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

The next day, early morning.

Ever since breaking through the Celestial Cycle Qi Gathering Technique to level 10 last night, after Zhang Yu purchased the Desolate Bull Soul Suppression Heart Sutra and started practicing it…

Constantly forced to learn, cultivate, and work by the power of the ritual, and having gradually adapted, Zhang Yu felt an incredible affinity the moment he started practicing the Desolate Bull Soul Suppression Heart Sutra, progressing faster and more fiercely than he had imagined.

Especially with the continuous leveling up of the Desolate Bull Soul Suppression Heart Sutra, Zhang Yu became increasingly able to withstand the tedium, monotony, and loneliness of cultivating the heart sutra.

Apart from using the power of the ritual to force himself, he hardly stopped at all, advancing bravely and diligently on the path of cultivating the Desolate Bull Soul Suppression Heart Sutra.

When the sky was just beginning to brighten that day, Zhang Yu slowly opened his eyes, his Desolate Bull Soul Suppression Heart Sutra having already been raised to level 7 (15/21).

Raising this heart sutra to such a level in one night, Zhang Yu sometimes felt frightened by his own talent.

In addition to this, his Dao Heart had also made considerable progress, especially since Zhang Yu saw new data on the Feather Book: Dao Heart level 2 (1%).

“Could it be that after I cultivated the Desolate Bull Soul Suppression Heart Sutra, my grasp of Dao Heart became more accurate, allowing me to perceive the specific progress of Dao Heart?”

Zhang Yu shook his head, still knowing too little about the Feather Book.

After getting up to brush his teeth and wash his face, Zhang Yu continued to seize the time to silently practice the heart sutra on his way to school.

Based on the rapid and vigorous speed at which he was cultivating the Desolate Bull Soul Suppression Heart Sutra, he felt that he should be able to push this heart sutra to level 10 today.

…

Songyang High School.

During class break.

Zhang Yu, who was cultivating the heart sutra, frowned slightly upon hearing the approaching footsteps.

He saw a tall, bald-headed teenager walk up to him and ask, “Zhang Yu, sorry to bother you.”

“Could I borrow your math test from yesterday?”

After waiting for a moment, the teenager smiled nonchalantly, seeing that Zhang Yu hadn’t answered.

“Sorry, it seems I’m disturbing you.”

“Then you can cultivate, I’ll come back and find you later.”

However, after the teenager turned around, a gloomy look flashed in his eyes.

Zhang Yu’s focused cultivation and complete disregard for him made him feel disrespected.

He thought darkly, “Heh, as expected of the third-ranked student in the grade, so arrogant. He probably doesn’t even see someone like me, who scores in the 530s, as a person, right?”

On the other side, listening to the sound of the other party’s retreating footsteps, Zhang Yu felt a sense of relief that he was finally gone.

“Is Liang Qin a little too familiar?”

Liang Qin was the teenager who had just asked Zhang Yu to borrow the math test.

Ever since Zhang Yu’s monthly exam results came out, students often approached him, trying to probe the secrets of his rapid improvement.

But most people stopped coming after one or two tries, especially since Zhang Yu was diligently cultivating during almost every class break. Seeing that he didn’t pay attention to them, and with the monthly exam hype gradually fading, people gradually stopped joining in the fun.

Only this Liang Qin came to find him almost every class break.

And it wasn’t just during class breaks.

Liang Qin would bring him water during martial arts class.

After PE class, he would bring Zhang Yu a sweat towel.

When eating in the cafeteria, he would try to reserve a seat for Zhang Yu in advance.

In his words, he was always accustomed to praising Zhang Yu.

Like an industrious little bee, he would occasionally hover around Zhang Yu.

At first, Zhang Yu thought this person was not bad.

But after a few days, he found Liang Qin more and more annoying.

Especially since he always came to find him during class breaks, affecting his cultivation.

And while praising him, he always subtly inquired about the secrets to his improved grades, which Zhang Yu found quite boring.

So in the past two days, Zhang Yu had gradually stopped paying attention to him, hoping that the other party would give up in the face of difficulties.

Although this process seemed to have aroused some resentment from the other party, Zhang Yu had no choice.

…

Time passed quickly, and it was almost time to leave school.

During self-study class, Zhang Yu’s body trembled slightly, and he felt as if a sweet dew gushed out from the depths of his mind, nourishing his entire body and making him feel extremely comfortable.

At the same time, a soft roar came from the visualization diagram in his mind, and the old bull that Zhang Yu had outlined not only became lifelike, but also raised its horns to the sky, emitting a low roar from its mouth, as if it had come alive.

Desolate Bull Soul Suppression Heart Sutra level 10.

When this heart sutra was raised to level 10, Zhang Yu felt an immense sense of satisfaction and joy in his heart.

As long as he thought about how his strength would continue to steadily improve, and how one technique after another would be pushed to level 10 by him, Zhang Yu felt full of anticipation, and the joy derived from this anticipation constantly湧出.

“Is this the effect of reaching level 10 in the Desolate Bull Soul Suppression Heart Sutra?”

“As long as there is anticipation for the future in one’s heart, then even boring hard work, even constant suffering, can be felt with joy and satisfaction.”

Zhang Yu felt that this heart sutra was becoming more and more interesting, a technique that could make people feel happy in hard cultivation, wasn’t this able to reduce the pain of cultivation? Improve the efficiency of cultivation? Why do so many people give it bad reviews?

