[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-681":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},164550,323,"Chapter 681: The True Lord Arrives","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-681",681,"\u003Cp>The Karmic Lotus Sovereign said coldly, \"Magnetic Pole! For the sake of all living beings under heaven, we can no longer allow you to fool around today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Magnetic Pole’s gaze was icy as he looked at this man—once a renowned old-guard Nascent Soul disciple from Demon Heaven University with great prestige in the artifact refining world, multiple competition judge, former vice-chancellor of Demon Heaven University, and now its full chancellor...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a low shout from Magnetic Pole, the Nine Heavens Yang Origin Towers emerged behind him one after another, suppressing the surrounding spirit realm and sealing off any leakage of information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Karmic Lotus! Do you even deserve to speak to me about the common people?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When the demon cults and heretical gods raged in their assault, I was the one who painstakingly arranged defensive lines, put Azurewood Sovereign at the forefront, built fortifications, and held the line. All you did was scheme over profits and devour spoils. When did you ever think of Kunxu? Or the common people?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I exhausted all my assets to repair the Realm-Breaking Drill, to break through the spatial blockade, while you stirred up trouble right under my nose every single day—either sending people to investigate me, publishing news to slander me, or dispatching men to fight against my subordinates. In the end... all of it was just to steal my Realm-Breaking Drill.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, the Sun-Day Radiance God emerged behind Magnetic Pole Sovereign with blazing brilliance, its eyes carrying the aura of the immortal sect technique, Pure Glass Lotus Fire, sweeping over all the Nascent Soul cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But right now, a great enemy is at our doorstep!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why are you still making trouble?\" scolded Magnetic Pole Sovereign. \"Do you want to stir until Layers 2 through 5 of Kunxu are all obliterated, until all ten major universities go bankrupt, until the Heavenly Court returns and I get dismissed along with you, my assets confiscated, and we owe a sky-high debt—will you only be satisfied then?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Karmic Lotus Sovereign did not flinch, staring right back. Behind him, the Demon Heaven Banner suddenly swelled and fluttered, countless vengeful souls howling fiercely within, erupting with power that clashed evenly with the Nine Heavens Yang Origin Towers, each occupying half of the spirit realm on the scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Magnetic Pole! Stop making excuses!\" shouted Karmic Lotus Sovereign. \"It's been five months! We ten universities have been stuck here for five months, burning money for five months... This time, you must hand over the goods and give us an explanation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Otherwise, we'll just convene a Nascent Soul assembly and vote on a new plan. Whether it's our Cryogenic Plan or the Immortal Soldier's Fortress Plan, anything is better than you just wasting time like this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Karmic Lotus Sovereign spoke, the Nascent Soul cultivators from Netherworld, White Bone, and Joy Union universities also voiced their agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Magnetic Pole, it's not that we don't want to support you, but so much time has passed with no results to show—it's bound to raise doubts. We have trouble reporting back to our universities too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Magnetic Pole, if you're running into research difficulties, just bring it out so we can work on it together. Karmic Lotus is a master refiner too; let him help you. That's better than working behind closed doors alone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I say we should let Karmic Lotus Sovereign handle the Realm-Breaking Drill. His artifact refining skills surpass Magnetic Pole's, and he's even said he'll open-source all his spatial technology research.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cangshi Sovereign from the Celestial Demon University chuckled and said, \"Magnetic Pole, if you don't trust the others, you can send the Realm-Breaking Drill to me. I'll test it for everyone. With the Celestial Demon University's brand as guarantee, I assure fairness and objectivity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the Nascent Soul cultivators from Vajra, Immortal Soldier, and Celestial Sword universities also sent messages to Magnetic Pole Sovereign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Magnetic Pole, it's not that we don't support you, but you need to show some actual results.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Magnetic Pole, just release the design drawings of the Realm-Breaking Drill to shut them up. I guarantee that even if our Immortal Soldier University gets the drawings, we will never copy your artifact.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, the Nascent Soul cultivator from Cauldron University coughed and said, \"Everyone, with a great enemy before us, let's not damage our goodwill...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Karmic Lotus Sovereign glared coldly at Magnetic Pole and said, \"Magnetic Pole, speak. What are your plans?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the gazes of each Nascent Soul cultivator turned toward him, every look seemed to carry a weight of a thousand jun, pressing down on Magnetic Pole Sovereign like countless mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the university city of Myriad Methods University.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Le Mulan ran swiftly forward, holding a bag of elixirs in her hand, chasing after the flying vessel Zhang Yu was on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn't know what Zhang Yu was going to the front lines for, nor how she could help him. She only wanted to give him the elixirs she had saved before he left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the elixirs Le Mulan had sent, Zhang Yu knew that most of them were negligible for him now that he had broken through to the Nascent Soul stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fuji said impatiently, \"Too weak. This is no different from a kitten or puppy offering you its favorite food. Hmph, this Le Mulan has no more use. Why bother with her? Zhang Yu, on the path of immortal cultivation, you must learn to network upward. Friends who can't keep up are not our friends.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu ignored Fuji, gave Le Mulan a gentle smile, accepted the elixirs, and then pressed a palm on Le Mulan's body, transferring a surge of mana into her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mulan, wait for me to come back and help you advance your cultivation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu knew in his heart that Le Mulan's Dao Seed, 'Deep Cold Vein,' required 5,000 mana and 250% mana quality to upgrade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With her current Golden Core cultivation, she was not far from reaching that data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A Level 3 Deep Cold Vein... with my current strength, I should be able to protect her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu boarded the flying vessel. The next moment, amid a series of atmospheric roars, the vessel shot up into the sky, hurtling toward the direction of the great chasm between Layer 2 and Layer 3.