[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-672":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},164541,323,"Chapter 672","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-672",672,"\u003Cp>Within the Dark Spirit Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alongside the live broadcast of the lunar war, a sound like crashing waves and roaring mountains seemed to echo in the hearts of countless people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu lifted his head and could faintly see countless streams of information from the 3rd, 4th, and 5th layers of the Dark Spirit Realm converging here, as if they too were watching the live broadcast of the lunar war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After the broadcast from Layer 2, now even Layers 3, 4, and 5 have all started watching this battle?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Zhang Yu turned his head, looking at the daily tasks floating beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Watch the live broadcast of the lunar battle for half an hour.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Same as yesterday, also guiding users to watch the broadcast.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu could already imagine that with the Righteous Alliance's encouragement like this, the boundless fortune converging on Chain Pivot Divine Lord would inevitably cause his strength to skyrocket to an unimaginable level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And currently, it was the third day of the lunar war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Across Layer 2 of Kunxu, day and night no longer alternated; the sun and moon shone together in the sky, as if two suns had risen simultaneously, blazing with intense light in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those were the Sun-Patrolling Three-Legged Crow and the Endless Night Jade Palace, locked in battle under the hands of the three Nascent Soul cultivators, constantly burning and exploding violently, releasing waves of heaven-shaking, earth-shattering fluctuations at nearly every moment. This caused widespread failures in the spirit realms across various regions, sometimes cutting off entirely one moment and flooding with garbage data the next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling all this, Zhang Yu was inwardly anxious but could only suppress his worries, focusing all his mind on his own cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Completing his check-in at the Dark Spirit Realm and leaving it, he sat cross-legged in the underground tomb, continuously cycling a breathing technique of the Core Formation realm, madly inhaling and refining the spiritual energy from the atmosphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past two months, while constantly cultivating the breathing technique to increase his mana, Zhang Yu had also raised ten Core Formation breathing techniques to level 30, activating the 'Boundless Mana' set in his technique chain diagram.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elementary - Boundless Mana (6\u002F6): Temporarily increases mana cap, up to a maximum of 10,000 units.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Advanced - Boundless Mana (8\u002F8): Stirs spiritual energy during actions, recovering mana. The greater the distance traveled per unit of time, the faster the mana recovery rate, up to the Core Formation stage limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ultimate - Boundless Mana (10\u002F10): Borrows emptiness to seek the Dao. The thinner the mana within the body and the greater the mana consumption, the more efficiently one devours spiritual energy, refines mana, and improves mana quality, up to the Core Formation stage limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was precisely because of completing Boundless Mana that Zhang Yu's mana had climbed steadily, exceeding 5,800.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, the mana in his body was completely depleted, continuously consumed by him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The emptiness in his meridians, dantian, and core made him like a black hole, frantically absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Zhang Yu's gaze sharpened as a series of notifications appeared in his eye sockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Exams, classes, internships, experiments... almost all teaching-related arrangements have been halted?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu mused inwardly: \"Almost everyone has been assigned military tasks; the entire Wanfa University city is now on maximum alert.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the three days since the war began, Zhang Yu had been seeing people in his contact list come online or offline one after another, with many names and avatars suddenly turning black and white, as if they had died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps some of them had abruptly disconnected due to spirit realm failures, while others had truly fallen in battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the debt number above Xiao Qingxuan's head kept changing, now hovering around negative five thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu knew this meant the cultivators and companies behind his creditors were continuously dying and going bankrupt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since the war started, the Righteous Alliance has been making all sorts of small moves, and many people, after witnessing the battle in the live broadcast, have completely defected to the rebels, stirring up chaos once again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It can be said that over these three days, not only has the great battle on the moon been unceasing, but the fighting on the ground has also been relentless.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If not for the Nascent Soul cultivators patrolling everywhere, who knows how much greater the turmoil would have been.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And as it seems now...\" Zhang Yu looked at the alert level, which had risen again, and sighed, \"I'm afraid the intensity of the lunar war is about to escalate further.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Ji said, \"It must be that the rebels up above are about to make a move. They shouldn't just sit by and watch the sun and moon of Layer 2 be taken so easily.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu raised his head toward the battlefield, his eyes seeming to pierce through layers of barriers, seeing the two sides locked in combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above Wanfa University.