Inside the training grounds of Songyang High School.
As Zhou Chechen took a deep breath, the surrounding chill quickly subsided, and his Frost Heaven Freezing Qi field slowly dissipated.
In front of Zhou Chechen, Lan Ling, whose face was frozen blue and purple, shivered. As the Qi and blood throughout his body continued to circulate, a surge of heat made him feel slightly better.
However, Lan Ling didn't care about the frostbite on his body. Instead, he said with some delight, "President, you've finally gotten serious, and even used the Zhou family's power, right?"
In Lan Ling's view, Zhou Chechen's ability to mobilize the Zhou family's power to retaliate against Zhang Yu meant that his status in the Zhou family was much higher than Lan Ling had previously estimated.
Lan Ling continued, "Why not strike while the iron is hot and find a way to expel Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen..."
Looking at Lan Ling's somewhat excited appearance, Zhou Chechen thought to himself, "Lan Ling, Lan Ling, if my opponent were you... how wonderful would that be?"
Of course, he couldn't agree with Lan Ling's suggestion. After all, according to Zhou Yang's instructions, what he needed to do was to gradually put pressure on Zhang Yu, making it increasingly difficult for Zhang Yu to breathe, but not to crush him all at once.
Zhou Chechen thought to himself, "To step on the opponent while not crushing them to death in one step, that's the difficulty of this operation."
"Now, the martial arts class is leading him to the dead end of basic exercises."
"Through physical education, he is gradually becoming addicted to addictive drugs."
"Daoist tutoring compresses the time he can earn money and cultivate after school..."
Zhou Chechen could imagine that as Zhang Yu continued to lack time to cultivate and earn money, his strength and grades would inevitably decline.
After all, even immortality, in this respect, is the same as most skills in the world. If the practice time is insufficient, not only will the original level not be maintained, but it will even begin to regress.
The muscles and bones throughout the body will regress as exercise decreases, leading to a decrease in physical strength.
Mana will gradually decline as breathing exercises decrease, even affecting the control of mana.
The Dao heart will also produce self-doubt and self-examination due to insufficient cultivation time, gradually losing control.
"Not to mention, without money, there's no money for drugs."
"With long-term drug use, suddenly stopping... the regression in cultivation will be even more obvious."
Although Zhou Chechen knew that Zhang Yu couldn't get into the top 10 universities, even non-top 10 universities had huge differences between them.
"The 36 upper-level academies, 72 lower-level academies, and the pile of miscellaneous vocational colleges, the gap between them is not small."
"What would it feel like to watch your level gradually slide from being able to test into the 36 upper-level academies to the level of a vocational college?"
Zhou Chechen couldn't imagine it, but he could guess that the feeling must be uncomfortable.
After all, he had seen many similar examples. Songyang High School never lacked poor geniuses who were bullied and whose grades declined every year.
Falling grades... is the easiest thing to break the students of key high schools.
Shuang Youpeng, the top student of the grade in his class, also collapsed after watching his grades decline.
In Zhou Chechen's eyes, Zhang Yu had stronger talent and better grades, but if he didn't consider the person behind him, dealing with him would only take more people and money than Shuang Youpeng.
In addition, as the other party gradually gets used to and addicted to the Mad Dragon Potion, Zhou Chechen could imagine the other party's desperate appearance once the addictive drug is stopped.
"If that's not enough, lure this guy into gambling, or set up some other pig-butchering scheme..."
"And Bai Zhenzhen, even if she is unwilling to betray Zhang Yu now, as the difference in treatment between the two gradually emerges, they will inevitably have conflicts..."
Zhou Chechen had seen many examples of poor people being played with until their bodies and minds collapsed, and finally obediently becoming dogs.
Although those poor people may not have Zhang Yu's grades, human nature, in Zhou Chechen's view, is the same.
"When Zhang Yu's grades continue to decline, but sees that Bai Zhenzhen is not being targeted like him... what will he think?"
"When poor people are in desperate situations, if they find that their original good friends are also unreliable, it is often a fatal blow."
Zhou Chechen sighed inwardly, with the power of the Zhou family, it was too easy for him to let such a poor student step into the abyss step by step.
Now his biggest problem is worrying about the counterattack of the person behind Zhang Yu, worrying about the backlash he will suffer.
After all, according to Zhou Yang, he wanted to force Zhang Yu to ask for help step by step.
Zhou Chechen thought to himself, "I have to think about how to protect myself."
Just then, Lan Ling's call interrupted Zhou Chechen's thoughts.
"President? President?"
Lan Ling looked at Zhou Chechen and said, "President, did you hear what I said? Find a chance to expel them directly."
Although he had flashed through the matter in his mind again, Zhou Chechen knew that he couldn't tell Lan Ling these things, especially since Zhou Yang required Zhou Chechen to force Zhang Yu to ask for help in his own name, how could he tell outsiders these things.
