[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-406":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},164275,323,"Chapter 406: Rapid Progress, Foundation Limit, Food Fight","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-406",406,"\u003Cp>On the Primordial Magnetic Passage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A biologically female student suddenly blocked Le Mulan's path, looking at her and saying, \"Le Mulan! Please dual cultivate with me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the girl's sincere confession, many passersby nearby turned to look, curiously sizing up the girl and Le Mulan, each with different thoughts in their minds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh, youth is wonderful—still having so much free time to cultivate diligently.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please don't agree! Let them all progress a bit slower, so I have fewer competitors.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Both are Foundation Establishment seniors; if only they could take me along...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Le Mulan looked at the girl before her, shook her head lightly, and refused her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way back to the dormitory, she encountered two more classmates—one wanted to take medicine with her, the other wanted to do drug experiments—but both were decisively refused by Le Mulan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Le Mulan's back as she walked into the luxury dormitory, the rejected male student sighed, \"So classmate Le Mulan is that rich? No wonder she wasn't willing to do experiments with me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, another male voice came: \"It's not that Le Mulan is rich; it's that her dual cultivation partner, Zhang Yu, is very rich.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The male student turned around and saw Yu Xinghan walking over from behind, and said in surprise, \"You are?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan said calmly, \"I am Yu Xinghan from the Civil Engineering Department, with some knowledge of dual cultivation, health care, and wellness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From my observations, you're not the first student these days who wanted to dual cultivate with Le Mulan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You all should be from the Pharmacology Department, knowing that Le Mulan possesses a special type of mana, has taken Professor Yin as her teacher, and learned self-produced medicine techniques. That's why you want to progress together with her, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The male student nodded slightly, looking at the Civil Engineering student with some surprise, feeling that he knew a lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan smiled mysteriously and continued, \"But do you know, compared to Le Mulan's dual cultivation partner, this is nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the other's somewhat incredulous expression, Yu Xinghan explained, \"Le Mulan's dual cultivation partner, Zhang Yu, is an extraordinary person.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rumor has it that a Nascent Soul disciple traveled a thousand miles from Tianjian University just to cultivate with him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And your Pharmacology Department's Professor Yin once spent a hefty sum—a full 25 spirit coins—to buy his seeds.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And besides Le Mulan, another classmate of yours, Xuan Ge, has also made breakthrough after breakthrough after receiving his guidance...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan exclaimed, \"This man possesses an extraordinary dual cultivation talent. He is likely to change the current situation where Wanfa University has no dual cultivation department, and will fill the gap in related fields in the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, the male student's eyes flickered. He had indeed heard some rumors about Professor Yin making breakthroughs in related research, and it did seem that Le Mulan and Xuan Ge had been continuously improving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Yu Xinghan said, \"Want me to invite you into the group? The group is full of people who want to enter that dormitory, everyone shares the latest news there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The male student said without hesitation, \"I'm in!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And upon entering the group, the male student saw that seven or eight people had already gathered there, scrolling through messages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can't imagine how good Le Mulan has it right now in the dorm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it, I'm so jealous of her!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She must be pouncing on Zhang Yu the moment she enters the room and cultivating crazily, on the fast track of the immortal path.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh, I don't even hope to cultivate with Zhang Yu; even just a session with Le Mulan would satisfy me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'd be satisfied with Xuan Ge even.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cultivating with Xuan Ge would count as cultivating indirectly with a Nascent Soul disciple through a few people...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan: Have you tried throwing money at Zhang Yu?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan: Have you forgotten? In Kunxu, nothing is unattainable with money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The problem is, we have no money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A wealthy man like Zhang Yu living in a luxury dorm—how could our little money move him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan: Name a price, and I'll find a way to inquire for you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan: No group buying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the luxury dormitory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu and Le Mulan sat facing each other, their palms pressed together, each circulating the mana of the Deep Cold Meridian and the Blazing Sun Meridian, pouring it into the other's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Zhang Yu had also tried using the Deep Cold Meridian to assist Xuan Ge back then, Xuan Ge had not truly activated the Blazing Sun Meridian at the time, so the effect was limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that Zhang Yu had truly replicated the Dao Seed of the Blazing Sun Meridian, when he cultivated together with Le Mulan using its mana, he felt a tremendous change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two opposing forces of ice and fire surged and intertwined back and forth within Zhang Yu and Le Mulan’s bodies, constantly tempering their meridians and mana, silently enhancing their speed of mana mobilization and conversion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially under the impact of these two types of mana, Zhang Yu felt his own mana becoming increasingly balanced between hardness and softness, yin and yang complementing each other, gradually giving rise to an unprecedented resilience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bolstered by this resilience, the strength of the Gang Qi he condensed reached a new level and continued to rise quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, aspects such as mana quantity, mana quality, and mana manipulation also accelerated during this process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, Zhang Yu’s mana had recently reached the Base Building upper limit of 1,000 units, so there was no room for further increase in this basic stat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>July.