Zhang Yu understood that the key to the upcoming battle with Jiu Tianliu lay in how to turn public opinion and weaken the opponent’s luck.

And the crucial part of that was to perform a miracle! To show off!

“Not only do I have to take Jiu Tianliu’s move head-on, but I also have to do it beautifully…”

“Only then can I turn public opinion and weaken his luck.”

At the same time, four white dragons, bred from dragon blood, appeared wearing golden armor and holding long swords, exuding powerful auras.

These four white dragons were battle dragon beasts bred by Zhang Yu using the Bishui Jinjing Jia.

At the beginning of the battle, Zhang Yu had already plunged the Bishui Jinjing Jia underground, summoned a torrent, and begun the breeding process.

And after purchasing the copyright from Ying Mingchi, Zhang Yu even received technical support from them. At this moment, the quality and speed of breeding battle dragon beasts far surpassed their performance a week ago.

Especially with the support of the Yaosheng Wanbian Jing, these four dragon beasts, as his demon clan avatars, were not only immensely powerful but also extensions of his limbs, completely under his control.

Under these circumstances, Zhang Yu further infused them with his Wuxiang Yungang, which was combined with Taiyi Jinye Dan, wrapping each giant dragon in a shimmering golden light. This not only enhanced their appearance but also granted them powerful defensive capabilities.

The three characters “Ying Mingchi” on the dragons’ foreheads further showcased their expensive lineage.

At this moment, with the four giant dragons guarding him, Zhang Yu faced Jiu Tianliu’s second attack head-on, while rows of spirit world projection text rapidly appeared behind him: “Very good, Jiu Tianliu, it seems your momentum has further increased, and your strength has truly reached its peak.”

“Then come.”

“Attack me with all your might.”

“Let me see the subtlety of the financial system’s immortal slaying move.”

Watching these lines of text, Jiu Tianliu was secretly annoyed: “This guy, even though all his future possibilities have been locked down by me, leaving him nowhere to hide, he still says such things…”

“Then… take this move, and then be utterly defeated.”

An invisible giant hand, carrying an overwhelming spiritual energy, smashed towards Zhang Yu.

In the earth-shattering explosion, the four giant dragons had already completely encircled Zhang Yu, protecting him in the innermost position.

At the same time, Zhang Yu opened his mouth and exhaled, and Tianri Huangshen transformed into a flame, bringing a surging shockwave that became the first line of defense.

Boom!

The flame was easily broken through.

The invisible giant handprint of Yuanqi paused slightly, and the next moment it had already clenched onto the four giant dragons.

The golden Gangqi armor shattered instantly.

Following that, dragon scales cracked, and flesh and blood separated.

As the giant dragons died one by one, Zhang Yu let out a low cry, and Tian Di Huai Jie Wuxing Xinbing activated fiercely, turning the dragon corpses around him into temporary magical treasures, protecting most of his body.

The reason only most of his body was protected was because Zhang Yu wanted Jiu Tianliu’s attack to hit his body in stages.

“The Tumushengti is a chain法图 (Fa Tu) that increases defense as the body’s injuries worsen.”

“That is to say, the moment my body is most intact is when my defense is weakest and most dangerous.”

“And after using Tianri Huangshen, Gangqi armor, and battle dragon beasts to block some damage, I then use the dragon corpses, transformed into temporary magical treasures, to segment the offensive…”

With the partial resistance of the dragon corpses, a portion of the Yuanqi Wuxing Dashouyin (Invisible Giant Handprint) struck Zhang Yu first, while the other portion struck Zhang Yu later, after crushing the dragon corpses.

The first part of the Yuanqi Wuxing Dashouyin slammed into the Bishui Jinjing Jia.

After a brief resistance, Zhang Yu withdrew the Bishui Jinjing Jia, enduring the blow with his bare flesh.

This blow, worthy of Jiu Tianliu’s beyond-Foundation Establishment strike, despite being layered and segmented, still scorched Zhang Yu’s insides, his flesh and bones groaning, leaving him severely wounded.

