The Modern Immortal

Money

These last two days were undoubtedly the happiest time for Daemon.

Daemon completely put aside his practice as well as studying.

All day long, he was beside his mother, indulging himself to enjoy his mother’s spoiling without the slightest restraint.

Daemon had long been longing for such wild hope, that one day he could have this day after living for ten thousand years in the Immortal World. And now, his long-cherished wish had finally come true. Therefore, Daemon truly cherished each second he spent together with his mother.

No matter what time, regardless of any place, Daemon’s eyes were unable to even lose sight of his mother’s face even for a second.

“You sonny, why do you always watch attentively and look at your mother’s face, is your mother not beautiful anymore ?” Having felt her son fondly attached to her, joy filled Caroline’s heart, even though she couldn’t help but scold him as well.

“How can that be, mom is the most beautiful person on earth. Even sun and moon can’t compare to you.” Daemon blurted out without even thinking.

“cheesy mouth and smooth talker, you certainly have a girlfriend at school.” Hearing the praise from her son, happiness blossomed in Caroline’s heart, as she then scolded him with a happy expression.

“I do want to have a girlfriend, but unfortunately nobody looks at your son.” Daemon curled his lips and spoke in disdain.

Jin Ning'er’s figure involuntarily flashed through Daemon’s mind after he said these words, as well as his recent contact with her.

“That’s because they are blind, they will regret it one day.” Looking at her son’s content and happy smiling face, Caroline felt touched that her son was happily smiling. Caroline affectionately struck Daemon’s head and then hugged him.

However, happy times have always been short.

The 2 days of the monthly vacation had fleeted.

Although Daemon was extremely reluctant to go, he had no choice but to return to school since his mother urged him to.

“Have you heard that this Monthly Test’s results have all come out? I heard that there are some students from our class that entered the top 20.”

“I’ve heard that also, I didn’t expect that apart from her outstanding abilities in sports and outside activities, Jin Ning'er also excelled in studying, I’ve completely fallen for her.”

“In the previous Monthly Test, Jin Ning'er only got 470, how could her points suddenly increase by 100 points?”

****

When he just walked and entered the classroom, Daemon heard everyone discussing the Monthly Test’s results.

Daemon didn’t participate in the discussion, Having gone through the restaurant’s smashing, followed by that loan shark debt collectors matter, Daemon became more aware of the importance of having formidable strength.

Daemon knew that if he lacked strength just like when he had his rebirth, then, not only would have he and his mother been humiliated by those several bullies headed by Marcus, but those debt collectors from the Jade Flower Corporation could also have caused more problems for them. It was too horrible to even imagine the consequences.

It was precisely because he was lucky enough to fit the cultivation requirement and practice the Ancient God Body Refinement Art, which caused his physical body to undergo an earth-shaking transformation, that he had the strength to face and defend himself against all kinds of crises at that time.

However, practicing this Ancient God Body Refinement Art also gave excessive and overbearing side effects. Daemon didn’t dare to actively practice this cultivation technique this month, and instead tried to find an alternative substitute for the Ancient God Body Refinement Art with other martial skills and cultivation techniques after all he is just a human not an actual Ancient God, his body is not strong enough to withstand sudden transformation of Body Refinement Art, only after reaching Core Formation will he have the body strong enough to withstand the burden produced by the art.

However, after having spent one month, even though Daemon had tried every cultivation technique and martial skills in his memory, he despairingly found out that all those cultivation techniques and martial skills from the Immortal World had harsh requirements regarding the need of heaven and earth spiritual energy. They simply were not suitable to be practiced on Earth.

Having realized that he had no means to practice all those cultivation techniques and martial skills in any situation, if Daemon wanted to have the strength to protect his family and himself, moreover wanting to return to the Immortal World to have his revenge, then, he must choose to practice this Ancient God Body Refinement Art.

