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

Looking at Zhang Yu's level 3.21 physical strength, He Dayou's eyes were filled with disbelief.

He couldn't believe that he had spent so much money and trained so hard every day, only to be surpassed by Zhang Yu by so much.

He roared in his heart, "How is this possible? How could this be happening?"

"What exactly did Zhang Yu do? Why is his physical strength improvement higher than mine in just one month?"

"Is it some new medicine or technology? But where would he get the money?"

Lan Ling's eyes also narrowed, and he thought to himself, "Did Zhang Pianpian make a move behind Zhang Yu's back? To be able to improve so much, what exactly did this woman do? Could she have used the Immortal Dao techniques from White Dragon High School?"

Wang Hai was even more curious about how Zhang Yu had made such a leap forward: "Which pharmaceutical factory? Which company's new technology? Could they be trying to promote new products through Zhang Yu?"

He carefully observed Zhang Yu and found that there were no needle holes bulging on Zhang Yu's temples, and there were no traces of training on the common needle positions on his arms.

According to common sense, such a high school student does not look like a body refining expert.

Wang Hai thought to himself, "Then the needle positions must be in places I can't see. Is it the Heavenly Demon Needle Technique? Or the Blood Corpse Needle Technique? What method did he use?"

On the other side, Zhang Yu felt goosebumps from Wang Hai's gaze. Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Old Wang must be suspecting me of using drugs again."

"How many times have I said, I have always been naturally refining my body."

Monster beast meat powder? Who doesn't eat some when refining their body?

The side effects of beast protein milk are almost non-existent.

The Hunyuan Pill is even less of a technical drug.

"I am truly cultivating purely naturally, with the sky as my blanket and the earth as my mat."

Zhang Yu looked at the door panel man Lan Ling and thought to himself that this was the real medicine man who had condensed the essence of Immortal Dao technology.

Zhang Yu opened his mouth and said, "How is it? Is there still a problem with us joining the competition team now?"

Lan Ling's eyelids twitched slightly, and he said in an insincere tone, "According to the agreement, naturally you can..."

At the same time, compared to everyone's disbelief, surprise, and curiosity, Ye Haitao, who was originally in fifth place, was desperate.

Originally in fifth place, she dropped directly to seventh place after Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen joined, completely losing the opportunity to participate in the sports competition.

Thinking of the huge sums of money her family had invested in order to participate in the competition team and the special training program, the debts on her back... now that she had lost her place in the competition, Ye Haitao felt like the sky was falling.

Her legs went weak and she sat down on the ground, her hands and feet twitching uncontrollably, as if she was about to lose control.

Wang Hai's eyes narrowed: "Her Dao heart is unstable, go get her Dao heart buffer and pour it into her mouth."

On the other side, Li Yong, who was originally in fourth place and now in sixth place, could not accept this result, especially since his physical strength was only 0.02 levels lower than Bai Zhenzhen's.

"To nurture me to go to high school, to earn money for me to participate in the competition, to allow me to enjoy the special training program, my parents have already borne too much..."

To earn money, Li Yong's father joined a gang, smuggling children's flying swords, risking his life to earn tuition fees for Li Yong.

His mother joined the Food Gang, counterfeiting pre-made dishes in an underground workshop, constantly facing the danger of gang fights and company encirclement and suppression. Now, under the squeeze of synthetic food, she is facing the crisis of being optimized and dismissed by the gang.

This is Li Yong's family, a gang family with an income higher than that of white-collar workers in the city, but facing the risk of death, bankruptcy, debt, and so on at any time.

As a second-generation gangster, Li Yong's dream since childhood has been to get into college.

"I am the hope of my family. Only by getting into college can I change the fate of our whole family, wash away our blackness, and break away from the gang..."

"To keep up with the training progress here, I take more than twenty kinds of drugs every day, eat a meal every two hours, and have fractured my bones many times in extreme muscle training. Now, if I stop taking painkillers even for a short time, I will be in excruciating pain..."

"My family has given so much, I have given so much, why should I lose?"

"Just because Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen became the running dogs of the rich? Just because they were invested in and have money, should a poor ghost like me lose to the rich people's dogs?"

Obviously, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, who change their spiritual roots every day, are already considered by many students to be invested in by the rich and belong to the rich camp.

So, after hearing Lan Ling's words agreeing to Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen joining the team, Li Yong stood up.

He stared at Bai Zhenzhen and said, "The difference in our physical strength is only 0.02 levels, which is not a decisive difference in sports competitions. I want to challenge you!"

After this period of training, Li Yong also knew that sports competitions are not just events that compare the size of physical strength numbers.

Otherwise, all the high school students in Songyang could just list their physical strength numbers, what's the point of having a competition?

The physical strength number is just a foundation. What sports competitions test... is how well students can use this body of flesh and blood.

"Bai Zhenzhen has the support of a rich person like Zhang Pianpian, so her funding must be more abundant than mine. But I don't believe that her training in the past month has been more diligent and focused than mine. Her control over her physical strength may not be as good as mine."

"Plus, in the special training program, my fascia self-limitation has already been removed in the surgery, and my muscles can explode with power beyond their limits... I will definitely win against her!"

While cheering himself up in his heart, Li Yong pointed at Bai Zhenzhen and said, "I want to compete with you to see who is stronger, do you dare?"

Before anyone else could speak, Bai Zhenzhen had already smiled impatiently in her heart, shouting a loud "Yes" in her heart: "Today is my home field, it's not Yu's turn to show off."

But when she thought that Zhang Yu couldn't continue to show off because his value was too high and no one dared to challenge him, Bai Zhenzhen felt that the happiness in her heart had lessened a bit.

She looked at Li Yong, who was speaking, with an unapproachable, ice-cold girl look, and said indifferently, "How do you want to compete?"

