[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-305":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},164174,323,"Chapter 305","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-305",305,"\u003Cp>Zhang Yu, while browsing the various goods on the platform, couldn't help but say to himself: \"Fuji! Didn't you tell me before that the immortals of the Ten Great Sects wanted to recruit more people to compete?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, damn it, not only are they reducing recruitment, they're even stopping it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fuji sighed: \"The immortals definitely want the competition among those climbing from below to become fiercer. They drain themselves, drain their whole families, sacrifice everything for the competition, only then can the profits of the Ten Great Sects become higher and higher, and they can comfortably sit high above the clouds.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Otherwise, you wouldn't even have a chance to take that Foundation Establishment qualification exam.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But now the Ten Great Sects are cutting back more and more. It can only mean... there are probably too many people in the sect's hidden realms.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fuji said thoughtfully: \"After the Ten Great Sects established the current college entrance exam, university, and corporate system, every year they recruit supremely talented cultivation prodigies. Among them, a Golden Core cultivator can live 400 years, a Nascent Soul cultivator can live nearly a thousand years, and breaking through further, like Soul Transformation or Void Refining, each lives longer than the last.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thinking about it this way, the population within the sects indeed has consumption far lower than growth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But what Zhang Pianpian said about the Ten Great Sects stopping recruitment and the world splitting into two—I don't think that's entirely accurate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It should be temporary.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once a batch of those above dies off, the Ten Great Sects will definitely start expanding recruitment again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However... this might take a hundred years, or even several hundred?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fuji suddenly said with emotion: \"I understand now. This must be cyclical.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Expand recruitment for a while, cut back for a while—all of this is related to the population changes in the Ten Great Sects.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But for the immortals, this might just be a brief fluctuation, a small ripple, but for those below the sects like you, it's a matter of several generations, a dozen generations, or even dozens of generations.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And because the sects' cutbacks have transmitted down to the corporate and university levels, in the end it might affect the entire Kunxu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening to Fuji's deductions, Zhang Yu cursed inwardly: \"What an unlucky time to be born.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then asked: \"Then there's no way to revoke the wish of this ritual?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I end up dead, I'll definitely take you with me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fuji gave a helpless chuckle and said: \"Ordinary wishes would be one thing, but this really can't be helped. It's all because you were clever back then and personally made a plan to fulfill the wish.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After the ritual recognized it, it's now fully operational. Having come this far, it's long since beyond my ability to revoke.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This involves the essence of the ritual—the ritual rules set down by the Evil God Kings.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu sighed inwardly, but he wouldn't regret it. Back then, if he hadn't had a sudden inspiration and temporarily stalled Fuji's wish, he probably wouldn't even have made it to the present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At this point, whether it's the immortals or the Evil God Kings, none of them are something he can influence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All I can do is focus on improving myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the dazzling array of goods in the network, Zhang Yu thought: \"My cultivation technique's training speed is already frighteningly fast.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What I need most now is to further improve my basic stats.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that thought, Zhang Yu began opening various products and services...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half an hour later, the first thing Zhang Yu bought arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the packaging box opened, a large box of fluorescent jade coins appeared before Zhang Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These jade coins were shaped like round coins, a verdant green in color with flocculent textures on the surface, containing wisps of hazy spiritual energy. These were the low-grade spirit stones Zhang Yu had purchased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu thought to himself: \"Low-grade spirit stones, mid-grade spirit stones, high-grade spirit stones... They were once the currency used in Kunxu, but now if you tried to pay with these, you'd probably be cursed out and then refused.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long before the existence of spirit coins—a form of online payment—Kunxu's monetary system had already undergone several evolutions, and spirit stones as currency had long been phased out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, because of the spiritual energy they contained, mid-grade and low-grade spirit stones were treated as cultivation resources, while high-grade spirit stones, in addition to their cultivation value, also had collectible value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as the spirit realm network became more developed, and as the formations, spiritual energy pathways, and various facilities in buildings continued to advance, spiritual energy was piped into every dormitory and connected to every household, so mid- and low-grade spirit stones were used even less.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, as spirit stones dropped in price, naturally there were some people who liked to save money. They'd rather go through a bit of trouble and buy spirit stones to absorb spiritual energy for cultivation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu thought: \"But precisely because there are always poor people buying them, the price of spirit stones has gradually stabilized within a certain range.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that thought, he picked up a low-grade spirit stone and swallowed it in one gulp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his Primordial Embryo Breathing Sutra circulated, threads of spiritual energy in the spirit stone were directly extracted, merging into Zhang Yu's mana cycle, where he refined it drop by drop into his own mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason Zhang Yu wanted to buy low-grade spirit stones was naturally to increase his efficiency in absorbing spiritual energy, allowing him to refine more mana each day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, during the day he had to attend classes, and at night he worked on the construction site, leaving him very little time to absorb spiritual energy in the dormitory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had seen similar products like the Spiritual Array Stone—by possessing one, it was equivalent to carrying an array node, allowing you to enjoy spiritual infusion no matter where you went within the university city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this approach was expensive on one hand, and on the other, it would allow others to calculate his monthly spiritual absorption volume.