So after thinking about it, Zhou Chechen finally said quietly, "Instead of expelling people and letting them go outside to work freely and earn money, I think it's better to keep them in school and play with them slowly."
Lan Ling's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he smiled, "Indeed, you are the one who knows how to play, President, then we will slowly toss him around."
Looking at Lan Ling in front of him who believed it was true and was eager to try, Zhou Chechen sighed in his heart, "Alas, if all the senior high school students in Songyang City... were like you, then I would be able to steadily get into the top ten universities."
...
At the same time, at the school gate of Songyang High School.
Zhang Yu, who had been doing test papers for four hours, frowned, constantly thinking about the current situation in his mind.
When he saw Bai Zhenzhen, he saw the other party pick up her phone and send him a message.
Bai Zhenzhen: Be careful, someone is watching us.
Zhang Yu's brows furrowed even tighter, and after activating the power of the Detection Ritual, he indeed felt the existence of cameras.
Zhang Yu sent a message back: Try to get rid of them.
So the next moment, the two figures accelerated, and they had already shot out, bringing a burst of air and disappearing into the distance.
But soon the two found that no matter how they accelerated, how they turned sharply, or how they changed direction, it was difficult to get rid of the tracking of the person in the dark.
Even after entering the subway, they could detect the tracking of cameras again not long after leaving the station.
Bai Zhenzhen took out her phone and sent a message: Very strong, the strength of the people following us is completely above us.
Bai Zhenzhen recounted her experience of looking for Zhou Chechen and being repelled by a security guard named Zhou Hao, and sent another message: The guys who are tracking us now are likely to be masters who have reached the peak of Qi Refining for many years, just like Zhou Hao.
Bai Zhenzhen: Maybe they are also specialized in taking pictures, tracking, and monitoring.
Zhang Yu understood that if he was continuously tracked, it meant that they couldn't go to the dark tutoring world to earn money, and they couldn't go to An'an in the protected area to borrow the spiritual veins for cultivation.
Just as Zhang Yu was thinking about countermeasures, Fuki spoke in the minds of the two, "Bear with it for now."
Bai Zhenzhen sent a message: Zhou Chechen is compressing our cultivation and earning time step by step, are we going to sit still and wait for death?
Fuki looked at Zhang Yu's phone screen, looked at the message sent by Bai Zhenzhen, and continued, "When dealing with Huo Shan and Song Xu, we were able to be so smooth because we mastered the information gap and mastered the information they didn't know."
"But this time, Zhou Chechen and the Zhou family behind him can continuously monitor you, investigate you, and constantly grasp your information. The bigger your actions, the more information you expose."
"And you know too little about Zhou Chechen and the Zhou family, even Zhou Chechen's ultimate goal... is unknown."
"In addition, the resources and energy they have are beyond your reach."
"Based on my life experience, in this case, if you act blindly and counterattack blindly, there will often be no good results."
Fuki sighed and said, "So... bear with it for now. Many times in life, you will encounter opponents that cannot be resisted at this stage, and at this time, you must learn to lie dormant."
"The more this is the case, the more you must calm down, focus on your own growth in the process of patience, and then silently look for flaws and wait for the opportunity to counterattack."
"And from the current situation, you have the conditions to endure."
"After all, the methods they use have not really hit you, and even some aspects can be used by you."
"Your own abilities, potential, and the ritual power I give you are all the information gaps you have when facing them. Exerting the role of these information gaps will allow you to persevere in the confrontation with them until you find a chance to win."
...
So in the following days, Zhang Yu seemed to have returned to the life of an ordinary top student in a key high school, traveling between school and apartment every day, living a two-point line of work between going to school and going home.
In general knowledge class, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen seized the time to run the mental method, breathing spiritual machines, and improving their Dao heart and mana bit by bit.
...
In physical education class, under the gaze of teacher Lin Hui, Zhang Yu took a breath and injected the Mad Dragon preparation that was sent into his body, feeling the fierce medicinal power pumping out wildly in his body, and began to practice the Scarlet Marrow Hunyuan Qi.
On the other side, Bai Zhenzhen's body was flashing with electric light. After injecting the Dragon Elephant preparation, she used the medicinal power, thunder magic power, and true spirit root to madly promote the Thunderclap True Body.
Especially the thunder magic power possessed after stimulating potential, made her cultivation of Thunderclap True Body even more effective, and with the true spirit root, it was even more rapid.
In addition, she occasionally ran to the toilet to suck a few mouthfuls of the charging treasure, which made her body refining progress even faster.
Fortunately, when she originally practiced the Thunderclap True Body, there was electric light flashing, and although there was an additional blessing of thunder magic power at this moment, it did not attract too much attention.
