[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-219":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},164088,323,"Chapter 219: The Most Profitable Direction in Dark Tutoring","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-219",219,"\u003Cp>Zhang Yu looked at the Resentment Kill Art he had just purchased on his phone, flipping through the contents of this technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This top-tier expert-level technique, due to the need for resentment in cultivation, had seen its price drop all the way down, and Zhang Yu had now bought it for 500,000.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After carefully reviewing it, Zhang Yu planned to practice and refine his body according to the methods described.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He touched the work badge hanging on his chest, on which were written the four big characters \"Frontline Employee,\" and it was constantly absorbing the resentment surging in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This work badge-shaped item was exactly the external spiritual root sent by Zhou Chechen— the Resentment Spiritual Root.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason it was shaped like a work badge was said to be for easier storage of resentment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, as Zhang Yu infused his mana into the Resentment Spiritual Root, the entire world underwent a dramatic change in his perception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Songyang High School, which had just seemed peaceful and serene, now appeared to him filled with strands of black qi soaring into the sky; various twisted, struggling faces filled the black qi, letting out wails like ghosts howling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So this is resentment?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu knew that so-called resentment was a remnant of negative human emotions, commonly found in the graveyards, schools, and companies of Kunxu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, because schools and companies have enough living people constantly generating resentment, the quantity of resentment far exceeds that of graveyards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the advantage of graveyards is that the resentment is pure, aged for many years, and of far higher quality than that of schools and companies. Thus, the resentment of the dead has wider uses and sells at higher prices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu thought to himself, \"According to Fuji, if the ancestors buried at home are numerous enough and old enough, just renting out the graveyard as a cultivation site every month could earn a lot of money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh, truly, having an elder at home is like having a treasure. But unfortunately, Zhang Yu's original ancestors couldn't even afford a cemetery; the money they saved could barely cover the corpse disposal fee.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He controlled the Resentment Spiritual Root to take a deep breath and felt wisps of resentment flowing into his mouth and nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, waves of intense anger, humiliation, regret, despair... kept assaulting Zhang Yu's brain, making him experience the strong negative emotions erupted by many academic underachievers when facing ranking drops, declining grades, and insults.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu quickly activated the Crippled Ox Body Abandonment Heart Technique to resist the assault of these negative emotions and, following the method of the Resentment Kill Art, began to refine these waves of resentment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the cultivation method of the Resentment Kill Art, one must absorb resentment, wash away its specific emotions, leave behind a pure baleful aura, and then imitate the corpse-refining method to temper one's own skin and flesh, ultimately forging a bronze corpse skin impervious to blades and spears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After several minutes, Zhang Yu stumbled through the first round of cultivation and felt a faint coolness in the palm-sized patch of skin on his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought to himself, \"If I follow the standard path, this technique would probably take a year or half to achieve any results.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But fortunately, with my efforts, the Feather Book can help me master this technique quickly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu looked up and saw that the Resentment Kill Art displayed on the Feather Book had changed from Level 0 (0\u002F1) to Level 1 (2\u002F10).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ultimate effect brought by the High School Saint Body was that any Qi Refining stage technique Zhang Yu practiced, one round of cultivation counted as three rounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was precisely his confidence that in the next three months, he could wildly cultivate techniques to gradually make up for the Martial Saint Fetus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over ten minutes later, after completing round after round of the Resentment Kill Art, a thunderclap seemed to flash through Zhang Yu's mind, and scenes of using resentment to temper the skin on his chest flashed by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he felt as if something alive was fiercely growing under the skin of his chest, wrapping tightly around his chest like a membrane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The first level of the Resentment Kill Art is complete.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu slowly recalled the cultivation memories in his mind, feeling the changes in his body, and thought to himself, \"Each layer of the Resentment Kill Art requires tempering the skin and flesh of different parts of the body; ultimately, at the tenth level, a set of bronze corpse skin is forged, like a close-fitting inner armor, greatly enhancing physical defense.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After feeling it for a while, Zhang Yu continued his cultivation, intending to push the Resentment Kill Art to the tenth level as quickly as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time flew by with Zhang Yu's cultivation, and soon it was time to leave school, dusk falling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the night sky, 999 silver needles flickered with electric light, piercing into various positions on Bai Zhenzhen's body from top to bottom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Bai Zhenzhen activated the Lightning Execution True Body, one could see electric light jumping back and forth on the silver needles, constantly stimulating the nerves and muscles all over her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen could feel that, besides the enhancement in physical strength, her nerves, which had long stopped growing, were now, under the effect of the Profound Lightning Acupuncture Needle Set, like withered trees meeting spring, beginning a new round of growth, helping her control her body more deeply, finely, and quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the original Lightning Execution True Body was merely a second-rate expert-level body-refining technique, then with the deduction of the True Spiritual Root, the blessing of Thunder Mana, and now the assistance of the Profound Lightning Acupuncture Needle Set, it now had the effect of a top-tier expert-level body-refining technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the electric light began to weaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice of the needle box's artifact spirit came: \"Insufficient power, please recharge in time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Temporarily withdrawing the 999 silver needles, Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu beside her and said, \"Yu-zi, ready to head to the Dark Study Gang?