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So after searching around, Zhang Yu chose to swallow low-grade Spirit Stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, he swallowed ten low-grade Spirit Stones in one breath and felt them transform into something like a small furnace, continuously releasing spiritual energy in his belly to supply his mana growth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sea of Qi Spirit Root expanded and contracted, coordinating with the Hunyuan Embryonic Breathing Sutra to crazily devour the spiritual energy, giving Zhang Yu a feeling of exhilaration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he continued swallowing Spirit Stones, increasing from ten to fifteen, and finally after reaching the twenty-third stone, he sensed that the release and absorption of spiritual energy had reached a limit—as if a small spiritual vein had grown in his stomach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Absorbing spiritual energy from twenty-three Spirit Stones simultaneously—this is the maximum efficiency of my current breathing technique.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I cultivate like this every day by swallowing Spirit Stones, I can improve my breathing efficiency even while attending class or working.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But cultivating this way… although it’s cheaper than carrying a Spiritual Array Stone and enjoying constant spiritual infusion, it still costs a lot every month.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu calculated that if he cultivated by swallowing Spirit Stones daily, he would need to spend about 0.48 Spirit Coins per month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But thinking of the entry requirements for the Ten Great Sects, Zhang Yu understood this expense was only the beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the Dao Arts Department service area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu sat cross-legged on a cushion, surrounded by flashes of lightning that continuously struck into his body, stimulating the Sea of Qi Spirit Root in his dantian, increasing his Spirit Root fusion degree, and enhancing his five senses…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dao Arts student casting the lightning technique asked, “Student Zhang, how do you feel?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu said in a low voice, “Increase the intensity a bit more.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other smiled and said, “Got it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Student Zhang, have you gotten a membership card?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For Dao Arts enhancements like the Divine Thunder Wave, it’s best to do it three times a week, each session at least half an hour.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you sign up for a card now, you’ll get a thirty percent discount…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu asked, “How much does a membership card cost?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other replied with a smile, “Just 1 Spirit Coin. Even if you don’t use up your Divine Thunder Wave sessions, you can try other Dao Arts services…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu’s account balance: 9.45 Spirit Coins\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Teaching floor of the Artifact Refining Department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yun Jing placed a jade box in front of Zhang Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two had been in contact ever since Zhang Yu helped Yun Jing chase away some classmates last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Zhang Yu had come to him hoping to get a discount and save some money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yun Jing said, “This is the cultivation-type magic artifact you wanted—the Nine Hells Mountain-Suppressing Belt.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Once you wear it, you can channel Earth Vein Primordial Qi to nourish your physical body. As a harmless primordial Qi, it serves as a lubricant between flesh and mana, improving the efficiency of using mana to enhance your body.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Additionally, through Earth Vein Primordial Qi, the Nine Hells Mountain-Suppressing Belt can impose up to fifty times gravity on your body, helping you temper your flesh and squeeze out your physical potential.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For many wealthy people, cultivation-type magic artifacts—or cultivation-type Dharma vestiges—are essential for body refinement.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu understood that body refinement at the Foundation Establishment stage was inseparable from mana enhancement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially as Spirit Root fusion increased, with the Spirit Root and meridians spreading throughout the body, the flesh and mana gradually merged, turning the cultivator’s body from a mere mortal form into a transcendent physique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nine Hells Mountain-Suppressing Belt before him could improve the efficiency of mana enhancing the body, thereby boosting the effects of body refinement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could also further temper the body through additional gravity, forcing out the cultivator’s potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu opened the jade box, looked at the belt inside, and asked, “What’s the price?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yun Jing said, “This is a product developed by the department in cooperation with a company. The best discount I can give you is ten percent off, which means 1.35 Spirit Coins per month.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Zhang Yu put on the belt, a clear female voice came from the Nine Hells Mountain-Suppressing Belt: “Welcome to the Nine Hells Mountain-Suppressing Belt. Detected unfamiliar user eye skeleton. Please agree to connect.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Zhang Yu's eye socket vision, a notification was tapped open by him. As he selected \"Agree,\" a small belt tag appeared in his eye socket vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he tapped open the belt, the user interface of the Nine Hells Mountain-Suppressing Belt appeared before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Detected that the user has not yet registered. Please complete new user registration before using this product.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Zhang Yu completed user registration, another notification appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Found that you have an unused coupon...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu took a look and found that it was exactly the 10% off coupon Yun Jing mentioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moments later, as Zhang Yu moved his mind, streams of Earth Vein Qi surged from the belt into his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the nourishment of this Earth Vein Qi, his entire flesh and blood seemed to have an indescribable difference; the boost to his mana became smoother, silkier, and more effective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Zhang Yu's eye socket vision, there were also gravity options from 1x to 50x, as well as things like Running Mode, Weight-Bearing Mode, Climbing Mode, and Custom Mode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through cyclic and localized adjustments of body gravity, one could further enhance the body refining effect and conduct targeted strengthening training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu first experienced the 5x gravity mode, instantly feeling a heaviness all over his body, and his internal organs began to feel as if they were sagging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After trying a few different modes and testing the body refining effect, Zhang Yu nodded: \"This one will do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu's account balance: 8.1 Spirit Coins.\u003C\u002Fp>",2005,"2026-05-29T04:54:42.391Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","87c3e9b17278b877f78026e36c30e64d02242ad4eaaf43a53671cf0d9d149adc","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-306","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-304",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]