Chapter 622: Chapter 561: Enlightenment at Vocational College
This is Bao Biao, a freshman in the security major at a vocational college.
As a vocational college student, Bao Biao seems to have a different kind of confidence compared to other students in front of the camera crew.
During filming, he insisted that the crew address him as a university student.
"Whether according to law or school regulations, we vocational college students are a type of university student."
"You know? We can call ourselves university students; this is something even the Heavenly Court permits."
"My dream? To work at a company with high welfare."
"At the very least, the company should provide barreled water, have a Spirit Realm data subsidy, and offer 24-hour overtime with medication, so I can stay up for free."
"When working, I should be able to move freely, and there should ideally be a restroom, so I can save on renovation costs."
"I know that finding a job where I can drink clean water, use a restroom, and not need sleep is not easy. Many people say my demands are too high... but I am a university student, not a secondary technical student or vocational school student, and I think we university students should have some aspirations."
In order to find his dream job, Bao Biao diligently practiced on campus every day, even signing up for the Foundation Establishment exam in his first year at the vocational college.
Although he didn’t pass the exam, Bao Biao was full of confidence.
Facing the director’s inquiry, Bao Biao told the director he believed he simply wasn’t prepared in the first year; there was still a chance to pass the Foundation Establishment exam in the remaining years.
A month later, when the camera crew met Bao Biao again, they found the once spirited vocational college student now seemed lost and dispirited.
"I’ve had sleep for seven days straight."
In front of the cameras, this university student continually complained to the crew and repeatedly expressed suspicion that nearby pharmacies had polluted the school’s water supply, causing students to fall asleep more easily and sell more medications.
However, when it came to academic topics, Bao Biao still showed signs of excitement.
"Last time in the exam, I knocked down the owner in 3 seconds, chased away the delivery in 5 seconds, and could retreat unharmed from encounters with thieves in 0.5 seconds."
"The teacher said I seemed like someone who’d worked in security for 10 years."
A month later, when the crew went to Bao Biao’s dorm room again, they were told by his roommate that Bao Biao was no longer there.
"What do you mean he’s not there?"
"He collided with a senior from the university, damaged someone’s Magic Treasure, and was captured and turned into a spirit slave..."
Due to Bao Biao’s disappearance, the crew felt helpless but understood this is how it is with vocational college students: a collision with a university student, a company’s mistake, a school’s negligence, or even a stock market fluctuation could lead to the life and death of a vocational college student.
The crew could only pause their follow-up of Bao Biao and start recording the next vocational college student’s story.
...
Zhang Yu looked away and glanced at the name of the script: "A Hundred Ways Vocational College Students Die"
"Is this really a documentary?"
Thinking about diving into hundreds of ways vocational college students die, Zhang Yu hesitated: "Kind of masochistic."
His gaze shifted to the next simulated script.
This time, there was not only a text introduction but also some video clips.
The protagonist is a vocational college student studying logistics management...
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In three years of high school, the family could only afford to send one person to a tutoring class.
And between his brother and Ming, his father chose the brother.
With no money for tutoring, Ming’s grades plummeted in high school, becoming the lowest in the hierarchy, forced to eat in the restroom, kneel in class, have his homework grabbed... enduring humiliation.
After the college entrance exam, Ming left home with his vocational college admission letter.
On the way from home, his father watched him with a complex expression: "Ming..."
"Ming is going to vocational college! You chose this, Dad!"
"Do you know how I spent these three years in high school?"
He left without turning back, repeatedly telling himself his goals: transferring to a bachelor’s degree program, getting into university, finding a job better than his brother’s, proving his father wrong!
On the way to school, Ming remembered every change in people’s expressions upon learning he was a vocational college student, remembered the pathways vocational college students couldn’t use, areas they couldn’t go, saw warnings only visible to vocational college students, and recalled how vocational college students were not allowed to board the same Flying Boat as university students...
He kept these humiliations firmly in mind, one by one.
He repeatedly told himself that being in vocational college is not embarrassing; going to secondary technical school is.
He told himself that vocational college admissions were earned by merit, getting in through the college entrance exam, unlike university that allowed for backdoor entries through various means.
In the eight years at vocational college, he surpassed one opponent after another who ranked above him.
These vocational college students were all equally hardworking, all constantly taking loans, all deeply in debt...
As Ming surpassed them one by one, he sometimes couldn’t tell one from another, as if they were all cut from the same mold.
And whenever he surpassed one person, there were countless similar vocational college students above that person.
It was like a road without end, where no matter how hard Ming ran, he couldn’t see the finish line.
Until the year he graduated, Ming did not succeed in transferring to a bachelor’s program.
He decided to seriously look for a job.
He meticulously prepared his resume and made all necessary plans for various situations he might encounter during the interview.
Then Ming discovered that the jobs he could find didn’t require an interview, and if he went early, he could start working the same day.
