Not long after the conclusion of the second round of the Foundation Establishment Examination!

The 15th floor of Immortal Metropolis’s Building 1!

Ye Lingxiao stood before the floor-to-ceiling windows of the tower, gazing at the Central Cloud Sea Park before him. He spoke into his phone, “Yes, that Dao Dissolution Sustained-Release Capsule is quite intriguing!”

“I can’t reveal specifics, but if an opportunity arises, I think it’s worth having the lab analyze it. I’d be willing to participate in the related research!”

After discussing matters with a senior member of his family on the other end of the line for over ten minutes, Ye Lingxiao abruptly brought up another matter!

“Uncle, there’s another matter I’d like to trouble you with!”

“In the other cities on the first level of Kunxu, are there any companies researching technologies related to drug metabolism?”

“As for characteristics…” Ye Lingxiao recalled Zhang Yu’s performance in the Foundation Establishment Examination. Carefully choosing his words so as not to reveal any information about the examination, he said, “In short, it’s something that can greatly enhance the user’s drug metabolism abilities!”

“Thank you for your trouble!”

On the train!

Yu Xinghan was sending a message to Li Xuelian: “Senior Sister!”

Li Xuelian: “Purpose, timeframe, how much money?”

Yu Xinghan looked at the expense application form sent by the other party, feeling his fists clench once again. He thought to himself, “When I get back to Red Pagoda, I’m going to give you a serious thrashing!”

He typed into his phone: I want to find Zhang Yu for some extra tutoring. I feel like I can learn so much from him!

Li Xuelian: Isn’t Zhang Yu’s performance slipping badly? Won’t he bring you down if you get too close to him?

Yu Xinghan frowned, finding himself in a difficult position for a moment!

He couldn’t mention the contents of the Foundation Establishment Examination. How could he possibly convince Li Xuelian?

He couldn’t exactly say that he and Zhang Yu were kindred spirits in the seed-selling business, knowing each other inside and out, and that Yu-zi wouldn’t harm him!

But just as Yu Xinghan was hesitating, Li Xuelian suddenly replied in an understanding manner: Alright, if you want to find him for tutoring, go ahead!

Yu Xinghan’s eyes flickered, and he thought to himself: Could it be that Senior Sister guessed it? That makes sense. This is the time I went to take the Foundation Establishment Examination, so if I suddenly make this request, she must have guessed that it’s related to the Foundation Establishment Examination!

Yu Xinghan knew that these unintentional moments, where exam information was inadvertently guessed, were impossible for even True Gods to detect the truth of!

That’s why it was necessary to put on a show of force before and after signing the contract!

It could be said that what truly kept candidates safe wasn’t the contract, but the martial strength of the True Gods and the resolve of the Celestial Court!

“Senior Sister is really smart!”

Yu Xinghan quickly replied: Zhang Yu has raised his price to 50,000, 50,000 an hour!

Li Xuelian: That’s so expensive! Wasn’t it only 15,000 before?

Yu Xinghan: Can that be compared to now?

After a long while, Li Xuelian finally replied: Have him add me, I want to talk to him myself!

Hearing this, Yu Xinghan cursed under his breath: “I quoted too high!”

After thinking for a moment, he hurriedly replied: I pleaded with him, and he agreed to lower the price to 30,000 an hour out of respect for me! Seeing that Li Xuelian finally relented and began discussing the amount of lessons, Yu Xinghan breathed a sigh of relief!

At the same time, on the other side, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were already comfortably seated on the train back!

Bai Zhenzhen sighed, opening her mouth to say: “The gap between me and the top talents of Immortal Metropolis is still quite large!”

Recalling the strength that Yun Jing had displayed in the arena, Bai Zhenzhen subconsciously clenched her fist!

At first, she thought that the other party was just mindlessly using brute force to suppress people, with a kind of aesthetic of using money to crush people to death!

But after carefully analyzing it, Bai Zhenzhen realized that it might not be that simple!

“He was targeting me!”

“After discovering that I excelled at high-speed close combat, he used large-area, power-based techniques to push me off the arena!”

“This was using the arena environment, using space and power to completely suppress my high-speed fighting style, preventing me from bringing any of my advantages into play, and forcing me to compete with him in strength!”

“This guy is not only powerful and rich, he also knows how to target his opponent’s weaknesses in battle!”

Thinking of this, Bai Zhenzhen’s expression became even more solemn: “If I want to defeat that guy in three months, not only must my physical stats continue to improve, but I must also learn a few more powerful combat techniques to deduce!”

Bai Zhenzhen sighed: “After calculating, it feels like I’ll have to spend several million more to do this!”

Zhang Yu, who was beside her, nodded with deep understanding. Comparing the gap between himself and Ye Lingxiao, he thought to himself: “In the remaining three months, not only must I push my Dao Heart, mana, and physical strength to the limits of Qi Refining!”

“I also need to continue learning techniques!”

“It would be best if I could also gather a complete set of Dharma Runes, and it must be even more powerful than the High School Sacred Body!”

Zhang Yu knew that the Dharma Rune Chain of the Feather Book could only accommodate ten techniques, and that a set of six techniques was needed to activate the effect, and ten techniques to achieve the ultimate effect. This meant that within the same period of time, the Dharma Rune Chain could only activate one set!

