Inside the classroom of the Demonstration Class.

Su Haifeng stood on the podium, the director of the grade level at Songyang High School. A man so dedicated to scholarship that even dogs would pause to read a few pages of a book as they passed him. His very presence caused the students to tense up, their focus intensifying immeasurably.

And the content of Su Haifeng’s speech at that moment stirred up thoughts and emotions within many students, even leaving some feeling at a loss.

“…Recently, some students have shown a lax awareness of discipline, especially with the recurring phenomenon of unexcused absences. This not only seriously affects your own studies but also disrupts the learning atmosphere of the entire class and even the school.”

“The school has zero tolerance for such behavior and will conduct strict investigations going forward. Once a student is found to be absent without reason, they will be given corresponding disciplinary action.”

“Don’t underestimate this disciplinary action. A single demerit means an indelible mark on your student record. Accumulating three demerits will result in direct expulsion from the school.”

“Perhaps some students think that being expelled is no big deal, and they can just go to another school and continue their studies. But I must sound the alarm. Once you are expelled from school, you will be placed on the blacklist of the education system.”

“Once you are on this blacklist, you will not be able to participate in the College Entrance Examination, and no high school or university will accept you.”

“Meaning your path to immortality will be cut off…”

Qian Shen raised his hand and asked, “Are we required to attend every general studies class?”

Su Haifeng replied as a matter of course, “Of course. Any absence from any class will be treated as truancy, including general studies classes.”

Zhang Yu, sitting at his desk, felt Su Haifeng’s gaze constantly sweeping over him as he spoke. He couldn’t help but feel that these words were aimed directly at him.

As Su Haifeng looked at Zhang Yu, he thought to himself, “The patrol team has finally shifted their attention away from us a little. The urgent task now is to seize this opportunity to capture the evil deity behind Zhang Yu and use it to enhance the master’s position.”

Zhang Yu was just a high school student, even if he was a so-called top student… but in Su Haifeng’s eyes, he was nothing to fear. He himself could easily suppress him if he wanted to.

“The key to the problem is always the evil deity behind him.”

“We must not reveal our intentions, otherwise, with the evil deity’s caution, it is very likely to abandon Zhang Yu and flee directly.”

“We must let Zhou Chechen pressure him little by little, forcing him to take the initiative to seek help from the evil deity…”

Thinking of this, Su Haifeng’s gaze merely swept over Zhang Yu without saying anything more.

As for the changes in school rules leading to a decline in student performance, that was of no concern to Su Haifeng, let alone the elders of the Zhou family behind him.

After all, the students of key high schools, who were already considered the pride of heaven in the eyes of many, were merely resources that grew in large numbers every year to Su Haifeng and his ilk.

At most, some were domesticated, some were wild, some provided value through labor in the future, and some provided value through their organs.

As long as they could achieve their goals, elevating the position of the evil deity to meet the great tide of the times, what did sacrificing the interests of some students matter?

In the following math class, all the students obediently stayed in the classroom.

When the math teacher walked into the classroom, he was a little unaccustomed to seeing the students sitting upright and attentive without a single absence.

However, after lecturing for a while, he felt elated and triumphant.

At the same time, teachers patrolled the corridors, checking on the classroom situation at any time.

Feeling Su Haifeng’s eyes, which seemed to carry dazzling lightning, many students were on edge, afraid to engage in the slightest inappropriate behavior.

“Troublesome.”

“Attending math class obediently is a pure waste of time.”

Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Fortunately, I can still practice some mental cultivation and breathing exercises.”

He looked at Bai Zhenzhen, who was holding a power bank not far away, knowing that she was also seizing the time to recharge and breathe.

Zhang Yu then thought, “But for the other courses, with my friendliness with the teachers, I should be able to be a little more free, right?”

On the training ground.

The martial arts teacher, Lei Jun, called Zhang Yu out separately.

Zhang Yu asked, “Teacher, can I still find a place to practice alone during martial arts class?”

Listening to Zhang Yu’s inquiry, Lei Jun sighed helplessly, “It’s not possible anymore, Zhang Yu. Things have been particularly tight recently. If you skip class, not only will you be disciplined, but I will also be punished, and my performance and wages will be deducted.”

