Chapter 575: Chapter 516: Hold Each Other Tight
"No!"
Bai Zhenzhen looked both angry and anxious at the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch behind her: "Teacher! How can you do this? Do you want to kill Zhang Yu? If he loses control even once, it’s over."
In her heart, she fearfully thought: "Considering Yu Zi’s feelings for me, and his terrifying martial arts talent, if this really happens... his Extreme Emotion Sword Dao might advance by leaps and bounds."
"Never mind a Level 10 Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, even a Level 20 Extreme Emotion Sword Dao is not impossible, and the chances of losing control will only increase."
"At that time, if he has even the slightest emotional fluctuation, he will lose control and expose himself..."
"I’m afraid that Wanfa University’s Artifact Refining Department can no longer accommodate him. All his efforts over the years would be in vain, and like me, he would have to practice this useless Extreme Emotion Sword Dao."
"During the process of losing control, who knows how many losses will be caused, how much money will be paid, and how much debt will be incurred."
"And... charges without the proper military certification will also find him. If Wanfa doesn’t help him, then maybe his body will be confiscated directly..."
Thinking of this, Bai Zhenzhen grew even more anxious and raised her hand to sever her connection with Zhang Yu.
However, the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch let out a cold snort, and streaks of Sword Intent shot up into the sky, connecting through the Heavenly Patrol Flying Sword and restoring and reinforcing their communication.
"Ha, weren’t you always trying to secretly contact Zhang Yu before?"
"What now?" The Seven Emotions Divine Monarch chuckled lightly and said: "Now that you’re allowed to contact him, you don’t want to?"
Suddenly, with a loud bang, Bai Zhenzhen had already fallen to her knees.
"Mom, please let him go."
"Can we turn off the communication?"
Watching this scene, Zhang Yu’s figure trembled, and he said, "Zhenzhen!"
"Don’t say anything!" Bai Zhenzhen shouted: "Close your eyes quickly, don’t look at me, don’t think about me, don’t let the level of your Extreme Emotion Sword Dao increase."
Then she looked at the vague figure of the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch and said, "Mom, I promise to practice the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao seriously, but please don’t let Zhang Yu contact me again, okay? Don’t let him rapidly enhance his Extreme Emotion Sword Dao cultivation."
The Seven Emotions Divine Monarch said indifferently: "If you want to practice the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao well, shouldn’t you practice with Zhang Yu every day?"
Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes exploded with Sword Intent, and she suddenly wanted to lower her forehead to the ground, to kowtow, but was blocked by a strand of Sword Qi from the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch.
Feeling the power emanating from Bai Zhenzhen’s body, the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch said with satisfaction: "See, you’ve improved your Extreme Emotion Sword Dao again, which shows that my method is effective."
Bai Zhenzhen said: "Mom! Master! I’m begging you, I don’t want Zhang Yu to walk this path."
The Seven Emotions Divine Monarch replied: "I just don’t understand, what’s wrong with the path of Extreme Emotion Sword Dao? You chose the person yourself, so what’s the problem?"
"Don’t show me such a useless appearance. If you dare to kneel or kowtow again, I’ll send you to Wanfa University to be with Zhang Yu every day."
"Yes, I can’t catch Zhang Yu over here."
"But sending you to Wanfa University, to Zhang Yu’s room, and having you hug him tightly is no problem at all, and nobody at Wanfa University will stop it."
Hearing this, Bai Zhenzhen felt like she had fallen into an ice cellar, as if she could already see the two of them embracing, the level of their Extreme Emotion Sword Dao skyrocketing, then both losing control with tragic consequences.
She struggled to stand up, looking bitterly at Zhang Yu on the other side of the screen, feeling that their future had become incredibly bleak.
The Seven Emotions Divine Monarch said indifferently: "I asked you to change your partner back then, and you refused. So don’t blame your master for being ruthless."
"If you want to choose Zhang Yu to cultivate your Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, then just continue."
"And if later you find out he’s not your best choice and get Sword Dao backlash, then I’ll refine you into a Flying Sword and store you in my sword library."
As she spoke, the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch had already opened a private space in the Spirit Realm and invited both Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu over.
"Azhen!" Seeing Bai Zhenzhen appear in front of him, Zhang Yu moved slightly but then stopped.
Through Magnetic Pole True Monarch’s narration, Director Gao’s report, and Bai Zhenzhen and the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch’s conversation just now, Zhang Yu now had some understanding of the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao.
He realized that this is a military-level swordsmanship driven by emotions.
"The better the relationship, the stronger the talent, the faster the swordsmanship advances."
"Given my relationship with Azhen, she’s sure to advance rapidly in this swordsmanship."
"But seeing Azhen like this, she seems extremely unwilling for me to advance with her in this swordsmanship."
Zhang Yu recalled news about people killing their wives, children, and entire families, and came to a vague guess.
"Will it drive us mad?"
"So Azhen doesn’t want me to practice the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, fearing that my cultivation will soar due to our contact?"
Just as Zhang Yu’s mind was filled with thoughts, the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch’s voice rang out again: "What are you dazing for? Go and embrace her."
Seeing Bai Zhenzhen struggling, the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch said coldly: "Do you want me to send you to Zhang Yu’s dormitory?"
