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Chapter 224 - 224 191 The Second Round of Foundation Establishment Exam Begins

224: Chapter 191: The Second Round of Foundation Establishment Exam Begins 224: Chapter 191: The Second Round of Foundation Establishment Exam Begins Zhang Yu looked at the reply from the other side, slightly stunned: “Why does it feel like…

she’s a bit afraid of me continuing to talk?”

Fu Ji chuckled: “This woman might have guessed your participation in the Foundation Establishment exam with Bai Zhenzhen.”

“After all, the times you went out of the city aren’t hard to check.”

“And Yun Ni, being a generationally passed down patrol officer, knowing the time of the Foundation Establishment exam is quite normal.”

Upon hearing Fu Ji’s analysis, Zhang Yu’s gaze shifted slightly, suddenly thinking of many things.

…

Early the next day, with the proof issued by the Patrol Team and a personal call from Yun Ni, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen finally obtained a leave slip approved by the school and boarded the train to Xiandu City.

Watching Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen’s train ready to depart, Si Zhouyu called again and asked: “Hey?

What’s going on now?

Should we follow or not?”

After a while, a voice came from the phone: “Come back, no need to follow.”

Si Zhouyu frowned and said: “What?

We’ve spent so long accompanying these two students, and you say we don’t need to follow?”

“They must have a significant action this time going out of the city!”

“Why not follow?”

The other side coldly replied: “This is an order from company leadership.”

“Leadership orders must be executed, understood or not.”

“Come back immediately.”

Si Zhouyu took a deep breath, watching the slowly starting train, and after a long time, shook his head and left the station.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the train, after several hours of attempts by Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, they confirmed one thing.

Just as Zhang Yu typed on his phone: “They didn’t follow.”

Bai Zhenzhen: Not following?

Could it be they know about the Foundation Establishment exam, so they don’t dare to investigate further?

Zhang Yu thought of Yun Ni’s reaction yesterday, replied: I think so too, such a sudden withdrawal, the only reason I can think of is the Foundation Establishment exam.

Bai Zhenzhen: What a shame, I originally wanted to lead these guys to find out about the Foundation Establishment exam.

Yesterday, when Zhang Yu saw Yun Ni’s reaction and heard Fu Ji’s analysis of Yun Ni, he suddenly realized that after continuous waiting and patience, they had waited for a chance to counterattack.

Unfortunately, today, the other side wasn’t fooled.

Zhang Yu: It’s okay, at least through this matter, we can confirm one thing.

Zhang Yu: Our opponent is not Zhou Chechen.

Zhang Yu: Because Zhou Chechen probably doesn’t know about the Foundation Establishment exam.

Fu Ji said: “Indeed, the information about the Foundation Establishment exam is likely only accessible to the higher-ups of the Zhou Family.”

Zhang Yu: So our true opponent is not Zhou Chechen, but…

the Zhou Family.

…

Meanwhile.

Songyang High School.

Lanling looked at Zhou Chechen in confusion and said: “How could you approve their leave?

Zhang Yu might just take this time to cultivate and make money, they shouldn’t be given any time to breathe!”

“We should withstand the pressure, not let them go, and if they leave, directly punish them, find a chance to expel them…”

Seeing Lanling’s dissatisfied expression, Zhou Chechen sighed slightly, no longer having the heart to say much.

He was just recollecting the leave approval process for Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen in his mind.

“Patrol Team Captain Yun Ni?” Zhou Chechen thought inwardly: “So they are backed by the Patrol Team?”

“Indeed, Zhang Pianpian used to be in the Patrol Team, after she left, she introduced the connection to Zhang Yu, it’s not impossible.”

“There’s also Bai Zhenzhen, this time she’s taking leave with Zhang Yu, it seems she hasn’t completely distanced as she appeared in school, their relationship is still quite good?”

“But now, it’s finally clear who’s backing Zhang Yu, so what do my uncle and the others plan to do?

Surely they wouldn’t continue to fight with the Patrol Team?”

…

“Being able to mobilize the power of the Patrol Team.”

“This Evil God really has the guts.”

On the sickbed of the 333rd floor of the Central Building, Zhou Yang watched the various messages from his subordinates and thought to himself: “And at this time…

it happens to coincide with the Foundation Establishment exam?”

“Coincidence?

Or deliberately creating confusion?”

Suddenly two choices appeared before Zhou Yang.

Follow?

Or not follow?

Zhou Yang decisively chose not to follow.

After all, in his view, the worst outcome of not following is that Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen directly flee, completely losing this lead.

“If this Evil God is really arranging for believers to flee, then it means the other side is already suspicious, so even if we follow, it’s meaningless, at most, we’d capture this chess piece Zhang Yu.”

And if we continue to follow them, what if they really are participating in the Foundation Establishment exam?

It’s not like he can have his subordinates investigate everything, especially without knowing what might be uncovered beforehand.

What if his subordinates really uncover something they shouldn’t, like this Foundation Establishment exam…

then what?

Especially after seeing the time Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen left the city twice, Zhou Yang suddenly broke into a cold sweat.

