Bear Wenshu knew that the protected area was a relatively closed environment.

And the breeding base within the protected area was even more closed off.

The demon-kin employees here were born here, grew up here, and died here…

Someone like An’an, standing before him, was vastly different from him, who had already entered his first year of high school.

An’an, having failed the sorting examination at the age of six, was left to work in the breeding base from a young age.

Although, because of this, An’an worked and grew up in the base, helping Bear Wenshu later.

But twenty years of work experience, long-term company training, had made her an outstanding Red Tower employee, selected as the protected area’s best employee for eight consecutive years.

Her award-winning poster read: “My favorite thing is working for the company!”

“The most hated days are in February every year, because I can only work 28 days that month!”

“The most indifferent thing is salary! I am willing to alleviate the burden for the company and be the first in the protected area to have my salary reduced!”

“My motto is not to compete with money, not to rely on my parents, only to work hard!”

“I am the best employee of the protected area for eight consecutive years!”

An’an looked at Bear Wenshu as if she were looking at a rebellious son, pointing at the eight best employee certificates behind her, and angrily said: “You actually want me to exploit the company’s loopholes and help them arrange to leech off the spiritual veins?”

She was so angry that she rushed up and slapped Bear Wenshu hard with her paw.

Bear Wenshu dared not retaliate and could only continue to persuade: “Sister! The breeding base is about to be dismantled, and the company will sell you off to Oasis Group as a package deal!”

An’an said: “The company must have its reasons for selling me to anyone. I will obey the arrangements.”

Bear Wenshu said: “Oasis Group isn’t as good to demon-kin employees as Red Tower Agriculture. They’ll use you for experiments.”

An’an disbelieved: “The manager said that after I go to Oasis Group, they’ll still arrange for me to work in the breeding base. He wouldn’t lie to me.”

Bear Wenshu sighed, knowing that in An’an’s eyes, his credibility was not as high as the protected area manager’s.

So, with a loud thud, Bear Wenshu’s massive figure knelt on the ground.

“Sister, please help me.”

Looking at Bear Wenshu in this state, An’an’s aura suddenly weakened, and she said, flustered: “You! You! Did you fail the monthly exam, or can’t pay off your loan?”

Bear Wenshu said in a deep voice: “Sister, I’m going to be eliminated.”

An’an: “Ah… weren’t your monthly exam scores pretty good the last few times? How could you…”

Bear Wenshu said: “Because my performance in the competition is too poor. If I continue to be so poor, Father will eliminate me to a lower-level class.”

He pointed to Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen beside him and said: “If you don’t believe me, ask them. They’re the ones who beat me in the competition and eliminated me.”

Seeing the wink Bear Wenshu gave them, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen exchanged glances and nodded directly, acknowledging the matter.

Bear Wenshu looked at the bewildered An’an and continued: “Sister, they said that as long as I arrange for them to have the opportunity to practice Qi at the spiritual vein, not only will they let me win next time, but they will also tutor me for free to improve my grades.”

“Sister, I’m begging you, I don’t want to be eliminated by Father. I want to get better rankings in the competition. Can you help me?”

“If you don’t believe me, here’s the news and videos of us participating in the competition. Take a look…”

An’an first searched for information about the competition online, and then saw in the video that Bear Wenshu was bleeding heavily after being beaten by Bai Zhenzhen in the martial arts competition, and had torn muscles after competing hard against Zhang Yu in the sports competition, yet still lost…

The little panda An’an turned to look at Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, pressed her palms together, and bowed, saying: “How much money do you want? I’ll pay for him. He worked really hard to get into high school. He has a chance to go to university…”

Zhang Yu chuckled and said: “10,000 yuan per hour.”

An’an’s face turned pale when she heard this. As a demon-kin who hadn’t even gone to high school and wasn’t a cultivator, she only earned two thousand yuan a month.

Bai Zhenzhen said from the side: “If you can’t afford it, let us leech off the spiritual vein. For every hour we leech, we’ll tutor him for an hour.”

Bear Wenshu pleaded: “Sister! I want tutoring! I want to continue studying in high school and go to college! I don’t want to work in a factory. Please help me!”

The little panda An’an bit her lip, looked at Bear Wenshu kneeling on the ground, and finally sighed: “Alright.”

At this moment, An’an only felt that her company person and company soul were shattered, and she had let down the awards on the wall.

So, the next day, led by Bear Wenshu and An’an, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen entered the breeding base through the material transportation channel and came to a room in the incubation room.

As soon as he entered the incubation room, Zhang Yu felt an incredibly fresh air blowing towards him, cleansing his body from head to toe, and even making him feel like his soul had been washed, giving him a sense of floating like an immortal.

“Is this the air from the spiritual vein? It’s much more comfortable than in the protected area.”

He took a deep breath, feeling the spiritual essence rolling back and forth in his body, greedily absorbed by every inch of his flesh and blood.

But after slightly activating the Great Sun Qi Sea technique, he looked at the light sources around him, and a trace of regret appeared in his eyes.

Bear Wenshu asked from the side: “Is there still a problem?”

Zhang Yu said: “Are there any light sources here? We need more light when we cultivate.”

“Light?” Bear Wenshu thought for a while and said: “Will incubation lamps work? They’re used to warm dragon eggs.”

