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

Like the martial arts competition at White Dragon High School, this sports competition held at Ziyun High School was also scheduled for midnight.

However, due to Songyang High School's consistent investment in sports competitions, the school chartered a bus this time.

At this moment, in the dark of night.

He Dayou, Zhang Yu, Bai Zhenzhen, and a total of five contestants, along with Wang Hai, the coach of the competition team, were riding the bus together towards Ziyun High School.

In addition, Qian Shen and Zhao Tianxing, as Zhang Yu's friends, also boarded the bus with Wang Hai's permission to watch the competition.

But apart from Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, who were full of fighting spirit, the others on the bus... some were breathing spiritual energy to cultivate, some were reading, some were watching videos on their phones. In short, they had no expectations for this sports competition and felt like they were just going through the motions.

Of course, even when students from Songyang High School watch videos on their phones, they don't just watch anything randomly.

In the video, a woman over four meters tall with shoulders wider than a truck, who looked like a giant, was instructing on body refinement techniques and promoting body refinement potions.

Wang Hai glanced at the video the student was watching, frowned, and said, "Watch less of these body refinement internet celebrities. They're all fake, just trying to trick you into buying medicine."

The student didn't quite believe it and said, "Mr. Wang, this is a big internet celebrity with millions of followers. Many people have seen her offline. It can't be fake, right?"

Wang Hai snorted coldly, "How is it possible to reach this height and dimension in the Qi Refining realm just by taking medicine? It's obvious that she had plastic surgery. It's all fake muscles and dead muscles."

With the increase in the number of high school students and the development of the body refinement industry, many people have naturally developed a sense of aesthetics where tall is beautiful and big is good.

Wang Hai knew that, under intense competition, the internet celebrities on the body refinement path were becoming increasingly extreme in their pursuit of body shape.

They even began to abandon true strength for a shape that was attractive enough, pursuing a deformed aesthetic of four or even five meters from the original normal height of two or three meters.

Wang Hai sighed, "For cultivators who truly rely on medicine, exercise, and some modification surgery to steadily refine their bodies, the limit is basically three meters tall and two meters wide."

"Those four-meter-tall internet celebrities have filled themselves with fake muscles and fake bones. If you look closely at the needle holes on their bodies, the needle positions are obviously wrong."

Shaking his head, Wang Hai sighed, "The company introduces young people to take out loans every year and then get plastic surgery. If they don't die on the operating table, they can become internet celebrities and sell goods. After a few years, when the side effects of the surgery occur, they will be eliminated by new internet celebrities."

"These people dare to tell any lies and sell any garbage medicine in order to earn money to treat themselves. Don't watch them in the future."

Why was Wang Hai so clear about this? Because a classmate of his had also embarked on this path, and ultimately, after the side effects of the surgery occurred, he used up all his family's wealth but was unable to cure himself and died during a live broadcast. Wang Hai himself had even been approached by an agency and almost pulled into the body refinement internet celebrity world.

But at this moment, after Wang Hai said these words, he felt a burst of disappointment again.

Because he remembered the breakthroughs in body refinement technology at White Dragon, Ziyun, and Red Pagoda High Schools.

In the past two weeks, Wang Hai had been using his connections to find out what kind of technology Oasis Group had provided to the three high schools, and what kind of progress the three high schools had made as a result.

After all, this kind of technological upgrade in body refinement would inevitably affect the entire Songyang City's body refinement market, and would inevitably have a huge impact on Wang Hai, a gold medal coach.

But whether it was the three high schools or the companies behind them, they were strictly confidential about this. Apart from some obvious characteristics shown in the high school sophomore sports competition, the real internal information was not something that a sports teacher like him could find out.

And when he thought of the high school sophomore sports competition, Wang Hai's expression became even more gloomy.

He had personally witnessed in that competition how the high school sophomores of Songyang High School were miserably eliminated, and how they were squeezed out of the rankings by the students of the three high schools with absolute strength.

Even Lan Ling, who had been carefully cultivated by the school and had started transplanting muscle fibers from high school seniors early on, was trampled under the feet of the top students from the three high schools.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that times had changed.

And thinking of this, Wang Hai couldn't help but think of one person.

"Zhou Chechen..."

According to his grades, this vice president of the student council in his sophomore year should have participated in this sophomore sports competition.

But Zhou Chechen was absent this time and did not participate in this sophomore sports competition.

