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

The ticking of the clock echoed continuously as Zhang Yu sat in the classroom, intently focused on the test paper before him.

But the test paper seemed endless; no matter how he worked on it, how he filled it in, the moment of completion never arrived.

Moreover, his seat drifted farther and farther away from his classmates, gradually obscuring the figures in front, as if he were being swallowed bit by bit by the darkness behind him.

Cold sweat beaded on his forehead, panic surged in his heart, and his constantly writing hand began to weaken, losing its strength.

Just as he fell into the bottomless darkness along with countless books and test papers, Zhang Yu suddenly woke up in bed.

"Was it a dream?"

"It seems like they were all Zhang Yu's past memories."

He rubbed his head, feeling countless fragments of the original owner's memories rising and falling in his mind, shifting and changing unpredictably.

Although the current Zhang Yu had taken control of this body, he had not completely integrated the original memories; many details required focused recollection to remember.

Especially regarding the memories of that strange ritual yesterday, Zhang Yu felt a burst of dizziness with the slightest recollection, unable to remember what had happened.

At that moment, he looked at his phone and found that it was only five in the morning. He wanted to go back to sleep, but found that this body couldn't sleep at all.

It was as if getting up at five o'clock every day for school had become an instinct for this body.

"Why do I feel a sense of guilt if I continue to lie down?"

Zhang Yu sat up, thinking that this was probably the influence of the original owner's memories.

Touching his somewhat empty stomach, Zhang Yu simply stood up, thinking, "Forget it, I might as well go to school, at least I can get a full meal."

He remembered that Songyang High School should provide three meals a day, and the meal expenses for this month had already been charged to the card.

And now, burdened with a huge debt of 700,000 and only having fifty-odd yuan on him, he couldn't afford to eat out.

So, leaving the stuffy apartment and passing through the sewage-filled alley, Zhang Yu squeezed onto the bus with a crowd of people.

Squeezed into the carriage mixed with the smell of sweat and food, the air conditioner was as good as not being turned on. Zhang Yu only felt like he was a deformed takeaway, being transported to the city center with the bumps.

After an hour and a half, changing two buses, Zhang Yu, covered in sweat, finally squeezed off the bus.

Wiping the sweat from his head, Zhang Yu thought, "Speaking of which, why am I a day student?"

"Oh, I remember, it's because I can't afford the boarding fee."

Unlike the place where Zhang Yu lived, the place where he got off the bus was located in the city center. What he saw were tall buildings and clean, wide roads, and even the air was much fresher.

And most of the men and women walking on the road were well-dressed, looking like urban elites.

Walking and stopping along the way, he finally arrived at the school gate. Zhang Yu saw the words "Songyang Advanced Immortal Dao High School" from afar.

On the electronic screen at the school gate, there was even a string of report cards, listing the top ten monthly scores of the three grades of high school.

From this, it can be seen that Songyang High School is a school that attaches great importance to students' grades.

And if Zhang Yu were to summarize it while recalling at this moment, then Songyang High School values grades above all else. This is a world where everyone only cares about grades.

Studying and exams are as natural as breathing here, and almost everyone has extreme score discrimination.

What, your score is so low, no wonder you have to queue for so long in the cafeteria, your score is so low, you are not qualified to eat at the same table with us in the cafeteria, what, the academic master is to insult the academic scum fiercely... all belong to the positive energy of the campus.

"This is completely a world where scores are supreme, the hell of academic scum."

Zhang Yu looked at "Zhang Yu, 10th place in the first grade" on the electronic screen, and sighed in his heart: "Fortunately, I am the one with the high score."

"Although my ranking may seem a bit undeserved at the moment, at least it hasn't been exposed yet, so I should still be able to live a decent life in school, right?"

The cafeteria of Songyang High School provides breakfast, and Zhang Yu followed his memory to come here.

Walking all the way, he found that although there were many students queuing for food in the cafeteria, they were all extremely quiet. Almost everyone queued silently, took the food quietly, and found a place to eat quietly, like gears stuck together, accurately operating every step.

