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

Chapter 824 Suppressing Aikun, Taking Control of the Labyrinth

Hearing that Zhang Yu was even stealing her words, Ying Aikun felt a surge of anger.

This is outrageous!

Especially when Ying Aikun saw Zhang Yu unleash the Immortal Cave Heaven technique, only one thought came to her mind.

"mine!"

"This grotto should have been mine all along!"

A surge of hatred welled up in his heart, but this hatred was not directed at Zhang Yu, but at the ancestor Ying Xintian.

From childhood to adulthood, Ying Aikun has never been able to understand one thing.

"Old man! Why do you always have to do this? I just don't understand. We, the younger generation, work hard and tirelessly for the prosperity of the whole clan, fighting and struggling with others everywhere... and you don't care about us."

"And they always have to give away the good things in the house to those useless livestock, those failed good-for-nothings."

In Ying Aikun's eyes, Ying Xintian was simply the number one spendthrift in Kunxu, and the least ethereal of all immortals.

"Even if you have already caused the entire clan to fall apart, and made everyone bankrupt and destitute, isn't that enough? In the end, you are not even willing to pass on your own grotto to your bloodline descendants?"

"Ying Xintian! Just how much do you hate your own bloodline? How much do you hate your own descendants?"

With a roar in his heart, Ying Aikun's body pierced through layers of spatial structure and began to flash rapidly around Zhang Yu.

In an instant, he seemed to transform into countless forms, appearing in all directions around Zhang Yu.

"Old man, just you wait and see. Since you won't give me the things, I'll take them back myself!"

In Ying Aikun's eyes, with his cultivation level, dealing with Zhang Yu, a cultivator who had just entered the Nascent Soul stage, would be a piece of cake, even if the other party had just mastered some cave heaven power.

With a loud shout, Ying Aikun's magical power surged, and as his hand gestures changed, the entrance to the Qiankun Pot opened wide, and the scene inside instantly enveloped the battlefield.

"What Fuxiantian, what Zhanxian, what Zhang Yu... Look at the lowly beasts you've chosen! What rotten fish and shrimp?"

"You failed, and your successors failed too. If it weren't for us, your descendants, who could uphold the honor of the Ying family?"

After saying that, Ying Aikun made a hand seal, and the Qiankun Pot once again crashed into Zhang Yu's Immortal Cave Heaven, but not to shake the Immortal Cave Heaven, but to temporarily block the entrance of the Immortal Cave Heaven.

"Lock!"

With Ying Aikun's command, a soft boom resounded through the air, rippling outwards in countless waves.

At the same time, the entrance to Zhang Yu's immortal cave... seems to have been temporarily blocked by Ying Aikun using the Qiankun Pot, severing the connection between the inside and outside.

As a descendant of Ying Xintian, a former member of the Immortal Clan, Ying Aikun possesses an unparalleled understanding of the Immortal Dao techniques related to spatial orientation. Naturally, he is also intimately familiar with how to use these techniques in combat.

He knew that the most urgent task in dealing with an opponent who possessed a grotto-heaven and an independent space was to block the opponent's space, making it difficult for the opponent's space to interfere with the material world.

In this way, it is equivalent to temporarily disabling the other person's personal space.

Of course, the price Ying Aikun paid for using this move was that his own Qiankun Pot would also be temporarily unusable.

But he didn't care about it.

"You poor beast from the lower realm, that good-for-nothing dog Bu Yingshu, without the cave heaven the old man gave you, now the Immortal Shuttle can't even get in. What do you have to fight me with?"

Ying Aikun reached out and a burst of light suddenly shone from his body, as if stars were being lit up at the same time, almost illuminating the entire experimental area.

Before his home was raided, Ying Aikun took many measures to conceal his wealth.

One of his methods was to use his position at the time to secretly extract the lifespan of his many subordinate soul cultivators and outsourced employees, collect the power driven by their burning lifespan, and gather it into a flame called Longevity Flame.

This flame is incredibly powerful, and it has a huge market whether used as a pure energy source, a processing flame, or a weapon.

Moreover, Ying Aikun's methods were secretive. Many soul cultivators showed no change in appearance at first glance, and on the surface, they were still a group of high-quality talents. However, they did not know that the future of these high-quality talents had already been exchanged by Ying Aikun in advance, and transformed into blazing longevity flames and stored in Ying Aikun's treasury.

