[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-3":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},163352,323,"Chapter 3: P.E","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-3",3,"\u003Cp>Without much time to sigh, Zhang Yu had barely returned to the classroom when the math teacher, wearing black-rimmed glasses, walked in carrying a stack of exam papers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Today we'll go over the test you took last time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hand out the papers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look at the mistakes you made—how many times have I told you to come ask me if there's something you don't understand? Yesterday afternoon I sat in the office for three hours, and not a single person came to ask me anything…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just after the math papers were handed out, the tall and burly PE teacher entered the classroom and said to the math teacher, \"You're sick.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sending the sick math teacher away, the PE teacher Wang Hai looked at the students and said, \"This period is changed to PE.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But don't forget to review math on your own—general education courses account for fifty points in the college entrance exam, and one point less means falling behind a lot of people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Speaking of general education, let me tell you—I've already talked to your Chinese teacher, and next period's Chinese class is also changed to PE. Combined with our original PE period, the entire morning is now my PE class.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone followed PE teacher Wang Hai to the indoor training ground, which was as huge as a plaza, filled with all kinds of exercise equipment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai said, \"The Qi Refinement Realm is the first realm of immortal cultivation. The important thing is to build a solid foundation. How solid a foundation you lay in your first year of high school determines how high you can reach in your second and third years…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Zhang Yu took in these familiar scenes, countless details from his memories kept surging into his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since the Ten Great Sects systematized and integrated immortal cultivation, it now has a structured classification of realms and power levels, covering every aspect of immortal cultivation technology—truly vast and boundless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most well-known is the Ten Realms of Immortal Cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The key indicators that determine which immortal realm a person can reach are their Dao Heart level and Magical Power level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, for high school students, only when their Dao Heart crosses the threshold of level 10 and their Magical Power exceeds 60 points can they break through from the Qi Refinement Realm to the Foundation Establishment Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The high school PE class before them is meant to temper the body and refine the will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, a strong body not only increases the efficiency of Magical Power enhancement, greatly aids the strong will required for Dao Heart levels, but also boosts practical combat ability in the Qi Refinement Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Dao Heart and Magical Power are the foundation of immortal cultivation, then the physical strength trained in PE class is the foundation of that foundation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, waves of light swept over the bodies of the students present, displaying their physical strength data on a large screen not far away, ranked from high to low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1st place, Qian Shen, physical strength level 1.15\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2nd place, Bai Zhenzhen, physical strength level 1.13\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3rd place, He Dayou, physical strength level 1.12\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu didn't find his own score until he looked at the 19th spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>19th place, Zhang Yu, physical strength level 0.82\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the continuous development of immortal cultivation technology in Kunxu, various data and indicators have become more and more refined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, physical strength is not only quantified but is also re-tested every PE class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And like Dao Heart, this indicator can only reach a maximum of level 10 in the Qi Refinement Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although physical strength is not a key indicator for breaking through to a higher immortal realm, it affects the cultivator's efficiency and combat power, and forms an important foundation of immortal cultivation. It accounts for 150 points out of the 650 points in the immortal cultivation subject.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Has my physical strength fallen to 19th place?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu looked at his results, and in his mind recalled how recently the progress of his physical strength had been constantly surpassed by those around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the classmates around him took out syringes and jabbed them into their arms, injecting various enhancement supplements into their bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After these supplements from different brands entered the body, they not only improved the strength of muscles and bones but also increased training efficiency by several times to more than ten times—an essential drug for first-year high school students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, you can skip a day of training, but you cannot skip a day of injections. Top students often take eight or more shots a day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu saw Bai Zhenzhen not far away inject a total of nine shots into her buttocks, arms, and thighs all at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But compared to the many big, bulky people around her, Bai Zhenzhen looked much smaller. Zhang Yu recalled that this was because their physical training directions differed, so the resulting body shapes were also different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that Zhang Yu hadn't made any move to inject, PE teacher Wang Hai frowned and walked over: \"Zhang Yu, how many days have you gone without a functional enhancement shot?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu didn't dare say he had no money—he knew that in Songyang High School, that was as shameful as having poor grades. He only dared to bring it up when talking to a close friend like Bai Zhenzhen who knew his background.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the fragmented memories in his mind told him that the original body had suffered from overdosing on drugs, putting heavy strain on the internal organs and cardiovascular system, leading to several fainting spells and now endangering his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Zhang Yu responded dismissively, \"I want to try going without drugs…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who would have thought that upon hearing this, Wang Hai's brow furrowed even deeper, and his voice boomed like thunder: \"Did you watch those natural body-tempering videos promoted by those so-called influencers who can't handle the pain of taking drugs again? That's all a scam—how can you keep up without taking drugs?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look at how many ranks you've dropped. If this keeps up, you'll be kicked out of the model class in next month's exam.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spoke with an expression of disappointment, \"Do you think I'm telling you to take drugs and temper your body for my sake? If you take the drugs, it's not like I'll grow any muscle.