Chapter 1504 - 890: Zhang Yu Without a Dao Seed? A Fragile World

I don’t know when Tai Yue Bai appeared behind Zhang Yu; from his appearance, he looked like a young man with long white hair.

But Zhang Yu did not care about the other’s appearance; instead, his gaze first swept toward the informational data above the other’s head.

The first thing Zhang Yu observed was the other’s rank.

"A Level 7 Sect Affairs Officer—this guy should already have a Tribulation Crossing Certificate, right?"

Zhang Yu couldn’t help but think of that representative of the Innate Dao, Di Xuan, who had also reached the Seventh Level.

And the Eighth Level... this time, the representative of the Dharma Realm Daoist, Lie Jinghong.

He thought to himself: "These veteran Refining Void cultivators, even though they already have Tribulation Crossing Certificates, have all refrained from establishing Law Chains in advance and kept themselves at the Void Refinement Realm... all just for this opportunity?"

Zhang Yu then looked at Tai Yue Bai’s merit record.

"Tai Yue Bai still has one Miracle Merit, three Upper Merits, and fifteen Secondary Merits."

Zhang Yu silently sighed in his heart: "Tai Yue Bai, and the others as well... these people started preparing far earlier than I did, and for far longer. No wonder Fa Liuyuan and the others don’t think highly of me."

Just after Zhang Yu finished scanning the basic information Tai Yue Bai was displaying externally, he quickly glanced at the other’s chest area.

"No... Dao Seed?"

"Not a single one?"

Just now, in his round of observations of each faction’s representative, aside from the representative of the Magic Medicine Daoist School who descended as a projection—whose Dao Seed could not be observed due to being a projection—Zhang Yu had seen a fleeting trace of Dao Seeds on every cultivator who had come in person.

Di Xuan of the Innate Dao even had two Dao Seeds, and Lie Jinghong of the Dharma Realm Daoist had three Dao Seeds, shattering Zhang Yu’s previous understanding that a person could only have one Dao Seed.

All this made Zhang Yu realize... every cultivator whom the major factions had spent years grooming to participate in this third-generation Legislation was an elite among elites, a prodigy among prodigies.

This also made Zhang Yu realize... this was an excellent opportunity.

After all, in the past, even those big shots almost always descended only as projections, giving Zhang Yu virtually no chance to observe their Dao Seeds.

Now, however, so many prodigies had descended in person before him, and in the subsequent training he would be able to observe them over a long period, gradually sensing what their Dao Seeds actually were and what conditions were required to copy them.

Yet the Tai Yue Bai before his eyes made Zhang Yu feel surprised again.

"How can he not have a Dao Seed?" Zhang Yu thought to himself. "Could it be that the Reform Faction is too weak, so even the people they train are lacking in talent?"

Zhang Yu shook his head inwardly and quickly suppressed this speculation.

Zhan Xian added, "Tai Yue Bai is absolutely not someone lacking in talent. As far as I know... there’s nothing he can’t learn, and nothing he isn’t proficient at."

"Whether it’s Martial Arts and Taoist Skills, Artifact Refining and pill refining, or construction, medicine, Spirit Realm technology... across all kinds of Immortal Dao Technology, he is proficient in everything."

Zhang Yu thought to himself: "Maybe Tai Yue Bai is the kind of person whose Dao Seed I simply can’t see, yet who is still overwhelmingly powerful. Or perhaps even the upgraded Yu Shu needs more time in contact with him before it can see clearly whether Tai Yue Bai has a Dao Seed or not."

Zhang Yu’s thoughts turned quickly; in an instant he temporarily pressed down his doubts and began answering Tai Yue Bai’s question.

Tai Yue Bai had asked what he was looking at, and Zhang Yu replied, "It’s my first time seeing so many prodigies; I couldn’t help but take a few extra looks."

Tai Yue Bai only smiled slightly and said, "Yes, the people you’re seeing now should be the most gifted and most talented group below the Refining Void level within our Wanfa Sect. Those who will be able to achieve Ascension to Immortality in the future should be among this group."

"Hm?" Hearing Tai Yue Bai’s words, Bu Yingshu, at the side, turned his head and looked at him coldly, thinking to himself, "What is this guy implying? Is he hinting at me? Has the Reform Faction also seen through my ambition?"

In Bu Yingshu’s view, there was no shortage here of talent, of prodigies, and of those with peerless gifts.

"But in the end... I am the one with the greatest talent, yet my path to Ascension is restricted by my Immortal Clan identity."

Looking at Tai Yue Bai, Bu Yingshu probed, "You... know these people very well?"

Tai Yue Bai nodded and said, "Before I came, I did my best to gather intelligence on everyone present."

When Zhang Yu heard this, his heart stirred, and he thought of how Tai Chenggong had infiltrated his Immortal Cave Heaven.

Zhang Yu thought to himself: "So this Tai Yue Bai guy didn’t just investigate me, but all the contestants?"

While Zhang Yu was pondering, Bu Yingshu had already fixed his gaze on Tai Yue Bai and asked, "Oh? Is that so? Then among all these people here, who do you think has the greatest talent?"

Tai Yue Bai looked toward the representative of the Dharma Realm Daoist... Lie Jinghong.

"Naturally, it would be Lie Jinghong here. His Spirit Realm talent is unprecedented, having been nominated multiple times for the Heavenly Derivation Award. After he combined it with the Law Realm, he independently completed many technological innovations, owning over a hundred Law Realm patents, and once, by leveraging sect resources, launched a counter-offensive within the Law Realm to slay a Tribulation Crossing Cultivator..."

Hearing this, Bu Yingshu thought to himself, "I thought he had actually seen something, but it turns out he’s just another fool with no eye for talent. The one with the strongest talent in this group... is me."

Zhang Yu thought inwardly, "Leaving me aside... the one with the strongest talent here might really be Lie Jinghong."

Three Dao Seed traces of Lie Jinghong flashed through Zhang Yu’s mind, as he thought, "After all, he possesses three Dao Seeds."

"But for Tai Yue Bai to judge this, is it really just because of intelligence gathering?"