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu participated in a war fortress project. The project site was located at the border between two technical colleges. As soon as Zhang Yu arrived, he saw a large group of technical college students engaged in a fierce battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for why Zhang Yu could recognize them as technical college students at a glance, it was mainly because the word \"Technical College Student\" was marked above each of their heads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a Revelation Talisman laid down by some talisman master on the battlefield; all technical college students and lower-level students would have their schools directly displayed unless they paid to hide it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu, witnessing the fierce battle, did not join in—after all, he was only paid for construction work, not for combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he sighed inwardly: “Have technical colleges become this chaotic now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the screenshot he posted in the project group, Che Yufei replied: “Hasn’t it always been like this at technical colleges?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, when Zhang Yu was halfway through building the fortress, a Base Building student from the 36 Upper College came shooting straight at him, charging toward the unfinished fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu lightly shouted: “Wait until I finish repairing the fortress, then you can charge—I won’t stop you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu’s thought was that after he finished construction and the opponent smashed it, he could earn money twice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other party, however, ignored him and yelled in a low voice: “Everyone, get out of the way.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu sighed. The construction contract stipulated that he had to protect the work site during construction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sigh, more extra work.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a bang, a sonic boom erupted as the Upper College Base Building student repeatedly broke the sound barrier, accelerating with each burst, getting closer and closer to the work site.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the next instant, with a thunderous boom, a palm slapped onto his face, forcibly stopping him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the massive resistance and inertia, the Upper College student’s body trembled violently, temporarily frozen in a state of stiffness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the bone gauntlets on his hands whirred madly as he threw one punch after another, unleashing powerful Gang Qi cannons toward Zhang Yu in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Face, shoulders, chest, abdomen... Zhang Yu’s body was bombarded continuously, yet at each impact point, wisps of white mist flickered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Zhang Yu’s body did not move an inch— even his head did not tilt backward under the Upper College student’s full-force onslaught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After more than half a year of training, Zhang Yu’s physical strength had now reached level 20, the limit for Base Building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides level 20 physical strength, he had the support of No. 20 dense steel bones, the blessing of numerous protective techniques, the parrying and leverage abilities from his Martial Dao Sacred Body, the Ninefold Cloud Sky Force enhanced by the Martial Dao Sacred Body, Gang Qi protection, and partly the Wood-and-Earth Sacred Body effect from the Green Lotus Sword Embryo...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With all these layers of enhancement, the opponent’s fist technique using hand bone gauntlets felt as gentle as a breeze on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, in the next moment, Zhang Yu thrust out a finger—a cluster of cloud Qi formed at his fingertip and shot toward the abdomen of the Upper College student before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the twelve punches the Upper College student had just delivered with all his might exploded within the cloud-like Gang Qi, blasting back into his own abdomen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Zhang Yu’s micro-level control, these twelve punches crushed the opponent’s internal organs into a mess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the other’s body shake violently and his throat convulse, Zhang Yu sniffed lightly and then aimed the Upper College student toward the outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Upper College student opened his mouth and vomited a large amount of half-digested rice, spraying it everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Zhang Yu thought to himself: “I heard that these schools provide a full meal before battle—looks like it’s true.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Upper College student vomited all over the place, the Qi-Refining laborers nearby cheered in unison and began scrambling to eat the semi-digested matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wow! It’s rice!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So this is what rice tastes like? So fragrant!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fool, this is the flavor of rice mixed with foundational establishment living fluid. The nutrition is unimaginably rich, top-quality cultivation sustenance—how could it not be fragrant?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, even these semi-digested products come from the mouth of a foundational establishment cultivator; for these Qi refining laborers, a small mouthful per person takes a long time to digest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu casually threw the senior student to the ground and went back to continue his cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>August.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the artifact refinement laboratory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu was refining a metallic, rectangular solid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rectangular solid was only about the size of a person's thumb, its surface shimmering with a faint glow, revealing patches of bronze-colored mana circuits. It looked simple and plain, yet carried a hint of mystery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was exactly the Earth-Suppressing Seal Zhang Yu had been practicing recently, a magic artifact that could generate an earth-suppressing field after injecting mana into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The so-called earth-suppressing field could be used to level the ground, vibrate materials, and also create a deep-sea-like slowing effect on everything within the field, achieving defensive or control purposes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu thought to himself: \"Although this Earth-Suppressing Seal is not part of the artifact refinement department's exam subjects, it is very useful to me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this session of artifact refining, Zhang Yu had Zhang Pianpian help him anonymously purchase materials, allowing him to secretly refine artifacts without attracting attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, as he mastered more and more magic artifact manufacturing techniques, Zhang Yu did not plan to completely reveal his artifact refinement skills in the future. He would claim some artifacts as his own making, while others he would just say were second-hand finds he picked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several days later, after multiple rounds of refining, the finally completed level 20 Earth-Suppressing Seal was taken into Zhang Yu's hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at another level 20 magic artifact in his possession, a smile curled at the corner of Zhang Yu's mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>",1943,"2026-05-29T04:54:59.518Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","e41016e37d311913efdcb109e8e69c7fa23f54c402f133a9aea58b7cc3204ca7","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-407","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-405",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]