[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-258":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},164127,323,"Chapter 258: Zhang Yu's Foundation Establishment","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-258",258,"\u003Cp>\"Not good!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chi He suddenly leaped to the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, a flash of sword light emerged from the nearby shadows, like a thunderbolt sweeping across the sky, slashing toward the hurriedly dodging Chi He.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the figure within that lightning radiance, Chi He's eyes nearly split open: \"Bai Zhenzhen!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This crazy woman! Instead of running away... she's ambushing me instead?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After deciding to strike, Bai Zhenzhen did not intend to let any advantage slip away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They know we're buying a Heavenly Spirit Root, so they'll be watching the courier. That means wherever the delivery address is, the battlefield will be there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In other words, I get to choose the battlefield, and I can set up an ambush in advance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having lain in ambush outside the factory for a long time, Bai Zhenzhen, upon spotting Chi He's appearance, decided to make him her first target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wang Yin's lackey—he must be leading the team this time to capture us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I cut him down first, it'll throw them into chaos.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using the mental method of the Cold Soul Ice Heart Art, she heightened her physical activity in this desperate situation, making her muscles and nerves react faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the aid of her True Spirit Root, she gathered all the physical strength in her body to unleash her most powerful strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using the electric field pre-deployed by the Thunder Walking Nine Heavens Step, she accelerated her own speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Thunder God Lightning Fury, she exploded all her thunder magic power in one breath and slashed out that lightning-fast sword...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the Foundation Establishment exam ended, although Bai Zhenzhen's raw strength had not improved much, her cultivation and deduction of techniques, along with repeated pondering of her swordsmanship, had given her an increasingly profound understanding of her own martial path and that sword strike from the exam that surpassed sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this sudden eruption, she delivered a heaven-shaking sword strike, instantly piercing Chi He's chest and ripping a large hole through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sword strike, like a thunderbolt from heaven, immediately seized the attention of all the other experts present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing the shocked, bewildered, angry, or frightened gazes of the crowd, Bai Zhenzhen bellowed: \"The patrol team is on duty. Anyone who comes seeking death will end up like this man.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She kicked the half-dead Chi He flying away and continued: \"Just a reminder—I can kill you all legally right now. If you dare lay a hand on me, be prepared to lose everything you own.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she said this, Bai Zhenzhen activated all the remaining electric fields of the Thunder Walking Nine Heavens Step and explosively retreated backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, with her internal breathing, the True Spirit Root began frantically absorbing spiritual energy, continuously restoring her mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After nine months of cultivation, now when Bai Zhenzhen unleashed the mana burst of the Thunder God Lightning Fury again, she could still leave a sliver of mana circulating, and with the True Spirit Root's spiritual breathing, she no longer had a window of total mana depletion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially with the aid of the True Spirit Root, every additional moment of breathing allowed her to recover a portion of her mana for battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the impact of Bai Zhenzhen's killing sword stroke and successive roars, all the other Qi Refining experts present seemed momentarily stunned, watching helplessly as Bai Zhenzhen explosively retreated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, a stream of divine power descended from the sky, all pouring into Chi He's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chi He's body, which had been on the verge of death, began to recover at a visible rate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone exclaimed in shock: \"It's the Health Department's Surgery Talisman!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, everyone's phones rang simultaneously, automatically answered, and Wang Yin's voice came through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm casting talismans remotely—you don't have to worry about dying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for losing everything... no matter how much you lose in this battle, I'll pay you double.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And as for the rewards afterward, I never let my people down.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Wang Yin's words, everyone immediately became energized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, they all remembered Boss Wang's generosity and magnanimity; with just a few words from him, their fighting spirit soared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Mantian even led the charge, chasing after Bai Zhenzhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Capture her!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching this scene, Bai Zhenzhen's heart sank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially seeing Chi He—whom she had barely managed to cripple at the cost of all her mana—about to recover in the blink of an eye, she couldn't help cursing inwardly: \"Damn rich bastard.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is going to be tough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, she also inwardly breathed a sigh of relief, thankful that her patrol team member identity served as cover, and Deng Bingding had said that the orthodox deities on both sides wouldn't directly intervene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, the opponent's talisman would probably have been used directly on her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the crowd charging at her like mad dogs let out of their cages, Bai Zhenzhen turned around and shot away in a streak of electric light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then come on.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's see how many times I can kill you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the many experts of the Oasis Group were all drawn to Bai Zhenzhen,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu slowly walked out of a commercial building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the box in his arms, he gently let out a breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside this box was the Heavenly Spirit Root he had just bought in the building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the courier package used to attract the enemy, it was just a cash-on-delivery decoy meant to lure them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arriving deep inside a pre-prepared sewer, Zhang Yu opened the box, knowing that from now until he completed Foundation Establishment, he could not move again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said silently in his heart, \"A-Zhen, hold on.