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

Songyang High School.

In the blink of an eye, four days had passed since Zhang Yu rented the Qi Sea Spiritual Root.

This day was the day when Songyang High School's first-year students were selected to register for the city-wide magic competition.

In magic class.

As the bell rang to signal the end of class, Zhang Yu rarely stopped his breathing exercises and opened his eyes to look towards the big screen.

After these few days of hard work, his magic power continued to increase rapidly, rising from 9.5 to 10.5, a rate of progress that attracted the attention of many students in the class.

Moreover, Zhang Yu's Zhoutian Qi Gathering Method had also been upgraded from level 6 to level 8 (3/160), but only he knew about this achievement. If his classmates and teachers knew, it would not be as simple as surprise.

After all, although Zhang Yu's magic power had increased rapidly, there was still a precedent for it. Many wealthy people could increase their magic power faster than him as long as they spent enough money.

But to raise a breathing technique to level 8 in such a short period of time… at least with Zhang Yu's current level, he didn't know anyone else who could do it besides him.

At this moment, looking at the big screen, the magic power ranking of the entire grade had already appeared.

First place, Bai Zhenzhen, 12.1

Second place, Qian Shen, 11.9

Zhang Yu continued to scan downwards and quickly found himself in eighth place.

Eighth place, Zhang Yu, 10.5

“Eighth place?” Zhang Yu nodded slightly, knowing that there would be no problem registering for the magic competition next.

But soon the chill in his heart surged again. Zhang Yu listened to the countdown and had to close his eyes again, seizing the time to start breathing exercises.

The teacher Yan on the podium flicked her hair and glanced at the ranking with satisfaction, saying, “In the past week, everyone's distraction rate has decreased by another 8%, and the efficiency of magic power improvement is 12% higher than last month. I am very pleased.”

She watched Zhang Yu start seizing the time to continue breathing exercises and nodded with satisfaction, continuing, “Here I would also like to give special praise to a student, and that is Zhang Yu.”

“Not only has he maintained a 0% distraction rate for two consecutive weeks, but in the past week, he has also made a qualitative leap in magic power, rising from 16th place to 8th place. It's really amazing, everyone applaud for him.”

Sparse applause rang out, and Teacher Yan then announced the top ten students who would participate in the magic competition.

“The magic competition will start next month. I will give you the specific competition time and rules as soon as I get them.”

“Okay, class dismissed.”

“By the way, students who want to buy Spirit Gathering Pills remember to come to the office to find me. There is a special offer recently…”

Bai Zhenzhen looked a little thinner, and her cheeks had become a little sunken.

Looking at Teacher Yan's radiant face at this moment, she thought to herself, “It's been so competitive these days, isn't it all because of…”

Thinking of this, she subconsciously looked towards Zhang Yu's seat, only to find that he had started breathing exercises again.

“You beast! Zhang Yu, you beast! Stop it! Don't be so competitive!”

After scolding him angrily in her heart, Bai Zhenzhen was still unable to watch her good brother progress alone, so she painfully closed her eyes and also began breathing exercises.

Qian Shen, who was sitting not far from Bai Zhenzhen, had been staring at Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu. Seeing the two of them start seizing the time during breaks and while the teacher was talking to do breathing exercises, his heart sank.

As a student in the demonstration class of Songyang High School, Qian Shen believed that he had never been afraid of competition since he was a child.

But in the past eight days, after competing with Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen all the way, his thinking had changed.

“They barely even go to the toilet, and they don't even scratch when they itch. I really can't do what they do!”

“Compared to them, am I the one who hasn't evolved completely?!”

Staring at the two people who were still doing breathing exercises, Qian Shen finally closed his eyes unwillingly.

Compete! Just compete hard!

…

In physical education class.

Many students were either doing acupuncture or body refining. Accompanied by bursts of beast-like roars, even the floor was constantly stained with a strong smell of sweat.

Bai Zhenzhen wiped the sweat from her forehead and subconsciously glanced at the small dark room in the corner.

Because Zhang Yu had been isolated by the physical education teacher Wang Hai, he had been studying alone in that small room during recent physical education classes.

However, at this moment, Zhang Yu did not continue to breathe in spiritual energy like he had done in the past few days, but instead began to practice the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Strengthening.

With a crackling sound, the muscles on Zhang Yu's body bulged, bursting out with fierce power, lifting the exercise equipment in front of him, putting it down, and then lifting it up again, putting it down…

At the same time, the specialty on the feather book was switched from the level 8 Zhoutian Qi Gathering Method to the level 3 Thirty-Six Forms of Body Strengthening.

There was a reason why Zhang Yu did this.

First of all, because of the lack of spiritual root matching, Zhang Yu's own ability to absorb spiritual energy was too limited, and the continued upgrade of the Zhoutian Qi Gathering Method was becoming less and less effective.

Secondly, he had already obtained the qualification for the magic competition, so the next goal was the monthly exam nine days later.

“Recently, my magic power has increased a lot, and even if I don't do breathing exercises, the passive breathing effect of the level 8 Zhoutian Qi Gathering Method is still 65% of the active breathing.”

“My magic power score in this monthly exam will not be bad. Continuing to invest a lot of effort… the cost-effectiveness for improving my score will be a bit low.”

