Physical Education Exam and Wang Hai's Countermeasure
Inside the male examinees' preparation room.
As examinees warmed up and made their preparations one after another, the stench of sweat, feet, body oil... continuously spread through the cramped space.
Enduring the unpleasant smell in the preparation room, Zhang Yu kept smearing the Vajra Ghee he had bought over every part of his body, making the lines of his muscles stand out more clearly.
Thinking that a single jar of Vajra Ghee cost over a hundred dollars and that one jar was needed for every exam, Zhang Yu applied it even more carefully, afraid of wasting even a drop.
"This damn school sells even mandatory exam supplies at such outrageous prices."
But Zhang Yu did not dare not buy it.
Although this Vajra Ghee had no Body Tempering effect whatsoever, it made the muscle lines and physical body structure all over one's body more obvious, allowing the Body Tempering Exam judges to score them more conveniently.
And if he did not apply the oil, what if the judges' eyes blurred and they failed to see an examinee's flesh-and-blood lines clearly, giving them a low score? That would be a huge loss.
Moreover, based on Zhang Yu's current understanding of the Kunxu world, he strongly suspected that the school's Vajra Ghee business definitely gave the judges a sizeable cut. Perhaps if one did not apply the oil, they would be directly maliciously given a low score.
Zhang Yu called behind him, "Old Zhao, help me apply some to my back."
"Sure." Zhao Tianxing dipped his hand into the Vajra Ghee Zhang Yu was holding and began spreading it over his back.
At the same time, as he looked over Zhang Yu's body, he silently thought, Zhang Yu's Physical Strength level seems pretty high.
Although Zhang Yu followed a balanced path of strength, speed, and agility, different from Zhao Tianxing's strength-focused path, even if Zhao Tianxing had never eaten pork, he had seen pigs run.
As a core student who often attended Wang Hai's classes, Zhao Tianxing had naturally seen many outstanding top students in Body Tempering.
Looking at Zhang Yu's muscles now and feeling their marble-like texture, he could clearly sense that Zhang Yu's Physical Strength was absolutely not low.
It seems... it seems a little higher than mine?
But how is that possible? He clearly doesn't even have an instructor for physical education class anymore.
Before long, Zhang Yu, Zhao Tianxing, and the rest of their group of ten arrived at the examination venue, their bodies gleaming with oil and covered in testing patches.
The five Sports Teachers below the stage swept their gazes over them. Wang Hai's eyes paused on Zhao Tianxing and Zhang Yu before he said, "Begin."
Hah!
Ha!
Roar!
Amid burst after burst of thunderous shouts, the examinees onstage took turns erupting with the physical body strength of their entire bodies, swelling their muscles and recklessly unleashing the violence within their flesh and blood.
With a boom, the elevated platform beneath their feet creaked and groaned, as though parts of it could no longer endure the ravaging of these Body Tempering beasts.
At the same time, the strength data detected by the patches was rapidly transmitted to the judges' screens.
Wang Hai was the first to look at Zhang Yu's data. "The muscles in his right arm erupted with 443 kilograms of force, and the muscles in his left arm erupted with 422 kilograms..."
"He improved this much in just a few weeks?"
"What Demon Beast Pill did he take? Is he about to wreck his body structure?"
Wang Hai's gaze sharpened when he saw the figures, and he immediately raised his head to look toward Zhang Yu onstage.
At the same time, not long after the ten students onstage erupted with their physical body strength, they felt five icy gazes sweep over them.
From below the stage, they would have looked like ten Body Tempering beasts, their momentum surging skyward.
But from the students' perspective onstage, looking down at the five Sports Teachers felt like being watched by five terrifying giant beasts.
Those icy gazes and scrutinizing eyes were like five giant beasts picking through cuts of meat before a butcher's stall, choosing which piece of flesh on their bodies they wanted to eat.
At that moment, Zhao Tianxing felt like a lamb awaiting slaughter before the five teachers. He could only strain to brace all the flesh and blood in his body, doing his utmost to unleash his strength.
But Zhang Yu's feelings on the other side were completely different from those of his classmates.
He only felt that five pairs of scorching eyes had suddenly locked onto him, so intensely that goosebumps were about to rise all over his body.
At the same time, one of the Sports Teachers below the stage had already exclaimed in admiration, "What a fine frame! Beast Back, Demon Chest, Devil Arm! I never thought a first-year high school student would already have adjusted his body structure this well."
Another Sports Teacher said with naked envy, "Look at those legs. You can tell at a glance that his bones and joints have undergone shaping through a thousand hammerings and ten thousand refinements. What a solid foundation! He'll surely soar into the heavens one day. Why don't I have a student this good?"
Yet another Sports Teacher patted Wang Hai on the shoulder and said, "Teacher Wang, this must be another disciple you've been focusing on, right? His structural adjustment is incredible. Such excellent shaping must have taken no small amount of painstaking effort. Your year-end bonus is secure this year."
Wang Hai, who had just been considering whether to go against his conscience and maliciously give Zhang Yu a low score, smiled awkwardly after being patted on the shoulder but did not answer.
Yet as he looked at Zhang Yu, he still revealed a trace of admiration he could not suppress.
He could not help thinking, Although pharmaceutical sales are my main profession, still...
As a Sports Teacher, Wang Hai truly could not bring himself to give such a jade-like physical body a low score. This body was simply a work of art!
What was more, the Sports Teachers who had just spoken had also sealed off his path of arbitrarily giving a low score.