But, in order to practice Ancient God Body Refinement Art, Daemon naturally had to find a way to find and buy all kinds of precious herbs and minerals in order to refine his bodily liquids and use it to temper and refine his own body. This certainly would need massive amounts of money.

“If I were to draw magical charms and sell it, could it be regarded by people as snatching God’s stick?”

“Also, I don’t know whether there are any other cultivators on Earth or not. If there are, it actually wouldn’t be bad if I built a formation array and sold it to them to make money, would it?”

“Or concocting pills and then selling them?”

****

Daemon spent the whole night trying to find ways to make money because he still didn't get the Feng Family assets and he wanted to start his own company, only to find out by himself that the grand and sophisticated way of making money in the Immortal World couldn’t be applied on Earth.

“Eldest Brother, even if we failed this exam, it really doesn’t matter. There are still 2 months left till the College Entrance Test, so if we are willing to work hard, we can take the Unified Examination and be admitted to a university.” Having seen Daemon studying in the evening with his brows wrinkled, sighing voices, and wailing breath, Edward was under the impression that Daemon had already known about the Monthly Test’s results and thus gave this kind of response. He gently spoke these comforting words as his side.

“Fatty, do you know any good way to make money?” Upon hearing Edward’s words, Daemon's eyes turned bright as he caught Edward’s arm, and asked with an excited expression.

Daemon knew that the reason why he couldn’t come out with any good way to make money was because he himself was only a bumpkin and had no business sense. On the other hand, he had been living for ten thousand years in the Immortal World, and since he was only here for a little while, he still was unable to keep up with the senses and thoughts of the living rhythm on Earth.

But Edward was different. His parents were successful businessmen. Having grown up and been influenced by such a kind of business environment, both of his business sense and talent were certainly incomparable to his.

“Eldest Brother, how much money do you want? I can lend you.” Seeing an eager expression from Daemon, Edward froze for a moment, and then quickly replied in a bright tone.

“I don’t want to borrow money, but want to make money. You tell me which is the world’s most profitable business, or what is the fastest way to make money.” Daemon knew that Edward misunderstood his words and replied while shaking his head.

“The quickest way to make money is certainly robbery; robbing a bank or jewelry shop. It doesn’t need any business and could be built from nothing, it’s enough to cover your current problems.” Edward blurted out and talked without even thinking.

Upon hearing Edward’s remarks, Daemon couldn’t help but give him a supercilious look, then heavily slapped his shoulders, and snappily spoke, “I’m serious dammit! I’m dead serious in asking for your advice.”

“If you don’t want to rob or don’t dare to rob, then you can only buy lottery tickets, it could even make you a billionaire overnight. However, this is being too reliant on luck.”

“There is also speculation about the stock market, albeit it needs a huge amount of capital as a support for the deed, but you also need to spend enough time and energy to study it meticulously. And this obviously doesn’t suit you.”

****

“Daemon, if you want to make money then you can talk to me, eh. I know a lot of ways to make money. Now, the most suitable for you is to become a top scorer in this year’s provincial College Entrance Test. As long as you can be a top scorer on the College Entrance Test for our Shuangqing province, those kinds of bonus, endorsements, and advertisements will definitely roll in. Ordinary people could never make that much money in their entire lives.” When Daemon was happily talking with Edward, an ill-timed voice abruptly stuck in and interrupted their conversation.

Daemon looked up and found that the one who was interrupting was Eric. His brows wrinkled, and subconsciously, he had the urge to beat him.

But Eric’s words nevertheless had him palpitate, sparking his interest. It caused him to repress the anger inside as he then asked Edward, “Fatty, does the top scorer of the College Entrance Test for the Blue Star Province really make a lot of money just like he said?”

“Elder Brother, becoming the top scorer in the provincial’s College Entrance Test is definitely worth the money, the point is that we couldn’t even become a top scorer in the provincial College Entrance Test. It has been 13 years and not even one student from our Star City First High School is able to become the top scorer in the provincial’s College Entrance Test. And if you can be the highest scorer for the provincial College Entrance Test, I think our school will even reward you 1,000,000 in cash.” Under Daemon’s eyes that were full of inquiries, with a face full of an agonized expression, Edward nodded his head.

