Cultivation? Ain't Got No Money For That!
Chapter 283

Talent So Poor, Relying Entirely on Background

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"Wang Yin?"

Gongshu Jin felt that the name Wang Yin sounded somewhat familiar.

Suddenly he remembered that he had seen an advertisement for Oasis Group, and there seemed to be someone named Wang Yin in it.

He only glanced at it briefly and it didn't leave a deep impression on him.

When Li Xiao was speaking, he himself was not very clear about many specific details, and his words were vague.

Gongshu Jin decided to investigate himself.

A moment later, Gongshu Jin was surprised to find that he hadn't found anything at all.

"Impossible! I remember seeing an advertisement for Oasis Group!!"

Suddenly, Gongshu Jin realized, "That's right, I only recently got to the Layer 2. I must have seen that advertisement when I was on the Layer 4!"

After thinking about it, Gongshu Jin became even more curious about this matter. He simply used the company's dedicated line to temporarily contact a company employee on the Layer 4 and asked the employee to help investigate the matter!

Gongshu Jin thought to himself, "It's a pity my access level isn't high enough, otherwise, why would I need to go through all this trouble? I could directly access the Upper Level network information through the Spirit Realm Network!"

A moment later, they sent word!

"The ad did exist, but it has basically been removed now. Even related comments, posts, and videos have been blocked, deleted, and taken down one by one!"

"I had to spend some Spirit Coin to find that live stream video you wanted!"

The next moment, a video image popped up in Gongshu Jin's Eye Remains!

It was Zhang Yu who was riding on Wang Yin's back, and he kept hitting Wang Yin's face with his fists!

Gongshu Jin's eyes flashed as he watched this scene, a thoughtful look in them!

Seeing Gongshu Jin's expression, Li Lei knew that the other party must be Dharma Skeleton to look up information, so he quickly added, "President Wang has been incredibly kind to Zhang Yu, but he was betrayed in the end. Zhang Yu is an ungrateful dog!"

"Hmm!!" Gongshu Jin nodded, but said, "Get tamed? Why get tamed? Can we make friends?" Gongshu Jin didn't take Li Lei's words to heart at all. Li Lei, this poor wretch from the first floor, had poor grades and ranked far behind him. To Gongshu Jin, was he even a person? He was more like a dog that barely resembled a human being, at best a canine companion, not a human friend!

In particular, Li Xiao didn't even know which level Wang Yin had come down from, let alone understand the depth of this matter!

Gongshu Jin estimated that even on the Layer 2, only some companies and forces that traded with the Layer 1, as well as some people who paid close attention to news from the Layer 1, would know about Zhang Yu's defeat of Wang Yin!

Zhang Yu's defeat of Wang Yin, who had crippled his own cultivation, demonstrates Zhang Yu's strong talent and impressive combat power even at the early Foundation Establishment. However, this is of no importance to Gongshu Jin!

As he watched the video, he wasn't concerned with Zhang Yu's displayed talent and fighting prowess, but rather with the final result!

In Gongshu Jin's view, the fact that Zhang Yu could ride on Wang Yin and knock him unconscious, yet still manage to attend the Foundation Establishment Class at university as if nothing had happened, indicated that he had an extraordinary background. That was the real reason.

True style, genuine presence, and genuine charm are far more impressive than any extraordinary talent or genius!

Conversely, no matter how strong Zhang Yu's talent is or how well he fights, he won't care; he'll just estimate the price of the opponent in his mind!

"I need to find Orthodox God to investigate who Zhang Yu is. How could he beat Wang Yin so badly and still die on the first floor?" While thinking this, Gongshu Jin naturally gave up his original plan to take Zhang Yu in and instead wondered if he could make friends with him!

What is a friend? For Gongshu Jin, it's someone who is either rich, has a powerful background, or has exceptional achievements!

"Moreover, Zhang Yu obtained his Foundation Establishment Certificate in his second year of Foundation Establishment school, a year earlier than me, yet his stats are 20% lower than mine. It seems he has extremely poor talent and relies purely on his background!"

Gongshu Jin never expected that Zhang Yu would take so long to obtain the Foundation Establishment Certificate because he didn't have the money to buy Spirit Root!

He thought to himself, "With this kind of talent, he will never be able to catch up with me in the future, and he will only fall further and further behind me. He shouldn't pose any threat to my becoming the top student in the class!"

"On the contrary, his background might be able to help me!"

Thinking about this, Gongshu Jin felt even more that Zhang Yu was a suitable friend!

Li Xiao, standing to the side, was unaware of all this, but from what the other party was saying, he could sense Gongshu Jin's affection for Zhang Yu, and he was both surprised and jealous!

Gongshu Jin went directly to Zhang Yu, looked at Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan, and then used his usual methods of making friends!

Without any formalities or small talk, Gongshu Jin Gongshu Jin to directly display his wealth—a tried-and-true Principle for making friends that had worked for him since childhood!

Generally speaking, after he displays his wealth, rich people will accept him, while poor people will fawn over him. For Gongshu Jin, wealth is like a person's grades or rankings—an absolutely effective and reasonable matching mechanism that can shield him from ineffective social interactions!

Hello, you two!

Gongshu Jin then exposed his back, gently stroking his spine with both hands, and chuckled, saying, "How much do you want for my Vajra Mysterious Creation Spine Magic Skeleton?"

Zhang Yu was slightly taken aback, thinking to himself, "Is this guy here to show off his wealth?"

Seeing Zhang Yu's silence, Li Xiao chimed in, "It should cost at least 15 Spirit Coin, right?"

Gongshu Jin said calmly, "It cost me 20 Spirit Coin!"

