[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-402":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},164271,323,"Chapter 402: Big Deal","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-402",402,"\u003Cp>Faced with Yin Jiurao's offer of 30 spirit coins, it was completely impossible to say that Zhang Yu was not tempted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to let him sell with complete peace of mind... he also could not do that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all, the Divine Spirit Root is a matter of great importance; if anything goes wrong, it would be a big trouble.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the first person Zhang Yu thought of was Bai Zhenzhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night, during the daily call with Bai Zhenzhen, Zhang Yu asked seemingly casually, \"A-Zhen, back then if you hadn't exposed your Divine Spirit Root, do you think you would have been exposed after coming to the second layer?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen said casually, \"Probably not...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So through Zhang Yu's deliberate probing, he once again confirmed the powerful concealment ability of Bai Zhenzhen's Divine Spirit Root; ordinary physical inspections could not detect the existence of the Divine Spirit Root at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the enhancement that the Divine Spirit Root brought to the body was real, so the various changes in the physical body caused by the Divine Spirit Root could not be completely hidden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing Bai Zhenzhen's account, Zhang Yu gradually gained some confidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the next day, he dragged Le Mulan along to rent a laboratory, planning to personally test his own materials to see if there was anything unusual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this was under the condition that Zhang Yu had switched the Green Lotus Sword Embryo to the Three-Eye Divine Ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the laboratory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Le Mulan infused her magical power, and in the mirror suspended in midair, the appearance of Zhang Yu's material magnified countless times appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu asked somewhat awkwardly, \"How is it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Le Mulan tilted her head and said, \"Seems... a bit different from before.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She picked up a measuring cup, shook it, and said, \"It's my first time handling something so fresh. It feels very active, and the temperature has been high all along. Is it related to your manipulation technique?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu said, \"I didn't call you here to play!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Le Mulan turned her head, looked at Zhang Yu, and said, \"I'm not playing. What's so fun about this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu turned his head away: \"Anyway... using the relevant methods you learned, have you found any results?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Le Mulan continued testing, pursed her lips, and said, \"There's an improvement in quality. The strength and activity of each material are higher than before...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Le Mulan's test results time and again, Zhang Yu thought to himself, \"As expected, the characteristics of the Divine Spirit Root do not manifest on my physical materials.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But after the body has been thoroughly strengthened by the Divine Spirit Root, it is indeed different from the past.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu then asked, \"As for your teacher, her methods must be more sophisticated than yours. She can probably research more from this, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Le Mulan nodded: \"Teacher Yin is an expert in self-producing pharmaceutical technology. Her body itself is equivalent to a complete drug factory and laboratory.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even without these devices in front of us, as long as she inhales your materials into her body, she can analyze a report of over two hundred pages. She definitely far surpasses me in this aspect, but...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the immortal techniques Yin Jiurao mastered far exceeded Le Mulan's, in Le Mulan's view, Zhang Yu's materials had no essential change. Even if Professor Yin could analyze more data, Le Mulan didn't think there would be any special conclusions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What she wants more should be the breeding rights.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Le Mulan turned around, looked at Zhang Yu, and said, \"She might secretly breed your bloodline descendants in order to obtain more research results. Are you sure you don't want to sell the breeding rights?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faced with the possibility raised by Le Mulan, Zhang Yu knew that it would be difficult to negotiate terms with Yin Jiurao on his own. He needed someone of sufficient weight to endorse this transaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Zhang Yu went to Director Gao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing what Zhang Yu said, Director Gao's eyes flickered, and he said in surprise, \"30 spirit coins?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She only wants yours?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao thought to himself, if a pharmacology professor had such a need, he could organize students from the civil engineering department to sell in groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of research work is not only much higher income than working on a construction site, but also much more respectable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu shook his head: \"She only wants mine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao nodded slightly, thinking that it might be Zhang Yu's performance that had caught the other party's attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Director Gao had previously consulted a professor friend from the Breeding Department at the Heavenly Demon University and knew that Zhang Yu's special constitution could not be simply studied from the expression of his body and bloodline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After researching, Yin Jiurao will definitely regret offering such a high price.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao looked at Zhang Yu before him, feeling proud of his student’s skill in selling trash at an exorbitant price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You did well. Take this sales ability into the civil engineering industry later and make full use of it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the breeding rights, Director Gao saw no need to sell them either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Zhang Yu was no ordinary student. In Director Gao’s view, he had great potential, and there was no need to leave bloodline ties in the Second Layer, lest it create vulnerabilities for him and drag down his cultivation in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll negotiate the contract with her for you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Jiurao looked at Director Gao before her and frowned. \"A contract witnessed by the True Gods?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao said, \"Professor Yin, let’s be straightforward. Zhang Yu is a promising student in our Civil Engineering Department. I don’t want him to leave bloodline descendants too early and incur unnecessary karma.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a round of negotiations, Yin Jiurao finally agreed to sign the contract, but the price was reduced from thirty spirit coins to twenty-five, and she had to collect the materials personally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She said calmly, \"I don’t trust him to do it himself. I’ll take the goods with my own hands.\" Director Gao saw no problem with this—after all, she was paying twenty-five spirit coins, and handling it personally was like picking the fruit she had bought… very reasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he also said, \"I will supervise the entire process to prevent you from over-harvesting Zhang Yu’s biological materials.