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

Under the bridge, beside the river.

Accompanied by the rumbling of heavy trucks passing over the overpass, there was a faint roar coming from under the bridge.

A courier was riding his electric scooter towards the bridge opening. He was a courier in the nearby mortal slum.

From a distance, he felt like he could faintly hear the sound of impacts, but when he arrived under the bridge, he could only see Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen standing opposite each other.

"Your package."

The courier handed a box to them, and when his eyes glanced at Bai Zhenzhen, the young man couldn't help but blush.

This high school girl was too beautiful and refined for him.

Recalling the class beauty and school beauty from his middle school days, the young man thought to himself, "High school students are high school students, the pride of heaven... Their temperament and appearance are not comparable to middle school students."

But he immediately withdrew his gaze, fearing to offend her.

This wasn't the first time the young man had delivered goods here. He vaguely knew that this high school couple often did something here at night.

He also knew that a group of petty gangsters used to hang out nearby, but they ran away as soon as they found out that high school students were around.

After all, high school students... they are the dragons and phoenixes who can go to the city to work, not comparable to mortals like them. Even their delivery fees are much higher.

With a hint of envy, the courier took one last look at Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen before riding his electric scooter away.

Zhang Yu opened the package and said to Bai Zhenzhen, "You ordered synthetic food and beast protein milk. I wonder how it compares to the taste of the cafeteria."

Bai Zhenzhen said indifferently, "Anyway, it's cheap enough. I'll accept it as long as it doesn't taste worse than shit."

After the courier had completely left, Zhang Yu smiled slightly and said, "Let's continue."

Zhang Yu stood in place, his body radiating white mist.

With the increase in his magic power, Zhang Yu's Wuji Cloud Hand became even more powerful, and the Formless Cloud Qi became even more turbulent, enveloping his entire body. Only a vague figure could be seen in the large mass of white mist.

At the same time, Bai Zhenzhen's figure flashed around Zhang Yu at high speed, constantly erupting with bursts of roaring sounds, like lightning shuttling through the clouds. It was Bai Zhenzhen, whose cultivation of the Thunder Strike True Body had improved by leaps and bounds recently.

In terms of long-distance movement, Bai Zhenzhen was naturally no match for Zhang Yu, who had level 10 Running Car Legs.

But in short-distance sprints during combat, as well as footwork, shifting, dodging, and reaction... Bai Zhenzhen was now much more agile than Zhang Yu.

Bai Zhenzhen's fist repeatedly plunged into the cloud of mist, colliding with Zhang Yu's Formless Qi time and time again, erupting with crackling sounds.

The next moment, as the cloud of mist transformed by the Formless Cloud Qi rotated at high speed, like a vortex swirling towards Bai Zhenzhen's fist, Bai Zhenzhen felt a sway in her center of gravity, and her whole body was thrown away.

However, Bai Zhenzhen twisted her body at high speed in mid-air, and her whole body regained her balance with incomparable agility, landing steadily on the ground.

She looked at Zhang Yu, whose entire body was still shrouded in thick fog, and thought to herself, "As Yu's magic power gradually deepens, this Formless Cloud Qi is becoming increasingly dense, and the range it spreads into the air is gradually increasing, making it more and more difficult to deal with."

Recalling the feeling of rushing into the thick fog time and time again...

With the cooperation of the Wuji Cloud Hand and the Back Dragon Overturning Mountain Hand, not only were Zhang Yu's figure and movements difficult to observe, but also various forces came from all directions, either bursting, throwing, swirling, shaking, or bouncing... all kinds of different forces, trying to completely break her balance, and even wrap her tightly in this cloud of mist.

And with the cooperation of the Wuji Cloud Hand and the Undying Imprint Method, as Bai Zhenzhen's body-piercing sword qi attacked, the cloud of mist would further expand, and after accumulating power, it would bounce back the attacker, making people more and more uncomfortable the more they fought.

Under such circumstances, she had to be constantly on guard against Zhang Yu's invisible physical body suddenly attacking from the cloud of mist.

"I'm not fighting, I'm not fighting," Bai Zhenzhen waved her hand and said, "Your Formless Cloud Qi is now integrated with offense and defense, like a turtle shell covered with thorns. You're also using my spiritual root, so I can't find any flaws at all. There's no training effect at all."

During this period, in addition to their own hard work, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen also sparred together from time to time to train their combat skills.

Without a third person watching, the two no longer had to worry about exposing high-level cultivation techniques. They used various level 10 cultivation techniques in turn, and the effect of this combat training was much better than at school.

At this moment, hearing Bai Zhenzhen's call, Zhang Yu also dispersed the Formless Cloud Qi around him.

After this period of combat training, Zhang Yu gradually understood the situation in his heart.

"If the True Spiritual Root is in my body, then I am invincible."

"If the True Spiritual Root is in A-Zhen's own body, then we are evenly matched when we fight."

Of course, the above results are all under the condition that Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen did not go all out.

After all, without enough spare money to visit the clinic, the two were unwilling to get injured during combat training.

At this moment, as Bai Zhenzhen called a stop and Zhang Yu had just dispersed the Formless Cloud Qi, he saw a figure shooting over and lightly leaping onto him from behind.

Bai Zhenzhen laughed and said, "It's my turn to use it!"

As Bai Zhenzhen's body stuck to him, the spiritual root returned to her body.

With the repeated exchange of spiritual roots during this period, the two were already very familiar with this set of movements.

Looking at Bai Zhenzhen, who was cultivating hard to the side, Zhang Yu smiled slightly and then looked at his feather book.

Although his main focus was on physical strength, his Dao Heart and magic power were also steadily improving.

Among them, the Dao Heart reached level 4 (28%). The level 4 Dao Heart allowed him to control his body and magic power more freely, and his martial arts skills were even better than before.

