At this moment, Lei Jun’s heart surged with emotions. He was elated and satisfied by the impending bonus, pay raise, and potential teaching achievements. More than that, a sense of nostalgia washed over him.

Once, Lei Jun was also a spirited high school student, dreaming of defeating all opponents with his iron fists, trampling both academic elites and the wealthy underfoot, and ascending to the pinnacle of all high schools in Songyang. “A punch worth a billion! This is the ultimate realm pursued by generations of martial artists!” However, reality delivered a heavy blow. His monthly exam scores made him feel powerless to catch up, and the fierce, advanced competition in contests made him realize the insurmountable gap between himself and those wealthy, scholarly elites. It was like an ant gazing at the azure sky, a difference that bordered on despair. It was then that he understood that the Fist Sect, the Sword Sect, the Qi Sect… all paled in comparison to the Money Sect. “A billion crushes all” was the true reality. He also learned a truth: money makes your fist hard. The more money in your account, the greater the power of your punch.

But today, his student, with a frail body, had overcome numerous powerful opponents, using extraordinary talent and skill to compensate for the gaps in physique, healthcare, and wealth, overpowering the academic elites from prestigious schools. He had achieved what he once dreamed of doing, but later didn’t even dare to think about. He mused, “Alas, to defeat money with one’s own fists… this is the realm that we martial artists should pursue. Although it’s just in a high school tournament, it’s something worth remembering for a lifetime.”

At the same time, the attending emergency doctor said calmly, “Ah, it’s nothing serious. Just qi deficiency due to excessive blood loss. A little blood replenishment will do.” “I’ll prescribe some medicine to replenish physical strength, mana, and energy…” Lei Jun pulled out several boxes of medicine from his pocket. “No need to prescribe anything. Take mine. These should work, right?” He thought that this way, his insurance premiums might not increase as much next time. The emergency doctor curled his lip, thinking to himself that it was really hard to squeeze any more money out of these three paupers.

A moment later, the referee also came over, first inquiring about Zhang Yu’s condition, and then asking Bai Zhenzhen if she wanted to fight Song Hailong for third place. Bai Zhenzhen naturally refused. Song Hailong’s muscle-monster, super-tank fighting style was just too much of a disadvantage for her. Thus, a moment later, the top four in the martial arts competition were completely determined, from highest to lowest: Zhang Yu, Le Mulan, Song Hailong, and Bai Zhenzhen.

On the other side, Le Mulan had also recovered her mobility after treatment. So, after a short rest, Zhang Yu, along with Le Mulan and Song Hailong, walked to the podium to receive their medals for champion, runner-up, and second runner-up, respectively. However, apart from Zhang Yu, who was beaming with a smile, Le Mulan and Song Hailong both wore gloomy expressions, as if they were constipated. Cheers, as well as curses, echoed from the audience.

A Red Pagoda student said with a face full of jealousy, “This Zhang Yu has such high talent, he can learn martial arts just by watching others practice. He should pay them when he watches them practice, otherwise he’s a martial arts thief!” A Purple Cloud student cried bitterly, “This Zhang Yu actually rode on the sacred number one! I wouldn’t even dare to dream of doing that! Damn it, this is worse than killing me!” A White Dragon student sighed, “The winner stands, the loser kneels. I never thought that Songyang High School would have a scholar worthy of kneeling to.” In White Dragon High School, “worthy of kneeling” was the highest praise for high-scoring students.

In front of the podium, Lei Jun smiled broadly and took out his phone to take pictures. Bai Zhenzhen took a few photos, then started filming videos, already planning how to use the name of the martial arts competition to get advertisements. While taking pictures, she said to the three on the podium, “Smile a little, you look ugly with such long faces. Zhang Yu, I’m not talking about you, tone it down a bit, don’t smile so arrogantly.” Lei Jun said from the side, “I’ll treat you to a meal after the competition. You can ask Qian Shen and the others if they want to come later, and we can discuss what we want to eat.”

