What’s the point of cultivating immortality if you don’t have money?.

Chapter 673 The Fifth Floor Has Completely Fallen (Thanks to 'Twilight Dawn' for the generous donation)

While Zhang Yu was engrossed in his cultivation, more than three months had passed since the heavens and earth were connected and the six layers disappeared.

Every night, when the cultivators on the second floor look up, they can see the sky above the third, fourth, and fifth floors.

At the highest point of those layers of night sky, the fifth layer is always under intense firefight, with bursts of lightning and flames constantly erupting, like twinkling stars shining brightly in the darkness.

But at some point, the intensity of the battle in the fifth layer of the night sky gradually decreased, and fewer and fewer stars twinkled, until one night, people could no longer see any trace of the battle.

A guess arose in the minds of countless people on the second floor... the fifth floor had been breached.

As if responding to everyone's speculations, with the end of the war on the 5th level, a black curtain of sky shrouded the sky between the 5th and 4th levels, completely blocking all prying eyes.

From that day on, the observers on the second floor could no longer observe the situation on the fifth floor of Kunxu. No one knew what the fifth floor behind the sky had become or what would happen.

All anyone could see was that black canopy standing high at the top of the sky, silently reminding the people below of the failure of the five-layered resistance.

Correspondingly, the fourth layer of the night sky began to light up with the flames of battle. The scattered lights of the battle seemed to illuminate the entire night sky, telling people about the fierce battle that had broken out.

The changing celestial phenomena seemed to be reminding everyone to speed up their actions.

The same was true for Zhang Yu. Looking at the black sky in the video, he felt a torrent surging towards the second floor step by step with an unstoppable force.

He needs a higher level of understanding and greater strength to face this torrent.

……

Although focused on cultivation, Zhang Yu still spends a minute or two each day checking the news to avoid becoming completely disconnected from the outside world.

At that moment, news reports began to surface in his eyes.

"Tianyao University is embroiled in a riot among its lower-class demon descendants. Yesterday, another pharmaceutical factory on one of the university's campuses was attacked. The factory owner claimed that the economic loss exceeded 5000 spirit coins. This is the 12th case this month in which the economic loss has exceeded 3000 spirit coins..."

"The Heavenly Demon University has raised taxes again, intending to increase its spending on bandit suppression. It is reported that poverty and unemployment at the university have reached record highs, with some Golden Core cultivators forced to sell their Golden Cores..."

"A mass demonic possession incident occurred at Netherworld University, with over a thousand cultivators becoming members of a demonic cult and blowing up the central morgue. The Unemployed Cult claimed responsibility, alleging they orchestrated this viral event. Three Nascent Soul True Monarchs went bankrupt as a result of this incident..."

Zhang Yu glanced at the news and could see that wealthy people from other schools were suffering terribly, and it seemed like someone was going bankrupt every day.

Then he glanced at the school news.

"Our school has once again launched special operations to crack down on thieves and bandits, recapturing multiple campuses. Currently, the number of factories operating normally accounts for 34% of the total number of factories operating normally on the second floor, ranking first on the second floor..."

"To adapt to the current economic environment and rationally adjust the allocation of resources, our school has launched its fifteenth drug price adjustment. The aim is to ensure that even the wealthy have access to medicine, further strictly control the resource acquisition rate for Qi Refining cultivators, and crack down on the black market. Experts say this move will benefit the corpse export industry, and related companies may see a surge in revenue..."

In the video, an expert says, "The school's policy has always been to strictly protect the interests of Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators, and guarantee the basic survival of Foundation Establishment cultivators. As for Qi Refining cultivators? After natural regulation, once a certain number die, resources will be sufficient. The main reason the economy is slow to recover is that there are too many low-quality Qi Refining cultivators, which are dragging down the university..."

By looking at the news on campus, Zhang Yu could tell that the wealthy on campus lived in a good environment, and the interests of those at the Nascent Soul and Golden Core stages were strictly protected.

The rich are richer and more valuable, so they deserve more resources and have a greater right to live. The poor, on the other hand, deserve to die—who told them to be poor? This is the mindset of normal people in Kunxu.

Zhang Yu: "This is fucking speechless..."

Besides, Zhang Yu, as a second-generation student of the school, also knows that the school's four Nascent Soul cultivators are like four black holes, frantically devouring massive amounts of funds and resources, or constantly exchanging resources with the school, all for the sake of improving their cultivation.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "The Nascent Soul stage is like nuclear weapons for various countries on Earth. All the top leaders of the top ten universities understand that in order to cope with the upcoming war, they must do everything they can to prioritize the protection of the Nascent Soul stage."

The environment seems to be deteriorating day by day.

Faced with the enemy gradually descending from the sky, everyone is making preparations as best they can.

……

Another month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Yu's Dao Heart reached level 27 (11.47%), his Mana reached 3785 units, and his physical strength increased to level 28.01.

At this moment, it had been only 4 months since he broke through to the Golden Core stage, and only 3 months since he completed the Golden Core Sacred Body.

"Although I spent nearly half of my time and resources cultivating my Dao Heart because my Dao Heart couldn't keep up, I still couldn't achieve my original goal of raising my physical strength to level 30 in 3 months."

