[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-282":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},164151,323,"Chapter 282","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-282",282,"\u003Cp>\"Number 686, Zhang Yu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his number was called, Zhang Yu stood up and walked toward the interview room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although all his scores already met the admission requirements of Wanfa University and he had signed the admission agreement beforehand, the interview process was still unavoidable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Zhang Yu entered the interview room, he casually smiled at the three examiners and said, \"Hello, three. I'm Zhang Yu from Songyang High School of Immortal Dao, Songyang City, on the First Layer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chief examiner looked at him and asked, \"Why do you want to apply to Wanfa University?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu said calmly, \"Because Wanfa University is one of the best universities. If I want to break through to the Golden Core, break through to the Nascent Soul, and enter a sect, I naturally need to choose the best university.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three interviewers smiled slightly. One of them asked, \"How do you arrange your study and rest time?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu said calmly, \"I don't rest.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another examiner asked, \"How much of the university curriculum have you completed so far?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu said, \"As you can see, I am already a Foundation Establishment cultivator. I have completed all the general courses at the Qi Refining stage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I've also self-studied the Earth System's Digging Palm, Crane Claw, Running Leg, and Elevator Jump, and have reached level 10 in all of them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The examiners looked at the information on the resume, and their gazes at Zhang Yu grew more and more satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chief examiner said, \"Student Zhang Yu, as I understand it, you have not undergone sterilization. What is your view on university sterilization? Do you think university students need to be sterilized?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu said calmly, \"Sterilization is an escape for the weak.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For me, mere bodily hormones can be suppressed by willpower alone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These things are not obstacles on my path of immortality; rather, they are a production tool that can be turned into an aid for my cultivation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In my resume, there's proof of my seed trading transactions on the First Layer. Given the high frequency and high quality of those transactions, I think it's enough to demonstrate the firmness of my Dao heart.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three interviewers exchanged glances, and all showed admiration in their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, they all stood up and extended their hands toward Zhang Yu: \"Student Zhang Yu, welcome to Wanfa University.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Zhang Yu walked out of the interview room, he saw Yu Xinghan and Le Mulan, who had already finished their interviews.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan said, \"Let's go, Zhang Yu. Time to register. We still need to pick dormitories.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, a female voice rang out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhang Yu, long time no see.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu and the other two turned to look at the same time, and saw Zhang Pianpian walking over slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After two years without seeing her, Zhang Pianpian was still graceful and charming, and her heroic spirit was even stronger than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her appearance hadn't changed much, except her eyes had turned amber, clearly some kind of ocular dharma relic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mark above her head—\"Wanfa University Talisman Department, Foundation Establishment Rank 49\"—and the halo behind her head drew the attention of many people around, and in an instant she became the center of attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu almost blurted out \"Sis,\" but then caught himself and finally said, \"Senior, you're here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Pianpian smiled slightly. \"You've grown taller.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come on, I'll take you to register first, then treat you to a meal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So under Zhang Pianpian's lead, Zhang Yu and the other two went through registration, paperwork, and tuition payment…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although they had brought enough tuition, during the payment process, encouraged by Zhang Pianpian, Zhang Yu and the others took the initiative to apply for student loans, taking on the first loans since arriving on the Second Layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first year's tuition was 0.5 spirit coins. Interest repayment starts from the second year: 0.005 spirit coins per month, until graduation, when the 0.5 spirit coins are repaid in one lump sum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Pianpian said, \"Don't be afraid. Since you've come to the Second Layer, how can you progress without fully unleashing your immortal Dao potential?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Instead of paying the 0.5 spirit coins in tuition now, it's better to use them for your own studies first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Zhang Pianpian's name on the recommendation form, Zhang Yu couldn't help saying, \"Sis… Senior, so we've become part of your performance metrics?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Pianpian said, \"Since you have to do it anyway, I might as well help you do it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's go, choose your dormitories.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, while moving through Wanfa University City, Zhang Yu could already sense a distinctive feature of this place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the entire university city is concentrated in a three-dimensional structure that is more than 3 kilometers wide and long, and no more than 10 kilometers high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, the internal space utilization of the entire university city is extremely high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or, to put it another way... the space is extremely cramped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when they saw the dormitories they would be staying in next, Zhang Yu became even more certain of this idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lower-class dormitory, twenty people per room, each room twenty square meters, each floor shares two toilets and six shower rooms...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu said speechlessly, \"What the hell... Even a chicken coop is more spacious than this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan said from the side, \"Luxury suite, upper-class dormitory, fifteen square meters with one living room, two bedrooms, and one bathroom.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu frowned and said, \"Fifteen square meters and you dare call it a luxury suite? And the rent is as expensive as one spirit coin per month?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Zhang Yu had a total of only 9.94 spirit coins on him, including the five spirit coins given by Bai Zhenzhen, which was only enough for nine months' rent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Zhang Yu's words, the middle-aged woman handling the dormitory business let out a cold snort, looked at him sideways, and said, \"Just came up from the lower levels, huh? On the second level, every inch of land is worth its weight in gold. Can it compare to your bumpkin place down below?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you want to rent, hurry up. So many people are still waiting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan said, \"Maybe we could rent together.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Le Mulan also nodded from the side, \"If the three of us split it evenly...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Pianpian said, \"Let's split it four ways.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She gave a slight smile and said, \"If the four of us split the rent evenly, we can save quite a bit of money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But we don't need something as expensive as the luxury suite... Let's just rent a five-square-meter middle-class dormitory.