The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

The distance between Zixiao City and Feihuang City is such that if a Qi-cultivating cultivator were to walk through the mountains, it would take at least twenty days.

However, it only takes a good half day for a foundation-building cultivator to fly from a high altitude.

It's like driving a car on a winding mountain road. It may take you half a day to reach a mountain, but it only takes a few minutes for an airplane. The difference is really huge.

There is no harm without comparison. Not to mention the extra hundred years of lifespan gained after building the foundation, even this ability is enough to make Qi-cultivating cultivators envious.

Therefore, the four-member team that moved to Xinyue City became even more confident in going to Xinyue City.

No matter how beautiful the scenery is, if you look at it for a long time, you will get tired of it. So, following the three people's eyes, He Yanling started chatting with the two managers beside him, asking them if they had ever been to Yundu City.

These two managers only traveled the route from Zixiao City to Feihuang City, so they were not familiar with Yundu City.

The four of them wanted to find out more from Monk Zhao, but the pressure from the Foundation Establishment Monk was too great, so no one dared to speak and they could only pass the buck to each other with their eyes.

But how could Monk Zhao not know about their eyebrow lawsuit? Finally, unable to bear it any longer, he said, "If you have any questions, just ask."

The four of them immediately perked up. Xiao Han stood up, bowed, and was the first to ask, "Senior, aren't there teleportation arrays between these great immortal cities?"

In the immortal cultivation novels she'd read, teleportation arrays were a standard feature of almost every immortal cultivation city, part of the basic infrastructure. She'd previously assumed that Zixiao City was too small and remote, hence the lack of a teleportation array. Later, recalling Tian Tian's story of how she came to Zixiao City, she'd never heard of a teleportation array, and she felt a little confused.

Monk Zhao said, "It's extremely rare to have teleportation arrays between two immortal cities. This is mainly because the materials needed to build them are very scarce, and only a few top-tier array masters can set them up. Therefore, it's impossible for every immortal city to have one."

Xiao Han wanted to ask Monk Zhao if he knew which immortal cities had teleportation arrays, but when he thought that Monk Zhao might not have ridden a teleportation array either, he felt embarrassed to ask.

Seeing that Xiao Han didn't ask any more questions, He Yanling stood up and saluted and asked, "Senior, do you know the approximate distance from Feihuang City to Yundu City? Is the journey safe?"

Monk Zhao said, "I've never been to Yundu City, so I don't know much about it. However, Feihuang City has maps for sale."

After he made this suggestion, he refused to say anything more.

In fact, Xiao Han and his friends had already searched all the bookstores in Zixiao City, but they didn't find any useful maps.

How could they know that the reason why Zixiao City did not sell maps and books related to the immortal cities in the outside world was because the City Lord's Mansion deliberately controlled it.

Marginal and peripheral immortal cities like Fuyuan City and Zixiao City rely on independent cultivators to generate income. Without a large number of independent cultivators staying in their immortal cities, how can they collect rent? Without cultivators conducting trade, how can they collect commercial taxes?

Feihuang City is closer to the fairy mountain, has richer resources, and has certain competitive advantages. It is a fairy city that does not worry about lack of cultivators settling in, so it will sell a map that includes the entire fairy mountain.

When the four members of the team heard this, they were immediately happy.

With a detailed map, they can better plan their route.

When they were about to pass a towering mountain, Monk Zhao suddenly said, "Be careful later. If you can't hold on any longer, use the entanglement technique to bind yourself and the flying sword together."

Xiao Han and the other three were still confused when they saw that the two managers of the City Lord's Mansion had tightly wrapped their legs and flying swords with spiritual power threads.

Although the four were confused, they immediately followed suit and tied themselves and their flying swords together.

The next moment, the flying sword suddenly accelerated and crashed into the top of the highest mountain like a meteor.

Xiao Han was shocked. What was Monk Zhao doing? Was he going to use his flying sword to crash into the mountain?