After all, the raw material for this spine came from a master at Vajra University; it was forged from a spine that the master had painstakingly cultivated!

"Even a professional bone-selling cultivator specializing in the same type of spine would need a year to regenerate it, meaning that an identical Spine Magic Skeleton is only produced once a year!"

Zhang Yu cursed inwardly, "Damn rich people."

Looking at the unmoved Zhang Yu, Gongshu Jin thought to himself, "Does he not even take Vajra Mysterious Creation seriously?"

Gongshu Jin frowned slightly and said, "You two, let's add each other as friends!"

Although he only wanted to find Zhang Yu, seeing that Yu Xinghan was with him, Gongshu Jin thought he might as well add him as well, and at the same time find out what kind of person he was!

As his friend passed by, Gongshu Jin had already used the unique ability of his Eye Remains, and the model of his friend's Eye Remains appeared in his eyes!

Observing the Eye Remains type of a friend through their friend list is another of his little tricks for making friends!

"Time Remnant Demon Eye? Such a top-tier Eye Remains?"

"This Zhang Yu!! Is a friend!" At this moment, Gongshu Jin knew that he had not misjudged Zhang Yu; Zhang Yu in front of him was definitely not an ordinary person!

"But it seems my friend isn't very talkative, he doesn't even show his Eye Remains. Is he the low-key type like Ji Yuanyu?"

"But now that he knows my financial situation, he should understand that we can be friends!"

"Let's add each other as friends today, and we'll see what happens in the future!"

Thinking of this, Gongshu Jin nodded to Zhang Yu, then turned and went back without saying a word.

Seeing Zhang Yu ignore him and Gongshu Jin turn to leave, Li Xiao chuckled to himself, "Heh, Zhang Yu really does have a bad temper. He's offended Gongshu Jin too, hasn't he?"

Just then, Yu Xinghan nodded. "Okay, let's add each other as friends!"

On the other side, Gongshu Jin frowned slightly as he looked at the friend request that had just been accepted. "Extreme Tiger? Still such an old model!"

"This is not a friend!"

In the blink of an eye, Gongshu Jin silently deleted Yu Xinghan from his friends list!

On the other side, Ji Yuan Shu coldly observed this scene, thinking to himself, "According to my investigation just now, the Oasis Group seems to have already taken action against this Zhang Yu!"

"This Zhang Yu might be involved in the struggle between the Ten Thousand Methods and the Netherworld!"

"But anyway, it has nothing to do with me. Civil Engineering Department students are just passersby to me. This Zhang Yu is far inferior to me in terms of data, and he poses no threat to my ranking at all, so I don't need to care about him!"

"I just need to focus on getting first place in my class for three years, then switch to finance and aim for the top 30 in the whole school."

"This is exactly Master has planned for me!"

After class, everyone in the classroom had already dispersed in the blink of an eye!

Zhang Yu patted Yu Xinghan on the shoulder and asked, "Where are you going next?"

Yu Xinghan said angrily, "Damn it, why did Gongshu Jin delete me!"

Recalling Gongshu Jin's performance, Zhang Yu said, "You look down on us!"

As the crowd dispersed, Yu Xinghan felt his Eye Remains were much clearer. He nodded and said, "It's normal for people on the Fourth Layer to look down on those on the first floor. If I were in their shoes, I would look down on them too!"

Yu Xinghan remembered Spark True Person's advice and said, "In short, try your best to improve your grades and ranking!"

"There's no future in socializing on campus for people like us!"

"Only results and rankings are our true source of confidence!"

"But I need to get this damn Eye Remains replaced first. Where are you going?"

Zhang Yu's eyes flickered slightly, and he said, "I want to go to the Great Library first and exchange some Cultivation Method to take a look!"

Zhang Yu used the Eye Remains to find the navigation to the Great Library!

Upon further investigation, he discovered that the Great Library was not a location, but a website!

At the same time, Jiao Lei True Person, the teacher in the Foundation Establishment Class, sent a message!

Lei True Person: [Link] This is the latest class Rankings. It is arranged according to everyone's basic data when they entered the class. The ranking will be continuously updated according to the overall performance. You can check where you are in the class now!

"Class rankings?" Zhang Yu clicked on it and found that it contained Rankings for the entire Second Layer campus of Ten Thousand Laws University, including rankings for the whole university, departments, and classes!

The subpage sent by Jiao Lei True Person was none other than Zhang Yu, who Rankings 13th in their Foundation Establishment Class!

"Not bad!" Zhang Yu nodded. "Let's improve slowly from now on!"

The next moment, as Zhang Yu actively connected to the Great Library, after confirming his identity and permissions, Zhang Yu felt a change in the light and shadow before his eyes, and countless bookshelves suddenly appeared, occupying every corner of his field of vision!

Row upon row, an endless array of bookshelves were projected onto his face through his Eye Remains!

This is the Great Library of the Ten Thousand Laws University!

With a light tap of Zhang Yu's finger, rows of bookshelves were arranged according to his requirements, categorized by subject!

"The Cultivation Method I'm looking for!" Long before coming to Ten Thousand Laws University, Zhang Yu had already planned his cultivation path after entering the university!

Especially considering his cultivation experience during high school, Zhang Yu felt that the first thing he should do after entering university was to check if there was a university-level University Sacred Body High School Sacred Body in the Chain Law Diagram!

"The High School Sacred Body is perfect for development. If I had obtained it earlier, my cultivation during high school would have been two or three times faster!"

"I hope universities will also have University Sacred Body!"

The next moment, with a thought from Zhang Yu, a series of Basic Level Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivation Method appeared before his eyes!

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