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Chapter 375 - 324 Dao Heart and Heart Demon

Chapter 375: Chapter 324 Dao Heart and Heart Demon

Watching the figure charging ferociously, Zhang Yu’s gaze shifted. He quickly turned around, and the Formless Cloud Gang surged forth, striking with spiral forces.

With a loud bang and a clash of Gang Qi, Zhang Yu retreated several steps, looking solemnly at the other party: "It’s you?"

The person who appeared before Zhang Yu and suddenly attacked him was none other than Tian Yang, the team leader.

Feeling the surging mana and blood in his body after the collision, Zhang Yu frowned slightly, thinking to himself: "The task was assigned by Tian Yang."

"This area is rather isolated, and I’m the only one here. It’s precisely a blind spot for surveillance... Was this arranged beforehand?"

"Did he deliberately wait for me to be alone and then attack?"

While thoughts raced through Zhang Yu’s mind, Tian Yang calmly said, "President Wang asked me to greet you."

Hearing this, Zhang Yu was shocked: "Wang Yin?"

He recalled President Wang of the Oasis Group, the wealthy man who had fought him multiple times on the first floor and later sent people for revenge.

Meanwhile, Tian Yang’s attacks pressed relentlessly like a storm, trying to crush Zhang Yu within a few moves.

The martial art he was using at the moment was called the Great Wind Heaven Dust Palm, a technique inspired by construction site dust and pollution control work.

As he attacked, his martial Gang Qi transformed unpredictably like rolling dust, striking Zhang Yu from unimaginable angles, just like pervasive dust clouds on a construction site, aiming to engulf Zhang Yu completely.

This Great Wind Heaven Dust Palm relied on a blend of reality and illusion, its endless changes making it extremely difficult to handle. Against weaker opponents, it could easily dominate and manipulate them effortlessly.

Before making a move, Tian Yang had thought so.

"Zhang Yu shouldn’t last more than 10 moves against me."

But by the 15th move, Tian Yang grew increasingly surprised.

With the Time Residual Demon Pupil and the Three-Eyed Divine Power, Zhang Yu clearly saw every move of Tian Yang.

However, just seeing the moves wasn’t enough, as Zhang Yu was merely a diligent university student with little combat experience.

Given Zhang Yu’s practical experience and martial arts proficiency, even if he saw through Tian Yang’s moves, it was challenging to come up with a countermeasure instantly.

But he didn’t need to counter.

Upon entering Wanfa University City, Zhang Yu had a notion that, although combat skills were less critical than work abilities, in Kunxu, he needed at least one self-defense skill.

Yet, within continuous cultivation, he had no extra time to hone his combat skills.

Until he acquired the Three-Eyed Divine Power... Zhang Yu devised a new method for understanding battles, a way to quickly form combat capabilities without investing too much time and effort at his current stage.

He called it the "50-50 Combat Strategy," meaning he could always maintain an even fight with anyone.

At this moment, Zhang Yu let out a roar, activating the War Demon Falling Life Technique to enhance his physical strength.

Simultaneously, the mimicking ability of the Three-Eyed Divine Power was fully engaged, targeting Tian Yang right in front of him.

So, in Tian Yang’s shocked gaze, Zhang Yu seemed to become another him in the mirror, matching his moves time and again with raw power.

Though even in this manner, Tian Yang was confident that his proficiency could overpower Zhang Yu, breaking him apart strike by strike.

However, Zhang Yu’s Formless Cloud Gang was already exceptionally deep in dispersing force, further complemented by the force leverage of the Nine Heavens Cloud Sky Force, the resistances from the Sacred Body of Civil Engineering, reinforced bones with the No.20 Secret Steel, and the body activation from the Can Niu Soul Heart Technique...

All of these combined allowed Zhang Yu to demonstrate a terrifying resilience in this raw power battle of matching moves.

And now, Tian Yang felt this resilience.

Initially, he thought Zhang Yu was mimicking his martial arts.

"Did he learn the Great Wind Heaven Dust Palm?"

"Or is he relying on his strong aptitude to steal martial arts right in front of me?"

But soon, he realized Zhang Yu was only copying his movements, while the mana and Gang Qi flow inside him were entirely different.

The opponent’s Gang Qi focused on dispersing, reducing force, and leveraging force.

"He’s not stealing my martial arts, just mimicking my moves? But how can he endure so much?"

Watching Zhang Yu, who remained energetic and showed no signs of weakness, feeling his opponent’s unyielding toughness and the constant ’mud bull into the sea’ sensation of each palm... Tian Yang started feeling an increasing sense of frustration.

"This kid is ridiculously tough."

"Fighting him is more tiresome than overtime at a construction site."

"Who the hell designed his combat system? It’s purely frustrating!"

"Forget it, that should be enough..."

With this in mind, Tian Yang rolled his eyes, stomped the ground fiercely, and his figure shot several shadows, flashing tens of meters away.

"Alright, that’s it, I’m done."

Tian Yang waved his hand, looking at Zhang Yu with a hint of a different emotion in his eyes: "You truly live up to being Director Gao’s favored new student. Your physique would really shine in construction overtime."

Zhang Yu looked unexpectedly at the halting Tian Yang: "Weren’t you sent by Wang Yin to take revenge on me?"

Tian Yang laughed heartily: "I have a friend at Nether University who told me that Wang Yin indeed wanted to find someone to teach you a lesson."

At this point, Tian Yang thought to himself: "But this friend of mine wasn’t aiming to help Wang Yin."

Tian Yang declared righteously: "Both of us are from Wanfa University, and we are even in the same Civil Engineering Department under Director Gao. How could I possibly help an outsider against you for a bit of benefit?"

"It’s more about pretending to teach you a lesson and taking the chance to ask Wang Yin for some benefits... I’m quite interested in that."

