[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cultivation-i-studied-abroad-in-the-modern-world":3,"chapter-cultivation-i-studied-abroad-in-the-modern-world-cultivation-i-studied-abroad-in-the-modern-world-chapter-197":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Cultivation: I Studied Abroad in the Modern World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2263923,4418,"Chapter 197","cultivation-i-studied-abroad-in-the-modern-world-chapter-197",197,"\u003Cp>The copper coffin elder was ultimately a Nascent Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even within Lei Chi, without his copper coffin to protect him, he was completely restrained by Zhang Shijie using the heavenly thunder within the pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was not without the ability to fight back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Zhang Shijie could only wield Foundation Establishment-level magic power and spiritual sense—she nonetheless possessed abundant combat experience at this realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the copper coffin elder, separated from his magic treasure coffin, was severely restricted within Lei Chi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet this man still managed to trade blows with Zhang Shijie for short periods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, he tried to retrieve his copper coffin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhang Shijie anticipated this move and gave him little opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, the old man abandoned all hope of reclaiming the coffin and charged toward Zheng Fa and the others—he seemed to have realized Zhang Shijie was subtly shielding Zheng Fa and his companion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young Brother Zheng! Step back!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Zheng Fa could react, Yuan Shijie had already stepped before him, flicking her feather fan forward, sending three streaks of flame toward the copper coffin elder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Yuan Shijie was no longer her usual scatterbrained self; she transformed into a Qingluan, her massive body firmly blocking the path between Zheng Fa and the copper coffin elder, her life-bound magic treasure, the feather fan, sweeping repeatedly through the air to keep the elder at bay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was clear she was not aiming to kill, but solely to obstruct and protect Zheng Fa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Shijie, seemingly enraged by the elder’s charge toward Zheng Fa, wielded her Immortal Pen continuously, sending forth wave after wave of spirit talismans chasing after the copper coffin elder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An angry woman is already dangerous, let alone one like Zhang Shijie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the copper coffin elder’s body turned to ash beneath the heavenly thunder, needing no coffin at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The magic treasure copper coffin floated helplessly in Lei Chi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Shijie flew forward with Zheng Fa and the others, gestured with her hand, and the coffin hovered before Zheng Fa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nowadays, spiritual energy is dwindling, and spiritual materials are hard to find; most cultivators can only forge one life-bound magic treasure. After you form your Golden Core, you’ll need to do the same—better prepare early. This coffin’s material is likely Yinming Divine Iron, a top-tier spiritual material.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This… isn’t it a bit too soon?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And isn’t there someone nearby who needs it more…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced beside him; Yuan Shijie had lowered her head, staring at her life-bound feather fan, looking almost heartbroken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, in her haste to protect him, she had overextended her spiritual sense while wielding the fan, and though she herself was unharmed, the fan had been struck multiple times by Lei Chi’s lightning, now charred and blackened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Zhang Shijie give the bronze coffin to Zheng Fa, she showed no envy—yet she refused to look at the coffin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if afraid she might covet it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yuan Shijie.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t much like the coffin’s appearance,” Zheng Fa said softly. “I plan to melt it down.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Shijie blinked, puzzled why Zheng Fa told her this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister is most skilled in fire arts—this task still requires your help,” Zheng Fa smiled warmly. “I’ve already thought of your reward: I’ll give you some of the Yinming Divine Iron after melting it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Give… me?” Yuan Shijie’s eyes brightened, gazing at Zheng Fa as she exclaimed happily: “Young Brother Zheng, you’re serious?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Serious.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zhang Shijie…” Yuan Shijie looked pleadingly at Zhang Shijie, her eyes anxious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...I gave it to him,” Zhang Shijie glanced at Zheng Fa and shook her head. “Let him decide.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Shijie grinned foolishly, staring at the coffin, her gaze longing to reach out and touch it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the copper coffin trembled slightly, as if indignant, as if plaintively protesting: When you were luring me earlier, you didn’t treat me like this!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Fa felt no sympathy for the coffin—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A traitorous magic treasure has no rights!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting in his room, Zheng Fa closed his eyes, gazing at the Yin-Yang Fish Jade Pendant in his mind sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he was enfeoffed in the Heavenly Stele Realm, he received the Silver Scroll, granted five thousand li of land, leaving Yan Wushuang and the others astonished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, Zheng Fa was also a bit confused:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was not being self-deprecating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His cultivation base was clearly lower than Yan Wushuang’s and the others’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His talent was also inferior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the Divine Enfeoffment Hall had placed him on the same level as Yan Wushuang—perhaps it had noticed something uniquely special about him:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps because he possessed the Five Elements Yin-Yang Divine Light as a innate spiritual ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or perhaps because of this Yin-Yang Fish Jade Pendant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Fa suspected this because, at the time, the light cluster had seemed to avoid the jade pendant entirely…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Zheng Fa curious:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Stele Realm was a self-contained world, with many similarities to the modern world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And given the light cluster’s reaction to his jade pendant in the Divine Enfeoffment Hall—was there a “hierarchy” difference between the modern world and the Heavenly Stele Realm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come to think of it, Zheng Fa hadn’t paid much attention to this pendant in a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, since his Foundation Establishment, the pendant had changed: primarily, the time difference between the two worlds had widened further; now Zheng Fa could remain in Xuanwei Realm for a full year before returning to the modern world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zheng Fa rarely stretched it that long, so he hadn’t minded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After entering the Heavenly Stele Realm, he developed a new interest in the pendant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the pendant seemed utterly innocent, standing quietly in his mind sea, appearing obedient and well-behaved, with none of the aura of a powerful magic treasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Fa gently shook his head, directing his spiritual sense downward into his dantian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to his Qi Refining stage, his dantian had undergone slight changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yuanfu Dao Base—or rather, the Möbius Sub-character Diagram—sat at the center of his dantian, while the other two types of sub-characters fluttered nearby like delicate jade ribbons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The