[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-513":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},164382,323,"Chapter 513","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-513",513,"\u003Cp>Spirit Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside a classroom of the Artifact Refining Department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the Civil Engineering Department, many courses in the Artifact Refining Department are accelerated within classrooms in the Spirit Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This allows Artifact Refining students to study more efficiently, but also requires them to pay higher tuition fees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, for students who can enroll in the Artifact Refining Department, the high tuition is already the least conspicuous expense among the many costs of the department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On this day, just after the Mana Conduction class ended, Zhang Yu stood up in the Spirit Realm classroom and walked toward the instructor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instructor for this class was called Nine Calcination True Man. Having graduated with a doctorate from the Artifact Refining Department of Ten Thousand Methods University and successfully staying on as faculty, he was just over fifty years old, and wherever he went he could be considered accomplished at a young age.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And like most teachers and students in the Artifact Refining Department, Nine Calcination True Man also judged people first by their Artifact Bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the path of artifact refining values wealth above all. In Nine Calcination True Man's view, wealth was the most important criterion for selecting talent in the Artifact Refining Department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the best way for Artifact Refining students to assess financial strength was naturally to look at the Artifact Bones on the other person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To make it easier to distinguish students, he would make notes on each student he taught and display them in his Eye Bones, so that whether in reality or in the Spirit Realm, he could manage them more effectively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the many students in the class before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The class's top student, Su Yunni, adorned from head to toe with the high-end model of Ten Thousand Paths Artificer, emitted a faint purple glow in Nine Calcination True Man's eyes. For him, this kind of student was a minor elite – whether it was lab grunt work or outsourced projects from artifact refining companies, they could be immediately put to work; they were top-tier workhorses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side, the fourth-ranked student, Zi Yunzhen, also used Ten Thousand Paths Artificer, but all base models, which gave off a faint blue light in Nine Calcination True Man's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such students appeared much more mediocre in his eyes; they often needed some instruction before they could work, but fortunately they were diligent and uncomplaining, suitable for troublesome and dangerous dirty work, so they were still useful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for students who secretly used a few second-hand Artifact Bones or mid-range brands, in a class of the Artifact Refining Department there were usually only a handful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Nine Calcination True Man's eyes they appeared in green; in his mind they were consumables among the students. Their greatest contribution to the artifact refining industry was the consumption they made while studying. Even though they clearly had no potential for the Artifact Refining Department, a few would still enroll every year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the rest, those covered in low-end Artifact Bones, or even without any Artifact Bones except Eye Bones, Nine Calcination True Man basically only saw them outside the Artifact Refining Department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Nine Calcination True Man's eyes they were a mass of gray-black; the lower the total value of the Artifact Bones on their body, the darker the shade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were large numbers of such people in University City, and as the population grew each year, they became increasingly worthless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Nine Calcination True Man's eyes, these black people were like walking wet garbage, the only difference being that throwing them into a landfill would incur a fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes Nine Calcination True Man had to admit that Netherworld University did better in this regard – they would regularly clean up the low-end population in University City to prevent the wet garbage from running around on their own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this behavior was like pouring medicinal water into a river – it effectively maintained the price environment for people, ensuring that the low-end population would not have their value drop too low due to oversupply, so that the price of human life would not be too cheap, and the poor could live with more dignity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, as Zhang Yu walked over, a large gray-black shadow appeared in Nine Calcination True Man's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhang Yu?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nine Calcination True Man's mind immediately recalled the other's name. This student, who came from the Civil Engineering Department and had only one Eye Bone that had been used for four years, impressed him more than any other student, and belonged to an unknown category in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Nine Calcination True Man's classification standards, Zhang Yu should be wet garbage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But according to the common sense that there is no wet garbage in the Artifact Refining Department, and considering the other's grades, Zhang Yu should be considered a person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made the Zhang Yu before him seem like a mysterious unknown species, leaving a deep impression on Nine Calcination True Man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu said, \"Teacher, I'd like to apply for some leave.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nine Calcination True Man asked, \"Why?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu explained, \"I plan to build the prototype machine of the Sun God. I need to spend more time in the lab learning, and make more preparations and technical accumulation in this area.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu really didn't want to spend more time in class, since he had not only already learned the relevant content but also deeply mastered it through his artifact refining skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the prototype of the Sun God was indeed his next goal, which in Zhang Yu's view was the best reason to take leave, just like a Civil Engineering student taking leave to work on a construction site.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, Nine Calcination True Man frowned slightly and said, \"You want to build a prototype of the Sun God? Having ambition is good, but the way of artifact refining requires down-to-earth effort. Mana Conduction is a basic course in artifact refining. You should first finish your current courses before talking about that...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A student who had just transferred from the Civil Engineering Department two months ago saying he wanted to build a prototype of the Sun God? Wasn't that nonsense in Nine Calcination True Man's eyes?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he agreed to it casually, wouldn't he be taken for a fool?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu had expected this, so he quickly sent over the data of the magic artifact he had refined, the Two Principles Yin-Yang Shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew that no amount of verbal explanation was better than directly showing the results.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Two Principles Yin-Yang Shield, a magic artifact that could switch between two defense modes, the Lihuo Barrier and the Xuanbing Barrier, and had been enhanced by him, best reflected his mastery in the Mana Conduction course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the magical artifact data sent by the other party, Nine Forge True Person initially dismissed it, but after reading for a while, he raised an eyebrow, growing more and more astonished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nine Forge True Person: \"Did you really refine this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Nine Forge True Person's eyes, this Twin Polarity Yin-Yang Shield was entirely at the level of a senior student in the Artifact Refining Department, and some of the data also indicated that Zhang Yu had an excellent grasp of the knowledge related to mana conduction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright then.\" Nine Forge True Person said with a slight smile: \"Do you have any projects you're involved in right now? Interested in coming over to my side?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Nine Forge True Person had exceptionally marked Zhang Yu with a layer of purple light in his eyes, signifying that he was a top-notch workhorse who could be directly brought in to work and help him earn money.\u003C\u002Fp>",1286,"2026-05-29T04:54:59.518Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","7afd637d91f9162f73fddfab1a28db3a566c98fd3ad324e728017879151b3222","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-514","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-512",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]