Zhang Yu's Valuation???

Inside the office.

Shortly after Deng Bingding recorded Yun Jing's valuation.

A minor deity standing nearby said, "Lord Deng, Ye Lingxiao is in some trouble."

Deng Bingding looked over and found that Ye Lingxiao in the illusion was almost unmoved by any temptation.

Neither superior cultivation conditions nor the successes and failures of his Lineage seemed to be able to stop him from passing the high school Foundation Establishment Certificate.

If Deng Bingding were to evaluate him, he would say that he is selfish enough, single-mindedly ambitious, and possesses the courage to continuously climb the path of Immortal Dao.

But Deng Bingding also believed that as long as he kept raising the price, the other party would eventually agree.

After all, every human being has a price.

But what Ye Lingxiao demanded was beyond Deng Bingding's expectations.

In the Illusion Realm, Ye Lingxiao said, "Since you are so Divine Ability, do you know how to use Goodwill Talisman on someone?"

Deng Bingding frowned. "How would Ye Lingxiao know about this?"

The young god beside him said, "Lord Deng, what should we do now?"

"The secrets of Goodwill Talisman works on people are of great importance and cannot be easily revealed."

"Even though it's just Illusion Realm, we can easily fool him."

"But all memories and records from the Illusion Realm of the Foundation Establishment Exam must be preserved."

"If the valuation is too low, wouldn't that be deliberately giving the student a low score? If the valuation is too high, wouldn't that let Ye Lingxiao know there's a big secret behind this?"

"This is really... difficult to handle."

Deng Bingding also sensed something was amiss, and she realized something.

"The fact that this person could make such a request amidst so many temptations in the Illusion Realm... shows that he subconsciously already realized the high value of this secret, and even understood what it truly represented."

"Hmph, but Ye Lingxiao's curiosity is a bit too strong, and his appetite is too big."

"But isn't selfishness, recklessness, and insatiable greed also a seed for Immortal Dao?"

A thought quickly crossed his mind, and Deng Bingding decided to try a different approach, asking, "Where did he get this information? Was it hearsay, or did he actually see it?"

Xiao Shen said, "He said he saw it with his own eyes, a high school student Zhang Pianpian used it. I've already looked at that student's information, she's very outstanding, but she doesn't seem like the kind of person who would know this trick. Could she be lying to Ye Lingxiao?"

As soon as Deng Bingding closed her eyes, countless scenes from the Spirit Realm appeared before her.

Arriving at a row of huge bookshelves, she casually flipped through Zhang Pianpian's data, her Divine Power quickly sweeping over it, and the other's life story appeared before her.

This is the first-floor archive of the Department of All People, which theoretically contains information about everyone on that floor.

Deng Bingding used his Divine Power to quickly browse through Zhang Pianpian's information, but felt a strange sensation in his heart.

"This Zhang Pianpian is indeed outstanding; she even became the deputy captain of the Patrol Team in Songyang City. She's almost too outstanding."

"It's from Songyang City again..." Deng Bingding frowned. "Why are all the students from Songyang City acting so strangely?"

Just as she was pondering, this sixth-rank Wandering God suddenly noticed something amiss.

"Zhang Pianpian's file... has someone tampered with it?"

The thought that someone had tampered with the archives shocked Deng Bingding. But when she tried to uncover the hidden truth behind the other person's file, an unprecedented sense of crisis stopped her.

"It's none of my business, and I don't want to know anything about it."

After thinking for a moment, she went back and reported Ye Lingxiao's situation. As for Zhang Pianpian's information, she didn't mention it at all, pretending not to know.

What surprised her even more was the speed of the response from above.

"An instruction directly from the Department of All People?" Deng Bingding's heart skipped a beat. He thought to himself that Zhang Pianpian was indeed problematic, and he wondered what plans or schemes she was involved in.

The instructions from the Department of All People directly reduced Ye Lingxiao's valuation to 5.5 billion.

Deng Bingding felt a pang of emotion as he watched this scene.

Many Kunxu Person, especially the poor, believed that the rules of the Ten Great Sects and the Eightfold Gods were heavenly laws and could not be violated.

But Deng Bingding knew clearly... that wasn't always the case.

Take the Foundation Establishment Exam before us, for example; it wasn't that no one dared to have any ulterior motives from the very beginning.

However, whether they were people or gods, those who dared to have wicked ideas were all sent to the Spirit Realm to enjoy bliss, and gradually no one dared to have such ideas anymore.

Even though this is High School Foundation Establishment Exam that no one in the entire Kunxu First Layer dares to mess around with, if the big shots above want to take action, like suppressing Ye Lingxiao's evaluation right now, then they might as well do it.

"People have a price, and so do the rules of Kunxu."

"Many things are possible if the cost is affordable."

"However, for some, the price is the entire clan. For others, it might only require a single directive..."

Deng Bingding cleared his mind of distractions, firmly burying the matter deep within his heart, and refused to think about it again.

She turned her gaze to the last person in the current Dao Heart Test — Zhang Yu.

Or rather, at this moment in the office, whether it was her, the Wandering God, or the other four Gong Cao Small God, all of them were focused on Zhang Yu's Illusion Realm.

Deng Bingding asked in disbelief, "How did Zhang Yu manage to hold out until now?"

Huang Zichou, however, said with a mixture of nervousness and excitement, "Lord Deng, Zhang Yu's Illusion Realm is about to collapse if this continues."

"What did you say?" With a hint of intense curiosity, Deng Bingding scanned the other party's Illusion Realm records with his Divine Power.

Within the Illusion Realm.

Before Zhang Yu knew it, more and more things had piled up in front of him.

