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Chapter 173 - 173 143 Zhang Yu Valuation

173: Chapter 143: Zhang Yu, Valuation ???

(Seeking Monthly Votes) 173: Chapter 143: Zhang Yu, Valuation ???

(Seeking Monthly Votes) In the office.

Shortly after Deng Bingding recorded Yun Jing’s valuation.

A Little God beside him said, “Mr.

Deng, there’s some trouble with Ye Lingxiao.”

Deng Bingding looked over and found that Ye Lingxiao in the illusion was almost unmoved by any temptation.

Neither superior cultivation conditions nor family success or failure seemed able to stop him from obtaining the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate for high school,

If Deng Bingding were to evaluate, it would be that he is selfish enough and determined enough to climb ever higher on the Immortal Path.

But Deng Bingding also believed that as long as the price kept increasing, the other party would agree.

After all, everyone has a price.

However, what Ye Lingxiao requested was beyond Deng Bingding’s expectations.

Ye Lingxiao in the illusion said, “Since you have such powerful divine skills, do you know how to use a Goodwill Talisman on a person?”

Deng Bingding frowned, “How does Ye Lingxiao know about this kind of thing?”

The Little God next to him said, “Mr.

Deng, what should we do now?”

“The secret of using a Goodwill Talisman on a person is of great importance and cannot be easily disclosed.”

“Though it’s just in an illusion, we could deceive him casually.”

“However, in the Foundation Establishment Exam’s illusion, all memories and records must be preserved.”

“If the valuation is too low, wouldn’t that be deliberately giving a low score to the student?

If it’s too high, wouldn’t that indicate to Ye Lingxiao that there’s a big secret?”

“This is indeed…

hard to manage.”

Deng Bingding also felt troubled upon hearing this, and she realized something.

“For someone to make such a request amid so many temptations in the illusion…

it indicates that subconsciously, he already understood the high value of this secret and even realized what it truly represents.”

“Hmph, but this Ye Lingxiao’s curiosity is too strong, too greedy.”

“Yet to be selfish, audacious, and insatiable, is that not also a seed for the Immortal Path?”

With these thoughts passing by, Deng Bingding decided to take another approach, asking, “Where did he learn about this?

Is it hearsay, or has he genuinely seen it?”

The Little God said, “He said he witnessed it personally, a high school student named Zhang Pianpian used it.

I’ve looked into that student’s records; she’s excellent, but it doesn’t seem like she would know this trick.

Could it be a lie to Ye Lingxiao?”

Deng Bingding closed her eyes, and countless scenes of the Spirit Realm appeared before her.

She came to a row of giant bookshelves, casually opened Zhang Pianpian’s data, and quickly scanned it with Divine Power, revealing her life story before her.

This was the first floor of the Ministry of Ten Thousand People’s archive, theoretically documenting everyone’s information on the first floor.

Using her Divine Power to quickly review Zhang Pianpian’s information, Deng Bingding felt something strange.

“This Zhang Pianpian is indeed outstanding, even serving as deputy captain of the Patrol Team in Songyang City, exceedingly excellent.”

“She’s also from Songyang City…” Deng Bingding frowned, “Why do students from Songyang City seem somewhat uncanny?”

As she pondered, this Sixth Rank Four-directions Traveling God suddenly sensed something amiss.

“This record of Zhang Pianpian…

has someone tampered with it?”

Realizing someone tampered with the archive, Deng Bingding was startled.

When she tried to uncover the hidden truth within the record, an unprecedented sense of crisis stopped her.

“It’s none of my business, I don’t want to know anything.”

After thinking it over, she promptly withdrew and reported Ye Lingxiao’s situation.

As for Zhang Pianpian’s intelligence issue, she mentioned nothing, pretending to be unaware.

Even more unexpected was the swift response from above.

“A directive directly from the Ministry of Ten Thousand People?” Deng Bingding’s heart skipped a beat, thinking that Zhang Pianpian indeed had issues, tangled with plans or arrangements from above.

The directive from the Ministry of Ten Thousand People was to directly lower Ye Lingxiao’s valuation to 5.5 billion.

Witnessing this scene, Deng Bingding sighed inwardly.

Many Kunxu people, especially the poor, think the rules of the Ten Major Sects, the Eight Divine Beings’ rules, are the laws of heaven, unbreakable.

But Deng Bingding clearly understood…

sometimes it’s not the case.

Like the Foundation Establishment Exam before them, it wasn’t as if no one dared to harbor ill intentions from the start.

It’s only that those who dared, whether humans or gods, were sent to enjoy the Spirit Realm and eventually no one dared anymore.

Yet even the entirely safe Foundation Establishment Exam on the Kunxu 1st Floor, if a bigwig above wished to act, such as lowering Ye Lingxiao’s evaluation at this moment, it would be done.

“Everyone has a price, and Kunxu’s rules also have a price.”

“As long as one can pay the cost, many things are not impossible.”

“For some people, this cost is the whole clan, while for others, it might merely be a directive…”

Deng Bingding cleared her mind, firmly pressing this matter to the depths of her heart, never to think of it again.

Her gaze shifted to the last person undergoing the Daoist Heart Test now—Zhang Yu.

Or, at this moment, in the office, not only her as a Four-directions Traveling God, but also the other four Gong Cao Little Gods had all focused their gazes on Zhang Yu’s illusion.

Deng Bingding wondered, “This Zhang Yu actually lasted until now.”

While Huang Zichou was somewhat anxious and excited, “Mr.

