You dare to cultivate without money?!-Chapter 336 - 285: Sister’s Dao Seed

Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture, because it requires changing the breathing pattern, transforming the original breathing into fetal breathing, is therefore a cultivation technique with a very high entry difficulty.

Cultivators often have to maintain mana circulation while continually resisting their own breathing habits to construct a new fetal breathing system, and thus many cultivators struggle for ten days or half a month without being able to master it.

But for Zhang Yu, these are not problems.

The Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture involves the pores around the body, as well as the increasingly complex meridians after Foundation Establishment. After spending over thirty minutes, Zhang Yu was able to circulate mana for one complete cycle, finishing a practice round of the Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture.

In an instant, he felt scenes flashing through his mind, where he was diligently practicing the Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture, finally mastering the technique.

Simultaneously, Zhang Yu’s breathing became progressively weaker, eventually nearing a state of non-existence.

And the skin and hair all over his body felt a continuous cool sensation, as the spiritual mechanism in the room surged into his pores, integrating into the mana cycle within his meridians.

Zhang Yu could feel that, in the fetal breathing state, his pores were constantly absorbing the surrounding spiritual mechanism every moment, just like a new breathing instinct.

After a slight adaptation, Zhang Yu continued circulating the Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture, starting the second round of cultivation.

The moment Zhang Yu transformed his breathing into fetal breathing, Zhang Pianpian, who was initially practicing with her eyes closed, suddenly opened them, her gaze flashing with divine light as she looked towards Zhang Yu.

"Fetal breathing?"

Zhang Pianpian thought to herself, "It seems that my brother has been pondering over fetal breathing techniques since school started."

"Very well, mastering the technique of fetal breathing, continually absorbing spiritual mechanism day and night, refining mana, is greatly beneficial for mana growth."

With a slight glance, Zhang Pianpian closed her eyes again, her eye sockets envisioning scenes deep within the Spirit Realm.

In the following days, Zhang Yu continued to diligently practice the Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture, passively circulating it during classes, actively circulating it after classes, never stopping his hard work.

In just three or four days, he raised the Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture to Level 10, gaining Level 10 effects that allowed the scripture to be circulated actively to full effect.

Then, after over ten more days, Zhang Yu raised the Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture to Level 20 in one breath. This Level 20 effect made the mana circulation of the fetal breathing scripture smooth and seamless, as if divinely assisted with every breath.

Initially, Zhang Yu took over thirty minutes to complete one cycle of the Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture, but now he could compress this time to within twenty minutes, significantly enhancing his breathing efficiency.

His mana also increased during this cultivation process, reaching 286.2, with a mana quality of 113%.

But just as Zhang Yu planned to choose his next cultivation technique, this day, Zhang Pianpian seized the opportunity while Yu Xinghan and Le Mulan were absent, to find her brother.

Previously, at the end of June, Zhang Pianpian recognized that Zhang Yu had mastered the fetal breathing technique, and hadn’t seen any issue.

But in the following half month, she checked the spiritual mechanism consumption data of the dormitory and found the consumption continually rising, almost higher each day.

After noticing this, she paid closer attention to why the spiritual mechanism consumption was increasing so rapidly.

Then she quickly discovered that every acceleration in consumption occurred when Zhang Yu was in the dormitory.

"Is it because Zhang Yu’s breathing efficiency increased?"

Noticing her brother’s improved breathing efficiency and faster mana refinement, Zhang Pianpian’s first reaction was not joy, but suspicion.

"To have increased so much within a short time, did he spend a lot of spirit coins? Or even... take loans?"

Zhang Pianpian’s suspicion was not unfounded, for when Zhang Yu was three months into high school, he had already owed 700,000.

However, Zhang Pianpian wasn’t worried about Zhang Yu’s debt, as he had proven his talent on the Immortal Path, and borrowing money is commonplace in Immortal cultivation. She was worried he’d spend money recklessly.

"The growth of mana is a long-term, step-by-step accumulation."

"Spending large amounts of money on this daily is only suitable for the truly wealthy, not for the poor."

So Zhang Pianpian used a talisman, starting to investigate Zhang Yu’s spending records, loan records, and credit information...

Then she was even more surprised to find that since Zhang Yu arrived at Wanfa University City for a month and a half, he’d been living frugally, apart from buying many cultivation techniques, there was no major spending.

Ruling out various money-burning possibilities, the final outcome seemed to be only one.

"He didn’t replace any magic remains, nor did he take any medicines, purchase Taoist Skill services, or use any costly methods..."

Zhang Pianpian looked at the Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture in his purchase records, thinking, "In this mere half month, it’s his breathing cultivation technique that’s been rapidly improving, causing the spiritual mechanism consumption to increase day by day."

At this moment, only Zhang Pianpian and Zhang Yu were left in the room.

Zhang Pianpian looked at Zhang Yu and asked, "Brother, tell me honestly, to what stage have you cultivated the Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture?"

Zhang Yu was slightly stunned, not expecting that his sister would readily identify the technique he was practicing.

Fu Ji quickly reminded him, "Zhang Pianpian is with the True Gods, you absolutely can’t be honest with her about our matters, and downplay the progress of the Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture to avoid unnecessary attention."

Zhang Yu thought, "Reaching Level 20 in half a month is quite remarkable indeed."

