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

That night, as he swallowed the Primordial Pill in one gulp, the potent medicinal power once again surged through his limbs and bones.

Zhang Yu immediately activated the Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi, making every muscle, organ, and bone in his body exert their full strength, striving to absorb the incoming medicinal power.

At times like this, Zhang Yu could always clearly feel that the 30,000 yuan he spent on medicine had not disappeared, but had instead integrated into his body, ultimately transforming into a part of his flesh and blood.

In the blink of an eye, a night passed, and Zhang Yu looked at the level of his physical strength, 2.08, on the Feather Book, a hint of gratification on his face.

Now, two weeks had passed since the martial arts competition.

There were still two weeks left until the confirmation of whether Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were qualified to join the sports competition team as one of the top five in sports performance.

And there were still six weeks until the start of the sports competition.

During this time, although Zhang Yu focused his main energy on physical strength, with the support of the mental cultivation method and passive breathing exercises, his Dao Heart and mana naturally also improved.

On the Feather Book, the displayed levels were Dao Heart 3 (93%) and Mana 25.5.

"The improvement of Dao Heart and mana seems to have slowed down a little, but it's not a major issue for now, and there's no need to consider changing to a more powerful cultivation method. I should still focus on physical strength for now."

"With my current income, not only can I continuously afford Primordial Pills, but if my income increases further in the future, I can even get some more dietary supplements."

"If I continuously use the level 10 Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi to improve my physical strength, then entering the top five in physical strength in two weeks should be no problem, and it seems not impossible to improve to level 4.0 or above in the sports competition in six weeks."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yu looked at his savings.

During this period, although he tutored Song Hailong again and went to the industrial park for tutoring, with the arrival of the new month, after deducting 15,000 yuan for loan interest, less than 2,000 yuan for rent and utilities, and expenses for Primordial Pills, food, and so on, Zhang Yu now had only a little over 5,000 yuan left in his account.

"Alas, I'm still poor. I hope they arrange more classes for me soon."

Thoughts flashed briefly in his mind, and Zhang Yu had already hurried to school.

As soon as he arrived at the school gate, Zhang Yu saw the display of the monthly exam results.

On this day of the monthly exam results being released, the teachers and students of Songyang High School were also jubilant, joyfully welcoming the new scores.

Remembering the monthly exam two days ago, Zhang Yu also sighed slightly: "It's a pity, if the monthly exam could have been a few days later, after I had taken this second Primordial Pill and tempered my body, my scores should have been higher."

"But it's not a big problem, my sports score should be higher in the next monthly exam."

After casually glancing at the monthly exam rankings, Zhang Yu walked towards the classroom.

For him, the monthly exam was something he only needed to pay a little attention to, the competition was what he truly valued.

He still clearly remembered what Zhang Pianpian had said to him.

Zhang Yu murmured in his heart: "If you want to get into the top 10 universities, win all the remaining competitions in the first year of high school and become the strongest first-year high school student in Songyang City."

But just before Zhang Yu stepped into the teaching building.

With a loud bang, a figure had fallen from the sky, plummeting towards the ground.

Zhang Yu subconsciously flashed aside, then reached out and caught him. With the white Formless Cloud Qi gushing out, he had already brought up a gentle force to catch his falling figure, dissipating the force of the fall.

Looking at the person he had saved, Zhang Yu was slightly stunned: "You are… Shuang Youpeng?"

He still remembered this former first-year overall score champion, now a second-year student, who was disciplined by the student council vice president Zhou Chechen in the combat class.

"Jumping off a building at school will result in a fine. It's a good thing I saved you."

"And with your level, you shouldn't die from this height, right? Wouldn't it be even worse to get seriously injured and go for treatment?"

But the next moment, Zhang Yu realized that something was wrong.

Although Shuang Youpeng's appearance hadn't changed much, the feeling he gave Zhang Yu was… light, incomparably light.

The flesh and blood under his clothes seemed to have disappeared by a large amount, not at all like the strength a second-year student should have.

Facing Zhang Yu's questioning gaze, Shuang Youpeng said nothing, neither thanking him for saving himself, nor blaming him for saving himself, but silently stood up and walked towards the teaching building.

Zhang Yu opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

He felt a kind of deathly numbness from the other person.

In the end, Zhang Yu said: "Are you okay?"

Shuang Youpeng paused, and said faintly: "I'm fine, I just couldn't think straight for a moment. I still have to pay off debts, so I won't jump again. Please don't tell anyone about what happened today, otherwise the school will fine me."

Speaking of this, Shuang Youpeng was silent for a moment, then said: "That sports competition… you better give up, there will be no good results."

...

Inside the classroom of Class 1, Grade 1.

Several students were surrounding He Dayou, congratulating him.

"Dayou, you've improved so much during this time, you actually got first place in the grade in this monthly exam."

"662 points, this score can already get you a free visit to Bailong High School, right?"

"General Knowledge 49 points, Dao Heart 130 points, Mana 143 points, Sports 150 points, Martial Arts 95 points, Taoist Arts 95 points… the top students of the three major high schools are only at this level, right?"

He Dayou looked at these extras who sided with whoever had good grades, a hint of disdain flashing across the corner of his mouth.