In just one year, Ming’s loan remained unpaid, and his savings hadn’t increased. His daily work felt like running on a treadmill... always stationary.
"Ha... going to a junior college, a lifetime of no prospects."
He originally thought his life would always remain in place like this, never comparing to university students, but he never expected a file download error to lead him to download an Immortal’s remnant soul.
...
Zhang Yu paused slightly after seeing this, then looked at the titles and descriptions under the script.
Episode 2: Falling Immortal Venerable, Starting with Brick Moving
Episode 3: Slapping the Agency, Startling the Construction Site
Episode 4: Job Hopping as a Courier Sorter, First in Sorting, Foreman Doubts
Episode 5: Challenge from a Permanent Worker! Level 3 Permanent Worker, So What
Episode 6: Seeking Prosperity in Danger, Loan to Buy a Flying Sword
Episode 7: Finally Becomes a Top Deliveryman, Limitless Prospects!
Episode 8: 300 Deliveries in One Day, Station Chief is Shocked
Episode 9: Infuriated and Ashamed, Reports Begin
Episode 10: The Dark Delivery World Strikes! Critical Situation
Episode 11: Immortal Venerable Imparts Teachings, Mastering Sword Control
...
Finale: Special Approval by Immortal Emperor! Junior to Senior College Transfer! Finally Becomes a University Student!
Looking at these episode titles, Zhang Yu tugged at the corners of his mouth, thinking to himself, "A junior college student’s drama, huh?"
"I’m here to collect real information about junior college students, not to have fun."
"And it doesn’t even seem enjoyable."
Zhang Yu shook his head and looked at the subsequent scripts, seeing titles such as Junior College Love Stories, Non-standard Junior College Life, Call Me University Student, Millionaire of Junior College Den...
The more Zhang Yu looked, the more he found something amiss: "These are too entertaining, lacking in authenticity."
He went back to the beginning, feeling it was better to experience the most real junior college student’s script.
Watching the story of Xiao Ming and Xiao Hong studying in the junior college emotion cultivation department, Zhang Yu felt this was more authentic.
He put on the spiritual interface mask and communicated with the Spirit Realm...
A moment later, Zhang Yu took off the mask, with a hint of a timeless glint in his eyes, and a gaze that revealed an unprecedented maturity and wisdom, like a sage who has seen everything, having viewed the vicissitudes of the human world.
Fu Ji curiously asked, "How was it?"
Zhang Yu sighed, "It turns out there was a sect called Supreme Dao in ancient times, which took the path of utter emotionlessness, needing to abandon family and home, ultimately viewing all beings as straw dogs."
"However, the cultivation method of Supreme Dao was too difficult; ancient people’s thoughts were limited by the era’s influence, and it was hard for them to abandon family and home. Only one in ten cultivators succeeded, with a high failure rate."
"So, a predecessor with great insight reorganized the cultivation method of Supreme Dao and set it up progressively, allowing people to achieve the path of utter emotionlessness step by step."
Zhang Yu elaborated, "The first step is to watch someone forcibly cultivate your Dao partner."
"The difficulty is raised a notch by watching someone forcibly cultivate your father."
"And so it goes, step by step, until the entire family can cultivate in front of the cultivators and remain unmoved, achieving the highest state of utter emotionlessness."
"This entire set of cultivation methods is a step-by-step process. You don’t have to give up your family and home at the beginning. You can progress from easy to difficult, allowing someone to gradually master the path of utter emotionlessness, which was a significant innovation in the Immortal Path community."
"But that’s just the beginning..."
Zhang Yu sighed again and continued, "Later, the Joyful Union Sect merged with Supreme Dao, extracting its essence and discarding its dross, further improving the cultivation method."
"Using an entire family to cultivate one person is too inefficient; the consumption-to-output ratio is too high."
"But if everyone in the family cultivates Supreme Dao’s path of utter emotionlessness?"
"Then every person in the family becomes cultivation resources for everyone else."
"Each forced cultivation becomes immortal nourishment for everyone in the family."
"With this modification by the Joyful Union Sect, the output of talents from this cultivation method skyrocketed by more than tenfold, and they created the Multi-passionate Dao based on this."
"As the saying goes, ’One must understand emotion before one can let go of emotion, and can become multi-passionate after becoming emotionless.’ This is the path taken by Qiongjiang Divine Monarch at today’s Hehuan University, known as the Supreme Multi-passionate Dao."
Fu Ji said, "You learned quite a bit simulating the life of a junior college student."
"Is this a lot?" Zhang Yu slightly smiled and said, "There’s more."
"Even though the Supreme Multi-passionate Dao greatly improved talent cultivation efficiency, it still has shortcomings. After all, not everyone has a firm Dao Heart. Even if a gradual path is provided, not everyone can pass smoothly..."