Chapter 27: Exam Break
Three o'clock in the morning.
Inside the office of Songyang High School.
Su Haifeng looked at the list on the computer screen and said to the other end of the phone, "Well...there is no change in the Dao Xin score."
"My mana increased very rapidly some time ago. It seems that most of my time and money were spent on breathing exercises. That's why I was able to reach the top 10."
"Although his physical strength hasn't been measured for three weeks due to isolation, it had already dropped to 19th place. Now that he's focusing on his mana, he's thankful to be able to maintain 19th place."
"There has been no obvious improvement in martial arts and Taoism. It is possible that these two subjects have fallen to the 30th place in this monthly exam."
Looking at Zhang Yu's recent grades, Su Haifeng shook his head: "In short, I'm not optimistic that his grades in this monthly exam will improve significantly."
"The school will probably still give him a Class D contract."
"I understand. I will try my best to persuade him to sign the contract."
"Although I don't know how he gained Li Xuelian's appreciation, but he has taken the exam, and he should have recognized his own situation."
After hanging up the phone, Su Haifeng casually closed Zhang Yu's performance record and started looking at the next document.
To him, Zhang Yu was just a small thing among many things. There were more things happening in Songyang High School, and more important students needed his attention.
…
Four o'clock in the morning.
In an unfinished building.
Today is the day of the monthly exam for Songyang High School.
Although Zhang Yu's strength has improved significantly again after nine days of torture, he is still seizing the time to practice the 36 body-building exercises, trying to improve his strength before the exam officially begins.
At this moment, the panel on the prologue of the Feather Book also changed to: Zhang Yu Dao Xin Level 1
Mana 11.7 Physical Strength 1.05
His mana increased from 10.5 to 11.7 through his passive breathing mixed with occasional active breathing.
His physical strength was improved from level 0.85 to level 1.05 due to his crazy training.
Of course, the biggest improvement in these nine days is the Thirty-Six Fitness Exercises, which has now become Thirty-Six Fitness Exercises Level 9 (89/90).
And as Zhang Yu threw his last punch at this moment, the Thirty-Six Body Building Moves finally reached level 10, reaching the limit that can be achieved in the Qi Refining realm.
At the moment when he upgraded the Thirty-Six Fitness Moves to level 10, countless memories seemed to flow through his mind. It was the image of him practicing the Thirty-Six Fitness Moves over and over again. It was his deeper understanding and more in-depth thinking about his own body.
After countless times of careful polishing, the body finally underwent a qualitative change and began to adjust in a more reasonable way.
There seemed to be a roar in my mind!
As his heart pumped waves of blood and energy to his limbs, Zhang Yu's entire body seemed to be undergoing a transformation.
His flesh and blood were shrinking and expanding, and his bone joints were making crisp crackling sounds. The outline of his entire body seemed to become slightly larger.
The muscle distribution becomes more suitable for force generation, the bone structure becomes stronger and more stable, and the whole body seems to be adjusted to be more balanced and coordinated.
This optimization of the body structure, which had been completed bit by bit in the process of upgrading the Thirty-Six Body Refining Styles to Level 10, was now completed in an instant.
Physical strength level 1.05 → level 1.25
With the adjustment and optimization of his body structure, Zhang Yu's physical strength increased by 0.2 levels at once, a huge increase of 20%.
In particular, Zhang Yu could feel that the improvement brought about by the optimization of body structure was not just a one-time increase in physical strength, but had a longer-term effect. The more balanced and coordinated body structure at this moment would enable him to go better and faster on the road of body refining in the future.
Zhang Yu smiled slightly, and became excited: "Upgrading the Thirty-Six Bodybuilding Moves to Level 10 can actually optimize my body structure."
"Will there be such a big improvement when the skill is upgraded to level 10?"
This is information that the teacher did not teach in class.
But Zhang Yu knew that skill level 10... even basic martial arts like the 36 physical fitness moves were too far away for high school students, so it was normal that the teacher did not mention relevant information.
"Then let's upgrade the Zhou Tian Qi Gathering Method to level 10 and see what effect it will have."
Zhou Tian Qi Gathering Method Level 8 (3/160)
Zhang Yu estimated that it would take him a week at most to upgrade this breathing method to level 10.
However, even though he thought so, he was not in a hurry to switch Yu Shu's expertise to the Zhou Tian Qi Gathering Method immediately, because he had other plans today.
"Please abide by the ritual agreement and work hard to complete your wish. Do not deliberately be lazy and procrastinate. 10."
Just when Zhang Yu was feeling excited and a little moved at his own improvement, the damn countdown sounded again.
Zhang Yu cursed a few times, but when he thought that this thing had no will or wisdom, all he was left with was an empty feeling like punching cotton.
So he sat down cross-legged, meditating and breathing, while also resting his body which had been tired all night and recovering his strength.
Prepare...for the monthly exam.
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Songyang High School.
The students were in a hurry with a hint of uneasiness on their faces.
Today's campus seems to be filled with a solemn atmosphere.
Zhang Yu looked up and saw that the original banner "Live and learn" had been replaced with an anti-suicide slogan "If one person jumps off a building, the whole family will have to pay money."
Even the outer perimeter of the rooftop was surrounded by a layer of barbed wire, making it more difficult for students to jump off the building.
Bai Zhenzhen, who was standing by, praised: "It seems that those beastly school leaders finally care about the students. They know that the monthly exams can easily lead to people jumping off buildings, so they have taken some special protective measures."
But when she just came to the cafeteria to eat breakfast and saw the notice that some food prices had increased, Bai Zhenzhen couldn't help but get furious.
"The price has gone up again? How many times has this happened since school started?"
