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

"Zhang Yu!"

"Zhang Yu!"

"Zhang Yu!"

Accompanied by shouts, Zhang Yu woke up with a start, only to hear laughter erupt in the classroom.

He looked up at the teacher's platform and saw the teacher glaring at him coldly: "Go stand outside."

Zhang Yu stood up helplessly and walked out of the classroom.

Day after day of high school life, he felt no hope.

His grades were getting worse and worse, his ranking lower and lower, dropping from the demonstration class to the worst class. Whether it was classmates or teachers, the way they looked at him was as if they were looking at a bucket of garbage.

The various loans he had taken out in order to cultivate the Immortal Dao were increasing, making it difficult for him to breathe.

Finally, one day, he walked to the school rooftop.

Just as he was about to take a step forward, his phone rang.

Zhang Yu answered the phone and heard the person on the other end say, "Hello? Is this Mr. Zhang Yu? A new cemetery has opened in the northern suburbs. For only 200,000, you can enjoy corpse refining services after death, with a chance to live again..."

Zhang Yu laughed in spite of himself: "Your big data is really good at calculating, even guessing that I'm about to jump off a building? Too bad it didn't calculate that I'm penniless now and can't afford your grave."

The other party continued, "If you're penniless, don't you want to turn things around? Our company has a Heaven Mending Plan. If you're interested in learning more, I'll send it to you..."

Zhang Yu hung up the phone and continued to look at the abyss-like darkness beneath his feet.

"Turn things around..."

After a moment of silence, he finally opened his phone again and looked at the website the other party had sent.

A bear doll appeared on the screen and said, "Make a wish to the gods."

"As long as you set up a ritual for me, your every wish can be realized in five minutes."

"Completely free, zero threshold, rejecting all extra charges."

"Click once to give your life a new look..."

Looking at this scene, Zhang Yu felt something, some painful memories, rushing back and forth in his head, but he couldn't remember what it was.

It was a kind of anger from being constantly forced, constantly tortured, and constantly forced to endure hardship.

Before those painful memories could break out of their cocoons, his emotions and instincts had already reacted.

"Damn!" Zhang Yu roared, throwing his phone away, then raising a middle finger: "Hahaha, trying to trick me?"

"In your next life!"

Zhang Yu's consciousness stagnated, and the next moment he woke up in the classroom again.

But the memories and emotions about the evil god were becoming more and more intense, gradually reminding him of something.

"I remember, I'm participating in the staff assessment for the Divine Auxiliary."

"This assessment seems to be related to the evil god?"

Zhang Yu felt that he understood the key to this assessment and decided to perform well in it.

...

Sun Jiayi's heart was very proud.

Because he was not human, but a god.

Although he was only one of the 480 million meritorious minor gods in the Inspection Department, he was still a god, with the power to review people.

Although he was only reviewing the assessment for outsourced work with an hourly wage of 14 yuan, he had always been conscientious and worked diligently.

This is a god.

Even in humble positions, gods never dare to forget the worries of Kunxu!

At this moment, in front of Sun Jiayi were screens lighting up one after another, constantly playing the content of one assessment after another.

It was a test of the applicants' instinctive reaction to the temptation of the evil god in the illusion of the spiritual realm.

Whether the outsourced staff members of the Inspection Department could withstand the temptation of the evil god in the illusion... was the key to passing the assessment.

"This candidate from Tai'an City, what does it mean to write down his family's assets and background in his resume?"

"What if you have assets of over 100 million? Failing is failing. Do you think I would be partial because of your family background?"

Sun Jiayi sneered, dismissing it with disdain. Seeing the other party hesitating in the illusion, he directly chose to reject him.

"Weak will, unqualified."

Sun Jiayi was a proud god, and the more superior the students he rejected, the more he could feel his own pride as a god and enjoy the satisfaction of fulfilling his responsibilities.

His mind turned to the next candidate from Hong'an City.

The applicant's resume was filled with various honors from the first and second years of high school, a top student in the grade, a frequent competitor, with dazzling talent, outstanding ability, unlimited potential, and a high probability of being admitted to top universities or even joining a major sect.

But watching the other party struggle back and forth in the illusion, taking a full ten minutes to barely reject the temptation of the evil god, Sun Jiayi still mercilessly chose to reject him.

"Hmph, do you think I'll show mercy just because you have a promising future and a shiny resume? I'm not those vulgar people who only care about grades."

"Even if you are really a proud son of heaven like a college student, if you fall into my hands, I'll say you failed, and you failed."

"It took so long to reject, which shows a weak will. How can I let you pass."

His mind turned again, and this time Zhang Yu's information and assessment content appeared in front of Sun Jiayi.

"Hmm, he decisively threw away his phone on the rooftop, not bad."

"The difficulty will increase next. I wonder what will happen."

Next, the scenes on the screen changed back and forth, and various evil god temptation methods were used on Zhang Yu in turn.

There was a beautiful woman who wanted Zhang Yu to make a wish to the evil god with her. Zhang Yu kicked her away and fled quickly.

There were people chasing him, and he was desperate. The evil god tempted him to come and save him. Zhang Yu dismissed it and turned around and threw the evil god doll at his enemies, then shouted: Good stuff! You can wish for anything with this thing!

There was a huge rag doll chasing Zhang Yu, threatening him with terrifying power and wanting to make a contract with him. Zhang Yu ran away while calling the police. After the constables arrived, he even wanted to rush up and fight the evil god with them.

