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

Accompanied by a rumble from the ground, walls suddenly rose in the arena, dividing the vast space into many small rooms.

In the Sung Yang High School's resting area, Zhang Yu looked at the scene in surprise: "The Purple Cloud High School's stadium can actually transform? Compared to this, our school's stadium is just a sandbox, right?"

Most of the Sung Yang students around him darkened their faces upon hearing this, but considering Zhang Yu's demonstrated level 4.95 physical strength, no one dared to openly contradict him, not even He Dayou, the principal's son, could only pretend not to hear this Sung Yang hater's words.

After all, Sung Yang High School values scores above all else, and physical strength as high as Zhang Yu's was the most valued of all, someone whose mere glance could terrify the underachievers.

Wang Hai, standing beside him, changed the subject: "Besides physical strength, the sports competition also tests agility, speed, and power."

"Agility has a total score of 75, speed is also 75, and power is 150. Each stage is crucial. Those who are weak in one area won't achieve good rankings because the sports competition tests the students' overall physical qualities."

"Listen carefully, they're about to explain the rules of the competition."

An animated video began playing on the big screen, demonstrating the assessment process for the next stage.

Each contestant stood alone in a small room on the arena.

A halo with a radius of 3 meters lit up beneath the contestant's feet.

Of course, the halo under the feet of larger contestants would be enlarged proportionally to their size.

Then, in the video, high-speed steel balls began to spray out of the four walls of the room, shooting toward the contestant.

At the same time, the halo under the contestant's feet would constantly shrink. As the halo shrank, it would become increasingly difficult for the contestant to dodge the steel balls within the halo.

The stage would end when the contestant was hit by a steel ball, or if their foot stepped out of the circle, which would also count as a loss.

The score for this stage would be based on how long each contestant could last in the halo. The longer they lasted, the better, and the one who lasted the longest would be the first place.

Contestants who didn't make it into the top twenty in this stage would be directly eliminated and wouldn't be able to participate in the next stage.

Wang Hai said, "Do you all understand? It's similar to the agility training I usually lead you through, but more challenging."

Zhang Yu rubbed his chin and said, "In that case, larger contestants have a disadvantage in this stage. They'll inevitably have to dodge more steel balls at the same time."

Wang Hai said from the side: "A large physique has advantages, allowing one to fully display their skills in the subsequent power competition. However, it also has disadvantages, such as being more easily hit in this agility competition, and having a disadvantage in the next speed stage."

"The sports competition tests the all-around qualities of the body. Even with some emphasis, it won't allow students who are severely lacking in some areas to achieve high rankings… Power, speed, and agility are all essential."

Then, the video began to introduce some details, such as that participants were not allowed to circulate their magical power during the competition and had to wear magical power detection patches to detect magical power flow.

Zhang Yu nodded slightly, knowing that he would have to temporarily stop the passive breathing of the Zhoutian Qi Gathering Technique.

Of course, as a sports competition that tested physical strength, spiritual roots were also not allowed to be used.

So, from the moment she got on the bus today, Bai Zhenzhen had been concealing the spiritual root within her body, not wanting to let the power of the spiritual root take effect in the slightest.

After the detailed rules were explained, Bai Zhenzhen said, "There are still ten minutes before the official start of the competition. Let's go, Yu Zi, let's go to the toilet together, so we don't have to hold it in during the competition."

The two went to the toilet together, and along the way, they saw the competition teams from various high schools preparing for the competition, with the main activity being doping.

They watched as students from ordinary high schools injected unlabeled, unpackaged injections into their acne-covered arms.

They watched as students from White Dragon High School, relying on their strong physiques, swallowed cans of brand-name potions in front of the cameras.

They watched as the black monsters from Red Pagoda High School injected one needle after another into their blood vessels.

They watched as Le Mulan and Lian Tianji from Purple Cloud High School injected themselves internally and then intracranially, enhancing their all-around abilities...

After watching all this... how should I put it, Zhang Yu was no longer as surprised as before, and wouldn't ask questions like, 'Isn't the sports competition supposed to only test the physical body? Why not ban doping?'

Now, if someone asked him that, he would confidently explain, "Testing the various abilities of the physical body also includes the body's drug resistance. That's how Kunxu is."

Arriving in front of the toilet, the two went to the men's and women's restrooms, respectively.

Although Zhang Yu had experienced many toilets in his life, including but not limited to Sung Yang High School, Red Pagoda High School, White Dragon High School...

He was still shocked at this moment.

"This ghostly place actually has a sideboard? And a box of chopsticks and a box of spoons on the sideboard?"

Since there was already a sideboard, Zhang Yu wasn't too surprised to see a dining table next to it.

But when he saw the warning 'No peeing on the dining table' posted on the table... he fell silent again.

Damn it... are the students at Purple Cloud High School so ill-mannered?

But after looking at the notice on the wall, he realized that his understanding was somewhat different.

Because too many students were breaking down, and the school's profits had declined in the last quarter, they launched a policy to care for the underachievers.

Not only did they install dining tables and sideboards in the toilets to allow the underachievers to eat with peace of mind and comfort, but they also prohibited bullying in the toilets.

"So that's it, it's to care for the underachievers... but it feels even more hopeless."

On the other side, at the entrance of the women's restroom.

Bai Zhenzhen was curiously observing the other doors besides the women's and men's restrooms...

One of them was labeled 'Le Mulan Exclusive'.

