Chapter 131: New Drug Channels, Xian Yun Endorsement

Zhang Yu followed the address provided by Le Mulan and arrived at an apartment building outside Ziyun High School.

The building featured antique-style exterior walls and an elaborately carved main entrance. Under the setting sun's glow, the entire structure shimmered, as if draped in a brilliant golden veil, appearing both understated and luxurious. Zhang Yu felt his previous apartment was like a pigsty in comparison.

As soon as he stood before the main entrance, the glass door automatically opened, and a voice from inside announced, "Mr. Zhang, your check-in information has been registered. Please follow the directions to your room."

Following the purple light arrows on the ground, Zhang Yu made his way to Room 101. As the door automatically opened, he was immediately sprayed head-to-toe with a purifying mist upon entering. He then saw Le Mulan sitting cross-legged on a futon, quietly practicing breathing exercises.

"You're here?"

As Zhang Yu entered, Le Mulan slowly stood up. She was still wearing her thick school uniform on her upper body, but her long pants had been unconsciously removed, revealing a pair of athletic shorts and a pair of straight, fair long legs.

"My pants were going to rip anyway, so I took them off first. You don't mind, do you?"

Zhang Yu looked down resignedly and said, "No, do as you please."

Le Mulan picked up the apartment key card nearby and handed it to Zhang Yu: "From now on, this room will be for you and Bai Zhenzhen. You only need to pay 2,000 yuan a month; internet, electricity, and water are all included here."

"But I have one condition: if I come here to train with you in the future, Bai Zhenzhen cannot be in the room while we're training without my permission." Le Mulan secretly thought to herself, "I'm not ready for close-quarters combat with both of them... yet."

Zhang Yu frowned and said, "You always have to set a time in advance before coming, right? You can't just show up whenever you want. What if we're busy?"

Le Mulan nodded, "Of course. I will schedule a time with you each week and try to arrange it when Bai Zhenzhen is not around."

With that, she handed the key card to Zhang Yu and added, "Let's begin then."

Two hours passed in the blink of an eye.

Le Mulan emerged from her private bathroom, having already showered and changed into a new school uniform. She sat by the window and rubbed her somewhat bruised legs. She then took out a bottle of Dao Heart Buffer and drank it, a comfortable expression appearing on her face. She was in a good mood today. After completing her training with Zhang Yu, she felt much of her psychological aversion had been alleviated. Furthermore, her physical control had improved during her wrestling session with Zhang Yu.

"This Zhang Yu really has a talent for physical training."

"After graduating from university, he should be able to become a decent body-refining coach, right?" Le Mulan turned her head and looked curiously at Zhang Yu, who was wiping the floor.

As Zhang Yu was cleaning the floor, Fujihime reminded him, "Don't forget to put the potion into bottles. Bai Zhenzhen has rushed you several times."

Le Mulan, observing Zhang Yu looking at the water bottle with a hesitant expression, seemed to understand something.

"Can't accept this potion? Is it a mental hurdle?"

Le Mulan said with the tone of an experienced person, "You'll get used to it. People still need to learn to actively adapt to their environment. Right now, you can't get past it mentally; you feel disgusted and dirty. But if you do it a few more times, you'll slowly get used to it."

Zhang Yu, however, frowned upon hearing this and said, "I'm already trying very hard to adapt to this wretched place." Looking at the sweat in front of him, which smelled fragrant, looked sweet, and probably tasted good, Zhang Yu sighed, "But there are some things in this wretched place that I still don't want to adapt to."

Le Mulan tilted her head and said, "Then spend money. Money can change your environment. If you buy the medicine yourself, you won't have to drink this."

Zhang Yu approached Le Mulan and smiled, "Then do you have a channel to buy medicine? Can you sell it to me cheaper?"

Le Mulan said indifferently, "Money can solve it now... but one day, you'll encounter things that money can't immediately solve." A scene of her defeat by Zhang Yu in the martial arts competition flashed through her mind, and she said somewhat helplessly, "At that point, you will ultimately have to proactively adapt yourself."

Zhang Yu said cheerfully, "What happens in the future, we'll talk about it then."

Le Mulan stared steadily at Zhang Yu, as if seeing her past self, who wanted to solve everything with money and use it to ward off "poverty." However, the Zhang Yu before her was a different kind of poor person than she used to be.

Le Mulan suddenly chuckled, put on her pants, and walked towards the door, "Alright, just text me on your phone any medicines you want. I'll have someone sell them to you at an 80% discount."

Zhang Yu asked, "Are they as good quality as what you use? Oh, and do they have nerve fillers, or Hunyuan Pills?"

Le Mulan had already left the room. As the door closed, only her cool voice remained.

"Just as good, probably."

The thought of buying Hunyuan Pills at an 80% discount from Le Mulan filled Zhang Yu with excitement. In the future, practicing the Red Marrow Hunyuan Qi body-refining technique would require him to spend 300,000 yuan each month on Hunyuan Pills.

"At an 80% discount, I'd save 60,000 yuan instantly!"

Over an hour later, Bai Zhenzhen arrived in the room. She first touched the body-refining equipment in the room, then checked the bathroom, next tested the soundproofing of the quiet room, and then looked into room services like laundry, cleaning, and meal delivery. Among these services, meal delivery also offered inexpensive synthetic food, allowing Zhang Yu and others to eat whenever they were hungry.

After looking around, Bai Zhenzhen exclaimed with surprise, "Holy cow, the conditions here are pretty good! We can train anytime. Is it really only 2,000 a month?"