"So, I came to record a combat video with you."

"Worried about your poor acting, I decided on a surprise attack."

Thinking of this, Tian Yang shook his head. He initially planned to casually throw a few moves and put Zhang Yu in a dangerous situation, but he hadn’t expected Zhang Yu to be so tough, enduring dozens of his moves.

Although things didn’t go as expected, Tian Yang felt the video might be more effective than he originally thought.

Zhang Yu was slightly taken aback and asked, "What do you mean?"

Tian Yang replied, "I just pretended to teach you a lesson and then extort some benefits from Wang Yin."

"Like the combat video we just recorded, once I send it to him, I can ask for something in return."

"Once the transaction is successful, regardless of what we get, I can give you half the spirit coins based on market value."

"Honestly, I do need some things from Nether University. If you’re willing to continue cooperating, we can extort more benefits from Wang Yin together."

Watching the other person walk away, Zhang Yu still couldn’t discern whether what Tian Yang said was true or not.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "I’m at Wanfa University, and this guy Wang Yin still hasn’t given up?"

Fu Ji chuckled, "Usually in such persistent situations, apart from having a feud or conflicting interests, there’s one more possibility... Could your existence be affecting his Dao Heart?"

"Speaking of which, your actions on the first level strongly conflict with Wang Yin’s way of doing things, and you’ve ruined the major plans he had on the first level. He must hate you to the core."

"And if you’ve affected his mental method, becoming his Heart Demon, then his persistence makes more sense. There’s not only a feud between you two but also implications for his Immortal Path cultivation."

Soon after, Zhang Yu received 0.5 spirit coins sent by Tian Yang.

"Did I just earn 0.5 spirit coins?"

Especially thinking that these spirit coins were gained from Wang Yin, a super-rich person who had suppressed him multiple times, made Zhang Yu feel even more motivated.

The White Bull in his mind seemed to roar, and the operation of the Can Niu Soul Heart Technique became increasingly smooth, making his body’s vitality seem all the more vigorous.

The next day, Zhang Yu pulled along Yu Xinghan and Li Xiao to help keep watch and arrived at the agreed location with Tian Yang.

"What are we recording today?" Zhang Yu asked, "Still you beating me up? Should it be harsher? Should I bleed a bit?"

Tian Yang waved his hand and said, "Fight videos, at most just spar like yesterday; there’s no depth in them."

"After all, this is in the university city. Let alone killing you, even severely injuring you can’t be filmed. Even if I did record it, Wang Yin has other information channels, he wouldn’t believe it."

"Today, what I want to film is you working overtime..."

...

Nether University City.

After leaving the first layer, Wang Yin did not go to the Oasis Group headquarters but returned to the place where his mother worked, taking a temporary position to recuperate and heal his soul injuries.

And having lost the chance of obtaining a Divine Spirit Root, Wang Yin could only start anew at the Foundation Establishment Realm using a Heavenly Spirit Root, beginning to recover his cultivation step by step.

Facing his mother again at Nether University, Wang Yin had to admit that what she said to him back then was correct.

"You can’t be too good to those dogs below."

"These dogs, once they’re fed too well, become disobedient and even want to come to the table."

And within Wang Yin’s heart, the thought of his failed plan on the first layer and missing the Divine Spirit Root often churns up intense hatred.

"Zhang Yu... and also Bai Zhenzhen."

However, as far as Wang Yin was concerned, Bai Zhenzhen was no longer a concern, but Zhang Yu...

Just thinking about him still studying and cultivating at Wanfa University, progressing each day on the path of the Immortal, makes Wang Yin feel incredibly uncomfortable.

Nowadays, Zhang Yu is like a thorn that’s digging deeper into his heart, causing the progress of his Dao Heart level to slow down after having re-entered the Foundation Establishment Realm.

He recalled that when he practiced the Emperor’s Imperial Heart mental method, it was by overturning a city with enormous wealth, dominating all living beings, ultimately forging an extreme martial will.

"Yet, when I was on the first layer, clearly wealthy all over the world, I could never control the fate of Zhang Yu."

"These lowest people of the first layer, after receiving my nurturing, not only fail to appreciate it but ruin my major plans."

"Nowadays, my net worth greatly exceeds his, yet I have never been able to suppress him..."

Every time he thinks of this, Wang Yin feels a sense of suffocation, and the mental method of practicing the Emperor’s Imperial Heart becomes less fluid.

Wang Yin understands that the matter of Zhang Yu has become his Heart Demon, a flaw within him, conflicting with his mental method, his thoughts, his will.

"Either I slowly resolve it myself, using thorough effort to change my mindset and eliminate this resentment."

"Or... at least humiliate and toy with him fiercely, to alleviate the hatred in my heart."

Under such circumstances, Wang Yin made contact with Tian Yang through others.

Soon after, he received a video from Tian Yang.

Seeing Zhang Yu’s demonstrated strength in the combat video, along with his extraordinary resilience, Wang Yin frowned deeply.

Then, after giving Tian Yang 1 spirit coin, Wang Yin put forward higher demands, hoping to severely humiliate Zhang Yu, play with Zhang Yu, torment Zhang Yu... even requiring a live broadcast.

Tian Yang, however, rejected many of Wang Yin’s demands and proposed not a low price.

As the two sides reached a stalemate.

Wang Yin received another video from Tian Yang.

Watching Zhang Yu in the video working overtime frantically, practicing madly, with his cultivation inching up and his earnings growing—full of fighting spirit in his eyes—Wang Yin only felt the mental method of Emperor’s Imperial Heart once again becoming sluggish.

At the same time, Tian Yang sent a message: If you don’t agree to my terms, I’ll make Zhang Yu work overtime every day, with his cultivation and savings growing non-stop.

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