Blood seemed about to flow from his seven orifices the next moment, but Zhang Yu forcibly held it back.

“Hold on!”

“This is the hardest wave, as long as I hold on through this wave…”

Letting his body be ravaged internally, Zhang Yu used all his strength to prevent blood from spurting out.

Just as he was enduring, the second part of the Yuanqi Wuxing Dashouyin also struck.

However, due to the severe injuries from the previous strike, Zhang Yu’s defense had greatly increased because of the Tumushengti, making the second Yuanqi Wuxing Dashouyin seem easier to resist in his opinion.

After enduring the entire Yuanqi Wuxing Dashouyin, Zhang Yu’s internal organs were a mess from the violent force, with numerous organs ruptured, bones shattered, and meridians severed…

But Zhang Yu ignored all of this. He merely tensed the skin all over his body, feeling as though countless wounds were about to open like mouths and profusely gush blood.

Hold it in!

Accompanied by the roar of the Four-Headed White Ox, his body’s activity was pushed to its limit, sealing every wound and every bleeding point tightly.

At the same time, the Shenhan Famai (Deep Cold Dharma Meridian) operated intensely, freezing the wounds and blood flow, further supporting Zhang Yu.

If there were any areas he couldn’t hold, Tianri Huangshen brought forth flames, incinerating the overflowing blood one by one, turning it into wisps of smoke that dissipated into the air.

And in the live broadcast, under Jiu Tianliu’s earth-shattering strike, the dragon beasts guarding Zhang Yu all vanished, leaving only Zhang Yu seemingly unharmed, standing in place.

“This move… not bad.”

Zhang Yu slightly parted his blood-filled mouth and smiled at Jiu Tianliu.

Jiu Tianliu’s gaze narrowed, and the number of viewers who believed he would win still showed 80.

Although it hadn’t dropped, it had also stopped increasing, which was clearly due to Zhang Yu having just taken his blow head-on.

At the same time, rows of projected text continued to appear behind Zhang Yu.

“Jiu Tianliu, do you think your current attack has surpassed Foundation Establishment and reached an unprecedented peak?”

“Then I will face your peak head-on, defeat your peak, and crush your peak.”

“Next, I will stand here, without dodging or avoiding, and take nine more of your moves head-on.”

“Unleash whatever killing moves you have.”

While projecting these words, Zhang Yu thought to himself: “The key to this battle is not just the fighting itself, but also the linguistic exchange. Especially concerning its impact on people’s hearts, sometimes the text is more important than the visuals.”

“Jiu Tianliu, that was your strongest peak just now. If you can’t defeat me, then after the peak is a cliff.”

At the same time, the data in Jiu Tianliu’s eyes changed again, the percentage of viewers who thought he would win dropped from 80 to 77.

Just one sentence from Zhang Yu had a more astonishing effect than taking a blow head-on.

Jiu Tianliu cursed in his heart: “A bunch of fools who believe everything they hear!”

He certainly couldn’t let Zhang Yu control the pace of the battle. Immediately, while once again casting the Yuanqi Wuxing Dashouyin, rows of projected text also appeared from behind him.

“Zhang Yu, you are merely completely locked down by my grand model; there is nowhere for you to hide or escape.”

“And after that last move, you are already severely injured and have no more power to fight me.”

“You have already lost.”

At the same time, Jiu Tianliu, who had originally intended to instantly kill Zhang Yu and ascend to his peak, now formed a Dao seal with his other hand, pointing a finger at Zhang Yu from a distance, aiming to weaken his opponent’s cultivation.

But the next moment, Jiu Tianliu’s expression changed slightly.

As the Yuanqi Wuxing Dashouyin exploded, Zhang Yu tensed his body again, and waves of coldness, brought forth by the Shenhan Famai, emanated from his flesh and blood. He stood seemingly unharmed in the crater that had formed.

