Chapter 330: Bai Zhenzhen is Practicing Sword, Zhang Yu is Thawing

After Le Mulan awakened her Dao Seed, the Profound Cold Dharma Vein, Zhang Yu eagerly copied this Dao Seed into his Dao Seed Grimoire.

So, besides the Level 1 Third Eye Divine Ability (Spiritual Root) already in his Dao Seed Grimoire, there was now an additional Level 1 Profound Cold Dharma Vein (Dharma Power).

After Zhang Yu activated the Profound Cold Dharma Vein, his entire body became stagnant, his consciousness grew hazy, and his perception of the outside world became indistinct.

At that moment, his thoughts also seemed to enter an unprecedented stasis, likely due to the Profound Cold Dharma Vein.

Zhang Yu could only barely feel an indescribable change occurring within his body, brought on by an astonishing profound cold.

He wasn't sure how much time had passed, when Zhang Yu suddenly felt a warmth on his back. Something soft seemed to be pressed tightly against him, dispelling the cold within his body and bringing him faint strands of warmth.

Zhang Yu, whose mind was rigid, couldn't think. He instinctively craved this warmth, and as his body gradually regained its mobility, he subconsciously embraced this warm, soft presence.

Gradually, Zhang Yu slowly regained his senses, feeling something flickering before his eyes.

"Hmm?"

"Is someone trying to contact me?"

Zhang Yu, still a bit dazed, clicked on the sender's avatar, then suddenly remembered something: "Right, is it time for my call with Ah Zhen today?"

Zhang Yu, whose thoughts were still sluggish, subconsciously accepted the communication request.

The next moment, Bai Zhenzhen's Spirit World projection appeared in his eye-socket.

Seeing Ah Zhen's face covered in sweat, her whole body steaming and emitting wisps of white vapor, Zhang Yu asked, "Just finished exercising?"

Ah Zhen nodded, wiping sweat from her forehead, and asked curiously, "I just finished practicing my swordplay. Why did it take you so long to answer my call today?"

Zhang Yu was slightly taken aback by her words, thinking to himself, "I think I was just..."

As his cognitive abilities gradually recovered, Zhang Yu's mind rapidly recalled the day's events, finally settling on Le Mulan's Dao Seed.

He thought, "Hmm? After I used Le Mulan's Dao Seed, it seems I passed out for a while?"

Just then, as Zhang Yu looked at the steaming Bai Zhenzhen in front of him, he suddenly felt warmth on his own body, as if Bai Zhenzhen's heat was continuously radiating towards him.

"Why am I feeling warm? Ah Zhen's heat can't possibly be affecting me through the Spirit World network, can it?"

The next moment, Zhang Yu suddenly realized.

As he activated his Third Eye Divine Ability, he saw Le Mulan behind him, wrapped around him like an octopus, pressed tightly against him.

Zhang Yu quickly sent a private message to Le Mulan via their Dharma Skeleton: What are you doing?

He was about to stand up, but felt a pair of long, strong legs clamped tightly around his waist, continuously radiating a scorching heat.

At the same time, Le Mulan's messages rapidly appeared.

Le Mulan: Don't move. You were frozen stiff by my Dharma power, so I'm circulating my energy to warm you up.

Le Mulan: All your Dharma power just now seemed to be frozen. It was too dangerous.

To warm Zhang Yu, Le Mulan had specifically invigorated her blood and Qi to raise her body temperature, making her entire body incredibly hot.

Her legs and chest/abdomen were still slick with sweat, adhering to both their skins.

Le Mulan: Your body is mostly thawed now. Let me warm your dantian a bit more.

Le Mulan: Don't rush to move around, or you might sustain hidden injuries.

The next moment, Le Mulan's hands reached out from behind him and gently pressed against Zhang Yu's lower abdomen.

Zhang Yu: "Hiss!"

Bai Zhenzhen asked curiously, "Yuzi, what's wrong?"

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "I absolutely cannot tell her the truth. If Ah Zhen finds out, she'll definitely make fun of me and look down on me."

Zhang Yu frowned and said, "I'm practicing cultivation."

At the same time, he silently adjusted the communication mode to only show his upper body.

Meanwhile, Le Mulan's small hands moved lower, and her slightly surprised voice came from behind Zhang Yu's head: "Oh? This part isn't frozen."

Zhang Yu took a deep breath, and suddenly squeezed Le Mulan's hands tightly, signaling her to stop moving around.

Zhang Yu: I'm fine. If you keep moving around, I'll charge you.

Le Mulan: I should have paid you earlier. How much do you want?

Fuki, watching this scene, thought to herself, "Tsk? With this much self-control, he wants to go to the Joyful Union University? He's just a little virgin."

Meanwhile, Bai Zhenzhen, looking at Zhang Yu's strange demeanor, showed a hint of disdain: "You rascal."

"You're not... doing *that* again, are you?"

"Tsk, no wonder it took you so long to connect."

"You're not seriously still doing *it* while connected with me, are you?"

Bai Zhenzhen sighed, "Sigh, as expected, once you got to college without me around, you started indulging yourself."

"I knew I should have helped you sever the root of your troubles before I left."

Zhang Yu's face flushed as he said, "What nonsense are you talking about! I'm not Yu Xinghan!"

Bai Zhenzhen said, "Then stick out your hands, both of them."

Zhang Yu, who was currently holding Le Mulan's hands with his own, was slightly startled.

The next moment, just as he realized he should use his Gang Qi, he saw an even deeper look of disdain on Bai Zhenzhen's face. She curled her lip and said, "Alright, don't I know you? Go ahead and watch me do it if you want. We're like brothers, after all. If I don't help you, who will?"

"Damn it..." Zhang Yu said angrily, "I'm not doing *it*!"

