The layers upon layers of Profound Abyss Heavy Water pressed down, causing every inch of Zhang Yu’s skin to resist the pressure from all directions!

Under this pressure, he not only had to exert the strength of his muscles to counter the water pressure and protect his physical structure, but also use his muscles to propel the airflow within his body’s cavities, maintaining the internal and external pressure difference to prevent damage to vulnerable areas such as the eardrums, sinuses, and eyeballs!

Especially as the simulated depth of the Profound Abyss Heavy Water continued to decrease, and the surrounding pressure increased, Zhang Yu needed to constantly unleash even more formidable physical power!

But it was at this simulated depth of 1300 meters that Zhang Yu’s diaphragm, which was originally pushing the gas in his chest cavity, suddenly weakened slightly, causing his breathing to slow by half a beat. “Hmm?”

Sensing this, Zhang Yu was slightly startled. This was the first time he had encountered such a situation since gaining such a high degree of control over his physical body!

And the simulated depth of the Profound Abyss Heavy Water was still decreasing!

1305 meters.

Zhang Yu’s throat muscles deformed slightly, and he felt a burst of stinging pain in his forehead due to the internal and external pressure difference. He quickly exerted his muscles to accelerate the flow of gas in his body, but as Zhang Yu’s attention focused on his neck, he felt another wave of pain in his knees. The surrounding muscles had failed to protect the joints under the water pressure!

Zhang Yu immediately exerted his strength, instantly protecting his knees with his muscles!

1312 meters.

As the simulated depth continued to decrease, Zhang Yu felt more and more slight pain all over his body. He knew that many of his body’s vulnerable parts were being damaged under the compression of the Profound Abyss Heavy Water!

Zhang Yu had to repeatedly exert his strength to resist the Profound Abyss Heavy Water and protect his physical body!

But as the depth continued to decrease, Zhang Yu felt the pressure from the Profound Abyss Heavy Water becoming more and more fierce, and the number of easily injured parts of his body also began to increase!

At this moment, he felt as if he had become a submarine sinking into the deep sea, constantly being squeezed and deformed!

Although he repeatedly used his physical strength to resist this deformation, as the number of positions that could not withstand the pressure increased, Zhang Yu gradually began to feel a sense of panic: the deformation of exerting strength, the weakness of muscles, the twitching of flesh and blood, the lack of reaction!

Zhang Yu felt an unprecedented sense of losing control!

Despite having a body of strength, he found it difficult to exert it to its limit, let alone coordinate his entire body to perfectly resist the pressure from all directions of the Profound Abyss Heavy Water!

Moreover, it wasn’t a lack of skill in controlling his physical body, but a lack of mental strength!

“This is!!”

A flash of understanding crossed Zhang Yu’s mind. He remembered what the teacher had said in the Dao Heart class!

“Dao Heart is the key for cultivators to command all their own power, to use thought to control mana, physical body, and to use spirit to respond to all kinds of transformations!”

“When the power exceeds the level that Dao Heart can govern, it will lead to cultivation deviation in severe cases, and power loss in mild cases!”

He glanced at the data displayed on the feather book: Dao Heart Level 7 (815).

Zhang Yu thought to himself, “In these past few months, my physical strength has improved by leaps and bounds, but the progress of Dao Heart has been too slow in comparison!”

“Especially taking advantage of today’s cultivation conditions, my physical strength has soared in one fell swoop, and my Dao Heart has become even more unable to keep up!”

It’s just that the simulated depth wasn’t low before, and I could resist the Profound Abyss Heavy Water by exerting some of my strength!

“But as the depth continues to decrease, I gradually need to exert my extreme strength to resist the Profound Abyss Heavy Water, and I can feel the lack of Dao Heart even more!”

1321 meters.

When Zhang Yu was unable to perfectly protect all parts of his body with his physical strength, it meant that his physical body began to show obvious wear and tear, and the pain on his body began to change from subtle to intense!

Just then, another candidate chose to give up, and only Zhang Yu, Meng Tao, and Ye Lingxiao were still continuing!

Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Try to hold on to second place as much as possible, so that I can steadily enter the top two in the total score and ensure that I enter the next round, with the opportunity to compete for the Foundation Establishment qualification certificate!”

Thinking of this, Zhang Yu suddenly detonated the toxins accumulated in his body by the Spring and Autumn Endless Meditation!

As the Meditation character on his chest quickly disappeared, Zhang Yu’s body was greatly stimulated, constantly squeezing out the potential of life, and began to unleash physical power beyond its own limit to help him resist the pressure of the Profound Abyss Heavy Water. At the same time, on the other side, as the simulated depth continued to decrease, Ye Lingxiao’s body underwent various magical changes, which was precisely because he began to operate one body protection technique after another!

His body shape continued to shrink as the depth decreased, and each contraction improved Ye Lingxiao’s body density and gave him stronger compressive resistance. This was the Level 10 expert-level body protection technique, Wishful Exquisite Bone!

Soon after, strange patterns appeared in his muscle undulations, turning into pieces of dragon scales, resisting the Profound Abyss Heavy Water with a better structure. This was the Level 10 expert-level technique, Great Heavenly Dragon Divine Power!

And when the depth reached 1400 meters, Ye Lingxiao’s skin began to change color, from its original normal flesh color to a cyan-black color as the fascia expanded, giving his body greater toughness and elasticity to resist the Profound Abyss Water. This was the Level 10 expert-level body protection technique, Elephant Demon Entangling Tendons Transformation!

The combination of this Elephant Demon Entangling Tendons Transformation and the Great Heavenly Dragon Divine Power made Ye Lingxiao look like he was covered in a black dragon scale!

