[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-157":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","No Money, What Cultivation?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},163506,323,"Chapter 157: A Zhen, Why Is Your Belly So Big? (Seeking monthly tickets)","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-157",157,"\u003Cp>Just as Zhang Yu was contacting the three major high schools.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the office of Songyang High School.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Ling said resentfully, \"...If we just let this matter drop, the Student Council will lose all its prestige. How can we do the Student Council's work in the future?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Chechen did not speak, but was thinking about what had happened today, thinking about Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's behavior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These two are so emboldened and unafraid—what exactly are they relying on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just sheer audacity? Or is there someone else behind them besides Zhang Pianpian?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He listened to Lan Ling's words, thinking that maybe he could cancel some of their benefits—for instance, disqualify them from the competition—and use that to probe further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Zhou Chechen was thinking this, his phone suddenly vibrated slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Chechen opened it and was surprised to find that it was a message from Le Jingchen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Ling, who was nearby, saw Zhou Chechen's strange expression and asked, \"What's wrong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Chechen frowned and said, \"Regarding the matter Le Jingchen asked us to handle, he said he has already taken care of it himself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Ling asked in confusion, \"Handled it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Chechen continued, \"Zhang Yu personally went to talk to him, accepted Le Jingchen's money, and will not participate in the upcoming freshman Dao Heart Competition.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Ling exclaimed in surprise, \"What? He personally went to talk to Le Jingchen?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How did he establish a connection with Le Jingchen?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Zhou Chechen's phone vibrated again, and when he saw the new message, his expression changed even more dramatically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said incredulously, \"My bank account has been frozen?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tax audit?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Chechen was extremely confident that his taxes were absolutely flawless, so why would there be a sudden audit?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking back to how they had just targeted Zhang Yu today, and then Le Jingchen's private transaction with Zhang Yu, and now this temporary freeze on his bank account...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Ling said, \"President, could there be a problem with some company procedure? We should just need to pay back taxes...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pay back taxes? Pay your head!\" Zhou Chechen said darkly. \"This is clearly someone warning us. I knew Zhang Yu's backing wasn't that simple.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Ling said, \"Could it be the tax bureau...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Chechen analyzed, \"Lurking in the shadows like this—how could it be the tax bureau?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And right after we made our move, on one hand they contacted Le Jingchen, on the other hand they froze my bank account... I'm afraid we've been watched for a long time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Ling's eyes sharpened. \"Isn't this a threat to us? I'll go find Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen right now...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you fucking cultivating your body until your brain turned into muscle? What's the rush?\" Zhou Chechen said angrily. \"Zhang Yu is just a dog. Even if you pin him down, what use is it? And the enemy is hidden while we are exposed. The fact that they dare to warn us like this shows they aren't afraid of us at all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The urgent task is to first investigate exactly who is behind Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen. Once we know that, we can decide whether to endure or fight back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll talk to my father about this and arrange for our family's people to investigate personally.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Until then, don't be impatient. Just pretend nothing has happened.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside Songyang High School.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu looked at the message on his phone and breathed a slight sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a message from the contact Zhang Pianpian had left him—the captain of the Songyang City Patrol Team: \"The warning talisman has been sent out, and the account has been successfully frozen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu: \"Thank you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other replied: \"A small matter. Drop by sometime if you have time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next few days, whether it was the Student Council, the sophomore students, or Zhou Chechen and Lan Ling, they all remained silent, as if the incident in the training ground had never happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu also breathed a slight sigh of relief, thinking that for now he didn't need to worry about them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What I need to do next is very simple.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Continue cultivating with full effort, and refine all these fleeting gains into true strength.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So in the days that followed, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen continued to advance at a furious pace on the path of immortal cultivation, spending the balance in their accounts faster than ever before in their lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reserve sector.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the incubation room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu was refining spiritual essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Streams of Great Sun mana circulated through his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, mana like molten lava suddenly burst through countless tiny meridians inside his body, and Zhang Yu shattered another bottleneck in his cultivation of mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mana broke through the 70-unit mark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the surging flow of mana after the breakthrough, Zhang Yu revealed a satisfied smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Xiong Wenwu, who was in front of him, was also circulating his breathing technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu said, “Thanks for what happened a few days ago.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiong Wenwu said flatly, “It was nothing. You’ve spent so much money here with me, so it’s no big deal that I helped out a little.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, I was just telling the truth—if you and Bai Zhenzhen don’t compete, my brothers have a better chance of getting into the Top Ten.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu then asked curiously, “Where’s An’an today? I haven’t seen her.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiong Wenwu shook his head and sighed. “An’an is comforting the others.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Because she got a pay cut.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu asked, puzzled, “Huh? She got a pay cut, so why does she need to comfort others?” Xiong Wenwu said slowly, “Because she’s the best employee in the reserve, so she was asked to lead by example in taking a pay cut. That means everyone else will have their pay cut one after another.