“Hahaha, I will die laughing. He actually really wants to take the top scorer for the College Entrance Test?”

“Hey, it seems the rumors really are true, Daemon’s mind really has a problem.”

“He said before that he must be number one on the test, and now he said he will become the top scorer for the provincial College Entrance Test. Maybe a few days later, he will proclaim that he will rush out of the universe.”

****

Upon seeing Daemon’s serious and earnest expression, Eric lead the other students in Class 10, as they couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

Edward’s face flushed red in shame at the side, while Jin Ning'er, who was sitting in front of Daemon, also slightly knitted her delicate eyebrows.

Only Daemon who still had a light expression and sat undisturbed in the same place, didn’t even move his ass. He only swept his eyes over the loudly laughing classmates surrounding him at the side with a calm and tranquil expression. There weren't even rippling waves in his deep eyes, as if the one who was being ridiculed was not himself.

“Daemon, the English and Math exams’ papers have already been issued in advance. How many points did you get from these 2 preliminary subject tests? I suppose it would be unlikely that all completely got a salted duck’s egg, right?”[1] Having been out of breath due to laughing for quite a while, Eric then asked.

“What? The exams’ papers had been sent down? How could it be that I didn’t know about it eh?” Daemon looked around with a blank expression, and then found that the Monthly Tests’ papers were really being put on everyone’s desk.

Daemon, at this time, was only thinking about one thing, and since he was too single-mindedly and drowned in the thought about making money, he didn’t even notice that the English and Math exam papers had been issued in advance.

“Fatty, have you seen my Monthly Test’s exam papers?” Daemon turned toward his desk, and also looked at the floor, but he didn’t find his Monthly Test’s exam papers. He couldn’t help but ask Edward at his side.

“Eldest Brother, I haven’t seen your Monthly Test’s exam papers. I thought you had received it.” Edward replied quietly just like the sound of mosquitoes.

From the beginning, after the exam papers had been sent down, Edward’s attention was fully glued to the eye-catching-bright red result on his results, and he didn’t pay attention to whether Daemon got his Monthly Test’s exam papers or not.

However, to Edward’s understanding about Daemon, he didn’t think that Daemon was playing with him, but he knew that Daemon might really have yet to get his Monthly Test’s exam papers. So, Edward was also confused and puzzled.

“Hahaha, I really could die because of laughing. You solemnly vowed to take the first grade before the test, and now you are even afraid to show the Monthly Test’s exam papers to everyone. It can truly be called a misfortune to me. Could it be that the English test with the Math turned out to be as I have predicted and feared, that all the tests got the ‘salted duck’s eggs’?” Upon seeing Daemon’s and Edward’s appearances that looked like they were pretending, Eric couldn’t help but laugh again.

“For each preliminary exam you only used less than half an hour to hand your exam paper and then leave. Other than making noises to get the attention from almost the entire school, that our class has presented such a genius, I really don’t know what to call it otherwise.”

“Seizing the limelight to the extreme only to make a fool of yourself, and now you’re also playing dumb. Daemon, you haven’t disgraced yourself enough in Class 5 and actually came to our Class 10 to disgrace yourself again, your face is really very thick.”

****

Under Eric’s lead, the other students of Class 10 let out an extreme ridicule to the highest degree of their abilities as they gathered around Daemon, denouncing and sneering at him one sentence after another, missing only the cursing that pointed at Daemon’s nose.

“Daemon, you come out.” When Edward was unable to bear it any longer and was about to come forward bravely, a crisp and sweet voice suddenly rang from the classroom’s door.

Hearing this familiar and full of majesty voice, the noises in the classroom abruptly ended, and everyone went back to their seats quickly, taking out pen and paper, pretending to calculate something.