What’s the point of cultivating immortality if you don’t have money?.

Chapter 346 First Academic Year, Final Professional Examination
On the battlefield, Gongshu Jin moved swiftly forward, never stopping amidst the bombardment, repeatedly breaking through the sky filled with lightning and fire.

He carried Ying Xin on his left arm, Zhang Yu on his right arm, Yu Xinghan pressed against his chest, and Li Xiao on his back.

No matter how bloody, how seriously injured, or even how much the four classmates on his body were, or how much they had stopped breathing, he never thought of putting them down.

Because he knew that only by relying on each other with his comrades could they survive.

"On a battlefield fraught with danger, students from the Civil Engineering Department are the best protection."

"Thank you for protecting me."

The spirit nodded slightly: "Calm and decisive, quick in action, even on a perilous battlefield, in the face of life and death, there was no panic, demonstrating willpower commensurate with the level of Dao Heart."

"We can recommend him for the spirit world competition next semester."

Zhang Yu, who had suddenly become rich, walked down the street.

Having surpassed 1000 spirit coins in savings, he didn't choose to squander them... Instead, he displayed the savings amount on his forehead, immediately gaining countless friendships and receiving wave after wave of gifts.

He evaded all the subsequent scams with composure.

The artifact spirit recorded: "Even when faced with sudden wealth, the core remains stable, demonstrating extremely strong self-control..."

Looking at Zhang Yu's various ratings, the artifact spirit said calmly, "As expected, his Dao heart is still above Gongshu Jin's, and he is already on par with Ji Yuanshu."

……

On the magic test.

Students are undergoing tests on their magical power, quality of magical power, and transmission of spiritual energy.

As each number appeared, gasps of surprise would occasionally rise from the crowd.

As a magic teacher, Li Mingbo would naturally be curious to check his students' grades.

In his eyes, all the students were arranged according to their different social class.

The students' grades emerged, and their grades were basically positively correlated with the number of floors they were in.

"Based on the data that has been completed so far, the first is Ji Yuanshu on the sixth floor, the second is Gongshu Jin on the fourth floor, the third is Ying Xin, and the fourth is..."

But in the next moment, his gaze sharpened slightly.

Then a name appeared far ahead, shooting up like a rocket, surpassing Gongshu Jin from the fourth floor and reaching a position comparable to Ji Yuanshu from the sixth floor.

"Zhang Yu".

“From the first floor.”

Li Mingbo remembered this name; it belonged to a student who always sat in the last row in class, along with two other students from the same floor.

"Last semester, he barely kept up with Gongshu Jin in terms of magical power, but this semester he's already on par with Ji Yuanshu?"

Li Mingbo was slightly stunned: "How could a first-level student catch up with the level of a sixth-level student?"

……

In the test of physical strength.

To everyone's astonishment, two figures shot out like lightning, neither giving way to the other, crisscrossing and flashing back and forth on the complex simulated battlefield, neither able to shake the other off.

One of them was Zhang Yu.

At this moment, his body was surging with energy, and his blood and qi were surging violently like magma. He had pushed the Battle Demon Life-Destroying Technique to its limit, directly increasing his physical strength by 1.5 levels, pushing Zhang Yu's physical strength to a terrifying level of 17.38.

Driven by such a ferocious physical force, his speed reached unprecedented levels, and even his armor of No. 20 Secret Steel felt incredibly light to him.

At the same time, he was multitasking, controlling his physical body to move forward while simultaneously commanding several formless warriors who, with the assistance of the Three-Eyed Divine Power and the Time-Remnant Demon Eye, shielded him from various attacks on the simulated battlefield.

Even under these circumstances, he found himself still unable to surpass Ji Yuanshu ahead of him.

"This guy... is so fast."

"He has too many magical artifacts on his body used for acceleration."

"It seems that I will not be able to beat him in this round after all."

However, Zhang Yu had already gotten used to it. Speed ​​was not his strong suit after all. His current high-speed movement was all achieved by relying on basic data and his own hard skills.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "The outcome will depend on the construction exam. My greatest strength lies in the construction skills I've honed over the past semester."

Zhang Yu had already inquired about the Civil Engineering Department's final professional exam each academic year, which was the most difficult, had the highest overall score, and had the greatest impact on rankings.

Meanwhile, behind Zhang Yu and Ji Yuanshu, Gongshu Jin's body surged with qi, his streamlined body tearing through the air.

Even though he had specially replaced all four pieces of his body with displacement and acceleration sets, he could only watch helplessly as the two people in front of him got further and further away, and gradually he could no longer even see the rankings flashing above their heads.

Gongshu Jin's eyes were filled with resentment: "How is this possible... how is this possible?! How could the gap have widened so much?!"

Over the past semester, he maxed out his loan and burned through his spirit coins. He equipped his Dharma Body with different sets for magic cultivation, physical cultivation, and various exams.

He meticulously planned every detail of his daily training down to the second, not wasting a single second.

"Why? Why can't I catch up with them even at my current level?!"

"How much did they actually spend?"

……

As the exams progressed, Ji Yuanshu and Zhang Yu gradually became the focus of attention for all the students in the class.

Especially seeing the two of them neck and neck in the exam, or watching Zhang Yu chase after Ji Yuanshu, the students realized that the top student in the freshman class would be decided between these two.

