What’s the point of cultivating immortality if you don’t have money?.

Chapter 608 Team Competition Day 2
Time flew by and it was already the second day of the team competition.

Under Zhang Yu's full efforts, the fortress originally built by Yan Qianji was expanded several times in size.

The central prison is encased in dozens of layers of armor plates, with double arrays inside and outside shielding communication with the spirit world, and numerous defensive fortifications are also gathered within it.

But Zhang Yu did not stop; he continued production and construction.

Meanwhile, as the four schools began their cooperation, the powerful figures, led by Dao Qiankun, launched attacks in all directions.

With Dao Qiankun's top-notch strength and Wen Wuyai's powerful detection abilities, several enemy school experts were defeated and captured.

During this period, the prison Zhang Yu created has already received six prisoners.

Zhang Yu also saw a lot of the battle process and collected a lot of intelligence through the four schools' group and Bai Zhenzhen's video recording.

With a single finger, the Daoist master locked down heaven and earth, trapping three powerful figures from White Bone University.

Jiutian Liu, who controls the flow of Qi, remotely slashes away the cultivation of several of his opponent's martial arts techniques.

Zang Shenyu, the number one student at King Kong University, fought against multiple opponents single-handedly, blocking the combined attack of four powerful individuals.

Tian Shenggong, ranked first in the Immortal Soldier University, transformed his aerial fortress into a towering giant over 300 meters tall, capturing two prisoners in a single battle.

Of course, the four-school alliance on Wanfa's side did not come without losses in the process; one student each from Vajra, Heavenly Sword, and Immortal Soldier were defeated and captured.

Both of them were ambushed by the elusive Kuang Tianqing.

The number one student from Tianmo University was like a sword hanging over everyone's head.

No one knows where she will appear or when she will launch an attack. After each attack, she will immediately flee. She only defeats one person and steals one person at a time, never giving her opponents a chance to gang up on her.

Looking at these battlefield intelligence reports, Zhang Yu had a feeling that as the four schools on the Wanfa side cooperated, the four schools' experts on the Tianmo side were also gradually joining forces, and the scale and intensity of the battles between the two sides were getting higher and higher each time.

During this time, Wen Wuyai also kept searching for the location where the other side was guarding the prisoners.

However, the Sky-Patrolling Flying Sword was not omnipotent. By using clouds, fog, vegetation, soil, and other concealment techniques, as well as various escape techniques to evade pursuit, Wen Wuyai was never able to find out where the prisoners had been taken.

"It's most likely underground."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "If it's underground, it will be very difficult to find."

"Unlike my approach of building openly and without concealment, maximizing scale and intensity as much as possible, their goal is to hide their tracks and remain undetected."

"However, to achieve this, the scale of construction must be controlled, as their stronghold's defenses are certainly not strong."

Unbeknownst to them, the construction styles of the two prisons had also diverged.

Outside the prison, in addition to other defensive fortifications, there were also many rest rooms built by Zhang Yu.

After all, with the cooperation of the four schools, there is at least one school's number one player guarding this place during each period, and many members of the four school teams have also come to the outside of the prison to rest and maintain their equipment.

Unbeknownst to many, this place has become not only a prison for guarding prisoners, but also a place for students to rest and gather.

On this day, just as Zhang Yu was setting up the spiritual circuit, a student dressed in a Tiger brand magic body and advertisements found him.

Ling Pojun, ranked 4th in the Refining Department of Immortal Soldier University.

"Zhang Yu, right?"

Ling Pojun looked at Zhang Yu and asked, "Are you currently in charge of the infrastructure here?"

After seeing Zhang Yu nod, the other party continued, "I need a weapon-refining laboratory to repair equipment. How long will it take you to complete it?"

Zhang Yu was slightly taken aback, looking at the other person as if they were an idiot, and said, "Find your own way, these things are not my responsibility."

Ling Pojun looked at him coldly and said, "You're in charge of infrastructure. If you don't do it, do you expect me to build it myself?"

“Zhang Yu, you stay cooped up here all day instead of going out to fight. You should be serving us properly and saving us time…”

Zhang Yu frowned slightly, sensing the hostility emanating from the other party, and thought to himself, "What's wrong with this guy...?"

Looking at Zhang Yu in front of him, Ling Pojun thought to himself, "The battles outside are getting more and more dangerous. Even with my strength, I can't guarantee 100% safety."

"The next battle will be the arena for the top-ranked students from each school, as well as the second and third-ranked students from a few strong schools. It will be the area where they can demonstrate their strength and gain popularity."

"If I want to continue to increase traffic and popularity, I need to find other ways."

Ling Pojun never imagined that he could win first place in the top ten leagues.

In his view, his primary goal is to leverage the immense popularity of the Top Ten Leagues to increase his online presence, gain more attention and investment, and enhance his potential in the Immortal Path.

"Eating up the weak is a way to increase popularity."

Looking at Zhang Yu in front of him, Ling Pojun thought to himself, "This Zhang Yu rode on Kuang Tianqing's coattails yesterday, so he should be getting a lot of attention, but his strength isn't that great..."

He chuckled to himself, "Plus, he's been hiding in the construction site ever since, and he's covered in mud. I'm sure a lot of viewers are already looking down on him."

"I should be able to gain a lot of support and attract a lot of attention by putting pressure on him and exposing my conflicts with him."

As for those who don't like it? Ling Pojun doesn't care. He understands that controversy generates traffic, and being infamous is still being famous.

