Inside the office.
Just after Deng Bingding recorded Yun Jing's valuation.
A minor deity beside him said, "Lord Deng, Ye Lingxiao is proving to be troublesome."
Deng Bingding looked over and saw that Ye Lingxiao in the illusion seemed unmoved by any temptation.
Whether it was superior cultivation conditions, the success or failure of his family… nothing seemed to deter him from obtaining the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate for high school.
If Deng Bingding were to evaluate him, it would be that he was selfish enough, single-minded enough, and had the courage to constantly climb the path of immortality.
But Deng Bingding also believed that as long as the price kept increasing, the other party would definitely agree.
After all, everyone has a price.
However, the things Ye Lingxiao asked for were beyond Deng Bingding's expectations.
Ye Lingxiao in the illusion said, "Since you are so powerful, do you know how to use the Charm Talisman on people?"
Deng Bingding frowned: "How could Ye Lingxiao know about this?"
The minor deity beside him said, "Lord Deng, what should we do now?"
"The secret of using the Charm Talisman on people is of great importance and cannot be easily revealed."
"Although it's just an illusion, we can casually deceive him."
"But the Foundation Establishment Examination's illusion retains all memories and records."
"In this case… if the valuation is too low, wouldn't it be deliberately giving the student a low score? If the valuation is too high, wouldn't it let Ye Lingxiao know that there is a big secret here?"
"This is really… difficult to handle."
Deng Bingding felt a wave of trouble after hearing this, and she realized something.
"The fact that this person can make such a request amidst so many temptations in the illusion… shows that he subconsciously thinks that the value of this secret is very high, and even realizes what it represents."
"Hmph, but this Ye Lingxiao's curiosity is too strong, and his appetite is too big."
"But selfishness, audacity, and greed are also qualities of an immortal seed."
With a thought, Deng Bingding decided to take a different approach and asked, "Where did he hear about this? Is it just hearsay, or did he actually see it?"
The minor deity said, "He said he saw it with his own eyes, that a high school student named Zhang Pianpian used it. I have already looked at that student's information. She is very good, but she doesn't seem like someone who would use this trick. Could it be that she is deceiving Ye Lingxiao?"
Deng Bingding closed her eyes, and countless scenes of the Spirit Realm appeared before her.
She came to a row of huge bookshelves, casually opened Zhang Pianpian's data, and her divine power quickly scanned it. The other party's life history appeared before her.
This is the archive library on the first floor of the Department of All People, which theoretically records the information of everyone on the first floor.
Deng Bingding quickly read Zhang Pianpian's information with divine power, but felt a strange feeling in her heart.
"This Zhang Pianpian is indeed excellent, and she is also the deputy captain of the Songyang City patrol team. She is even a little too excellent."
"It's Songyang City again…" Deng Bingding frowned and said, "Why are the students in Songyang City a little strange one by one?"
Just as she was thinking, this sixth-rank Quadrant Wandering Deity suddenly noticed something was wrong.
"Zhang Pianpian's file… someone has tampered with it?"
The thought that someone had tampered with the archives startled Deng Bingding. When she tried to uncover the truth hidden behind the other party's file, an unprecedented sense of crisis stopped her.
"It's none of my business, I don't want to know anything."
After thinking about it, she went straight back and reported Ye Lingxiao's situation. As for Zhang Pianpian's intelligence problem, she didn't mention it at all, pretending she didn't know.
What surprised her even more was the speed of the response from above.
"A written instruction directly from the Department of All People?" Deng Bingding's heart skipped a beat, thinking that Zhang Pianpian really had a problem, and she didn't know what kind of plan or arrangement it involved from above.
The instruction from the Department of All People was to directly suppress Ye Lingxiao's valuation to billion.
Deng Bingding felt some emotion in her heart as she watched this scene.
Many Kunxu people, especially some poor people… think that the rules of the Ten Great Sects, the rules of the Eight Divisions of Gods… are heavenly laws, and no one can violate them.
But Deng Bingding knew clearly… sometimes that wasn't the case.
Like the Foundation Establishment Examination in front of her, it wasn't that no one dared to have crooked ideas from the beginning.
It's just that those who dared to have crooked ideas, whether they were people or gods, were all sent to the Spirit Realm to enjoy themselves, and gradually no one dared to have ideas.
But even with the high school Foundation Establishment Examination where no one in the entire Kunxu 1st Layer dared to mess around, if the big shots above wanted to take action, like suppressing Ye Lingxiao's evaluation at this moment, then it would be done.
"People have a price, and the rules of Kunxu also have a price."
"As long as you can pay the price, many things can be done."
"It's just that for some people, this price is the entire clan. But for some people, it may only require a written instruction…"
Deng Bingding cleared the distracting thoughts in her heart and firmly suppressed this matter deep in her heart, never thinking about it again.
She turned her attention to the last person in the current Dao Heart Test – Zhang Yu.
Or rather, at this moment in the office, whether it was she, the Quadrant Wandering Deity, or the other four Minor Merit Recording Deities, all focused their attention on Zhang Yu's illusion.
Deng Bingding wondered, "This Zhang Yu actually held on until now."
Huang Zichou was a little nervous and excited, and said, "Lord Deng, Zhang Yu's illusion is about to collapse if this continues."
"What did you say?" With a strong sense of curiosity, Deng Bingding scanned with her divine power and checked the other party's illusion record.
…
Inside the illusion.
Unknowingly, more and more things had piled up in front of Zhang Yu.