What about Heavenly Spiritual Root, Dharma Skeleton, and citizen status in Immortal Capital City...?

All sorts of valuable items were presented to Zhang Yu, but he still refused to give up the Foundation Establishment Exam.

Even when the other party offered company shares, Zhang Yu's face showed a hint of eagerness, but he still gritted his teeth and did not refuse the Foundation Establishment Exam.

Because the moment this thought crossed his mind, a chill ran through him. "This Idiot Ritual... can't it accept the conditions? Let me take the exam again next year?"

"No, this Ritual, while absurd, shouldn't be this bad. What's wrong with it?"

As the Illusion Realm continued to test and the price kept increasing, Zhang Yu's consciousness gradually began to sense that something was wrong.

"No... this must be worth tens of billions, right?"

"Aren't you giving too much?"

"Is giving up the Foundation Establishment Exam really worth this price?"

As Zhang Yu began to ponder these things, everything before him seemed to grow increasingly bizarre, giving him the feeling of being in a dream.

Inside the office.

Deng Bingding frowned. "How could you offer such a high price? What are you doing?"

She's already starting to suspect that Huang Zichou is arbitrarily raising prices.

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Huang Zichou said, "Lord Deng, you can check the records. I really didn't raise the price arbitrarily. The price increased little by little as the Illusion Realm operated according to the rules. I really tried everything, but he just wouldn't give up."

Deng Bingding frowned and repeatedly flipped through the records, discovering that Zhang Yu was truly impervious to reason.

Deng Bingding knew that while Illusion Realm could make students subconsciously ignore many things that were not right, this ignoring was not without its limits.

As students repeatedly refuse, and the prices they offer increase, the entire Illusion Realm becomes increasingly illogical, making the test-taker feel more and more uncomfortable.

When this sense of incongruity reaches its limit, it signifies the collapse of the Illusion Realm.

Just now Ye Lingxiao and Yun Jing were both wealthy and powerful, making them the winners of the Foundation Establishment Certificate. Under the influence of the Illusion Realm, the price of the certificate kept rising, and the two of them were able to subconsciously ignore the sense of incongruity in it.

However, Zhang Yu's skill level was far from that of a potential winner, and he was also poor, so he would be more likely to sense something was wrong as prices skyrocketed.

Watching this scene, Deng Bingding suddenly had a thought he hadn't had before, "The poor actually have an advantage in this test, which is that once they persevere, they are more likely than the rich to see through the Illusion Realm and break through their limits?"

Shaking his head and temporarily setting aside his other thoughts, Deng Bingding asked again, "Didn't you ask him what he actually wanted?"

Huang Zichou quickly replied, "I already asked! Please read on!"

Within the Illusion Realm.

Zhang Yu felt that everything before him was increasingly like a dream.

How could anyone possibly pay so much money to make me give up the Foundation Establishment Exam?

His reaction to the Ritual, in particular, made him realize that something was very wrong.

"Could it be that I am...?"

Just then, the other person's question interrupted his thoughts.

After hearing this, Zhang Yu asked curiously, "What do I want?"

Thinking about how I'm burdened by these Ritual, what I really want is to rid myself of their Ritual Power and give myself true freedom.

But he dared not speak of anything related to the Evil God, even though he felt like he was dreaming.

Therefore, the only remaining objective was to be admitted to one of the top ten schools of thought, join a sect, and fulfill this aspiration.

And considering the current condition of giving up the Foundation Establishment Exam...

After briefly organizing his thoughts, Zhang Yu realized that the request he was about to make would be one that the other party simply could not agree to.

But the dreamlike feeling made him suddenly smile, and he spoke his mind somewhat recklessly, "I want to climb the Immortal Dao, all the way upwards."

"So you want me to give up? Well, you'll have to give me a better chance."

"I would only give up the Foundation Establishment Certificate Foundation Establishment Certificate I could get a better chance to enter university, receive better treatment after joining one of the top ten sects, and have a higher chance of being accepted into a sect..."

"Oh, right, we also need to bring Bai Zhenzhen along on this."

Inside the office.

"Everything has a price."

This is something Deng Bingding has confirmed countless times.

But even when Deng Bingding heard Zhang Yu's asking price, which was an extreme price due to the Illusion Realm, he was still shocked.

"Does this guy... even know what he wants?"

"A penniless nobody from the Kunxu First Layer actually offered such an outrageous price?"

"Is this something that can happen on the Layer 1? It's even better than successfully passing the Foundation Establishment Certificate in the first year of high school?"

"Let alone the Layer 1, even the wealthy on the Layer 2 or Layer 3 might not be able to snag the kind of opportunity he wants."

"And you also need to bring someone along..."

Looking at Zhang Yu in the Illusion Realm, Deng Bingding didn't know whether to say that the other party's ambition to climb the Immortal Dao of immortality was too inflated, or that he had released his insatiable side under the influence of the Illusion Realm.

Huang Zichou, standing to the side, said, "Lord Deng, what do you mean? He himself knows that such a price is impossible, right? He has no intention of giving up the Foundation Establishment Exam at all."

Deng Bingding said, "Continuing the testing is pointless; the temptations he faces have long exceeded his limits."

"If the Illusion Realm were to actually fulfill such an unreasonable request, Zhang Yu would probably wake up completely, and the Illusion Realm would collapse."

"Or rather..." Deng Bingding said calmly, "He might be waking up soon."

"Let's end this Dao Heart Test."

Huang Zichou said, "What about Zhang Yu's grades?"

"What else can we do?" Deng Bingding sighed. "At least this Illusion Realm can't measure his limits."

After saying that, she wrote down, "Zhang Yu, valuation unknown???, Dao Heart Test failed to reach its limit."

(End of this chapter)