At this moment, as Ying Aikun activated his magic, a surge of longevity flames erupted, rushing out from his sleeves and swirling around Zhang Yu.

The blazing flames instantly illuminated the entire sky, giving onlookers the illusion that life force was being drained away.

This is precisely the terrifying aspect of the Longevity Flame: it can accelerate the decay and aging of matter, turning even the most powerful physique and indestructible magical treasures into nothing more than a pile of broken copper and scrap iron in an instant.

Witnessing the sky filled with flames of immortality, the many cultivators who had been secretly observing were secretly alarmed and felt a great threat, so they retreated a great distance away once again.

"I never expected Ying Aikun to have such a trick up his sleeve."

"It seems he really did hold back just now."

"Without the blessing of the grotto-heaven, and having been struck by such a massive amount of longevity flames, Zhang Yu's chances of survival are slim. This immortal inheritance will ultimately fall into the hands of the Ying family..."

On the other side, watching Zhang Yu being instantly engulfed by Shouyan, Ying Aikun sneered: "Pathetic."

"Just like the disciples and followers that old man chose before, they are all useless failures."

He roared to the sky, "Ying Xintian! Did you see that?! You old devil, you've failed time and time again, failed your whole life!"

"Your successors have failed generation after generation! And now this new successor will be trampled under my feet just like that!"

"Whether you like it or not, your legacy and your power will ultimately fall into our hands! And only we, your true descendants, can carry it forward and make it flourish..."

Just as Ying Aikun looked up to the sky and roared, ripples appeared in the atmosphere.

The flames that had just enveloped Zhang Yu completely vanished into thin air as if erased by an eraser.

At the same time, starting from Zhang Yu's body, the world within the Immortal Cave suddenly appeared.

It was as if a canvas called the real world had been covered with another canvas called the Immortal's Grotto, which startled Ying Aikun.

"This is……"

Zhang Yu said calmly, "The grotto-heaven manifests."

This is the ability Zhang Yu gained when his [Descendant of Immortals] reached level 6. It allows him to temporarily cover reality with the Immortal Cave Heaven, transforming the space within a thousand meters around Zhang Yu into a superposition of the real world and the Immortal Cave Heaven.

With just a thought, within this kilometer radius... one second it could be the real world, the next it could become a celestial paradise, and the second after that it could return to the real world.

Zhang Yu had just used this move, transforming the surrounding space into the realm of the Immortal's Cave Heaven, and taking in all the flames of longevity.

After doing all this, Zhang Yu looked at Ying Aikun and said, "Cave Heaven Manifestation... You don't know how? Then it seems that I am indeed more suitable than you to master the legacy of Senior Ying Xintian."

"Insanity!"

With a furious roar, Ying Aikun's body instantly shattered layer upon layer of spatial structure, as if smashing through layer upon layer of glass. Enveloped in a sky full of flames, he shot towards Zhang Yu like a dazzling crimson meteor.

But as the surrounding space shifted, it seemed that Zhang Yu was about to drag him into the Immortal's Cave Heaven using the Cave Heaven Manifestation Technique.

But as if sensing the changes in the surrounding space a step in advance, Ying Aikun's figure flashed and appeared on the other side, continuing to rush towards Zhang Yu.

Thanks to her mastery of spatial technology, Ying Aikun managed to evade Zhang Yu's manifestation of his celestial cave time and time again, and was never taken into Zhang Yu's immortal celestial cave.

At this moment, what the onlookers saw from afar was a red meteor that kept jumping, flashing, and rushing, getting closer and closer to Zhang Yu as it kept flashing and rushing.

"I possess the bloodlines of two immortals and have the backing of the Tai Zhen Immortal Clan! The Tai Zhen Immortal stands behind me! What right do you have to fight me!"

"Ying Xintian is a loser who has failed his whole life, and all the successors he chose are also losers. Today, you are destined to lose to me as well!"

Zhang Yu coldly replied, "Lose?"

"Perhaps in your eyes, he is a loser."

"But in my eyes, he is the winner."

"He is a victor who persevered through a battle destined to fail, passing on his hope to those who came after him." With a deafening roar, Zhang Yu moved, neither dodging nor evading, shattering the atmosphere as he charged towards Ying Aikun.

"Now, he has chosen me as his new successor."

