Gazing upon the diagram of the Chain Laws, and seeing the Great Scholar’s Physique within it activating its first layer, a flicker of delight flashed in Zhang Yu’s eyes.

He casually grabbed a handful of medicinal herbs, stuffing them into his mouth. The moment they entered his stomach, he felt them instantly refined, transforming into streams of warmth coursing through his limbs and bones.

Feeling the medicinal power absorbed in an instant, as effortless as drinking water, he mused inwardly, “With this Great Scholar’s Physique, I reckon even if I ate bargain-bin pills every day, I could last for years!”

With the activation of the initial stage of the Great Scholar’s Physique, Zhang Yu felt even more motivated and continued cultivating the seventh fundamental technique!

Level 300 of the Myriad Laws University City, the Department of Dao Arts’ experimental layer!

While Zhang Yu was wholeheartedly focused on cultivating the foundational techniques, Li Xiao followed Gongshu Jin and Ying Xin, learning and cultivating, striving to improve his strength while also trying to integrate into the circles of these upper-classmen!

Ying Xin turned to him, smiling, “Li Xiao, let’s go, to the Soul Cloud Sea together!”

Hearing this, a hint of hesitation flickered across Li Xiao’s face.

Most of his savings had already been spent on purchasing the Heavenly Craftsmanship Eye Socket last time with borrowed funds!

And the Soul Cloud Sea technique, even with a 30% discount, cost 0.063 Spirit Coins per hour. A four-hour session would cost 0.252 Spirit Coins!

In the past half-month or so, including several Dao Art services, renting cultivation implements, consuming fasting pills, and purchasing techniques like Ying Xin, he had spent over 1.5 Spirit Coins in total!

Of course, the benefits were also immense. Li Xiao felt that he had made rapid progress in the past half-month, far surpassing his time on the first level, and his class ranking was steadily improving!

Seeing Li Xiao’s hesitation, Ying Xin said impatiently, “Are you coming or not? You always drag your feet when I call you. If you don’t go, don’t bother following us in the future!”

“If it weren’t for the fact that you cultivate the same body refinement technique as me, do you think I would even call you?”

Li Xiao’s eye socket displayed the interface of the loan platform. Then, he smiled and said, “Let’s go. It’s too slow to cultivate without Dao Art assistance!”

Six hours later, Li Xiao followed Gongshu Jin, Ying Xin, and others out of the Dao Art service area!

Li Xiao exclaimed loudly, “There are even freshmen working as service staff? Why even study at university? Is university just a place for them to work? How can they improve their ranking with so much work?”

After joking around with everyone, Li Xiao looked enviously at their departing figures as they headed towards the upper-level dormitory area. He, on the other hand, headed towards the lower dormitory levels!

Looking at his account balance, Li Xiao frowned.

But looking at his ranking, he smiled again, “Eleventh in the class, with a comprehensive score of 288!”

The comprehensive score was an overall assessment of a student, based on academic credits, exam scores, competition results, projects, and more, including fundamental data such as the student’s Dao Heart, Mana, and physical strength!

As the number of academic credits increased, exam scores improved, and the content of competitions and projects became more substantial, the comprehensive score would also become higher, even reaching thousands or tens of thousands!

For the Foundation Establishment class’s freshmen, the fundamental data temporarily had the greatest impact on the comprehensive score!

Looking at his ranking and comprehensive score, and then at the 498 points of the first-ranked Ji Huan Shu, Li Xiao thought inwardly, “As long as I maintain this pace, I will definitely be in the top 10 of the class when the semester starts in September, maybe even in the top 5!”

He glanced at Zhang Yu, who had fallen to 18th place, and felt even more delighted, “That way, when the semester starts, I will definitely be far above Zhang Yu, and Teacher Tu will choose me to go to the construction site!”

“Then I can earn more money on the construction site, and repay my online loan!”

With light steps, Li Xiao passed the 125th-floor dormitory area and heard a slight tearing sound in the air!

He turned his head and saw Zhang Yu standing in front of the dormitory door, practicing fundamental techniques!

“Zhang Yu!”

Seeing the other party’s distorted movements and perfunctory techniques, Li Xiao smiled, “What is this guy doing?”

He originally wanted to shake his head and leave, but he suddenly activated the recording function in his cultivation implement!

“I’ll send it to Gongshu Jin and the others to see what this clown is doing!”

A moment later, a video taken by Li Xiao appeared in Gongshu Jin and the others’ small group!

Ying Xin: This is… Zhang Yu? What is he doing? Dancing?

Someone said: It’s a fundamental technique, right? Someone saw him practicing before. It seems he has been cultivating fundamental techniques for the past half-month.

Ying Xin: The fundamental techniques are so distorted. How bad is this guy’s Martial Dao talent?

Someone laughed: No wonder he has to practice fundamental techniques!

Seeing the others in the group mocking Zhang Yu, Li Xiao became even more delighted and joined in, feeling like he had become a member of the circle!

At the same time, Gongshu Jin frowned slightly as he watched the video.

“I originally thought that this Zhang Yu, who established his foundation a year earlier than me and is still like this, must have very poor aptitude!”

“But I didn’t expect… it could be so bad!”

“To be this bad and still be able to study at Myriad Laws University…”

Gongshu Jin suddenly felt a little frightened!

Seeing the others’ comments in the group, he immediately stopped them and warned, “In the future, no one is allowed to talk about Zhang Yu in my group!”

Seeing everyone stop mocking, Gongshu Jin ignored them and thought, “No wonder they want to reform the first level. To let someone like Zhang Yu come up here, the selection system on the first level must be broken!”

“But Zhang Yu’s aptitude is simply disastrous. Even a wealthy family should give up on him. Who is nurturing him?”

