What’s the point of cultivating immortality if you don’t have money?

The Zhou family mansion.

Zhou Chechen flung off his coat and hurried inside, eager to ask the elders about the Immortal Capital's Foundation Establishment Exam.

Why hadn't he known about it before?

But as Zhou Chechen passed the main hall, he paused, a look of surprise on his face as he noticed the people in the reception room.

"Chechen, you're just in time."

Zhou Yang, in the reception room, noticed Zhou Chechen and beckoned him over.

"This is your Uncle Zhang, and this is Auntie Bai."

"They are both incredibly talented and will achieve great things in the future.

I consider them my peers, so you should address them as Uncle Zhang and Auntie Bai from now on."

Zhou Chechen stood frozen, seemingly unable to react.

Zhou Yang glared at him, saying, "This child, why don't you know how to greet people?"

Zhang Yu chuckled, "Look, you've scared the kid."

He waved his hand, saying, "It's alright, we're all classmates.

Just call me Brother Yu and call her Sister Zhenzhen.

We'll just call you Little Zhou."

Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhou Chechen and said, "Why doesn't this child offer any greeting?"

Zhou Yang smiled helplessly, "He's been spoiled by his father, doesn't understand any manners."

Saying that, he looked at Zhou Chechen and said, "When you see your Uncle Zhang and Auntie Bai, shouldn't you give them a red envelope?

Quickly give the elders a greeting gift, transfer ten thousand, you hear me?"

Under Zhou Yang's watchful gaze, Zhou Chechen reluctantly transferred ten thousand to both Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.

Bai Zhenzhen smiled slightly, "Good boy, Little Zhou, go play by yourself.

We still have things to discuss with your Uncle Zhou."

Then, under Zhou Yang's urging, Zhou Chechen gritted his teeth and called out, "Brother… Brother Yu, Sister Zhenzhen."

Turning to leave, Zhou Chechen felt as if something had shattered inside him.

At that moment, he realized the absolute difference in achievement between himself and Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, they were no longer on the same level.

He thought to himself, "I am still just a pawn, while they are gradually moving off the board, towards a larger game."

After Zhou Chechen left, Zhou Yang said, "There will be more people at home later in the evening, let's continue our discussion in my study."

Soon after, as Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen left, Zhou Yang reflected on the day's events.

After the news of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen obtaining the Foundation Establishment qualification spread throughout the city, especially with the Oasis Group involved, Zhou Yang knew… he had lost the best opportunity to act against Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.

Without dwelling on how Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen managed to surpass the Immortal Capital's young masters and pass the Foundation Establishment Exam, Zhou Yang's first thought was how to handle the aftermath.

"Then… let's try to ease the relationship first."

Compared to continuing to fight them, or waiting for their potential future revenge, spending money to avoid trouble and further easing the relationship… seemed like the best option at the moment.

So, Zhou Yang also wanted to donate a sum of money to Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, and at the same time, test their attitude.

Zhou Yang recalled the conversation with the two earlier.

After accepting his three million, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen seemed very friendly, as if they weren't holding any grudges.

"Last time, Zhou Chechen already brought people to apologize to them and offer gifts."

"This time, with my personal intervention, in the best-case scenario… they should no longer be enemies with the Zhou family."

"Unless… they are particularly vindictive, or they know about the evil god behind me."

"If they still want to deal with me after today, then don't blame me for fighting to the death."

Bai Zhenzhen said, "Logically speaking, he probably doesn't really want to fight us anymore, but we can't rule out accidents."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Yes."

"If the Zhou family isn't eliminated, if everyone who knows about Fuki's existence isn't cleaned up, I won't be at peace."

Fuki said, "At least now he's willing to ease the relationship with you, so pretend to stop fighting him for now."

"Time is ultimately on your side."

Meanwhile, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen had just finished talking with Zhou Yang when they were immediately called over by Yun Ni, the captain of the Patrol Team.

She said that to reward them for their hard work in the Patrol Team over the past year, the Patrol Team wanted to promote them to top-tier outsourced personnel.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were both slightly stunned.

Heaven knows what hard work they had done in the Patrol Team in the past year while eating free meals.

They only felt that after arriving at the Patrol Team's office building, everyone was so polite and friendly.

Zhang Yu couldn't help but sigh, "Ever since I became the top student in the grade, I feel like there are more and more good people in Songyang High School, everyone is so kind."

"And after I passed the Foundation Establishment Exam, the good people in the entire Songyang City started to increase."

At that moment, Zhang Yu understood even more why the Kunxu people had to study hard and take exams.

This broken Kunxu is really such that the better your grades, the more hell can gradually turn into heaven.

After being promoted to an outsourced position, Yun Ni also brought him good news.

"Now that you are top-tier outsourced personnel, you can attend a cross-level meeting once a month."

