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

Scattered Hand Level 2 (0/20) → Scattered Hand Level 3 (0/30)

In an instant, the fifteen moves of Scattered Hand became more and more refined in his mind. Even the subsequent changes and connections between each move became incredibly clear and understandable.

The flow of mana in each move became like an instinct. Zhang Yu felt that if he were to execute a move at this moment, the mana in his body would naturally transform and flow to his hands and feet.

"The passive breathing of the Zhou Tian Qi Gathering Method also had an effect in this process."

Zhang Yu felt the circulation of mana in his body. He could feel that because the mana was constantly flowing throughout his body, it made it easier for him to control the mana when using Scattered Hand.

He was somewhat amazed by the great help the Zhou Tian Qi Gathering Method provided to beginners, not only in breathing and body refining but also in practical martial arts.

However, the exam was coming up soon, and Zhang Yu didn't have time to dwell on his thoughts.

After taking a few breaths to recover his strength, he rushed to the examination hall.

The first exam in the afternoon was on Taoist techniques, and the second was on martial arts combat.

The content of the Taoist techniques exam mainly involved the recognition and use of talismans.

After all, those in the Qi Refining realm have not yet mastered true Taoist techniques and can only use their knowledge and mana to activate talismans. Therefore, the Taoist courses in high school for three years are basically related to talismans.

Among them, 'fu' refers to talismans, and 'lu' refers to registers. The so-called talismans refer to the secret methods used by humans to communicate with gods and control divine power.

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Inside the computer lab.

Zhang Yu arrived at the examination hall and sat in front of a computer, silently recalling all sorts of knowledge about talismans.

Not far away, Zhao Tianxing was hurriedly flipping through textbooks, repeatedly memorizing some knowledge points that he was afraid of forgetting.

Bai Zhenzhen was dozing on the table, seemingly not nervous about the upcoming exam at all.

At that moment, a bell rang, and the students put things unrelated to the exam on the table at the front of the classroom and returned to their seats.

A moment later, the computer screens in front of everyone flickered slightly, and their exam papers appeared.

Question 1: Which of the following talismans belongs to the Myriad Lines and Four Connections Great God Talisman of the Ministry of Transportation?

Relevant information instantly appeared in Zhang Yu's memory.

The Ministry of Transportation, one of the eight major divine departments of Kunxu, is in charge of all roads, aviation, and river transportation within Kunxu and has the power to supervise transportation throughout the world.

The Myriad Lines and Four Connections Great God is a main deity in the Ministry of Transportation responsible for urban roads. Zhang Yu remembered that one of the other party's powers seemed to be recording monitoring data of all urban roads and vehicles...

Through the talisman, one can borrow the power of the Myriad Lines and Four Connections Great God to call upon various monitoring systems within the scope of urban roads, which is called knowing three hundred years in advance, with no detail omitted.

After the memory flashed through his mind, Zhang Yu continued to look at the options below.

There were a total of four options, roughly like this:

A、！*★，°*:.☆(￣▽￣)/$:*.°★*。

B、(o\u003eε(o\u003eｕ(≧∩≦)(￣ー￣)X(^▽^)

C、*`)`)*▍`)*`)(((`)

D、『』～o(▽｀o)=▊=▋=▍

"All four options are the beginning of a talisman. Judging from the style, they are all from the main deities of the Ministry of Transportation... Heh, are they trying to mess with my mentality right from the start?"

"Should it be the vehicle monitoring talisman in option D?"

Zhang Yu thought for a while and chose D, and then the next multiple-choice question popped up.

"Which of the following talismans does not belong to the reporting talisman?"

Zhang Yu was slightly stunned: "Reporting talisman? I haven't learned that before. Is this another question beyond the syllabus?"

Frowning slightly, he randomly chose one that looked like it and looked at the next question.

After completing all the multiple-choice questions one by one, the fill-in-the-blanks and essay questions followed, and the difficulty of the questions increased sharply.

Such as, "Please write a health check talisman and respectfully invite the Health Spring Birth Great God of the Ministry of Health to check whether there are lumps in your stomach."

And "What talisman can be used to quickly subdue three mortals without mana 30 meters due north? Please draw the talisman. The following are the specific data of the three mortals and the surrounding environment..."

"Damn it... Can't I just beat up three mortals? What talisman should I use?"

Just as Zhang Yu was writing a detention talisman with a lot of sweat, he heard the sound of a chair being dragged.

He looked up and saw He Dayou, a classmate, had already finished the exam paper and was ready to leave.

Zhang Yu remembered that He Dayou was the third in total score in the monthly exam last month and was a rich man like Qian Shen.

However, unlike Qian Shen, who focused on grades, He Dayou was a show-off and usually didn't have much interaction with Zhang Yu.

Like handing in the paper early at this moment, it was a kind of showing-off behavior.

It was only because talismans are a course that requires money to truly succeed and is the most obvious dividing line between the poor and the rich.

Many people even call talismans the language of the rich.

Specifically speaking, the so-called drawing talismans can mobilize the power of the eight major divine departments to accomplish all kinds of incredible things. The eight major divine departments are often called the Eight Divine Deities by the world.

However, schools only teach the most basic methods of drawing talismans. If you want to learn more advanced talismans, even many talismans that are not available in schools, you must purchase registers.

In addition to the expensive cost of purchasing registers, there are also membership fees, charging to worship gods, faith levels, and other huge expenses.

