You dare to cultivate without money?!

Chapter 1246 - 814: (Special Thanks to "DannySheng", Alliance Hierarch Patron)

After Zhang Yu suppressed the frenzied corpse-item production line in front of him and extracted the Cave Heaven Power within it, he discovered that he could now control this entire flesh-mountain.

And while controlling it, he also received information transmitted from inside the flesh-mountain, learning more about the current situation in the Maze Realm and matters related to these frenzied corpse items.

"The frenzied corpse items in the factory zone can all be subdued just by suppressing them and extracting their Cave Heaven Power?"

Zhang Yu thought, "What is this supposed to be? Pocket Monsters? Digital Monsters?"

Sensing Zhang Yu’s thoughts, Zhan Xian said, "This should be a technical offshoot of the Cave Heaven Divine Beast, or rather, the Mountain Guardian Divine Beast."

Zhang Yu’s heart stirred. "Mountain Guardian Divine Beast?"

He recalled that in the Immortal Path technology histories he had read, there really were mentions of ancient sects possessing things like Mountain Guardian Divine Beasts.

Zhan Xian continued, "The so‑called Mountain Guardian Divine Beast started out as nothing more than penned demon beasts. After gradual development, Immortal Path technology emerged that linked demon beasts with the sect’s Spirit Veins and even its fortune, and ultimately Mountain Guardian Divine Beasts were cultivated."

"This technology developed rapidly during wartime, and once combined with Cave Heaven Technology, Cave Heaven Divine Beasts came into being."

Zhang Yu knew that so‑called Grotto Heavens were like the independent spaces he controlled, also referred to as Secret Realms in ancient times.

Many sects in Kunxu in the past had a history of establishing their own Grotto Heavens, forging Secret Realms, and even relocating their entire mountain gates inside.

Zhan Xian said, "Simply put, you use the Grotto Heaven as a buff, so that while the demon beast is bound by multiple restrictions, it also becomes much stronger and can serve to guard the sect’s mountain gate."

Looking at the frenzied corpse-item production line before him, Zhang Yu said, "This doesn’t look like any kind of divine beast."

Fu Ji said, "What era do you think this is? Who still plays the Cave Heaven Divine Beast card? Might as well hire security, set up surveillance, and link up with the Spirit Realm."

"A squad of security guards only costs so much a month. If you don’t want them, you fire them; if you’re not satisfied, you replace them."

Fu Ji sighed. "Something like a Cave Heaven Divine Beast, you raise it for decades, even centuries; if you’re not satisfied with how it turned out, it’s hard to even find someone willing to take it off your hands."

Zhang Yu nodded slightly, thinking, "Cave Heaven Divine Beasts... it’s like keeping a watchdog. Nowhere near as cost‑effective as modern protective technologies of all kinds."

Looking at the frenzied production line in front of him, Zhang Yu said, "They must have taken this into account, right? So even though this thing is a continuation of Cave Heaven Divine Beast tech, it’s not actually a Cave Heaven Divine Beast. If I have to call it something... it should be called a Cave Heaven Production Line."

"What Cave Heaven Divine Beast, using it to boost combat power and all that—totally pointless." Fu Ji praised, "But if it’s a Cave Heaven Production Line, using it to buff the line, boost production and money‑making capability—that’s actually kind of interesting."

Staring at the information floating before his eyes, Zhang Yu continued, "From the looks of it, this production line can only exert 100% of its power inside my Immortal Cave Heaven."

Zhan Xian said, "That’s the limitation of Cave Heaven Divine Beasts: they receive power‑ups, but cannot leave the Grotto Heaven. Once they depart, their strength plummets at high speed."

"Your grand‑master likely injected a large number of frenzied corpse items in the factory zone with Cave Heaven Power, converting them into Cave Heaven Divine Beasts specific to the Maze Realm."

"Once you, as the successor, captured these Cave Heaven Divine Beasts, they shifted from being the Maze Realm’s Cave Heaven Divine Beasts to becoming Cave Heaven Divine Beasts exclusive to this Immortal Cave Heaven of yours."

Recalling the power those frenzied corpse items in the factory zone had unleashed, Zhang Yu thought, "No wonder... it felt like the frenzied corpse items in the factory zone were bursting out strength above their standard parameters."

"Originally I thought it was just mutual devouring and strengthening, but it seems there’s also the Cave Heaven Divine Beast buff factor."

Zhang Yu: "It’s just that after they converted from the Maze Realm’s Cave Heaven Divine Beasts into my Cave Heaven Divine Beasts, they likely don’t enjoy that same buff inside the Maze Realm anymore."

"I can run a test..."

Zhang Yu withdrew from his own Grotto Heaven and returned to the factory zone of the Maze Realm.

The next instant, as he opened the entrance to the Immortal Cave Heaven in his palm, densely packed Qi‑Blood pipelines shot out from within like tentacles.

These were precisely the pipelines originating from the frenzied production line.

At this moment, under Zhang Yu’s mental command, these Qi‑Blood pipelines twisted together into one, seemingly turning into a crimson whip of light that sliced through the air with a swish and lashed at the ground ahead, blasting out a huge crater with a boom.

Then Zhang Yu lashed out again toward a more distant spot.

After a round of testing, he quickly obtained his experimental results.

"Once outside the Grotto Heaven, within 1 meter it can still maintain eighty to ninety percent of its power. Beyond 1 meter, the power output nosedives; past 3 meters, it can barely exert even ten percent."

Cave Heaven Divine Beasts—or rather, Cave Heaven Production Lines—could perform beyond their limits inside the Grotto Heaven, but once they moved a short distance away from it... their might was gone. Zhang Yu firmly engraved this point in his mind.

Then Zhang Yu returned once more to the Immortal Cave Heaven and looked toward the frenzied production line.

Hundred Corpses Melting Master, Trait: Melting Furnace Hundred Phases (0/10)

Staring at this line of information that had appeared, Zhang Yu grew even more curious. "This formatting looks a lot like Yu Shu."

But Zhang Yu knew that this single line he was seeing right now definitely did not originate from Yu Shu, but from the device information being broadcast outward by the frenzied production line after he had subdued it.

As for proof, it was that even Fu Ji could see this information.

"Could it be that when Yingxin Heaven manufactured this Cave Heaven Production Line—this Hundred Corpses Melting Master—they also applied Immortal Dao Technology similar to Yu Shu?"