"Does Zhou Chechen know something?"

Just as Wang Hai was thinking, Zhang Yu, who was sitting not far away, was also thinking about today's sports competition.

After learning about the breakthroughs in body refinement technology at the three high schools, Zhang Yu naturally also asked his sister, Zhang Pianpian, who stood at the pinnacle of all high school students in Songyang City and was the top student in her senior year at White Dragon High School.

At this moment, Zhang Pianpian's words appeared in Zhang Yu's mind.

"This time, whether it's Oasis Group or the companies and families behind White Dragon, Ziyun, and Red Pagoda High Schools, they all attach great importance to this freshman sports competition."

"You say why they value the freshman competition, and not other grades?"

"Naturally, it's because the lower the grade, the greater the impact of body refinement technology on the scores compared to the students themselves, and the more it can highlight the differences between body refinement technologies."

"Zhang Yu, this freshman sports competition is not just a competition between students, but also a competition between the immortal techniques contained in the students, and the schools and companies behind these techniques."

"It's a clash between the various companies in immortal techniques, an extension of the company battlefield."

"As for the attitude towards other high schools... for the three high schools, it's just a matter of crushing them along the way."

"By showing the process of crushing you, they are promoting advanced body refinement technology."

And Zhang Yu also remembered what he had asked at that time.

Zhang Yu: "Sister, does that mean you don't think highly of me?"

Zhang Pianpian smiled slightly and said, "Whether I think highly of you or not is not important. What's important is whether you have the strength to defeat your opponents."

At this moment, on the bus, Zhang Yu looked at his feather book: "Is this strength enough to defeat them?"

It had been more than a month since the last time he competed for a spot in the Songyang High School competition.

In this month, with the help of the Hunyuan Pill, True Spirit Root, and Crimson Marrow Hunyuan Qi, his strength had broken through repeatedly, and his physical strength had developed by leaps and bounds.

Dao Heart Level 4 (80%)

Mana 43.9

Physical Strength Level 4.95

But looking at the three basic stats on his body, Zhang Yu was still not satisfied, and sighed slightly that he had gradually encountered bottlenecks in his Dao Heart, Mana, and Physical Strength.

"Alas, the Zhoutian Qi Gathering Method is becoming less and less useful. The speed of mana refinement has been getting slower and slower recently. After this sports competition, I must start looking for a new breathing technique to cultivate."

The grading of cultivation methods into basic, advanced, expert, military, and immortal mainly depends on quality.

But no matter how good a Qi Refining realm cultivation method is, it cannot be useful for the Foundation Establishment realm.

The Zhoutian Qi Gathering Method is a cultivation method that belongs to the early stage of Qi Refining, but Zhang Yu's current level is already approaching the high school sophomore level, and he needs to consider a cultivation method for the middle stage of Qi Refining.

Zhang Yu thought in his heart: "Secondly, there's Dao Heart. The Heavenly Martial Heart Refining Scripture is actually enough to support me to continue to improve my Dao Heart, but the trouble with this cultivation method is... every time I cultivate, I have to cultivate both internally and externally, cultivating those nine external skills."

But Zhang Yu has been focusing on improving his physical strength and cultivating Crimson Marrow Hunyuan Qi recently.

This has led to him not having time to cultivate the Heavenly Martial Heart Refining Scripture, and he can only run the Desolate Bull Soul Suppressing Heart Scripture in his mind, so his Dao Heart improvement has also encountered a bottleneck.

Because the Desolate Bull Soul Suppressing Heart Scripture can only be regarded as a cultivation method for the early stage of Qi Refining, and it's almost the limit to improve to level 5 Dao Heart.

"Then I have to find a cultivation method that can be cultivated in the sea of consciousness at all times to continue to improve my Dao Heart."

Finally, there's physical strength.

Originally, with the help of the True Spirit Root, coupled with the Hunyuan Pill and the combination of level 10 Crimson Marrow Hunyuan Qi, Zhang Yu's physical strength had been soaring continuously, until it gradually approached level 5.00, and then it began to slow down.

"The Crimson Marrow Hunyuan Qi cultivation method is actually still useful, the bottleneck should be at a higher level."

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"The reason why it's been slowing down recently should be because my physical strength has improved too fast in the past two months... especially in the past month, and the strength of my heart hasn't kept up."

Because he mainly relies on pure natural body refinement and doesn't take medicine much, the growth rate of Zhang Yu's internal organs is not fast, and his heart doesn't expand as quickly as those medicine-taking players.