With a deafening bang, a shockwave, like the collision of the sun and moon, erupted from the point of impact. The surging air waves transformed into layers of storms, surging outwards and carrying scattered sparks of flame, crushing countless buildings in the experimental area to dust.

"I will make you understand that his choice was absolutely right."

Zhang Yu, whose entire body was being scorched by the flames of longevity and whose flesh was gradually decaying, roared and slammed a powerful punch into Ying Aikun.

Ying Aikun roared and retaliated, sending a large swath of flames toward Zhang Yu.

At the same time, Ying Aikun's figure flashed continuously, dodging Zhang Yu's attacks while his fist, carrying Shouyan, hit Zhang Yu again and again.

Ying Aikun roared, "You scum! Lose!"

But the next moment, Zhang Yu's figure also flickered, disappearing for a while and then reappearing.

Ying Aikun's gaze sharpened, and she instantly understood. She realized that Zhang Yu was using his ability to manifest the celestial realm, appearing in the real world one moment and then disappearing into the celestial realm the next, thus appearing and disappearing at will.

With this move, Zhang Yu, who had just been passively attacked, was now able to dodge his attacks and even launch counterattacks against him from nowhere.

"Why?!" A sense of resentment welled up in Ying Aikun's heart: "Why was he able to master the power of the cave heaven so quickly? Why was he able to use the cave heaven manifestation so skillfully so quickly?"

"Could he really be that talented in this area? More talented than any of us..."

The next moment, Ying Aikun had already suppressed the distracting thoughts in her mind.

"You like to hide? Then let's see where you can hide!"

Ying Aikun was like a sun, his whole body suddenly bursting with blazing light, spreading the flames of longevity across the entire battlefield.

In this way, no matter how Zhang Yu dodges, as long as he appears in the surrounding area, he will be within Zhang Yu's attack range.

But with each collision and bombardment, Zhang Yu, who was being fiercely burned by the flames, remained determined to fight, and the power he unleashed showed no signs of weakening, which alarmed Ying Aikun.

On the one hand, Zhang Yu relied on the physical defense he had honed step by step since he began cultivating Qi to resist the damage that the Longevity Flame was causing to his body.

On the other hand, Zhang Yu secretly used the "Blood Tide Essence and Qi Sacred View" to transform the muscles and organs in his body into flames to better fight against the Longevity Flame.

In addition, during each of his disappearances and reappearances, there are always clones that take his place, emerging from the Immortal Cave to fight Ying Aikun.

However, any clone that is slightly injured will hide in the Immortal Cave Heaven to heal itself.

At this moment, Zhang Yu was not fighting Ying Aikun alone, but was controlling more than thirty clones, who took turns healing and fighting, using the power manifested in the cave to collide with Ying Aikun in a line.

"Impossible!" Ying Aikun found it increasingly unbelievable as he struggled: "He's only just entered the Nascent Soul stage, how could he fight me to this extent?"

“Ying Ai Kun…” Just then, Zhang Yu suddenly said, “I’m fairly familiar with the power of the cave heavens. So…”

"Warm-up over, let's decide the winner."

Upon hearing these words, Ying Aikun's eyes suddenly narrowed, and countless thoughts raced through her mind.

"What did he say? Warm-up over? What nonsense is this guy spouting? He must be bluffing!"

But the next moment, a strong sense of threat rose up, and the direction from which this threat came was...

"Myself?"

Just as Ying Aikun sensed the threat coming from himself, 13 consecutive bridges to the heavens burst open on his body.

This is another enhancement to Zhang Yu's [Descendant of Immortals] after reaching level 6. At this moment, he can open up a total of 18 grotto bridges.

Just now, when he fought Ying Aikun, he left 13 Heavenly Bridges on his opponent.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Cave Heaven Bridge, within the Immortal Cave Heaven, Zhang Yu's more than thirty clones, along with the Dragon Combat Corpse Light Cannon Array and the Sorting Demon he controlled, were all poised to unleash their power.

The remaining immortal crystals that Jiang Xunyi had previously gifted also ignited fiercely at this moment, transforming into streams of pure immortal energy and spiritual power that surged into the numerous corpses, pushing their power to its limit.

The next moment, the barrage of attacks crossed the bridge to the cave and landed directly on Ying Aikun.