Zhang Yu burst into laughter: “Jiu Tianliu, your strike is even weaker!”

“Is it because your luck has diminished? Or because you were distracted casting a Daoist spell, trying to weaken my cultivation?”

Jiu Tianliu frowned, realizing that his attempt to weaken Zhang Yu’s cultivation had failed.

Behind Zhang Yu, a large number of projected texts continued to appear: “Are you wondering why your Daoist spell failed? Why it couldn’t weaken my cultivation?”

“It’s simple, because your intelligence was wrong.”

“Finance is about trust, and my companions, my colleagues, my classmates all trust me more, so you can’t buy them off. Instead, you can only get false information from them.”

Jiu Tianliu frowned, thinking to himself: “How is this possible? The information provided by those guys at Zhang Yu’s company was consistent. If it was all wrong, then they must have colluded to give false information?”

“The entire company, all colluding together? Not a single person betrayed Zhang Yu?”

At the same time, Jiu Tianliu saw the data in his eye socket drop again, from 77 to 75.

Zhang Yu urged, “Two moves have passed, aren’t you going to seize the time, Jiu Tianliu?”

Jiu Tianliu snorted, “Let’s see how many moves you can hold out for!”

The invisible Yuanqi Dashouyin erupted again, and Zhang Yu’s body was severely wounded once more.

After three consecutive moves from Jiu Tianliu, Zhang Yu’s body was almost completely incapacitated, feeling utterly weak all over. If not for the support of Tian Kunlun Yishan Shenli (Heavenly Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power), he would have been unable to stand.

But his body’s defensive power had also increased to an unprecedented level.

Conversely, the data in Jiu Tianliu’s eye socket kept decreasing.

Following these three giant handprints, Zhang Yu consistently appeared unharmed, and the data in Jiu Tianliu’s eye socket had already plummeted from 75 to below 60.

When Jiu Tianliu unleashed the Yuanqi Wuxing Dashouyin again, Zhang Yu felt that the opponent’s offensive was far weaker than at the start, making it even harder to achieve results against his greatly increased defense.

“Indeed.” Although Zhang Yu was extremely weak at this moment, his fighting spirit and confidence were soaring.

“With one valiant effort, then declining, and finally exhausted, as I parry Jiu Tianliu’s attacks time and again, luck begins to gradually reverse.”

“Public opinion starts to change, people’s hearts start to change, and when it reaches that final point of qualitative change… Jiu Tianliu’s luck will completely collapse.”

“I must hold on until that point of qualitative change.”

At the same time, Jiu Tianliu shouted, “Zhang Yu, if you keep holding on, you’re going to die, aren’t you?”

Jiu Tianliu absolutely did not believe that Zhang Yu could be unharmed after his series of attacks; even Dao Qiankun or Kuang Tianqing couldn’t take his attacks head-on without injury.

“He’s holding on!” Jiu Tianliu thought to himself, “This guy is gambling that my luck will collapse!”

Zhang Yu smiled slightly, knowing that the other party kept emphasizing the issue of injuries to stabilize public opinion and luck.

“But is it useful?” Zhang Yu thought, “Jiu Tianliu, to defeat me, you’ve been frantically promoting yourself these days, blindly gathering support regardless of whether the luck is good or bad. But look at the people you found? Junior college students? Demon kin? All sorts of dirty traffic, various low-cultivation, low-wealth, low-education groups.”

Zhang Yu thought to himself: “Such people are too easily misled, too easily deceived. Now, seeing me unharmed, they will easily change their minds…”

“Jiu Tianliu, let’s see who can hold out till the end.”

Under the bombardment of successive Yuanqi Wuxing Dashouyin, after ten moves were exhausted, Zhang Yu’s body had completely lost its combat capability, and the data in Jiu Tianliu’s eye socket had also dropped below 40.

The weak Zhang Yu sat directly on the ground, chuckled, and said, “Ten moves have passed, Jiu Tianliu! It’s my turn!”

