What’s the point of cultivating immortality if you don’t have money?

In the small forest of the school, as soon as Zhang Yu activated the Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi, waves of spiritual energy immediately rushed towards his flesh and blood.

Especially after the Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi began to temper every piece of flesh, internal organ, and bone in his body.

The True Spirit Root also seemed to be adapting to this situation, constantly pouring spiritual energy into the various parts Zhang Yu was training, cooperating with the Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi to accelerate the vigorous growth of Zhang Yu's physical body.

Cultivation has always been for those with spirit roots in ancient times.

Only now, truly using the spirit root for cultivation, did Zhang Yu deeply feel the difference between the two, feeling the extra boost to physical growth after the surging spiritual energy was poured into his flesh and blood in coordination with body refinement.

And besides that…

“Hmm?” Zhang Yu sensed the wisps of spiritual energy pouring towards his spine and the surrounding areas, as if pairs of small hands were stimulating and nourishing something.

“This is… nerves? Spiritual energy is stimulating and nourishing my nerves?”

“But my Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi shouldn’t have this kind of nerve-tempering effect, right?”

“Is it an effect inherent to the True Spirit Root?”

Zhang Yu was naturally delighted to have an extra body-refining effect during the cultivation of the Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi.

Even when Zhang Yu wasn't cultivating the Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi, the spirit root was still constantly pouring spiritual energy into his body.

And it seemed that because of the long usage this time, when Zhang Yu returned the spirit root to Bai Zhenzhen after school, he could feel that his body, just like when he used the muscle-enhancing spirit root before, would continue to grow at an accelerated rate for a period of time.

……

After Bai Zhenzhen took back the spirit root, she first clearly felt a burst of discomfort, as if something with a not-so-matching shape was stuffed in her stomach.

At the same time, Bai Zhenzhen felt her muscles, internal organs, and bones being infused with spiritual energy, nourishing her flesh and blood according to a special frequency, gradually making her muscles, internal organs, and bones stronger.

“Spiritual energy is being poured into places I don’t usually train…”

“This is not my body-refining path at all, it’s more like Yu Zi’s Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi effect.”

“Sure enough, the True Spirit Root has adapted to Zhang Yu’s body and produced changes…”

Bai Zhenzhen tried to activate her body-refining technique, the Lightning Punishment True Body.

For the sake of immortal cultivation, Bai Zhenzhen spent almost all of her money, except for loan repayments, medicine, and food, on cultivation techniques.

This Lightning Punishment True Body was the body-refining technique she bought for a full 120,000, which could condense lightning with mana to temper the body.

It is a body-refining method that focuses on increasing the cultivator's nerve reaction, movement speed, and explosive power while improving physical strength.

And at this moment, when Bai Zhenzhen activated the Lightning Punishment True Body again, she felt the True Spirit Root also inducing spiritual energy infusion, assisting in the cultivation of the Lightning Punishment True Body.

“It would actually be like this?”

A hint of surprise flashed in Bai Zhenzhen's eyes: “While the True Spirit Root adapted to Zhang Yu’s body, it’s also adapting to my body, which is equivalent to superimposing the spiritual energy infusion phenomenon from Zhang Yu’s cultivation of the Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi… onto my body?”

At this moment, Bai Zhenzhen felt that after her body refinement, in addition to the body-refining effect of the Lightning Punishment True Body, her muscles, internal organs, and bones had an extra layer of enhancement.

“Then conversely, if I lend the spirit root to Yu Zi again, he can also superimpose some of my exercise effects, right?”

“If we switch back and forth like this every day to cultivate, will the superimposed effect brought about by this adaptation increase with each tide, becoming stronger and stronger?”

“In this way, wouldn’t one person have the cultivation effect of two people?”

“Then wouldn’t my scores and competition rankings improve by leaps and bounds?”

“Punch Song Hailong, kick Le Mulan, and dominate Songyang with Yu Zi!”

Bai Zhenzhen's heart surged with excitement at the thought of this.

