Without waiting for Le Mulan's reply, Zhang Yu sent similar messages to Xiong Wenwu and Yu Xinghan.
The content was similar, asking them to contact someone influential at their respective schools to arrange payment for him and Bai Zhenzhen not participating in the upcoming competition.
Meanwhile, at Ziyun High School.
Le Jingchen looked at the message from his sister and smiled, saying, "He's coming to negotiate the price himself?"
"Looks like Zhou Chechen can't control him anymore."
After 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 taken aback by her brother's message and replied, "In what aspect are you asking?"
Le Jingchen: How has his strength improved since the sports competition?
Le Jingchen: If he participates in the upcoming Dao Heart Competition, can he win a place?
Le Jingchen: I know you've been asking him to be your sparring partner recently, so you should have a sense of his condition, right?
Looking at the messages from Le Jingchen, Le Mulan recalled her training sessions with Zhang Yu.
His strong physique, powerful muscles, and skillful techniques… always made Le Mulan feel that her money was well spent.
But she knew her brother wasn't asking about that.
After all, the next one was the Dao Heart Competition.
"Dao Heart…"
Le Mulan immediately thought of Zhang Yu squatting on the ground after each training session, looking at the spilled potions on the floor.
She thought to herself, "If it were any other high school student, they might have already drunk their fill of the potions, right?"
So Le Mulan replied: Zhang Yu is someone who can resist even expensive temptations.
Le Jingchen asked: Do you have a specific example?
Le Mulan: He can resist licking my sweat that dripped on the ground…
After hearing Le Mulan's description of the training, Le Jingchen replied: How could you do such a thing?!
Le Jingchen: You've taken a lot of experimental drugs. What if Zhang Yu collects your sweat and sells it to other pharmaceutical companies for drug analysis?
Le Mulan: I was negligent. Next time, I'll make him clean up all the sweat on the ground in front of me.
Le Jingchen: That's more like it.
Le Mulan: In short, what I'm saying is that Zhang Yu's willpower is indeed very strong, and Bai Zhenzhen isn't much weaker than him.
Le Mulan: If they participate in the Dao Heart Competition, they could probably get a good ranking. If spending some money can buy their absence, it's a worthwhile thing.
Le Mulan put away her phone and suddenly recalled the martial arts competition where she offered 400,000 to buy Zhang Yu's withdrawal, but he refused.
Le Mulan thought to herself, "In the end, you were still changed, weren't you?"
…
Inside the Red Pagoda's protected area.
A huge beast was lying on the ground, its head seemingly pierced by some kind of giant beast.
A rugged-looking, shirtless man was lying on the ground, tearing at the beast's flesh with his mouth.
He opened his blood-filled mouth and looked at Xiong Wenwu beside him, saying, "What do you want from me?"
Xiong Wenwu told him about Zhang Yu's request.
The man who was devouring the beast asked, "I remember this Zhang Yu… You competed against him, right? What do you think? Can he still win a place in the upcoming Dao Heart Competition?"
Xiong Wenwu recalled Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's situation, and the first thing that came to his mind was their recent rental transactions at his incubation room, and Bai Zhenzhen buying beast meat from An An for nutritional supplements, and An An subsidizing him with the money.
Before coming, Xiong Wenwu had actually thought about this matter.
"Selling participation slots? These two guys are really short on money, aren't they?"
"But with their status, it's indeed better to get money directly like this than to participate…"
Xiong Wenwu also thought of one point… whether Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's lack of money was because they spent a lot of money at his place.
Especially since he heard from An An that these two guys had been spending longer and longer periods of time training in the incubation room recently.
"If they had more money, they would probably patronize my business more, right?"
Many thoughts flashed through his mind, but in reality, it was just a moment. Xiong Wenwu respectfully replied, "Although I haven't had much contact with these two, I could feel on the field that these two have iron wills and steel-like Dao Hearts."
"After all, those who can rise from the ranks of the poor cannot have weak wills."
"Judging from the control they showed in the martial arts and sports competitions, these two cannot have weak Dao Hearts."
"If they were to participate in the Dao Heart Competition, they would indeed be very likely to win a place."
"If we can spend 700,000 or 800,000 to prevent them from participating, I think it's a very worthwhile thing."
…
Bailong High School.
Yu Xinghan knocked on the door and said, "Senior, why aren't you replying to my messages?"
A voice came from inside: "Don't bother me!"
"I've had enough of this damn student council!"
"The most important task for us high school students is to study, get scores, and compete!"
"Damn it… I'm bothered by trivial matters all day long. How can I study properly?!"
Yu Xinghan said, "But isn't this the kind of thing you should be handling?"
The other person angrily said, "That's because the previous president pushed all sorts of messy things onto me."
"But the previous class has all graduated, and I'm the biggest in the school!"
"I don't want to stay in this student council for even a day."
"From now until the university interview, I will focus wholeheartedly on my own cultivation."