First, the sorting demon's [work injury curse] property was activated, causing Ying Aikun's entire body to spontaneously combust with life-giving flames.

Then came the Blood Fiend Divine Light from the Light Cannon Array Dragon, which swept over and wrapped around Ying Aikun's primordial spirit, frantically corroding it.

The other various corpses also extended tentacles and spewed out blood vessels, using all their strength to suppress Ying Aikun.

As for Zhang Yu's more than thirty clones, they unleashed layer upon layer of Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power.

At the same time, Zhang Yu gently pressed down with his palm from a distance.

Finally, in conjunction with Zhang Yu's main body, a total of thirty-three layers of the "Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power" erupted, as if an entire continental shelf had been smashed onto Ying Aikun's body, causing him to crash to the ground of the experimental area like a meteor falling to earth.

Seeing that he could only use the "Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power" to suppress his opponent, Zhang Yu couldn't help but sigh slightly.

He previously suppressed his opponents with "Kunlun in the Palm" because the opponents were different.

After all, "Kunlun in the Palm" only controls space, not suppresses power. Against an opponent like Ying Aikun, who is powerful and skilled in spatial technology, simply controlling space is not very useful. Even if the space is contracted, the opponent's power can still be released at any time if it is not suppressed.

To suppress Ying Aikun, Zhang Yu would need to unleash a sufficiently powerful force.

He felt that although his abilities in self-preservation, support, and work were already quite perfect, he was still lacking a powerful immortal cultivation technique. He might consider cultivating one next...

Under the immense pressure, Ying Aikun lay prone in the center of the crater, unable to even lift his head no matter how much he struggled.

"There are corpse parts? Is it the power of those berserk corpse parts? Did the old man store combat-use corpse parts in Zhang Yu's cave beforehand?"

"Damn it! If my physical body hadn't been destroyed before, how could I have been suppressed by him!"

"Old man! If it weren't for you causing me to be expelled from the sect and for the Myriad Laws Sect to take back all my sect's secret techniques, how could I have let this little beast gain the upper hand!"

Although suppressed by Zhang Yu, Ying Aikun felt a surge of resentment at this moment.

"Ying Xintian! If you hadn't spent your whole life siding with outsiders and dragging down your own descendants... how could I have lost today? How could I have suffered a defeat?"

At the same time, many Nascent Soul cultivators not far away watched this scene in astonishment.

In fact, the entire battle was not long. From Ying Aikun's initiative to attack, to the two fighting each other, and finally to Zhang Yu slamming Ying Aikun into the ground and suppressing him, it only took a few moments.

If at the beginning everyone was thinking of taking advantage of the chaos and reaping the benefits, hoping to find an opportunity to seize the Immortal's Grotto during the battle between the two sides...

Seeing Zhang Yu suppress Ying Aikun with a counterattack and demonstrate the various mysteries of the power of the cave during the suppression, they no longer had any intention of looking for an opportunity.

"Unbelievable... truly unbelievable..." Vice Minister Jiang Xunyi thought to himself as he watched this scene, "I originally thought that this immortal inheritance was most likely predetermined to be given to Ying Aikun, but in the end it was given to Zhang Yu?"

"Could all of this have been part of Bu Daojun's plan? Could it be that Zhang Yu was already chosen by the Myriad Laws Immortal Clan... as the candidate to compete for the immortal inheritance?"

At this moment, both the distant Bu Daojun and the Zhang Yu before him became increasingly unfathomable in Jiang Xunyi's eyes.

Meanwhile, Lingchi Ye, who had been observing from the entrance of the experimental area, frowned slightly.

He didn't know why, but the divine light emanating from Ying Aikun first shone brightly, then began to flicker, and finally dimmed rapidly, as if it had been squeezed by a giant hand.

What happened?

"Could it be... that Senior Ying has discovered a grotto-heaven and is going in and out to try it out? And then he stayed in the grotto-heaven?" Thinking of this, Ling Chiye nodded slightly, feeling that he was right.

Inside the test area, the enormous corpse looked at Zhang Yu and said, "Young friend, you have obtained the immortal's inheritance. From now on, this labyrinth will be under your control."

"But this news can't be kept secret for long. Soon it will be known throughout the world. Countless sect leaders, celestial gods, and even immortals will be watching you. Even Yun Taizhen won't let you off the hook. Have you thought about how you're going to deal with this?"

(End of this chapter)