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, he casually pointed at a student in the distance: \"Look at Qian Shen—twelve shots of Dragon-Elephant Formula a day to grow muscle and bone, two shots of painkillers to suppress the pain of flesh tearing and regrowing, two shots of Taotie Booster to speed up metabolism and absorption of immortal elements from food, and he stuffs down fifteen jin a day to gain weight…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In just three months, his physical strength skyrocketed from 0.13 to the current 1.15, making him the strongest physique in the first year—equals twenty years of your natural body tempering.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wang Hai spoke, Zhang Yu recalled how Qian Shen had transformed from a scrawny kid under 1.7 meters three months ago into a little giant over two meters tall and weighing over three hundred jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai then pointed to another student: \"Look at Zhao Tianxing—he used to be worse than you, but the day before yesterday his physical strength broke through to 1.00. Now his blood is truly like lead and mercury, his arteries are sclerosed, and his heart has tripled in size…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After casually pointing around at a few students, Wang Hai sighed, \"Zhang Yu, I'm only telling you all this because I can see that your physical strength used to be in the top ten, your talent isn't bad, and your drug tolerance is outstanding…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Wang Hai's earnest and patient manner, Zhang Yu could feel his concern, but whether it was because he had no money or because he feared death, he was unwilling to start taking injections now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was thinking about how to explain himself, he saw Wang Hai pull a box of medicine out of the bag beside him: \"As they say, thirty percent training, seventy percent diet, and the remaining ninety percent depends on how you take your shots.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the latest Divine Elephant Strength Booster from the Vajra Sect—top-tier sect quality guaranteed, one shot equals ten.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll be straight with you: this stuff was still in the lab. I got it from a good buddy. Since you've got talent, I'll sell it to you at twenty percent off—ten bottles for 8800…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Wang Hai peddle medicine to him, Zhang Yu now fully remembered: more than half of the various physique-enhancing supplements that students in the class ate or injected were bought from Wang Hai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this kind of situation was normal at Songyang High School—after all, medicine and body training went hand in hand. Every physical education teacher was not only an excellent body-tempering expert but also an outstanding pharmaceutical salesperson, often backed by multiple medical supply channels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhang Yu could neither afford these things nor could his body handle the drugs, so he could only think of brushing it off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Zhang Yu making excuses and hesitating, Wang Hai snorted coldly, put the medicine back, and said with a face full of disappointment, \"Then you're on your own.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the PE teacher turn and walk away to instruct and sell to other students, Zhang Yu sighed helplessly and thought to himself, \"What kind of place is this—even PE class is this hard?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, a young boy walked over and sidled up to Zhang Yu, asking, \"Did Wang Hai try to sell you something again?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The student speaking looked clean-cut and handsome, like a boy next door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu's mind also brought up memories related to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He is… Zhou Tianyi.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Tianyi was the eating and self-study partner Zhang Yu had met on the very first day of school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had eaten meals together for three months, studied together for three months, and in the process built a fragile friendship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as the memories surged, the first thing Zhang Yu thought of was the other's grade ranking. \"Rank 25 in the grade—qualified enough to eat at the same table as me… Huh? Since when did I develop this kind of grade discrimination?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu felt that as the memories continued to merge, he was being influenced more and more, growing increasingly fixated on academic rankings at this school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, hearing Zhou Tianyi's question, he nodded and said, \"Yeah, he wanted to sell me Divine Elephant Strength.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And you didn't buy it?\" Seeing Zhang Yu nod, Zhou Tianyi hissed, \"Aren't you afraid old Wang will mess with you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mess with me?\" Zhang Yu said. \"Just for not buying medicine? That's a bit much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Tianyi shook his head repeatedly. \"Sigh, do you want to hear a piece of gossip about Wang Hai?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Forget it, I'm not really into gossip.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu turned and walked toward the training equipment nearby, intending to familiarize himself with his own body and the content of the PE class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Tianyi continued, \"A teacher complained that Wang Hai was jerking off in the office next door, and when he came, the shock cracked the ceiling.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu stopped in his tracks. He wasn't a gossipy person, but such a ridiculous piece of gossip… he had to see what was really going on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou said, \"Wang Hai explained later that he wasn't doing that. The banging sound was him disciplining a disobedient student.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Later, I asked students from the two previous years—turns out Wang Hai has a long history of physically punishing poor-performing students.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Especially if your grades drop and you don't buy his medicine, he'll even lead a bullying campaign against you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard that a few years ago, a student was driven to jump off a building because of him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the words \"jump off a building,\" Zhang Yu's gaze suddenly sharpened. \"And Wang Hai got away with it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Tianyi said nonchalantly, \"Wang Hai's teaching results have always been excellent. He's the star PE teacher at Songyang High School. He's trained three students who ranked first in the city for physical strength in the college entrance exam. Some say he has access to drugs from major sects that are still in the lab.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if the school really doesn't want to use him anymore, most of the students and their parents wouldn't agree—they're all counting on Wang Hai for medicine to help improve their physical strength.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, he looked at Zhang Yu and warned, \"If you keep refusing to buy medicine and your grades don't improve, you'll probably end up being targeted by him too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Zhang Yu's furrowed brow, Zhou Tianyi asked curiously, \"Hey... you used to inject a lot before, so why did you suddenly stop buying? You're not out of money, are you? Want me to lend you some?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sensing the sincerity in the other's eyes, Zhang Yu gave a helpless smile. \"No need.