Then the next moment, a huge ape, about ten feet tall, was seen smashing towards the flying sword controlled by Monk Zhao like a huge rock.

Just as the two sides seemed to be about to collide, the flying sword drifted like a racing car making a sharp turn and avoided the giant ape in an instant.

At this moment, Xiao Han and the others were extremely grateful that they had followed suit, so they were not thrown off the flying sword just now.

The giant ape's attack missed, and it roared, then its body quickly stopped and turned around.

But when it chased after it again, Monk Zhao had already controlled his flying sword and flew to the top of the mountain. Then a thread of spiritual power shot out and wrapped around a spiritual herb placed on the top of the mountain.

The giant ape roared and pounced again, but Monk Zhao did not fight back. He still managed to avoid it just when it was about to hit him.

Then, he did not fly away on his flying sword, but just circled around the top of the mountain.

There was no other way. Neither humans nor demons at the Foundation Establishment stage could stand suspended in the air for long periods of time. It was just that humans, the most intelligent creatures of all, had flying swords to assist them, while the giant ape could only stay suspended for a short time.

So Monk Zhao could not leave the vicinity of the mountain top.

The giant ape bounced and hit again and again, but missed again and again.

After playing this game for about ten times, Monk Zhao finally laughed and said, "That's enough for today. I'm leaving."

Then he controlled the flying sword and flew away like a meteor, leaving only the faint roar of the giant ape.

The four people who found that they could not sense the specific cultivation level of the giant ape were scared pale at first, and then they were confused.

One of the managers of the City Lord's Mansion probably felt sorry for the four of them because they looked so confused, so he couldn't help but kindly help them clear up their confusion.

It turned out that the giant ape was actually a demonic beast that had reached the fifth level of cultivation. Monk Zhao often flew overhead on his flying sword, and the ape had spotted him. So one day, the ape suddenly soared high into the sky to intercept Monk Zhao.

But that time, Monk Zhao avoided it perfectly, and then stopped to fight with it.

In terms of cultivation, Monk Zhao is in the early stage of foundation building, the fifth level of giant ape, which is equivalent to the middle stage of foundation building for human cultivators.

This fifth-level giant ape had already become very intelligent. Seeing that the opponent's cultivation was lower than his, but he could still dodge him and was not at a disadvantage in a fight, he immediately became excited.

So the next time Monk Zhao passed by its territory, it held up a spiritual herb and roared at Monk Zhao.

After one or two times, Monk Zhao slowly understood what it meant, so he came down again to prepare to fight it, only to find that it just wanted to practice hitting him.

Gradually, playing hide-and-seek with the giant ape halfway and collecting a top-grade yellow-level or lower-grade black-level spiritual fruit as a reward actually became a special game between the man and the demon.

Monster beasts don't recognize or have any interest in all spiritual herbs, but they do have a natural affinity for those that can boost their cultivation. This giant ape, having awakened its intelligence, is even smarter than ordinary monster beasts. It knows that human cultivators also enjoy these things, so it occasionally picks a few spiritual herbs it doesn't need to trade.

After hearing this, Xiao Han could only sigh inwardly: The world is indeed so big that there are all kinds of strange things.

They arrived at Feihuang City at the beginning of the afternoon.

As long as it is an immortal city managed by Jindan cultivators, except for Jindan cultivators and Yuanying cultivators who can fly in directly from high altitude, all foundation-building cultivators, whether local or foreign, must enter through the city gate.

However, cultivators with identity tokens from this city can enter free of charge, but foundation-building cultivators from outside also have to pay.

Therefore, Monk Zhao landed his flying sword at the gate of Feihuang City and paid money to enter with six Qi-cultivating monks.

The entrance fee to Feihuang City is the same as that of Zixiao City, which is five spirit stones.

After entering the city, Monk Zhao left with his two men, leaving the four members of the relocation team to discuss in a low voice on the spot.

Finally, the four of them unanimously decided to buy a map first, then find an inn to stay in, and then study it carefully.