Zhang Yu thought to himself, “If I want to improve my monthly exam score next, I have to look at Dao Heart, physical education, martial arts, and Dao techniques.”

“In terms of Dao Heart… although I have not yet mastered the Heavenly Martial Heart Refining Technique, I have fully understood its mysteries. I should be able to get a good score if I use it to participate in the Dao Heart exam.”

“As for martial arts, in addition to the theoretical 20 points, the remaining 80 points depend on actual combat. It will not improve so quickly to hire someone to feed me moves and spar with me.”

“Dao techniques are even more difficult. There will be no improvement in a short period of time.”

After thinking about it, Zhang Yu still felt that it would be better to spend the next 9 days improving the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Strengthening and his physical strength.

Especially in the process of practicing the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Strengthening, he even discovered an additional benefit brought by the Zhoutian Qi Gathering Method.

He saw his whole body exerting force, and the muscles all over his body were constantly contracting and expanding as he exerted force. The magic power circulation in his body was still running continuously, transforming strands of spiritual energy into magic power as the magic power flowed.

And in this process, as the magic power circulation flowed through those worn-out tendons and through those torn muscles, the magic power began to nourish those parts that were worn out by exercise, nourishing the flesh and blood, accelerating repair, and improving the effect of exercise.

Originally, after the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Strengthening reached the third level, it could induce magic power to achieve a similar effect.

But now, under the operation of the Zhoutian Qi Gathering Method, a more complex and more delicate magic power circulation continuously covered Zhang Yu's whole body, greatly improving his recovery ability and body refining effect.

He felt that if he could only practice the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Strengthening twenty or thirty times a day, then now with the help of the Zhoutian Qi Gathering Method, he could practice at least fifty or sixty times a day.

So in the following time, Zhang Yu planned to start competing with the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Strengthening.

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When these thoughts flashed through his mind, Zhang Yu suddenly felt a sense of emotion.

“I seem to be getting more and more used to competing.”

“Alas, this broken Kunxu is really turning people into ghosts.”

But after practicing the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Strengthening 15 times in a row, Zhang Yu realized that he was wrong.

He saw himself lying on the ground covered in sweat, and a faint human figure seemed to be visible on the floor soaked in sweat.

Even if the physical education teacher Wang Hai saw this diligent and hard-working scene, he would definitely say, “You've worked hard, take a break.”

But at this moment, the one supervising Zhang Yu was not a person, only… a ritual: must practice.

“Please abide by the ritual agreement, work hard to fulfill your wish, do not deliberately slack off and delay, 10.”

Zhang Yu lamented, “Idiot! I'm already at my limit.”

Suffering!

This body refining is much harder than breathing exercises.

At this moment, Zhang Yu only felt that his lungs were panting like bellows, and every inch of flesh and blood all over his body was sending out tearing pain.

“I'm too young, I actually thought I had adapted to this broken world.”

Listening to the constant countdown in his ears, Zhang Yu was still lying on the ground like a dead fish until the countdown was about to reach the last moment, when he suddenly jumped up, enduring the soreness and fatigue all over his body, and continued to start the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Strengthening exercise.

Thirty-Six Forms of Body Strengthening Level 3 (22/30)

After finally persevering through another round, Zhang Yu lay down on his sweat again, listening to the countdown full of coldness, and feeling the power of the ritual as if it was about to tear his body to pieces.

“Is this a world that people can adapt to?”

“Damn it… before I'm forced to jump off a building, I must undo this broken ritual!”

On this day at noon, Zhang Yu also unusually spent more than 100 yuan in one go, ordering a large bucket of rice and dishes in the surprised eyes of Bai Zhenzhen and Zhou Tianyi.

If the increase in magic power cannot be separated from absorbing more spiritual energy.

Then the improvement of the body refining effect cannot be separated from more and more nutritious eating.

“I want to eat ten pounds!”

Seeing the amount of Zhang Yu's lunch today, Bai Zhenzhen knew how hard the other party had practiced in physical education class today.

“Does he feel that he has competed enough with magic power for the time being, and is he going to start competing with physical strength again?”

When did this guy start working so hard?

Could it be the extra competitive spirit brought by not being neutered?

Watching Zhang Yu swallow the entire chicken leg into his mouth in one bite, and crush the chicken bones into powder and swallow them in a few bites, Bai Zhenzhen also unconsciously accelerated her eating speed.

Zhou Tianyi said helplessly, “Eat slower, no one is grading your eating speed.”

Not far away, Su Haifeng, who was also eating in the cafeteria, looked at some students who were eating slowly and thought to himself, “The lunch break is still too long.”

“I said that the school should add a few more surveillance cameras in the cafeteria. All those who exceed 10 minutes of eating time should be criticized in a notice and fined.”

Thinking of this, he drafted a plan and planned to send it to the principal to propose this valuable cafeteria renovation suggestion.

In each of the following days, in addition to the regular classes, Zhang Yu practiced the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Strengthening whenever he had time. When he reached the limit and couldn't practice body refining, he was forced to do breathing exercises.

He was tortured day by day, and the time finally came to the monthly exam nine days later.

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