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, Zhang Yu on the flying vessel did not waste time. For him, who had just broken through to the Nascent Soul realm not long ago, there were far too many aspects of cultivation that needed hard work, improvement, and completion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After cultivating the 'Kunlun in the Palm' to Level 40, Zhang Yu next chose to upgrade his mental cultivation method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sat cross-legged in the vessel's meditation room, his consciousness diving into the spirit realm and entering the Supreme Clarity Domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu planned to use the time acceleration of the Supreme Clarity Domain to cultivate his second mental cultivation method, 'Immeasurable Heart Inner Dharma Body.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This dark art had the effects of enhancing the speed of thought, enabling multitasking, and allowing parallel thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At level 10, he could already focus on two things at once; at level 20, it was quadruple thinking. When Zhang Yu reached the Golden Core stage and raised his technique to level 30, he already possessed octuple thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike mental cultivation methods like the Can Niu Body Sacrifice Technique, which involved physical power, the Infinite Mind Dharma Body, as a purely spiritual technique, could be cultivated more quickly through the time acceleration of the Supreme Clarity Realm. Whether during his Foundation Establishment or Golden Core cultivation, Zhang Yu had long verified this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, as he cycled the technique over and over, Zhang Yu's technique level began to surge, climbing steadily from level 30 toward level 31, level 32.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time he was about to reach the Great Void, he had already pushed the technique all the way up to level 35.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his mind, the eight-headed white bulls roared in succession, seemingly eager to split again and transform into a sixteen-headed white bull state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu still remembered that back in his Foundation Establishment period, he could manipulate dozens of Qi-infused projections all by himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, with the increase in his mental computing power, plus the future 16-fold thinking of the level-40 technique, he could control a vast number of magical tools all by himself—like a one-man army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he could also match that with a large number of soul cultivators for coordinated operations, both destructive power and creative potential would increase drastically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exiting the Supreme Clarity Realm, Zhang Yu opened his eyes, glanced at the notification floating in his eye cavity, and thought to himself, \"Almost there?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he sensed a shift in his gaze and saw a figure appear before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a humanoid shape resembling Zhang Yu, but its entire body seemed to be formed from mist, its form constantly churning with layers of vapor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as Zhang Yu's mind moved, the mist behind this figure churned violently, revealing hundreds or even thousands of arms made of mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the next moment, as Zhang Yu's thoughts changed, these arms vanished back into the vapor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This figure was Zhang Yu's Nascent Soul. Apart from perfectly inheriting Zhang Yu's physical strength, it could also conjure hundreds or thousands of limbs at will to unleash its power and use all sorts of martial arts that Zhang Yu had mastered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In particular, the Immortal Sect martial art \"Palm of Kunlun,\" amplified by the ten extraordinary meridians inside the Nascent Soul, combined with the Nascent Soul's ability to mobilize the world's essence, could further enhance the power of Palm of Kunlun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly, Zhang Yu sensed that his Nascent Soul, as part of his body, could also exercise the authority of a Descendant of Immortals, opening spatial portals on the Nascent Soul's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In that case, my Nascent Soul can also execute a combo of Palm of Kunlun and the Descendant of Immortals' ability.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Zhang Yu's physical body was now vastly different from before. Every shred of flesh and blood had completely merged with his magical power. The thirteen foundations had formed a string of special physical expression factors, finally transforming into a rare physical divine ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the data Zhang Yu retrieved after his breakthrough, this physical divine ability was not only extremely rare but was often exhibited by non-human descendants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The physical divine ability was called the Formless Free Body. When facing similar attacks in a short period, it granted extremely strong resistance. It was said that cultivators with this divine ability could only be critically wounded by the same technique once in a single battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, as Zhang Yu was adapting to the power of his newly formed Nascent Soul, another message appeared before him. It was a notification about his treatment being upgraded—laboratory and dormitory improvements, comprehensive increases in funding, internet fees, material supplies... full upgrades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu mused, \"It must be Teacher Magnetic Pole who urged them to raise my treatment?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, under the new wartime policy, all expert-level techniques from the entire school were opened to him for free, and all military-level techniques from the Artifact Refining Department, as well as design schematics for Dharma Bones and magical tools, could be purchased for just 10 spirit coins each.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing all this, Zhang Yu couldn't help but think about the effort and time he had spent in the past just to obtain a single military-level technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Indeed... chaos is a ladder.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In peacetime, it would never be so easy to obtain all the military-level knowledge of the Artifact Refining Department.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Zhang Yu was pondering, his scholarship loan was also disbursed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Zhang Yu hadn't taken the graduate school final exams, he still achieved excellent results and received the scholarship loan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And while he was in seclusion, even though all his cultivation resources were covered by Magnetic Pole and Aoki, his bank account still received occasional transfers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staring at the cold figure of over 2,000 spirit coins in his account, Zhang Yu felt that it still wouldn't be enough for what lay ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all, my entire set of magical tools is only at level 20 now; they all need to be upgraded to level 40.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu knew that just this single cost alone would drain the two thousand spirit coins, making him sigh inwardly: \"Sure enough, the higher your cultivation, the more you earn—but you also spend more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Money... never enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2084,"2026-05-29T04:55:10.865Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","d87738521edc02967145074de2fea499075e242a39404db22d236c7eb8508c56","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-682","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-680",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]