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bathed in the radiance of the sun and moon, Azure Nether True Lord sat cross-legged in midair, his hands forming a Daoist seal, as if silently waiting for something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, he suddenly opened his eyes, revealing two black voids spinning within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Azure Nether True Lord looked up at the sky, thinking to himself, \"It's here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The direction he gazed at was precisely the third layer of Kunxu visible after the connection between heaven and earth. Faint, indistinct divine light appeared at the edge of the third layer, then rose, then descended, like divine swords connecting heaven and earth, stabbing straight down toward the earth of the second layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingming True Lord’s eyes swept over the streaks of divine light, counting inwardly: “2…8…15…21…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his observation, the number of enemy Nascent Souls kept growing, as if about to tear apart both sky and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately afterward, the Nascent Souls from the various academies, who had been on guard all along, also acted. Surges of divine light collided in the sky, triggering a succession of hurricanes, earthquakes, thunderstorms…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as the Nascent Souls on both sides began their battle, faint human figures gradually emerged from the edge of the Third Layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing these figures, Qingming True Lord’s eyes blazed with fierce battle intent, for he knew… these people were his next opponents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There are battles between Nascent Souls, and battles between Nascent Souls.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingming True Lord thought to himself: “The main focus of the Nascent Souls from each academy is to intercept the enemy Nascent Souls, to prevent them from affecting the Moon War or from attacking key facilities on the ground, causing losses and reducing war potential.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nascent Soul intercepts Nascent Soul; all one’s mind is naturally fixed on the enemy Nascent Soul. Wasting energy and mental effort on dealing with Core Formation experts would only lower one’s own chance of victory.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So Core Formation still has to be handled by us.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gazing at the figures descending from the sky and hurtling toward Ten Thousand Methods University, Qingming True Lord let out a long howl and charged to meet them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come on, I’ve been waiting for you for a long time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, with the activation of the Northern Dark Star-Swallowing Art, a pitch-black shadow completely engulfed the entire university town of Ten Thousand Methods University.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, on the other side, Security Department Head Tian Sha True Lord had already shot into the sky, reaching the edge of the Third Layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A voice sounded in Tian Sha True Lord’s ear: “Yo, in gaming terms, you’ve gone and killed your way to our spawn point, haven’t you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tian Sha True Lord glanced at his opponent and grinned, saying, “Someone who couldn’t even pass the Core Formation certification… too weak.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other party was about to speak again when they suddenly realized they had lost the ability to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somehow, their head had already been severed from their body, cupped in their own hands at chest level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, Tian Sha True Lord had already turned his gaze to the other Core Formation True Lords descending from the Third Layer, a cruel smile curling at the corner of his mouth: “Sorry, everyone. To prevent further losses to the school, I’ll have to ask you all to die right here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the intensity of the war escalated further, strange phenomena frequently appeared in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only did the sun and moon burst forth with towering brilliance, but the whole sky was filled with blazing divine light, like countless stars exploding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, a great number of Core Formation cultivators fought from the sky down to the ground, falling like shooting stars crashing into the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the great battle on the moon had also reached a critical moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lian Shu, if you are still waiting for reinforcements, I’m afraid they have already been intercepted.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a low shout from Magnetic Pole Divine Lord, Tian Ri Huang Shen fiercely collided with their opponent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Qingmu Divine Lord slammed a palm fiercely onto the lunar ground beneath his feet. Immediately, the entire Eternal Night Jewel Mansion shuddered violently, and streams of pure, cold, and intensely yin-aligned mana gushed forth, like moonlight turned into liquid, surging and spreading across the entire battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching this scene, Lian Shu Divine Lord thought to himself: “Constant burning has breached the outer shell of Eternal Night Jewel Mansion, allowing them to finally reach the moon’s interior and start competing for control of this artifact? No… that’s not right… it’s not just that…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lian Shu Divine Lord stared fixedly at Qingmu Divine Lord and said, “You’ve activated the moon’s formations?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The super-massive artifact that operated day and night, ceaselessly cycling to supply the spiritual network covering the entire layer, naturally also had formations laid within it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingmu Divine Lord still remembered, many years ago… when the moon was first being constructed, the shock he felt upon first seeing the formation diagrams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Immortal Sect formation… the Taiyin Moon-illuminating Pillar Fortress Grand Formation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingmu Divine Lord sighed, “Old friend, this is the first time since its completion that I’ve truly activated you at full power, isn’t it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dense moonlight shot out fiercely, as if it intended to freeze everything—the spiritual energy, the atmosphere, the mana, the flames—all on the entire moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Tian Ri Huang Shen, amidst continuous burning, kept pursuing Lian Shu Divine Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two opposing forces—one yin and one yang, one cold and one hot—converged to slaughter Lian Shu Divine Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Magnetic Pole Divine Lord said coldly, “Lian Shu, no one can save you now. You have already lost.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Lian Shu Divine Lord remarked emotionally, “So this is your killing move?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Waiting for the start of the fierce battles among the other Nascent Souls, confirming that no further support will come from the upper layers, and only then unleashing this killing move to secure victory… you were indeed cautious enough.