"Fortunately, with the help of the True Spirit Root, it should be soon..."

Zhang Yu could feel that his heart was getting stronger and stronger these days, and it should be able to support his physical strength to continue to break through soon.

"In that case, after this sports competition, I should hurry up and buy new breathing techniques and mental cultivation methods."

"Speaking of which, the championship prize money for this sports competition has been raised several times, and finally became a full 300,000. As long as I get this 300,000..."

Thinking of this 300,000 prize money, Zhang Yu became slightly excited.

But from this 300,000 prize money, it can also be seen that the specifications of this sports competition are very high, and the various companies attach great importance to it. As Zhang Pianpian said, the competition must be unprecedentedly fierce, which also made Zhang Yu feel a trace of pressure.

In fact, only eight months have passed since the start of the freshman year, and Zhang Yu's basic stats are almost at the average level of high school sophomores in Songyang High School, which can be said to be a rapid progress. Only competing with those freaks from the three high schools makes him feel pressure.

Not far away, He Dayou looked at Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, who were full of fighting spirit, with a puzzled expression.

He didn't understand why these two people were still so confident in the current situation.

Although he hadn't been able to understand the extent of their progress since the last monthly exam because they skipped classes every day.

But in such a short period of time, no matter how much an individual breaks through... how can they compare to the breakthroughs in body refinement technology behind the three high schools?

At this moment, the bus they were riding in had stopped at the gate of Ziyun High School.

Unlike the modern buildings of White Dragon High School, Ziyun High School looked like a small bridge, flowing water, pavilions, and ancient buildings from the outside.

Especially under the illumination of various golden and white lights, it looked even more ethereal, like a fairyland.

The entire Ziyun High School covered a large area, but there were no high-rise buildings.

However, being able to occupy such a large area in the city and build the school like a park was enough to make people deeply understand the financial strength behind Ziyun High School.

Soon after Zhang Yu and others entered Ziyun High School, they were led into the guest passage.

Along with the introduction of the reception teacher, disinfectant began to spray in front of the passage.

This reception teacher from Ziyun High School looked at everyone with an apologetic expression and said, "Sorry, this is the school rule of Ziyun High School. Outsiders entering the school need to be uniformly disinfected to remove filth."

Damn it... are they treating us like something dirty? Zhang Yu was speechless. At this moment, he also deeply understood that it wasn't just Le Mulan who had a cleanliness obsession at Ziyun High School. This damn school as a whole had a cleanliness obsession.

This damn school was as unreliable as White Dragon High School.

So Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen stood up together and looked at each other seriously.

Zhang Yu pointed to himself and then pointed to the other Songyang people and said, "I scored above 660 on the monthly exam, and I'm also the first in the martial arts competition and the fourth in the magic competition. I'm different from them."

"My level is free even if I enter White Dragon High School. I don't need to be disinfected, right?"

Bai Zhenzhen's eyes moved, and she nodded and said, "Yeah, is there a VIP channel suitable for us above 660?"

The reception teacher said with an apologetic expression, "Sorry, the school rules stipulate that all outsiders must be disinfected, and there is no distinction according to scores."

Damn it, it's even more unreliable than White Dragon High School.

In an instant, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's ranking of the three high schools had put Ziyun High School at the bottom.

Bai Zhenzhen suddenly pointed at the people walking on another channel and said, "Why don't they need to be disinfected?"

Everyone immediately looked over and saw a team of 'monsters' wearing White Dragon High School uniforms walking through the passage next to them, and there were no disinfection measures along the way.

The reception teacher from Ziyun High School smiled when he heard this, as if saying, 'Does this need to be explained?'

"Can that be the same?" The reception teacher shook his head, "After all, they are from White Dragon High School. As a partner school of Ziyun High School, they are not considered outsiders."

Wang Hai said, "Okay, okay, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Since we're here, let's follow the school rules of Ziyun High School and don't delay the competition time later."

As a top coach who has led teams to the three high schools countless times over the years, Wang Hai can be said to be very experienced.

In particular, he is also very experienced in being insulted by the three high schools, and his heart no longer has too many ripples.

It's just that in previous years, Wang Hai could still count on the students to fight for a breath in the sports competition, grab a ranking, and earn back face.

"But this year, there's no hope."

He sighed and stepped into the disinfection channel first.

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