"It just so happens that Pianpian also got a position on the second level, so she can also have cross-level communication…"

Zhang Yu quickly understood that this was using the excuse of a cross-level meeting to give them an opportunity to communicate with Zhang Pianpian.

So, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen came to a separate meeting room. As the dedicated network connected, a line of text appeared in front of their expectant gazes.

"Wanfa University, Department of Talismans, Foundation Establishment cultivator Zhang Pianpian is now communicating with you."

Zhang Yu was shocked, but also slightly relieved.

He thought to himself that with Zhang Pianpian's talent and strength, after being on the second level for so long, passing the Foundation Establishment exam and then completing Foundation Establishment didn't seem like an incredible thing.

"But isn't this too high-profile?"

Then the screen flashed, and Zhang Pianpian appeared in front of them.

Seeing Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen in front of the screen, Zhang Pianpian was slightly stunned, seemingly not expecting the people on the other side of the screen to be Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.

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However, Zhang Pianpian quickly reacted, smiled slightly, and said with relief, "It seems that you two have passed the Foundation Establishment exam. Is the patrol team starting to treat you favorably?"

As Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen spoke, they told Zhang Pianpian about their experience passing the Foundation Establishment exam and some of the current situation in Songyang City.

Although Fuki knew a lot, both Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen trusted Zhang Pianpian more, and wanted to consult her about the upcoming university application situation.

Zhang Pianpian nodded upon hearing this and said, "Although I said before that I would wait for you at Wanfa University."

"But given your current situation, you can also make some other choices based on the conditions offered by those admissions representatives…"

During the conversation with Zhang Pianpian, Zhang Yu asked about the long string of titles displayed in the communication.

Zhang Pianpian explained upon hearing this, "You'll understand when you come to the second level. From the second level onwards, everything in the entire second, third, and fourth levels, and even the fifth and sixth levels, serves the universities."

"Each university is a city, and all the companies and management agencies in the city are also managed by the university."

"And here, education, university, department, and realm divide people into different levels."

"Even with the same education and the same university, just different departments can be divided into different grades. A good major… even the toilet paper in the dedicated teaching building is of better quality than the pages of books in a bad major."

"Here, everyone looks at people first by realm, then by education, then by university, and then by major."

"University students can harshly humiliate junior college students, and students from the top ten universities can step on the heads of students from other schools."

"Everyone can't wait to tattoo their realm, education, university, and major on their heads, displaying them one by one."

"And even within the same university, good majors can have better class resources, and can even sit a few rows closer when listening to lectures."

"Students in bad majors may not even be able to get a seat in class, and I heard that they even have to wait in line to use the toilet."

"So, on the second level, it's only natural to display your situation in detail and receive different treatment according to different levels."

Zhang Yu nodded upon hearing this, but he was not surprised at all. In his opinion, Kunxu would differentiate people according to different levels.

The above situation was not unexpected to him, only that people seemed to be distinguished more precisely than on the first level.

Zhang Pianpian continued, "You should also understand how important it is to choose a major after hearing this. Even if you get into a good university, if you don't choose a good major, you will only live a relatively unsuccessful life."

"Not to mention that there may be ten or a hundred times the difference in income, and some majors may even have difficulty finding a job."

"But it's good that you have Foundation Establishment certificates, so the choice of majors should be wide. I can tell you some of the things I know."

"Taking Wanfa University as an example, Finance, Weapon Refinement, and Taoism are the three departments at the top."

"However, the paths of Finance and Taoism require too much background and wealth, so I don't recommend you two choose them."

"Weapon Refinement, on the other hand, is a late-stage choice for you. Although it is also very difficult in the early stage, you should have a chance…"

"Civil Engineering is also good, suitable for laying the foundation."

"After all, Civil Engineering allows you to start working and earning money as soon as you enter. Earning money for two years first, and then transferring to another major after laying a good foundation is also a good choice."

"But don't study Civil Engineering until graduation. If you get a Civil Engineering diploma, it will be difficult to jump out of this pit for the rest of your life…"

"Also, don't apply to the Archeology Department. The better you study this major, the more you have to go to the eighteenth level of Kunxu's underground to excavate the sect relics that have been annihilated in the past and study the sects that have been eliminated in history…"

"Other majors such as Security, Weapons, and Military are also good early-stage majors. They improve quickly in the early stage and earn money quickly, but they are easily optimized when you get older…"

Zhang Yu nodded slightly and asked, "Isn't Real Person Xinghuo in this kind of situation?"

Zhang Pianpian said with some emotion, "That's right. If he had changed to another major back then, perhaps he would have a different life now."

"By the way, don't apply to the Medical Department. This major is currently occupied by family forces on the second level. It's all local aristocratic families inside, and outsiders can't get ahead…"

In Zhang Pianpian's introduction, various information about majors and universities on the second level appeared in front of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, allowing them to gradually have a general outline of their future choices.