In this monthly exam's martial arts combat test, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were assigned to a group, allowing He Dayou to finally achieve a score that matched his level.

"Martial arts can be considered to have regained the score I deserve."

As for Taoist arts, it was his forte, and sports had also become the strongest in the grade with his practice in the competition team during this time.

Just then, his phone vibrated, and the news that He Dayou had asked other students to inquire about was sent.

That was Zhang Yu's current physical strength.

"Zhang Yu, this kid, doesn't go to sports class every day, this monthly exam can finally see his physical strength measured in the examination hall yesterday… 2.05 level?"

"As expected of someone who became Zhang Pianpian's dog, he should have been fed a lot of things to be able to improve to this level."

"But… it's far worse than my 2.3 level physical strength, and our gap will only continue to widen."

Seeing Zhang Yu's physical strength, He Dayou finally breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that his efforts and money in the competition team during this time had not been in vain.

"Zhang Yu, you will now experience the feeling of being unable to catch up with me even if you use all your strength."

Compared to He Dayou's excitement, Zhao Tianxing felt extremely uncomfortable.

"Even Yu Zi and A Zhen have been completely surpassed by He Dayou?"

Although he was a little envious of He Dayou and the others, Zhao Tianxing ultimately withdrew from the sports competition team like Qian Shen, watching another student being added to the competition team, and then his physical strength soared, and his monthly exam score also surpassed him.

Zhao Tianxing thought to himself: "Qian Shen disdains using money to buy flesh and buy scores, that's why he withdrew from the competition team."

And after Zhao Tianxing also withdrew from the team, he could feel that Qian Shen looked at him with a higher regard.

But he knew that his situation was completely different from Qian Shen's, and he didn't have Qian Shen's handsomeness and decisiveness at all.

He knew that the reason he chose to withdraw from the competition team was only because of his weakness.

He didn't have the confidence to achieve sufficiently excellent results after his parents spent half their lives' savings on him.

"The sponsorship fee for joining the competition team requires my parents to sell the house to raise enough."

"This is only the first year of high school, what about the future when more money needs to be spent?"

"With my talent, can I really earn it back in the future after spending so much money?"

Zhao Tianxing didn't have any confidence, he was afraid of wasting his parents' savings, afraid of being burdened with huge debts but achieving nothing, and ultimately chose to give up.

"I'm really trash, still telling Qian Shen that I don't want to buy scores like him, obviously I both want it and am afraid of failure."

...

In the cafeteria, Zhao Tianxing put down his dinner plate with a melancholy face.

He saw Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen devouring the synthetic food in front of them like they were in a competition.

"Alas, Yu Zi and A Zhen are always so optimistic, they don't seem discouraged at all even though their rankings were surpassed in this monthly exam, I wish I could be like them."

Bai Zhenzhen glanced at the protein milk in Zhang Yu's hand while eating, thinking to herself: "Yu Zi has been eating better and better recently, could it be that he found money? Or sold something he shouldn't sell?"

Zhang Yu looked at the paste in Bai Zhenzhen's plate while eating, thinking to himself: "A Zhen also needs to improve her physical strength, this money should also be quite insufficient recently, right? I wonder if she is interested in the dark tutoring world."

The doll hanging on Zhang Yu's chest was also observing Bai Zhenzhen, and after these few days of observation, she had come to a conclusion.

So the doll transmitted her voice to Zhang Yu: "Hey, Zhang Yu, do you know if this woman has something in her stomach?"

"Pfft!"

Zhang Yu felt choked and couldn't help but spit out the things in his mouth.

He turned around, lowered his voice, and said to the doll in a voice that only he could hear: "A Zhen is pregnant?"

On the other side, Bai Zhenzhen looked at the paste that Zhang Yu had spat into her bowl, she was sincerely angry: "Are you trying to die, Zhang Yu? Do you want to use this kind of despicable trick to snatch food? I'm going to pee in your bowl!"

The doll said in Zhang Yu's heart: "The thing I'm talking about is a spiritual root, this woman has a spiritual root in her stomach."

Zhang Yu rolled his eyes: "Nonsense, A Zhen rented a spiritual root."

The doll chuckled and said: "Really? According to my observation, the spiritual root in this woman's stomach should be her own."

"It's just that this spiritual root is extremely good at hiding. If you weren't with her every day, and she didn't always use that spiritual root openly in front of you, I wouldn't be able to see this."

Zhang Yu looked at Bai Zhenzhen in shock, thinking to himself: "A Zhen has a spiritual root growing in her stomach?"

Bai Zhenzhen said angrily: "What are you muttering about? Hurry up and buy me another lunch!"

Zhang Yu was still thinking about the spiritual root, took his student card and ran to buy food for Bai Zhenzhen.

Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu's phone left on the table gently vibrating, a message was sent.

Refining Heaven Extreme: Sell me a piece of clothing you've worn.

When she saw this message, Bai Zhenzhen was silent, she silently turned off the screen of Zhang Yu's phone.

"No wonder I feel like Yu Zi has money recently."

"It turns out that unknowingly, he has already walked so far ahead?"

"A Yu! Have you gone this far to earn money for the immortal path?"