[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-354":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},164223,323,"Chapter 354: Trend of the Times, Righteous Path of Civil Engineering","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-354",354,"\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan occasionally watched Ying Xin temper the materials, occasionally watched Gongshu Jin’s construction movements, and then stared over at the other students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the help of his three-eyed divine ability, he had an all-around field of vision, allowing him to clearly observe each student’s actions and condition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My construction ability… isn’t that strong.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After all, most of the time I’m no longer on the construction site, but giving massages to people who come out of the site.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan memorized the students’ movements, imitated their movements, and repeated their movements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Yu Xinghan was like an excellent tailor, pasting together individual construction steps and then stitching them onto his own site.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the next moment, he suddenly froze slightly: “Zhang Yu, this kid…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his observation, Zhang Yu was actually sitting in place, stuffing rebar and cement into his own stomach by the mouthful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s this guy doing? Mooching food and drink at the exam site?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this the time for that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, on the other construction site, Zhang Yu felt the building materials he had thrown into his own intestines and thought to himself: “Ying Xin’s choice was right.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We really do have to improve the quality of the building materials ourselves.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu’s entire body began to surge with magical power, his muscles expanding and contracting, unleashing unparalleled elasticity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mountain Peak True Form Chapter—Push!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, along with the infusion of magical power, Zhang Yu’s muscles and internal organs suddenly swelled, like an inflating balloon, violently expanding into a giant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he opened his mouth wide and swallowed a large amount of building materials into his stomach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhang Yu did not intend to digest these materials; he wanted to use his stomach and intestines, forged from No. 15 Secret Steel, to reprocess these building materials, sharply enhancing their strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the transformation of the building materials in his belly, Zhang Yu’s gaze did not relax in the slightest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This alone isn’t enough…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu murmured to himself: “In this exam site, there are people better than me at martial skeletons, at wealth, at experience, and even at Dao techniques.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I want to win, I have to fully exploit my own advantages, use the most genuine, most civil-engineering power within me to forge this bunker indestructible!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a low shout, Zhang Yu’s aura suddenly surged, and one by one, formless guardians appeared behind him, catching the building materials he spat out and starting to lay the foundation on the site.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Yuanheng had been watching Zhang Yu’s condition all along, after all, the latter was the student closest to him in strength during this exam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Zhang Yu condense one humanoid aura after another, he felt somewhat dismissive: “What a waste of mana.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As walls of rebar and concrete rose from the ground, Zhang Yu’s formless guardians moved through them, and gradually his construction team became hard to see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed quickly amid the sounds of hammering and collision on the exam site.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every student was giving their all, displaying the essence of what they had learned in their first year, and pouring it all without reservation into the construction site before them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the bunkers gradually rise, watching each student’s actions, Tuli Shan grew more and more curious and eager for the final result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the three-hour construction period was about to end, fewer and fewer students were still working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vast majority had already completed all their construction tasks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the frantic hammering still coming from Zhang Yu’s bunker, Gongshu Jin thought to himself: “Could it be that he consumed too much mana earlier, lowering his construction efficiency, and fell behind?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the three-hour construction period ended,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the noise from Zhang Yu’s site also stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked out of the bunker with a trace of regret on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, everyone guessed whether Zhang Yu had failed to fully finish the interior of the bunker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Tuli Shan’s eye prosthetics flickered slightly, and a young man dressed in a Daoist robe, looking like an ancient scholar, appeared before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Director Gao’s spirit projection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao said calmly, “How is the situation?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tuli Shan replied respectfully, “Construction just finished, and we are about to conduct an inspection.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one, assistants and other civil engineering teachers monitoring the exam entered each bunker, inspecting the conditions and recording them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching this, Director Gao nodded slightly and said casually, \"Mm, I'm here to check on the first-year grades.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tu Lishan could sense that Director Gao was in a bad mood, and considering the date, he guessed it was probably related to the end-of-term grades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao was indeed dissatisfied with the end-of-term results across all grades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, among the Civil Engineering Department's War Faction and Peace Faction students, the War Faction was behind in five grades' results, having lost first place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Ji Yuanshu took first place in the first year, then overall it would be six grades falling behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao asked, \"What are the win rates of Zhang Yu and Gong Shu Jin?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tu Lishan hesitated for a moment and said, \"It's hard to say.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao frowned. \"Then I'll take a look myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, many students gathered outside the construction site, nervously waiting for the acceptance inspection and the subsequent ten waves of attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The inspection was completed quickly. Ying Xin looked at her 100% completion rate and breathed a slight sigh of relief. \"Now it's all about how many waves I can withstand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spirit world projections rose around the construction site. In everyone's visual perception, flickering bands of light surrounded the site, displaying a \"no entry\" warning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Tu Lishan announced the start of the final stage of the exam, the first wave of attacks arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the surrounding barriers rose, massive pipelines extended from underground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, like a mountain torrent, furious waves like giant dragons crashed towards the bunkers on site.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Terrifying force surged within the giant waves. The raging torrents slammed into the bunkers time and again, like battering rams striking repeatedly, making many students nervous, afraid that their own bunkers would be washed away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten minutes later, the tide gradually receded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tu Lishan nodded slightly and began the second wave of attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the booming sounds of explosions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the bunkers trembled slightly. As the formation of the simulated exam site activated, the ground beneath the bunkers undulated violently, as if stirring up monstrous waves in the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the violent tremors, each bunker seemed to experience a magnitude 7 or 8 earthquake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some students looked worriedly at the cracked walls of their works.