Seeing Zhang Yu’s indifference to money, Zhou Chechen knew that this fellow’s appetite must be enormous this time.

“My father and uncles will certainly bleed a lot to satisfy that Sixth-Rank God.”

“But Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, as the parties involved… they also need to be dealt with.”

Although Zhou Chechen had anticipated this, the thought of having to apologize to Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, and even cough up some benefits for them, made him feel stifled.

He never imagined that these two poor wretches, whom he considered mere ants a year ago and could have forced to sign any contract, had grown to this extent in such a short time!

“Is this the power of having a Sixth-Rank God backing you?”

Zhou Chechen suddenly recalled some secrets his father had mentioned. It was said that the truly wealthy people above meticulously refined their bloodline descendants, who possessed shares from the moment they were born and became level 5 believers at birth!

He sighed inwardly, “Is it all about background in the end? The Zhou family is still too weak!”

Zhou Chechen shook his head slightly, trying to shake off the distractions and frustration, and continued to speak to Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen in a gentle tone, “I know that no amount of money can compensate for the emotional trauma you’ve suffered!”

“I am willing to give each of you 500,000 as a token of my sincerity!!!”

Zhang Yu waved his hand and said, “I said this isn’t about money!”

Bai Zhenzhen also said coldly, “Do you think you can do whatever you want just because you have money? That you can break the law?”

Zhou Chechen wanted to slam the table and shout, “Otherwise, what?”

But thinking of the production halt at the company due to the lockdown, the losses incurred every minute, his father’s constant reminders, and the family resources spent on him since childhood…

Zhou Chechen finally softened.

He bowed again and said, “I’m sorry, you two, I truly don’t mean to bribe you with money!”

“This 500,000… no, I’ll give each of you 1,000,000, just to express my apology, without requiring any commitment from you!”

Saying this, Zhou Chechen, filled with frustration, suddenly kicked Yue Jincheng hard in the chest and said coldly, “See how much trouble your madness has caused for Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen!”

“Bring me your phones!”

Hearing this, Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu trembled, struggling to hand over their phones!

Zhou Chechen took the phones and said, “Today, I will take the lead and have them compensate each of you with 500,000 as well, to express their apology!”

Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu’s faces stiffened, feeling their hearts bleed!

Si Zhouyu looked at Yue Jincheng with resentment, regretting even more that he hadn’t stopped him back then!

Zhang Yu’s heart stirred. Zhou Chechen’s 1,000,000, plus these two’s 500,000, meant that he and Bai Zhenzhen would each receive 1,500,000, totaling 3,000,000!

Although he was already anticipating how to use this cash windfall, Zhang Yu remained unmoved on the surface, looking coldly at Zhou Chechen, seemingly uninterested in the 1,500,000!

Zhou Chechen continued, “I know that you two have lost a lot of time for cultivation. I will immediately find ways to compensate you after I return to school!”

According to Zhou Chechen, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen wouldn’t have to abide by the school’s various rules and could arrange their classes as they pleased!

Not only could they come and go as they pleased in general courses like mathematics and language, but they also didn’t have to attend martial arts classes, physical education, Taoist arts classes, or mana classes. Zhang Yu’s after-school Taoist arts tutoring would also be canceled directly!

In addition, they would be given priority for all kinds of school benefits!

They would receive three portions of the elixirs distributed in physical education class every day, and they could borrow the spiritual roots in the school for free for 100 hours each month. They could also request any martial arts teacher to spar with them for free for a certain amount of time!

Besides, there were also places in the school’s after-school spiritual realm training!!!

Although he knew that Zhou Chechen was using the school’s resources to offer benefits, Bai Zhenzhen still felt a surge of excitement when she heard that she could receive one-on-one tutoring from martial arts teachers!

She thought to herself, “If I can spar with those Qi Refining Peak martial arts teachers every day before fighting Yun Jing, it will definitely greatly improve my combat effectiveness!”

Zhang Yu couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows when he heard about borrowing spiritual roots for free for 100 hours each month and the spiritual realm training qualification!

The blessing of various spiritual roots was something Zhang Yu, who didn’t have any spiritual roots, would never reject!

Spiritual realm training was what Zhang Yu, whose Dao Heart was currently lagging behind, needed!

Especially since these things were now offered for free, they were even more attractive to Zhang Yu, who was currently penniless!

Zhang Yu said calmly, “Are you sure all of this will be provided for free until I graduate?”

Faced with Zhang Yu’s question, Zhou Chechen naturally patted his chest and guaranteed it. These resources were very expensive for outsiders, but for the school itself, they were just a matter of allocating existing resources!

And as a school under the Wanxing Group, Zhou Chechen, with the help of the Zhou family, could naturally interfere with the allocation of resources!

He thought to himself, “Anyway, the idle spiritual roots are just sitting there, so let them borrow them for free!”

“For the spiritual realm, I can only reluctantly give up my and Lan Ling’s spots!”

“The teacher thing is simple. Just arrange a few more tutoring sessions for Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen!”

Zhang Yu said, “It’s no use just listening to your guarantee. Let’s sign a contract!”