"If you have anything, go to Song Hailong of the Song family."
"He has taken over as the vice president of the student council."
So next, Yu Xinghan called Song Hailong to his presence and told him about the situation.
Yu Xinghan: "Little Song, this is the situation."
After hearing this, Song Hailong said indifferently, "It's not just the upcoming Dao Heart Competition, right? Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen will probably do this for all future competitions."
"They are different from us after all. Anyway, they have no chance of getting into the top ten universities. What does it matter how many competition rankings they get or how impressive their resumes are? It's better to exchange it for some money."
As the Song family's star son, Song Hailong had also heard some wealthy people complain about Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen squeezing out competition slots.
Song Hailong said indifferently, "I just feel it's a pity that I will never have the chance to beat them in competitions in the future."
Yu Xinghan: "Stop rambling, just tell me how much money you plan to approve for them?"
"You know the current strength of these two guys. If they participate in the Dao Heart Competition, they will definitely get a ranking."
"I think it's a very worthwhile price to spend 1 million to prevent them from participating."
Song Hailong looked at Yu Xinghan strangely, feeling that the other person was being a little too proactive about this matter.
Yu Xinghan coughed and said, "I'm also doing this for our Bailong High School to achieve results. We are the strongest of the three major high schools. If Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen withdraw from the competition, the people from our school are most likely to grab the ranking."
Song Hailong frowned. He was a new vice president of the student council and was handling this kind of matter for the first time: "Isn't 1 million a bit too much?"
Yu Xinghan quickly said, "Too much? After they leave, your competition ranking will at least rise by 1 or 2 places, right? Do you think it's too much to spend 1 million to rise that much?"
"And it's not our money that's being spent, it's all the school board's money."
Yu Xinghan pressed on Song Hailong's shoulders and said with pressure, "We have been fighting with Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen for so long. Who in the school knows them better than us?"
"This is my opinion as the number one student in the first grade. I hope you consider it carefully."
Seeing Yu Xinghan's appearance, Song Hailong thought to himself, "After Zhang Yu doesn't participate in the competition, Yu Xinghan will probably be able to steadily win first place, right? He really values this competition ranking."
But on second thought, after all, this thing is related to the university interview, so it's normal for Yu Xinghan to be so concerned.
And seeing Song Hailong nod, Yu Xinghan smiled slightly and left leisurely.
Turning the corner, Yu Xinghan took out his phone and replied to Zhang Yu: 1 million is a deal.
Zhang Yu: [Thumbs up] Don't worry, I will never treat you unfairly.
…
Songyang High School.
Fu Ji looked at Yu Xinghan's reply and laughed, "I told you this kid would definitely take a kickback, right? With my experience traversing Kunxu for so many years, can I be wrong about people?"
Zhang Yu looked at the replies from the others: "Ziyun agreed to pay 600,000 after tax, Red Pagoda is 700,000 after tax, and Bailong is 1 million after tax. As expected of the three major high schools, they are really generous and directly helped me pay the taxes in advance."
"Adding up to million, minus the 100,000 kickback to Yu Xinghan, that's million."
"If I split it with A Zhen, that's million after tax for each of us."
Thinking of this number, Zhang Yu breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Originally, he had been scattering money on the path of immortality during this period, and his bank balance was getting smaller and smaller, and in the blink of an eye, it was only more than 300,000 left.
Now with this million supplement, it should be enough to spend for a while.
"At least until next month's first round of Foundation Establishment exams, there shouldn't be any problems."
Then Zhang Yu sighed regretfully: "Unfortunately, we definitely won't be able to sell the upcoming Dao Technique Competition for money."
"And after that, the new competition will have to wait until next year."
Although Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen also wanted to sell all the high school competitions in one go, the three major high schools were unwilling to accept it.
On the one hand, the amount was too large and the process was too long, and on the other hand, many people did not think that Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen would still be as competitive as they are now next year and the year after.
Then Zhang Yu opened a contact in his phone.
Bai Zhenzhen said from the side, "Yu Zi, are you going to use the talisman left by your adoptive mother?"
Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Zhou Chechen and Lan Ling, these two guys, after suffering a loss this time, will definitely not let it go."
Bai Zhenzhen nodded: "These two guys, if we talk about real strength, we are indeed a little lacking compared to them."
"Even if they come to us for practical battles every day, it will be very troublesome and will disturb us from studying in peace."
Zhang Yu said, "So I'm thinking that maybe we can bluff them again."
Recalling what Zhou Chechen said today, Zhang Yu continued, "This person seems to suspect that there are other people backing us, and he is very careful and cautious."
"If we scare him, maybe we can buy ourselves some more time."
The next moment, Zhang Yu had already flipped out the screenshot of the freeze talisman in his phone.
Freeze Talisman, one of the talismans that Zhang Pianpian left for Zhang Yu, which can freeze other people's bank accounts. The higher the other party's faith level, the shorter the freeze time.