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Pianpian pointed at the price and said, \"It's 0.2 spirit coins per month. Split between the four of us, that's 0.05 spirit coins per person per month.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Pianpian thought to herself, \"Compared to my current classmates, Zhang Yu and the others are more trustworthy. Living together will save me some worry.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu looked at his sister and thought, \"My sister has already climbed to 49th place in the Talisman Department, and her financial situation is still this tight?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fukihime said, \"On the second level, every inch of land is worth its weight in gold. No matter how skilled you are, you have to learn to save on rent. Rather than spending more money on a nicer place, it's better to invest more in your studies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, Zhang Yu sighed softly. Looking at the conditions of the middle-class dormitory, he said, \"Four people living in five square meters? Can we even fit?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Pianpian said, \"Although it's only five square meters, it's four meters high, so we can split it into two layers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The main thing is that the dormitories have an additional spirit energy supply, which makes it convenient for meditation and breathing exercises.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Other than that, it's just for storing some things, at most taking a shower and charging up. How much more space do we need? It's enough for the four of us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Besides, the room space may be small, but we can shrink ourselves. We can actively adapt.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that Yu Xinghan and Le Mulan had both agreed, Zhang Yu also nodded. The four of them rented an ordinary middle-class dormitory together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wanfa University City, 125th Floor, Dormitory Area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire 125th floor was only four meters high, with rows upon rows of middle-class dormitory rooms lining both sides of the corridor like so many coffins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu looked at the arrows and walking routes floating in the air—the route navigation projected by his eye dharma bone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment, as Zhang Yu opened the door, a tiny five-square-meter dormitory appeared before them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Le Mulan couldn't help saying, \"It's really small.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her entire life, this was the first time she had stayed in such a small room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Pianpian said, \"The door is too narrow; only one person can pass through at a time. You all go in one by one to put down your luggage, and then I'll take you to eat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After dinner, you should still have to attend your first class meeting tonight, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, and when you enter the dormitory, remember to shrink your body size. That's considered an essential money-saving skill in the university city.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Zhang Yu carried his luggage into the dormitory, he did his best to shrink his muscles, bones, and joints, turning into a thin figure about 1.7 meters tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this made moving around in the room a bit more convenient, the entire dorm still felt very small to him, and shrinking his body gave him a constant feeling of being hunched over and cramped, as if he were always bending down or curling up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu thought to himself, \"No wonder, walking along the way, I always felt that people in the university city weren't very tall. It looks like the people here are used to shrinking their bodies, completely different from the cultivators on the first level who all show off their tall and imposing figures.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three of them put away their luggage, and then, under Zhang Pianpian's lead, arrived at a pharmacy on the 128th floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying it was eating, but in reality, it was taking medicine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan looked at the pills in his hand and couldn't help saying, \"I might as well just soak some of the synthetic food I brought.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Yu Xinghan and Zhang Yu soak their synthetic food, Zhang Pianpian said indifferently, \"The synthetic food you brought will eventually run out. You'd better get used to eating the meals on the second layer sooner.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if it doesn't taste good, the pills contain plenty of various nutrients, and the time spent eating is very short.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The only two problems with eating pills: first, it's hard to get a feeling of fullness; second, cultivators have overly powerful digestive systems. If you don't eat for a long time, your gastrointestinal tract can be damaged.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she spoke, Zhang Pianpian had already taken out a piece of cement: \"So people around here generally mix a bit of cement with their pills to eat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Zhang Yu, who had already weathered many storms in Kunxu's first layer, was a bit shocked to see Zhang Pianpian swallow a small piece of cement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu: \"Eat cement?... Isn't there anything else to eat?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Pianpian smiled: \"Cement is cheap enough. In this Ten Thousand Laws University City, cement is everywhere. You can just knock off a piece to temporarily fill your stomach. It gives you a sense of fullness and also suppresses the digestive juices in your gut, preventing damage to your stomach and intestines.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So the restaurant industry on the second layer wasn't purely driven out of business by pharmaceutical companies; it was jointly driven out by pharmaceutical companies and civil engineering companies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Especially after the civil engineering companies introduced edible cement—cement mixed with pills fills you up and gives you enough nutrition—the food industry completely collapsed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, Zhang Yu still found it hard to believe. How could the civil engineering major rise up in the food industry as well?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Pianpian then warned, \"Also, remember not to dig up cement under surveillance; you'll be fined if caught.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, right… you two are both in the civil engineering department, aren't you? When you go to the construction site later, you'll be provided with food—you can just fill your stomach with the cement from the site.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan couldn't help asking, \"Could we grow something ourselves?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Pianpian glanced at him and said, \"You want to join the Dark Farming Realm? I won't oppose you getting involved in a couple of gangs in the future at university, but the Dark Farming Realm… it's too dangerous.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You might not understand this, but in this university city, privately planting any kind of plant is a serious violation of school rules and the law, a felony severe enough to get you expelled.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Planting is something only universities and companies are allowed to do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing dinner, Zhang Yu bid farewell to Le Mulan and Zhang Pianpian, then went with Yu Xinghan to attend the first class meeting of the Foundation Establishment class in the Civil Engineering Department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arriving at the teaching area on the 130th floor, the two had just walked into the designated classroom when they felt several gazes sweep over them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You two, show your college entrance exam scores and basic data. We're ranking the class to see where you stand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2252,"2026-05-29T04:54:42.391Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","e13562f9c3387b21bf3ff9dc8ff88cb89093ae07730047b297aff18822c99ffb","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-283","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-281",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]