"A toilet exclusively for the top student in the grade?"

Bai Zhenzhen wanted to try it out, but found that the door didn't even have a handle and seemed to require identity recognition to open automatically.

A trace of envy flashed in Bai Zhenzhen's eyes: "Sung Yang High School is really lacking, it should learn more from Purple Cloud, it would be great to build a toilet exclusively for the top three students."

A moment later, the two returned to the side of the arena.

Before officially entering the arena, Bai Zhenzhen took a bottle of nootropic to improve her concentration in the arena later.

Zhang Yu also took a bottle of stimulant to increase his speed of movement in the arena next.

Although he was following the path of natural body refinement, if it could improve his performance in the arena by a few points, Zhang Yu naturally wouldn't stubbornly refuse to take the medicine.

Then the two drank a few more bottles of nerve-filling agents together to prevent drowsiness during the second half of the night's competition.

Soon, all the contestants entered the arena, and after everyone had attached the magical power detection patch to their bodies, they were assigned to separate small rooms.

As the halo on the ground suddenly lit up, Zhang Yu directly tensed his nerves.

The next moment, with a whistling sound, steel balls shot out from the surrounding walls at high speed.

"Fortunately... it's much slower than the Armor-Breaking Sword Qi that Ah Zhen stabs with."

Zhang Yu, who had taken the stimulant, had his muscles completely excited at this moment, and his body reacted extremely quickly. Watching the steel balls shooting towards him, he constantly moved his body, making dodging movements.

"With this circle on the ground being big enough, I don't need to use Full Concentration yet."

Full Concentration is the level 10 effect of the Heavenly Martial Heart Refining Technique, allowing Zhang Yu's concentration to be unprecedentedly focused, even creating an illusion of slowed time when observing the world.

But Full Concentration has a flaw, which is that it cannot be used for a long time.

When Zhang Yu first mastered it, he could only maintain it for one minute.

Now, with the improvement of his Dao heart and the increasing strength of his martial arts will, he has increased the time to one and a half minutes.

"But since I can still hold on in the normal state, I'll wait for the circle to shrink a little more, when dodging becomes more and more difficult, before using the Full Concentration state..."

...

On the spectator stand.

Gang Shan, as an online celebrity blogger, watched the arena and commented: "As the circle continues to shrink, the difficulty will increase sharply, testing both the body's reaction and speed, and the brain's concentration endurance..."

At this moment, students began to be eliminated from the arena.

A high-speed steel ball slammed into the leg of a student from an ordinary high school with a bang, staggering the student.

As the student's movements paused, more steel balls shot towards him.

The student's mind was already in a panic at this moment, and his physical fitness and brain reaction were completely unable to keep up with the constantly shooting high-speed steel balls.

"Is the competition so much more difficult than our school's usual training?"

The next moment, with steel balls hitting his body one after another, the student fell to the ground bleeding.

After retiring from the competition, he looked at the students who were still competing on the big screen with some envy and jealousy.

"Are these guys from key high schools and the top three high schools monsters? They can actually dodge until now?"

Similar scenes were continuously appearing in every corner of the arena, and a large number of participating students from ordinary high schools were not only eliminated but also injured.

Gang Shan showed the audience the eliminated ordinary high school contestants and then looked at the Purple Cloud High School contestants who were calmly dodging the steel balls on the other side.

Lian Tianji in the circle looked in all directions and listened to all sides, constantly moving his body in small steps to avoid the shooting steel balls.

Le Mulan, not far away, looked even more relaxed, walking in the circle as if strolling in a leisurely courtyard, allowing the afterimages of the high-speed steel balls to pass close to her body, as if dancing with her.

Gang Shan exclaimed, "The gap between the two sides is too big. Almost all the students from ordinary high schools have been eliminated, but the top three high schools are far from their limit."

Le Jingchen looked at the eliminated ordinary students and only felt a sense of stupidity.

Spending a few thousand or tens of thousands a month to learn to cultivate immortality?

Le Jingchen couldn't understand what these poor people were working so hard to cultivate immortality for. In his opinion, whether these poor people cultivated immortality or not, there was not much difference in their lives. Forcing themselves to cultivate immortality was just asking for trouble.

But of course, Le Jingchen would not say this idea, otherwise, where would Purple Cloud Pharmaceutical get so much money to earn? Where would their family get so many resources?

So at this moment in the live broadcast room, Le Jingchen said: "In fact, the gap is not that big. I believe that ordinary high schools also have students with extraordinary qualifications. The reason why they show such a big gap with students from the top three high schools is often just that they are lagging behind in information."

Before the start of the competition, the top three high schools had been keeping secret and probing each other's breakthrough body refining technologies.

Now, after the start of the competition, Le Jingchen knew that there was no need to continue to keep it secret.

He continued: "For example, Purple Cloud High School's Super Metabolism Surgery, or White Dragon High School's Imitation Demon Muscle Surgery, if students from ordinary high schools knew about these technologies and had these surgeries, they might have a chance to compete with Le Mulan and Song Hailong."

As he spoke, Le Jingchen pointed to the direction of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen and said: "Gang Shan, look, these two students from Sung Yang High School have caught up with the level of the top three high schools after receiving the new body refining technology, haven't they?"

Since he realized that Sung Yang High School wanted to make a splash in this sports competition, Le Jingchen didn't mind using the other party to promote the new body refining technology.