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

"Also, the Yuan Yang spiritual root is very popular among the Heavenly spiritual roots. After all, everyone in our school is a virgin. The Yuan Yang spiritual root can refine the Yuan Yang essence in a virgin's body into mana, greatly enhancing the effect of mana cultivation."

Zhao Tianxing said proudly, "Especially our high school's Yuan Yang spiritual root has been passed down for nearly twenty years. After being played with by generations of predecessors, it has been contaminated with the Yuan Yang essence of tens of thousands of students, making it even more mysterious."

Zhang Yu frowned as he listened, feeling that this Yuan Yang spiritual root sounded very dirty, and also...

"Aren't we all sterilized? Can we still use this virgin spiritual root?"

"It's Yuan Yang spiritual root," Zhao Tianxing explained. "Sterilization surgery only temporarily removes some organs, but the Yuan Yang essence in our body is still continuously湧 out from the kidneys, it just doesn't stimulate our emotions and spirit anymore."

"Otherwise, how would people who undergo restoration surgery and regain their new roots after graduating each year do it?"

As Zhang Yu walked, he continued to ask, "Among the school's Heavenly spiritual roots, are there any that are more helpful for mana enhancement?"

Zhao Tianxing's heart stirred when he heard this. Thinking about Zhang Yu's recent actions, he thought that the other party had been very concerned about enhancing his mana lately.

"Could it be to participate in the magic competition?"

Zhao Tianxing thought for a while and said, "There are many spiritual roots that can assist in mana enhancement. The best one in our school should be the Qi Sea spiritual root, but it's relatively expensive. However, since you're getting it as a free reward this time, the price doesn't matter..."

The Qi Sea spiritual root, nicknamed the Wall-Penetrating King, has the greatest advantage of an extremely large coverage area. It can also penetrate various walls, buildings, and even the earth's barriers, to collect spiritual energy on a large scale and improve the efficiency of mana extraction.

After listening to Zhao Tianxing's introduction, Zhang Yu had already decided to try this Heavenly spiritual root.

Arriving at the spiritual root rental office next to the quiet room, Zhang Yu didn't rush to state his goal, but picked up the introduction manual on the table and started reading it.

The administrator next to him was a baby-faced female teacher.

Seeing Zhang Yu's actions, she seized the opportunity to ask, "Student, are you a member here? Are you familiar with any spiritual roots?"

Zhang Yu said without looking up, "No, I'm not."

The administrator quickly recommended, "We currently have a new member promotion where you get 1,000 free for every 10,000 you deposit. Would you like to try it, student?"

Zhang Yu: "I'm here for the Heavenly spiritual root rental reward for 0% Shenlv rate. I'm only taking the reward, I'm not interested in anything else, you don't need to promote to me."

The administrator smiled helplessly when she heard this and stepped back: "Then tell me if you need anything, student."

Listening to what he said, she had already silently labeled Zhang Yu as stingy and lost interest in promoting to him.

Zhang Yu didn't care what the other party thought. He just lowered his head and quickly scanned the manual, finding that what was written on it was similar to what Zhao Tianxing had said.

So he said to the administrator next to him, "I want to rent the Qi Sea spiritual root."

The other party said, "Scan your student card."

Zhang Yu took out his student card and handed it to her.

This Songyang High School student card represents his high school student status and is an important certificate for him to legally cultivate immortality and enjoy various related services on the path of immortality on weekdays.

After a while, the administrator in the office handed him a jade box.

"The Qi Sea spiritual root is inside. Go to quiet room number 2 inside later, open the jade box, and take the spiritual root."

"Your rental time is one hour, and the time is calculated from the time you enter the quiet room. If you are overtime for 1 minute, it will be calculated as 1 hour. You can watch the time and come out..."

After the administrator in charge of the rental business gave some instructions on the relevant details, she told Zhang Yu to go in quickly.

Zhao Tianxing: "Then Zhang Yu, you go ahead, I have to go too."

Zhang Yu nodded to him: "Thanks."

Watching Zhang Yu turn around and leave, Zhao Tianxing kept thinking about Zhang Yu's expression and tone, thinking, "Our relationship should be closer this time, right?"

On the other side, in quiet room number 2.

This was a room about twenty square meters in size. A futon was placed in the center of the room, and the surrounding walls were covered with a layer of soundproof material, which was also covered with large and small twisted runes.

It is said that these runes can accelerate the gathering of spiritual energy, which has a certain effect on improving the efficiency of breathing.

However, Zhang Yu only had one hour of breathing time from the moment he stepped into the room. He didn't have time to care about the layout of the room, but sat directly on the futon and opened the jade box.

I saw a piece of exquisite and translucent crystal, the size of a palm, flashing with a faint blue light in the jade box.

The crystal floated in the center of the jade box, surrounded by strands of light particles like blue smoke.

This is the spiritual root he rented this time, the Heavenly spiritual root known as the Qi Sea spiritual root.

Zhang Yu carefully picked up the Qi Sea spiritual root. As soon as he put it to his mouth, he felt a coolness in his throat. The Heavenly spiritual root penetrated into his body like a ball of ice water and sank into his lower abdomen in one breath, drilling into his lower dantian.

As soon as the Qi Sea spiritual root entered the dantian, it seemed to take root and sprout, extending sections of crystal-like roots and piercing into the surrounding mana.

Zhang Yu understood that according to the user manual and the administrator's instructions, the Heavenly spiritual root had been successfully planted in the dantian at this moment.

Next, he only needs to breathe like usual, and the Heavenly spiritual root will naturally play its role.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yu took a deep breath and began to run the Zhoutian Qi Gathering Technique.

Boom!

A loud noise seemed to erupt in his mind.