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some students breathed a sigh of relief seeing their works as steady as a mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One minute later, as the simulated earthquake ended, none of the bunkers on site had collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the third wave of attacks, violent explosions erupted, and visible shockwaves swept across the bunkers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was during this wave that some bunkers' walls finally began to collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time the fourth wave of attacks ended, only four bunkers remained intact in shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the outer wall of one of them had cracked, revealing large patches of bloodstains within the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching this, Tu Lishan was slightly surprised. \"Ying Xin actually made it to this wave?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Noticing the bloodstains in the wall, his eyes flickered. \"A blood sacrifice?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao's visual display showed Ying Xin's data. He nodded slightly and said, \"During the process of reforging materials, she added her own essence blood and the family cremains stored inside her body, completing a blood sacrifice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao smiled slightly, and in his eyes seemed to appear those students who resembled Ying Xin—her father, grandfather, and even earlier ancestors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Truly worthy of a sixth-generation civil engineer—already mastering the blood sacrifice technique on site as a freshman.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the fifth wave of attacks, massive fireballs rose and engulfed the remaining bunkers one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Ying Xin's bunker was mostly shattered, Gong Shu Jin's bunker also burst open a large hole, revealing a segment of spine within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood vessels and nerves from that spine spread throughout the entire wall, breathing in the spiritual energy of the formation as if it had become the heart of the structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tu Lishan’s eyes moved. \"He inserted his own Vajra Mystic Spine spiritual bone into the formation's eye?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao nodded appreciatively. \"Oh? A living stake technique? That's a sophomore-level construction skill. I didn't expect he already mastered it, and even managed to embed his own spiritual bone into it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the sixth wave of attacks, with lightning flashing, bolts of thunder and fire covered the entire construction site.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the continuous explosions, shockwaves swept in all directions, leveling all the remaining ruins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching his spine vanish in the explosion, Gong Shu Jin couldn't help but bleed inwardly, roaring in his mind, \"My Vajra Mystic Spine!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But thinking that he had used his own spine to drive the foundation pile and only managed third place, he couldn't help staring fiercely at the two remaining bunkers, as if trying to see what kind of civil engineering techniques they had used to stand strong until now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tu Li Shan's gaze shifted slightly, and the construction records and acceptance records of Ji Yuan Shu appeared in his ocular remains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Tu Li Shan had first seen these records, he felt a surge of surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, reviewing them again, he couldn't help but let out another sigh of admiration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Truly...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the acceptance records, inside the basement of the bunker, Ji Yuan Shu's corpse sat cross-legged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He actually buried himself inside, using his own body to suppress qi fortune, gather spiritual essence, and strengthen the formation to its limit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No... it's more than that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As early as when he was guiding the spiritual veins, he had already been constructing a lucky grave; at that time, he planned to bury himself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tu Li Shan's gaze swept over patches of broken walls and ruins, as well as the simulated spiritual veins underground: \"At first, he only used the lucky grave and the buried corpse to suppress qi fortune, occupying the most spiritual essence in the vein.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But after each bunker collapsed, Ji Yuan Shu's bunker gathered an additional share of spiritual essence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the essence of the finance department's path of qi fortune: for every extra resource gained, you can move even more resources, eventually snowballing to the point of shifting the entire world's momentum...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At this very moment, ninety percent of the spiritual essence in the simulated vein has already converged into Ji Yuan Shu's bunker.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tu Li Shan looked outside the examination ground, at the figure belonging to Ji Yuan Shu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Ji Yuan Shu's soul was preserved in the spirit realm, and what appeared here was his spirit realm projection; however, the surrounding students were used to observing the world through ocular remains, and the vast majority did not notice this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Tu Li Shan could also sense that the medical company's emergency team was already waiting outside the examination ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the young doctors said, \"Captain, how much longer do we have to wait?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leading doctor said calmly, \"We can go in to save people once the exam is over.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young doctor asked curiously, \"How could someone rich enough to hire us die in the exam hall?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leading doctor said casually, \"For rich people, dying a few times a year is normal. It's not like the poor, who can't afford to die.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In our line of work, remember this: don't care how the client died; just bring their physical body back to life each time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao coldly stared at Ji Yuan Shu's bunker, feeling its stability under the blessing of qi fortune and the formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, a proud voice came: \"Old Gao, how do you think my student's mastery of qi fortune is?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A spirit realm projection appeared before Tu Li Shan and Director Gao, exactly the image of Ji Yuan Shu's master, Lin, the representative of the Peace Faction in the Civil Engineering Department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao gave the other a cold glance and said flatly, \"Not the orthodox path of civil engineering.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Lin sighed, \"What orthodoxy is there in civil engineering? No matter how good your construction, how refined your materials, how clever your design, how can it compare to qi fortune? How can it defy heaven's will?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You should know that throughout history, no fortress, however impregnable, has ever fallen to structural collapse; they all fell to human calamity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No matter how skilled your civil engineering, if you don't combine it with finance and understand qi fortune, you'll end up as nothing more than someone's rag, used and thrown away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao snorted and said, \"The finance department turns the world into one big casino. If everyone gambles, who will actually build Kunxu? The sect's goal is to build Kunxu, to prosper Kunxu—that is the great trend.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't try to pressure me with big words. Are you the one building Kunxu? And you talk to me about the great trend? Where the money is, there the great trend lies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Lin sneered, looked at the final two bunkers still standing on the field, and said flatly, \"I have more outstanding students under me than you, more projects in my hands, more bank loans for my companies. If the great trend isn't with me, where else could it be?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just like on this exam field right now, all the spiritual essence has converged to Ji Yuan Shu. He is the one favored by qi fortune, the direction of the great trend.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How much longer can your orthodox civil engineering hold out?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2287,"2026-05-29T04:54:42.391Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","1635df0d709812d3e8b0b6b00a9d2e7c82c4057123c3e740950a4a50b5da5af3","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-355","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-353",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]