3: Chapter 3 It's a good thing to have dreams.

The sun was setting.

Su Yu walked out of the school gate, following the sidewalk toward his rental in the old district.

His pace was not fast, but every step he took was steady.

In his mind, that cold mechanical voice had fallen silent, but the translucent panel at the edge of his vision, which only he could see, was truly reminding him —

This was not a hallucination.

[ Pay-to-Win Cultivation System ]

[ Current Balance: 328.5 Yuan ]

[ Convertible Cultivation: 328 Years ]

Su Yu took a deep breath, forcing down the boiling hot blood in his chest.

Calm down.

The more urgent things are, the more absolute calm is needed.

Only three days left until the college entrance exam.

He did not need to worry about his liberal arts scores at all; three years of hard work had already etched that theoretical knowledge into his bones.

The key was the martial arts exam.

In the Great Xia Kingdom's martial arts entrance exam, the passing line was 6 points of Qi and blood, and the full score was 10 points.

For ordinary students, reaching 6 points was already something to be thankful for, enough to get an admission ticket to an ordinary martial arts university.

But Su Yu's goal was definitely not some ordinary martial arts university.

Since he had the System, and since he had the qualifications to sit at the table, he was going to eat the best meal!

Daxia Capital First Martial Arts University!

This was the Holy Land in the hearts of countless Martial Arts Prodigies across the entire Great Xia Kingdom, a cradle where the military and top families poured their combined resources.

Once inside, it was like a carp leaping over the Dragon Gate.

But, to enter the Imperial Capital First Martial Arts University, was getting a perfect score of 10 points in Qi and blood enough?

Su Yu shook his head in his heart.

Not necessarily enough!

The world was too big; the Great Xia Kingdom had thirty-six provinces and tens of billions of people.

Heroes of the world were as numerous as crucian carp crossing a river!

For those children of noble families who grew up soaking in medicinal baths and eating high-level exotic beast meat, 10 points of Qi and blood was not an insurmountable chasm; it was merely the starting point of their martial arts journey.

Every year during the college entrance exam, there were at least eight hundred to a thousand Geniuses who could get a perfect score in Qi and blood.

But the Kyoto No. 1 Martial Arts University only admitted one hundred people a year.

Not a single one more.

Martial arts was never a game where more people was better.

Resources were limited; rather than training ten thousand mediocre Martial Artists, it was better to pour all efforts into forging one peerless war god capable of splitting a giant beast with a single strike!

Therefore, when the number of people with perfect scores exceeded one hundred, it would trigger a cruel second round of screening.

Combat assessment.

It did not look at Qi and blood, only combat power!

"Three days..."

Su Yu calculated silently in his heart.

In three days, dumping 328 years of cultivation in, his Qi and blood value would definitely meet the standard.

But combat experience and Martial Skills still needed time to digest.

Just as Su Yu was looking down, deep in thought.

At a street corner not far ahead, behind a thick parasol tree, a small piece of a clean pleated skirt was visible.

Su Yu stopped his steps and sighed inwardly.

It was Lin Xiaoxiao.

The recognized school beauty of Jiangcheng No. 3 High School, who lived in a luxury villa district in the east of the city. This kind of spoiled Young Miss usually needed a private car even to go to the city center, but now she had run alone to this broken old street in the west of the city, where half the streetlights were broken, just to blow in the cold wind.

Actually, Su Yu knew why she always ran over here.

A summer a year ago, he was handing out flyers near the artificial lake outside the city and happened to see Lin Xiaoxiao miss her step and fall into the water.

At that time, a circle of people on the bank were taking pictures, and no one dared to go down.

Su Yu was a good swimmer; without thinking, he dove into the deep water and fished her out.

It was originally just a casual act.

He left without even leaving his name.

But who knew, this Young Miss insisted on searching the entire grade to find him, and from then on, she became a trouble he could not shake off.

Su Yu understood the mentality of this kind of rich young lady very well.

Raised with elite education, with extremely strong self-esteem, she was most afraid of owing others favors, let alone a life-saving grace.

At first, Lin Xiaoxiao wanted to give him money as a reward, but was refused by Su Yu with a cold face — although he was poor, he did not save people to sell his life.

As a result, this refusal actually made this Young Miss have an even greater psychological burden.

For the past year, she had been manufacturing "chance encounters" every few days, racking her brains to find an opportunity to repay this favor so she could feel better.