After operating three Level 10 expert-level body protection techniques in a row, Ye Lingxiao stood steadily in the Sea Stabilizing Pillar with his arms crossed, his face still full of indifference!

As the owner of a perfect bloodline, his control over his body was naturally unparalleled. He could understand any technique at a glance and master it as soon as he learned it!

In addition, with the Level 10 Dao Heart he possessed, he could freely master his Level 10 physical strength and various Qi Refining stage techniques.

And from his first year of high school to the current first semester of his third year, the number of techniques he had mastered had long surpassed the imagination of ordinary people. His physical body, under the repeated tempering of one technique after another, was even praised by the Oasis Group as the most perfect physical body in the first high school of Kunxu!

The current simulated depth was far from his limit, allowing him to continue his thinking with ease!

“That Dao Dissolution Sustained Release Capsule doesn’t simply reduce intelligence, but divides my thinking into two, as if there is another person in my mind!”

“If there is a way to control these two ways of thinking at the same time!”

Ye Lingxiao thought to himself, “Hmph, the company that developed the Dao Dissolution Sustained Release Capsule may have produced something good!”

As a descendant of the Immortal Capital Ye clan, Ye Lingxiao knew that many drugs sometimes yielded results that were completely different from the planned goals during development!

The Dao Dissolution Sustained Release Capsule was obviously like this. In Ye Lingxiao’s view, its Dao Heart enhancement effect was not as valuable as its side effects!

“I can try to get the family to participate in the investment of this Dao Dissolution Sustained Release Capsule when I go back!”

After coming to a conclusion in his mind, Ye Lingxiao raised his head and observed the performance of the other candidates!

And Ye Lingxiao’s key observation target was naturally Zhang Yu!

Looking at Zhang Yu constantly adjusting his body shape and struggling to resist the Profound Abyss Heavy Water, Ye Lingxiao thought in disbelief, “Hmm, this guy!!! Has he already reached his limit?”

To be honest, Ye Lingxiao was a little shocked after seeing Zhang Yu’s performance in the previous round!

From that moment on, he attached great importance to the other party and had already regarded Zhang Yu as his biggest opponent in this competition for the Foundation Establishment qualification certificate!

After all, Ye Lingxiao’s own drug absorption, tolerance, and metabolism abilities were already at the top level in the Immortal Capital High School world!

The smell of medicine he exhaled from his mouth could cause mortals to die violently, and his only excretion once a year could be sold at a high price, and was considered to be of great research value by the Oasis Company!

Zhang Yu, who could surpass him in terms of taking medicine, was absolutely unfathomable in Ye Lingxiao’s view!

In addition, his performance of learning an eight-star difficulty technique in half an hour in the previous round was also quite impressive!

Ye Lingxiao had already recognized Zhang Yu’s formidable strength!

But what Ye Lingxiao never expected was that after showing such terrifying drug metabolism ability in the first half, the other party in the second half performed so… so ordinary!

“Is he hiding his strength?”

Depth 1422 meters.

Not long after Ye Lingxiao operated three bodily transformations, Meng Tao on the side could no longer hold on and chose to give up!

At this moment, only Ye Lingxiao and Zhang Yu remained on the field!

In the course of continuous observation, Ye Lingxiao gradually confirmed one thing!

“This No. 55 (Zhang Yu) is not hiding his strength, his physical body is indeed much weaker than mine!”

The Profound Abyss Heavy Water’s test of the physical body was very comprehensive. Ye Lingxiao not only confirmed through observation that Zhang Yu was not hiding his strength, but also gradually figured out the other party’s details in this observation!

“He doesn’t have enough body protection techniques, and he doesn’t even have complete control over his physical body. Is it because there is a gap between his Dao Heart and physical strength?”

“But under such circumstances, why did he have such a strong drug load and metabolism capacity in the first half?”

What could be the reason why a person has a performance that does not match his own strength?

For Ye Lingxiao, the answer was obvious in Kunxu!

“Some kind of new Immortal Dao technology? His physical body has undergone some kind of transformation?” Ye Lingxiao frowned slightly at the thought of this conclusion!

From a personal point of view, he could confirm that the other party was far inferior to him in terms of overall physical quality and was not qualified to compete with him for the Foundation Establishment certificate at all!

But from the perspective of the company and the family, the technology that the other party might contain was very important!

Ye Lingxiao thought to himself, “I should get someone to investigate and see if there are any similar technologies in other places!”

On the other side, Zhang Yu glanced at Ye Lingxiao, who was standing still and whose strength was still bottomless!

Feeling the bloody taste in his chest cavity, feeling the gradually weakening physical body after stimulation and explosion, he thought to himself, “I relied on the High School Holy Body to have stronger drug metabolism and absorption ability than him, but from the overall strength, there is indeed a gap between me and this top Immortal Capital young master!”

“This guy’s skills alone are worth a lot of money! Damn rich people!”

“It’s not just the number of cultivation techniques that are far apart, my physical strength has not reached the level 10 limit, and my Dao Heart is still insufficient!”

However, Zhang Yu was fortunate that he had managed to fight for second place. Counting the drug taking results in the first half, he was confident that he had enough to take the top two in the total score, so he also chose to give up!

Now only Ye Lingxiao was left in the entire examination room!

Looking at the other party, Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Next time, next time I will definitely catch up with you and then surpass you!”

Under the gaze of Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, Meng Tao and others, Ye Lingxiao always stood in the Profound Abyss Heavy Water as if nothing had happened, and as the depth continued to decrease, his physical body continued to undergo various changes!

Ye Lingxiao understood that what he had to do next was very simple, which was to continue to stand, until his total score could surpass everyone and become the first place in today’s Foundation Establishment exam!

He squeezed his fists slightly and thought to himself, “I will always stand in the first position until I reach the peak of the Immortal Dao that I can reach!”