In the Purple Cloud High School rest area, Le Mulan walked back slowly, holding the second-place medal. The school uniform that had been stained with blood during the fight with Zhang Yu had been changed. The complex emotions such as ferocity, anger, and unwillingness after the battle had also disappeared, and she looked indifferent, as if nothing had happened. However, when she returned to the rest area, Le Mulan saw Lian Tianji kneeling on the ground, and her brows furrowed slightly: “Get up, I’m retracting the punishment of being a stool.” Lian Tianji raised his head in surprise, looking at Le Mulan with a hint of incomprehension. This was the first time he had seen Le Mulan retract her words. Le Mulan said indifferently, “I’ve already lost, what qualifications do I have to punish you?” “If you’re going to be my stool, and I’ve also lost, do I have to be your stool? Or go be Zhang Yu’s stool?” As she spoke, she turned her head slightly and looked in the direction of Zhang Yu, saying with a complicated tone: “Your failure this time isn’t really your fault, this Zhang Yu is indeed very powerful.” “Although I still don’t understand why he’s unwilling to make more money, he did make me realize my weaknesses.” Le Mulan had already begun to plan her future training in close combat. After the post-match analysis, Le Mulan initially felt that she was too confident and careless. In a moment of negligence, she thought she could easily take down her opponent by dodging, but she didn’t expect that such a small flaw would be seized by her opponent. However, after reviewing the entire battle, she suddenly realized that the other party came prepared. The other party not only discovered her subtle flaws, but also had enough ideas and abilities to tear these flaws apart. In addition to this, she naturally thought about her aversion to Zhang Yu’s blood. “Appropriately contacting poor people…” Le Mulan couldn’t help but frown again when she thought of this, feeling an uncontrollable awkwardness, a kind of mental discomfort. “Changing my thinking is indeed not easy.” Suddenly, she thought that she had already added Zhang Yu as a friend. Le Mulan thought to herself: “How about starting by looking at poor people’s moments first…” Lian Tianji smiled and got up: “This failure will make us stronger. When we meet Zhang Yu in the next competition, we will definitely win him.” “Next competition?” Le Mulan said, “Is it the physical competition? Even if we beat him in that competition, there’s not much sense of accomplishment.” Lian Tianji was slightly stunned, then immediately nodded in agreement, saying helplessly: “That’s true, his physical strength is already so much weaker than us now, by the time of the physical competition two months later, he’ll probably be even further away from us.” “Unless he can join Songyang’s competition team and accept Songyang’s so-called special training program…”
In the rest area of White Dragon High School. Chu Qiuhe, now awake, lamented to the surrounding students, “After waking up, I carefully reviewed everything and realized how formidable Zhang Yu truly is. Among all the first-year students in Songyang City, I doubt anyone can surpass him in practical combat skills.”

A student from White Dragon retorted, “That’s an exaggeration! I think Senior Song Hailong just slipped off the stage because he was sweating too much. He should just use some antiperspirant before going on.”

Chu Qiuhe pointed at him and said, “What’s your score? What’s your ranking? Kneel down before you speak to me.” Seeing the student kneel, Chu Qiuhe slowly said, “You can’t fully grasp Zhang Yu’s terror unless you truly fight him…”

Just then, Song Hailong returned, and everyone immediately fell silent. Song Hailong casually tossed the third-place medal into his bag, ignoring it completely. Song Hailong understood that the third-place in the martial arts competition might be an honor to others, but to him, it was a disgrace.

Suddenly, his phone rang, and a mature male voice came from the other end, “I watched your match. Neither of the two ahead of you are stronger than you.”

“You lost to someone weaker than yourself.”

“Your father is very disappointed in you…”

Hearing this, Song Hailong was filled with trepidation, “Brother, I was careless…”

“Don’t make excuses,” the voice said coldly. “You know Father hates people making excuses for failure the most.”

Song Hailong took a deep breath and said softly, “I’m sorry.”

The two-and-a-half-meter-tall giant now listened to the scolding from the other end of the phone, looking as uneasy and flustered as a little student.

After a moment, he hung up the phone, his expression turning angrily towards Zhang Yu.

“You actually want to exhaust my magical power?” Le Mulan laughed, “Do you think you can exhaust it?”

The next moment, as Le Mulan’s sword aura erupted, the magical power within her became increasingly turbulent, like a roaring river, surging endlessly. Her magical power had actually surpassed all the other contestants present.

At the same time, a female voice echoed within her, “Welcome to use the Purple Cloud Replaceable Inner Core.”

“Remaining magical power amount in the inner core: 8,000,000.”

Le Mulan touched her lower abdomen, then looked at Zhang Yu, “I charged this replaceable inner core in my body with 8 million worth of magical power.”

At the same time, a line of text appeared on her wrist, a number constantly decreasing from 8 million. Clearly, as she continued to erupt magical power and sword aura, the magical power charged in the inner core was constantly being consumed. However, even with thousands of dollars being spent per second, it was still a long way from exhausting the entire 8 million.

But it also showed that Le Mulan was spending thousands of dollars every second she fought.

Le Mulan flicked her finger, and streams of sword aura blasted towards Zhang Yu like a storm, not even allowing him to get close, practically forcing him off the stage.

“If you think the meridians in my body can’t withstand this surging magical power, then don’t worry.”

“My battle spirit root, ‘Mana Network’, has already protected all my meridians, allowing me to maintain a high output of magical power without worrying about wear and tear.”