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The manager told her to do the ideological work for the other employees—to make them understand the company’s difficulties and share in its hardships.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu could only console him, “Companies… they’re all like this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiong Wenwu said angrily, “She’s the most dedicated employee in the entire reserve, the one with the strongest company spirit. Why does she earn the least? Eat the worst? And when the company’s profits drop, she’s the first one asked to take a pay cut?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s the difference between this and cutting benefits for the top student in the class?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Zhang Yu fell silent for a moment, not knowing what to say to console him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiong Wenwu continued, “All this shows… that there’s something wrong with the company. It hasn’t been able to reward truly outstanding employees.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiong Wenwu could sense that something was definitely wrong with the company—not just the various bases and factories being acquired, but also some chaos in upper management.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But it won’t be long…” Xiong Wenwu thought to himself. “I’ll soon have enough money to help An’an pay off her breeding debt.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then she’ll be able to leave this place.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No mistakes, no missed lines, every word accounted for!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White Dragon High School.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Hailong was fighting Bai Zhenzhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But faced with Bai Zhenzhen’s phantom-like footwork, he found it increasingly difficult to land a hit on her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Hailong could only respond to changes with stillness, blocking Bai Zhenzhen’s storm-like attacks like a reef, trying hard to find an opening in her defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Bai Zhenzhen was like a bolt of lightning, always darting into his blind spots, forcing him to constantly adjust his stance and keep trying to track her figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Bai Zhenzhen’s figure flashed, and she retreated more than ten meters away before stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Hailong frowned. “What’s wrong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen glanced at the White Dragon people outside the door and said, “Hey, you guys have been watching us train for quite a while, haven’t you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Qiuhe and the others immediately knelt down, saying they would definitely kneel and watch from now on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen said, “That’s not what I meant.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I meant watching our training… costs money.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Hailong was about to say forget it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhang Yu, who was not far away, chimed in, \"Right, people at our level can't just watch for free, right? It's time to charge admission.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan nodded and said, \"Then let's charge a ticket fee.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So moments later, the training room was packed with many people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, a large group of White Dragon people stood on the periphery, craning their necks to watch the four people fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the spots further ahead, the kneeling positions that offered a clearer view, those required extra money to access.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before leaving White Dragon High School that day, Yu Xinghan said to Zhang Yu, \"There's progress on the spirit world matter. I'll arrange it for you in a few days.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>End of July.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was less than half a month left until the first round of the Foundation Establishment Qualification Exam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen courageously forged ahead on the path of immortality, spending money fiercely. As funds rapidly depleted and various materials were consumed in large quantities, their rate of progress was unprecedented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, Zhang Yu's magical power broke through to 81.5, and his physical strength reached 7.52. These two fundamental stats had fully surpassed the average level of White Dragon students entering their third year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only his Dao Heart progress remained very slow, currently at Level 5 (85%).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Zhang Yu's bank balance had dropped to over 200,000.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night, in the apartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were diligently cultivating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen suddenly said, \"Yu, do you feel like my belly seems to have gotten bigger?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu looked up and said, \"It does seem a little?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen patted her lower abdomen: \"I feel like it's sticking out a bit. Can't you see it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu looked closely, then his eyes widened in surprise as he saw streaks of cyan patterns appearing on Bai Zhenzhen's lower abdomen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen also exclaimed in surprise, \"How did my spiritual root shrink?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Bai Zhenzhen's perception, the true spiritual root that had been firmly planted in her dantian and qi sea was just a moment ago breathing in spiritual energy and nourishing her flesh and blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the next moment, it gradually contracted, and in her perception, it slowly transformed into a cyan seed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Bai Zhenzhen told Zhang Yu about this change, Fuji said, \"It evolved.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fuji explained, \"I said long ago that Bai Zhenzhen's spiritual root is an evolutionary type.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However... in those past years, before Bai Zhenzhen embarked on the path of immortality, this spiritual root was still in its infancy, only slightly changing with her choices.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But ever since she officially started on the immortal path upon entering high school, her spiritual root has been frequently stimulated, undergoing more changes than in all those previous years combined.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Especially after swapping and using it with you, each of your level-10 techniques provided even stronger stimulation to this spiritual root, and today it finally evolved.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Zhang Yu also told Bai Zhenzhen about his hypothesis regarding spiritual root evolution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Zhang Yu said, \"Try sensing what the evolved true spiritual root can do. Has it gained any new abilities?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, Bai Zhenzhen immediately focused all her attention on the true spiritual root.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she devoted her thoughts to it, a feeling of ethereal emptiness gradually spread throughout her entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>",1917,"2026-05-29T04:54:22.303Z","2026-06-01T04:29:11.989Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","09bdc9ee698b17f902b74e4dda228ebf8c533946de5c34f9ec7c48de47599d84","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-158","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-156",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]