So, under An’an’s unwilling guidance, Zhang Yu and Bear Wenshu moved more than a dozen incubation lamps over together.

As the lights were turned on, Zhang Yu felt as if there were small suns in front of him. Under the intense light, the surrounding spiritual essence seemed to shine towards his body along with the light, making him feel that the Great Sun Dharma power in his body was surging violently.

Fu Ji in Zhang Yu’s chest analyzed: “These incubation lamps are not ordinary lamps. They are used to incubate dragon eggs. The light inside has been processed by some immortal technique and seems to condense spiritual essence even more.”

The effect of the spiritual vein plus the incubation lamps, the True Spiritual Root even breathed together with the Great Sun Qi Sea…

The Great Sun Dharma power in his body erupted like a volcano, roaring and surging back and forth in his body.

Zhang Yu felt the surrounding spiritual essence swarming in, giving him the illusion of soaking in a pool of spiritual essence.

His Qi intake efficiency continued to increase! Increase! And increase again! Finally reaching a limit, it could no longer be improved.

“Is this the effect of the spiritual vein and the 10th-level Qi Refining mid-stage Qi intake technique, allowing the Qi intake technique to truly unleash its full power?”

Zhang Yu felt that he was truly breathing and cultivating at this moment. Compared to this, he was simply snatching car exhaust before.

But on second thought, Dharma power for students in key high schools was something that could be gradually achieved over a few years.

And now, in order to reach the level of a senior in high school by the end of the first year, he and Bai Zhenzhen had to put in a lot of effort and money.

Just then, Bai Zhenzhen said from the side: “Yu, quickly give me the spiritual root. I want to try it too.”

After the True Spiritual Root was taken away, Zhang Yu felt that the Qi intake speed suddenly dropped by 30% or 40%, and a sense of loss surged in his heart.

“It seems that I can only come here separately with Zhen in the future…”

So Zhang Yu let Bai Zhenzhen stay here to cultivate first, and he would come again next time.

On the way out, Zhang Yu curiously asked Bear Wenshu: “The money you asked us for, you were planning to use it to help An’an, right?”

Bear Wenshu was silent for a moment and said: “I want to help her pay off her breeding debts so that she can leave this place, so she won’t have to worry about being sold to Oasis Group in the future.”

In the following days, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen’s cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, and their physical strength and Dharma power increased steadily.

Although their Dao hearts did not increase so sharply, they were also steadily improving.

Zhang Yu only regretted that Yu Xinghan had not had any news from the Spirit Realm, saying that it would have to wait until after the college entrance examination when a large number of high school seniors graduated before positions would be available.

In the blink of an eye, the time had come to early June.

Tomorrow was the day of the college entrance examination.

And this also meant that the day of Zhang Pianpian’s departure was getting closer and closer.

As the college entrance examination approached, the atmosphere in Songyang High School became more and more tense. The status of the senior students rose even higher, and even a single glance could make the junior students from the first and second years avoid them.

Even the originally strict teachers were now gentle and soft-spoken when they saw the senior students, for fear of any loss before the college entrance examination.

And during this period, although with the increase in data, the training effect of the same training methods would definitely become weaker and weaker.

But when the time came to June, Zhang Yu’s physical strength had also been improved to 5.99, his Dharma power had increased to 60.2, and his Dao heart had reached level 5 (25).

However, with more and more eating, more and more medicine, plus the consumption of the protected area, Zhang Yu’s savings were also decreasing more and more. Even with income from tutoring fees, sparring fees, and other sources, it had now dropped to just over 120,000 yuan.

And as far as he knew, Bai Zhenzhen’s income was even lower than his, and her savings were about to run out.

Zhang Yu often sighed in his heart these days: “The path of immortality really spends money like water.”

“But fortunately, the money wasn’t wasted. I’m getting closer and closer to the level of a White Dragon high school senior: Dao heart at level 6, Dharma power at 70 units or more, and physical strength at level 7.5 or more.”

“I should be able to reach them in the remaining two months.”

But Zhang Yu also knew that in the time that followed, with Zhang Pianpian’s departure, he would face even more tests.

Three days later, at the first moment after the end of the college entrance examination.

Zhang Yu received a call from Zhang Pianpian.

“I’m about to leave.”

“After I leave, it’s safest for you to stay in the city and at school.”

“But you and I both know that’s impossible.”

Zhang Yu nodded slightly. Since they were going to participate in the Foundation Establishment examination, it was impossible for them to stay in school or in Songyang City all the time.

Zhang Pianpian continued: “Other rich people are not a threat for the time being. The ones who are most hostile to you now are Zhou Chechen and Lan Ling.”

“You should be leaving for the Immortal Capital to register in a few days. They probably won’t let this opportunity pass.”

In the student council office of Songyang High School.

Zhou Chechen looked at the information in front of him.

“Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen have successfully applied for intercity travel permits.”

“Leaving the city?” Zhou Chechen’s eyes moved, and he smiled: “They want to escape?”

Lan Ling said lightly: “Hmph, it’s too late to think about running now.”

“I’ve sent people to keep an eye on them. We’ll make a move as soon as Zhang Pianpian leaves.”

He clenched the dumbbell in his hand hard, looked at the gradual appearance of a trace of cracks on it, and then said faintly: “It’s good that they’re leaving the city. This time, I’ll personally lead people to capture them.”