Can't Afford to Cultivate? No, I'm Calculating the Cost of Cultivation

Cultivation + one heroine + farming + slow burn + thoughtful progression + …

Others cultivate immortality with spiritual roots. Shopkeeper Bai does it with an abacus!

Bai Risheng is an overworked actuarial analyst who has landed in the cultivation world. He has a low-grade mixed spiritual root and absorbs spiritual energy like a leaky sieve, so cultivating costs him ten times as much as it costs everyone else! From the start, he’s broke enough to have clean pockets. A cave dwelling? He rents the worst one. Cultivation manuals? Pay by the chapter. Pills? How about Su Qingyuan’s brand of “budget alternatives”!

Teaming up with tech enthusiast (and penny-pinching fanatic) Su Qingyuan, they start by “milking the sect for all it’s worth” and “recycling spent pills for a second career.” Foundation Establishment Pills too expensive?

Then they’ll make a bargain-basement version themselves, like a group-buy deal! Can’t afford magical artifacts? Put them on an installment plan! Their rivals try to crush them? Start a “spirit stone war” and bury them in cash!

In this world where you can’t cultivate without money,

watch Bai Risheng and Su Qingyuan scrimp and save their way through the cultivation world, turning it into one big money-saving guide and using “money power” to force their way onto the path to immortality! Their motto: Not a single spirit stone goes to waste! What? You say the Great Way is heartless? No, you’re just letting poverty limit your imagination! Cultivating immortality costs more than working a day job, for crying out loud!