Inside Songyang High School.

In the classroom of Class 10, Grade 11.

Although Class 10 had the lowest average scores in Grade 11 at Songyang High, the cultivation atmosphere within the classroom still far surpassed that of an ordinary high school.

When Bai Zhenzhen, her face a mask of ice, opened the classroom door and walked in, she saw syringe needles and vials covering the desks, along with the awestruck gazes of the Class 10 students.

In the eyes of these Class 10 students, Bai Zhenzhen, who ranked among the top two in their grade and had won competition accolades, was a true inner-sect prodigy of Songyang High. She was destined to ascend to the second level of cultivation and attend university.

As for their Class 10? They were nothing more than pure utility disciples, bound for factory work after high school graduation, with one foot already in the door of manual labor.

Yet, seeing an inner-sect prodigy enter their “utility room” at this moment, the students present were all surprised.

“It’s Bai Zhenzhen! The prodigy from the exemplary class actually came to our garbage dump!”
“This is the top female student in our grade! I’d be willing to skip class just to copy her exam papers!”
“Is she here to bully us? Don’t take my homework!”

As various students in the class were swept up in different thoughts, the Class 10 monitor quickly stood up and approached Bai Zhenzhen, saying, “Senior Bai Zhenzhen, is there something you need from us?”

Although they were all Grade 11 students, on the path of immortal cultivation, those who achieve more are honored first. To better survive at Songyang High, Class 10 students always addressed top students from other classes as “senior brother” or “senior sister.”

Seeing the monitor approach, Bai Zhenzhen pulled a power bank from her pocket and coldly stated, “I’ll be taking your class’s outlet.”

“From now on, you’ll charge this power bank for me every day.”
“Once it’s fully charged, bring it to me.”

Without waiting for the other party’s bewildered and nervous expression, Bai Zhenzhen turned and left.

She had no fear that the Class 10 students would dare to disobey her instructions. After all, in the high school world, academic performance reigned supreme. Underachievers were powerless against top students; let alone a trivial task like charging a power bank, they would even kowtow if commanded.

After leaving Class 10, Bai Zhenzhen then proceeded to several other classrooms, distributing the power banks she had with her, one by one.

Next, Bai Zhenzhen arrived at the floor where the Grade 10 classrooms were located.

Gazing at the empty classrooms, Bai Zhenzhen mused, “Power banks are just a small supplement. To truly ‘steal’ electricity efficiently, I need to directly touch the outlets.”

It was still late August, and the new Grade 10 students had not yet enrolled. Bai Zhenzhen casually entered an empty Grade 10 classroom, and the power of her detection ritual suddenly activated, scanning four surveillance cameras within the room.

However, these four surveillance cameras appeared dim in her eyes, indicating to Bai Zhenzhen that none of them were activated.

“After all, the new Grade 10 students haven’t arrived yet, so these classrooms aren’t in use.”

Feeling reassured, she walked over to an outlet, and her fair, delicate fingertips pressed against it.

As faint strands of electric light flickered at her fingertips, Bai Zhenzhen felt a tingling sensation, as crackling electrical energy surged into her body.

Supplemented by this current, Bai Zhenzhen felt her internal lightning-attribute spiritual power suddenly become active. While her spiritual power units temporarily surged, the energy began to flow throughout her body, strengthening her physique and nervous system, and causing faint electric light to emanate from her.

After charging for a while, Bai Zhenzhen seized the opportunity to practice the True Lightning Body technique.

This body-refining technique inherently involved condensing lightning-attribute spiritual power to stimulate and train the physical body.

After reaching level 10 and undergoing refinement through her True Spiritual Root, Bai Zhenzhen’s physical resilience continuously increased. In high-speed situations, her body even gained the ability to cushion and absorb energy.

Now, under the temporary surge of lightning-attribute spiritual power, the process of condensing lightning-attribute spiritual power was bypassed, allowing the True Lightning Body technique to operate even more smoothly.

Furthermore, ever since her potential was activated, Bai Zhenzhen found her control over the lightning-attribute spiritual power within her body to be effortless, as if it were an inherent part of herself.

Moreover, with the outlet nearby, Bai Zhenzhen’s spiritual power consumption could be replenished at any time.

As a result, Bai Zhenzhen’s body-refining effects were several times stronger than usual.

Even her True Spiritual Root within her dantian gradually became entwined with faint electrical light.

Only when her muscles throughout her body began to ache and feel numb did Bai Zhenzhen realize her body was on the verge of over-fatigue, prompting her to temporarily stop.

“Alright, time to rest. I’ll also go back and see what the ‘harvest’ is like.”

So Bai Zhenzhen returned to the exemplary class’s classroom, where she saw her desk piled high with fully charged power banks.

A slight smile touched Bai Zhenzhen’s lips at the sight. She immediately grabbed a power bank and ran out, simultaneously sucking on the power bank’s cable with her mouth, feeling the slow current flowing into her, and beginning to breathe to restore her spiritual power.

While Bai Zhenzhen was back in her classroom retrieving power banks, a student complained to He Dayou, “President, if Bai Zhenzhen keeps monopolizing the outlets like this, how are we supposed to charge our devices?”

He Dayou frowned upon hearing this. “Bai Zhenzhen is ranked among the top two in the grade. What’s your rank? Isn’t it only right for you to let her charge?”

The other student said, “But…”

He Dayou replied, “There are no ‘buts.’ Either you tolerate it, or you surpass her in academic performance. Then you can even charge in the principal’s office, no problem.”