“But my Dao Heart is at level 27, and my Physical Strength is at level 28…” Zhang Yu thought to himself, “These two stats of mine have definitely reached the level of the late Golden Core stage. Only my Mana is still at the level of the early to mid-Golden Core stage.”

In addition to the improvement in basic data, Zhang Yu's Qi transmission distance also increased, reaching 312 meters.

With the continuous injection of the medicine, the physical expression factors required for the seventh and eighth stages of Dao foundation were fully manifested.

Among them, the Hunyuan Qi Dao Foundation can stabilize Qi and blood, effectively combat various diseases, stabilize injuries, and use magic power to offset some of the injuries.

The Boundless Blood Sea Dao Foundation can increase blood and qi, making the physical body more enduring and comprehensively improving resistance to various physical attacks.

With a loud bang, Yu Xinghan was sent flying backward, his body tumbling and spinning several times to dissipate the force before finally coming to a stop.

He looked at Zhang Yu in surprise: "What's your physical strength now?"

In the test just now, Yu Xinghan felt that Zhang Yu's martial arts skills had hardly improved at all, but he still managed to blast him away with an unreasonable and brute force by an absolute difference in strength.

Zhang Yu smiled slightly and did not answer Yu Xinghan.

He knew that his basic data had increased so dramatically in just over four months after breaking through to the Golden Core stage, which must have seemed incredible to outsiders.

If others knew the cost of his current cultivation, they would probably be even more shocked.

"The cost of leveling up is several hundred spirit coins per month. If a Golden Core cultivator cultivates like this for several years, it will amount to tens of thousands of spirit coins. Even so, several years may not be enough for ordinary cultivators to reach the peak of the Golden Core stage."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Fortunately, with my unparalleled talent and efficiency, I shouldn't have to stay in the Golden Core stage for several years."

But for Zhang Yu, all he complained about was that all these improvements were still too slow.

To break through to the Nascent Soul stage, in addition to meeting the standards for Dao heart, magical power, and physical strength, one must also complete the Dao foundation and extraordinary meridians.

As for the foundation of the Dao, Zhang Yu can simply rely on potions; at most, the time and money required to reach the 13th level of the Dao foundation are more.

However, the opening of the extraordinary meridians still requires us to do it step by step.

In addition to these, the higher the quality of magic power, the better.

"Magic power, the quality of magic power, and the 10 extraordinary scriptures—I will work on these together after I have finished cultivating my Dao heart and physical strength."

"After completing these tasks, the remaining task is to provide personalized services for the Nascent Soul stage before the breakthrough, which will also require a significant amount of time and money."

On the other side, after testing his skills with Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan pushed three objects that looked like urns in front of Zhang Yu: "I have fulfilled my mission. Zhao Tianxing, Mo Tianyi, and Hu Yuntao are all inside."

Zhang Yu's eyes flickered as he looked at the three boxes in front of him and said to Yu Xinghan, "Thank you for your hard work."

With the arrival of the blood moon, universities across the country became information islands at night, making it impossible for soul cultivators to work remotely.

In addition, colleges and universities are becoming increasingly chaotic and unsafe.

So Zhang Yu provided manpower and money to bring over all his soul cultivation friends.

A moment later, with the successful transfer of consciousness, the three Taihao Sacred Law Flying Swords floated up beside Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu said, "From now on, you will live in the flying sword as sword spirits for a while."

Zhao Tianxing said gratefully, "Thank you so much, Mr. Zhang. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know what to do next. You even provided us with free accommodation..."

Amidst such chaos, Zhao Tianxing and his companions were naturally extremely grateful to Zhang Yu for bringing them to the safe haven of Wanfa University.

Zhao Tianxing and the other two secretly resolved that they would continue working at Zhang Yu's company to save up some money, and then find a way to move into the calculation pool of Wanfa University.

After arranging things for Zhao Tianxing and the other two, Zhang Yu began purchasing new cultivation supplies.

Looking at the continuously rising prices, he thought to himself, "Looking at it this way, it seems that I actually made a profit by pushing forward my Golden Core cultivation earlier and buying cultivation materials non-stop over the past three months."

Just as Zhang Yu continued to devote himself wholeheartedly to cultivation, just as he thought he could continue to cultivate silently until he reached the Nascent Soul stage, as he had done for the past four months.

However, one event dragged him out of the limelight, making him feel the helplessness of being unable to remain still amidst the great tide of the times.

……

this day.

Fu Ji interrupted Zhang Yu's cultivation and said, "Zhang Yu, I feel something is wrong."

While circulating his body-refining technique, Zhang Yu asked, "What's wrong?"

Fu Ji said, "Yu Xinghan and Shi Huaiyu got into a conflict with people at the construction site."

"Conflict?" Zhang Yu asked doubtfully, "Did they mention my name?"

Fu Ji said, "It's strange that they're still causing trouble for Yu Xinghan even after I mentioned your name."

“Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan is a follower of the evil god. He and Shi Huaiyu know a lot about you. If something happens to him, it will definitely be a big problem.”

Zhang Yu frowned, having already made up his mind to ask his sister to investigate the other party's background.

(End of this chapter)