Just as Bai Zhenzhen was looking at her phone with a strange expression, a violent tremor suddenly shook the ground. It felt as if a colossal beast had slammed into the earth, threatening to knock Bai Zhenzhen off her feet.

A wave of heart-stopping dread washed over her, causing her hackles to rise. Lightning-infused energy surged forth instinctively, transforming into bolts of lightning that enveloped her entire body.

The next moment, with a deafening roar, a gale-force wind swept through, causing Bai Zhenzhen’s long hair to whip and dance wildly!

She turned her head, gazing in the direction of the earth-shattering sound, and witnessed a dazzling beam of fire piercing through a multi-story apartment building!

Amidst a cataclysmic explosion, the entire building crumbled and shattered in an instant, unleashing a cloud of dust and smoke that engulfed Bai Zhenzhen’s figure entirely!

In the earthquake-like tremors, Bai Zhenzhen felt the earth beneath her feet ripple like waves!

“What’s going on?!”

Witnessing the collapse of the entire apartment complex sent Bai Zhenzhen’s mind into a blank.

“A-Yu.” Her figure flickered, intending to rush toward the collapsed building, but a second wave of explosions erupted suddenly, sending visible shockwaves hurtling toward her!

Activating her muscles and channeling her energy simultaneously, bolts of lightning shot into the sky as Bai Zhenzhen desperately braced herself against the shockwave. Her eyes widened, and she stared intensely at the source of the explosion!

As the shockwave subsided, the swirling dust and smoke dissipated, revealing the apartment building reduced to a desolate wasteland!

Watching this scene unfold, Bai Zhenzhen felt a sharp pang in her heart, and a suffocating sensation crept through her.

Just then, two voices drifted from the side!

A male voice stated, “Wreckage search complete, no survivors!”

A female voice replied, “Why is the other one outside? Never mind, I’ll handle it. You take care of the debris, bury them later!”

Bai Zhenzhen turned to see a man and a woman slowly approaching her.

The woman had a full head of white hair, and her limbs, chest, and abdomen were constructed from some kind of jade-like magical skeleton, shimmering with arcane runes!

Bai Zhenzhen’s gaze narrowed slightly. The mere presence of multiple magical skeletons on the woman’s body indicated that she possessed at least a foundation establishment cultivation of many years!

The words coming from the woman’s mouth instantly made Bai Zhenzhen realize that the building’s explosion was not an accident but a deliberate attack!

“Hey…” Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes were fixed on the pair. “What did you mean by ‘no survivors’?”

They clearly had no intention of answering!

But gazing at the collapsed ruins of the building before her, the answer seemed all too evident!

“Yu-zi!”

“I…” Bai Zhenzhen clenched her fists, feeling as if the entire world had turned bleak!

She murmured inwardly, “I was already sinking into the bottomless darkness, and Yu-zi was the one who stayed with me, who climbed out with me!”

“We finally made it this far!”

“My best friend in the world, the one who lets me call him ‘Dad’ every day, Yu-zi!”

“If it weren’t for accompanying me, he could have entered Myriad Law University with his sister two years ago…”

Zhang Yu’s figure repeatedly flashed in Bai Zhenzhen’s mind!

Every word he spoke, every syllable he uttered, seemed to echo in her heart!

“A-Zhen, let’s take the top ten together!”

“This is your spirit root, so let’s call it the Zhenzhen Spirit Root!”

“Sister, is there really no way to bring A-Zhen along?”

“If I stay behind, do you think A-Zhen and I can get into the top ten through normal means? Just like you, sister?”

“We’ll take master’s degrees, doctorates, and break through to Golden Core, break through to Nascent Soul, and enter Myriad Law Sect together!”

Bai Zhenzhen’s body gradually began to tremble. The Green Lotus mark on her lower abdomen flickered continuously, and the True Spirit Root within her dantian transformed into a Green Lotus that slowly unfurled!

“The three years I spent with Zhang Yu were the happiest of my life!”

“He’s my best friend in the world.”

At that moment, a powerful emotion arose within Bai Zhenzhen, one she had never experienced since birth!

An emotion that surpassed her desire to live, her ambition to enter the top ten, her aspiration to obtain her Foundation Establishment certificate!

An unprecedented, extreme emotion that transcended all her thoughts since birth poured forth from her mind like a dam burst!

“I’m going to slaughter you all!”

Faced with Bai Zhenzhen’s murderous gaze, the man and woman remained unconcerned!

As Foundation Establishment cultivators who had lingered in the first layer for years, even if they disregarded the absolute advantage in their cultivation base, magical power, and magical skeletons, their physical strength alone, equivalent to level 20, was enough to allow them to crush Bai Zhenzhen, who had barely entered Foundation Establishment for less than a year!

Today, they were here solely because of a commission from Oasis Group!

To eliminate Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen!

Although the commission carried a certain risk, to them, who had been wasting away in the first layer for so long and were nearing the end of their Foundation Establishment lifespan, any opportunity to ascend was worth risking!

After all, they didn’t have many years left to live!

With a resounding boom and the emergence of ripples of energy, the female cultivator shot toward Bai Zhenzhen’s location!