With the help of the True Spiritual Root, his magic power increased rapidly, and now it had reached 34.8, making his Formless Cloud Qi even more powerful and turbulent when displayed.

"However, recently, as his magic power has become higher and higher, the speed of magic power refinement has become slower and slower. It seems that the effect of the Celestial Cycle Qi Gathering Method is beginning to decrease, and it may be reaching its bottleneck soon."

As a cultivation technique for beginners, the Celestial Cycle Qi Gathering Method naturally has its limits. Zhang Yu felt that about 50 points of magic power should be the upper limit that the Celestial Cycle Qi Gathering Method could support.

"If I want to have more powerful magic power, I'll have to switch to an expert-level breathing technique at that time."

As for physical strength, which was Zhang Yu's main focus during this period, it had now reached level 3.21, a surge compared to the martial arts competition a month ago.

Of course, such a big improvement naturally cost Zhang Yu a lot of money.

Although he had income from tutoring fees, plus occasionally selling a piece of clothing from Refining Heaven Extreme, Zhang Yu had earned more than 100,000 yuan during this period.

But the 30,000 yuan per Hunyuan Pill, as well as the constantly rising food expenses after his physical strength increased, all made his expenses more and more. At this moment, his savings were less than 20,000 yuan.

As the sky gradually brightened, Zhang Yu looked at the rising sun and said, "A-Zhen, get ready to go to school."

"Remember what day it is today?"

Bai Zhenzhen's face still had a blush after just exercising. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "Of course, today is the big day for us to go to the sports competition team to show off!"

...

Inside the stadium.

As training began, students opened large bottles and began to gulp down Dao Heart Buffer.

During the subsequent training, one student suddenly had arm cramps and a burst of weakness.

Wang Hai walked over, grabbed the other person's arm, and frowned, "Did you drink enough Dao Heart Buffer yesterday?"

Looking at the other person's hesitant look, Wang Hai snorted, "After experiencing a special training program, your physical strength is most likely to exceed your Dao Heart control, so you have to increase the amount of Dao Heart Buffer to more than 5 times the daily amount. A little less may cause your physical strength to get out of control."

"Letting you drink Dao Heart Buffer is not for the school to earn a few dollars, it's for your own good."

"After spending so much money and undergoing so much hard training, do you want to save a few sips of buffer and end up not getting a place in the sports competition?"

Seeing the other person lower their head in shame, Wang Hai let them go.

Then he looked at He Dayou, who was training aside, with a complex expression, and sighed in his heart, "He Dayou has completely left Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen behind, right? Alas, with the advancement of Immortal Dao technology, individual talent and effort are not worth mentioning."

At this moment, He Dayou was slowly lifting a heavy and huge barbell.

At the same time, the Heavenly Demon Parasitic Method in his body was running, accelerating the fusion of the transplanted flesh and blood in this strength training, allowing him to exert his strength more freely and controllably.

After all, the transplanted flesh and blood cannot be mastered freely from the beginning.

He Dayou still remembered that after completing the first transplant operation, he felt like he was wearing a suit of iron armor, with his hands and feet bound, and his movements were inconvenient.

But later, with his efforts, although the surgery was still going on, the 'iron armor' on his body became lighter and thinner after his continued training.

From iron armor to a coat, and from a coat to underwear, He Dayou now felt that there were not too many restrictions. The transplanted flesh and blood were like a layer of skin that could not be felt much and could be completely mastered by him.

"Very good, if you maintain this state, I can perform the next stage of surgery in a few days."

"Then continue to work hard to cultivate, and it's not hopeless to push your physical strength to above level 4.0 before the competition."

At this moment, accompanied by a burst of "Hello, senior!", "Hello, senior!", He Dayou turned his head and saw that Lan Ling had brought several other sophomore students from the sports department to the stadium.

Lan Ling glanced around and frowned, "Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen haven't arrived yet?"

He Dayou knew that today was the day to determine the final spots for the sports competition a month later, and it was also the time for Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen to come and humiliate themselves.

"These two guys are skipping classes now and then, and I don't know how much they have improved."

"But it doesn't matter. No matter how much they improve, they can't surpass me under the special training program."

He Dayou continued to train silently. Since surpassing Zhang Yu in the last monthly exam, he had gradually stopped taking this past opponent to heart.

"People have to look forward. My future opponents are those academic masters from White Dragon High School, Purple Cloud High School, and Red Pagoda High School."

At the same time, Lan Ling had already looked at He Dayou and the other five who were training and said, "Since Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen haven't arrived yet, let you measure your physical strength first. After the two of them arrive, measuring them will directly end it."

In Lan Ling's opinion, there was no need for further comparison. Physical strength alone should be enough to eliminate those two poor ghosts.

First place, He Dayou, physical strength level 3.07

...

Fourth place, Li Yong, physical strength level 2.96

Fifth place, Ye Haitao, physical strength level 2.94

Looking at the physical strength values of the five people, Lan Ling nodded slightly, "He Dayou, you have improved very quickly. Keep it up, and there will be no problem getting a place in the sports competition."

"Ye Haitao, you are the last one to join the team, so you have to hurry up. This value is difficult to get a place..."

Faced with the comments of Lan Ling, a sophomore student council cadre, the freshmen present naturally accepted them one by one, bowing and saying yes.

At this moment, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen walked in under everyone's gaze.

Lan Ling glanced at them coldly and said lightly, "Measure your physical strength first. If you can exceed level 2.94, you can get a competition spot."

So after a while, the physical strength of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen appeared on the big screen, joining the rankings.

First place, Zhang Yu, physical strength level 3.21

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Fifth place, Bai Zhenzhen, physical strength level 2.98

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