High School Student with Immortal Race System

All was calm in Jianghuai, Yanhua.

Yang Shen was still unaware that an event far more significant than the release of the college entrance exam scores was unfolding upon the boundless Vast Sea.

He was still enjoying the fruits of his victory.

Yang Shen’s phone hadn’t stopped ringing.

He ignored most of them, aside from his call with Xu Bamboo. If he were to answer every single one, he’d be talking for three days and three nights straight.

He simply composed a humble message and posted it in his class group chat and the Yang Family Army group.

The only truly important call, aside from the one with Xu Bamboo, was from Qilin Media.

Fan Jing’s cheerful laughter erupted from the other end of the line. "Yang! Congratulations! You’ve won the Champion Scholar title!"

Sitting on a somewhat worn-out sofa, Yang Shen chuckled. "Thanks. It looks like our collaboration is about to begin."

Over the past few days, a "writer" from Qilin Media—the person assigned to "polish his autobiography"—had contacted Yang Shen multiple times. As the one who only needed to talk, Yang Shen’s job was quite relaxing.

He spent a total of two hours on the phone, and this two-hour-long dictation would be embellished into at least three books.

Padding! It was padded to the brim!

WHOOSH! It was all just padding!

The entire concept of the "Jianghuai Yang Family" was incorporated into the books as well.

In his autobiography, Yang Shen was portrayed as hailing from a declining Martial Arts Clan, with a lineage stretching back 300 years to a certain "General Wei."

Wei wasn’t a surname but a title, meaning "Guardian of the Capital" or "Guardian of the Imperial City."

The most interesting part was that this wasn’t a complete fabrication. Yang Shen had actually dug up this fact using the Ancestral Lineage Spiritual Record.

He was an ancestor of the Yang Family from thirteen generations prior and the most recent one to have left a mark on history.

Of course, this was purely theoretical. Yanhua had a long and storied history. In the modern era, as long as a family line hadn’t died out, you were bound to find an impressive figure if you just kept tracing it back.

The key difference was that while others couldn’t, Yang Shen could essentially "dox" his own ancestors.

In truth, his immediate family’s blood ties to this ancestor were now very distant, but having such an origin was far better than fabricating one from thin air.

And so, the Jianghuai Yang Family became a "Martial Arts Clan with a long but recently declined heritage."

This created even more room for "embellishment" in all sorts of areas.

For example, the narrative claimed the Yang Family possessed various "Ancient Skills" passed down as family Secret Transmissions, but the last few generations had unfortunately lacked talent.

Yang Shen himself was depicted as a "non-typical" top student who had mediocre Martial Arts talent as a child, a late bloomer who only had his breakthrough during the second half of high school.

Compared to a story of a born genius, a grassroots-to-riches tale was clearly more capable of resonating with the audience.

Of course, physical books like *My Autobiography*, *My Cultivation Journey*, and *The Champion Scholar’s Untold Story* were just a small part of the "commercialization of the college entrance exams." The real money was in endorsement contracts.

Qilin Media soon sent over a flurry of endorsement invitations.

These resources had already been prepared; they belonged to whoever became the Champion Scholar. The first wave alone included nine companies, with more to be solicited from the public later on.

After becoming the Champion Scholar, Yang Shen’s most important job became shooting all kinds of promotional materials for his endorsements.

His popularity would be at its peak during the two months of summer vacation. It was a limited-time offer, so everything had to be done quickly, precisely, and decisively.

In a way, the sheer number of shoots Yang Shen could cram into these two months would determine his income for that period.

Yang Shen had no interest in photo shoots, but he was very interested in money. In order to buy Cangwu Garden, he had no choice but to embrace the frantic pace.

’All I want right now is to make money!’

’If I don’t make money, how can I live in a luxury villa? How can I develop my family? How can I achieve immortality?’

’When opportunity knocks, if you don’t chase the money, money will come back to bite you in the ass.’

Thus, a grueling marathon began—one that would exhaust even a Late-stage Marrow Refining Martial Artist.

On the first day the scores were released, the peace and quiet of the Yang Family home was shattered. People from the Education Bureau and Nanliang High School arrived, offering congratulations and awarding prize money.

The total prize money amounted to 400,000. As for the other honors, they were of little importance to a recent high school graduate.

He was busy until the afternoon, when an admissions officer from Jiangti showed up at his door.

Yang Shen kept it to three sentences: "Tell me about the support packages," "Don’t worry, I’m set on Jiangti," and "Goodbye. See you at the start of the semester."

On the second day, a car from Qilin Media was already parked downstairs at the crack of dawn. They were there to whisk Yang Shen off to various locations across Jianghuai City for photo shoots.

He hit three different locations that day. While these endorsement shoots prioritized speed over perfection—mostly consisting of short videos and still photos—makeup and travel still consumed a significant amount of time.

On the third day, he did a photo shoot for "the Champion Scholar’s three padded books" and then filmed a commercial for an energy drink.

He officially became the spokesperson for Source Energy Forest. Now he’d have an endless supply of the drink.

