You dare to cultivate without money?!-Chapter 13 - 4 Summoning the Gods_3

"Making excuses..." The doll's eyes narrowed, as an endless malice seemed to pour from its hollow black eyes: "Are you trying to renege on your debt? If you can't afford it, borrow. If you can't borrow, sell your heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, and lungs—there's always a way to scrape together the money."

Zhang Yu looked seriously at the doll and slowly said, "If I do that, won't I die just to fulfill this one wish?"

The doll chuckled lightly: "So what?"

Zhang Yu: "Are you choosing to lose someone who could fulfill a thousand wishes for you in the future right now?"

"Or will you give me some time, let a future disciple of a major sect buy these antiques for you, and then one by one... fulfill those thousand wishes for you?"

"Hmm?" The doll looked at Zhang Yu somewhat unexpectedly: "Go on."

Zhang Yu: "I've calculated, and even if I work for decades at the first level of Kunxu, I might not be able to gather enough money to buy these antiques."

"But if I can join a major sect, I could save up that amount in just a few years."

The doll: "So?"

Zhang Yu: "That is to say... as long as I study hard, diligently cultivate, keep getting stronger, and get into a prestigious university, then join a major sect after graduation, I can use the sect's salary to fulfill your wishes."

The doll fell silent for a moment before suddenly saying: "You're saying you plan to study well, then work and earn your salary to fulfill my wish?"

"Are you messing with me?"

A boundless malice surged forward, as the doll's eyes appeared like two massive black holes, seemingly ready to swallow all light around them instantly.

Zhang Yu clenched his fists tightly, striving to control his trembling legs, and stared at the doll word by word: "Your first wish is for me to fulfill a thousand wishes for you. The second wish is to collect the antiques in the shopping cart."

"If I were to die in poverty while collecting antiques for you, how would I complete a thousand wishes?"

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"If I knew this and still chose to fulfill the second wish in a lethal manner, wouldn't that be deliberately failing to complete the first wish?"

"Deliberately preventing myself from completing the first wish would violate the ritual requirements, and I might die from the ritual's backlash before even completing the second wish, right?"

"So, studying hard, getting into college, and working seriously to earn money is currently the only feasible plan I can think of to achieve the first and second wishes."

As Zhang Yu finished speaking, the room fell into a deathly silence.

A moment later, the doll's voice echoed.

"Let me see your balance."

After seeing the balance on Zhang Yu's account and the various overdue loan messages, the doll remained silent for a long time.

"This kid..." Thoughts surged wildly in the doll's mind: "Normally, this situation wouldn't arise. After all, the ritual's targets should all be wealthy people for whom buying those antiques would just be a finger snap."

"But this kid... this kid is so poor, too poor to even complete the first wish, leading to a loophole in poverty."

"Damn it, wasn't it said to find someone wealthy? How did I end up with this character!"

After a long silence, the doll looked at Zhang Yu and said, "What you said... is not entirely without reason."

"Alright, go study hard. I'll come find you once you've earned enough money."

With that, the doll sneered again: "But remember, all of this is to fulfill my wish."

"If you show even a hint of slackness in the process of fulfilling my wishes, you will die from the ritual's backlash."

As the doll gradually disappeared, Zhang Yu let out a heavy breath and collapsed onto the bed.

Suddenly, he remembered something and shouted, "Wait, what did I get from this ritual?!"

Though he suspected his transmigration might be related to this ritual, he didn't dare to reveal the secret directly, choosing instead to hint at it obliquely.

Unless absolutely necessary, he decided to keep the secret of Earth deeply buried in his heart, never to disclose it.

The doll completely vanished without a trace, leaving only a voice in Zhang Yu's ear: "Your potential has been awakened, but everyone's potential is different. What exactly... you have to feel it yourself."

Outside the room, as the doll walked, it thought: "This kid's aptitude is really poor. Awakening potential might only enhance some mana or physical strength at best. I doubt he can even get into college, let alone join a major sect; how can he fulfill my wishes?"

"But his improvisation is quite amusing... let's see how far you can struggle."

Inside the room, Zhang Yu looked at the black symbol in his palm slowly beginning to change.