You dare to cultivate without money?!
Chapter 199 - 199 166 Zhang Yu's Heartache Thanks to 'Tian Ze Lv' for the Silver Alliance Leader Reward_2

199: Chapter 166 Zhang Yu’s Heartache (Thanks to ‘Tian Ze Lv’ for the Silver Alliance Leader Reward)_2 199: Chapter 166 Zhang Yu’s Heartache (Thanks to ‘Tian Ze Lv’ for the Silver Alliance Leader Reward)_2 “On the contrary, the most expensive cultivation techniques must have their powerful aspects.”

Once the sorting was complete, the body refinement martial arts appearing before Zhang Yu were, from high to low, the 1,550,000 ‘Spring and Autumn Endless Zen’, the 1,540,000 ‘Titanium Body Refinement Summons’, and the 1,520,000 ‘Great Heavenly Dragon Divine Power’.

Although these three cultivation techniques were all at an eight-star difficulty level, not the highest ten-star level, for Zhang Yu, they were precisely the techniques he truly needed.

Especially after glancing through the introductions of these three most expensive techniques, Zhang Yu felt a kind of heartache.

“These three techniques…

Do I really have to give up two?”

He then hesitated immensely.

“The ‘Spring and Autumn Endless Zen’ can strengthen the physique while also changing the muscles and cleansing the marrow, fortifying the internal organs, truly transforming the body’s constitution, enhancing human vitality, expelling various impurities like pill toxins and medicine toxins, improving the effectiveness of medication…”

“Cultivating this technique allows one to consume pills wildly, acupuncture, it’s truly a sacred art of body refinement, enhancing the immortal path potential of the cultivator.”

But looking at the ‘Titanium Body Refinement Summons’, Zhang Yu was also filled with desire: “A technique created by a steel factory worker who, after falling into a steel furnace, struggled for survival with all their might.”

“It allows for the smelting of various alloys into the body, integrating with flesh, bones, and even internal organs, vastly increasing the body’s resistance to attacks and physical bearing capacity.”

“Especially, the higher the quality of the alloy used, the stronger the body becomes.

It’s said that the company guarantees to update the training materials annually, even when reaching Level 10, one can become stronger year after year.”

Zhang Yu scoffed at the notion of a worker falling into a steel furnace; this was clearly a gimmick created by the company to promote this technique.

Rather than believing in some small story of a worker accidentally falling into a steel furnace, Zhang Yu preferred to think this technique was created after unknowingly burning to death, crushing to death numerous experimenters in a laboratory.

But there’s no doubt about the strength of this technique.

Yet Zhang Yu couldn’t help but look towards the ‘Great Heavenly Dragon Divine Power’.

“Refining dragon blood, transforming the body into a half-dragon, half-human form, can greatly increase muscle strength, body strength, while also enhancing recovery, stamina, physical endurance, drug resistance, metabolic ability, digestive ability, and other capabilities.”

“If one persists in refining dragon blood daily, there’s even potential to continue growth, extend lifespan, and acquire some dragon clan abilities.”

“Well…

but there is a side effect; the personality will be influenced by dragon nature, such as dragons being inherently lustful.

With continuous refinement of dragon blood, it will change the cultivator’s aesthetic sensibilities, with increasingly broad preferences.”

“It’s best to pair with sterilization surgery after mastering it for further enhancement.”

But this minor side effect seemed insignificant to Zhang Yu at this point.

If he could cultivate this technique for free, he would be willing to undergo a minor surgery.

As the 10 minutes of cultivation technique selection time continued to pass, Zhang Yu looked at the three techniques in front of him, feeling an overwhelming hesitation and difficulty.

“I want them all.”

“Sigh, this is too hard to choose.”

Compared to Zhang Yu’s difficulty, Ye Lingxiao on the other hand was very decisive.

As an heir of the perfect bloodline of the Xiandu Ye Clan, Ye Lingxiao had a nerve system far more developed than ordinary high school students, with terrifying natural control over muscles, internal organs, and even mana.

This talent was fully unleashed once he entered high school, allowing him to master any cultivation technique with just a look, and excel once he practiced.

One could say that since entering high school, the number of techniques he’s cultivated has long surpassed the imagination of ordinary students; even his classmates, teachers, and private coaches have no idea how many techniques he has actually mastered.

At this moment, in Ye Lingxiao’s eyes, many of the techniques in this long row were ones he had already mastered.

For the ones he hadn’t learned, he had mostly heard of them and knew roughly what direction they took.

However, he wouldn’t take the risk of choosing techniques he was already cultivating for this examination.

On one hand, he disdained such actions, and on the other hand, all his techniques had purchased licenses for use, legitimate techniques.

As a pure legitimate user, whatever techniques he had practiced could be verified on the spot by the True Gods.

Thus, Ye Lingxiao filtered out the techniques with a ten-star difficulty, then casually selected a technique he hadn’t cultivated and didn’t particularly dislike.

Ye Lingxiao thought to himself, “Then it’s the ‘Infinite Sword Technique’.”

Yun Jing on the other hand made it even simpler; unlike Ye Lingxiao, he hadn’t cultivated a large number of techniques, so he directly sorted them from high to low by difficulty and then chose the ‘Senluo Wanxiang Palm’ at the top.

Yu Xinghan took a moment to think.

Master Xinghuo had long planned and arranged every cultivation technique for him during the Qi Refinement stage.

And judging from his rankings in the previous two exams, he wasn’t under much pressure to score highly in this one, so he didn’t need to choose the most difficult technique to cultivate.

“It’s unnecessary to choose a technique outside of my master’s plan, as that would just waste my extra time and energy.”

After all, Master Xinghuo’s plans for Yu Xinghan were already very tight, leaving him with no extra time to practice additional techniques.

“I should choose a technique in the planned schedule then.”

“That way, when Li Xuelian transfers money to me for buying techniques next time…”

Thinking about how he could learn a technique for free today and then get some technique fees out of Li Xuelian next time, Yu Xinghan felt a burst of joy.

“Of course, I should choose the most expensive one in the plan…”

Yu Xinghan’s gaze settled on the ‘Tian Gang Qi Gong’, a seven-star difficulty valued at 900,000.

“Even though Tian Gang Qi Gong is seven-star difficulty, it would be tough for me to master it in two hours.”

“Moreover…”

Looking at the introductory phrase “To master this technique, one must reverse life with a blade,” Yu Xinghan felt a chill.

He had just asked the True God examiner; the Tian Gang Qi Gong requires physical wholeness.

So if he chooses this technique, the on-site examiner would invite the Divine Power of the Ministry of Health to restore the body deficiencies caused by sterilization surgery.

“Thus, cultivating Tian Gang Qi Gong means facing changes in the Dao Heart, as well as physical and mental changes due to various hormonal shifts in the body, greatly hindering one’s cultivation progress.”

Such hindrance to one’s cultivation was like poison for Yu Xinghan, who was determined to make great strides on the immortal path.

“No wonder Master wants to schedule Tian Gang Qi Gong for my second or even third year in high school.”

“Does cultivating this technique really come at such a high cost?”

Gritting his teeth, Yu Xinghan thought, “But fortune comes from taking risks; if I’m unwilling to fight for 900,000, how will I strive to climb the immortal path in the future?”

“I’ll go for it!”

The remaining students like Dai Xingzhi, Meng Tao, and other Xiandu high school students mostly chose techniques with a five or six-star difficulty.

This was for the sake of caution, as choosing a technique that was too difficult and failing to master it within two hours would result in a score of zero.