[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-205":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},164074,323,"Chapter 205: Mutual Destruction","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-205",205,"\u003Cp>Hearing what Bai Zhenzhen said, Dai Xingzhi raised an eyebrow and said coldly, \"Oh? You think the competition in Xiandu is easier than in other places?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Otherwise?\" Bai Zhenzhen said matter-of-factly. \"The number of university spots in Xiandu each year is far more than in any other city, isn't it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you say it's one in a hundred for us to get into university, then for you it's one in ten, or even one in three.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If the spots weren't allocated by city, and students from the entire Kunxu First Layer competed directly for them, we would have already snatched all your Xiandu people's spots long ago.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dai Xingzhi chuckled and said, \"Naive thinking. The potential of the immortal path is all about money, and Xiandu is the richest city in the entire Kunxu First Layer. The resources here far surpass those in your small places. No matter what we compete in, in the end we will inevitably hold absolute advantage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A trace of Xiandu pride rose on Dai Xingzhi's face as he said, \"If the entire layer really did have unified admissions, then every high school student in Xiandu City could get into university, and even snatch all the top-ten university spots.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen gave a snort and said, \"You're pretty proud, but from your accent I can tell you're not a native of Xiandu. You weren't born here, were you? Or is your dad or your grandpa also an outsider?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, some Xiandu high school students below the stage curled their lips into a smile at this, but quickly suppressed it. Their gazes toward Bai Zhenzhen carried a hint of surprise, as if they hadn't expected this outsider woman to be able to distinguish the difference between Dai Xingzhi's accent and their own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the other party call his family \"outsiders\" and mention the accent issue, a flush of red flashed across Dai Xingzhi's face. He said angrily, \"I was born in Xiandu! You're the damn outsider!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a flash of his figure, his whole body shot forward with a string of afterimages. The afterimages mixed with his real body, encircling and attacking Bai Zhenzhen from four directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And though Dai Xingzhi's face showed an angry expression, his heart was extremely calm and composed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Faced with such a simple provocation, how could I possibly fall for it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sneak attacks, provocation, insults... these fundamental and extremely important combat techniques were something that Dai Xingzhi, as a Xiandu high school student, had long been tested on and had mature training in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had even learned special courses like \"How to Discriminate Against Outsiders\" and \"Three Sentences to Make an Outsider Lose Their Cool,\" mastering many techniques specifically targeting outsiders, enabling him to quickly anger his opponent and gain the upper hand in fights against outsiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Xiandu people had a unique advantage in angering outsiders; such a talent, in Dai Xingzhi's view, was absolutely something one had to master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So after Bai Zhenzhen had only spoken a few sentences, Dai Xingzhi understood her strategy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Trying to anger me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then I'll pretend to be angered by you...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Dai Xingzhi's figure flickered, he had already delivered a fierce palm strike toward Bai Zhenzhen's head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, his face looked flushed, his eyes held anger, and he appeared furious and humiliated. The palm technique he used also seemed full of flaws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Dai Xingzhi's mind was extremely clear. The palm that seemed to be thrown in anger actually had thin magical power in its center; all his strength was stored within his body, waiting for the real explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was fully confident that if Bai Zhenzhen attacked the intentional flaw in his palm technique, she would certainly be heavily injured by his follow-up move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, his legs were secretly gathering strength, ready to retreat at full speed at the slightest sign of trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Always holding something back, always avoiding getting hurt—this was the philosophy that the Dai family had passed down through generations, allowing them to stand firm in Xiandu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Dai Xingzhi's stunned gaze, Bai Zhenzhen slightly tilted her head and actually took his palm with her shoulder, completely disrupting his subsequent opportunities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment of Dai Xingzhi's slight shock, he saw the desperate battle intent in Bai Zhenzhen's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From before she even stepped onto the stage, Bai Zhenzhen had been observing Dai Xingzhi—observing his movements, his fighting style, his temperament and habits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because, like Dai Xingzhi, Bai Zhenzhen also realized that he was her biggest opponent in competing for the top two spots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And through continuous observation, Bai Zhenzhen realized that he was a cautious opponent with extremely high skill in lightness techniques and footwork, and his speed was in no way inferior to her own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all, he's a Xiandu young master who has already entered his third year of high school.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not only is his physical strength above mine, aside from the Ten Thousand Swords Without End Art, the techniques he masters are probably mostly stronger than mine. If I fight him at full strength... my win rate is at most thirty or forty percent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have to target his weaknesses and drag the battlefield into the areas I'm good at...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This guy is so cautious, so good at avoiding injury, that means he's probably not good at desperate fights.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen was very clear: for her, that 1 million health insurance was already an enormous amount, but for wealthy people like the Xiandu young masters, the 1 million health insurance cap was far too little, even giving them a sense of insecurity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, these rich people were naturally afraid of desperate fights, unlike poor wretches like her who often could only get things that the rich obtained effortlessly by risking their lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she deliberately provoked him and deliberately took his moves head-on, hoping only to find an opportunity for close-quarters deadly combat. But she hadn't expected him to be even more cautious than she imagined; that palm that seemed angry just now was actually a feint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it didn't matter anymore...