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But…” Lian Shu Divine Lord’s gaze sharpened. “Wasn’t I also waiting for this moment? Waiting for this moment when the great battle would no longer be disturbed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, they saw Lian Shu Divine Lord’s divine light surge explosively. The next moment, his form seemed to turn into a layer of afterimage, swiftly drifting out of the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm?\" Watching this scene, Lord Qingmu's heart trembled, feeling as if the other party had at that moment broken free from the constraints of space, directly breaching the spatial blockade outside the Moon and preparing to retreat outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, both Qingmu and Ciji shouted in their hearts: \"Immortal Sect techniques! The ones left to them by that immortal, containing space technology!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Lianshu smiled faintly: \"Since I laid down the spatial blockade, it's only natural that I can pass through it as well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And the Moon... will become your grave.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, Lord Lianshu, while rapidly retreating, began to form hand seals, starting to seal off the entire outer region of the Moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just then, Lord Qingmu let out a fierce roar, and with all the power of the Celestial Kunlun Mountain-Shifting Divine Force at the Nascent Soul stage, he reached out to seize Lord Lianshu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As space warped, Lord Lianshu's speed also slowed down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Lord Lianshu's figure merely paused briefly before continuing to float outward without stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's useless, Qingmu. In this series of fierce battles, I've completely seen through your cultivation. This bit of power, though it hinders me somewhat, cannot stop me...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Lord Lianshu was feeling smug, Ciji's voice rang out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then what if I join in?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Ciji waved his hand, and from a crystal in his palm erupted waves of earth-shattering geomagnetic gravitational force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Celestial Kunlun Mountain-Shifting Divine Force?\" Lord Lianshu's heart jolted: \"You used Hehuan University's technology to pre-store Qingmu's power in an artificial Dharma skeleton...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the intense tearing, the space around Lord Lianshu was continuously distorted, and his outward retreat speed dropped further and further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the twin forces of yin and yang converged to attack, continuing to erode his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following that, the outer Sun's circling Golden Crow kept crashing in, gradually threatening to completely seal off his escape route.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Two madmen...\" Lord Lianshu said angrily: \"Let go quickly! Do you want to die together?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Qingmu shouted: \"Lianshu, do you think you can still retreat? There is no retreat left. Today, it's either you die or I die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nine Heavens Primordial Yang Tower came crashing down with a boom, and Lord Ciji said coldly: \"Whether it's your physical body or your soul, don't think you can take either away today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiangshen's shout came from deep within the Dark Spirit Realm: \"Don't even think about it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the fourth day of the lunar war, the battlefield had almost spread across the entire second layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the three factions on the Moon were giving their all, fighting to the very last moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep underground in the University City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu paid no attention to the fierce battle outside, remaining completely focused on his own cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With each breath he took, dense spiritual energy surged into his body, circulated through his dantian and golden core, and was refined into bits of dharma power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the moment the dharma power was generated, he channeled it to his chest and abdomen area to open the extraordinary meridians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past two months, besides his daily breathing and cultivation, Zhang Yu had been continuously consuming dharma power to open extraordinary meridians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A golden core cultivator from the Ten Thousand Methods University could usually open eight extraordinary meridians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with the enhancement of the Zifu Golden Core and the Golden Core Saint Body, Zhang Yu could open a full ten extraordinary meridians. However, having ten extraordinary meridians was not something ordinary people could possess. Fortunately, the Meridian-Opening Method he bought last month from the Heavenly Demon University could aid his cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Meridian-Opening Method was called the Universe Great Annihilation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The method for opening extraordinary meridians recorded in the Universe Great Annihilation could, depending on the supplementary technique, open different extraordinary meridians in various locations across the body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The technique Zhang Yu wanted to enhance after opening the extraordinary meridians was naturally his highest-level technique at present: 'Kunlun in the Palm'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, all the extraordinary meridians he opened were centered around 'Kunlun in the Palm'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with each extraordinary meridian he opened, he could feel the range of his 'Kunlun in the Palm' expanding by a notch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Range... So this is the direction in which the Universe Great Annihilation enhances Kunlun in the Palm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu thought to himself: \"Every time I open one extraordinary meridian, the spatial range in which I can deploy and retract Kunlun in the Palm expands by over 10%.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, after a month, I have already opened three extraordinary meridians.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2643,"2026-05-29T04:55:10.865Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","5b356e4f075f58794a29f1c88e5320bd0d802bebf6396d410695c2c285bf9ca7","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-673","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-671",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]