Deng, Zhang Yu’s illusion is about to collapse if this continues.”

“What did you say?” Carrying strong curiosity, Deng Bingding scanned with Divine Power to check his illusion records.

…

In the illusion.

Unconsciously, more and more things had piled up before Zhang Yu.

Heavenly Spirit Roots, Magic Corpses, citizenship of Xiandu City…

Various valuable items were presented to Zhang Yu, yet he steadfastly refused to give up the Foundation Establishment Exam.

Even when offered company shares, although Zhang Yu was visibly tempted, he still gritted his teeth, refusing to abandon the exam.

Because whenever the thought arose, the coldness in his heart would accompany it.

“This stupid ritual, can’t it accept the conditions and let me take it next year?”

“No, this ritual is stupid, but not to this extent; where’s the problem?”

As the continual probing and increasing offers continued in the illusion, Zhang Yu increasingly felt something was amiss.

“No…

isn’t this worth hundreds of billions?”

“Aren’t you offering too much?”

“Is giving up the Foundation Establishment Exam truly worth this price?”

When Zhang Yu began pondering these questions, everything before him seemed increasingly bizarre, giving him a dreamlike feeling.

…

In the office.

Deng Bingding frowned, “Why is the price set so high?

What are you doing?”

She started suspecting Huang Zichou of randomly inflating the price.

Huang Zichou said, “Mr.

Deng, you can check the records.

I really didn’t randomly inflate the price; it’s the illusion operating according to the rules, increasing bit by bit.

I’ve tried everything, but he just won’t give up.”

Deng Bingding repeatedly reviewed the records, finding Zhang Yu was truly impervious to persuasion.

And Deng Bingding knew that although illusions could subconsciously make students overlook many inconsistencies, such ignorance wasn’t limitless.

As students kept refusing, as the price rose higher and higher, the entire illusion would become increasingly illogical, causing testers to feel more and more out of place.

When this sense of discord reached its peak, it would also signify the collapse of the illusion.

Like just now, Ye Lingxiao and Yun Jing, due to their wealth and strength, being candidates expected to win the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate, under the illusion’s effect, the prices rose, and they could subconsciously ignore the incongruity.

Yet Zhang Yu’s level didn’t qualify as a winning candidate, and being poor, he would more easily sense the inconsistency as the prices skyrocketed.

Seeing this scene, Deng Bingding suddenly felt a novel thought: “In this test, the poor indeed have an advantage; once they endure, compared to the wealthy…

they can more easily see through the illusion and break the limits?”

Shaking her head, momentarily shelving her additional thoughts, Deng Bingding asked, “Didn’t you ask him what he wanted?”

Huang Zichou hastily replied, “I did!

Please look further!”

…

In the illusion.

Zhang Yu felt more and more like everything before him was a dream.

How could anyone offer so much money to make him give up the Foundation Establishment Exam?

Especially the response of the ritual, making him feel everything was suspicious.

“Could it be that I am now…”

At this moment, the other party’s question interrupted his thoughts.

Hearing it, Zhang Yu curiously asked, “What do I want?”

Thinking about how the ritual pressure forced him, what he most desired was to remove the ritual power, granting himself true freedom.

But matters related to the Evil God were things he dared not mention; even if he felt like dreaming, he dared not speak them.

Thus, the only other goal he could mention was getting into the Top Ten Sects, completing this aspiration path.

And combining it with the condition of giving up the Foundation Establishment Exam…

After organizing his thoughts, Zhang Yu felt that his demand would be one the other party simply couldn’t agree to.

Yet that dreamlike feeling made him suddenly chuckle, recklessly expressing his thoughts: “I want to climb the Immortal Path, all the way up.”

“So if you want me to give up, unless you can offer me a better opportunity.”

“An opportunity better than passing the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate on the first attempt, entering university, better treatment once in the Top Ten, an opportunity to enter the sect…

that’s when I’ll give up the certificate.”

“By the way, this must include Bai Zhenzhen.”

…

In the office.

“Everyone has a price.”

This was something Deng Bingding had affirmed countless times.

But this time, hearing Zhang Yu’s demand, despite it being an extremely exaggerated price due to the illusion, even Deng Bingding was astonished.

“This guy…

does he know what he’s asking for?”

“For a poor wretch from Kunxu 1st Floor to name such an outrageous price?”

“Is this something that can happen on the 1st Floor?

Wants better treatment than passing the exam on the first try?”

“Not to mention the 1st Floor, even the wealthy on the 2nd, or even the 3rd Floor might not seize the opportunity he desires.”

“Moreover, he wants to bring someone else…”

Watching Zhang Yu in the illusion, Deng Bingding momentarily didn’t know whether to call his ambition to ascend the Immortal Path over-inflated, or that the illusion revealed his insatiable nature.

Huang Zichou beside her said, “Mr.

Deng, what do we make of this?

He himself must know it’s not possible, doesn’t intend to give up the exam at all.”

Deng Bingding said, “Continuing this test is pointless; the temptation is already beyond what he might face.”

“If the illusion really fulfills such unreasonable conditions, Zhang Yu might fully awaken, leading to the illusion’s collapse.”

“Or rather…” Deng Bingding calmly said, “He might already be about to awaken.”

“End this Daoist Heart Test.”

Huang Zichou asked, “Then what about Zhang Yu’s results?”

“What else can we do?” Deng Bingding sighed, “At least this illusion failed to test his limits.”

She noted down, “Zhang Yu, valuation unknown????, Daoist Heart Test failed to determine limits.”