Cultivation Gaokao Is Too Cutthroat? I Drop a Hundred Million Instead

I must’ve woken up too soon! Chen Fan opens his eyes to find the blackboard covered in “Calculating the Optimal Flight Path of a Flying Sword with Calculus” and “Advanced Spiritual-Energy Fluid Mechanics.” His classmates are all cramming like mad for the “Five Years of Cultivation, Three Years of Mock Exams”! In this world where everyone cultivates and takes civil service exams, unaffiliated cultivators without money or connections are disposable workers who can be laid off at any moment. A junior college degree makes you a servant, a bachelor’s degree gets you into the outer sect, and only PhD students can become true disciples protected by the laws of the myriad worlds! Ascending to the Immortal Realm? That’s just a cultivator from the lower realms passing the “Tribulation Audit” to obtain permanent residency in the myriad worlds! As an academically hopeless alchemy cultivator who scored just 38 on his science-and-reasoning exam, Chen Fan watches his dad, a Golden Core cultivator, lose his job because he lacks an official position among the gods. Now his dad can only use his own Golden Core as a graphics card for mining and is planning to work as a “Didi Flying Sword” driver. Chen Fan falls into deep thought. Fortunately, the Urban Tycoon System awakens! But the ridiculous thing is, the System stubbornly thinks he’s in the mortal city and keeps issuing money-spending missions! Host detected buying low-quality energy drinks. Reward: 1,000 yuan! Ding! Invest in a lousy research project with little chance of a return. Reward: 500,000 yuan in venture capital! No money for cultivation resources? I’ll just drink a bottle of Red Bull and earn a thousand! Not enough credits to get into Kunlun University? I’ll turn around and drop five million to buy a handwritten recommendation from a professor at the Great Vehicle stage! While everyone else is spending a fortune to check whether they have any minor demon ancestry just to get extra points on the college entrance exam, Chen Fan has already spent his way into a top university. Years later, after Chen Fan’s God of Wealth Group acquires the Heavenly Court and he kicks the Jade Emperor aside to become chairman, he gives an exasperated shrug during an interview with reporters from the myriad worlds: “I really just wanted to spend some money to get a PhD at the start. How did I end up becoming the God of Wealth for all the worlds?!”