[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-490":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},164359,323,"Chapter 490","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-490",490,"\u003Cp>Just as Mo Shangjin was warning everyone, he and Zhang Yu had already activated the Divine Power of Moving Mountains from Heavenly Kunlun, lifting off into the air with their companions to avoid excessive contact with the Yao descendants, and following the navigation appearing in their eye sockets, they advanced deeper into Tianyao University.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even while flying in midair, they still couldn't avoid the constant flashes of Yao descendant figures around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The truth was that the skyscrapers of Tianyao University were too densely packed, like an impenetrable jungle, with only small gaps between buildings for people to pass through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, various oddly shaped insect yao, rat yao, and other small Yao descendants occupied many gaps, making this jungle even more crowded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, a cloud of blood mist exploded not far away. Zhang Yu looked up and saw the body of a bull yao shattered into pieces, torn apart by dozens of yao tribesmen, each carrying off parts to different places.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Zhang Yu exclaimed in surprise, \"Killing people in broad daylight?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mo Shangjin said, \"Not people, just animals.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He explained, \"These Yao descendants in the outer district of Tianyao University are not considered people; they are merely animals raised freely by the university.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Animals killing each other—do you think that needs to be managed?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tianyao University can't be bothered to continuously manage and register these animals; they only ensure macro-level control.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When numbers drop, they increase the breeding rate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When numbers rise, they reduce food supply.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is their laboratory, breeding ground, material production site, and backup yao material repository...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they spoke, Zhang Yu's group had already crossed the outer district of Tianyao University and arrived at the inner district.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest... Zhang Yu felt that the Yao descendants here, other than being quieter and more orderly, the environment looked not much different from outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the boundary between the inner and outer layers, streaks of divine power swept back and forth, directly grinding any mistakenly trespassing outer-layer Yao descendants into powder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhang Yu soon frowned, because he noticed that many of the students here were pregnant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mo Shangjin beside him explained, \"This is the breeding tax of Tianyao University. Every student at Tianyao University has a certain breeding quota each year and must submit their own bloodline descendants to the school.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm not too clear on the specific details, but I've heard that aside from the Huashen stage, the higher one's cultivation, the more descendants they need to submit. A Nascent Soul stage True Lord might have to give birth to dozens a year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, besides submitting descendants, one can also pay the breeding tax directly with money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu gasped, and said, \"Then what about male Yao descendants?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mo Shangjin said casually, \"The technical issues in this area have naturally long been solved by Tianyao University...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they spoke, the group had arrived outside a huge arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before they even got close, Zhang Yu could sense the noise and excitement inside. Looking from outside, there were massive numbers of Yao descendant students flowing like torrents, constantly pushing toward the interior of the venue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So many people?\" Zhang Yu said in surprise. \"Do the students of Tianyao University care so much about the finals of this civil engineering competition?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mo Shangjin also seemed a bit surprised: \"Although the civil engineering department at Tianyao University has always been a strong point, the finals shouldn't attract this many people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe something has happened that we don't know about.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"……\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Zhang Yu's group was heading to the arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside a certain underground space of Tianyao University.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Shan walked step by step along the tunnel before him, heading forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw rows of mighty pillars appearing before his eyes, like tall giants, propping up the sky and shaking the earth as they supported the foundation of Tianyao University.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Shan knew that the density of Yao descendants and buildings at Tianyao University was too high, so for a long time, a large number of underground structures had been needed to support the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rows of mighty pillars before him were one of the important supports for the lower levels of Tianyao University.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And these pillars were formed from countless ancestors of the Elephant Yao clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After struggling their whole lives and incurring massive debts, they ultimately contributed their own thoroughly tempered physical bodies; after death, they turned into the foundation, day after day, forever supporting the entire Tianyao University.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The entire Tianyao University is supported by us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the pillars before him, feeling the unwilling will and earth-shaking fighting spirit left in each pillar, Xiang Shan murmured, \"Now, it's our turn to break through the ground and stand on the surface of Tianyao University.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Shan turned his head and saw various-sized elephant yao appearing in his eye sockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them was his elder brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the older brother of a local monster, he avoided the reproduction tax for three years of high school in order to study, but in his senior year he was reported, caught, and fined ten times the amount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just his senior year, his older brother, in order to pay the reproduction fine, gave birth thirty times in a row, ultimately leading to severe qi and blood depletion, and he failed to get into college.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Xiangshan looked at his elementary school-age younger brother, his middle school-age son, his high school-age younger sister... Watching each of their bulging bellies, his resolve became even stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Reproduction tax...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His trunk curling back, Xiangshan’s eyes surged with boundless fighting spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And within his eye sockets, more figures emerged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were countless bloodline descendants of the elephant demon clan, figures flickering before him like the stars in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ten thousand?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One hundred thousand?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or even more?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",967,"2026-05-29T04:54:59.518Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","d7da320083537df696d3eb9d94d23d7ae399b550e587fd00062863d948d7625b","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-491","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-489",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]