You dare to cultivate without money?!
Chapter 180 - 180 150 Zhang Yu's Connections Thanks to 'sfqk' for the generous tip Silver Alliance Leader

180: Chapter 150: Zhang Yu’s Connections (Thanks to ‘sfqk’ for the generous tip, Silver Alliance Leader) 180: Chapter 150: Zhang Yu’s Connections (Thanks to ‘sfqk’ for the generous tip, Silver Alliance Leader) Zhang Yu didn’t wait for Le Mulan’s response and sent the same message to Xiong Wenwu and Yu Xinghan.

The content was almost the same, asking them to contact someone influential in their schools to get money for him and Bai Zhenzhen not participating in the upcoming competition.

On the other side, in Purple Cloud High School.

Le Jingchen looked at the message from his sister, smiled, and said, “Did he actually come to negotiate the price himself?”

“It seems Zhou Chechen can no longer control him.”

Thinking for a moment, Le Jingchen didn’t contact Zhang Yu immediately but asked Le Mulan, “What do you think of Zhang Yu?”

Le Mulan was slightly stunned when she saw the message from her brother, replied: “Which aspect are you asking about?”

Le Jingchen: How has his strength improved since the sports competition ended?

Le Jingchen: If he participates in the upcoming Dao Heart competition, can he win a place?

Le Jingchen: I know you’ve been hiring him as a sparring partner lately, you should feel the state he’s in, right?

Reading the message from Le Jingchen, Le Mulan recalled the scenes of training with Zhang Yu.

A strong physique, powerful muscles, skilled techniques…

always made Le Mulan feel her money was well spent.

But she knew her brother wasn’t asking about that.

After all, up next was the Dao Heart competition.

“In terms of Dao Heart…”

Le Mulan immediately thought of Zhang Yu squatting down and staring at the potions on the ground after every training session.

She thought to herself, “If it were any other high schooler, maybe they would’ve drunk their fill of potions by now?”

So Le Mulan replied: Zhang Yu is someone who can resist alluring temptations.

Le Jingchen asked: Any specific examples?

Le Mulan: He can resist licking the sweat I drip on the floor…

After hearing about the training incidents from Le Mulan, Le Jingchen replied: How can you do such things?!

Le Jingchen: You’ve taken quite a lot of lab drugs; what if Zhang Yu collected your sweat and sold it to other pharmaceutical companies for drug analysis?

Le Mulan: I was careless.

Next time I’ll make sure he cleans up all the sweat on the ground in front of me.

Le Jingchen: That’s better.

Le Mulan: Anyway, what I want to say is that Zhang Yu indeed has strong willpower, and even though Bai Zhenzhen is slightly weaker, she’s not far behind.

Le Mulan: If they participate in the Dao Heart competition, they’ll likely get a good ranking.

If spending some money can make them not participate, it’s a worthwhile deal.

Le Mulan put away her phone and recalled offering 400,000 to Zhang Yu to withdraw from the martial arts competition, only to be refused.

Le Mulan thought to herself, “In the end, you did change after all?”

…

In the Red Tower’s reserve zone.

A large Demon Beast lay sprawled on the ground, its head bore a hole as if drilled by some colossal force.

A rugged-looking, shirtless man lay on the ground, fiercely tearing at the demon beast’s flesh and blood.

With a bloodstained mouth, he looked at Xiong Wenwu nearby and said, “Why are you here?”

Xiong Wenwu explained Zhang Yu’s proposal.

The man chewing on the demon beast asked, “I remember this Zhang Yu…

have you competed against him?

What’s your opinion?

Can he rank in the upcoming Dao Heart competition?”

Xiong Wenwu recalled Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen’s dealings, thinking of their recent incubation room lease and Bai Zhenzhen buying demon beast meat from An An for supplements, and An An subsidizing him with the money.

Before arriving, Xiong Wenwu had already contemplated this matter.

“Selling participation spots?

These two guys must also be strapped for cash, right?”

“But given their status, it makes sense to take money directly instead of competing…”

Xiong Wenwu also considered whether Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen’s financial issues were because they spent so much at his place.

Especially after hearing from An An that these two have been coming to the incubation room to train for longer and longer sessions.

“If they had a bit more money, they’d probably give me more business too?”

Thinking all this, but in reality just a split second, Xiong Wenwu respectfully answered, “Although I haven’t interacted much with these two, on the field, it’s clear their will is like iron and their Dao Heart like steel.”

“After all, those from humble beginnings can’t have weak wills.”

“Judging by the control power they demonstrated in martial arts and sports, their Dao Hearts shouldn’t be weak.”

“If they were to participate in the Dao Heart competition, I believe they’d likely earn a place.”

“If we can spend seventy to eighty thousand to have them not participate, I think it’s worth it.”

…

White Dragon High School.

Yu Xinghan knocked on the door, saying, “Senior, why didn’t you respond to my messages?”

A voice came from within, “Stop bothering me!”

“I’ve had enough of this damned student council!”

“For us high schoolers, the most important tasks are studying, grades, competitions!”

“Damn it…

All these trivial matters come to bother me, how can I study well?!”

