[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-198":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},163547,323,"Chapter 198: Second Foundation Exam Starts","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-198",198,"\u003Cp>Zhang Yu was slightly stunned by her reply: \"Why does it feel like... she's afraid of me continuing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fuji chuckled: \"This woman might have guessed that you and Bai Zhenzhen are going to take the Foundation Establishment Exam.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all, it's not hard to check the times you two have left the city recently.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And as a hereditary Patrol Inspector, Yun Ni would naturally know the timing of the Foundation Establishment Exam.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu's eyes flickered upon hearing Fuji's analysis, and many thoughts came to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Early the next morning, with the certificate issued by the Patrol Team and a personal phone call from Yun Ni, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen finally obtained leave approved by the school and boarded the train to Xiandu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the status that Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's train was about to depart, Si Zhouyu called again: \"Hey? What's the situation now? Should I still tail them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long pause, a voice came through the phone: \"Come back. No need to follow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Zhouyu frowned: \"What did you say? A bunch of us have wasted so much time on these two students, and now you say don't follow?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Their leaving the city this time must be for something important!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why not follow?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other side said coldly: \"This is an order from the company's leadership.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Orders from the leadership—understand them or not, you carry them out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come back immediately.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Zhouyu took a deep breath, watched the slowly departing train, and after a long moment shook his head and left the station.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, on the other train, after several attempts over the next few hours, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen confirmed one thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu typed on his phone: \"They didn't follow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen: They didn't follow? Could it be they know about the Foundation Establishment Exam and don't dare to keep investigating?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu recalled Yun Ni's reaction yesterday and replied: That's what I think too. The only reason I can imagine for such an abrupt recall is the Foundation Establishment Exam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen: Too bad. I was hoping to lure these guys into finding out about the Foundation Establishment Exam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yesterday, after seeing Yun Ni's reaction and hearing Fuji's analysis of Yun Ni, Zhang Yu suddenly realized that amid all the waiting and enduring, they had found an opportunity to counterattack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the other side didn't take the bait when today came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu: It's okay. At least through this, we can confirm one thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu: The one trying to deal with us is not Zhou Chechen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu: Because Zhou Chechen probably doesn't know about the Foundation Establishment Exam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fuji said: \"Indeed. Knowing information like the Foundation Establishment Exam would only be possible for the upper echelons of the Zhou family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu: So our real opponent is not Zhou Chechen, but... the Zhou family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Songyang High School.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Ling looked at Zhou Chechen in confusion: \"How could you let them take leave? Zhang Yu might use this time to cultivate and make money. You shouldn't give them any breathing room!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We should have pressured them and not let them go. If they went anyway, we could have directly punished them and found an excuse to expel them...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Lan Ling's discontent, Zhou Chechen sighed inwardly, no longer in the mood to say much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind was still replaying the process of approving Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Patrol Team Captain Yun Ni?\" Zhou Chechen thought to himself. \"So their backing is actually the Patrol Team?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Makes sense. Zhang Pianpian used to be in the Patrol Team. After she left, she could have passed her connections on to Zhang Yu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And Bai Zhenzhen—this guy took leave together with Zhang Yu this time. Looks like their relationship isn't as bad as she appeared at school. They're still on good terms, huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But now that we've finally found out who's backing Zhang Yu, what do my uncles plan to do? Surely they're not going to keep fighting the Patrol Team?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They can even leverage the strength of the patrol squad.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This evil god has quite the nerve.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lying in the hospital bed on the 333rd floor of the Central Tower, Zhou Yang read through the various reports sent by his subordinates and thought to himself, \"And the timing... it coincides with the Foundation Establishment Exam?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Coincidence? Or a deliberate smokescreen?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now two choices suddenly surfaced before Zhou Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Follow or not follow?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yang decisively chose not to follow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, in his view, the worst outcome of not following was nothing more than Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen running off directly, losing this lead entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If this evil god really arranged for its followers to flee, that means it already suspects something. Then following them would be pointless, at most we'd catch Zhang Yu, a mere pawn.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if he did follow, what if they were actually going to take the Foundation Establishment Exam?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't have his subordinates investigate everything, could he? Especially before knowing what they might uncover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if those subordinates of his actually found something they shouldn't—like something about this Foundation Establishment Exam? What then?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially after seeing the timestamps of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's two previous departures from the city, Zhou Yang broke out in a cold sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought with lingering fear: \"If this is really a feint, the groundwork was laid way too early—they started leaving the city four months ago? That's around the time of the Foundation Establishment Exam registration, isn't it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So they really went to participate in the Foundation Establishment Exam? And made it to the second round? If that's true, then Zhang Yu's hidden strength is considerable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What exactly does this evil god want? How dare it set its sights on the Foundation Establishment Exam?