At this moment, Zhang Yu continued with his design work while splitting off a thread of consciousness to follow the matter. Hearing Wen Wuya's words, a trace of doubt rose in his heart.
Zhang Yu: If they wanted to seize it by force, couldn't they just crack it open directly? Why did they need to sign some transfer agreement?
Wen Wuya: After Zhenzhen refused to hand over the Sword Repository's key, they really did plan to force it open.
Wen Wuya: But after forcibly opening the Sword Repository, they discovered that all the swords had already been awakened.
Wen Wuya: Without authorization granted by the Seven Emotions Divine Lord, if they tried to seize those swords by force, the swords would immediately self-destruct.
Wen Wuya: There is especially a Deity Transformation-level flying sword among them. If it were determined to self-destruct, not even a Deity Transformation Divine Lord could stop it, and every sword in the Sword Repository would be reduced to ruin.
Wen Wuya: That was why they wanted Zhenzhen to sign a transfer agreement and hand over the Sword Repository's authority.
Zhang Yu asked again: Tell me more about Heaven Sword University's current situation.
Only through Wen Wuya's account did Zhang Yu gradually learn that since the war began, Heaven Sword University had suffered enormous losses on one hand, while its five Deity Transformation Divine Lords had also consumed vast assets to advance their cultivation on the other.
Furthermore, Heaven Sword University had gained no advantage in the competition over Spatial Technology, yet it had to keep investing funds into the Research Association and importing spatial products. This had left the university suffering continual losses, with its financial condition growing worse and worse.
Now, to alleviate the situation, Divine Lord Yu Feng had proposed taking out the Seven