Yu Xinghan said, “But shouldn’t you be handling these things?”

The other angrily replied, “That’s because the previous president dumped all the messy stuff on me.”

“But now that they’re all gone, I’m the highest authority in the school!”

“I don’t want to stay in this student council for even a day more.”

“From now until the university interviews, I’m going to dedicate myself to my cultivation.”

“For anything, go find Song Halong from the Song family.”

“He’s already taken over as vice president of the student council.”

So next, Yu Xinghan called Song Halong to him and explained the situation.

Yu Xinghan: “Xiao Song, this is the situation.”

Song Halong listened and nonchalantly said, “It’s not just the upcoming Dao Heart competition, but likely all future competitions, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen will act the same.”

“They’re different from us, anyway, there’s no chance for the Top Ten.

No matter how many competition ranks they secure, or how impressive their resumes, they’d rather trade for some money.”

As the ace of the Song family, Song Halong had heard wealthy people grumbling about Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen taking up competition spots.

Song Halong calmly said, “I just feel it’s a pity; we’ll never have the chance to beat them in a competition again.”

Yu Xinghan: “Quit rambling, just say how much you plan to budget for them?”

“You know their current strength; if they participate in the Dao Heart competition, they’ll surely get a place.”

“I think spending 1 million to make them not participate is a very reasonable price.”

Song Halong gave Yu Xinghan a strange look, feeling the latter was overly enthusiastic about the matter.

Yu Xinghan coughed and said, “I’m just aiming for our White Dragon High School to score well.

Among the three major high schools, we’re the strongest; if Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen withdraw, it’s highly likely our people will grab the ranks.”

Song Halong frowned, this was his first instance dealing with such matters even though he just became the student council vice president: “Would 1 million be too much?”

Yu Xinghan quickly said, “Too much?

When they leave, your competition rank will rise at least one or two places, right?

Spend 1 million to gain such a rank, do you think it’s too much?”

“Moreover, it’s not our money, it’s the school committee’s money.”

Pressing Song Halong’s shoulder, Yu Xinghan spoke with a persuasive tone: “Of all people, who knows Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen better than we do, given how long we’ve battled them?”

“This is my opinion as the first of the first years, hope you consider it carefully.”

Seeing Yu Xinghan like this, Song Halong thought to himself, “After Zhang Yu doesn’t compete, Yu Xinghan might finally secure the first place himself?

He indeed values the competition ranks very much.”

However, considering it related to university interviews, it was perfectly normal for Yu Xinghan to be this concerned.

Seeing Song Halong nod, Yu Xinghan finally smiled slightly and gracefully departed.

Turning the corner, Yu Xinghan took out his phone and replied to Zhang Yu: Deal, 1 million it is.

Zhang Yu: [Like] Don’t worry, you’ll not be put at a disadvantage.

…

Songyang High School.

Fu Ji looked at Yu Xinghan’s reply, laughed, and said, “Didn’t I tell you this kid would take a kickback, huh?

With my vast experience in Kunxu all these years, when have I judged someone wrong?”

Zhang Yu checked the other replies: “Purple Cloud agreed on post-tax 600,000; Red Tower offered post-tax 700,000; White Dragon, 1 million after tax.

As expected of the three major high schools, really generous, even helping pay the taxes in advance.”

“All together 2.3 million, minus the 100,000 kickback to Yu Xinghan, that’s 2.2 million.”

“Splitting between me and Zhenzhen, that’s 1.1 million each after tax.”

Thinking of this number, Zhang Yu felt a slight relief.

Recently throwing money down the Immortal Path, his bank balance dwindled to just over 300,000.

With this 1.1 million boost, it’d last a while.

“At least until next month’s first round of the Foundation Establishment exam, there shouldn’t be any issues.”

Then Zhang Yu sighed with some regret: “It’s a pity that we can’t sell the slots for the upcoming Daoism competition.”

“The next new competition won’t be until next year.”

Though Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen wanted to sell all high school competition slots at once, the three major high schools were unwilling to accept it.

Partly because the amount was too large and processes would take too long, but also because many didn’t believe Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen would still have the same competitiveness next year or beyond.

Then Zhang Yu opened a contact on his phone.

Bai Zhenzhen beside him said, “Yu Zi, are you going to use the talisman left by your foster mother?”

Zhang Yu nodded and said, “Zhou Chechen and Lanling, those two will be upset about this, and they certainly won’t let it go.”

Bai Zhenzhen nodded, “In terms of real strength, we’re still a bit behind those two.”

“Even if they come to spar with us every day, it’ll be a pain and distract us from studying.”

Zhang Yu said, “So I’m thinking of perhaps scaring them a bit more.”

Recalling what Zhou Chechen said today, Zhang Yu continued: “This guy seems to suspect that we have someone else backing us, he’s being very cautious.”

“If we can frighten him, maybe we can gain a bit more time.”

In the next moment, Zhang Yu had already brought up the screenshot of the Freezing Talisman on his phone.

The Freezing Talisman, one of the talismans left by Zhang Pianpian for Zhang Yu, could freeze others’ bank accounts, with the duration depending on the other party’s faith level.