But the next moment, her expression drastically changed!

As illusory images of Green Lotuses unfurled behind Bai Zhenzhen, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth seemed to spiral out of control, rushing toward Bai Zhenzhen in a frenzy. Even the two peak Foundation Establishment cultivators were unable to gather even a trace of spiritual energy at that moment!

The female cultivator roared inwardly, “This… could it be a divine spirit root?!”

Divine spirit roots, surpassing human spirit roots, earth spirit roots, and heaven spirit roots, were strictly controlled by the top ten sects and were absolutely not allowed to appear among the common people. They were considered a military-grade power by many cultivators!

In the common understanding of most cultivators, in the same realm, unless one also possessed military-grade power, the odds of winning were zero!

The female cultivator gritted her teeth and channeled all her magical power. “Attack with everything we have, kill her together!”

In her view, Bai Zhenzhen had broken through to Foundation Establishment for too short a time, and there was a chance they could win if they joined forces with all their strength!

But the next moment, she realized that the male cultivator’s figure had flickered and disappeared into the night sky. He had run away!

“Damn it!”

As she hesitated for a fraction of a second, wondering whether to run or fight, Bai Zhenzhen’s figure before her vanished into thin air like smoke!

The next moment, lightning-infused sword lights flashed continuously in the air, slashing fiercely at the female cultivator’s body!

She dodged several lightning swords, but the female cultivator’s expression grew increasingly grim!

She couldn’t sense the other party, couldn’t touch the other party, and even when launching wide-area counterattacks, she couldn’t seem to make contact!

It was as if she and the other party were in different spaces; only the other party could attack her, but she couldn’t attack the other party no matter what!

“Divine spirit root…” The female cultivator’s expression became increasingly unsightly. In just a few seconds of combat, she had already considered retreating!

But at that moment, beams of light descended from the sky, enclosing a radius of one thousand meters like a prison!

More than ten minutes later!

As rescue vehicles arrived one after another, the wreckage was gradually cleared away, and one corpse after another was carried out!

The man in charge of the on-site rescue operation looked at the Starfire True Person beside him and said cautiously, “True Person, please accept our condolences!”

The Starfire True Person said calmly, “Do you think he’s dead?”

After the past eight months of guidance, the Starfire True Person dared to say that he was the person in the world, besides Zhang Yu himself, who understood Zhang Yu’s body the most!

More than any of Zhang Yu’s past teachers or classmates, more than Bai Zhenzhen, or Jade Starfrost!

That body, with its extraordinary resistance to impacts and terrifying self-healing ability, he believed would not die easily!

Hearing the Starfire True Person’s question, the man was slightly stunned and looked at the wreckage before him, thinking, “How could he not be dead?”

“Even if he’s not dead, he’s half-crippled. Who knows how much money it will cost to heal him? His potential in the path of immortality is utterly ruined!”

“Alas, to encounter something like this a month before the college entrance exam!”

Thinking of this, the man’s face filled with sighs!

“At that moment, the Starfire True Person stepped forward, and the surging martial arts energy erupted, instantly blowing away layers of wreckage and revealing a large number of corpses within!”

The Starfire True Person walked into it, and after a moment, he walked out carrying a bloody, mangled humanoid figure!

Voices came from all around. “Is that Zhang Yu?”

“Alas, what a pity!”

At that moment, they heard the Starfire True Person say calmly, “He’s not dead yet, get a doctor over here!”

Looking at Zhang Yu before him, the Starfire True Person, who was extremely knowledgeable about various martial arts techniques, narrowed his eyes slightly and already had a judgment. He thought to himself, “Is the spring and autumn endless meditation’s false death state really this good?”

“This kid, he actually pushed this body tempering technique to level 20… It’s only been eight months since he obtained this technique, right?”

At the same time, although he hadn’t carefully examined the other party’s body, the Starfire True Person could vaguely sense a lingering will within him, like a blazing fire, conveying a desire to live!

He thought to himself, “It seems that under this crisis, Zhang Yu has made further breakthroughs in his mental cultivation. Even with severe physical injuries, confusion, and entry into the false death state of the spring and autumn endless meditation, he can still maintain the operation of the mental technique, as if it were instinct!”

This was a level higher than the past practice of dividing his mind and constantly running the mental technique.

Thus, amidst the crowd’s doubtful, strange, and puzzled gazes, several doctors arrived before Zhang Yu at the Starfire True Person’s command!

“Multiple comminuted fractures throughout the body, spinal fracture dislocation!”

“More than 80% of the muscles on the body surface are severely contused!”

“Brain injury.”

“Kidney failure.”

“But…”

Initially, they also thought that Zhang Yu had lost the breath of life, but after an examination, a look of astonishment gradually appeared on the doctors’ faces!

“It seems… he’s really still alive!”

“Try medication!”

“The wounds are closing on their own!”

“The medication is working so fast!”

“What amazing vitality!”

Under the astonished gazes of the many doctors, the wounds on Zhang Yu’s body quickly began to heal. Strands of flesh seemed to have their own will, actively closing together, actively weaving together, and constantly accelerating the healing of the injuries!