And as things stand now...

Yingxin analyzed, "I'm afraid Ji Yuanshu's chances of winning are much higher."

“After all, at the end of last semester, his overall score was 27 points higher than Zhang Yu’s.”

"Even if I'm not far ahead of Zhang Yu in this final exam, it will be difficult for Zhang Yu to surpass me."

Yu Xinghan breathed a slight sigh of relief as he watched Zhang Yu, who ultimately failed to surpass Ji Yuanshu in the speed test: "Thank goodness, Zhang Yu didn't surpass Ji Yuanshu."

"I was so scared! I thought he was really going to be number one in the class."

Yu Xinghan couldn't even imagine how painful it would be if he saw Zhang Yu defeat Ji Yuanshu, leaving him so far behind... It would be many times more painful than seeing his best friend use the Time-Residual Demon Eye.

Compared to the students' vague guesses, the teachers who could see the scores in advance had a clearer grasp of the situation.

Tu Lishan kept watching the scores of the two after each exam, calculating the changes in their combined scores.

As he calculated, he muttered to himself, "Overall, Zhang Yu's basic data is actually approaching that of Ji Yuanshu?"

"It's incredible."

However, considering the amount of medication Zhang Yu had taken this semester, he couldn't help but marvel at how incredible it was that Zhang Yu had survived until now.

"His physique is even better than he said; he definitely deserves special attention and training."

"Alas, what a pity. If he were an upper-class person, or even just a second-class person, he might have been able to beat Ji Yuanshu in this exam."

Ji Yuanshu also sensed what Tu Lishan had observed.

Looking at the notification from the luck monitoring system, and seeing his winning percentage getting higher and higher, Ji Yuanshu seemed to have already seen the throne of first place in the grade coming to his feet.

However, he always considered defeating Zhang Yu as a matter of course.

After all, under the monitoring of luck, he could always see the opponent's extremely low win rate.

What he cared about was not defeating Zhang Yu, but whether he needed to make further investments now that victory was within his grasp.

After all, there is still a long way to go before he reaches the goal of being 100 points ahead, which his master has asked him to achieve.

Be greedy when others are fearful.

Thinking of a famous proverb in the finance department, Ji Yuanshu made up his mind in the blink of an eye.

"At this moment, Zhang Yu, Gongshu Jin, and the entire class were all terrified by my strength and fell into fear."

Ji Yuanshu knew that it was not easy to gather fortune, especially for a freshman like him.

"This is the perfect opportunity to further consolidate our fortune, solidify our position as the top student in our class, and lay the groundwork for future cultivation of the fortune-based arts."

"At the same time, it can further improve my strength. Even if I can't exceed 100 points, I will exceed it by as much as I can."

So he tagged Zhang Yu and Gongshu Jin in the group again.

Ji Yuanshu: You two, for the rest of the exam, unleash your full potential and let me have a blast!
As soon as he finished speaking, Ji Yuanshu felt wisps of fortune surging in from different directions.

That was the confidence that one classmate after another had in him.

With each exam today, he was like a victorious general, planting the word "victory" in the hearts of his students through his successive triumphs.

This is the convergence of people's hearts and the arrival of good fortune.

With a gentle sway of a copper coin magic treasure within his sea of ​​consciousness, it suppressed all the collected fortune within his sea of ​​consciousness and began to enhance his various qualities.

"The way of destiny is to go with the flow."

"Then they use methods such as showing off, putting pressure on people, and hyping things up to guide people's hearts and minds and take advantage of their luck."

“Use cultivation to boost momentum, and use momentum to nourish cultivation.”

"It grows stronger through mutual circulation."

"Ultimately... it becomes the trend itself."

Ji Yuanshu believed that his victory in first place in the class had become an unstoppable force.

As for the backlash of fortune?

Ji Yuanshu could not have imagined the possibility of defeat.

Because until the final exam, he still led Zhang Yu and Gongshu Jin in overall score.

"They both have no chance anymore."

"I want to get more points in the final game."

……

In a simulated construction site.

The students in the Foundation Building Class all arrived to face the final exam of the day.

Tu Lishan stood in front of them and said, "In order to test professional abilities more objectively and realistically, the department has been reforming the examination system since last year."

"Today, we have decided to combine all the professional skills exams into one, using examples to assess your engineering drawing, architectural blueprint reading, building materials, architectural surveying, and your comprehensive construction capabilities."

"After all, the most important thing for us in the Civil Engineering department is practical skills."

"Today is the day to test the results of your first year of university studies."

As they spoke, everyone's eyes received a series of blueprints.

Then, Tu Lishan pointed to the left side of the simulated construction site and said, "On the left are all the building materials provided for this exam."

"You have half an hour to select and transport the materials you need."

"On the right are the construction sites you have been assigned to."

"Within half an hour, you can do your best to select materials and transport them over."

"But you will not be able to leave the construction site after half an hour."

"You have three hours to carry out the construction according to the blueprints."

"Three hours later, everyone, regardless of whether they have finished or not, must immediately stop work and leave the site."

"Next, your work will be scored on its completeness."

"Then all construction sites will be subjected to 10 waves of attacks."

"The performance of your work during these 10 waves of attacks will also determine your score in this exam."

(End of this chapter)