The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Chapter 1126:

Shangguan Yunfei walked through the South Heavenly Gate and came to the small square, where he saw a tall stone hall standing on the side.

Above the main gate of the stone hall are the three large characters "Ascension Hall".

If Xiao Han were to come here again, she would be very surprised, wondering how things could have changed so much.

Of course, Shangguan Yunfei, who had just ascended to the heavens, was unaware of these changes.

He entered the stone hall.

The guiding priest sitting behind the table handed him a jade tablet and said in a calm voice, "Enter your name, bone age, and spiritual aura into it."

Shangguan Yunfei did as instructed. The guiding priest then said, "There's a brief introduction to the divine realm over there. Go take a look first, and then decide whether you want to become a rogue cultivator or join the divine palace."

The shrine has recently undergone reforms, and many of its rules and regulations are different from before.

Nowadays, the guiding priests no longer need to waste words persuading ascending cultivators to join; they can choose freely.

The introduction on the barrier screen was actually about how the God Realm no longer had sects, families, kingdoms, and other power structures common in the lower realms.

There are only a few independent cultivators and divine palace monks here.

The Divine Palace is like a country, managing all the human cultivators in the divine realm.

After reading the introduction, Shangguan Yunfei pondered for a moment and decided to join the Divine Palace. While being a rogue cultivator was free and unrestrained, joining the Divine Palace, while subject to constraints, would certainly have other benefits.

He grew up in Taichu Temple when he was on Yuantian Continent, and he was actually quite used to this kind of sect-like life.

It's a pity that Uncle-Master Tianjizi's wish to establish a Taichu Temple in the God Realm will probably not be fulfilled.

Seeing that he had chosen to join the temple, the guiding priest said, "Stand below that precious mirror."

As Shangguan Yunfei walked over, the magic mirror immediately emitted a beam of light that enveloped him.

The next moment, Shangguan Yunfei was radiated with dazzling golden light.

The guiding priest recorded the level of merit and golden light into his personal information.

As Shangguan Yunfei finished processing his identity jade token and walked out of the stone hall toward the white jade bridge, he pondered that he didn't know when he would run into Shui Wuhen, Xiao Han, and other old acquaintances.

At this moment, he naturally had no idea that Shui Wuhen and Xiao Han were still acting like wild beasts.

A heavy snowfall transformed the entire mountain forest into a silver-white wonderland.

Shui Wuhen and Xiao Han lay at their respective cave entrances, chatting while gazing at the snowy scenery outside.

Xiao Han: "Let's go outside and have some fun."

As a lynx, she was feeling incredibly stifled by always having to hide in her cave and not come out to stretch her legs.

Shui Wuhen: "Go out and play by yourself, I'm not going out."

Outside, everything was white, and his big gray rat was incredibly conspicuous as he scurried around.

Is this because they think the other animals aren't getting enough to eat, and they're sending them over for extra food?

Shui Wuhen refused to go out to play, so Xiao Han didn't force her. Anyway, she wanted to go out and have some fun.

The meat and fish stored inside the cave had been there for so long that they were starting to smell a little bad.

To prepare for the food shortage during the winter, Shui Wuhen stockpiled a lot of nuts, grass seeds, and plant stems.

Xiao Han, undeterred by the hardship, crossed the mountain to catch fish in the stream and brought them back to store.

However, fish and meat, if not salted and not kept at very low temperatures, will start to smell bad if left for a while.

Then Xiao Han and Shui Wuhen fell into a strange cycle.

They catch fresh fish and small animals every day, store them, and then eat the meat and fish that are about to rot.

After eating stale food for half a month, Xiao Han angrily announced that she would never again keep the good food to eat the bad.

To be honest, this problem is indeed difficult to solve.

If she eats all the fresh fish every day and stores the rest, the excess will eventually spoil.

Unless the temperature is very low, the storage time can be longer.

But when the temperature is low, fish are hard to catch, and hunting becomes difficult.

Therefore, in order to avoid going hungry in cold weather, one can only store food in advance.

Xiao Han picked out a large fish that was starting to smell bad, picked it up, and prepared to give it to the lynx mother.

A slight stench is nothing to carnivores struggling for food in winter. If Xiao Han didn't possess human-like reasoning, she wouldn't have found it offensive either.

Carrying the big fish in its mouth, it ran towards the mother lynx's den.

However, when today arrived, the mother lynx was not in the den.

Xiao Han released the fish into the nest and then began to wander around. While stretching his muscles, he also took the opportunity to hunt.

However, there are very few small animals active outside during this season, and after wandering around for most of the day, I still couldn't find a single prey.

Anyway, she still had plenty of food stored at home, and she had wandered around enough for the day, so she planned to go back to her warm cave to sleep.

As they passed the lynx mother's den, Xiao Han went in for a look.

It turned out that the fish left in the nest hadn't been eaten, so it seemed the lynx mother hadn't returned yet.

Xiao Han was a little worried about the lynx mother and decided to go look for her.

It didn't snow today, but the mother lynx's footprints are still clearly visible.

She then followed the footprints to search.

Then she discovered that the mother lynx was heading towards the stream.

Did the mother lynx want to catch fish?

Xiao Han had taken the female lynx to catch fish in the stream before, so the female lynx knew the route.

But today it's freezing cold, so even if the stream isn't frozen, there won't be any fish.

Xiao Han slowly followed the footprints and searched forward.

When she saw the sudden appearance of other animal footprints on the snow, and that the footprints were becoming increasingly disordered, her heart sank.

She searched even more carefully following the footprints.

After turning a corner, Xiao Han immediately spotted a large gray wolf looking up at something under a tree in the distance.

Meanwhile, in the tree, the mother lynx was perched on a branch.

Judging from the time, the big bad wolf and the female lynx had been locked in a stalemate for at least two or three hours.

If that's the case, it's uncertain whether the mother lynx can hold on.

No, she had to find a way to lure the big bad wolf away so the mother lynx could escape.

Xiao Han then observed the surrounding terrain and estimated the fastest possible distance the big bad wolf could take to catch up with her.

Ultimately, she located the woods at the bottom of the slope.

Observe the escape route carefully.

Then, she tried walking a little further, and then meowed.

The sound immediately attracted the big gray wolf.

The big bad wolf looked at the female lynx he had been lurking in the tree for a long time, then glanced at Xiao Han not far away. For a moment, he was filled with hesitation.

Xiao Han meowed again, which was practically a provocation to the big bad wolf.

The big bad wolf finally gave up its ambush and charged towards Xiao Han.

Xiao Han immediately turned around and ran towards the woods below the hillside.

However, she seemed to be moving too fast, which made the distance between her and the big bad wolf quite large.

The big bad wolf chased for a while, then stopped and turned to look at the mother lynx.

This guy must be pretty cunning; he wanted to take advantage of the situation so the female lynx could come down from the tree, and then launch a surprise attack.

Xiao Han looked back and saw that the big bad wolf had stopped chasing her.

This won't do. She immediately stopped running and meowed at the big bad wolf twice more.

As for Shui Wuhen, after Xiao Han left with the fish in her mouth, he returned to the cave and took another comfortable nap.

After waking up and eating something, he went to Xiao Han's place to play.

However, upon passing through the passage, they found that Xiao Han's lair was completely empty.

Shui Wuhen crawled out of the cave and saw that it was already dark, but Xiao Han had not yet returned.

A bad feeling crept into my heart.