spinal fractures and dislocations..."

"Severe compression injuries to over eighty percent of the body’s muscles."

"Cranial brain injury..."

"Renal failure..."

"However..."

Initially, they also thought the Zhang Yu before them no longer had any signs of life, but after some examination, a hint of astonishment gradually appeared on the doctors’ faces.

"It seems... he really is still alive."

"Try using medication."

"The wounds are closing up on their own."

"The medication is working very fast..."

"What astonishing vitality."

Under the stunned gazes of many doctors, the wounds on Zhang Yu’s body began to heal quickly, threads of flesh seemingly having their own intent, actively closing and intertwining, continuously accelerating the healing of his injuries.

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