"Brother Lu, there's really no need for this..."
Yu Wei scratched his head and said in a low voice,
"With my current grades, even if I crazily consume supplements for the next few months, at most I'll just get into a third-rate Starry Sky Academy. It's quite meaningless."
He saw things very clearly. Even with Lu Xiaobai's support to force his way into a third-rate academy, it would be useless. After all, the level of his body-tempering method was too low. Once he got into university, he would be quickly eliminated and return to the fate of being dead last...
Lu Xiaobai raised an eyebrow and said,
"So, you've made up your mind to attend a vocational lifestyle school?"
Yu Wei nodded and said,
"Brother Lu, I've already discussed it with my family. After the Star Exam, I'll report to a lifestyle school and learn a special skill to make a living in the future."
"Is that so..."
Lu Xiaobai thought for a moment and said,
"Then study Basic Pharmacology. When you graduate, you can come to the Lu family's shop and work as a junior apprentice."
Hearing this, Yu Wei's eyes instantly widened, and his face even flushed red from extreme excitement.
"Brother Lu, are you serious?"
"I'm a direct descendant of the Lu family, after all. I can make the call on a small matter like this."
Lu Xiaobai said with a smile,
"However, whether you can get promoted in the future will depend solely on your own hard work."
"I definitely won't let Brother Lu down!"
Yu Wei nodded repeatedly, feeling as if he had been knocked dizzy by this immense stroke of luck.
Although it was only a junior apprentice position, he would be joining the Elixir of Immortality Group, a behemoth that monopolized nearly seventy percent of the pharmaceutical market!
One had to know that the Elixir of Immortality Group's annual campus recruitment attracted countless graduates from first-rate Starry Sky Academies, all just to become a junior apprentice in this massive corporation...
And as someone graduating from a vocational lifestyle school, he wouldn't even have the qualifications to submit a resume to the Elixir of Immortality Group...
Now, a single sentence from Lu Xiaobai had directly changed his fate!
"Work hard, I believe in you."
Lu Xiaobai smiled.
His words weren't just empty pleasantries.
In his eyes, although Yu Wei's Star Martial strength was lacking, he was a smooth talker, had good situational awareness, and handled tasks extremely efficiently. Even if he had no talent in pharmacology, he could still be promoted towards a management position. At the very least, becoming a branch manager in the future was a realistic prospect.
"Brother Lu, if you ever need anything in the future, just give the word! I, Yu Wei, will go through fire and water, and wouldn't hesitate even if it meant dying ten thousand times!"
Yu Wei patted his chest, speaking with absolute seriousness.
Lu Xiaobai smiled and nodded, saying,
"There's no need for any dying. Just help me handle some small matters."
Right at that moment,
His gaze shifted slightly, looking in another direction as he said,
"Monkey, head back to the classroom first. I have something to take care of."
Yu Wei looked stunned for a moment. Following Lu Xiaobai's gaze, he immediately spotted Lu Zhan leaving the cafeteria.
"Brother Lu, do you need me to accompany you?"
"I'm enough on my own."
Yu Wei didn't ask any more questions. He turned around and left.
Lu Xiaobai, wearing a smile, strode straight toward Lu Zhan.
"Hmm?"
Lu Zhan's expression shifted slightly. Turning his head, he saw Lu Xiaobai approaching and calmly said,
"Young Master Lu?"
Lu Xiaobai nodded with a smile and said,
"Student Lu Zhan, interested in having a little chat?"
Lu Zhan thought for only a brief moment before nodding in agreement.
Watching this, a smile appeared in Lu Xiaobai's eyes.
Soon, the two arrived at the small grove beside the school's artificial lake. The surroundings were perfectly quiet, with no one else in sight.
Lu Zhan took the initiative to speak,
"Young Master Lu sought me out regarding the class combat test, right?"
"Exactly."
Lu Xiaobai nodded and smiled, saying,
"I need to take first place in the class, so I hope you can go easy on me."
"Young Master Lu, in my eyes, Star Martial Artists are pure!"
Lu Zhan dropped his smile and said with a face full of earnestness,
"Even if you win like this, it actually holds no meaning. Moreover, the education I have received does not allow me to do such a thing!"
"Three thousand Alliance Credits!"
Lu Xiaobai's expression remained placid as he directly stated his terms.
"Young Master Lu, please don't bring this up again. If you insist, I can only say you've misjudged me."
"Five thousand Alliance Credits!"
"..."
Lu Zhan looked visibly shaken, but he still didn't speak.
"Ten thousand Alliance Credits. And even if you don't get matched against me, I'll still give you two thousand Alliance Credits!"
Lu Xiaobai's tone remained flat, as if everything was fully under his control.
Lu Zhan remained silent, his face devoid of expression, just staring blankly at Lu Xiaobai.
After a long while,
The corners of his mouth curled up, and an ingratiating smile bloomed on his face as he said,
"Young Master Lu, you really are an excellent judge of character!"
Lu Xiaobai smiled faintly and said calmly,
"I will transfer the two thousand Alliance Credits to you via chip."
From the moment the other party agreed to come to the grove with him, he already knew the answer. The guy just wanted to squeeze out a few more benefits.
To him, this kind of person was the easiest to deal with.
After all, his elders had taught him since childhood: any problem that can be solved with money isn't a problem at all...
"Young Master Lu, take care!"
Lu Zhan's face was full of flattery, looking exactly like a sycophantic lackey, completely devoid of his previous righteous aura.
Lu Xiaobai smiled, turned around, and left.
Star Martial Artists were never pure. Without financial backing, even the greatest talent was just empty talk...
He didn't harbor any disdain toward Lu Zhan. After all, striving for greater benefits for oneself is human instinct, as long as the person isn't blindly greedy.
In the afternoon,
"Today, humanity no longer has national borders. Instead, we are unified under the management of the Human Federation Government. Beneath the Federation Government, there are various departments and agencies, which are..."
A middle-aged woman spoke eloquently at the front of the classroom. Below, some students looked excited, while others found it tedious and appeared distracted.
Lu Xiaobai was equally bored sitting there.
There were no Star Martial classes in the afternoon. Instead, it was a political class on theoretical knowledge, primarily explaining human power structures. For those aiming to work in the Federation Government in the future, this was extremely important, but not everyone shared that ambition...
"This is so boring..."
Lu Xiaobai rubbed his head.
He still preferred the Starry Sky civilizations discussed in history class.
As for politics, he didn't need to pay much attention. All he needed to know was that his old man was someone who held supreme authority...
Time passed quickly.
With the ring of a bell, the day's classes completely came to an end.
Lu Xiaobai and Yu Wei followed the flow of the crowd, walking along the school's wide main road.
"Brother Lu, besides Lu Zhan, everyone else has been fully taken care of!"
Yu Wei said with a smile,
"When the time comes, no matter who you fight, you'll be able to win effortlessly."
"Are you sure?"
"I guarantee there won't be any problems!"
"Good!"
Lu Xiaobai nodded with a smile and said,
"You don't need to worry about Lu Zhan. I've already handled him."
His heart began to look forward to the combat test at the beginning of the month. As long as he got the Starry Sky Points from the quest reward, his body-tempering method could be upgraded to the max level!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.