"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm," Bai Zhenzhen said, looking askance, and changed the subject.

A moment later, as the communication ended, Zhang Yu looked at Le Mulan beside him: "You..."

"Sigh, my reputation for a lifetime, ruined by you."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "How will Ah Zhen ever look at me now?"

"I feel like I'll never be able to hold my head up in front of her again."

Le Mulan hesitated, "Were you... just talking to someone?"

"Yes," Zhang Yu said irritably, "Let me tell you, don't touch me again without my permission, do you hear me?"

Le Mulan explained, "I was afraid your body would get frostbite. Your state just now was really terrifying."

Hearing Le Mulan's words, Zhang Yu also remembered: "Oh right, the Profound Cold Dharma Vein."

He quickly sensed the changes within his body, seeing that the Dharma power throughout his body carried wisps of coldness, flowing through his meridians like clusters of ice crystals.

His entire network of meridians also seemed to be forged from ice and snow, causing his body temperature to be far lower than usual.

Next, Zhang Yu tried it out a little and discovered that his current Dharma power could unleash a cold poison. This cold poison could be injected into others' bodies through his Dharma power and its derivatives, such as martial arts Gang Qi.

This cold poison was unnoticeable at first, but after gradually accumulating, it would suddenly erupt, capable of completely freezing others' Qi and blood, and Dharma power.

"Cold poison? It seems to have enhanced the power of my Gang Qi."

Zhang Yu thought of how he and Le Mulan had been frozen stiff, one after the other. It must have been the first time this cold poison appeared within their bodies, a result of them not even being adapted to it themselves.

However, after this adaptation, such problems would not occur again when using the Profound Cold Dharma Vein in the future.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "When I copied the Profound Cold Dharma Vein earlier and then got frozen, even if Le Mulan hadn't intervened, nothing serious would have happened in the end."

"But Le Mulan doesn't know I can copy her Dao Seed... Sigh, never mind, I can't blame her."

Zhang Yu then recalled his fight with Cong Na earlier today, thinking to himself, "If I had this Profound Cold Dharma Vein during my fight with Cong Na today, it probably would have been a bit easier."

Zhang Yu then conducted further experiments on himself.

Looking at the Gang Qi frozen in his palm, and testing its hardness after being frozen, Zhang Yu thought, "Freezing Gang Qi doesn't just seem useful for fighting enemies; it can also be used to change the form of my own Gang Qi."

As Zhang Yu was pondering, Le Mulan, who was nearby, said in surprise, "You also have my Ice Dharma power?"

Zhang Yu had no intention of hiding it. After all, unlike the Third Eye Divine Ability, this was far too easy to expose.

So, Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Perhaps I was influenced by you when you broke through."

In subsequent experiments and observations, Zhang Yu also discovered that under the influence of the Profound Cold Dharma Vein, his Dharma power could kill bacteria, freeze wounds, and thus produce a healing effect.

"Not bad."

"But how exactly to apply it still needs further research."

Zhang Yu thought, "Besides this, I also need to see if there are other uses I haven't discovered yet..."

Just then, Zhang Yu's gaze slightly sharpened as he sensed the flow of the Ice Dharma power. He thought, a little incredulously, "No way?"

Since consuming a large amount of life-shortening medicine to consolidate his foundation and cultivate vitality, and continuously repairing his body through physical activation, Zhang Yu had developed a more acute sense of his lifespan's depletion, or rather, the dissipation of life essence within him.

And at that very moment, he suddenly felt that under the influence of the Profound Cold Dharma Vein, the rate at which his lifespan was diminishing seemed to have subtly slowed down.

"This Profound Cold Dharma Vein... can it slow down the loss of lifespan?"

"Can it extend life?"

Zhang Yu wasn't entirely sure. He felt that the details still needed to be slowly delved into.

After some thought, he still told Le Mulan beside him about this possibility.

Le Mulan was also startled upon hearing this, "My Dharma power has this effect?"

She said thoughtfully, "Then it needs to be thoroughly researched."

"I'll use the resources of the College of Medicine to experiment."

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Before that, don't reveal this information, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble."

As he spoke, Zhang Yu looked at the Dao Seed on Le Mulan's chest.

In his perception, the next upgrade for the Profound Cold Dharma Vein required raising the Dharma power quality to 200.

"That's not something that can be accomplished in a short time."

"I wonder what changes the next level of the Profound Cold Dharma Vein will bring."

Over the next few days, in addition to his work and cultivation, Zhang Yu continuously experimented with the effects of the Profound Cold Dharma Vein.

One day, at the construction site inside the tomb, a humanoid Gang Qi appeared behind Zhang Yu.

Unlike the ethereal, unstable humanoid Gang Qi Zhang Yu had casually created in the past, this time, the humanoid Gang Qi not only emitted a chilling cold, but also possessed a distinct texture.

In Zhang Yu's perception, this humanoid Gang Qi had bone-like structures made of ice crystals inside, which were precisely Gang Qi frozen by Zhang Yu.

"Using frozen Gang Qi as bones..."

Zhang Yu watched the humanoid Gang Qi performing various chores under his control. He thought to himself, "This way, the Gang Qi's efficiency in transmitting power is higher, but it consumes more Dharma power, and the humanoid Gang Qi's speed is also slower."

Suddenly, a wisp of Gang Qi swept past him, seemingly catching something.

Zhang Yu's gaze sharpened, and he saw faint white powder falling from it.

"This is... medicinal powder? No, this is flour."

"Where did flour come from here?"

After a brief search, Zhang Yu suddenly looked towards the secret passage.

As the ritualistic power within him activated, camera footage appeared before his eyes.

Looking at the scene, Zhang Yu's heart jolted, and a realization flashed like lightning in his mind: "Dark Seed Realm?"