Therefore, if it wasn’t a set that was stronger than the High School Sacred Body, then it wouldn’t be meaningful to Zhang Yu!

“Among the sets I can currently see, the Celestial Martial War Heart, Great Saint Heir, Martial Dao Holy Body, and the Various Dragon Bloodlines all feel like they are stronger than the High School Sacred Body!”

“However, I haven’t been able to find all ten techniques for the Celestial Martial War Heart and the Great Saint Heir!”

“So what I can complete is either the Martial Dao Holy Body, or the Various Dragon Bloodlines!”

And as soon as he thought of the techniques needed for these two sets,

Zhang Yu couldn’t help but sigh inwardly!

He didn’t need to worry about not being able to learn them. With the three times cultivation effect bonus of the High School Sacred Body, he could stretch the next three months into nine months to cultivate!

Zhang Yu’s worry, like Bai Zhenzhen’s, was money!

“In the next three months, it will cost at least several million to have a chance to defeat Ye Lingxiao, and even ten million would be more secure!”

Millions, tens of millions in cultivation expenses, are nothing to real rich people, such as Ye Lingxiao and Yun Jing. It might even be considered frugal!

But for poor people like Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, that was a huge number that they wouldn’t have dared to imagine in the past!

Seeming to hear Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu’s sigh, the awakened Fu Ji said in the hearts of the two: “Ordinary part-time work can’t satisfy your cultivation expenses!”

“The money that can be borrowed, the loans that can be taken out, are almost exhausted!”

“Now the last way left for you is to continue to cultivate in the dark tutoring world!”

“It just so happens that your strength has improved rapidly during these days, and with me guiding you from the side, even if you get involved in gang fights, the danger is not great!”

To prevent anyone from overhearing in the train carriage, Bai Zhenzhen typed on her phone: “But I’m afraid that after we go back, the Zhou family will continue to send people to follow us!”

“If we continue to be monitored, then we won’t be able to do anything in the tutoring world!”

Bai Zhenzhen recalled Zhou Hao, the man who had repelled her when she went to find Zhou Chechen last time!

According to the other party, this Zhou Hao was a graduate of the 72 Lower Academies, a veritable peak Qi Refining expert!

And according to Bai Zhenzhen’s few secret probes when delivering food, the strength of the people who followed and monitored her later was also very strong, probably on par with that Zhou Hao!

Bai Zhenzhen: “These people are not weak, and they have various tracking methods. It’s not easy to get rid of them, and it will only make them more alert!”

Zhang Yu also typed back: “So it’s not just about getting rid of them, but about finding a way to completely solve them, at least to make the Zhou family temporarily give up their 24-hour surveillance of us!”

Bai Zhenzhen: “Do you have a way?”

Zhang Yu looked at the friend he had just added, the sixth-grade Sifang Youshen Deng Bingding!

Zhang Yu realized that the key to breaking the situation might lie in this True God!

The Zhou family would never know that he had made friends with such a True God, so it was crucial to make good use of this information gap!

However, he wasn’t very clear about many of the True Gods’ ways, so fortunately there was Fu Ji, a senior Evil God, in front of him!

Immediately, Zhang Yu told them about adding a True God as a friend, and planned to discuss with Fu Ji and Bai Zhenzhen how to deal with the Zhou family’s tracking!

After hearing this, Fu Ji laughed: “Oh? A sixth-grade Sifang Youshen?”

“Then it is indeed worth planning carefully!”

“If we can use the power of this True God well, it will be enough for the Zhou family to suffer a big loss and have no time to deal with the two of you!”

Bai Zhenzhen: “True Gods are not easy to use, right? Are we going to use this exam matter? But judging from the Zhou family’s reaction last time, they know the depths of the water inside and won’t be easily fooled!”

Although Bai Zhenzhen didn’t say the Foundation Establishment Examination, Fu Ji and Zhang Yu naturally knew what she meant!

And judging from the fact that the Zhou family didn’t send anyone to track them the last time they went out of the city, the other party knew the information about the Foundation Establishment Examination and had scruples, so they wouldn’t be easily fooled!

Fu Ji smiled and continued to transmit his voice in their hearts: “So there is no need to lead the Zhou family to investigate the Foundation Establishment Examination, you just need to give this sixth-grade Youshen a chance to intervene in this matter!”

“Do you know why these Kunxu Gods are so greedy for money?”

Zhang Yu had been curious about this for a long time, so he immediately asked: “Why?”

Fu Ji said: “Naturally, it is because the Eight Divine Departments, if they want to improve their grade, want to increase their divine power, or want to refine their talismans, they also need money!”

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were both surprised when they heard this. They didn’t expect that True Gods would also have to spend money to be promoted! Isn’t this the same as mortals using talismans?

Fu Ji then said: “Making money, or rather, recovering wealth from all over Kunxu, is a major mission for all True Gods!”

Fu Ji sighed: “From this point of view, the Ten Great Sects are indeed far-sighted. They are not just forcing you to climb up!”

When Zhang Yu heard this, a thoughtful look appeared in his eyes, while Bai Zhenzhen frowned and asked: “What do you mean?”

Fu Ji said with emotion: “In the beginning, after the Ten Great Sects integrated the thirty-six layers of Kunxu and wiped out all who refused to submit, they deeply felt that Kunxu was difficult to manage, so they created the Eight Divine Departments and shaped a group of True Gods to manage the world for them!”