Bai Zhenzhen heard this and felt as though the bones in her body were being stripped away one by one, forcing her to walk toward Zhang Yu with difficulty.
Looking at Bai Zhenzhen’s current state, Zhang Yu’s brow furrowed tightly, unsure of what to do.
"Should I prove to Azhen that I haven’t mastered the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao?"
This was Zhang Yu’s thought earlier, after all, if Bai Zhenzhen could be assured that Zhang Yu would not progress in mastering the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, she would not have to worry about it anymore.
But his thoughts quickly flickered to another issue.
"According to the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch’s description of the Sword Dao backlash... does it refer to emotional changes?"
"Their understanding of martial arts talent is too narrow. If they believe I can’t master the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao because I lack emotions in my heart... what will happen?"
"Will it trigger the Sword Dao backlash in Azhen?"
Watching Bai Zhenzhen’s persistent struggle, Zhang Yu’s mind raced rapidly.
In the next moment, as Bai Zhenzhen embraced Zhang Yu with both hands, her body couldn’t help but tremble slightly.
"Hahaha." The Seven Emotions Divine Monarch laughed: "Exactly this! Exactly this! How do you feel now? Isn’t the Extreme Emotion Sword Intent ready to burst forth within you? Can’t you hold it back any longer?"
Inside Bai Zhenzhen, red Sword Qi surged incessantly, like raging red flames moving up and down her body.
She felt the surge of Sword Intent intensifying with her emotional changes, even slicing through the air with cracking sounds, leaving deep sword marks on the floor and walls.
But while Bai Zhenzhen’s body reacted in various ways, Zhang Yu remained exceptionally calm, without any sign of Sword Intent, Sword Qi, Mana, or Gang Qi abnormalities.
The Seven Emotions Divine Monarch coldly remarked: "See, Bai Zhenzhen, look carefully, there’s not a trace of advancement in Extreme Emotion Sword Dao on Zhang Yu before you."
"You’ve been cultivating the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao for so long, you should understand the reason for this, right?"
Upon seeing the unmoved Zhang Yu, Bai Zhenzhen’s expression slightly changed, the Sword Qi inside and outside her became increasingly turbulent, the sound of tearing air akin to beasts howling.
Watching this scene, Zhang Yu’s heart sank: "Has it affected Azhen’s Extreme Emotion Sword Dao?"
Recalling what the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch said earlier about backlash and refining Flying Sword, Zhang Yu tightly embraced Bai Zhenzhen, gently saying: "It’s alright Azhen, trust me, I can control the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao."
"You don’t need to worry about me."
Zhang Yu knew that now there was no explanation, no reason, no way to rationalize his condition to both the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch and Bai Zhenzhen, explaining why he, though extraordinarily gifted, could not master the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao.
Thus, Zhang Yu abandoned any explanation, any reasoning, any argument.
He directly communicated through the trust between them.
Zhang Yu believed that as long as he spoke sincerely, Bai Zhenzhen would feel it and definitely trust him.
Just because their trust needed no reasoning, no explanation, no logic...
And with Zhang Yu’s current words, the Sword Qi around Bai Zhenzhen gradually stabilized.
The previously wildly surging Sword Qi, like beasts roaring, softened into layers of gentle halos surrounding Bai Zhenzhen.
Tightly holding Zhang Yu, she lightly nodded: "Hmm, I trust you."
Feeling Bai Zhenzhen’s changes, Zhang Yu’s heart sank further.
Although he temporarily hindered Bai Zhenzhen’s adverse changes regarding the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, it seemed he also pushed her further down that path.
"Good, good, good." The Seven Emotions Divine Monarch laughed: "Indeed, you’re suited to cultivate the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao together."
Meanwhile, a private message from the Seven Emotions Divine Monarch flashed in Zhang Yu’s eyes.
Seven Emotions Divine Monarch: Boy, you’d better deceive her forever, otherwise you’ll end up either having her refined into a Flying Sword or getting killed by her
Reading this, Zhang Yu’s heart trembled again, looking at Bai Zhenzhen in his arms he thought: "Azhen, I will be strong enough that you can never kill me, strong enough so no matter how you try to kill me, you can’t succeed. Even if you walk further down the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, it won’t matter."
Bai Zhenzhen, feeling Zhang Yu’s heartbeat, thought to herself: "Yu Zi, I will adapt to it slowly like I did with the Spirit Root as a child, slowly merging with the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, making sure no matter what you do in the future, my Extreme Emotion Sword Dao will not backlash... I will never harm you."
Half an hour later, as the communication closed, Bai Zhenzhen’s figure gradually dissipated before Zhang Yu.
In the following days, Zhang Yu practiced even more diligently, running between construction sites, lectures, labs, and the Taiqing Realm... nonstop not just for himself but also seeing frequent changes in his account’s spirit coins.
Yet, despite his hard work, the construction payments hadn’t been issued.
As time quickly passed to the end of April, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but send a message to inquire: When will the construction payment be issued?
The reply came back: Don’t make me hear you ask again, ask again and wait until next year
Zhang Yu was slightly stunned: "So arrogant? Don’t they know I’m from the Magnetic Pole?"
He did not act impulsively. First, he investigated the other’s connections and learned the person responsible for the payments was Thunder Extreme True Monarch, the Magnetic Pole True Monarch’s junior apprentice.