Zhang Yu’s aura, brimming with the intent to battle and indomitable fighting spirit, caused the doll to ponder inwardly, “This Zhang Yu, not even three months have passed since I last saw him, yet his will and spirit have undergone such a tremendous transformation? Just what kind of potential has been unleashed within him?”

In the past, the doll would never have taken Zhang Yu’s threats to heart; she possessed myriad ways to deal with him.

However, she was currently at her weakest, and her heart burned with a fervent desire to reascend Kunxu and reclaim everything that was rightfully hers.

The doll sighed lightly within, “Alas, a barefoot rogue fears not one with shoes. There’s no need to risk everything fighting with this pauper of the first level. A little scheming and a carrot dangling before him should suffice to coax him forward!”

After a moment’s contemplation, the doll changed her tone, speaking with tenderness, “Zhang Yu, there’s no need to be tense. I’ve come here because a momentous opportunity is about to fall upon your head!”

Zhang Yu, however, raised a question that had lingered in his mind for a long time, “Was that Zhou Tianyi sent by you?”

“Zhou Tianyi? Who is that? I don’t recognize the name!”

The doll seemed genuinely ignorant of the person Zhang Yu spoke of, and showed no concern. Instead, she continued with her previous topic, “It was I who unlocked your potential, leading to your current achievements. Surely you desire to elevate your potential even further?”

Potential to be enhanced again? Zhang Yu was instantly reminded of the Yu Codex’s table of contents. He had previously suspected that the current Yu Codex was only a prologue, hinting at more content to come.

Now, hearing these words from the cloth doll, his suspicions seemed to be confirmed.

Zhang Yu mused inwardly, “Indeed, my potential is not limited to this. If the Yu Codex had fully unlocked my potential, my scores and competition results should be even higher and stronger!”

“Alas, I am ultimately hampered by the Yu Codex!”

Zhang Yu’s slight silence, in the doll’s eyes, was a sign of his interest.

She hastened to say, “Let us cooperate and ascend Kunxu together. With my assistance, you will undoubtedly stand at the pinnacle of Kunxu in the future, achieving immortality and becoming an ancestor, attaining both wealth and cultivation freedom!”

Zhang Yu harbored a deep-seated wariness of this evil deity and would not be easily swayed by her honeyed words.

He was more concerned about the wish, “Can the wish be rescinded?”

The doll naturally denied this, but Zhang Yu didn’t believe her.

After a period of back-and-forth, Zhang Yu repeatedly threatened to end it all, finally saying, “The power of this ritual is rigid and inflexible, like a moronic program. How could you possibly have left no backup plan?”

The evil deity sighed softly, “Then you should understand that if I were to rescind the wish, wouldn’t that leave you free to do as you please with me?”

“Do you think I would agree to that? Cease making such unrealistic demands. We are in the same boat now, let us discuss something more practical!”

After their recent exchange, the doll understood that the current Zhang Yu was not as easily manipulated as before.

This Zhang Yu was no longer the incompetent student she once bullied. His will was as firm as steel, his actions were swift and decisive, and he possessed the means to bring them both down together, with sufficient power to execute his plan.

The doll understood that, under the current circumstances, the other party had the qualifications to negotiate with her, and she also intended to make some concessions.

The doll said, “How about this, to show my sincerity, I will rescind the wish where I had to kneel!”

Zhang Yu said, “Also, release your wish!”

The doll replied, “Alright, alright, I’ll rescind both!”

It was unknown what actions the doll took, but after a moment, Zhang Yu exited his cultivation state and indeed found that these two wishes no longer bound him.

The doll then said, “Now can you put me down and we can talk properly? Holding me in your hand like this is very disrespectful!”

Zhang Yu chuckled and said, “Holding you in my hand is the only way I can threaten you. Do you think it’s appropriate for me to let go?”

The doll sighed inwardly, “He really hasn’t lowered his guard at all!”

Zhang Yu continued, “Since you are unwilling to withdraw the wish and still intend to use the ritual to control me, then I can only carry you with me at all times to ensure that I can perish together with you at any moment!”

The doll fumed, “You…”

In the next moment, she was suddenly shocked because she saw wisps of Formless Cloud Vigor emerging from Zhang Yu’s body, like clouds billowing from within him.

The doll cried out in surprise, “This is the manifestation of Limitless Cloud Hand at level 10! Your Limitless Cloud Hand is at level 10? Only two months have passed, how is that possible?”

Zhang Yu said calmly, “I hope you understand that with this technique, as long as you are by my side, I can attack you at any time with Formless Cloud Vigor!”

The doll’s gaze towards Zhang Yu became increasingly different. She thought to herself, “This child’s potential seems to be even more terrifying than I had originally anticipated. But that’s good, with him, perhaps I can really get to the top and reclaim my belongings!”

If Zhang Yu was still the weak and incompetent person he used to be, then even if the doll could gain his wholehearted loyalty, she would not have valued him.

But now that Zhang Yu had displayed his strength and potential, even if she couldn’t completely control him, the doll held him in higher regard.