On the other side, Li Xiao clenched his fists slightly as he looked at Gongshu Jin’s message, a hint of unwillingness on his face!

He had made rapid progress in the past half-month, far surpassing Zhang Yu, but Gongshu Jin’s attitude towards Zhang Yu and him was like comparing clouds to mud!

“Wait and see, I will continue to improve and leave Zhang Yu far behind!”

In the next few days, Li Xiao continued to cultivate with Gongshu Jin and the others, and the Spirit Coins in his account were constantly spent. His strength also increased!

And every day when the rankings were updated at dawn, Li Xiao would be the first to refresh them!

On this day, seeing his ranking rise to 10th place, he breathed a sigh of relief, his face showing excitement!

Scrolling down further and seeing Zhang Yu drop to 19th place, he couldn’t help but laugh!

125th floor, outside the dormitory!

Zhang Yu breathed out a mouthful of air and looked at his Chain Law Diagram!

Ultimate – Great Scholar’s Physique (8/8): Enhances the digestion, absorption, and metabolic abilities of food to the peak of Foundation Establishment. Zhang Yu thought:

“Eight fundamental techniques, the Great Scholar’s Physique has finally unlocked the second layer!”

“But in this broken University City, this ability in food digestion is useless except for eating the jerky A Zhen sends me!”

Zhang Yu shook his head, didn’t think much about it, and turned to practice the ninth fundamental technique again!

As for the ranking? He was now focused on cultivating fundamental techniques, and his data barely increased!

After all, when he cultivated the fundamental techniques, he only pursued speed and not quality. The effects of level 10 and level 20 of the fundamental techniques were also negligible!

Zhang Yu thought, “This ranking will definitely plummet, what’s there to look at!”

So in the next four days, Zhang Yu worked hard and pushed the last two fundamental techniques to level 10!

At this point, the Great Scholar’s Physique was finally completed, and more than twenty days had passed since the first class at Myriad Laws University!

Ultimate – Great Scholar’s Physique (10/10): Increases the cultivation efficiency of all Foundation Establishment techniques by 2 times, and the cultivation effect by 2 times!

Seeing the effect of this Ultimate Great Scholar’s Physique, Zhang Yu took a deep breath, and a surge of excitement welled up in his heart!

He thought, “As expected, like the previous High School Physique, the Great Scholar’s Physique can also improve the cultivation efficiency and cultivation effect of Foundation Establishment techniques!”

“With this Great Scholar’s Physique in hand, how fast and terrifying will my development be in the university next?”

At this moment, Zhang Yu was extremely grateful that he had not wasted time specializing in other things, and had not wasted money on various Immortal Dao services, but had wholeheartedly completed this Great Scholar’s Physique first!

“After completing the Great Scholar’s Physique, what should I cultivate next?”

Zhang Yu’s mind flashed with the university information he had collected in recent days, and he soon had a plan!

First focus on increasing mana!

Mana is the foundation of the Immortal Dao, and also the economic foundation!

“If mana is high enough, not only will the power of techniques be greater, but the excess mana can also be used to sell for Spirit Coins!”

“In the process of increasing mana, I can also improve my mana quality, so that I can help Le Mulan develop her Dao Seed and copy her Deep Cold Spiritual Vein in the future!”

“So how can I increase mana the fastest?” Zhang Yu looked at his Feather Book!

“The advantage of the Great Scholar’s Physique is that it can cultivate techniques faster, and the effects brought by the techniques are stronger!”

“If I want to use this point, I need to cultivate stronger breathing techniques, and…”

Zhang Yu’s gaze swept over the Chain Law Diagram on the first page and stopped on the Azure Vortex Qi Technique!

This was the only Foundation Establishment breathing technique he knew!

When his gaze rested on this technique, he could immediately see the set of this technique on the Chain Law Diagram: “This set seems… it should be very helpful for increasing mana!”

Then Zhang Yu’s eye socket opened the Great Library again, listing the expert-level breathing techniques of the Foundation Establishment stage one by one!

Looking at his discount, Zhang Yu smiled inwardly, “It’s good that I can also get a 40% discount when I exchange expert-level techniques in the Great Library, which is too suitable for my advantages!”

Zhang Yu’s gaze swept over the introduction of the breathing techniques one by one, listing the techniques belonging to the Outstanding Vein Gathering one by one!

“In addition to the set effect, there is also the breathing technique itself… I also need more types to cooperate with me!”

“I want to play with something that can automatically run 24 hours a day, just like the Zhou Tian Qi Gathering Method!”

“Also, it can better improve the quality of mana!”

“There must be a focus on the speed of mana recovery, which is convenient for me to sell mana in the future…”

According to the various requirements in his heart, Zhang Yu collected the breathing techniques one by one!

The first expert-level breathing method Zhang Yu decided to buy was called the Hunyuan Fetal Breathing Sutra, which uses breathing to replace breathing. After cultivation, between breaths, it constantly breathes in spiritual energy and refines mana all the time!

“First practice this technique to maintain 24 hours a day of refining mana!”

Then he looked at the price of the Hunyuan Fetal Breathing Sutra: “The original price is 1 Spirit Coin, and after a 40% discount, it is 0.6 Spirit Coins!”

Zhang Yu looked at his current Spirit Coin balance!

During this period, in addition to eating every day and buying fundamental techniques, he saved money every day and dared not spend too much. Now there are still more than 12.3 Spirit Coins!

“Fortunately… Fortunately, I didn’t spend money randomly!”

After buying the Hunyuan Fetal Breathing Sutra, a line of text and images instantly appeared in Zhang Yu’s eye socket!

I saw Zhang Yu sitting cross-legged, already starting to cultivate this breathing method according to the exercise route displayed in the eye socket!