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yang racked his brains but couldn't figure it out. After all, how could Zhang Yu or Bai Zhenzhen possibly surpass those prodigies of the Immortal Capital?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his view, participating in the Foundation Establishment Exam was a complete waste of time and energy, and they might even get their Dao hearts shattered by those from the Immortal Capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention that Zhang Yu had been thoroughly tormented by Zhou Chechen recently...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Knowing they'd be eliminated, and they still go? Is it for some kind of intelligence?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he couldn't fathom the evil god's purpose, Zhou Yang became increasingly interested in this evil god behind Zhang Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Daring to target the Foundation Establishment Exam—this evil god must be of no low status.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And now that I'm hiding in the shadows, while the enemy knows nothing about me, I'm gaining more and more intel on them... There's an opportunity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen come back, catching this lead would give me a great chance to devour this evil god's status.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No mistakes, no errors, every single character is viewed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I can't touch the Foundation Establishment Exam. I have to be careful not to investigate their involvement in the exam... or at least, only after the exam is over can I drop this caution.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he was thinking, Zhou Yang's phone vibrated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his phone and looked at the surveillance footage, where under a ritual suppression formed by countless coils, antiques, chains, and other items, a hard drive suddenly began to throb violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the incessantly jumping hard drive, Zhou Yang frowned and lightly tapped his phone, causing copper wires in the surveillance footage to coil like dragons around the hard drive, suppressing it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Old thing, still not giving up?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The being suppressed within this hard drive was precisely the evil god passed down through the Zhou family for generations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the most outstanding heir of the Zhou family in ten generations, after learning the secret of the evil god and witnessing his clan's worship of it, a thought had arisen in Zhou Yang's mind:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why worship this thing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"People should raise evil gods the way they raise spirit beasts, not be enslaved by them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So after continuous cultivation, continuous learning, and continuous scheming... he finally suppressed the evil god, turning it into his own ritual battery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in doing so, he paid a tremendous price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Glancing at his missing lower body, Zhou Yang snapped his fingers: \"Change my clothes. I'm going out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, a nearby clothes rack opened, revealing not only coats, shirts, and other garments, but also several pairs of legs, complete with pants and shoes, looking perfectly intact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He casually picked one set of lower body and put it on, feeling the flesh connect and the sensation of regaining his feet, but frowned: \"Are these legs a bit too short?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After switching to another pair of lower body, he nodded with satisfaction: \"That's more like it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the lower half he had just deemed a bit too short, it directly turned into a pool of blood, which he poured down the drain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But glancing at the faint livor mortis rising on his calves, Zhou Yang sighed helplessly, \"Ah, using it for a day should be fine, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While staring at the title of the Purple Gold Merit Lord, he thought to himself, \"Let me think, which one in Songyang City is in charge of the patrol team?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since he suppressed the evil god, Zhou Yang had lost his lower body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter what new flesh he put on, it would quickly rot and turn corpse-like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was no trouble for a wealthy man like him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Kunxu lacked everything except people—there were plenty of poor wretches willing to sell their legs for money… and then replace them with prosthetics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But whether prosthetics or ordinary people's lower halves, they were like clothes to Zhou Yang, changed and discarded at will—unable to withstand his usage, let alone assist his cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, many techniques required a complete body to cultivate and use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he had selected many backup materials suited to him, placed them in various locations for cultivation, raised them like livestock, and harvested them when needed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Never would have imagined…\" Zhou Yang's mind conjured the figure of Zhang Yu: \"My lower half actually went to take the foundation establishment exam.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Zhou Yang was scheming something over there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen had once again arrived at the underground examination hall in Xiandu City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only this time, Zhang Yu did not run into Bai Zhenzhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, starting from the second round of the foundation establishment exam, the test was divided into four tracks: Dao Heart, Magical Power, Physical Fitness, and Martial Arts. Ultimately, one candidate from each track would be selected and awarded a foundation establishment qualification certificate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhenzhen went to take the martial arts exam, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu looked at the other four candidates before him, knowing these were the opponents he would face in the upcoming physical fitness exam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them were the top Xiandu noble Ye Lingxiao, and Zhang Yu's old acquaintance Yu Xinghan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But seeing Yu Xinghan's gaunt appearance, Zhang Yu thought to himself, \"You little shit… were you still working overtime the day before the exam?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Zhang Yu felt Ye Lingxiao's gaze upon him—a gaze full of fighting spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Lingxiao: \"This round, you'll go all out, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu thought to himself, \"The me now and the me two months ago are as different as clouds and mud.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their eyes clashed in the air, seeming to stir up intense battle intent.\u003C\u002Fp>",1914,"2026-05-29T04:54:22.303Z","2026-06-01T04:29:11.989Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","d288534c898161794386fe7f43b392c241a099a668cd88cd88b2f549eddd9fb8","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-199","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-197",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]