“But to make this easier, we still have to rent together, and then go to school and work together every day, so that we can switch spirit roots at any time.”

Thinking of this, Bai Zhenzhen made up her mind: “Okay, then I’ll look for a house tomorrow!”

……

The next day after school, Bai Zhenzhen began to look for a house with Zhang Yu.

They took Songyang High School in the city as the starting point and the Anxuebang Industrial Park in the distant suburbs as the end point, and searched all the way along this straight line from the city.

In the basement on the edge of the city, the real estate agent said: “This basement is a popular item, with electricity, internet, and water. Climbing out of the sewer is the subway, and you don’t have to worry about sunlight interfering with your cultivation. It’s just that the rent is a bit expensive, costing 20,000 a month…”

Continuing to move in the direction of the suburbs, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen saw another good garage.

The landlord said: “This is a good location. The rent was originally 5,000 a month, but considering that you are both students, if you sincerely want to rent it, I can waive the rent, but you have to pay a deposit of one million.”

“Don’t have that much money? You can take out a loan. Or are you from Songyang High School? If you are willing to mortgage an arm each, that’s fine too.”

Continuing to search towards the outskirts of the city, they arrived at an apartment building.

The landlord, carrying a bunch of keys, said impatiently: “You rent a house just to put things, right? It’s not for you to cultivate in. If you want to cultivate, go to the gym or practice field. The rent can’t be lowered, I still have to support my son to go to college. He’s a college student, you know?”

Outside the construction site room filled with containers, the ground was full of cigarette butts and wine bottles.

Before even approaching, Zhang Yu smelled a strong scent of Dao Heart Buffer, obviously all the residents here were heavily addicted to Dao Heart Buffer.

Zhang Yu shook his head: “No, I’ve already quit Dao Heart Buffer. If I live here, I’m afraid I’ll get addicted again.”

The two walked along the elevated road, and Bai Zhenzhen suddenly said: “Yu Zi, poor ghosts can’t spend money recklessly.”

“But from these ten years of being a poor ghost… I’ve learned one thing: the more you want to rent a satisfactory house, the more you will be harvested. If you want to avoid being harvested, there is only one way…”

Zhang Yu asked curiously: “What way?”

Bai Zhenzhen said with a determined face: “Yu Zi! I’ve decided not to rent a house!”

Zhang Yu was surprised: “If we don’t rent a house, where will we live?”

Bai Zhenzhen pointed to the stream under the elevated road in front and said, “Can’t that bridge hole be lived in?”

Zhang Yu: “Ah?”

Bai Zhenzhen said: “It’s okay not to choose this bridge hole, just stay wherever you like.”

“I’ve thought it over carefully. Water… we can drink and bring it from school.”

“Electricity… we can charge it in Anxuebang or at school.”

“Food… we’re buying synthetic food from the cafeteria anyway.”

“We don’t need to sleep, and we can solve the bathing problem in the river next to this bridge hole.”

“Large trucks pass by on this suburban overpass every day, and the sound is noisy, so we don’t have to worry about our cultivation affecting others.”

“We will cultivate and rest here, go to school during the day, and go to Anxuebang at night. What do you think?”

The more Bai Zhenzhen spoke, the more energetic she became: “Instead of giving money to landlords and agents, it’s better to buy more food and not give those rich people a chance to harvest us.”

“We cultivators should take the sky as our quilt and the earth as our mat, and should live in bridge holes, drill through forests, and occupy unfinished buildings, and invest our limited money in cultivation! I’ve wanted to do this for a long time!”

Zhang Yu also began to think about the feasibility: “But what about our things? If we just leave them here, they might be taken away, right?”

Bai Zhenzhen said: “Important and frequently used items, carry them in your backpack.”

“Unimportant and infrequently used items, either sell them or put them in boxes in the classroom. Anyway, there are surveillance cameras in the classroom, and the people in the school won’t steal things.”

It must be said that Zhang Yu felt that there was some truth to it after listening.

