The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Chapter 1051: With ample food, everyone rarely stopped and traveled non-stop every day.

The river gradually flowed into the mountains, making it impossible for them to walk along the riverbank anymore.

Fortunately, they found a bamboo forest along the way, made a water bucket out of bamboo, and put it in their basket.

The hardship of crossing mountains and valleys is truly indescribable.

There are many wild animals, including wolves, tigers, bears, wild boars, and leopards.

However, thanks to Ba Dou's ability to provide advance warning and prevent wild beasts from launching sneak attacks, cases like Chen Xiushi's have not occurred again for the time being.

After all, given enough time, Old Man Yu could always quickly set up a maze formation to block the beasts from attacking head-on.

If there isn't enough time to form a formation, and we have to confront large beasts head-on, no one will back down, and we can work together to surround and kill them.

Although there is food and water in the mountains, it is really difficult to travel through them.

They have been walking in the mountains for more than a month, but they still haven't been able to get out of the mountains.

But the vulnerability of mortals is not only reflected in being oppressed by large wild beasts.

That day, while everyone was climbing over a steep hillside, Granny Liu slipped and tumbled down, hitting her head on a protruding rock. Before everyone could get back, Granny Liu was enveloped in a white light and left the space.

Everyone looked at each other in silence for a while.

In just over a month, two cultivators had already been forced to leave this space, and the rest had given up hope of staying here for the full three years.

After another half month of walking, they finally crossed the rolling mountains and reached a relatively flat area.

When everyone stopped to rest, Ba Dou took the initiative to fly ahead and scout the way.

Just as they lit the fire and were about to roast the meat, Ba Dou suddenly flew back, excitedly saying, "There are people here, a whole bunch of people!"

After a month or two of continuous practice, Ba Dou's speech is now much clearer.

But Xiao Han still asked carefully before she understood that there was a path after crossing the small hill in front, and on that path was a group of more than fifty people.

According to Ba Dou's description, the horses in this caravan were carrying a lot of goods, so it was very likely a merchant caravan.

Now, everyone forgot about eating and resting and started to speed up their journey again.

As long as you follow this caravan, you're sure to find a large city.

And it is very likely the capital city.

They've already used up more than half of their salt; they can't keep running around like headless flies.

With renewed vigor, everyone climbed over the small hill and, sure enough, found a very obvious path.

However, at this moment, everyone was simply too exhausted to continue their journey.

Xiao Han then had Ba Dou fly ahead to keep an eye on the group of people and see where they would rest.

Fortunately, there was only one road here, and those people were not walking very fast, so the distance between them was not very far.

With Croton tiglium around, everyone didn't have to worry about getting lost. After resting enough, they mustered their energy to continue their journey.

That night, when everyone was resting, they collapsed on the ground, and even starting a fire to roast meat was done by mustering their last bit of energy.

After a night's rest, I finally regained some energy and strength.

They continued to move quickly along the path, but slowed down when they were still four or five miles away from the caravan, trailing far behind.

And so, following the caravan, they discovered villages, farmland, and market towns.

But the caravan never stopped, so they followed along.

After another month of walking, they finally saw the city walls built of rammed earth.

The people, who had been barely surviving on frogs, snakes, and wild grass for the past few days, almost burst into tears upon seeing the city.

Once they arrive in the human world, they can no longer go hungry or live on just meat.

At this moment, the road they were walking on was three zhang wide, and several carriages could walk side by side without any problem.

Horse-drawn carriages passed by from time to time on the road. Although it wasn't a bustling scene, there were still quite a few people coming and going, giving the city a prosperous appearance.

Everyone walked around with great interest, looking around and discussing how to sell a jade hairpin to earn money.

They didn't notice at all how mismatched their haggard and emaciated bodies, their dust-covered faces, their rough baskets woven from branches on their backs, their wooden spears in their hands, and their high-class, spotless robes were.

A small squad of soldiers guarded the city gate, and everyone entering the city had to be checked.

The caravan they had been following stopped and was questioned.

The soldiers thoroughly inspected the goods, and only after accepting the money offered by the caravan were they allowed inside.

Soon it was their turn.

I must say, this group of people is indeed quite eye-catching.

So when it was their turn, the two soldiers crossed their spears, clearly indicating that they could not be allowed to enter the city at will.

"What do you do?"

A small-time leader with fierce eyes, a short beard, a helmet, and armor asked menacingly.

Xin Ziqi, who was at the front of the group, bowed to the gatekeeper with a gesture of respect and said with a smile, "We live not far outside the city and go into the city to sell some wild animal pelts."

The foreman didn't say anything, but simply looked Xin Ziqi up and down, then glanced at the others and asked, "Are you all together in the back?"

Xin Ziqi nodded.

The squad leader suddenly walked into the city gate and whispered a few words to a soldier.

The soldier nodded, turned, and ran into the city.

The foreman then came over and said to Xin Ziqi, "Each person should hand over two new coins."

Xin Ziqi was taken aback, then said with difficulty, "We haven't sold the animal hides yet. Can we pay after we sell them? If not, can we use a rabbit pelt as payment?"

They wandered in the mountains for a month and a half, and naturally obtained quite a few wild animal pelts.

If rabbit fur could be used as a discount, it would save us a lot of haggling.

The foreman guarding the city gate didn't refuse outright, but said, "Let me see it. If it's valuable, then it's fine."

Xin Ziqi turned around and said, "Old Qian, take out that rabbit skin."

Everyone had heard the conversation. So Qian Baiwan put down his basket, took out a gray rabbit skin, and handed it to Xin Ziqi.

Xin Ziqi took it and handed it to the junior leader.

The foreman looked at it, then suddenly glared and said, "No, this leather isn't good quality. We'll have to offer something else as compensation."

Xin Ziqi glanced at the other party and then asked Qian Baiwan to bring out another rabbit skin.

Qian Baiwan had no choice but to take out another rabbit skin and give it to Xin Ziqi.

When Xin Ziqi handed the rabbit skin to the foreman again, he refused to take it and said with a displeased expression, "I told you this one isn't worth much, get another one."

Xin Ziqi suppressed his anger and personally took a lynx pelt from his basket.

Just as the henchman was about to continue making things difficult for them, he suddenly heard a series of hurried footsteps.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw dozens of soldiers carrying gleaming spears running towards the city gate.

The leader's face immediately broke into a smile.

When these people got closer, he suddenly pointed at Xin Ziqi and his group and shouted sternly, "Arrest all these thieves! Kill anyone who dares to resist!"