Hearing this, Zhang Yu frowned slightly. He didn’t want to practice many of his techniques in front of his classmates and teachers.

“But there are also benefits. To improve your grades, the school has specially customized a special subsidy program for outstanding students like you.”

“For example, during martial arts class, in order to let you consolidate your foundation and strengthen your roots, the school allows me to teach you various basic techniques for free…”

When he said this, Lei Jun actually felt a little guilty.

With many years of experience as a high school martial arts teacher, he knew very well that too many basic techniques should not be practiced.

The practice of a single person practicing many basic techniques, the so-called solidifying the foundation and strengthening the roots, was something that only ancient sects emphasized, something that was done when the practice time was planned for ten or twenty years, and it had long been eliminated by the times.

The high school stage now races against time, and there are countless methods that are better and faster than basic techniques to consolidate the foundation. Practicing too many basic techniques is equivalent to wasting time.

“Zhou Chechen is having Zhang Yu practice basic techniques every day during martial arts class, which is equivalent to wasting his time and delaying his years.”

Even so, Lei Jun ultimately did not stop this matter.

He thought to himself, “After all, Zhou Chechen directly persuaded the principal and the school board this time.”

“This shows that Zhou Chechen may have borrowed the power of the Zhou family in order to deal with Zhang Yu.”

“In front of such a behemoth as the Sixteen Clans, I am just an ordinary wage earner, and Zhang Yu is just a student. What power do they have to resist?”

As for something like transferring schools, Lei Jun sighed inwardly, but Songyang High School would have to agree to release him. Just the matters of school registration and compensation would be a lot of trouble. By the time the school’s investment in the student was calculated, and some accounting tricks were done to demand a high price for compensation, which high school would be willing to take him in?

Lei Jun had heard that during the competition, Bai Long’s coach had invited Zhang Yu, and Zhou Chechen had said that he would not let him go. After hearing that Zhang Yu no longer participated in any competitions, it was likely that no high school would be willing to pay a high price to take him in.

Having worked and cultivated in Songyang City for so long, Lei Jun knew the weight of the Zhou family very well. They were not something that ordinary students or teachers could contend with.

“Once I go against them, I’m afraid I will become an ‘optimized’ middle-aged man, start looking for a job all over the street, and finally be unable to find a formal job because of my age, and can only run errands and deliver food.”

“And then desperately working under three hundred and sixty degrees of monitoring without blind spots, living with strict monitoring of every toilet visit, meal, and step count, wearing a professional smile face mask, being trampled hard under the feet of customers, security guards, merchants, and station chiefs, and still unable to pay off the loan without working overtime for more than 200 hours a month…”

“If I’m lucky, I can work hard to make money while using the money I earn to maintain my cultivation, and ultimately be able to work safely until the end of my life.”

“If I’m unlucky, for example, if I accidentally injure someone while delivering food, or if I’m injured by a security guard, then I will ultimately be unable to repay the loan due to insufficient working hours and will keep selling my flesh and blood.”

“Watching myself gradually turn back into an old mortal man, along with the humiliation of other mortals towards me, a former cultivator, and finally stink to death in some sewer…”

Just thinking about it made Lei Jun feel immense fear.

“No… I have cultivated for so many years, how can I end up in such a fate?”

On the contrary, if he did as Zhou Chechen instructed, not only would he not be “optimized,” but the other party would also help Lei Jun pay off his college loan.

Thinking of this, Lei Jun sighed inwardly and dared not look Zhang Yu in the eye.

Although as a teacher, Lei Jun admired Zhang Yu’s talent and grades, as a Kunxu person, he knew that the money in hand was the most important thing.

Lei Jun thought to himself, “I’m sorry, Zhang Yu. But anyway, you can’t get into the Top Ten, so what difference does it make if your grades are a little better or worse? Why not help me out instead?”

However, in order to take care of the other party a little, Lei Jun still intended to give him some freedom of choice.

He continued to say to Zhang Yu, “As long as it’s a basic technique that we Songyang High School has the right to teach, you can choose whatever you want. I’ll teach you whichever one you choose, and then have the school issue you a right of use.”