Especially as a top student of Immortal Soldier University and a user of the Extreme Tiger Brand Relic, he has long been accustomed to reaping traffic from controversy and conflict.

Compared to risking injury and capture to continue fighting, arguing and having conflicts with Zhang Yu in front of him was more cost-effective in Ling Pojun's eyes. It was only because Kuang Tianqing was on the same floating continent and the same arena as him now, and he really had a chance to kill him, that he would have argued with Kuang Tianqing at the very least under normal circumstances.

"Zhang Yu, I have no problem with you personally."

Ling Pojun thought calmly, "But that's how the battle for immortality works. It's either you devour me or I devour you. If you have hype but no real strength, then don't blame me..."

As his mind raced, Ling Pojun let out a cold snort, took a step forward, and a surging aura swept over everyone. The Extreme Tiger Brand Dharma Body on his body also burst forth with an even brighter light.

He looked at Zhang Yu coldly and said, "While you were holed up here peacefully beating the ashes, we were out there fighting to the death with people, consuming spirit coins every single second."

"Now you're unwilling to do even some logistical work?"

"Do you still have any semblance of being an outstanding student at Wanfa University? Do you have any spirit of participating in a team competition?"

Looking at the other person's righteous and indignant expression, Zhang Yu thought to himself, "This guy... why does it always feel like he's not talking to me?"

Seeing the increasingly conspicuous Extreme Tiger Body and advertisements on the other person's body, Zhang Yu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought to himself, "This is a live broadcast. Could this guy be trying to boost his popularity by clashing with me?"

Zhang Yu frowned; he didn't have time to fight amongst himself.

In order to hunt down Kuang Tianqing, Zhang Yu knew that every minute and second from now on was incredibly precious.

Seeing that Zhang Yu didn't react, Ling Pojun was about to continue criticizing him: "What's the point of you digging around here all day, building up these two broken walls? Do you expect to use these things to resist when the other side attacks?"

As he spoke, Ling Pojun thought to himself, "It is somewhat useful, but most viewers will think it is useless."

"The audience's attention is not on things like logistics, civil engineering, and fortifications."

"Only attacking, suppressing the opponent, and capturing prisoners are the most dazzling things in the eyes of the audience."

Just as Ling Pojun was about to speak again, Zhang Yu ignored him and said directly, "I'm going to cultivate."

"If you have nothing else to do, you can just leave."

Ling Pojun was slightly taken aback, and the next moment he saw the other party project a cultivation technique, looking like he was about to start practicing.

“This guy…” In this kind of live broadcast, once the contestants start practicing their techniques, especially in the way Zhang Yu projects the content of his techniques, it will inevitably cause widespread censorship and muting due to copyright issues.

If I were to stay here now, it would mean giving up all the live broadcast footage.

After letting out a cold snort, and without the live broadcast cameras around, Ling Pojun didn't bother to say another word and simply left.

After Ling Pojun left, Zhang Yu continued to immerse himself in his work.

In the time that followed, in addition to the ongoing construction and production, Zhang Yu was also constantly thinking about another matter.

"Besides bringing Kuang Tianqing into the battlefield where I excel, I also need to improve my own strength in order to better complete the next plan."

Zhang Yu understood that in the remaining two days of the team competition, it was impossible to improve his strength in such a short time through hard skills alone.

"I want to make better use of the power I possess."

Recalling the battle scenes of Kuang Tianqing, Zhang Yu could sense the cooperation and mutual compensation of various military-grade forces, which created a complete combat system.

Besides Kuang Tianqing, Zhang Yu, through intelligence gathering and Bai Zhenzhen's recordings, also sensed that many top students in universities were in the same boat.

Dao Qiankun, Jiutian Liu, Yan Qianji, Wen Wuya... their military-grade forces form a system that can work together perfectly to maximize their combat power.

“My military-grade forces can also cooperate with each other, but not as closely.”

Zhang Yu knew that ultimately, he hadn't spent enough time developing his level 20 military-grade strength, lacking the process of continuous practice, correction, and refinement.

"Their military-grade forces have undergone more or less personalized modifications, which are the result of refining their own systems... through continuous attempts and experiments, and accumulated little by little."

“I need to make that change now.”

"How should my military-grade forces coordinate and adapt to better counter Kuang Tianqing?"

With a thought, Zhang Yu drew stone swords from the earth before him using the divine power of Kunlun Mountain Moving. Then, under the infusion of the invisible mental weapon of the Heaven and Earth Calamity, the stone swords transformed into temporary flying swords, bursting forth with a sharp aura.

Then, as the Earthly Fiends' gravity surged, countless flying swords soared into the sky, seemingly transforming into a sword array.

"I guess you could call it a kind of cooperation."

"There is also the Heavenly Sun God and the Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword."

Zhang Yu looked at his Dao Heart again. In the battle with Kuang Tianqing yesterday, in order to break the opponent's Dao techniques, he used the Heavenly Craftsmanship to burn his Dao Heart. Now his Dao Heart level is 19 (86%).

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "As long as my Dao Heart remains at level 19, it won't have much impact on my combat strength."

"In other words, I can use the 'Exploitation of the Works of Nature' a few more times."

"Then how do we use it?"

Time flew by as Zhang Yu prepared and fought fiercely in the team competition.

Before we knew it, it was the last day of the team competition.

(End of this chapter)