He thought with some fear: “If it was really a ruse, the groundwork was laid quite early.

Leaving the city four months ago?

That’s when the Foundation Establishment exam registration began.”

“So they actually went to take the Foundation Establishment exam?”

“And made it to the second round?

If that’s the case, Zhang Yu has quite the hidden strength.”

“What is this Evil God trying to do?

Daring to interfere with the Foundation Establishment exam?”

Zhou Yang couldn’t figure it out, as it’s hard to imagine that Zhang Yu or Bai Zhenzhen could outperform the talented ones from Xiandu City.

In his view, participating in the Foundation Establishment exam was a complete waste of time and energy, and they might even have their Dao Heart shattered by the Xiandu people.

Especially since Zhang Yu has also been troubled lately by Zhou Chechen…

“Knowing you’d be eliminated and still going?

Was it for some intelligence gathering?”

Although he couldn’t understand the Evil God’s purpose, Zhou Yang became increasingly interested in the Evil God behind Zhang Yu.

“Daring to interfere with the Foundation Establishment exam, this Evil God’s status can’t be low.”

“And now I’m hidden in the shadows, the other side knows nothing about me, yet I’m gathering more and more intelligence…

there’s opportunity.”

“If Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen return, capturing this lead, there’s a good chance to swallow this Evil God’s status.”

“But mustn’t touch the Foundation Establishment exam, must be careful not to uncover their participation…

or perhaps wait until the exam is over to be free of this concern.”

As Zhou Yang pondered, his phone vibrated.

He opened his phone and looked at the surveillance footage, seeing countless coils, antiques, chains, etc., forming an oppressive ritual, under which a hard drive suddenly began to throb violently.

Watching the hard drive throb continuously, Zhou Yang frowned and gently pressed his phone, seeing the copper wires on the surveillance screen entwine the hard drive like dragons, suppressing it once again.

“Old thing, still not giving up?”

The existence suppressed in this hard drive was the Evil God passed down through the generations of the Zhou family.

As the most talented descendant of the Zhou family in ten generations, Zhou Yang had an idea after learning the Evil God’s secret and seeing his clan’s worship of it.

“Why worship this thing?”

“Should be like raising a magical beast, nurturing the Evil God, not being enslaved by it.”

So after continual cultivation, learning, and planning…

he finally suppressed the Evil God, turning it into his ritual battery.

However, he paid a huge price for it.

Glancing at his missing lower half, Zhou Yang snapped his fingers: “Get me dressed, I’m going out.”

Immediately, the clothing rack beside him opened, revealing not only jackets, shirts, etc., but also several lower halves wearing pants and shoes, looking perfectly intact.

Casually selecting one lower half to put on, feeling the flesh connect and regaining the sensation of having feet, Zhou Yang frowned: “Are these legs a bit short?”

After changing to another lower half, he nodded in satisfaction: “That’s more like it.”

As for the previous lower half he deemed a bit short, it directly turned into a mass of blood water, which he poured down the drain.

However, noticing the faint corpse marks on the calf, Zhou Yang helplessly said: “Sigh, using it for a day should be fine, right?”

While staring at the Purple Gold Merit Master’s title, he thought: “Let me think, who in Songyang City can manage the Patrol Team?”

Since suppressing the Evil God, Zhou Yang lost his lower half.

And no matter what new body he put on, it would soon decay and become corpse-like.

But this couldn’t stump someone as wealthy as him.

After all, Kunxu lacked everything but not people, there were plenty willing to sell their legs for money… then swap them for prosthetic limbs.

But whether prosthetic limbs or ordinary people’s lower halves, they were just like clothing to Zhou Yang, easily replaced and discarded, unable to withstand his use, let alone aid his cultivation.

Many cultivation techniques require a complete body to practice and use.

So he selected many compatible backup materials, kept them in different locations for cultivation, and raised them for use when needed.

“Never expected…” Zhou Yang thought of Zhang Yu’s image: “My lower half actually went to take the Foundation Establishment exam.”

…

While Zhou Yang was plotting something.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen had once again arrived at the underground exam site of Xiandu City.

However, this time Zhang Yu did not meet with Bai Zhenzhen.

After all, from the second round of the Foundation Establishment exam, it was divided into four tracks: Dao Heart, Mana, Sports, and Martial Arts, with each track ultimately selecting one candidate for the Foundation Establishment certification.

“Azhen went to take the Martial Arts exam, right?”

Looking at the other four candidates before him, Zhang Yu knew these would be his opponents in the upcoming Sports exam.

Among them were top-notch Xiandu Master Ye Lingxiao, and Zhang Yu’s old acquaintance Yu Xinghan.

However, seeing Yu Xinghan’s thin appearance, Zhang Yu thought: “You rascal…

weren’t you still working overtime the day before the exam?”

Then Zhang Yu felt Ye Lingxiao’s gaze, one filled with intense fighting spirit.

Ye Lingxiao: “You’ll go all out in the first round, won’t you?”

Zhang Yu thought: “Now, compared to two months ago, I’m a world apart.”

Their eyes collided in the air, seemingly with intense fighting spirit surging within.