So after objectively scoring Zhang Yu, a fierce gleam flashed through Wang Hai's eyes.
"He made such enormous progress in such a short time, especially in adjusting his body structure so well."
"Looking at it this way, there's an eighty percent chance Zhang Yu really has become a Golden Core Disciple."
"Since that's the case, I can only use my final method."...
Dinner time.
Inside the cafeteria.
Because he had once again begun grinding the level 8 Heavenly Cycle Qi Gathering Method today, Zhang Yu's appetite had suddenly shrunk considerably. After only a few casual bites, he was about to finish the food on his tray.
But at that moment, a huge shadow covered his body.
Like a great mountain, Wang Hai sat down before him with a bang.
Then Wang Hai smiled at Bai Zhenzhen beside him. "Bai Zhenzhen, could you let me speak with Zhang Yu alone for a few minutes?"
Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu. After seeing him nod at her, she moved to a seat more than ten meters away and watched the two of them with curiosity written all over her face.
Zhang Yu looked at Wang Hai with a trace of wariness as well. After all, their relationship could hardly be called good.
Wang Hai said, "Let's add each other's contact information. We haven't done that before."
After becoming eighty percent certain that the other party was a Golden Core Disciple, Wang Hai decided to use his final method—giving gifts.
He wanted to use gifts to repair his relationship with Zhang Yu.
But what gift to give became a new problem.
For Wang Hai to have come this far, he naturally did not lack the wisdom of gift-giving.
The first thing he thought of was naturally Body Tempering medicine. After all, as a pharmaceutical salesman, giving away samples, experimental drugs, banned substances... was as easy as turning his hand over. It had practically become a path dependency.
But after another thought, he rejected that option.
"Zhang Yu himself said he practices Natural Body Refinement. Whether that's true or false, wouldn't giving him Body Tempering medicine be slapping him in the face? No, no."
Then Wang Hai thought of Body Refinement Cultivation Methods.
As an Ace Physical Education Teacher, aside from pharmaceutical sales, another major source of income for him came from teaching and tutoring others.
Tutoring certain people's children and teaching them Body Refinement Cultivation Methods had always been his unfailing method for drawing people into his orbit.
But he soon rejected this choice as well.
"What are the few cultivation methods I have distribution rights for worth to Zhang Yu now?"
"He is, after all, a Golden Core Disciple. How could he possibly lack the cultivation methods of a high school Sports Teacher like me?"
"After thinking it over and over, it really still has to be..."
At that moment, after they had added each other's contact information, Wang Hai said again, "Zhang Yu, you did very well on today's exam. Teacher was thinking that I don't really have anything presentable to give you, so I'll transfer you some money."
"This is just a small token of my regard. Please don't think it's too little."
Picking up his vibrating phone and discovering Wang Hai's transfer message, Zhang Yu's heart stirred. He's giving me money to smooth things over? Does he think he can wipe away the matter of isolating me with a little money?
Since his previous life, Zhang Yu had looked down on this sort of monetary transaction. As he tapped into the transfer message, he had just been about to put on a disdainful expression when he discovered that he simply could not make one.
Received a transfer of 66,666.66 from Wang Hai.
More than ten meters away, Bai Zhenzhen watched Zhang Yu's expression and silently thought, What exactly happened? Yu Zi can't even suppress the corners of his mouth.
At the same time, Wang Hai said with a sincere expression, "Seeing your progress today, Teacher is very gratified."
"Teacher's Physical Education teaching standards were too low before, and I wronged you. Teacher apologizes to you."
Seeing Wang Hai about to stand and bow, Zhang Yu advised, "Teacher, you were doing it for my own good. How could I let you apologize to me?"
Zhang Yu felt disgusted by his own mercenary nature. Damn it, Zhang Yu, how did you become like this? You were bought off by money just like that?
But this was not a matter of money or not money. Old Wang was already seventy or eighty years old, and an Ace Physical Education Teacher as proud and concerned with dignity as him was apologizing to me. There was sincerity in it, at least.
Seeing Zhang Yu smile, Wang Hai relaxed slightly, but the thought of that sixty-six thousand still made his heart ache.
Although his income was not low, his expenses far exceeded those of ordinary people. He never had much spare money on hand, and sixty-six thousand was by no means a small sum to him.
But he knew this was not the time to feel pain over sixty-six thousand. After all, sitting before him was a disciple whom Golden Core True Person Starfire Senior had accepted not long ago.
Years of experience told Wang Hai that if he was going to give money, he had to give enough in one go.
Grasping Zhang Yu's hands, he said earnestly, "From now on, my physical education class is your physical education class. You can do whatever you want during class. It's fine even if you don't come. Skip whenever you want. I'll give you absolute freedom."
What was the greatest sign of a teacher's respect for a student?
Wang Hai, who had taught at Songyang High School for many years, gave his answer—skip class whenever you want. That was the respect he gave a Golden Core Disciple.
"Huh?" Zhang Yu was slightly surprised upon hearing this, then delighted. For a self-disciplined student like him, being able to freely arrange his class time truly was a good thing.
Seeing Zhang Yu's surprised expression, Wang Hai said meaningfully, "Heh heh, after all, why would you still need my guidance now?"
After another round of pleasantries, Wang Hai bade him farewell. "All right, I still have matters to attend to, and you surely have plenty to do as well. I won't disturb you any longer."
(End of Chapter)
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