[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-332":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},164201,323,"Chapter 332: Grave Mystery Box","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-332",332,"\u003Cp>By mid-April, students Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, Li Xiao, and others had already made their way down to the tenth underground floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This cemetery renovation project, in addition to first-year students, also had many outstanding upperclassmen sign up to participate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, the one walking at the very front of the line right now was a sixth-year student named Tian Yang, who was also responsible for leading, supervising, and coordinating the work of these students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu walked along the wide underground corridor; the further he went, the more he could feel the concentration of spiritual energy in the air growing denser.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As far as Zhang Yu knew, the underground spiritual veins beneath Wanfa University City were not naturally formed—rather, during the original construction of the university city, by adjusting the terrain and channeling spiritual veins, a total of eighty-eight veins had been gathered here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The corridor they were walking through now led to one of those spiritual veins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, a massive metal door appeared before everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sensing the faint flow of mana seeping from within the door, Zhang Yu could feel powerful array energy surging on the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tian Yang, the leader, said: “Ahead is the cemetery zone. Everyone, line up, go through one by one, don’t crowd together.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Zhang Yu’s eye display, a line of text also appeared on the gate: Huilong Garden Mana Production Limited Liability Company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu understood inwardly—‘cemetery’ and ‘underground cemetery’ were just folk names; this company name was the official designation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, as the sealed door opened, a stream of cold air rushed toward them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, the air around everyone seemed to suddenly grow thick and sticky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as Zhang Yu walked in step by step, not only did the air become thicker, but he could also feel the humidity around him increasing; spiritual energy began to float in the air like droplets of water, forming a colorful dense mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu took a deep breath. As his internal mana circulated, he felt a massive influx of spiritual energy, his mana increased by a tiny bit, and the flesh and blood within his body received a measure of nourishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan beside him sighed: “No wonder this project has sign-up requirements. Working here… even just breathing is a perk.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu nodded slightly upon hearing this, thinking to himself that it was fortunate the spiritual energy on the second floor wasn’t this valuable—otherwise, they’d probably have to bring oxygen tanks in to work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the increasing density of spiritual energy, the air temperature was also dropping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu speculated that this was likely to dissipate heat for the corpse-pieces that operated day and night, circulating mana and absorbing spiritual energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, a notification and a series of options appeared in Zhang Yu’s eye display.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Welcome to Huilong Garden!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tour Guide\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worship Relatives and Friends\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Product Display\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Purchase Merchandise\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Contact Us\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recruitment Information\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu casually selected ‘Tour Guide,’ and saw the entire map of Huilong Garden appear before him, marked with zones: Space-Saving Zone, Universal Love Zone, Gratitude Zone, Family Harmony Zone…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is the Space-Saving Zone?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu looked at it curiously and came to understand that the so-called Space-Saving Zone was designed to save space: after removing unnecessary parts from low-value corpse-pieces, they would be structurally optimized and compressed, then stored in corpse cabinets, connecting them to the breathing cluster with the smallest possible footprint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Li Xiao said, “Hey, look at the mystery boxes they’re selling here—there are some good things in them!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Zhang Yu also looked at the merchandise purchase option in his eye display and thought to himself: “Discarded corpse-pieces, after decomposition, can be sold as mystery boxes?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the various possible contents of the mystery boxes—flesh, hands and feet, meridians, dantian… Zhang Yu couldn’t help but frown: “They can even sell this kind of stuff?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan said, “Yeah, these corpse-pieces here run twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The organs removed from scrapped corpse-pieces—how old must they be? Older than me. Can they even be used?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiao couldn’t help saying, “If you could pull a golden core, or even an organ from a Nascent Soul…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan said dismissively, “Little Li, why do you always have this kind of opportunist mentality? You’re drawing from a mystery box, but the person filling the box isn’t really blind. If there were real bargains, would they ever let you get them?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In the path of immortality, the most taboo thing is this shortcut mentality. Shortcuts are for the rich. For us poor people cultivating immortality, we must be down-to-earth: step by step we borrow, step by step we repay; don’t always think about getting rich overnight.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, think about it—how many corpse-pieces are scrapped here every year? Can they be disposed of just by selling mystery boxes? There must be other processing channels. Who knows what kind of origins and qualities all those corpse-pieces and organs flowing in and out have…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Yu Xinghan was holding forth, a voice suddenly interrupted him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Classmate, our Wanfa University is a legitimate university, and Huilong Garden has always been a legally operated cemetery. It’s not like Youming University, which sells living people as corpse-pieces. Every organ here, every corpse-piece, comes from a lawful death, and their origin and destination are completely clear.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone looked toward the young man who had spoken, and the team leader Tian Yang quickly said, \"Manager Sun, this junior schoolmate of mine doesn’t understand anything—he’s just blurting out nonsense. Don’t pay him any mind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man called Manager Sun glanced coldly, shot a look at Yu Xinghan without saying more, and then said to Tian Yang, \"This time the cemetery grounds to be repaired are quite extensive. I appreciate everyone’s hard work.