Some students were also holding books and reading while eating, seizing every minute to study.

Just finding a place to sit down, Zhang Yu just took a bite of the meat bun, and found a person sitting in the empty seat in front of him.

This is a girl with dark hair and a fair face.

The other party's name appeared in Zhang Yu's mind.

"Bai Zhenzhen."

"To be precise, Bai Zhenzhen, the first place in the first grade, the woman at the top of the first grade's chain of contempt."

Looking at the girl who was sitting in front of him drinking porridge, Zhang Yu thought: "Is the other party a friend of mine?"

"Because I am in the top ten of the grade? Is this the so-called academic master circle?"

Bai Zhenzhen is the kind of person who feels like she is sulking as long as she doesn't laugh. Even ordinary words can feel a sense of alienation from her mouth.

Just like sitting in front of Zhang Yu at this moment, as long as she doesn't say a word, Zhang Yu feels whether the other party has any opinions on him.

Just as Zhang Yu was focusing on recalling the memories related to Bai Zhenzhen in his head, wanting to confirm what the relationship between the two was.

He heard the girl say, "Go to the small garden after dinner, I'll wait for you there."

Looking at the other party's leaving back, a trace of thoughtfulness flashed in Zhang Yu's eyes.

A moment later, after he was full, he also left the cafeteria and came to the small garden behind the school.

This is a quiet place behind the dormitory building. At this moment, when most of the students are rushing to the teaching building, there are almost no figures to be seen.

Bai Zhenzhen was standing in front of a flower bed. As soon as she heard Zhang Yu's footsteps, she turned around and quickly walked to him.

"Dad!"

With a bang, Bai Zhenzhen knelt down on the ground, hugging Zhang Yu's thigh and said, "There were too many people in the cafeteria just now, I was embarrassed to say it."

"Lend me some money, my small loan is overdue for almost a month! I kneel down for you..."

Zhang Yu cursed secretly in his heart as he watched the scene in front of him: "What kind of broken school is this, the first place in the grade and the tenth place in the grade are both pretending to be rich by borrowing money, right?"

And Zhang Yu had already recalled at this moment that the reason why he and Bai Zhenzhen knew each other was not because of some academic master circle, but because the other party was his online referrer, who had promoted small loans to him.

Let me introduce again solemnly, Zhang Yu's classmate Bai Zhenzhen, is a good brother who shares loan information from major platforms with Zhang Yu, and has a solid friendship of borrowing money everywhere together.

Thinking that the other party was constantly thinking about how to borrow money from him under the cold poker face in the cafeteria just now, Zhang Yu shook his head helplessly: "You let go first, where do I have money to lend you?"

Bai Zhenzhen shook her head and said, "You are only tenth in the grade, how much money can you spend? The loan you applied for must be much less than mine, right?"

Saying that, she said somewhat stiffly and shyly: "As long as you help me pay off the debt, you can do whatever you want."

Zhang Yu's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and looking at Bai Zhenzhen's originally cold Bai Zhenzhen's face like a peach blossom at this moment, he only felt that she had a different kind of charm.

He looked up and down at Bai Zhenzhen's body and asked, "Really anything is fine?"

Bai Zhenzhen bit her lip lightly and nodded: "Yes."

Zhang Yu: "Then can I mortgage you?"

Bai Zhenzhen let go of her hand and stared at Zhang Yu and said, "Yu Zi, you really don't have any money?"

Zhang Yu took out his phone and showed his balance and overdue information.

Bai Zhenzhen stood up, patted the dust-covered trouser legs, and then looked at Zhang Yu with some disbelief and said, "You owe 700,000? Even after graduating from university, I'm afraid it will take a long time to pay it off."

"You are only a freshman in high school and you spend money so fiercely?"

Bai Zhenzhen shook her head repeatedly when she said this: "Zhang Yu, how did you spend this money?"

Zhang Yu rubbed his head and said, "I forgot... you wait for me to think about it."

Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu suspiciously: "You didn't take it to invest in something, did you? Have you been cheated?"

While Zhang Yu was recalling, he also became somewhat uncertain: "Should... not, right?"

Bai Zhenzhen's expression suddenly became serious, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that Zhang Yu's 700,000 expenses had a problem: "Give me your phone to see."

Zhang Yu understood that the other party was concerned about him. After all, investment, fraud, gambling, sudden death, and cultivation deviation were the top five causes of death in Songyang City, with cultivation deviation ranking fifth.

And at this moment, he also had doubts about the original owner in his heart, and immediately took out his phone: "It just so happens that I also want to review how this money was spent, so let's take a look at the flow together."

The two people's eyes swept across the phone screen, and they saw the original Zhang Yu's expenses one by one.

And while Zhang Yu was seeing these, many related memory details kept湧出 from his mind.

Dan Ding Pharmacy -280.00

Dan Ding Pharmacy -250.00

Time Waits for No One Quiet Room -120.00

Zhang Yu said while watching: "This is me buying elixirs at the pharmacy, and then renting a quiet room to practice..."

In addition to general knowledge courses such as Chinese, mathematics, physics, and history, the teaching content of Songyang High School also includes courses related to Immortal Dao.

And the so-called Immortal Dao is the path of cultivation from human to immortal step by step. This is also the most important teaching content in the entire high school stage, accounting for the highest score, and it is also the key to being admitted to a famous university.

Breathing is the most basic skill of Immortal Dao. By breathing, you can gather the spiritual energy in the atmosphere, so that you can accumulate the mana in the cultivator's body.

And only with enough mana can you promote stronger combat power and climb to a higher realm. It can be said that mana is the foundation of the operation of all Immortal Dao techniques.

For example, if the Qi Refining Realm wants to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, the mana requirement is above 60 points, and the upper limit of mana that the Qi Refining Realm can master is 100 points.

In the system built by the top ten sects, everything is tried to be standardized and digitized, and even mana is the same. For example, the current mana detection in schools is accurate to one decimal place.

Bai Zhenzhen nodded slightly and continued to flip through.

Shui Xiu Catering Service Co., Ltd. -532.00

Zhang Yu said: "This is spending more on food supplements in the cafeteria."

In Immortal Dao cultivation, the strength of the physical body is also extremely important, and ingesting a large amount of food rich in spiritual energy and Immortal Dao elements is also a part of the cultivator's daily life, which is called food supplementation.

Longxiang Education Service Co., Ltd. -1500.00

Longxiang Education Service Co., Ltd. -3000.00

Zhang Yu recalled and said: "Um... this is the last tuition fee and the cost of renting a spiritual root."

Spiritual root is a special talent, only a few geniuses possess it, which can greatly increase the cultivation efficiency and combat power of cultivators.

As the most famous threshold of Immortal Dao in the past, even Zhang Yu and his mother, who were in junior high school in the past, knew about the various legends about spiritual roots, so that when the original Zhang Yu was tutoring and repaying the loan, he also used renting a spiritual root as an excuse to let his mother send money.

However, after the Immortal Dao technology has become increasingly developed today, ordinary people like Zhang Yu who do not have a spiritual root can also spend money to rent a spiritual root to improve their cultivation efficiency.

Continuing to flip through, except for Zhang Yu's brief explanation at the beginning, the subsequent spending items were almost similar content back and forth, almost all related to Immortal Dao cultivation.

Soon after flipping through Zhang Yu's expenses in recent months, Bai Zhenzhen's eyes looking at Zhang Yu were full of pity: "You kid really spent so much on your Immortal Dao cultivation?"

"As a result, you only rushed to tenth place after owing more than 700,000?"

"It's only been more than three months since school started, right? What are you going to do next?"

As a person who has only traveled to another world for the first day, Zhang Yu is naturally also confused about the future, and shrugged his shoulders at this moment and said: "Let's just muddle along first, and slowly think of a way."