So after thinking for a moment, Zhang Yu slowly said, "Level 10."

"Level 10?" Zhang Pianpian’s heart skipped a beat, yet she controlled her expression perfectly, calmly saying, "Impossible, a Level 10 Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture hasn’t truly reached the Foundation Establishment level."

"Your spiritual mechanism consumption in the room these past half month, and your spending records, I’ve seen with my own eyes. Speak honestly, and don’t think about deceiving me."

"What’s the level of your Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture now?"

Zhang Yu hesitated for a moment, then said, "Level 15."

Zhang Pianpian was shocked to hear this: "Level 15? Reached Level 15 in just half a month?"

"The Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture, this breathing technique, normally takes a year or so to reach Level 15 on your own. Yet my brother achieved it in just half a month."

"How much spirit coins would it cost to achieve that? 50 spirit coins? Or 100 spirit coins?"

Zhang Pianpian thought inwardly: "My brother’s talent is even more astounding than I initially imagined."

She recalled the last time, when she was on the first level, she used the Heavenly Eye Talisman to view Zhang Yu and saw "???".

"Well, without this, how could he keep up with me in the future?"

Thinking of this, Zhang Pianpian looked at Zhang Yu and said seriously, "Zhang Yu, I have told you about the importance of information in Kunxu."

"Having more information and maintaining an information gap is often more useful than sheer power, allowing you to win from a position of weakness or poverty."

"We know this, and the True Gods, Golden Cores, Nascent Souls, and even higher-level Immortals know this even more."

"So every time you go up a level in Kunxu, the monitoring of information becomes more stringent. It’s like layers of webs, covering everyone, wishing to monitor every bit of data on each person."

"Your increase in spiritual mechanism consumption in the dorm over the past half month can easily be discovered by others."

"If you don’t learn to hide, as your achievements grow in the future, people will soon become interested in your various data and information. It won’t be long before many people notice your remarkable talent."

Listening to this, Zhang Yu felt a slight stir in his heart. The speed of his cultivation technique’s progress was indeed something he could not explain to anyone.

If a higher entity took great interest in him, his future would be entirely in their hands.

Therefore, all along, he intended to conceal this matter, not wanting to appear too prominently.

This time, however, he didn’t expect that by analyzing the spiritual mechanism consumption data from his room and his spending records, one could deduce that his breathing technique was advancing rapidly.

Zhang Pianpian continued, "Therefore, besides mastering the information gap, creating an information gap is equally important. And for us poor people, the simplest and most effective way to create an information gap is to learn to hide our own information."

"You cultivate mana to sell it for money, right? But with your talent, if you genuinely increase large amounts of mana in a short time for sale, it’ll immediately become a huge problem of unexplained mana source."

Zhang Pianpian sighed and said, "So you need to learn to slow down your improvement speed."

"For instance, with the Mixed Element Fetal Breathing Scripture, at least for half a month, don’t advance further. You can focus on physical strength or the Dao Heart."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "But I’m already Level 20, damn it."

Fu Ji reminded, "Don’t worry, Zhang Yu. With my anti-detection ritual, it’s not hard to hide your strength."

The detection ritual can probe cameras.

The anti-detection ritual can hide certain data when body data is being checked.

These two rituals were already completed by Zhang Yu when he was on the first level.

But Zhang Yu still sighed inwardly: "Even if I can hide the mana improvement speed, selling too much mana is also risky."

"It seems that to earn more spirit coins, in the end, I’ll have to rely on the construction site."

"So the original cultivation plan will have to change a bit."

Zhang Pianpian further reminded, "Also, be cautious about your ranking, don’t rise too quickly, too conspicuously."

"Many exams in the university are application-based, you take them when you apply. Try to postpone the assessments as long as possible, so even if your scores go up significantly, they draw less attention."

"Oh, and don’t do your body refinement training at the dorm entrance regularly, find unmonitored places to practice."

Zhang Yu asked curiously, "Where isn’t monitored?"

Zhang Pianpian replied lightly, "Below the 100th floor of the university city, the lower you go, the less monitoring there is, just practice there."

Zhang Yu then asked, "But what about the spiritual mechanism consumption of the dormitory?"

He saw Zhang Pianpian raise a finger, and a book of talismans appeared at her fingertip.

With flashes of runes, the log of the dorm’s spiritual mechanism consumption appeared before Zhang Pianpian, and with a swipe of her finger, it was modified to another data point.

"Spiritual mechanism consumption is relatively easy to hide. I’ll use the Stealing Spirit Talisman to conceal it for you, but your own scores and strength, the key is still for you to restrain yourself."

Zhang Yu asked curiously, "What is the Stealing Spirit Talisman?"

"A talisman I drew myself that allows you to use a bit more spiritual mechanism unnoticed, don’t worry about it," Zhang Pianpian smiled slightly. "After all, the dorm on the 125th floor is somewhat basic, I’ve already cracked the talisman that records mechanism data."

Fu Ji, watching this scene, was shocked: "Damn... is this even possible? Is she stealing electricity? This Zhang Pianpian... is she human or god?!"

And looking at his sister in front of him, Zhang Yu suddenly saw information of a Taoist seed flash across her chest.

"Taiqing Talisman?" Zhang Yu thought to himself: "Is this my sister’s Taoist seed?"

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