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After assigning the tasks, Manager Sun left, and Tian Yang began to distribute the work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In no time, arrows and individual task assignments started appearing in everyone’s eye implants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu followed the arrow’s guidance and continued forward, gradually separating from his classmates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at the dense rows of iron cans on both sides and thought to himself that these must contain the remains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment, Zhang Yu saw a large area of iron cans crushed to the ground, twisted and deformed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All around were heavily damaged ground, formation foundations, spiritual energy circuits, nutrient pipes, spiritual-net cables, surveillance cameras, and other infrastructure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu thought, \"So this is the area I’m assigned to repair?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even the network is cut off?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash went through his eye implants, and the project files and repair blueprints he had downloaded in advance appeared one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Speaking of which… what exactly caused such severe damage here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although the official explanation is that the spiritual energy concentration was too high, causing corpse mutation and generating zombies, neither the universities here in Kunxu nor the companies can be trusted with their surface-level explanations.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu shook his head and temporarily suppressed the random thoughts, preparing to start work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for what to do before work—naturally, he had to take his medicine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, for Zhang Yu, freeloading on food and drink was his main purpose for coming to the worksite; work was just a side benefit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And thanks to Director Gao’s special care, Zhang Yu could still receive up to ten free doses of life-reducing medication every day when he entered the worksite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood-Robbing Powder: temporarily and violently expands blood vessels and meridians, stimulates the dantian and heartbeats, furiously speeding up the circulation of qi, blood, and mana throughout the body…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spirit Root Stimulant: stimulates the spirit root center, increases the sensitivity and thickness of the spirit root, temporarily enhancing the efficiency and endurance of the spirit root…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu then injected one after another of the conventional harsh, potent medicines into his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this time, because he needed to focus on the breathing technique, most of the medicines he chose were related to the circulation of mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sat cross-legged and began to operate the sixth breathing technique of the Qi Meridian Long Flow set—the Superior Foundation Establishment Mana Method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason Zhang Yu chose this breathing technique, besides it being part of the Qi Meridian Long Flow set, was that while absorbing spiritual energy and refining mana, it could also slightly improve the quality of the mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Zhang Yu activated the breathing technique, his mana—already incredibly violent under the drug stimulation—surged through his meridians like a dragon, seeming to let out roaring sounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, his Qi Sea Spirit Root, which had reached a fusion degree of ten-tenths, also became thicker and stronger under the drug stimulation, frantically absorbing the spiritual energy around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dense spiritual energy that had been drifting in the air like patches of colorful clouds now gathered toward Zhang Yu as if sucked in by a tornado.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Too thick… this spiritual energy is too dense…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the spiritual energy that had accumulated frantically in his meridians, now like liquid jade, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but marvel, thinking he hadn’t chosen the wrong project this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After practicing the breathing technique for a while, the Superior Foundation Establishment Mana Method broke through to Level 3.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Zhang Yu waved his hand and shot out bursts of pure Qi, manipulating the Formless Cloud Qi to sweep forward, clearing the site and starting his work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although working this way was a bit slower, Zhang Yu didn’t mind—he would rather earn a little less in order to cultivate the breathing technique while working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So in the following days, Zhang Yu immersed himself in breathing exercises and work, spending most of his time at the worksite, savoring the pleasure of his mana and breathing technique continuously improving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During these days at the worksite, Zhang Yu also ran into Che Yufei and Lion Yunxiang again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to these two senior students, the cemetery project was a \"health-preserving\" project compared to field projects—not only was it much safer, but soaking in the dense spiritual energy all day was also very beneficial to the body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That day, Zhang Yu and Lion Yunxiang walked together toward their assigned areas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they arrived at a fork in the path, Lion Yunxiang said, \"Zhang Yu, can you walk a bit further with me? It’s not far—just a few steps?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh?\" Zhang Yu looked suspiciously at his classmate, who had a rugged face and a lion’s head, and asked, \"You’re… afraid of the cemetery?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s there to be afraid of in a cemetery? Would you be scared in a skeletal warehouse?\" Lion Yunxiang shook his head. \"I’m afraid of people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haven’t you noticed… many of our coworkers are eyeing me covetously?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu: \"Huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Yunxiang sighed: \"Every year, demon descendants who act alone get eaten—sometimes even consumed by several people in turn. The cemetery area, due to its sparse population, is a high-incidence zone for such cases, so I usually try to avoid moving alone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can feel that in the way you look at me, there's none of that desire.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu curled his lip. Although he was also very hungry and craved meat, he truly had no interest in eating intelligent beings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu asked: \"Since you're a demon descendant, why didn't you go to Celestial Demon University?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu remembered that back in Songyang City, almost all the top students from Red Tower had gotten into Celestial Demon University.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Yunxiang shook his head: \"Celestial Demon University assigns majors based on bloodline. I could only enter the Reproduction Department of Celestial Demon University. I didn't like studying that, so I worked hard and got into Myriad Methods University.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they spoke, Zhang Yu had already seen Shi Yunxiang to his workplace, then walked back himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But on the way back, when passing through a severely damaged area without internet or surveillance, Zhang Yu's gaze suddenly sharpened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the all-around perspective provided by his Third Eye ability, he saw a human figure darting out from the darkness, striking at him like a black lightning bolt.\u003C\u002Fp>",2020,"2026-05-29T04:54:42.391Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","486f428952baf14578dcb0ac15a9886486b8b8b6494c3d3f96b1c3183394a88f","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-333","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-331",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]