What Heavenly Spirit Roots, Dharma Corpses, Citizen Status of Immortal Capital City…
All kinds of valuable things were sent to Zhang Yu, but he always refused to give up the Foundation Establishment Examination.
Even when the other party threw out company shares, Zhang Yu's face was eager to try, but he still gritted his teeth and did not reject the Foundation Establishment Examination.
Because as soon as he had this idea, the chill in his heart would follow.
"Can't this idiotic ritual accept conditions and let me take the test in the second year?"
"No, although this ritual is idiotic, it shouldn't be like this. What's wrong?"
In the constant probing and increasing prices of the illusion, Zhang Yu's consciousness gradually felt something was wrong.
"Isn't… isn't this worth tens of billions?"
"Are you giving too much?"
"Is it really worth this price for me to give up the Foundation Establishment Examination?"
When Zhang Yu began to think about these things, everything in front of him seemed to become more and more strange, giving him the feeling of dreaming.
…
Inside the office.
Deng Bingding frowned: "How can it be opened to such a high price? What are you doing?"
She had suspected that Huang Zichou was randomly increasing the price.
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Huang Zichou said, "Lord Deng, you can look at the records. I really didn't randomly increase the price. The illusion is operating according to the rules, increasing little by little. I really tried everything, but he just wouldn't give up."
Deng Bingding frowned and repeatedly reviewed the records, and found that Zhang Yu was really impervious to persuasion.
Deng Bingding knew that although the illusion could allow students to subconsciously ignore many strange things in it, this kind of ignorance was not without limits.
When students constantly refuse, as the price given becomes higher and higher, the entire illusion will become more and more illogical, making the test taker feel more and more discordant.
When this sense of incongruity reaches its limit, it also represents the collapse of the illusion.
Like Ye Lingxiao and Yun Jing, because they were rich enough and strong enough, and were candidates for winning the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate, the price rose all the way under the effect of the illusion, and the two could subconsciously ignore the sense of incongruity.
But Zhang Yu's level was not a winning candidate at all, and he was poor himself, so as the price soared, it would be easier to feel something was wrong.
Watching this scene, Deng Bingding suddenly had an idea that she had never had before: "Poor people actually have an advantage in this test, that is, once they hold on, they are more likely to see through the illusion and break the limit than rich people?"
Shaking her head, temporarily putting aside the extra thoughts in her heart, Deng Bingding asked again: "Didn't you ask him what he wants?"
Huang Zichou quickly said: "I asked, you look back!"
…
Inside the illusion.
Zhang Yu felt that everything in front of him was more and more like a dream.
How could someone pay so much money to let himself give up the Foundation Establishment Examination?
Especially the reaction of the ritual made him feel that everything was very wrong.
"Could it be that I am now…"
At this moment, the other party's question interrupted his thinking.
After listening, Zhang Yu curiously said, "What do I want?"
Thinking that under the pressure of the ritual he was carrying, what he wanted most was to remove the power of the ritual and give himself true freedom.
But he didn't dare to say anything about the evil god, even if he felt like he was dreaming at this moment, he didn't dare to say it.
So what he could say was another purpose, that is, to enter the Top Ten, enter the sect, and complete this wish path.
Combined with the current condition of giving up the Foundation Establishment Examination…
Zhang Yu slightly organized his words in his heart, and felt that the request he was about to make would be a request that the other party could not agree to at all.
But that feeling of dreaming made him suddenly smile and say his thoughts somewhat presumptuously: "I want to climb the path of immortality and go all the way up."
"So if you want me to give up, then unless you can give me a better opportunity."
"An opportunity that is better than passing the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate the first time, a better opportunity to enter the university, a better treatment after entering the Top Ten, a better opportunity to enter the sect… I will give up the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate."
"By the way, this matter must also include Bai Zhenzhen."
…
Inside the office.
"Everyone has a price."
This was something that Deng Bingding had confirmed countless times.
But this time, hearing Zhang Yu's asking price, even if it was an extreme price because of the illusion, Deng Bingding was still shocked.
"This guy… does he know what he's asking for?"
"A poor ghost on the 1st floor of Kunxu actually asked for such an outrageous price?"
"Is this something that can be encountered on the 1st floor? A treatment that is better than successfully passing the Foundation Establishment Certificate in the first year of high school?"
"Not to mention the 1st floor, even the rich on the 2nd or even the 3rd floor may not be able to grab the opportunity he wants."
"And he has to bring someone…"
Looking at Zhang Yu in the illusion, Deng Bingding didn't know whether to say that the other party's ambition to climb the path of immortality was inflated enough, or that he released his greedy side under the influence of the illusion.
Huang Zichou said, "Lord Deng, what do you say? With this kind of asking price, he himself knows it's impossible, right? He doesn't plan to give up the Foundation Establishment Examination at all."
Deng Bingding said, "There is no point in continuing to test. The temptation to him has already exceeded the limit of the temptation he may face."
"If the illusion really completes this unreasonable request, Zhang Yu will probably completely wake up from it, and the illusion will collapse."
"Or…" Deng Bingding said lightly: "He may already be about to wake up."
"End this Dao Heart Test."
Huang Zichou said, "Then what about Zhang Yu's score?"
"What else can we do?" Deng Bingding sighed: "At least this illusion can't test his limit."
After saying that, she recorded: "Zhang Yu, valuation unknown???, Dao Heart Test failed to test the limit."
