[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-664":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},164533,323,"Chapter 664","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-664",664,"\u003Cp>With the onset of the unemployment wave, the disappearance of the righteous gods, and the shortage of material supplies, the pressure within the university city surged, leading to more criminal phenomena and more incidents involving demonic cults and evil gods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the Talisman Department became increasingly important, after all, although the righteous gods had vanished, the Spirit World and the Divine Power Network still remained intact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a disaster for cultivators with low talisman proficiency, but for talisman masters who could compose their own secret talismans and had a deep understanding of the Divine Power Network and the Spirit World, it was the best of times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without the supervision of the righteous gods, they roamed freely in the Spirit World, using talismans to leverage the Divine Power Network and interfere with the material world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Pianpian, as an outstanding figure in the art of talismans and possessing the cultivation of the Golden Core realm, was now even more in her element.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Zhang Yu knew that in this process, the Taiqing Realm provided by the Taiqing Talisman had been a considerable help, on several occasions aiding Zhang Pianpian in dodging attacks from evil gods and even Nascent Soul cultivators' talismans in the Spirit World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apart from that, the simulated artifact refining and accelerated learning in the Spirit World had also greatly helped Zhang Yu in his path of artifact refining and learning artifact refining knowledge, making him always look forward to upgrading this Dao Seed rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at this moment, he was still caught in hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should I spend 1000 Spirit Coins to upgrade the Taiqing Talisman?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After this period of cultivation, my savings currently amount to 700 Spirit Coins. If I borrow another 300 from my sister…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu knew that although he could afford the 1000 Spirit Coins, after spending them he would have almost no savings left, and his cultivation speed would greatly decrease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My main task right now is still to improve my own cultivation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or… should I borrow money from the teachers?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What if they ask why I don't have any money and it leads back to my sister? That would create more trouble…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, Zhang Yu suppressed his distracting thoughts: \"Enough, don't overthink it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Continue to improve my cultivation—that is the most important thing for me now. As for everything else… we'll deal with it later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There will still be opportunities to upgrade the Taiqing Talisman in the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suppressing the temptation to upgrade the Taiqing Talisman, Zhang Yu once again devoted himself wholeheartedly to cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Xingli: Junior brother, want to do a livestream together?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the great upheaval of the world, not only could logistics transport only be done during the day, it also required a large amount of security forces, causing logistics costs to skyrocket, and Spirit World shopping was no longer people's first choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coupled with rising prices and falling incomes, the willingness of livestream viewers to pay also plummeted, and Ye Xingli's college fans were deeply affected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, Ye Xingli had adjusted the direction of her livestreams, mainly targeting the local audience within Wanfa University City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Zhang Yu, seeing Ye Xingli's invitation, knew that with his popularity as the champion of the Ten Grand Leagues, if he put effort into livestreaming, it would likely produce impressive results.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, the Dao Seed item Spirit Resonance Artifact Heart on Ye Xingli had the effect of merging artifact refining blueprints, which had greatly helped him before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu thought to himself: \"To upgrade the Spirit Resonance Artifact Heart to level 2, I need to design ten Foundation Establishment-level artifact refining products together with Senior Sister.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Zhang Yu at this moment, this was naturally a piece of cake and not difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The temptation of upgrading the Spirit Resonance Artifact Heart again also made Zhang Yu genuinely look forward to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What effects would a level 2 Spirit Resonance Artifact Heart have?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would it allow merging more blueprints? Could it choose more directions for merging? Could it produce higher-grade magical artifacts?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless of the profits it could bring or the strength it could increase, it all tempted Zhang Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after thinking for a moment, Zhang Yu still suppressed the temptation to upgrade the Dao Seed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can't get distracted. My task now is to break through to Nascent Soul… everything else can wait.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu: Sorry, Senior Sister, I just want to focus on cultivating for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the dormitory, Zhang Yu's body billowed with heat waves. In his physique, where mana and flesh and blood intermingled, with the circulation of qi and blood, heat continuously erupted, turning the entire dormitory into an oven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in Zhang Yu's eye sockets, an advertisement once again floated up, introducing a custom-made eye socket specifically for Golden Core cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, ever since he ascended to the Golden Core realm and his Dao heart improved, with the increase in computational power in his mind, he often felt that the current level-20 eye socket, the Nine Nether Demon Eye, was increasingly insufficient, sometimes even stuttering and failing to keep up with his thinking speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apart from that, other items like the Sun Emperor's Divine Splendor, the Supreme Law Saintly Flying Sword, and the Blue Water Golden Crystal Armor all gave Zhang Yu a similar feeling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially as his physical strength continued to grow, he felt more and more that level-20 magical artifacts were fragile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all, these are still things meant for Foundation Establishment; driven by my Golden Core level cultivation, how can I use them to their fullest?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes, Zhang Yu couldn't help but feel an impulse to spend time improving his artifact-refining skills, upgrading the Eye Skeleton and all kinds of magical artifacts to at least level 21 Golden Core standard, giving him a higher quality of life and stronger money-making ability...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This feeling made him itch all over, inside and out, like having a bunch of red notifications in software that he had to resist clicking...