As he spoke, four dragon shadows surged skyward with a torrent, clad in Gangqi golden armor, wielding Taihao Shenglv flying swords, and charged towards Jiu Tianliu.

Jiu Tianliu’s gaze narrowed, and he sneered, “Zhang Yu, you no longer have the strength to fight, can you only send dragon beasts and magical treasures to battle me?”

Zhang Yu said calmly, “Jiu Tianliu, your ten moves just now have disappointed me too much.”

“To defeat you, these four dragon beasts under my command are enough.”

As Zhang Yu finished speaking, the data in Jiu Tianliu’s eye socket plummeted directly to 38, infuriating him. He cursed in his heart: “A bunch of idiots! Their mentality changed with just one sentence, all of them are idiots! All of them are trash!”

During the fierce battle, two giant dragons were quickly killed, but Jiu Tianliu’s several attempts to attack Zhang Yu in opportunistically proved ineffective.

Seeing the data in his eye socket drop to 35, Jiu Tianliu roared, directly displaying his account balance.

A balance of 1500 spirit coins immediately caused heavenly phenomena.

“Zhang Yu!” Jiu Tianliu shouted, “I still have so much money, how can you fight me?”

Zhang Yu laughed: “If more money means winning, then why bother with matches? Let’s just compare account balances. True strength is making the same amount of money work more effectively.”

“You have such a large balance, which means you haven’t given your all, nor do you have certain victory, but I…”

With that, Zhang Yu displayed his account balance: 0.

Zhang Yu said proudly, “Long before the battle began, I had already staked everything, spent all my money, and pulled all levers. This is true devotion to the immortal path, true confidence in certain victory.”

Of course, Zhang Yu couldn’t have only 0 spirit coins left; he had merely transferred his balance to Yu Xinghan in advance for this specific display.

And with his words, Jiu Tianliu’s approval rating dropped again, directly to 32.

At the same time, behind Zhang Yu, figures of Jiu Tianliu appeared one after another.

Among them, Jiu Tianliu shouted, “Demon kin are the cornerstone of Kunxu!”

“Junior college students are the cornerstone of Kunxu!”

“Lower-school students are the cornerstone of Kunxu!”

“Civil engineering is the cornerstone of Kunxu!”

“Logistics is the cornerstone of Kunxu!”

Zhang Yu sneered, “Jiu Tianliu, you’re desperately trying to gain popularity by any means, thinking this method can defeat me? Too naive.”

With a large number of demon kin and junior college students turning against him, Jiu Tianliu’s support plummeted, directly falling below 20.

Watching the data plummet and feeling the faint backlash of his own luck, Jiu Tianliu’s gaze towards Zhang Yu became somber and uncertain.

“This Zhang Yu, how much longer can he hold on?”

He could feel that the opponent’s spiritual power fluctuations, qi and blood state, and physical functions had all severely declined; it wouldn’t take many more moves to defeat him.

But how many moves exactly?

What if his luck backfired before that?

Support rating: 15.

Zhang Yu’s face grew increasingly pale, and his lips seemed to lack any trace of blood.

Support rating: 12.

Zhang Yu’s body surged with cold air, and under the activation of the Shenhan Famai, it seemed as if he was about to be frozen into an ice corpse.

Support rating: 11.

After another fierce struggle, Jiu Tianliu, watching the continuously dropping support rate and feeling the luck that could backfire at any moment, finally couldn’t hold on any longer.

Jiu Tianliu sent a private message: “You’re better at boasting than I am; you should have transferred to the financial department.”

Then Jiu Tianliu sighed in a private message: “Let’s discuss this and end this battle gracefully.”

Zhang Yu immediately laughed, thinking to himself: “Another weakness of the financial department is that they never fight to the very end. As soon as defeat becomes apparent, they will voluntarily surrender to cut their losses.”

“Therefore, the financial department can never become the strongest.”