At the same time, seeing Le Mulan bombard the stage, looking like a wealthy prodigal who could never run out of her 8 million dollars worth of magical power, the audience was also excited. This was far more admirable than Song Hailong’s 10 million insurance, because the 10 million insurance was from the insurance company, while Le Mulan was throwing out her own real money.

Some audience members looked at Le Mulan’s money-scattering behavior and praised, “So beautiful, this way of spending money like it’s nothing is truly beautiful.”

Since he lost this time, he would get it back in another way, in a way that was unique to the wealthy. Song Hailong strode to the rest area of Songyang High School, his imposing figure immediately casting a shadow over Zhang Yu.

Under the wary gaze of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, Song Hailong coldly said, “How much?”

“What’s the price to hire you as a sparring partner?” As an absolute rich person, after being defeated by an opponent, he would naturally spend money to hire them as a sparring partner, until he could crush them! Whoever he lost to, he would spend money to learn all their skills!

Hearing Song Hailong’s words, both Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu’s eyes lit up, feeling that Song Hailong was even more impressive.

Zhang Yu coughed and said, “I’m very expensive, and very busy. I have to check my schedule to see if I have time.”

Bai Zhenzhen nodded repeatedly, “Come, come! I am Zhang Yu’s manager, you can discuss the money with me!”

“Also, I’m in the top four of the martial arts competition, and I’m also Zhang Yu’s combat coach. I guided his last fight with Le Mulan. Do you want to hire me too?”

After adding Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu as friends, Song Hailong looked at the two and said, “You guys discuss the specific price and tell me.”

“But there’s one thing…” Looking at Zhang Yu’s thin body, Song Hailong said dissatisfiedly, “You better find a way to improve your physical strength.”

“Because I will only get stronger and faster, I can’t wait for you.”

“If your stats are too low, I can easily crush you with my strength, then there’s no need for you to be a sparring partner.”

Watching the other person leave, Zhang Yu also knew that what he said was right. Whether it was to earn money from sparring, the physical examination in two months, or even for college entrance exams in the future, he needed to work harder to improve his physical strength.

“I need to catch up with Song Hailong and Le Mulan.”
A moment later, Zhao Tianxing, Qian Shen, and He Dayou also descended from the spectator stands, joining the others to visit Zhang Yu. Zhao Tianxing exclaimed excitedly, “You were so awesome, Yu-zi! I took pictures of you on the arena, take a look…” Qian Shen sighed, “The competition is definitely beyond the syllabus, it’s already an exam on another level. A perfect score of 100 in martial arts combat simply can’t fully express your achievements in martial arts.” Bai Zhenzhen asked, “Lei-laoshi is treating us to dinner later, are you guys going? Any preferences?” Zhao Tianxing said, “What are we eating? I’m fine with anything, but preferably something healthy like boiled chicken.” Bai Zhenzhen nodded, noting it down on her phone, “Okay, Zhao Tianxing is easygoing.” He Dayou said indifferently, “I don’t eat pauper’s meals. If the restaurant isn’t expensive enough, I won’t go.” Bai Zhenzhen nodded, noting it down, “He Dayou is out.” Qian Shen said, “I know a good restaurant, I’ll treat for the drinks.” Bai Zhenzhen noted, “Qian Shen is treating.”…

Inside a restaurant in the city. As soon as Zhang Yu walked in, he said, “Do you have emperor crabs? Bring ten of them.” The expression on Lei Jun’s face darkened. *Is he trying to bankrupt me?* Qian Shen interjected, “This restaurant doesn’t have seafood, and seafood isn’t nutritious anyway, it’s not suitable for high school students.” “This restaurant specializes in authentic pre-prepared dishes, without any extra seasoning. You get to taste the true essence of pre-prepared meals.” “The dishes are also particularly nutritious, each plate has over ten thousand calories of pure energy. I often come here to eat after training.” Lei Jun nodded secretly. Qian Shen was truly sensible, understanding the teacher’s hardships. Qian Shen said to the waiter, “Do you have pre-prepared dishes with monstrous beast meat? We have top students from Songyang High School here today, do you have any dishes that nourish the body?” Lei Jun sighed. Qian Shen was also quite clueless. He wasn’t a Dao arts teacher; he didn’t realize the limited income of a martial arts instructor. Not allowing the students to order haphazardly, Lei Jun said directly, “I only brought 6000 essence coins, any more and we’ll all be washing dishes together.” A moment later, the group sat together, raising their glasses of beast protein milk in unison: “Cheers!” After all, they were healthy high school students and teachers, of course they would drink healthy and nutritious beast protein milk. Besides, after this meal, it would almost be time for school, so naturally, no one would drink anything that would affect their learning.

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