[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-623":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},164492,323,"Chapter 623: Zhang Yu Wins at Wanfa University","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-623",623,"\u003Cp>Looking at the matchup list floating in the sky, Zhang Yu thought to himself: \"The final round... is truly a test of individual strength.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The 30 contestants are matched up in one-on-one pairs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the first round today, from the 30 contestants, 15 winners will be decided.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the second round, among these 15, one will get a bye, and the remaining 14 will compete for 7 advancement spots.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the third round, the 8 will face off in pairs again to determine 4 winners.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then the semifinals, the finals... in the final one-on-one, the strongest of the Ten Leagues will be decided.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To ensure the contestants' condition and allow time for treatment and repairs, there is a one-week break after each round.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reading through the process and rules, Zhang Yu murmured inwardly: \"Pure unrestricted combat... it's a rare traditional competition format in Kunxu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A one-week break is a huge advantage for me. If I can make it to the finals, that means I still have four weeks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Zhang Yu also saw his first-round opponent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ling Pojun from the Celestial Weapons University thought: \"It's Zhang Yu? He's probably the best opponent I could have drawn in this round.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Zhang Yu had proven his overall strength through a series of matches, in Ling Pojun's eyes... that still depended on who you compared him to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the other opponents in this round—Kuang Tianqing, Yan Xiang, Zang Shenyu, Tian Shengong, and so on—Zhang Yu's strength seemed quite approachable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In particular, Zhang Yu's displayed power: in the first match he relied on civil engineering construction techniques; in the second he gained an advantage through aquaculture, and only by cooperating with Ying Yufan of the Dragon Transformation clan did he surpass Jiutian Liu in displacement speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As it stands, Zhang Yu's strength requires advance preparation to be effective. In the upcoming one-on-one duels, he has no advantage at all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But likewise, I'm probably the best opponent Zhang Yu could have drawn in this round.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ling Pojun knew that the finals or semifinals were too far away for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main reason he made it into the final 30-man roster was because he was selected into Zang Shenyu, Tian Shengong, Ye Xingli, Xuhai Xuan, and others' teams during the relay race.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I can beat Zhang Yu and absorb that last wave of popularity, I'll be satisfied.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for whether he could win the next round, that was no longer in Ling Pojun's consideration—or rather, he never even thought about winning another round. At this moment, \"defeat Zhang Yu,\" \"claim this victory in the individual competition,\" and \"absorb the last wave of traffic\" were his only thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Driven by desire and determination for victory, Ling Pojun, like the other 29 contestants, was wrapped in a divine power and shot into the sky, dispersing across 15 different battlefields on the floating islands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These randomly distributed battlefields included jungles, deserts, snowfields, seas, and various other environments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two matched contestants would duel on a battlefield with a radius of 10 kilometers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a bang, Ling Pojun crashed onto the ground in a hilly area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost the instant he landed, he sprang up and charged forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his ocular-husk, a series of dashed lines marked the direction where Zhang Yu had just fallen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhang Yu's characteristic is that the more preparation time he has, the stronger his combat power becomes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He must be hurrying to set up construction now, wanting to deploy a grand formation against me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can't give him that chance...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The outcome of this duel between him and me will likely be decided by how quickly I can reach him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Ling Pojun was charging forward at full speed, constantly accelerating in his urgency to get in front of Zhang Yu, he saw a torrent sweeping toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flood, like a soaring dragon, came surging, and standing at its crest was Zhang Yu, clad in the Bluewater Golden Crystal Armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, a large amount of water vapor in the air was being continuously drawn in by the Bluewater Golden Crystal Armor, further expanding the volume of the flood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh?\" Seeing this, Ling Pojun was startled and shouted, \"Zhang Yu, I never thought a mere civil engineering brat like you would dare to face me head-on!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Insulting the opponent by belittling their civil engineering specialty and harping on that stain was a topic Ling Pojun had prepared long ago, and in his eyes, it would surely gain public approval.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, Ling Pojun planned to attack further by bringing up the opponent's discrimination against the demon-blooded, to grab even more attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But facing Ling Pojun's insults, Zhang Yu, standing atop the wave, merely smiled slightly, looked at Ling Pojun, and said, \"Typical Extreme Tiger person, Extreme Tiger logic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ling Pojun was taken aback, sensing the contempt in the other's tone, and said coldly, \"What do you mean?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu smiled slightly and said, \"In this world, there are two kinds of people: Extreme Tigers and Ten Thousand Path men.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Extreme Tigers go to Extreme Tiger schools, use Extreme Tiger husks, practice Extreme Tiger techniques, achieve Extreme Tiger results, and have that kind of Extreme Tiger thinking of yours.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a student of Celestial Soldier University, although Ling Pojun had always been a user of the Extreme Tiger Brand, he also knew that the Extreme Tiger Brand had been deliberately slandered and belittled in other schools.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And although Zhang Yu’s words just now did not say it outright, in Ling Pojun’s view… it was clearly using the words “Extreme Tiger” as a low-end adjective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Ling Pojun suddenly realized and thought to himself, “This guy… is he creating controversy to stir up hype? When I was treating him as prey, he was also treating me as prey.”\u003C\u002Fp>",972,"2026-05-29T04:55:10.865Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","7fc45972185767007e76de19e57bcc499d6808f6f478a7590248cc3b734b8a34","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-624","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-622",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]