Seeing the student slink away, He Dayou shook his head, sighing inwardly that as the vice president of the student council, he naturally had to enforce rules fairly.

If it were Zhao Tianxing monopolizing the outlet, he would surely stand up and speak out for justice. But since it was Bai Zhenzhen, he could only advise other students to endure it.

Meanwhile, on the school rooftop.

Zhang Yu was practicing the “Endless Spring and Autumn Zen” technique. With each completed set of movements, the muscles and tendons within his body seemed to be damaged through hammering and tearing, only to then rapidly repair and heal under the nourishment of his longevity spiritual power.

Through this cycle of autumn and spring, death and life, he grew increasingly powerful, continuously expelling accumulated medicinal and alchemical toxins from his body.

Finally, with the completion of another cycle of Endless Spring and Autumn Zen, Zhang Yu’s gaze suddenly sharpened. His Endless Spring and Autumn Zen had finally reached Level 10.

At this moment, countless cycles of spring and autumn, along with experiences of physical nourishment and purification, surged through his mind, bringing his mastery of this technique to a peak.

The 49 forms of Endless Spring and Autumn Zen flashed through his mind one by one, with the corresponding longevity spiritual power flowing throughout his body. The cycle of autumn and spring continuously strengthened his physique and purified his flesh, seeming without end.

It was also at this moment that Zhang Yu discovered, after Endless Spring and Autumn Zen reached Level 10, the technique’s detoxification ability became even stronger. He could even control the alchemical and medicinal toxins that were originally meant to be expelled, allowing them to remain within his body.

These alchemical and medicinal toxins would form a “Zen” character on the skin of his chest, and as the toxins accumulated, the character’s color would deepen.

Normally, these toxins would not affect him. However, when Zhang Yu needed to, he could unleash this concentrated surge of alchemical and medicinal toxins, powerfully stimulating his body, extracting his life’s potential, and erupting with physical strength beyond his limits.

“However, the stronger the accumulated toxins, the greater the unleashed potential, but also the greater the drain on my lifespan.”

Zhang Yu pondered the mysteries within, thinking, “This is a life-or-death move, but I shouldn’t use it unless absolutely necessary.”

As for when to use such a desperate measure?

In Zhang Yu’s view, it was certainly not for fighting. After all, fighting was already desperate enough, and this move was too costly; perhaps losing would even be more worthwhile.

Rather, the future Foundation Establishment examination concerned his lifelong future. If sacrificing a few years of his life was necessary to increase his success rate, Zhang Yu could accept that.

“Now that Endless Spring and Autumn Zen is Level 10, next I need to find time to gather the basic high school cultivation techniques and complete the High School Sacred Body.”

After familiarizing himself with the Level 10 Endless Spring and Autumn Zen for a bit, the ringing bell signaled to Zhang Yu that it was dinner time.

For Zhang Yu, who spent a significant amount of time body refining every day, the importance of eating was no less than that of his cultivation.

He immediately leaped, jumping down towards the ground floor.

Then, under everyone’s gaze, he landed with a thud and quickly strode towards the cafeteria.

His gaze swept over the line in front of the cafeteria, and seeing purple-skinned individuals, dark-skinned individuals, and beast-kin among them, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but marvel at Songyang High’s current diversity.

The dark-skinned individuals, in particular, gave him a sense of familiarity.

“It feels like I’ve traveled back in time.”
“I can’t believe we in Kunxu also have our own dark-skinned people now.”

Under the awestruck gazes of the crowd, Zhang Yu directly bypassed the queue. After getting his food, he went to his usual spot in the cafeteria, where he saw Bai Zhenzhen had already arrived early.

As Zhang Yu ate and browsed on his phone for basic high school cultivation techniques, Zhao Tianxing and Qian Shen also finished getting their food and walked over.

However, Zhao Tianxing and Qian Shen now looked significantly different from how they had appeared a few weeks ago.

Although their skin still had a slight purple tint, it was much lighter than that of other high school students outside.

Zhao Tianxing recalled that when only a small number of students, like him, had initially undergone the modification surgery and become “purple-skinned,” he had felt quite awkward.

But as more and more “purple-skinned” individuals appeared in the school, he felt increasingly normal, while those who hadn’t undergone the surgery started to feel self-conscious and awkward.

And once the vast majority of students had undergone the modification surgery, the purpler a person’s skin was, the more looked down upon, self-conscious, and awkward they became.

This was because the lighter one’s skin color was after the Super Metabolism surgery, the stronger their mastery of Super Metabolism.

Zhao Tianxing thought to himself, “Unbeknownst to us, a new hierarchy has emerged among the purple-skinned group in school: from the lowest-tier deep purple-skinned individuals, to the mid-tier light purple-skinned, and finally to the highest-tier non-purple-skinned. The lighter the color, the higher the status.”

“This is still Songyang High, where not everyone has undergone the Super Metabolism surgery. I hear that at Ziyun High, everyone has had the surgery, and skin color has become fully integrated into the school’s high school caste system…”

Just then, an announcement came over the school broadcast system, stating that campus discipline would be rectified, with strict checks on tardiness and truancy…

Upon hearing this, both Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen frowned. They were, after all, frequent truants at Songyang High.

After all, the current high school curriculum could no longer keep pace with their immortal cultivation progress. Not skipping classes would mean wasting time, which was clearly unacceptable for two individuals urgently needing time to prepare for their Foundation Establishment examination.