It can be said that the talismans provided by the registers, in addition to being divided according to the realm level of the practitioner, the most important basis is money.

Only by spending enough money on the registers can you have enough faith level to unlock more permissions and master more advanced talisman drawing methods and various types of talismans.

After completing the above prerequisites, you have the qualifications to study and practice talismans hard, such as one-on-one talisman dialogues with the Eight Divine Deities, such as talisman error reports guided by the gods, and talisman optimization guided by the gods while practicing... Of course, this process of hard practice is also expensive.

It can be said that learning talismans outside of campus is a process that requires money.

Throughout this process, once the rules set by the Eight Divine Deities are violated, such as privately transmitting talismans or violating the laws of the sect with talismans, you will be punished, ranging from paying fines to bankruptcy.

Every time Zhang Yu takes Taoist classes to learn talismans, he can't help but sigh that this is an absolutely unfair and unjust course. It is also the best way for rich people to score points in the college entrance examination and the subject that can widen the gap between the rich and the poor. It is worthy of being called the language of the rich.

However, Zhang Yu had also heard Zhou Tianyi say that talismans are not the most expensive in Taoist techniques.

Many Taoist techniques that can only be learned after Foundation Establishment require huge amounts of money, enough to make a college student fall into debt.

After finally surviving the Taoist techniques exam, as soon as Zhang Yu left the classroom, he saw a large group of people surrounding He Dayou to compare answers.

He Dayou smiled slightly, took out a jade tablet-like object, and then scribbled on it like a ghost painting a talisman.

As the mana in his hand fluctuated, a golden phantom slowly emerged from the jade tablet.

He Dayou smiled and said, "This is the Answer Talisman of the All-Knowing and All-Questioning Great God. You can ask Him any questions you have."

Many students exclaimed at this scene, and their eyes were full of envy as they looked at He Dayou.

Just as Zhang Yu was watching the jade tablet in He Dayou's hand, Bai Zhenzhen's voice sounded beside him: "Is that a register? And the whole jade-colored skin, this guy must have been preparing to show off for a long time, right?"

Zhang Yu turned his head and saw Bai Zhenzhen next to him, indignant and twisted with jealousy.

Zhang Yu asked, "How did you do on the exam?"

Bai Zhenzhen said dissatisfiedly, "What else can I do? At least a quarter of them were talismans that I hadn't learned before."

"The college entrance examination exceeded the syllabus by 20% last year, and this year it's going to be 25%? If this continues, when we take the college entrance examination, will half of the content on the exam paper be something we haven't been taught? They really have no shame at all."

"It's best not to let me meet those rich people in the combat exam, otherwise, I'll make them fail."

He Dayou on the other side seemed to feel Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu's gazes, turned his head, and smiled slightly at the two of them.

Bai Zhenzhen also instantly put on a calm appearance and nodded slightly at the other party.

A moment later, the next exam was about to begin. He Dayou and several companions walked towards the martial arts combat exam hall together.

He Dayou is the kind of person who can write "My Dad is a School Board Member" in elementary school compositions.

Because his father is really a school board member of Songyang High School.

But he, who has been living a life of luxury since he was a child, doesn't think he has an easy life, only because he is just one of his father's more than thirty children.

He also became one of the only two high school students and the only two cultivators among the more than thirty people after repeated assessments, competitions, and completing family KPIs one after another.

As for the other mortal brothers and sisters, in order to repay the debt of raising them, they had long gone to work in their father's company.

"Although I am a child from a wealthy family, the more important thing is my own efforts and talents to get to where I am today."

"I obtained my father's investment through my efforts. Why can't I show off my wealth?"

"Those poor ghosts only know how to complain about the world all day long and think that I got to this point because I have a rich dad? A bunch of naive and ridiculous guys."

With this thought in mind, He Dayou has always looked down on those who are poor and have poor grades.

When he entered Songyang High School as the son of a school board member and learned more about the many unspoken rules in this high school, he gradually looked down on the poor people with good grades.

"No matter how good your grades are, it's only temporary. These poor people don't know... From the moment they are born, they have no chance to succeed."

"Maybe they and us can no longer be considered the same species."

With this thought in mind, He Dayou has always maintained the third-place ranking in the grade, showing off his wealth from time to time, living a peaceful campus life, and waiting for the moment to be admitted to a top university.

Until a person's change broke the peace in his heart.

Looking at Zhang Yu's increasingly hardworking appearance in the past half month, which even caused the whole class to become competitive, he felt disgusted.

"This kind of poor ghost... counts the debts on his fingers every month, and after school every day, he has to rush to work, earning hundreds or thousands of dollars in pocket money at a time, saving money on food and clothing to cultivate immortality, and dreaming of getting rich overnight and living forever."

"They simply don't know who their competitors are in the college entrance examination."

"Still jumping up and down in school."

"Really ugly because of poverty."

He Dayou couldn't stand Zhang Yu's crazy efforts, as if he could win against them rich people through hard work.

Especially after hearing the rumors that Zhang Yu was accepted as a disciple by a Golden Core cultivator, this school board member's son specially used his connections to confirm the news.

After confirming that Zhang Yu had not been accepted as a disciple by a Golden Core cultivator, his disgust for this person reached a peak.

"Deliberately not clarifying, trying to bluff and deceive?"

So he planned to take the opportunity to teach this poor ghost a lesson in the combat exam and make him recognize his true position.