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll come find you once I finish Foundation Establishment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu swallowed the Heavenly Spirit Root in one gulp, beginning the process of fusing the spirit root with his flesh and charging toward Foundation Establishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...With a series of whooshing sounds of breaking air,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>over a dozen figures chased each other through the alleys, occasionally erupting into sounds of collision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the battlefield Bai Zhenzhen had deliberately chosen, this abandoned factory area had a complex terrain with countless alleys, underground passages, and unfinished buildings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the pursuit of Bai Zhenzhen, some of the dozen pursuers were fast, some slow, and combined with the complex terrain, they quickly spread out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Ye Mantian, the fastest and closest pursuer, was only a dozen meters away from Bai Zhenzhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The farthest pursuer was left over a hundred meters behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when Bai Zhenzhen suddenly stopped, turned, and struck with her sword, the only enemy she had to face in that instant was Ye Mantian, who was closest to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Mantian instantly understood... at this moment, although Bai Zhenzhen was still being chased by over a dozen experts, the only one who could help Ye Mantian was himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a furious roar, Ye Mantian's muscles suddenly swelled, and his fists smashed out with full force like battering rams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stay here!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He believed that if he could hold up Bai Zhenzhen for just a few breaths, the teammates behind would quickly catch up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with his strength, even if he couldn't defeat her, could he not even hold out for a few breaths?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, to Ye Mantian's shocked gaze, Bai Zhenzhen neither blocked nor dodged, but directly thrust her head forward toward his iron palms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Mantian knew that Bai Zhenzhen was definitely not a master of external martial arts, nor had she trained any iron-head technique; this palm strike might just smash her head open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not good!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Mantian clearly remembered that Wang Yin and Chi He had repeatedly instructed that Bai Zhenzhen must not be killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yin: \"Even if you are seriously injured yourselves, you absolutely must not kill Bai Zhenzhen!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A dead person or a live one—chilled or frozen—makes a completely different price!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Mantian roared and abruptly withdrew his palms, pulling back his force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having just erupted with full power, he now had to suddenly pull back his strength, feeling as if he was struggling against himself; not only were his muscles and sinews twisting painfully, but the magical power within his body was also clashing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Bai Zhenzhen seemed to have anticipated this, and with a flash of lightning sword-light at her fingertips, she leaped over Ye Mantian's stiffened body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a bang and an explosion, Ye Mantian's body flickered with blood light as his hands, feet, eyes, and dantian were all swept by the sword-light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Ye Mantian fell to the ground with a bang, only able to watch Bai Zhenzhen's departing back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Mantian thought to himself: \"This woman... is truly a madwoman. Wasn't she worried I might not have held back just now? She was practically gambling with her life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Bai Zhenzhen glanced at the healing talisman's power landing on Ye Mantian, watching as he began to be treated, and thought to herself: \"Indeed... since there's this kind of long-range healing method, not killing is actually the best outcome.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although I had some confidence just now that I could kill this person.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But once I made a lethal move, under the threat of death... even if he was suppressed by Wang Yin, he might not have continued to hold back against me at the critical moment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Chi He, who had circled around to intercept her from the front, Bai Zhenzhen assessed her own mana condition and, with a flicker of her form, turned to another direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, relying on the complex terrain, she fought while retreating, occasionally leaving an electric field to suddenly accelerate, sometimes actively fighting to break out of encirclements, and other times gathering sword techniques to execute the fifteenth move of the Ten Thousand Swords Without End Art, breaking the sound barrier...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen dashed left and right like this, delaying for more than forty minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the encirclement was tightening more and more, leaving her less and less room to maneuver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just when it seemed they would capture Bai Zhenzhen, she slashed open a manhole cover with her sword and leaped to jump into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stamina, mana, and room to maneuver are all nearly at their limits,\" Bai Zhenzhen thought to herself. \"According to the backup plan I left earlier... I'll retreat for a while.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Chi He, Ye Mantian, and the others watched in anger, a figure suddenly burst out of the sewer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Zhou Yang of the Zhou family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his appearance disguised, he had even hidden the title of Purple-Gold Merit Master. Only a low shout was heard, and boundless cold air enveloped Bai Zhenzhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the astonishing chill that seemed to freeze her very blood, Bai Zhenzhen looked at him in disbelief: \"Who is this guy? When did he get here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yang had started acting as soon as he noticed the Oasis Group searching for Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, he wanted to try and see if he could seize the opportunity to capture the two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, with the Zhou family in constant decline, he wanted to use this chance to curry favor with Wang Yin and find a way out for himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he had been gathering information, tracking Chi He and the others' movements, and after discovering the outbreak of conflict, he silently waited for an opportunity... finally arriving at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a full-force eruption of the Frost Sky Freeze Field, Zhou Yang struck out fiercely with his palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a loud bang, Bai Zhenzhen hastily received the palm strike, her body temperature plummeting rapidly, and frost immediately formed on her arms and face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen slammed into the wall with a thud, vomiting a mouthful of icy blood that emitted waves of cold air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as she was about to retreat violently, Zhou Yang's palm lightly pressed onto her shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As surges of cold air poured into her body, Bai Zhenzhen was completely suppressed in place by Zhou Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chi He and the others surrounded them, glanced at the disguised Zhou Yang and the subdued Bai Zhenzhen, and frowned, saying, \"Who are you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yang nodded slightly and said politely, \"Just a nobody who wants to work for Boss Wang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chi He sneered, \"Hand Bai Zhenzhen over to us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll take you to see Boss Wang in a moment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yang was delighted inwardly and was about to hand Bai Zhenzhen over when suddenly a thick white fog began to rise all around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The original factory, alleys, and buildings were instantly swallowed by the white fog, and the entire industrial zone seemed to have been pulled into another world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, from within the thick fog, Zhang Yu's cold voice slowly came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Clown, take your dirty paws off her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2124,"2026-05-29T04:54:42.391Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","a62a76cc0ed5d5cb548fc56a108a3c819b5dc909676f22539e3432455552df17","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-259","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-257",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]