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Dao Seed takes time and resources, magical artifacts take time and resources... My money and time are limited. If I accept every temptation, do everything at the same time, and try to improve everything simultaneously, how can I focus on advancing my cultivation?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I need to break through to Nascent Soul.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everything else... can wait.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suppressing the distracting thoughts in his mind and strengthening his Dao heart, Zhang Yu continued to devote himself wholeheartedly to cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few days later, at noon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the moment when the sun stood at its zenith and the spirit realm signal was strongest, Bai Zhenzhen, far away at Heavenly Sword University, sent a communication request to Zhang Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the projection of Bai Zhenzhen before him, Zhang Yu asked, \"Zhenzhen, is everything fine on your end?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What could be wrong?\" Bai Zhenzhen laughed and said, \"That classmate of yours named Ying Xin prides herself on 'ten years of hard study can't compare to six generations of ancestral grave smoke.' Now I have the hundred generations of ancestral grave smoke from my sect. How many people at Heavenly Sword University can compete with me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu knew that the sect ancestral graves Bai Zhenzhen was referring to were the Sword Pavilion left behind by the Seven Emotions Divine Lord, which contained flying swords transformed from the remains of generation after generation of Extreme Emotion Sword Path cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen said with emotion, \"Yu, now you have the backing of two Divine Transformation teachers, while I hold the reins of the Divine Transformation lineage's ancestral graves.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Back when we were in high school, who could have imagined the achievements you and I have today?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After chatting for about ten minutes, Zhang Yu saw the alarm appearing in his Eye Skeleton and said apologetically to Bai Zhenzhen, \"Zhenzhen, I need to cultivate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen was slightly taken aback, then nodded and said, \"Mm, go ahead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Zhang Yu's disappearing figure, the smile on Bai Zhenzhen's face gradually faded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Wuya walked over to her and said, \"Zhenzhen, have you made up your mind? You can't hold onto the Sword Pavilion. Why not give a part of it to the principal?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Wuya looked at Bai Zhenzhen with some envy. After all, unlike the Seven Emotions Divine Lord, his own master, the Heavenly Star Divine Lord, had more than one living disciple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, until the Heavenly Star Divine Lord lost contact, he didn't leave any assets to others, only added dozens of layers of seals, which the new Divine Transformation cultivators at Heavenly Sword University are still trying to crack to this day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Wen Wuya's words, Bai Zhenzhen took a deep breath and said, \"Let me think it over some more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few more days passed. Zhang Yu's former teacher, the past Director Gao of the Civil Engineering Department, now Vice President Gao of All Methods University, sent an inquiry to Zhang Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>President Gao: Zhang Yu, how is your cultivation of Palm Kunlun going?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu: Not bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In response to President Gao's inquiry, Zhang Yu did not reveal the specific progress. He did not intend to get involved in the research of spatial technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few days later, True Lord Xianyin sent a message asking him about the teaching materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu brushed it off, saying only that he was studying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xinghan and others at the construction site sent a request for help, needing him to complete some major work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu asked Mo Shangjin, who had just obtained his Golden Core certificate and broken through to Golden Core, to go help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He himself stayed in the dormitory to cultivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Making money, magical artifacts, Dao Seeds... all other avenues of improvement were temporarily put aside by Zhang Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Various social, work, and study matters were also compressed or even abandoned by Zhang Yu for the time being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suppressed all temptations and rejected all trivial side matters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu wholeheartedly devoted himself to his own cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivation, cultivation, cultivation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could be said that this was the most focused cultivation session Zhang Yu had ever had since he first stepped onto the path of immortality and obtained the Feather Script.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The results were astonishing as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the time came to the beginning of January.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just one month, his basic stats had skyrocketed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Dao Heart reached level 24 (11.71%), his physical strength reached level 26.25, and his mana reached 3295 units.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, after the three types of Dao Base Potions seized from the factory were used up, Zhang Yu bought new Dao Base Potions with his own money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body expression factors grew increasingly active, and he successively established the third Dao Foundation, Gang Qi Like an Abyss, and the fourth Dao Foundation, Indestructible Body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The former allowed his body-mana-merged self to greatly increase the conduction distance of his Gang Qi, extending it from the original 100 meters to 200 meters. With longer range and denser Gang Qi, along with boosting his defense, it also enhanced his ability to interfere with the material world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Indestructible Body was simpler: with the fusion of mana, it further increased his bone strength, filling his bones with a tough and resilient elasticity under the nourishment of mana, allowing him to better withstand various impacts and pressures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aside from basic stats, breaking through to Nascent Soul also requires opening at least ten Dao Foundations and at least eight Extraordinary Meridians.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We can talk about opening the Extraordinary Meridians later. To establish Dao Foundations, I just need to spend money on potions—I might as well do it now while I'm at it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhang Yu soon discovered that with the gap between his Dao Heart and physical strength, his control over his body was declining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I need to adjust my training time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1968,"2026-05-29T04:55:10.865Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","314332b95688ca2e64b554087014f7279c9bc9cfcc22dd0cec2267ddaedaf3c0","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-665","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-663",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]