So, she proposed her cooperation plan again, “I will help you enhance your potential, allowing you to ascend Kunxu, and you only need to take me along the way!”

Zhang Yu pinched the doll in his hand and said, “Is there any way for me to carry you with me at all times?”

The doll chuckled, and her form instantly became smaller, smaller, and smaller, transforming from a cat-sized cloth doll into a thumb-sized black prayer bead.

Zhang Yu casually found a rope and tied the thumb-sized black prayer bead around his neck, then asked, “Will you be detected as an evil deity?”

The doll laughed heartily and said, “Although I am not at my peak, when it comes to the art of concealment, not even the fellows on this level can detect anything amiss!”

Zhang Yu nodded in agreement and then said, “Then come on, enhance my potential!”

The doll gave an awkward laugh and said, “Of course, it’s not as simple as saying enhance and it happens, but it’s not difficult either. As long as you help me hunt down another evil deity on this level, after I devour his power, I can enhance your potential!”
Zhang Yu directly crushed the doll in his palm, “You’re toying with me?”

“I’m only a first-year high school student, and you want me to deal with another Evil God?”

The doll hurriedly explained, “I didn’t say you had to do it immediately! You just need to accumulate more power. Once your strength is sufficient, you can take action!”

But Zhang Yu became curious, “Where is this Evil God? What is its specific strength? Does it have any followers?”

The doll said, “There should be one hidden behind Songyang High School, and there should be one hidden near Bailong High School as well!”

“As for strength, the most powerful of the Evil God Kings are all in the eighteenth level of the underground, receiving faith. The Evil Gods that have climbed up are stronger the higher they go. The Evil Gods that linger in the first level aren’t that powerful!”

“However, we still need to investigate together the specific situation of the Evil Gods hiding in those two high schools, such as where they’re hiding and who their followers are!”

Zhang Yu rolled his eyes. This Evil God started by talking about increasing his potential, but then wanted him to deal with another Evil God and even investigate the specific circumstances himself.

“This Evil God is full of boasts; you really can’t trust it easily!”

So, Zhang Yu stopped listening to its exaggerations and opened his phone, intending to find a way to make some money quickly.

After experiencing the effects of the Primordial Essence Pill, Zhang Yu no longer wanted to cultivate without anything to eat.

“If I had money to use Primordial Essence Pills every day, my physical strength would definitely improve eighty or ninety percent faster than before!”

“The difference is too great. How can I focus on painstaking cultivation?”

He sighed inwardly, “It really is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality!”

The Evil God spoke for a long time, and after realizing Zhang Yu wasn’t paying attention to it, it simply climbed onto Zhang Yu’s shoulder to see what he was doing.

The doll thought to itself, “No, I need to make Zhang Yu rely on me more and realize my importance, so that I can carry out the rest of the plan!”

So, after watching for a while, the doll suddenly said, “You want to make money?”

Wasn’t that obvious? Who in the entire Kunxu didn’t want to make money? Zhang Yu replied indifferently.

The doll asked again, “Hehe, it’s not that easy to make money through legitimate channels. You’ll just be played around by those big companies, skinned alive, working hard your whole life, and end up with just scraps!”

“If you’re poor and want to make money, you have to break the rules; you have to walk the path of darkness!”

Zhang Yu frowned, “The path of darkness?”

Images of various things—obscene, violent, and cruel—floated into his mind.

Just as Zhang Yu was about to refuse outright, he heard the doll continue, “I have connections in the dark tutoring world. Do you want to try it?”

“The dark tutoring world?”

Zhang Yu hesitated, “How can tutoring be dark?”

“Scamming students? Running away with the money? Making students take out loans?”

The doll dismissed Zhang Yu’s words with disdain, “What’s so special about that? Which tutoring institution hasn’t done that before?”

“The dark tutoring world I’m talking about is illegal tutoring!”

“They don’t buy the rights to spread the techniques! They don’t buy the rights to teach! They don’t buy any rights at all, and they just take the money and tutor the students directly!”

“Illegal tutoring… although the price of the courses is much lower than regular tutoring classes, because they don’t buy any technique dissemination rights or teaching rights… they actually earn more!”

“You have Level 10 Limitless Cloud Hand. From a skill standpoint, you are definitely qualified to tutor and teach others Limitless Cloud Hand!”

“But you usually don’t dare to expose your Level 10 Limitless Cloud Hand, right? The dark tutoring world is perfect for you. You can sell courses there anonymously!”

But Zhang Yu was no longer a newbie who had just arrived in Kunxu. He had some understanding of the situation in Kunxu.

Hearing this, cold sweat dripped from his forehead.

“Are you crazy? This kind of dark tutoring, without buying the rights to disseminate… wouldn’t it offend large tutoring institutions and technique development companies?”

“Even if I went to rob a bank, it would be as safe as a picnic compared to this!”

The doll, however, was unconcerned, chuckling and saying, “In Kunxu, if you’re not willing to take risks, how can you make big money? Can the profits from a mere robbery compare to illegal tutoring? Or do you want to work your whole life and stay poor?”

“Let me tell you, the bosses in the dark tutoring world earn tens of millions a year!”