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, under Director Gao’s supervision, Yin Jiurao grabbed hold of Zhang Yu…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throughout the process, Zhang Yu felt like a piece of meat on a chopping block. Under Director Gao’s watch, Yin Jiurao collected materials from various parts of his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood, saliva, urine, skin tissue, hair, seeds…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After each material was taken and confirmed correct by Director Gao, Yin Jiurao paid a sum of spirit coins into Zhang Yu’s account.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Zhang Yu suddenly felt extremely clearly the price at which his body was being bought and sold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when everything was done, and his account balance had jumped to over fifty-five spirit coins, the strange feeling in his heart vanished completely, replaced by sheer joy and delight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was already looking forward to the future—burning through this money on artifact forging to push his skills even higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way out, Director Gao said, \"If something like this happens again in the future, remember to sign a contract witnessed by the True Gods, just like today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Otherwise, as long as the profit is big enough, the other party will definitely take risks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How’s the project at the construction site going? After the pharmaceutical factory is done, I plan to assign you another project. I’ll send you the materials then—remember to prepare in advance…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, go back to the site and get busy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After parting ways with Zhang Yu, who was heading back to the construction site, Director Gao hummed a tune softly and couldn’t help sending another message to Lord Magnetic Pole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao: Zhang Yu’s materials sold for twenty-five spirit coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Magnetic Pole: Your student is really impressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao smiled slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Magnetic Pole: [Artifact forging screenshot]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The screenshot showed someone forging Celestial Azure Sand, but only a blurry half figure was visible—the real face couldn’t be made out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging from the camera angle, it seemed to be taken from the other side of the lab, behind the person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao: What’s this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Magnetic Pole: Didn’t I tell you I took on a student through connections?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Magnetic Pole: He recently started artifact forging. I had another student guide him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Magnetic Pole: He’s not making rapid progress, but he does show some talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao: So he’s still worth teaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Magnetic Pole: Yeah, I plan to give him more opportunities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Magnetic Pole: If he ever forges a usable magic tool, I’ll let you try it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Gao: It’s a deal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after Zhang Yu and Director Gao left…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Jiurao picked up a measuring cup…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a gulp down her throat, she licked her lips. As her inner mana circulated, massive amounts of data extracted from Zhang Yu’s blood appeared within her eye skeleton.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, her pupils suddenly dilated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while, Yin Jiurao smiled faintly: \"Heh, looks like this year's thesis won't be a problem.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu made his way back to the medicine factory and went to the drug production line workshop for data measurements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the expansion of the basic operator assembly line completed, he would now be responsible for building the drug production line workshop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at the sight of Zhang Yu, the previously numb and bored operators on the assembly line stirred slightly, all turning to look at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that a Foundation Establishment student from Ten Thousand Methods University?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A Foundation Establishment student from the Top Ten—I wonder how much money he earns working here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I reckon at least 0.1 spirit coins a day.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So he can just jab needles casually every day? And watch videos without worrying about data usage?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh, as expected, studying hard and getting into the Top Ten is the way to make something of yourself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side, after measuring and recording the data, Zhang Yu arrived at the target construction site. With a slight tremor of his body, he saw rolling astral winds shooting out in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Celestial Azure Cloud Bag shot into the sky, streaks of Formless Strength Warriors, carrying Celestial Azure Sand, began working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The artifact spirit Zhao Tianxing, controlling the Level 3 Celestial Azure Cloud Bag, sensed that the amount of Celestial Azure Sand it could swallow had increased significantly, its ease of operation had improved considerably, and its boost to the Formless Strength Warriors had risen to another level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu watched this scene with satisfaction and thought to himself, \"With the aid of a magical artifact, my work efficiency during this period has indeed improved greatly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu calculated that over the past half-month or so, relying on the medicine factory construction site work, he had earned roughly over 5 spirit coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Earn money at the construction site to improve my artifact forging skills.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Forge magical artifacts, which in turn boosts the efficiency of earning money at the construction site.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu mused inwardly, \"This really is a good method for someone as broke as me to learn artifact forging.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu understood that at least until he achieved some success in artifact forging and could earn money by selling magical artifacts, the income from the construction site would be very important to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, a skyful of cloud-like Formless Cloud Astral completely enveloped Zhang Yu's body, and he began the cultivation of the ninth technique of the Martial Dao Holy Body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought to himself, \"Once I've trained all ten techniques of the Martial Dao Holy Body to Level 20, I won't need to keep cultivating at the construction site.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By then, I'll use the Martial Dao Holy Body to boost my work, earn more spirit coins, and then...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Burn all that money to push my artifact forging to the max!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2013,"2026-05-29T04:54:59.518Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","f3ae8fde3d898fdf5ef6649b4dddbc44d486bd7de59cece32bb89eb4257b51fc","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-403","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-401",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]