But... Sun Jiayi in front of the screen was no longer watching his active performance, because someone had contacted Sun Jiayi.

Looking at Zhang Pianpian who popped up in the contact window, as well as her identity as the acting deputy captain of the Inspection Team of Songyang City, he frowned slightly and said, "What's the matter, fellow Taoist?"

Zhang Pianpian said, "There is a candidate named Zhang Yu, I hope..."

Sun Jiayi waved his hand to refuse, but saw that the other party had already activated the Lu Shu and directly cast a talisman.

"You dare to cross the spiritual realm and directly cast a talisman on me, a dignified meritorious god?"

"How dare you!"

But when he saw the specific talisman that the other party cast, Sun Jiayi immediately relaxed: "It's a goodwill talisman?!"

Goodwill talisman, a talisman that can quickly increase the goodwill of gods.

The specific working principle is that it does not need the name of the god, no information, and does not need to know the other party's account. As long as the goodwill talisman is activated when contacting the other party, the money can be directly transferred to the other party's account and the transfer record will be automatically hidden.

Perceiving the effect of this goodwill talisman, Sun Jiayi's original serious expression became relaxed.

"I didn't expect you, a mere mortal from the lower realm, to be quite knowledgeable about talismans. You even learned the goodwill talisman."

After noticing the changes in the numbers in his account, a smile appeared on his face, and he exclaimed: "A high school student is so respectful to the gods, which shows a firm belief."

"What do you want me to do?"

Zhang Pianpian was not surprised by this.

Based on her experience in using Lu Shu and learning talismans in the past two years, the level of faith depends on recharging, learning talismans depends on recharging, and asking righteous gods for guidance depends on recharging... so talismans are recharging!

It's just that recharging for the gods also pays attention to methods. Recharging with Lu Shu, private transfers, public transfers, goodwill talismans... various channels can be said to be worlds apart, which involves the level of talismans.

Zhang Pianpian said, "Please, great god, lower the difficulty of Zhang Yu's assessment a little bit..."

Sun Jiayi didn't care and said, "Hey, what difficulty can there be in assessing a job that pays 14 yuan an hour?"

...

In the illusion.

Zhang Yu looked at the world in front of him, his eyes full of confusion.

He was now in a white room.

A line of words floated in the center of the room: The evil god tempts you, will you accept it?

The options "Yes" and "No" floated below.

Isn't this... a trick question?

Because the question seemed too simple, Zhang Yu couldn't answer.

After thinking for a full ten minutes and not being able to detect where the trap was, Zhang Yu nervously chose "No" with a tense face.

The notification that he had passed the assessment appeared in front of him the next moment.

Zhang Yu, who was at a loss, withdrew from the spiritual realm, still not quite clear what had happened.

Just then, his phone rang.

Zhang Yu answered the phone, and Zhang Pianpian's voice came from the other end: "You should have passed the exam, right?"

Zhang Yu immediately told her the doubts in his heart.

Zhang Pianpian explained, "Oh, I gave the meritorious minor god on duty a sum of money to lower the difficulty of the assessment a little bit?"

Is that a little bit?

Is this a god?

Zhang Yu was shocked: "You can bribe the gods with money?"

Zhang Pianpian: "How is that possible?"

Zhang Yu was about to breathe a sigh of relief when Zhang Pianpian continued, "Spending money only makes it possible to bribe the gods. Specifically, it depends on how much you spend and how you spend it, which is related to the level of talismans."

Zhang Yu: "But... that's a god!"

"In Kunxu, gods are paid to do things. This is how money can connect with gods." Zhang Pianpian took it for granted: "Without money, how can the Eight Main Gods operate Kunxu? How can they govern the world?"

Zhang Yu was speechless again and could only say that he had a deeper understanding of Kunxu.

Remembering what the other party had said before, Zhang Yu asked again: "Didn't you say that this assessment tests Dao heart and will?"

Zhang Pianpian said lightly: "Yes, you need to have enough Dao heart, enough will, and be able to persevere until... I find a way in the spiritual realm to find the meritorious god on duty who is responsible for your assessment and transfer the money to his account with a talisman."

She continued: "Okay, I have brought out your work permit and work Lu Shu. Let's meet at the gate of your high school."

"Now... we can talk to the student union of Songyang High School."

So Zhang Yu quickly dragged his tired body onto the bus. An hour and a half later, he arrived at the school station and saw Zhang Pianpian standing at the intersection from afar.

She handed Zhang Yu something that was black and white and looked like a manual.

"This is your work Lu Shu. You have the right to use talismans for free once a day, and you can get a discount on learning the talismans of the Inspection Department through this Lu Shu..."

She pointed to the strange symbols on the Lu Shu and said, "The Lu Shu has the mark of the Inspection Department. You can show it when you encounter trouble."

Zhang Yu carefully held it up and thought to himself: "This is the Lu Shu. The cheapest one costs almost 100,000, right?"

Lu Shu is a key to learning talismans, and talismans are related to high school Daoist skills. Zhang Yu had heard that some high school students even mortgaged their organs in order to buy Lu Shu.

"This thing is actually issued as soon as you come in? This Inspection Department is really rich."

"If A-Zhen sees this, wouldn't she kneel down and call me daddy? Begging me to let her play with it?"

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