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

Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu looked at the ever-increasing bill with each breath they took, and their hearts ached more and more.

On the other side, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen strolled along the shaded paths of the reserve, looking at the endless forest before them, feeling a gradual sense of peace in their hearts.

Breathing in the oxygen from the oxygen tank, Zhang Yu said with some emotion, "The first time I came here, I didn't prepare an oxygen tank, and I had to be careful with every breath, afraid of wasting any time, so I couldn't properly see the scenery here."

Bai Zhenzhen nodded slightly, looking at the quiet and distant forest under the moonlight, slowly walking along the path. She felt her spirit relax for the first time in a long while.

Bai Zhenzhen suddenly recalled that it seemed like a very long time since she had simply taken a walk aimlessly like this, without cultivating or studying.

And it was this feeling of walking with Zhang Yu without having to do anything that made Bai Zhenzhen feel incredibly relaxed.

"If there was a day when we didn't have to study or cultivate, when we could daydream as much as we wanted, stroll as much as we wanted, waste as much time as we wanted... that would be great."

But thinking of this, Bai Zhenzhen sighed softly, deeply understanding how difficult it was to achieve this in Kunxu.

The pressure of the Foundation Establishment exam always followed her like a shadow.

Yun Jing's overwhelming strength was like a needle stuck in her heart. Every time she thought that the Immortal Capital Lord might still be working hard, she couldn't completely relax.

But Bai Zhenzhen really felt so tired, increasingly tired from high school until now, and the visible future would only become more tiring year by year, sometimes giving her a feeling of being unable to breathe.

"Oh well, at least take this opportunity to relax a little..."

Just then, Bai Zhenzhen heard a burst of fist wind and turned to see Zhang Yu practicing again.

You little brat, you're still grinding, huh... Bai Zhenzhen opened her mouth, finally sighed helplessly, and followed suit with her own practice.

She sighed inwardly, "Alas, this is the fate of high school students. To avoid being eliminated, dedicating all your time and energy is the most basic requirement."

Zhang Yu, feeling the receding chill in his mind, cursed inwardly, "This idiotic ritual really doesn't give me a chance to relax."

However, although they were seizing the time to cultivate, being in the reserve, they didn't dare to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy, for fear of bankrupting their current impoverished selves.

On the other side, Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu frowned as they watched the two of them actually cultivating.

"Why are they cultivating here?" Yue Jincheng gritted his teeth and said, "I'm running out of money!"

Si Zhouyu sighed and said, "Hand over your phone."

"This is the company's employee loan channel. Borrow some money from here first."

Yue Jincheng was surprised, "Our company also has an employee loan channel?"

"What's so strange about that?" Si Zhouyu smiled and said, "Which company doesn't have this? Focusing on employee financial services, allowing employees to get salary increases and enjoy life sooner, that's the company's slogan."

"Haven't you always wanted a raise?" Si Zhouyu nodded towards the phone in Yue Jincheng's hand and said, "Apply for a salary increase pre-experience here, and you can automatically borrow a sum of money from your salary every month."

Yue Jincheng was not interested in any early experience, but now he had to borrow money if he wanted to continue tracking Zhang Yu.

Although unwilling, Yue Jincheng finally gritted his teeth and borrowed a sum of money to tide him over.

They continued to watch Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen cultivate for a while in the reserve. Just as Yue Jincheng was thinking that these two might have come here specifically to cultivate, and today's surveillance might be fruitless.

They saw Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen move again, and soon entered a red pagoda's breeding base.

Inside the breeding base, the red panda An An looked at the arriving duo in surprise and said, "Why are you here? And why didn't you make a reservation and just buy tickets to come in?"

Due to a lack of funds, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen hadn't been to the breeding base to mooch off the spiritual veins for a long time.

Hearing An An's question, Zhang Yu smiled slightly and said, "We're not here to cultivate, just here to wander around."

Bai Zhenzhen touched An An's head and asked, "An An, have you lost weight?"

An An responded vaguely to the two of them, always looking preoccupied.

Zhang Yu naturally saw that An An had something on her mind, but he was in enough trouble himself, so he didn't have time to care about others.

Finally, An An couldn't help but say, "Are you guys not coming here to mooch off the spiritual veins anymore?"

"Please, please come here to cultivate, okay?"

Looking at An An with her tail drooping, Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu exchanged helpless glances. Where would they find the money to mooch off the spiritual veins when they had already spent all their spare money?

Moreover, whether it was Zhang Yu or Bai Zhenzhen, their mana was getting closer and closer to the 100-unit Qi Refining limit, and they didn't need the spiritual veins as much anymore. Even if they had money, they would definitely buy cultivation techniques first.