Li Yong strode forward: "Okay, then let's compete..."

"Presumptuous." Lan Ling snorted coldly: "This is to determine the school's competition quota, not your two's child's play. The specific competition items will be decided jointly by me and the teachers."

So, after a period of discussion, it was decided that Bai Zhenzhen and Li Yong would compare their physical strength through barbell lifting.

Of course, like all sports competitions, it is forbidden to use magic power during the competition. What is being compared is pure physical strength.

Therefore, detection patches were affixed to both of them to monitor whether their magic power was being used.

Zhang Yu looked at this scene and thought to himself, "It seems that I have to stop the Zhou Tian Qi Gathering Technique during sports competitions. It's a pity to lose a period of passive breathing."

Zhang Yu could of course control the passive breathing of the Zhou Tian Qi Gathering Technique, after all, it was ultimately a breathing technique mastered by himself.

On the other side, Li Yong came to the 1500 kg barbell, grabbed it with both hands, and with a roar, he lifted the barbell with a flushed face.

After holding it for five seconds, with a loud bang, the 1500 kg barbell slammed heavily on the ground, and then bounced a few times.

Li Yong looked at Bai Zhenzhen with a solemn expression: "It's your turn."

Under everyone's gaze, Bai Zhenzhen walked to the barbell. Her body shook, and with her muscles tightening all over, she looked as if she had swollen a circle.

Sections of muscles intertwined and pushed each other, as if they had become a whole.

Originally, under the training of the Thunderclap True Body, Bai Zhenzhen's nervous system had been greatly strengthened, and her muscle power recruitment and power control were very powerful.

Later, after exchanging spiritual roots with Zhang Yu for cultivation, her body refining had some effects of the Scarlet Marrow Hunyuan Qi, and the coordination and power explosion of her whole body muscles became stronger.

At this moment, Bai Zhenzhen grabbed with both hands, her face not red and her breath not panting, and easily lifted the 1500 kg barbell.

While lifting it, her expression did not change, and she said lightly, "This is too easy, let's change to a more difficult one."

After holding it for 5 seconds, Bai Zhenzhen casually threw the barbell back to the ground and strode towards another 2000 kg barbell.

Then, in everyone's surprised eyes, Bai Zhenzhen, with a blush on her face, let out a low shout, and with her arms bursting with power, she lifted the barbell over her head.

Lan Ling's eyes narrowed, and he thought, "Very strong explosive power and muscle control, this should not be her limit yet. Zhang Pianpian really invested a lot."

He Dayou originally had similar thoughts to Li Yong, feeling that Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's physical strength had soared in a short period of time, and they had not participated in the special training program, so their control may not be as good as theirs.

Seeing Bai Zhenzhen easily lift the 2000 kg barbell at this moment, a hint of gloom flashed in his eyes.

And watching this scene, the person with the worst mood on the scene was naturally Li Yong.

After all, his previous limit was only lifting a 1900 kg barbell, and Bai Zhenzhen's performance was obviously far beyond his limit.

From a rational point of view, he should give up.

But he was unwilling.

"I have given so much, and finally made it this far, am I going to surrender because of the rich man's money?"

So, Li Yong walked to the 2000 kg barbell, took a deep breath, and then suddenly grabbed down.

The muscles all over his body suddenly tightened, and the 2000 kg barbell stood in front of him like a mountain. With his explosion, there was only a slight movement.

Li Yong roared in his heart, "I want to go to college!"

"I don't want my parents to continue in the gang!"

"Get the hell up!"

With his muscles trembling all over and blue veins bulging on his flushed forehead, he actually grabbed the 2000 kg barbell little by little.

Roar!

With a roar, Li Yong looked at the barbell that he had lifted high above his head, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

But the next moment, popping sounds came from his arm.

Then, in his dazed gaze, blood spurted out of his right arm.

And as his hand went soft, the barbell that had just been lifted above his head also fell down.

Wang Hai's expression froze, and he rushed up, catching the two-thousand-kilogram barbell with one hand and supporting Li Yong with the other.

Li Yong tried hard to control his right arm, wanting to raise his hand, but found that the muscles in his hand were trembling and he couldn't control it.

Li Yong panicked and said, "Teacher... what's wrong with me?"

Wang Hai took a look and understood the general idea, sighing: "After you have the fascia removal surgery, the degree of muscle expansion can exceed the limit."

"However, your body has not adapted to the overload of the arm muscles, and the flesh and blood are torn."

Wang Hai knew that this was one of the defects of the special training program. After all, the muscles on the body are not a whole. When the transplanted muscle fibers explode with fierce power, the original flesh and blood will collapse if it cannot keep up with the load.

Li Yong panicked even more when he heard this: "Can I still get better? Can I still participate in the special training program?"

Wang Hai comforted: "It's okay, it's okay, after treatment and a few days of rest, you can continue training..."

Lan Ling didn't even look at the failed Li Yong, but looked at Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu, with a businesslike look, and said, "Then according to the agreement, your results are enough to join the sports competition team."

"You and He Dayou and the other three will participate in the sports competition next month."

"As for whether to participate in the tutoring for the competition team next, it's up to you."

Zhang Yu asked curiously, "Then... what about that special training program? Can we participate?"

Regarding this so-called special training program, the method that can make He Dayou and the others soar in physical strength in just one month, both Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen have long been extremely curious.

Lan Ling looked at the two with a sneer, thinking to himself, "Could it be that Zhang Pianpian has also taken a fancy to my Songyang High School's transplantation technology? That's why she let these two in?"

He said with a businesslike face, "The special training program is led by the student union, with the school's cooperation, and selects candidates according to certain standards."

"The two of you do not meet the candidates and are not qualified to participate in this program."