After a long silence, Ma Xuan finally replied to Cong Na: No need to change.
Ma Xuan: After all, we are the main force. Whether Ji Yuanshu’s position is strong or weak doesn’t make much difference.
Ma Xuan: And Zhang Yu hasn’t been training with us for a while, rebuilding that chemistry would be troubleso.
Ma Xuan: So let’s go with Ji Yuanshu.
Although Ma Xuan gave a bunch of reasons, he knew in his heart that not replacing Ji Yuanshu wasn’t due to these reasons.
Looking at the ranking chart, Ma Xuan thought to himself: "The old director’s lifespan is nearing its end..."
Ma Xuan knew that in the Civil Engineering Departnt, Director Lin and Director Gao of the Peace and War factions were the leaders.
As for the true head of the Civil Engineering Departnt, the leader of Ma Xuan’s faction, the funds have been insufficient for the past ten years, gradually unable to afford the lifespan extension, aning his life is near its end.
"The Finance Departnt can provide the old director with a loan."
Ma Xuan thought: "For this loan, the old director, who originally supported neither side, has now decided to support the Peace faction."
Ma Xuan understood that compared to the individual grades and rankings of students, the faction alignnt within the departnt was more important.
Just then, Cong Na replied: In that case, Zhang Yu might quit the team, right?
Ma Xuan: There’s nothing we can do about it.
...
Inside the 100-square-ter apartnt on the 450th floor.
Ji Yuanshu looked at the ssage sent by Ma Xuan from the competition team, and his internal organs couldn’t help but tremble.
He tried hard to suppress it, but couldn’t. In the end, he coughed up a large mouthful of blood, and his aura weakened at an incredible speed.
At this mont, as the results were announced, he was no longer the number one in people’s minds.
People’s confidence in him was continuously dissipating, and the fortune he had suppressed in his mind scattered and fled.
Even the fortune he originally contained, people’s confidence in him as a Level 6 student... began to dissipate greatly.
Feeling the changes in his fortune, Ji Yuanshu thought to himself: "These people, if I say a few nice words, they have expectations that exceed my capabilities."
"And once I fail, they can’t wait to stomp into the ground, constantly downgrading their assessnt of my strength."
Ji Yuanshu sneered, knowing that fortune and human sentint are always like this, either being overestimated or underestimated, never objectively evaluated.
But feeling the backlash within his body, Ji Yuanshu’s face nonetheless revealed a bitter smile.
Initially, he showed off his strength, guided people’s hearts, gathered fortune, and under the blessing of fortune, his mana flowed more smoothly, his Dao Heart beca more immaculate, his physical vitality more lively, and even his thinking and mory improved to various degrees.
Now, after the fortune backlash, not only were these blessings removed, but his mana flow beca sluggish, his physical reactions were sowhat slow, and his thinking and mory declined to varying degrees.
As if his entire state had suddenly fallen into a valley.
But this wasn’t the most frightening.
Ji Yuanshu tried to operate his internal cultivation techniques, only to find that the techniques which were once effortlessly mastered were now riddled with errors, never in the right state.
Originally Level 15 or Level 18 cultivation techniques, could only exert Level 10 or even Level 8 effects.
All of this resulted in a significant regression in his strength.
"It will take at least a month or two to gradually recover."
"It will delay many courses as well as the improvent of fundantal data..."
Information constantly popped out in his view, but Ji Yuanshu didn’t want to look at any of them.
He knew it was nothing but so snide remarks, sarcastic mockery, or soone flaunting and boasting.
But the ssage from Director Lin, he had to read.
Director Lin: The Finance Departnt matters can be put aside for now.
Director Lin: Focus on studying civil engineering for now.
Director Lin: You must suppress Zhang Yu, don’t let him take first place, and learn Seven Extres.
Director Lin: Also, when he takes the military exam in a few years, you need to take him down.
Upon seeing Director Lin’s words, Ji Yuanshu felt a jolt in his heart, fearing that his worst fears had co true.
"They won’t let transfer to the Finance Departnt?"
Long before Ji Yuanshu attended high school, he knew his future goal was to enter Wanfa University, then learn Three Extres in the Civil Engineering Departnt before transferring to the Finance Departnt...
This was his lifelong plan, his goal for which he paid countless nights and untold costs.
But at this mont... his life plan had been completely overturned.
"Stay here and study civil engineering?"
"Master, don’t you understand what studying civil engineering ans?"
"It was you who said not to wallow in the mud of civil engineering..."
Repeatedly looking at the ssages from Director Lin, Ji Yuanshu seed to feel the deep disappointnt within the words sent to him.
In addition to that, he read another aning from it.
"Wanted to stay in Civil Engineering to obstruct Zhang Yu? To snipe Zhang Yu?"
Ji Yuanshu gave a bitter smile, knowing that at this mont... he had turned from a long-term investnt into a short-term investnt.
He had never wanted soone dead as much as he did now.
"Zhang Yu..."
But Ji Yuanshu understood that even if he killed Zhang Yu, it wouldn’t do any good. Only by openly defeating him and gaining a higher ranking with absolute strength could he possibly regain the master’s attention.
"Defeating Zhang Yu is just the first step."
"I want to graduate as the top student in the entire departnt, then apply for a postgraduate program in the Finance Departnt and get my life back on track."
Feeling the weakness within himself, Ji Yuanshu murmured in his heart, "But to reach this step, I need stronger support."
As his determination gradually fird up, a strange dialogue box appeared in Ji Yuanshu’s ntal vision.