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, their eyes met, inches apart. In Bai Zhenzhen's eyes, filled with blazing battle intent and electric light, there was only one goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Use the damn strongest, fastest, fiercest... throw out a sword strike that staked all her bottom-line strength, and see whether the other party would run out of health insurance first, or she would.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since stepping onto the stage, Bai Zhenzhen had been accumulating magical power using the expert-level breathing method, the Surging Waves Nine Turns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Surging Waves Nine Turns emphasizes an endless cycle of vitality—after nine turns of magical power, it can draw in even more power, making it a technique whose breathing effect grows stronger the longer one practices it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her previous Foundation Establishment exam, the Surging Waves Nine Turns performed a marvelous feat; now, after a full nine turns of magical power, it exploded like a spring stretched to its limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at the same instant, all the techniques she had derived through her True Spirit Root erupted together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past few months, Bai Zhenzhen had used her True Spirit Root to revise nearly every technique she had mastered, granting them a more powerful and more suitable Level 10 effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And every one of these Level 10 effects was related to speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen believed that even if her techniques were not as expensive as her opponent’s, after repeated deductions they would be absolutely the best fit for her cultivation and combat methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No errors—every single detail inside is being examined!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, her Lightning Steps were running at full power, strands of thunder-attribute magical force penetrating nerves, muscles, and meridians, and under the Level 10 deduction effect, wildly accelerating the speed of her sword strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Body-Breaking Sword Qi surged from her dantian; under the Level 10 deduction effect, it howled through her meridians like a cannonball, crackling with flashes of thunder and lightning as it raced toward her fingertip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The expert-level combat technique, Invisible Sword Art, caused the sword’s intent to stir the air even before the strike was launched, forming electric fields that reduced the air resistance it would encounter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, under the pressure of fighting for her life and the threat of failure, the Hanpo Ice Heart Technique forced Bai Zhenzhen’s thoughts to a state of extreme calm, while her internal magical power and muscles were also hyperactive to the extreme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the thunder-attribute magical force running through both her inside and outside continued to accelerate all of this—faster! Faster! And even faster!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side, Dai Xingzhi was stunned for a moment, but sensing Bai Zhenzhen’s astonishing fighting spirit and the momentum of her sword, he quickly reacted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of his kicks stirred up a wild gale; his right leg seemed to vanish in that instant, leaving only surging energy blasting toward Bai Zhenzhen’s dantian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both sides were striking fast against fast; the clash would be completed in a single instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the eyes of the Righteous Gods watching from all around, that instant could be stretched very, very slowly in their observation—slow enough for them to see Dai Xingzhi’s ferocious expression, see Bai Zhenzhen’s hair standing on end from the stimulation of thunder-attribute magical power, see the flashes of lightning and gales shimmering in the air…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, in that very instant, the Righteous Gods could carry out all kinds of exchanges on the internal net.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Zichou watched this scene and remarked with emotion, “I never thought two people moving so fast would decide victory or defeat in a single blow. I originally thought they’d use their speed to kite each other and fight the full ten minutes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another Righteous God, observing the two clashing in that instant, analyzed, “In that flash of close combat, facing the opponent’s full-force strike, it tests the most instinctual reaction in each person’s heart.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Zichou’s gaze swept over Bai Zhenzhen’s thrusting sword fingers and the Body-Breaking Sword Qi containing thunder-attribute magical power inside them. He could feel that this strike held nothing back—feel the courage to stake everything, to live by facing death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he turned to look at Dai Xingzhi, at the gale stirred up by the other’s kick, and the fully exploded muscles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Zichou said, “Although Dai Xingzhi also exerted his full strength… perhaps due to habits formed on ordinary days, perhaps from an instinctive aversion to injury, perhaps from a subconscious holding back a trump card.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These little accumulations from everyday life ultimately made him, at this moment, in this most instinctual reaction, subconsciously reserve some power, unable to truly expend everything he had…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just as the Righteous Gods were having their ultra-high-speed exchange on the internal network,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gales burst in all directions, lightning flashed, and Bai Zhenzhen and Dai Xingzhi completed their attacks simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a thunderous crash, Bai Zhenzhen was sent flying backward, spitting out a large mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side, Dai Xingzhi was clutching the large hole in his chest, watching the wound gradually heal under the effect of divine power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the medical insurance figures above the heads of both Dai Xingzhi and Bai Zhenzhen began to plummet sharply, vanishing to zero in the blink of an eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the 'Light-Borer''s ten-thousand reward.\u003C\u002Fp>",1899,"2026-05-29T04:54:42.391Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","983b52cf2ff4c3ad1f45e697263149f9cdbf96893b09e60623ea9969b8eeb684","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-206","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-204",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]