On the fourth day, Yang Shen attended the final manuscript meeting for his three books.

The titles were finalized as *When the Sun Rises*, *Greatness of Shen*, and *High Schooler! How the Heck Did I Become Champion Scholar in a Year?!*

To be honest, the titles were all incredibly over-the-top, but that was just the prevailing trend.

If the title wasn’t outrageous, the book wouldn’t sell.

After comparing them to the absurd titles of previous Champion Scholars, Yang Shen had to admit his were actually quite tame and proper. At least his titles weren’t suggestive.

I mean, a book titled *One Hundred Body-Building Tips from the Champion Scholar and His Female Teacher* had actually topped the bestseller list three years ago.

Yang Shen still had some dignity to maintain. He wasn’t your average Champion Scholar; he had a family legacy to build.

And so, as if powered by an electric motor, Yang Shen worked tirelessly to lay the foundation for his family, all to earn enough to buy Cangwu Garden.

「Jianghuai City. A photography studio.」

Yang Shen was in the middle of a shoot for Yuan Tutoring Education.

Compared to his other endorsements, this one was more complex. As a platform specializing in online Martial Arts Education, its main source of revenue was video courses.

So, as the spokesperson, Yang Shen naturally had to film a tutorial series starring himself.

There was an upside, though. He would receive a hefty cut from the sales of this tutorial series. The total earnings might even surpass his income from the books, so Yang Shen took it quite seriously. The series, which would total nine episodes, was focused on explaining the Sixth Set.

However, while filming a video course for others, Yang Shen was watching a video course himself—one on the same app about "choosing a university major."

It was a course valued at 38,888, teaching you how to make every single exam point count.

But since he was their spokesperson, he’d found an internal "for-study" version.

During a break in the shoot, Fan Jing saw Yang Shen engrossed in his phone, so he walked over and sat beside him. "Thinking about your major?"

Yang Shen nodded. "I was thinking about it before the exams, but I want to be more careful now that it’s time to actually decide."

Choosing a major and a university went hand-in-hand. He was set on Jiangti for the university, but his major was something that required careful consideration.

Even with the halo of a Champion Scholar, Jiangti wouldn’t grant him too many exceptions to the rules. He’d have to follow the standard procedures like everyone else.

After all, Jiangti admitted nearly twenty Champion Scholars every year. Between all the current undergraduates, postgraduates, and doctoral students, there were probably two hundred Champion Scholars on campus at any given time.

The school wouldn’t just give him a green light for everything simply because he was a Champion Scholar. Picking the wrong major would be just as problematic for him as for anyone else.

So naturally, he had to give it some thought.

Remembering that Fan Jing dealt with Champion Scholars every year and was likely very knowledgeable on the subject, Yang Shen took the initiative to ask, "Manager Fan, any advice?"

Fan Jing chuckled. "I wouldn’t call it advice, but I’ve picked up a few things from being around it so much."

He had figured this kid out. This Champion Scholar was incredibly cooperative, and his desire to make money was just as strong as Fan Jing’s own. They had gotten along quite well over the past few days.

He wasn’t like some of the previous Legitimate Sons from Martial Arts Clans, who were like wild stallions, so arrogant they never looked at you head-on.

Fan Jing began to explain with ease, "As one of Yanhua’s two top institutions, Jiangti is structured very differently from ordinary universities. The most distinctive feature is its ’5+N’ school design."

The ’5+N’ system is a unique feature of Jiangti.

The "5" refers to the five main schools, which are...

"**Qiangwu Academy**: Jiangti’s largest and most representative school. Its students make up a third of the entire university—at times, even half! Its ultimate goal is to cultivate powerhouses for Yanhua, individuals capable of exploring the Exotic Realm and becoming pillars of the nation. It has produced generations of legendary figures."

"**Precision School**: Primarily focused on scientific research, it produces many research-oriented talents. It oversees large institutions like the Martial Arts Equipment Research Institute. Career paths involve developing specialized equipment for Martial Artists, including weapons and armor, as well as general production and industrial machinery."

"**Medical School**: Trains doctors. It oversees four super-hospitals in Jianghuai City, is incredibly wealthy, and has its own separate campus. However, the competition is said to be the most intense of all the schools. The undergraduate program alone takes six years. By the time many graduates start their internships, they’re practically hitting menopause."

"**School of Life Sciences**: Similar in structure to the Medical School, but it targets the more specific "Martial Arts-Biology" system. To put it simply, they don’t care about the illnesses of ordinary people, but they’re experts on how to turn Martial Artists into hulking beasts. Their main focus is the research and development of Martial Arts potions."

"**Martial Arts Theory School**: Cultivates experts in martial theory. Its core focus is the research, revision, and classification of Martial Arts Techniques. Students may not be the strongest in practical combat, but they master the essential knowledge required to develop new Cultivation Techniques. Rumor has it their final graduation project is to design an entire Cultivation Technique from scratch."

It doesn’t matter if the result is something not even a dog would bother to practice—that’s the model.

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