"How can a bunch of insects run a good school if they can't even run a cafeteria?"
Zhang Yu consoled him, "Alas, it is normal for them to behave like a bad person. Keep calm and don't let it affect today's monthly exam."
But a moment later, listening to the new rules from the cafeteria auntie, Zhang Yu angrily said: "Why can each person only get one 5-yuan meal a day? I was able to get ten yesterday! Why can't students just want to eat their fill!"
"Alright, alright, Yuzi." Bai Zhenzhen patted Zhang Yu on the shoulder and consoled him, "Don't be impulsive. A teacher is here to see you. I'll buy you an extra poor guy's meal."
After finding a seat with his meal, Zhang Yu looked at his savings balance.
Although he once again received a 500 yuan reward for his 0% distraction rate, Zhang Yu's savings were reduced to 6,000 yuan due to the large amount of food expenses required for daily physical training, the continuous use and purchase of neural fillers, and miscellaneous expenses such as transportation.
A new month is coming, which means new loans to pay, new rent, utilities to pay...
There is also food expenses. After starting high-intensity physical training, Zhang Yu felt that his appetite was getting bigger and bigger. It was normal for him to eat ten kilograms a day. The daily food expenses were several hundred yuan, which would be tens of thousands a month.
Zhang Yu increasingly felt that cultivating immortals was indeed a more expensive endeavor.
There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!
"I hope I can get good grades in the monthly exam and get a good contract."
"Otherwise I'll have to go work again."
At this moment, Zhou Tianyi came to sit next to the two of them with food in hand. He shook his head helplessly and said, "Do you know why the cafeteria has increased the price?"
Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen suddenly raised their heads at the same time, staring at Zhou Tianyi, waiting for him to continue.
"In order to promote Oasis' synthetic food, the municipal government has increased the tariffs on food imported from other cities. In the future, I'm afraid that the prices of food other than synthetic food will continue to rise in Songyang City."
"I heard that the principal is also considering replacing the pre-prepared meals in the cafeteria with synthetic foods in the future."
The original Zhang Yu had actually eaten a lot of synthetic food before he became an immortal. After all, synthetic food is much cheaper.
Fried insects, plant protein, recycled water and oil taste so good that even pigs wouldn't eat them.
“I can’t even eat pre-prepared food anymore?”
After hearing these words, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen sighed again and angrily cursed Oasis Company and the municipal government for being inhumane.
After breakfast, because today was the monthly exam, the three did not return to the classroom as usual, but went to their respective examination rooms.
In the morning, there are general education exams and theoretical exams for martial arts classes. Both are written exams, with the former having a total score of 50 points and the latter having a total score of 20 points.
In the afternoon, there is a Taoist exam with a total score of 100 points, and a martial arts practical exam with a total score of 80 points.
The 80 points for actual combat plus the 20 points for martial arts theory in the morning equals exactly 100 points for the martial arts class.
There were written tests in the morning, and Zhang Yu, a native student, had already learned this subject thoroughly.
After the exam, Zhang Yu did not rush to check answers like other students. Instead, he quickly ate lunch and then went to the small garden to start exercising.
Sanshou Level 1 (0/10)
Zhang Yu switched Yu Shu's specialization to free-hand fighting, which was why he did not switch to the Zhoutian Qi Gathering Method before.
After reaching level 10 with the Thirty-Six Physical Fitness Exercises yesterday, no matter how he practiced the Qi-Gathering Method for the rest of the time, he would not be able to gain much improvement.
But if he could make good use of his rest time during the day to improve his free-hand fighting skills which were only at level 1, Zhang Yu estimated that he could at least improve this martial art to level 2.
This will definitely be a significant improvement for the practical martial arts exam in the afternoon.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yu practiced more seriously.
As he attacked, driven by the 1.25 level physical strength, all the muscles and bones in his body vibrated, and every punch and palm strike was accompanied by the sound of wind and thunder.
At the same time, a trace of magic power was transferred to different parts of the body with each of his moves, enhancing the power of the move.
Sanshou is a basic practical martial art. Although there are only 15 moves in total, whether it is punches, palms, kicks or throws, not only can they deal with various actual combat situations, but each move also has a corresponding magic power circulation route.
At this moment, Zhang Yu is practicing these 15 moves repeatedly.
As a practical martial art, the intensity of Sanda practice is much lower than the 36 physical fitness moves.
Coupled with Zhang Yu's current physical level of 1.25, as well as the mana circulation of the level 8 Zhoutian Qi Gathering Method, and the physical optimization brought by the level 10 Thirty-six Body Building Moves, his speed of practicing Sanda moves was even faster. After just over fifty minutes, he had improved his Sanda moves to level 2.
Sanshou Level 1 (0/10) → Sanshou Level 2 (0/20)
In an instant, Zhang Yu only felt the 15 free-hand fighting moves flashing back and forth in his mind, and in the blink of an eye he had memorized them by heart.
But Zhang Yu did not stop. Although he felt a little tired, he decided to continue practicing this martial art.
"There are still two and a half hours until the afternoon exam starts."
"Let's see if we can push our San Shou to level 3 before the exam."
Then Zhang Yu was seen practicing the 15 free-hand moves over and over again, sweating profusely.
My body became more and more tired, my hands and feet gradually began to feel sore, and my movements began to become slightly distorted.
But whenever Zhang Yu thought about the huge debts he had and the increasing expenses, he gritted his teeth and persevered.
After more than two hours, big beads of sweat dripped onto the ground with a plop.
At this moment, Zhang Yu was steaming all over, and his muscles were heating up sharply due to more than three hours of high-intensity exercise.
But a smile appeared on Zhang Yu's face. He finally successfully pushed this martial art to the third level.
(End of this chapter)