He and Bai Zhenzhen were already high school students who didn’t need to sleep, and they had nothing of value, so they could completely cultivate and rest wherever they went.

So a few days later, Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu both withdrew from their rented houses.

Every day after school, the two of them would bring synthetic food, fill a few bottles of water, and find a place to cultivate at random, until they tutored people in the park at night, and then went to school during the day.

The days passed like this…

……

In the small forest of Anxuebang Industrial Park.

Zhang Yu was cultivating the Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi, and he saw rolling spiritual energy swarming in, constantly strengthening his muscles, internal organs, and bones with each movement of his muscles, while also gradually nourishing his nervous system.

At the same time, the violent medicinal power of the Primordial Pill was also constantly nourishing Zhang Yu's body, making his Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi run more smoothly.

Under the blessing of the True Spirit Root and the Primordial Pill, Zhang Yu felt that his physical strength had improved by leaps and bounds during this period of time.

Just then, hearing the phone alarm ring, Zhang Yu thought: “Is it time for class?”

In order to make the most of the True Spirit Root, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen had been trying to stagger their class times at Anxuebang as much as possible, so that when one person was in class, the other person could use the Spirit Root to cultivate.

At this moment, in the Anxuebang classroom, Bai Zhenzhen couldn’t wait to come out after class.

Che Nu, who was in the corridor, greeted her: “Teacher Le, are you going to find Teacher Ma again? You go to and from work together every day, are you not considering buying a car?”

Le Mulan was Bai Zhenzhen's pseudonym in the dark tutoring world.

Bai Zhenzhen waved her hand and said, “What car to buy? Riding him is fast and saves money, I don’t want to be harvested by the company!”

Bai Zhenzhen found the small forest, saw Zhang Yu and rushed over, happily thinking: “My baby spirit root, here I come!”

She ran behind Zhang Yu and gently stuck to him, feeling a heat in her stomach, the True Spirit Root had been transferred to her body, and Bai Zhenzhen suddenly felt comfortable all over.

Zhang Yu touched his somewhat empty stomach and waved to Bai Zhenzhen, who had already started exercising: “Then I’ll go to class, hurry up and practice.”

……

Under the bridge hole.

Bai Zhenzhen jumped into the river next to her to take a bath as soon as Zhang Yu (car) got off.

Zhang Yu took off his clothes and packed them aside. These were to be sent to Lian Tianji tomorrow.

Although his tutoring income was not low now, there were many more places to spend money, and he still had to seize the income from selling clothes at Lian Tianji.

The next day.

Le Mulan opened the safe, looked at the clothes inside, sniffed lightly, and frowned slightly: “Recently, the clothes always seem to have the scent of another person.”

……

In the cafeteria.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen each held a large bucket and devoured the paste inside. As their physical strength improved by leaps and bounds, their recent food expenses had also increased.

Zhao Tianxing looked at the two of them with some envy: “Zhang Yu and A Zhen go to and from school together every day now, and they say they cultivate together after school, exchanging the rented spirit root. Their relationship is really good. I wish I also had a beautiful girl friend with such a good relationship.”

Although he had been castrated, students like Zhao Tianxing still had a love for beauty.

And Qian Shen also looked at the two of them enviously: “I really envy Bai Zhenzhen, she can actually cultivate with Zhang Yu, who is first in the martial arts competition and fourth in the magic competition, every day. I wish I also had such an excellent study partner.”

As for the latest grade first, He Dayou? Qian Shen didn't like the dead muscles that he bought with money at all.

But although he looked down on him, Qian Shen had to admit that He Dayou's physical strength was now above all the first-year students in Songyang High School.

“Even Zhang Yu, I am afraid it will take the second year of high school to have a chance to catch up, right?”

……

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, a month had passed since the martial arts competition, and it was the day that Songyang High School's competition team had agreed with Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, deciding on the competition quota.

On this day after school, several physical education teachers such as Wang Hai, and several student union sports department students such as Lan Ling, will witness the gap between He Dayou and the other five and Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen in the stadium.