Zhang Yu only felt the surrounding spiritual energy swarming in and pouring towards the Heavenly spiritual root in his body.

"Two times?"

"Three times?"

"Too fast...it's still rising!"

Feeling more and more spiritual energy pouring into his body, Zhang Yu quickly calmed down and fully operated the level 6 Zhoutian Qi Gathering Technique.

As the mana cycle throughout his body accelerated, wisps of spiritual energy were refined into mana.

The dantian, which originally felt a little bloated due to the swarming spiritual energy, returned to normal.

But as if sensing the speed at which Zhang Yu extracted mana, the Qi Sea spiritual root shrank and expanded, increasing the speed of collecting spiritual energy again.

This time, it was not only the spiritual energy around Zhang Yu that swarmed in, but even the spiritual energy outside the room was attracted.

Corridor...outside the window...sky...even underground...

The Qi Sea spiritual root gradually increased the range of collecting spiritual energy with the efficiency of Zhang Yu's mana extraction, and finally stopped at a distance of 50 meters.

Feeling the massive amount of spiritual energy pouring into his body like a long river, and then being introduced into the mana cycle throughout his body, and finally being refined into his own mana bit by bit.

At this moment, Zhang Yu actually felt a sense of rapid mana growth.

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"So this is the real efficiency of the level 6 Zhoutian Qi Gathering Technique?"

At this time, Zhang Yu finally understood that he had not been able to exert the true power of the level 6 Zhoutian Qi Gathering Technique when he usually breathed spiritual energy and extracted mana.

Now, with the help of the Qi Sea spiritual root, he truly maximized the efficiency of the Zhoutian Qi Gathering Technique in extracting mana.

Not daring to waste any second, Zhang Yu devoted himself to breathing spiritual energy and extracting mana next.

At the same time, in the spiritual root rental office, the administrator who had just received Zhang Yu looked at the computer screen in front of him and said unexpectedly: "Huh? The spiritual energy concentration has decreased?"

The quiet room for breathing rented by the school naturally not only has a quiet effect, but the spirit gathering runes arranged in it can control the concentration of spiritual energy in the room, so that the breathing effect can be improved.

The administrator carefully observed the monitoring parameters and found that room number 2 had a significant spiritual energy gathering phenomenon, which attracted a large amount of surrounding spiritual energy, resulting in a decrease in the spiritual energy concentration in the surrounding rooms.

"Quiet room number 2, I remember that high school student was using it just now, right?"

"This level of spiritual energy gathering, can a high school student actually do it?"

The administrator felt more and more surprised. In her memory, at least a second-year high school student could exert such an effect from the Qi Sea spiritual root.

"Zhang Yu?"

Recalling the student's name and class that he had just registered, the administrator silently remembered it in his heart and overturned the stingy label that he had just put on the other party.

"So powerful in the first year of high school, this student must have spent a lot of money on the Immortal Path."

The administrator turned on more spirit gathering runes to adjust the spiritual energy concentration back, while silently thinking in her heart: "I'll add his contact information later. If he can open a platinum membership with me, I won't have to worry about my performance for the next few months."

She planned to tell no one and focus on developing this potential customer by herself.

In the blink of an eye, an hour passed.

Zhang Yu was immersed in the pleasure of the surging spiritual energy, and his mana had unconsciously increased from 9.4 to 9.5. Obviously, this hour was comparable to Zhang Yu's half-day of hard work.

Just then, a female voice sounded in the intercom in the room.

"Student Zhang Yu, the one-hour time is almost up, do you need to add more time?"

For some reason, Zhang Yu felt that the administrator's voice seemed to be much gentler.

Feeling the satisfaction of the surging spiritual energy and the full power operation of the Zhoutian Qi Gathering Technique, Zhang Yu couldn't help but ask: "How much does it cost to add more time?"

The administrator quickly said: "The rental price of the Qi Sea spiritual root is 5,000 yuan per hour, but we have a special promotion today. If new users deposit 100,000 yuan in one go, they will not only get 10,000 yuan free, but also get an 8.8% discount on the rental fee."

Zhang Yu sighed helplessly in his heart and slowly stopped breathing: "I have something to do today, so I won't add more time."

When returning the spiritual root, Zhang Yu felt the administrator's politeness even more, and he happened to have some questions he wanted to ask.

So Zhang Yu reluctantly glanced at the Qi Sea spiritual root that was being returned to the jade box and asked, "How much does this spiritual root cost if it's sold?"

The administrator's eyes moved and she smiled: "The price of the Qi Sea spiritual root is 60 million."

Zhang Yu gasped in his heart, but said with an unchanged expression: "So expensive?"

The administrator said with a smile: "Yes, in fact, we don't recommend buying it very much. Renting is much more cost-effective than buying. After all, it's too extravagant to have a Heavenly spiritual root in the early stage of Qi Refining. Generally, cultivators will only consider buying a spiritual root after entering university."

Zhang Yu nodded slightly. He knew that the last hurdle to break through from the Qi Refining realm to the Foundation Establishment realm was to plant a spiritual root of his own, and this was indeed something that college students needed to consider.

However, whether to plant a Heavenly spiritual root, an Earthly spiritual root, or a Human spiritual root all depends on the cultivator's own financial resources.

As for the higher-level Divine spiritual root and Immortal spiritual root, they can only be transplanted after joining a special department or joining a large sect.

"A good Heavenly spiritual root is really...TMD expensive."

Taking a deep look at the spiritual root that was being put away, Zhang Yu thought that one day he would buy a spiritual root of his own.

Before he left, the administrator took the initiative to add his contact information, and Zhang Yu learned that her name was Wei Xin.

Wei Xin silently changed Zhang Yu's note to Zhang Yu (Platinum Member Seed).