Zhou Chechen was stunned. He didn’t expect that he had failed to force Zhang Yu to sign a contract before, but now he was going to be forced to sign one by Zhang Yu!

He forced a smile and said, “No problem!”

Just then, Fu Ji reminded, “Haven’t you always wanted to learn more techniques? Make him hand over all the techniques that Songyang High School has the right to teach!”

Hearing this, Zhang Yu’s eyes lit up, and he quickly made this request!

He knew that Songyang High School had many expert-level techniques that were only granted to outstanding students in the second half of the second year and the third year!

Not only could these expert-level techniques themselves improve his strength, but he also remembered that when he was learning the basic techniques, he had also looked at other copyrighted techniques held by the school, some of which could be used to light up the chain-law diagrams and form set effects for him!

Zhang Yu thought to himself, “I remember that there is one that can be used to form the Martial Dao Holy Embryo, and another that can be used to form the Lineage of the Draconic Horde!”

Hearing this, Zhou Chechen nodded and said, “No problem, you can learn whatever you want, whether it’s the first year, second year, or third year technique textbooks!”

Fu Ji reminded again, “The spiritual roots must be specified. You and Bai Zhenzhen will reach the peak of Qi Refining in terms of mana and physique in a short time, and many spiritual roots will be useless to you then!”

“Especially if he uses lower-level spiritual roots to fool you at that time, it will be completely useless to you!”

Hearing Zhang Yu’s request again, Zhou Chechen helplessly listed all the Heaven-Rank spiritual roots of the school for Zhang Yu to choose, and then wrote them into the contract!

Zhou Chechen introduced, “The most famous, most useful, and most valuable spiritual root in our Songyang High School is of course the Yuanyang Spiritual Root!”

“The Yuanyang Spiritual Root can refine the Yuanyang essence in a virgin’s body into mana, which greatly improves the effect of mana!”

Hearing about improving mana, Zhang Yu wasn’t very interested, after all, his mana was already close to 100 points!

Especially when he remembered that this Yuanyang Spiritual Root had been passed down in Songyang High School for nearly twenty years, and had been played with by generations of predecessors, with the Yuanyang essence of thousands of students attached to it!

The remaining Heaven-Rank spiritual roots were also mainly for improving mana and physical strength. Zhang Yu looked at them and was not very satisfied, and said, “Is that all?”

Zhou Chechen gritted his teeth and had to say, “My family also has some Heaven-Rank spiritual roots that are usually rented to the children of the family. See if there are any you are interested in!”

“Of course, you can also use them for free for 100 hours each month!”

Looking at the list provided by Zhou Chechen, Zhang Yu’s eyes lit up, and he found that they were all rare spiritual roots!

Zhang Yu: “What is this Necro Spiritual Root used for?”

Zhou Chechen replied, “It can collect the death aura from the dead, and is specially used to practice our Zhou family’s ancestral techniques! To give full play to the effect of this Necro Spiritual Root, it is best to have a lot of corpse assets on hand, and the older the corpse, the better!”

Zhang Yu asked again, “What is this Winter Spiritual Root?”

Zhou Chechen replied, “It can absorb frost and change its own mana attributes, and needs to be used with a low-temperature freezing chamber!”

Zhang Yu looked at these Heaven-Rank spiritual roots one by one, and finally settled on one!!

“This Wraith Spiritual Root is quite interesting!”

Zhang Yu chose this Wraith Spiritual Root for a reason, because he clearly remembered that among the techniques needed to form the ‘Martial Dao Holy Embryo’, there was a relatively cheap expert-level Wraith Fiend Technique, which only cost 500,000!

And the reason why it was cheaper than the other techniques in the Martial Dao Holy Embryo was because this technique required refining resentment to temper the body!

Because the threshold for practicing this technique was very high, the number of people practicing it became smaller and smaller, and the price of the technique also fell all the way to the present!

Zhou Chechen said, “This Wraith Spiritual Root is a technique to extract the resentment of the dead, and it is useless for ordinary cultivators!”

Fu Ji said, “Hehe, this kid is feeling the pinch, this Wraith Spiritual Root can not only extract the resentment of the dead, he is lying to you!”

Zhang Yu glared at Zhou Chechen and said lightly, “How do I remember that this Wraith Spiritual Root can also refine the resentment of the living?”

“Speaking of which, where can the resentment of the dead be more than that of the living?”

“Especially high schools and companies, these are one of the places with the most resentment in the world!”

Zhou Chechen didn’t expect Zhang Yu to know about the Wraith Spiritual Root, and nodded helplessly, “I forgot if you didn’t say it!”

“But if you want to refine resentment in the school, you also need to pay!”

“Huh?” Zhang Yu asked in surprise, “Do I have to pay for this too?”

Zhou Chechen reminded, “You may have forgotten, but in the contract signed by every student before entering the school, there is a clause that stipulates that the school has the first right to dispose of the resources generated in the school, such as resentment, death aura, excretions, etc., generated due to cultivation!”

“Of course, I can ask the school to waive this fee for you as an apology to you both!”