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Really no need?\" Zhou Tianyi said. \"How about you use my dose today?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu naturally shook his head repeatedly—he was really afraid that if he injected a few more times, he might just drop dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the memories in his mind, this world was not lacking in people who had been severely injured, disabled, or even died from drug overload. In fact, every year at Songyang High School, there were students who were seriously injured from overusing drugs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet even so, a steady stream of students still pursued physical strength through drug use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the original body had already shown signs of being unable to bear the burden since last week.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about how the original body not only owed a huge debt of seven hundred thousand but also left him with this body, Zhang Yu sighed inwardly again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the two were whispering, a cold gaze suddenly swept over. They heard Wang Hai shout, \"Don't talk in whispers during PE class.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu and Zhou Tianyi immediately stopped chatting and each began their training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu approached a large iron ball, his muscles tensed, and with a sudden burst of strength, he lifted the hundred-kilogram iron ball.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, with the contraction and expansion of his muscles, he moved the large iron ball around to various positions of his body as if it were a toy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the iron ball flew up, down, and spun around, Zhang Yu felt his blood and qi surging, and various parts of his body gradually warmed up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is a warm-up...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire process seemed to be etched into his flesh and blood like instinct. Zhang Yu completed the warm-up training almost without having to think.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the subsequent training, his mastery over this body deepened, and related memories kept surfacing in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The body refinement in the Qi Refining stage mainly involves tempering muscles and bones, breaking through limits through repeated practice, and ultimately raising the physical strength level.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The specific method... for example, the most widely spread technique among high school students is the method known as the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Building.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Thirty-Six Forms of Body Building is a body-refining technique created specifically for high school teaching by the Ten Great Sects. The thirty-six movements, combined with different equipment, can fully develop the body and effectively improve physical strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the immortal cultivation framework established by the Ten Great Sects, all martial arts and dao techniques are divided into levels 1 to 100.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, most students at Songyang High School, after studying for a week or two, can successfully get started and practice the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Building—a basic martial art—to level 1.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if they can continue to raise the level, the training effect of the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Building will become stronger and more incredible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this is obviously not easy. In Zhang Yu's memory, in the three months since school started, only Bai Zhenzhen had managed to raise the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Building to level 2.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is precisely because of this that Bai Zhenzhen, with nine injections a day, can maintain her physical strength score as second in the entire grade, closely following Qian Shen, who takes sixteen injections a day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The level of the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Building affects the efficiency of physical strength improvement, but the key that truly determines strength and PE grades is still physical strength itself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Speaking of which, my physical strength is 0.82 levels, and I can casually toss around things weighing several hundred jin. And the highest physical strength in the Qi Refining stage can reach level 10, while after Foundation Establishment, it can reach level 20... The gap between people here is huge.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, Zhang Yu just wanted to train casually to get familiar with the PE class content and his own body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as he practiced the sequences of the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Building one after another, he became more and more serious and meticulous, as if there was an instinct in his body urging him, encouraging him to keep training persistently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Muscles were constantly torn, bones were constantly impacted. With each repeated practice, his body, after repeated abuse, finally produced a warm current from within, silently repairing the damage in his flesh and blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the mana inside Zhang Yu's body. Just like in the past few months of PE class, his body was ravaged under heavy pressure, then continuously repaired by mana, becoming stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huff!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two hours passed in the blink of an eye. Zhang Yu deeply exhaled, feeling sore all over, as if his flesh and blood were about to come apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No wonder they have to take painkillers...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked up at Bai Zhenzhen, who was still sweating profusely in the distance, and at the other classmates who were also training frantically on the other side. A sense of urgency instinctively rose in his heart, again urging him to continue squeezing his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I trained this crazily in my original world, I'd probably have died from overtraining long ago, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's only because there are various drugs supported by immortal cultivation techniques here, as well as mana, that I can keep going and get stronger.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the pain coming from all over his body, as well as the instinct still craving for training and strength, Zhang Yu couldn't help but marvel at how deep the obsession must have been in the original Zhang Yu's heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, as the training continued, this instinct deep within the human body seemed to be fading away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, the future path must be chosen by Zhang Yu himself at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the morning physical education class was completely over, Zhang Yu lay exhausted on the field, surrounded by a group of classmates who were still bouncing with energy and crazily training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu sighed, thinking this must be the difference between using medicine and not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, he caught sight of the dark patch on his palm, and noticed that less than a quarter of it remained unfilled with black.\u003C\u002Fp>",3192,"2026-05-29T04:54:22.303Z","2026-06-01T04:29:11.989Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","9dfe85becc54c0763122c8667fa95744c3c3ece77bfa18321951ab2decb0ff50","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-4","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-2",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]