Hearing this, Zhang Yu’s eyes lit up slightly, and he asked, “What other basic techniques can we learn at our high school?”

Lei Jun said with great familiarity, “In addition to the ones we’ve already taught you, there are the High School Basic Saber Technique, the High School Basic Footwork, the High School Basic Digestion Technique, the High School Basic Medication Technique…”

Listening to Lei Jun skillfully reciting the names of one basic technique after another, Zhang Yu simply opened his mobile phone and recorded them one by one, then logged into a shopping website and searched for the introductions of each technique.

“Hmm, this High School Basic Footwork can put together the High School Holy Body in the Chain Method Diagram.”

“And the High School Basic Digestion Technique, the High School Basic Medication Technique… Not bad, not bad, Songyang High School is worthy of being a key high school, and it contains very comprehensive high school basic techniques, enough for me to put together the entire High School Holy Body.”

Thinking of this, Zhang Yu looked at Lei Jun with excitement and said, “Then I’ll learn the High School Basic Digestion Technique first.”

Lei Jun looked at the other party’s full of fighting spirit, sighed inwardly, but didn’t say anything. Instead, he began to guide the other party in this basic technique by hand.

This High School Basic Digestion Technique used various basic movements and magic circulation to stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis and enhance digestion and absorption ability.

After two consecutive martial arts classes, Lei Jun looked at Zhang Yu, whose body was constantly rippling with bursts of rumbling thunder-like sounds, and thought to himself, “He’s already learned it? That’s really fast.”

“Unfortunately, this kind of talent will be used to practice basic techniques non-stop from now on…”

Zhang Yu looked at his Feather Book with satisfaction. The High School Basic Digestion Technique on it had already reached Level 3 (5/30).

Although the technique had reached Level 3, Zhang Yu did not take the initiative to reveal it. He just pretended to be a beginner over and over again. Anyway, for him, such cultivation could still increase the level of the technique.

After the martial arts class, the students of the Demonstration Class went to the gymnasium together, ready to start the physical education class.

But this time, in addition to Wang Hai, there was another physical education teacher in the gymnasium.

Then, in the surprised gazes of everyone, Wang Hai said, “Students, from now on, your physical education courses in the second year of high school will be taught by Teacher Lin Hui next to me. Teacher Lin Hui is very skilled, and you must learn from her.”

The physical education teacher next to Wang Hai, who was two and a half meters tall and two meters wide, and whose gender was indistinguishable from his appearance, smiled slightly and said, “Hello, students. The school attaches great importance to the physical education courses of the Demonstration Class.”

“In order to better improve everyone’s physical education scores, the school has decided to distribute a free Dragon Elephant Formulation in every physical education class from now on.”

Hearing this, many students cheered at once. Even Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes lit up, and they thought to themselves, “This broken Songyang High School can actually do such a good thing?”

Wang Hai stood aside, silently watching Lin Hui distribute the Dragon Elephant Formulation, and the students happily taking the medicine and preparing the medicine. He silently recalled the things that Zhou Chechen had told him before in his mind.

“Add an addictive drug to Zhang Yu’s Dragon Elephant Formulation?”

Originally, Zhou Chechen had planned to tell Wang Hai to do this, and the conditions offered were very generous, a reward that was enough to make Wang Hai’s heart flutter.

In addition, it had been confirmed that Zhang Yu was not a Golden Core disciple, and Zhang Pianpian, who had signed a contract behind him, had left the Kunxu First Layer and there was no news of her. And Zhou Chechen had already mobilized the power of the Zhou family to start taking action…

All of this seemed to be reminding Wang Hai that he should agree.

But Wang Hai ultimately chose to neither oppose, nor support, nor participate.

Because he couldn’t understand this matter.

He couldn’t understand why Zhang Yu had progressed so quickly, he couldn’t understand whether there was anyone behind Zhang Yu, and he couldn’t understand whether Zhou Chechen was dealing with Zhang Yu for the sake of venting his anger or for some other purpose…

As a gold-medal physical education coach who had worked at Songyang High School for decades, Wang Hai had always had a principle.

That is, he would not participate in things that he didn’t understand, no matter how much money he could earn.