For example, right now.

"Oh!"

Lin Xiaoxiao jumped out from behind the tree, hands behind her back, squeezing an extremely exaggerated expression of surprise onto her pure, pretty face.

"What a coincidence! Su Yu, why are you walking this way too?"

Su Yu looked at her.

The evening wind was cold; this girl had probably been hiding behind the tree trunk for a while, her nose tip was red from the cold, and even the tail end of her voice carried a slight, imperceptible tremble when she spoke.

Su Yu shook his head in his heart.

Living in the east of the city, yet running to the slums in the west to "accidentally meet".

To repay a life-saving favor that could not be repaid, this rich girl's obsession was truly deep enough; she would rather blow in the cold wind for half an hour just to force a reason for a natural meeting.

Forget it.

Su Yu did not want to poke a hole in her clumsy excuse, lest this Young Miss feel embarrassed and come up with an even more troublesome way to repay the favor later.

"It is quite a coincidence."

Su Yu followed her lead, his tone calm, "Coming here to buy something?"

"Ah... yes! Buying things!"

Lin Xiaoxiao blinked guiltily, seemingly not expecting Su Yu to be so cooperative today, and quickly took the opportunity to change the subject, "Um, the college entrance exam is coming up soon, which university are you planning to apply for?"

When she asked this question, Lin Xiaoxiao was actually a bit cautious.

She knew Su Yu's situation.

Top ten in the grade for liberal arts, martial arts... dead last in the whole school.

0.8 Qi and blood value, a hard flaw that could not be covered up no matter how hard one tried.

She was afraid of touching Su Yu's sore spot.

Su Yu looked at Lin Xiaoxiao's eyes, which carried concern, and was silent for two seconds.

If he did not tell the truth, given this girl's personality, she would definitely get to the bottom of it.

If he told the truth...

"Daxia Capital First Martial Arts University."

Su Yu's voice was not loud, but his words were clear, with no hint of joking.

The air suddenly went quiet.

A gust of evening wind blew by, rolling up a few fallen leaves on the ground.

The smile on Lin Xiaoxiao's face instantly froze, her whole person seemingly pressed with a pause button.

She was stunned.

Completely and utterly stunned.

She even suspected if something was wrong with her ears.

"You... what did you say?"

Lin Xiaoxiao widened her eyes, her voice even stuttering a bit, "Daxia... Imperial Capital First Martial Arts University?"

Su Yu nodded.

"You?"

Lin Xiaoxiao blurted out subconsciously, "0.8 Qi and blood value??"

As soon as she finished speaking, she wished she could slap herself.

Too hurtful!

How could she directly expose someone else's shortcomings!

But... this was really too outrageous!

That was the Imperial Capital First Martial Arts University!

The place where the top Geniuses of the entire Great Xia Kingdom would break their heads trying to get into!

Even that arrogant Zhao Ze in his class, with a Qi and blood value of 9.8, would not dare say he was 100% sure he could get in!

Su Yu, a person who did not even have 1 point of Qi and blood, actually set his goal there?

This was not just wishful thinking.

This was simply whimsical!

Looking at Lin Xiaoxiao's expression of doubting life, Su Yu sighed in his heart.

He knew it would be this reaction.

If it were himself half an hour ago, if someone had told him they could get into Kyoto Martial Arts University, he would have thought they were crazy too.

"Is it not possible?" Su Yu asked back.

"No... it's not that it's not possible!"

Lin Xiaoxiao hurriedly waved her hand, forcing out an encouraging smile.

Although she was extremely shocked inside, as a friend, she felt she absolutely could not crush Su Yu's self-confidence at this moment.

What if he was just under too much pressure and talking nonsense?

"Having dreams is a good thing!"

Lin Xiaoxiao patted Su Yu's shoulder hard, comforting him seriously, "If a person has no dreams, what's the difference between them and a salted fish?"

"Right? Maybe you'll go out tomorrow, accidentally fall off a cliff, and just happen to pick up a peerless Secret Manual!"

"Or meet a white-bearded old grandfather who insists on teaching you a hundred years of internal power!"

"Or even get hit by some alien meteorite and have a genetic mutation!"

"By then, not to mention the Imperial Capital First Martial Arts University, you might even be directly recommended to the War God Camp!"

Lin Xiaoxiao became more and more enthusiastic as she spoke, as if she had already seen the scene of Su Yu soaring into the sky.