A Pact Sealed with a Clap

Ren Yisheng had only one son and one daughter. This was not because he did not want to choose the best among more children, but because the Ren Household's resources could not sustain greater spending.

Children only asked their parents for things, but once they started families and careers of their own, they found they needed money everywhere and were plunged into financial straits in an instant. It was no different for a household: only when someone truly held its reins of power did its head understand how to manage its resources and ensure its advantages endured.

Ren Yisheng could scarcely afford to support the needs of another person in training.

Zhang Xuezhou's genes were even relatively weak, so the cost of making him a sequence expert would be exceptionally high.

But Zhang Xuezhou's plea was profoundly sincere, and Ren Yisheng could even tell that everything he said was true.

Just as he held the Mental Strengthening Chapter over Zhang Xuezhou, Zhang Xuezhou likewise held something over him, whether it was the Heart Incantation or the Supreme Purity True Technique.

If he wanted to race down another path of cultivation, he needed to help Zhang Xuezhou defeat Hongku.

Alternatively, he would have to wait until Hongku had fully influenced Zhang Xuezhou and turned him into another "Hongku" before further cooperation became possible.

The choice left him silent for tens of seconds.

Ren Yisheng would not regard Zhang Xuezhou as an ordinary university student. To speak calmly and confidently among so many professors showed a self-assurance that Ren Wuyang himself had lacked in the past.

The adult world needed sincerity and shared interests, but even more, it needed sustained development.

Clearly, Ren Yisheng had much to consider, involving every side of the matter.

"In truth, I'm very willing to train you,