greatest change was in the spiritual power within his dantian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During Qi Refining, his spiritual power flowed like a river, expanding gradually from a trickle to a great river as he advanced from early to late Qi Refining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Foundation Establishment, whether trickle or river, both vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His spiritual power had transformed from liquid to solid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, his spiritual power resembled countless grains of silver sand, like stars scattered across the heavens, slowly revolving beneath his Yuanfu Dao Base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the Divine Thunder Sublime Method, the transition from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core involves gathering these silver grains into a Thunder Field, then nurturing a Thunder Core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the spiritual materials purchased from the marketplace by Master Pang, he had now taken the first step—the number of grains had increased significantly since his Foundation Establishment, yet he was still far from uniting them into a single Thunder Field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Foundation Establishment’s realm was not as finely divided as Qi Refining, but its cultivation difficulty was incomparably greater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Fa took a Purple Lightning Fruit, chewed and swallowed it, feeling a surge of thunder-charged spiritual power slide down his throat, seep into his meridians, and finally condense into a single grain of silver sand within his dantian…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young Brother Zheng, the Qianhe Sect people have arrived.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he was immersed in cultivation, Yuan Shijie knocked on his door, reminding him at the threshold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m coming,” Zheng Fa slowly opened his eyes and rose from the bed. “Why did you come yourself? One of the other senior brothers could have informed me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You didn’t know?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Know what?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Pang has issued an order: no one except a select few may approach your room,” Yuan Shijie explained. “Only a handful are permitted entry.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… you don’t need to trouble yourself, Sister,” Zheng Fa knew Master Pang was being overly cautious, but he still felt uneasy having a Golden Core cultivator like Yuan Shijie act as his messenger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I think Master Pang is too unreliable—how could he let those junior brothers come? I’ve already told Master Pang: from now on, any matter concerning you is my responsibility!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Zheng Fa was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Yuan Shijie seemed even more extreme than Master Pang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yuan Shijie, are you afraid I’ll get hurt—or that the coffin will?” Zheng Fa paused, then asked suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young Brother Zheng, asking that hurts our feelings!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Fa paused again and asked: “Then… whose fault is it—the question, or your answer?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Shijie’s gaze darted away. “Cough… you don’t know… how terrible the Qianhe Sect envoy has it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Terrible?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Fa walked into the hall and understood why Yuan Shijie said that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The visitor was Qian True Person of Qianhe Sect—the same man Zheng Fa had first negotiated with when he began cooperating with Qianhe Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered how Qian True Person had been courteous yet neither subservient nor arrogant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now Master Pang stared at him with cold, unwavering silver light, scanning him up and down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically, anyone under such wary scrutiny from a Nascent Soul True Person would be lucky not to collapse on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Pang.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Fa entered and bowed first to Master Pang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zheng Fa, he claims you summoned him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, I have some matters to consult Qian True Person about.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Pang nodded, waved his hand, signaling his inspection was complete and Zheng Fa and the others could leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once outside the hall, Zheng Fa clearly heard Qian True Person exhale a long breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Fa turned back to look at him; the man wiped sweat from his brow and offered a stiff, dry smile:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your sect is so cautious… I thought I’d come to inspect a sect’s treasured artifact.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he finished speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly felt a powerful aura surge from behind him, making sweat bead anew on his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I… did I say something wrong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian True Person stammered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……Saying the wrong thing isn’t the problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem is you said something right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Qian True Person, you traveled all the way from Qianhe Sect—I should have visited you myself.” Zheng Fa was now under close watch by Master Pang; even leaving the sect was difficult, so he had to ask someone from Qianhe Sect to come to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No trouble at all!” Qian True Person smiled with excessive flattery. “Your sect’s Zhang True Person has achieved Nascent Soul—I should have come to offer congratulations anyway. Only now do I learn that you, Zheng True Person, have also reached Foundation Establishment. Your sect is truly blessed with double joy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Fa had seen this kind of familiarity often lately and felt no contempt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since Sister Zhang achieved Nascent Soul, every member of the Hundred Immortal Alliance who came calling had treated them with threefold courtesy—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Achieving Nascent Soul was already exceedingly difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially with Sister Zhang’s renowned reputation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one were to exaggerate, every member of the Hundred Immortal Alliance they met now would be nothing but kind…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Qian True Person, I asked you here because I have a question to ask.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ask? I wouldn’t dream of it—if I can help Zheng True Person, I’ll answer everything without reservation!” Qian True Person patted his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This concerns spiritual plants. I don’t know many cultivators well-versed in this. Among the Hundred Immortal Alliance, your sect stands alone in spiritual plant cultivation—I have no choice but to seek your guidance.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Spiritual plants? What issue exactly?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian True Person’s expression grew hesitant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve heard spiritual plant cultivation is closely tied to thunder energy?” Zheng Fa asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s correct.” Qian True Person answered swiftly, as if this were no secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What exactly is the connection?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…” Qian True Person fell silent for a moment before saying, “This matter has become a secret of Qianhe Sect. I’m afraid I cannot disclose it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Fa was surprised. This man had been frightened by Master Pang and clearly wanted to curry favor with Jiushan Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he still refused so unhesitatingly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2014,"2026-06-19T19:16:02.864Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","de9eb6d5b4fc2d7c7b9f2d98550a6aa492159c015b6025af60b2eca9de868b7f","cultivation-i-studied-abroad-in-the-modern-world-chapter-198","cultivation-i-studied-abroad-in-the-modern-world-chapter-196",487,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcultivation-i-studied-abroad-in-the-modern-world-cover.jpg"]