Looking at the time, it was almost time for class, and the two walked towards the teaching building while chatting.

"How can you who owe more than 700,000 look more relaxed than me who owes more than 200,000?"

Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu's calm appearance and reminded: "You won't have money to continue investing in learning next!"

"Do you know what the consequences of not having money to study are? Do you know how dangerous our situation is now?"

Zhang Yu: "What consequences?"

Bai Zhenzhen said: "There are three weeks left until the monthly exam. In three weeks, you don't have money to rent a spiritual root, no money to buy elixirs, no money to go to tutoring classes, and even no money to buy daily supplements... and others are improving every minute and every second. By then, your grade ranking will drop by dozens of places, which is very normal, and you will be directly kicked out of the demonstration class!"

Combining what Bai Zhenzhen said, many related memories湧出 from Zhang Yu's mind again.

There are a total of ten classes in the entire first grade, from class one to class ten, and the classes are divided according to the monthly exam results.

According to Zhang Yu's ranking, he was naturally assigned to the best class, which is also called the demonstration class.

And the most important thing about the monthly exam results is the results of Immortal Dao cultivation in addition to the regular general knowledge exams.

After all, general knowledge education only accounts for 50 points, and the remaining Immortal Dao subjects add up to a full 650 points.

Especially since everyone is a first-year student, and they all officially started cultivating immortals after school started, the cultivation aspect is actually limited.

Although he seems to be tenth, if he fails to maintain his previous rate of progress in the next few weeks, it is easy to be thrown out of dozens of places.

Bai Zhenzhen continued, "If you keep being broke, your ranking will get worse and worse, and your treatment will get lower and lower. In this vicious cycle, you'll be kicked from Class One to Class Ten step by step!"

Her face was full of gravity as she said, "With no money and no grades, you'll become combustible trash in the eyes of the teachers, a joke in the mouths of the demonstration class students, and an object for the extras in the ordinary classes to realize their cheap sense of superiority!"

Bai Zhenzhen hugged her head. "In this situation, let alone cultivation resources, it will be difficult to maintain a stable Dao heart, and your grades will only get worse and worse, eventually falling below the elimination line. You'll be kicked out of Songyang High School with injuries and a mountain of debt."

Seemingly seeing that tragic future in her mind, Bai Zhenzhen looked up at the sky and lamented, "Do you want to live at the bottom of the entire school's disdain chain, repeatedly humiliated! And eventually become a dropout and a social scum?"

Zhang Yu twitched the corner of his mouth when he heard this, "Then what do you say I should do?"

Bai Zhenzhen was silent for a moment, then turned her head, "Brother, to be honest… you've spent 700,000 to only get to tenth place, you might really not be suitable for the Immortal path."

"I don't know how you got into Songyang, but my suggestion is… drop out and go work, otherwise I'm afraid you'll get in deeper and deeper."

Zhang Yu didn't respond, but he sighed in his heart, "The only good thing about this broken world is that you can cultivate immortality, but after only one day, I'm being told I don't have the talent for it?"

Not long after returning to the classroom, Zhang Yu picked up his vibrating phone and found that Bai Zhenzhen had transferred 500 yuan to him and sent a message.

Bai Zhenzhen: Pay the water and electricity bills first.

Zhang Yu was slightly stunned, then suddenly smelled his clothes and immediately realized that Bai Zhenzhen had smelled the smell of him not having showered for a few days.

Although he was used to the smell himself, it should be quite obvious to others.

Thinking that the other party's economic situation was so bad and she still sent him money, Zhang Yu sighed in his heart, typed a long paragraph on his phone, then deleted it all, and finally replied: Thank you.

After replying to the message, Zhang Yu looked at the palm of his hand and found that the symbol on it was already half filled with black.

On the way to school and into the classroom, Zhang Yu had already discovered that only he could see the symbol on his palm.

At this moment, he calculated the time and estimated that the symbol would be completely filled with black tonight. He just didn't know what would happen after it was filled.

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