Ji Yuanshu: I agree to the wish you ntioned
Ji Yuanshu: Tell how the ritual is perford
...
On the 667th floor construction site.
A two-headed White Bull roared in Zhang Yu’s mind, and his Infinite Heart Inner thod Body was suddenly pushed to Level 11.
Feeling the increased speed of his thought processes, Zhang Yu continued multitasking, checking ssages that popped up in his ntal vision while maintaining his Gang Qi and working at the construction site.
anwhile, the ntal thod in his mind continuously operated at the state of uniting spirit and flesh, becoming stronger step by step.
In the blink of an eye, a night passed, and when Zhang Yu returned to the new dormitory, he found that besides himself, no one else had arrived yet.
He first took the portion he had mixed from the dicine and ate it. Not long after, Yu Xinghan returned to the dormitory with a slight smile on his face.
Yu Xinghan said, "I’ve successfully apprenticed!"
As a passer of the first Foundation Establishnt examination, Yu Xinghan also had the sa advisor assignnt rights as Zhang Yu.
However, like the Magnetic Pole True Man, the advisor Yu Xinghan chose also set a requirent for him, that his academic ranking must be in the top five of the class.
If he did not et the requirent, even if Yu Xinghan appointed the person as his advisor, he would not receive any guidance.
So after the final grades were released yesterday, Yu Xinghan took his grades to find that person and successfully beca their apprentice.
Zhang Yu curiously asked, "What kind of advisor?"
Yu Xinghan replied, "A Professor Gong who studies construction site health managent."
"Huh?" Zhang Yu was taken aback upon hearing this.
Construction site health managent? Is there really soone studying this? Is there a future in this?
Yu Xinghan seed to understand Zhang Yu’s surprise and began to explain, "Professor Gong is a new professor."
"But this doesn’t an Professor Gong is weak."
"You know, as the Immortal Path continues to thrive, the research in various disciplines becos increasingly intricate, more challenging, and more fragnted. Many research directions are very obscure, and achieving results is becoming increasingly difficult."
"The fact that he could forge a Golden Core and beco a professor in this era only indicates that his talent is more terrifying than those Golden Core True n from decades or even a hundred years ago."
"Heh heh, and I’m genuinely interested in what he’s studying."
Just as Yu Xinghan and Zhang Yu were chatting, Li Xiao called out to them from outside, wanting to attend the first class of their sophomore year together with them.
Yu Xinghan opened the door and was slightly taken aback by the sight of Li Xiao, staring at his hands, "Did you change your Magic Remains?"
Li Xiao smiled and said, "Yeah, I finally saved up enough spirit coins to get a pair of hand Magic Remains made by Jingangxuan."
"Wait..." Yu Xinghan questioned, "How could you afford Jingangxuan’s? Is it a fake?"
Li Xiao said, "Why would I buy a fake? It’s the genuine Jingangxuan, the authentic Jingangxuan."
Looking at the Magic Remains information sent by Li Xiao, Yu Xinghan, angry, said, "Why are you so vain?"
"Why on earth would you buy Jingangxuan? Are you really soone who can afford Jingangxuan? Is it a zero down paynt with a 30-year installnt? Doing this, people on the street will only think you’re using a fake..."
Seeing Li Xiao’s branded Magic Remains, Yu Xinghan felt like his good mood from the morning had vanished.
But the next mont, looking at the content of the Magic Remains information, Yu Xinghan suddenly laughed, "Oh, it’s ninth-hand."
Yu Xinghan patted his chest, thinking, "Damn, scared . I thought you had gotten better and that your credit limit had increased."
With a full smile, he patted Li Xiao on the shoulder and praised, "Ninth-hand is great, practical to use, and not much worse in performance than a new one."
"As college students, we should uphold the principle of frugality, spend where necessary, and save where possible."
While Yu Xinghan and Li Xiao were chatting, Zhang Pianpian also returned to the dormitory.
Zhang Yu glanced at the top of her head and discovered that now, as a senior, his sister had already reached the 44th place in the Talisman Departnt’s Foundation Establishnt Realm.
"Sister has progressed again."
"But this still probably isn’t her true strength, is it? I rember she has to manage her grades."
Zhang Yu could imagine that Zhang Pianpian would continue to improve repeatedly, progressing at a relatively moderate pace to enter the forefront of the entire departnt.
Then Zhang Yu looked at Zhang Pianpian’s chest, observing her Tao Seed Taiqing Talisman.
Last night, his savings amount had surpassed 56 spirit coins, finally giving him the opportunity to activate this Taiqing Talisman.
Zhang Yu thought to himself, "It’s ti to have a talk with Sister."
So Zhang Yu sent Zhang Pianpian a ssage: Senior, are you short of money?
Zhang Pianpian: Why did you suddenly think of asking this?
Zhang Yu: You’ve been in the top 50 in the entire departnt before, but the place you live in and the things you use are quite ordinary
Zhang Yu: Are you always saving and accumulating money to spend on sothing big?
Zhang Pianpian wasn’t surprised by this inference, as it wasn’t a hard conclusion to reach. She casually responded: What? Do you want to lend money?
Zhang Yu: I currently have 56 spirit coins. How much do you need?
Zhang Pianpian was slightly taken aback, seemingly not expecting Zhang Yu to have saved up so many spirit coins without spending them.
For a college student, that’s definitely a huge sum, enough to cause brothers to fall out and fathers and daughters to beco enemies.
Zhang Pianpian looked deeply at Zhang Yu and sent a ssage: You won’t use it for yourself? Willing to lend it to ?
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