Unless many of the people who cultivate this heart sutra, even after reaching level 10, can no longer feel happiness, because they no longer have any anticipation for the future in their lives?

Thinking about the current situation on the first floor of Kunxu, Zhang Yu shook his head helplessly.

“The Desolate Bull Soul Suppression Heart Sutra is a good technique.”

“But even the best technique is just a technique, and the future ultimately depends on people.”

Just as Zhang Yu was sighing in his heart, a female voice came: “Yuzi?”

Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu’s satisfied and happy face, scanned him from top to bottom, and then said with a suspicious expression: “Yuzi, you didn’t overflow in the classroom, did you?”

Zhang Yu suddenly opened his eyes, looked at Bai Zhenzhen’s disgusted face, and said speechlessly: “Alas, I was just lamenting the beauty of cultivation and comprehending the helplessness of the world, but you, a vulgar person, ruined the atmosphere with a single sentence.”

Bai Zhenzhen was too lazy to care about what beauty or helplessness Zhang Yu was talking about. She grabbed Zhang Yu and walked out of the classroom.

“Don’t talk about these nonsense, did you forget that you have to attend the Law Competition tutoring session after school today? We already paid 3,000 yuan.”

After Zhang Yu’s mana broke into the top ten in the grade last month, he and Bai Zhenzhen were selected for the first-year team participating in the mana competition.

But the things that are tested in the first-year mana competition are things that Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen have never learned in school, items that are far beyond the classroom content.

So Teacher Yan of the mana class organized tutoring sessions to teach the items for the Law Competition.

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…

Inside the classroom.

Besides Teacher Yan, who had her hair in a bun and wore black-rimmed glasses, only Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were present.

Teacher Yan explained: “Besides you two, everyone else has private tutors to help them, and they have their own tutoring arrangements, so they won’t come to the tutoring sessions.”

Zhang Yu thought to himself: “Doesn’t this mean that among the top ten in the mana grade, only we two are poor ghosts?”

Bai Zhenzhen clenched her fists tightly, thinking to herself: “I didn’t expect it to be this kind of tutoring session that would lower my reputation on campus.”

Teacher Yan’s eyes flashed with a burning fighting spirit, and she thought to herself: “These rich people are too disrespectful, they all believe in private tutors and don’t believe in me?”

“Those private tutors are all glib-tongued, they only know how to scam money, how can they compare to my 30 years of solid teaching experience in a key high school?”

“Out of 10, only 2 came, doesn’t this greatly reduce my reputation on campus?”

“It’s fine if people don’t come, but they don’t even pay the tutoring fee?”

If those students in Class 2 and Class 3 dared to do this, Teacher Yan would definitely call the parents severely, call all the parents to the school, and let them know the consequences of looking down on the mana class teacher.

But thinking about the parents of these eight students in the demonstration class…

Hey, their parents are so busy with work, we as teachers should be more considerate.

She looked at Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, and thought to herself: “You two poor ghosts must try your best to live up to my expectations, surpass those eight guys severely, and make them all come to my tutoring sessions obediently in the future.”

Various thoughts floated in her mind, but Teacher Yan remained calm on the surface and slowly said: “The things that are tested in the Law Competition are completely different from what you usually learn, the total amount of mana is only the basis, the key is the control of mana…”

She projected a diagram of the human body’s energy circulation and began to explain vigorously: “The mana in your bodies at this moment is the most basic form of mana.”

“And by controlling the flow and route of mana, you can change the form of mana.”

“For example, one direction of advancement is the direction of martial arts uses such as sword energy and palm force…”

“Further, it can cause various phenomena such as heating, low temperature, and electrification…”

Along with the explanation, she stretched out a finger, and a sharp wave appeared on her fingertip first, easily cutting open a page of paper in front of her.

A moment later, her fingertip turned slightly red, reflecting a tiny flame.

“This is the most basic form change of mana.”

“Of course, basic form changes rely on basic skills, on the control of mana, and the power is extremely limited.”

“The real further advancement, with practical value, is the special mana transformed by various miraculous skills…”

Listening to Teacher Yan’s explanation, Zhang Yu suddenly remembered the Yin-Cold Palm Force that He Dayou had used when fighting him during the monthly exam practical battle.

He estimated that that should be a special mana transformed by some kind of technique.

On the podium, Teacher Yan projected an animated effect diagram of energy circulation and said to the two of them: “This is the simplest sword energy conversion route, which can convert mana into a trace of sharp sword energy.”

“Follow what I just taught you and try to see if you can do it.”

Bai Zhenzhen looked at the animated effect diagram of energy circulation for a while, and after a while, she felt a little dizzy.

“This energy circulation route is too complicated!”

Then she tried it herself and only felt speechless.

The mana circled around in her left arm but could never transform into a trace of sharp aura.

Is this really the simplest sword energy conversion route?

Is this the difficulty of the competition?

She felt like she had just learned addition, and then the teacher took out a binary linear equation problem and said to solve it.

Just then, Zhang Yu’s shout rang in Bai Zhenzhen’s ear.

“A’zhen, come and see!”

Bai Zhenzhen turned her head and saw Zhang Yu tapping his finger on the notebook, directly cutting out a binary linear equation.

Yuzi, this unfamiliar face of yours makes me feel disgusted.