Zhang Yu nodded, then explained Le Mulan's conditions.

Bai Zhenzhen said, "That's a minor issue. Is there a rental contract?"

Looking at the electronic contract Zhang Yu sent, Bai Zhenzhen said excitedly, "Now we can apply for intercity passes. We're one step closer to passing the Foundation Establishment Exam."

Zhang Yu nodded, lamenting, "I thought we wouldn't be able to live in a place like this until after we got into university."

Then Zhang Yu brought up the matter of buying medicine from Le Mulan at an 80% discount. Bai Zhenzhen nodded repeatedly upon hearing this: "Great! This woman uses high-quality medicine. To be able to buy through her channel and get an 80% discount..." Thinking of this, she couldn't help but smile, feeling that her and Zhang Yu's hopes of passing the Foundation Establishment Exam had grown even stronger.

A moment later, Bai Zhenzhen eagerly headed towards the quiet room, "I'll try training in the quiet room first."

Zhang Yu, meanwhile, turned on each light in the room, planning to test the effect of practicing the Great Sun Qi Sea technique at night with the lights on. As the lights shone, he immediately felt the Great Sun magic power within him subtly activate. Although not as intense as during the day, it still achieved about twenty to thirty percent of the effect.

"Since Le Mulan exempted us from electricity fees, should I buy some high-power lights?"

After moving into the new apartment, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen spent their days moving between school, the apartment, and the Dark Cultivation Gang, continuously working towards their goal of passing the Foundation Establishment Exam.

Several days later.

On the subway in Songyang City, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were leaning against each other. Bai Zhenzhen was performing spirit breathing exercises, while Zhang Yu was mentally circulating the Crippled Ox Sacrifice Heart Manual. Ever since raising his Great Sun Qi Sea to level 10, he had begun cultivating the Crippled Ox Sacrifice Heart Manual. At this moment, as he meditated, a large ox with all its limbs broken, blind, and deaf, seemed to be crawling forward in his mind, ceaselessly. Along with this visualization, a hint of joy seemed to rise in Zhang Yu's heart, as if no matter how hard or tiring it was, as long as he could move forward and make progress, it was good.

Crippled Ox Sacrifice Heart Manual Level 5 (23/50)

Zhang Yu secretly thought, "This mental cultivation technique, like the Desolate Ox Soul Suppressing Heart Manual, indeed has a hidden condition: hope. There must at least be a path forward to perfectly utilize this mental cultivation technique."

Over ten minutes later, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen emerged from the subway station and walked to a skyscraper in the city center. Looking at the towering building that seemed to pierce the sky, a smile appeared on Zhang Yu's lips. This was the office building of the Xianyun Group in Songyang City Center, where he had been before. However, last time he came here to test cultivation techniques for odd jobs, but this time he was here to shoot an advertisement as a spokesperson.

After registering at the front desk, they followed the directions to the shooting location. As soon as Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen stepped out of the elevator, they saw various advertising posters belonging to the Xianyun Group. Things like "Fetal Muscle Enhancement Classes," making fetuses more confident after birth; "Elderly Longevity Classes," live one day more for every day attended; and "Medical Insurance Buster Training Classes," teaching how to bankrupt your opponent in three moves. Looking at the advertising posters here, Zhang Yu increasingly felt the immense wealth and power of the Xianyun Group, as well as the vastness of its business scope.

Zhang Yu said, "The Xianyun Group's customer base is truly extensive."

"Isn't it?" Bai Zhenzhen commented, "Although the Xianyun Group's business scope is mainly education, they can educate everyone! From fetal education to the elderly, don't they just turn everyone into their customers? Only the dead haven't been educated by them yet, but I think that'll happen soon..."

While Bai Zhenzhen was grumbling about the Xianyun Group, the two unconsciously stopped in front of another poster, their gaze fixed on Zhang Pianpian in the image.

"True God Talisman Scroll, Eastern District 12-City Joint Examination, the preferred tutoring material of Zhang Pianpian, the top talisman high school student. Compiled by Xianyun Group in collaboration with the Eight Righteous Deities, gathering tens of thousands of talisman examples, ensuring every purchaser has a divine mentor. Standard Edition 888,888, Deluxe Edition 1,888,888..."

Zhang Yu felt his eyes playing tricks on him: "Ah Zhen, how many eights are these? I can't even count them."

"You can't even count 880,000 and 1.88 million; you really reek of poverty." Bai Zhenzhen's eyes lit up as she looked at Zhang Pianpian in the poster, envying, "Did foster mother really become a spokesperson for Xianyun Group too? I wonder how much her endorsement fee was." Then she looked at the "Eastern District 12-City Joint Examination, Top Talisman Student" section and exclaimed, "She was the top talisman student in the 12-city joint exam?"

Zhang Yu knew that the first layer of Kunxu had many cities; after all, with an area of over 20 million square kilometers, entirely land without any sea, the number of cities was vast... far exceeding any country he knew from his previous life. And this Eastern District 12-City Joint Examination was an annual unified test conducted jointly by key high schools from 12 cities in the eastern part of Kunxu's first layer. All participants were high school seniors, serving as a preliminary practice for the college entrance exam.

"To be able to achieve first place in talismans in the 12-city joint exam, astonishing."

Zhang Yu grew increasingly curious: "How exactly did sister improve her talisman skills to this level? That must have cost a lot of money."

So, while Bai Zhenzhen went to find their contact person, Zhang Yu, clutching the prayer beads at his chest, whispered, "Do you know why her talisman skills are so high? What did you mean by that 'Divine Path' you mentioned last time?"