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu, who had been cultivating the Resentment Kill Art beside her, slowly opened his eyes, a trace of baleful aura flashing through them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a day's cultivation, he had pushed the Resentment Kill Art to level 8 (15\u002F90).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, Zhang Yu could feel that all over his body, except for his face, an extra layer of membrane seemed to have formed under his skin. Normally, this layer wouldn't affect movement, but as soon as he exerted strength, it protected his torso like an iron armor. Fuji beside him, sensing the changes in Zhang Yu's body, especially the faint, dense patterns on the exposed skin of his arms, marveled inwardly, \"This guy's progress in the Resentment Kill Art is so fast!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How is it that in just one short day, he's nearly mastered this cultivation technique?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It really is because after his potential was reignited last time, Zhang Yu's talent has become even more terrifying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hehehe, good, good, good. Now that he's passed the high school Foundation Establishment exam and reached the second level, it's truly ‘the sky is the limit for birds to fly, and the sea vast for fish to leap.’\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu slowly stood up, twisted his somewhat dry and stiff skin, nodded, and said, \"Let's go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before leaving, Bai Zhenzhen returned the Mystic Thunder Acupuncture Needle Set to recharge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving the school gate, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen flickered their bodies, each activating their movement techniques. They found a place to change their appearances and disguise their faces, then sped off toward the Dark Study Gang's base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen arrived outside the campus in the identities of the tutoring teachers Ma Yunteng and Le Mulan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two were surprised to find the brightly lit campus bustling with security teams from Xianyun Group coming and going, with constables assisting, escorting members of the Dark Study Gang out one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They heard one of the gang tutors, covered in dust and with a swollen, bruised face, crying out, \"This is my first time coming here to tutor! Truly my first time!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A nearby constable snorted coldly and said, \"Does your family know you're doing illegal things here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tutor, with a mournful face, said, \"It has nothing to do with my family. They trust me a lot. They didn't know I would come to do this kind of thing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was momentarily blinded by greed, wanting to make some quick money. I thought doing it once or twice would be fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I really know I was wrong. I've let down my parents. They didn't give birth to me so I could illegally tutor people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just let me go. I really have no money left to compensate…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another older constable nearby warned, \"These people in the shadowy tutoring world make up their names, identities, and motives entirely. They never tell the truth. You can't believe a single word they say. You'll understand once you've seen more of them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the distance, Zhang Yu, hidden in the shadows, exclaimed in shock, \"The Dark Study Gang has been wiped out?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen said helplessly, \"What do we do now? Find another gang and start over?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fuji reminded, \"Don't you have the contact info for that Dark Study Gang middleman, the one called Black Crow?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Try contacting him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Dark Study Gang isn't small. Just because one campus was taken down doesn't mean the gang is gone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu also remembered. He had added Black Crow as a friend in the Kunlun God World, so he could contact that middleman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Zhang Yu opened the Kunlun God World app on his phone and soon got in touch with Black Crow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some communication, Zhang Yu learned that the shadowy tutoring world in Songyang City had been turbulent lately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In particular, the clashes between the Dark Study Gang and the Golden Course Gang were getting more and more intense. Incidents of stolen syllabi, burned textbooks, assassinated gold-medal teachers, and exposed tutoring spots were endless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as Zhang Yu knew, the backers of these two gangs were the Deep Sea Education Group and the Xianyun Education Group, respectively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu thought to himself, \"If the Dark Study Gang and the Golden Course Gang are fighting so fiercely, does that mean the conflict between their backers—the Deep Sea Group and the Xianyun Group, those two behemoths—has also escalated?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, Zhang Yu always felt that since the start of this year, all the companies in Songyang City had been radiating a sense of impatience, an ever-increasing intensity of competition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Temporarily suppressing his conjectures about the situation in Songyang, Zhang Yu focused back on the Dark Study Gang's circumstances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu said, \"According to Black Crow, the gang warfare has caused many gold-medal teachers in the Dark Study Gang to fall. So they've been constantly summoning experts to give lectures or participate in gang battles.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen replied, \"If it's about giving lectures, what kind of lessons pay well now? Can the techniques I know make big money?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I feel that just tutoring high school students or construction workers isn't earning fast enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu asked Black Crow, who sent him a dynamic poster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the poster, a group of white-haired elderly were diligently studying and cultivating. Among them, a vigorous old man spoke loudly, \"At 90 years old, I have elders above and children below—this is the age to push forward and strive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want to take my 130-year-old parents to eat pre-made meals, sign my 60-year-old son up for cram school, rent a sewer-side room near the subway for my 30-year-old grandson, and get my 5-year-old great-granddaughter into a key kindergarten. How can I stop studying? How can I let myself be eliminated from the workplace?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In ancient times, there was a 100-year-old prime minister who reclaimed lost territory, a 500-year-old demon who cultivated human form, and a 1,000-year-old woman who married an immortal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the poster, the old man clenched his fist, full of fighting spirit, and shouted, \"Struggle! No age is too late!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2031,"2026-05-29T04:54:42.391Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","f5cb40324342f159a4bedcc015db845410a6f8ec61231720f86dbf5df35721c8","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-220","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-218",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]