Looking at Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu's silent appearance, An An became dejected.

Bai Zhenzhen couldn't help but ask, "Is Xiong Wenwu having some problems?"

An An said softly, "Red Pagoda High School is running a body refining experimental class, but in addition to grades, you have to pay a registration fee to attend. Wenwu doesn't have enough money, and his grades have been falling behind recently."

"I want to raise some money for him, but my salary is too low."

"If you guys are willing to come and mooch off the spiritual veins, you don't have to tutor him, just give me some money."

Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu and said, "Why don't we introduce Yu Xinghan over here? He should need to mooch off the spiritual veins, right?"

"Anyway, he's going to spend money to cultivate in the spiritual veins, right? Why not come here? It's cheaper too."

Zhang Yu stroked his chin. He had become more and more familiar with Yu Xinghan these days, and he also understood a lot of the kid's operations.

"If he comes here to mooch off the spiritual veins, this kid can earn another commission. He will definitely be willing, and he will definitely keep it a secret."

So Zhang Yu nodded and looked at An An and asked, "Although we can't come, we can introduce a rich person to come. Do you think that's okay?"

An An's eyes widened, and her furry head nodded repeatedly.

Zhang Yu said, "Then it's settled. I'll contact you later."

After solving An An's problem, Zhang Yu asked, "Do you have surveillance cameras here that we can watch?"

So Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen came to the surveillance room and instantly saw every corner of the breeding base.

"Okay." Zhang Yu quickly found Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu appearing in the camera: "See when these two people came in."

An An also felt a burst of surprise. This breeding base was old and remote, and it was rare to see tourists for ten and a half months. Today, in addition to Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, two more people had come?

Under An An's operation, the surveillance video quickly reversed.

Looking at the changing images in the lens, Zhang Yu thought, "They came in shortly after we did?"

"Then it seems likely that these two people are tracking us."

Bai Zhenzhen said, "These two guys are very unfamiliar. They may have the ability to change their body shape and face model."

Zhang Yu himself, as someone who could also change his appearance, had naturally expected this.

"But the image can be ever-changing, but the way they spend money to buy tickets can't."

"The moment these two people bought tickets to enter the breeding base, their accounts were recorded."

He thought to himself, "According to the plan, I'll tease them later, spend more of their money, and interfere with their mentality."

"Speaking of... they should have recorded a lot of footage of us practicing. Later, I'll give them a big one, and then directly report them for secretly learning martial arts..."

Zhang Yu glanced at the Thunder Talisman ready to be launched in his phone.

This talisman left to him by Zhang Pianpian could sound a thunderous alarm and summon the armed forces of the patrol team for law enforcement within a minute.

Zhang Yu had already contacted Yun Ni, the captain of the patrol team, and he could activate it at any time.

This was the plan that Zhang Yu, Fu Ji, and Bai Zhenzhen discussed to find a handle for Deng Bingding.

"Although Deng Bingding is a sixth-grade Sifang wandering god, for the wealthy families of Songyang City, she can already be considered a very high status."

"But having a high status doesn't mean she can do whatever she wants. On the contrary, because of her high status, she can't directly control the wealthy families in Songyang City. She has the power but nowhere to use it."

"But if we can catch these two guys who are tracking me, and they secretly photograph the Spring and Autumn Endless Zen that I learned in the Foundation Establishment exam, then we can let Deng Bingding use the confidentiality of the Foundation Establishment exam candidate information as a reason, giving her a chance to intervene in Songyang City..."

However, Zhang Yu also understood that the so-called plan could not keep up with changes. Although they were planning in this general direction, they would need to respond temporarily if they encountered unexpected situations.

Various pieces of information quickly flashed through his mind. Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen greeted An An and planned to leave the breeding base.

Zhang Yu led Bai Zhenzhen out of the surveillance room and walked along the road they had come from within the breeding base. They soon ran into Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu, who were looking for them.

Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu looked at the demon hybrids in the study room, pretending to be ordinary tourists, but their minds were all focused on Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.

Carefully following behind the two, Yue Jincheng looked at the bill again, and a trace of impatience and agitation flashed in his eyes.

"If we continue to follow like this, the money I borrowed will be used up."

"And who knows if they will take action today? What if these two guys are just out for a stroll today..."

As a recent college graduate, Yue Jincheng had to repay his upbringing loan, his college loan, and buy medicine to maintain his cultivation, so he didn't have much money to begin with.

The thought of spending all his money today without gaining anything made his eyes flash with irritability.

Borrow another sum of money?

His salary didn't increase, but his debt increased sharply?