Watching Zhang Yu seize the books from everyone through that series of maneuvers, Fu Ji thought, Zhang Yu must be feeling pretty pleased with himself right now, mustn't he? At the end of the day, could the things the Sect Examination Clone says simply be thoughts Zhang Yu has kept buried inside?
Should I take this opportunity to... butter him up? Praise his moves a little?
While Fu Ji was considering this, Bao Shen said, "Mysterious Lord, your plan today was not only meticulous, but executed with lightning speed. Even the Wanfa Immortal Emperor was part of your arrangements. You had these sect Heavenly Prodigies calculated down to the last detail."
You little bastard! You dare steal my chance to flatter him? Fu Ji cursed inwardly, alarm bells ringing in her mind. That Bao brat...
He's been getting more and more ambitious lately. Is he trying to take my place?
Meanwhile, Xiangzi chimed in from the other side, "Exactly, exactly! Pretending to enter the gate to Layer 33 while actually teleporting deep into the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, then inspecting and fusing the collected books one by one. Borrowing the Immortal Emperor's might to command the cultivators! Absolutely brilliant!"
Zhan Xian analyzed, "I wouldn't call it brilliant. Simple and brutal would be more accurate. But sometimes, simple and brutal methods work wonders."
"Another key point is that our current mastery of spatial technology is already powerful enough that no one present noticed we hadn't entered Layer 33 at all, but had teleported deep into the Immortal Grotto-Heaven instead."
Zhang Yu nodded inwardly, understanding that this boost to his spatial technology came from the successive surges in his Dao-seeking progress for [Cosmic Dao Orthodoxy].
This allowed him to make use of the gate to Layer 33 in front of everyone without actually entering