The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

With a general idea in mind, the four of them felt much more relaxed and went back to their respective rooms to rest.

Everyone else can sleep soundly at night, but Xiao Han cannot, because she has just been upgraded to the ninth level of Qi training and is still far from the great perfection of Qi training.

Although the spiritual energy in the guest rooms of the inn cannot be compared with that in the cave dwellings of cultivators, she has a miniature spirit gathering array in her hand. After practicing for a night, she can always increase the spiritual energy in her body a little bit.

Over time, a little effort will eventually lead to success.

The next day, He Yanling asked the inn's waiter about the location of the bulletin board, and the group went straight there.

Then, among the dense array of tasks and messages, they actually saw a piece of information that should be what they were looking for.

The message meant that the Chen family caravan would be heading to Qinglong City on May 12th. Fellow Taoists who were interested in joining them, please go to Chen's Alchemy Shop in the middle section of Jinfeng Road to register before the 12th.

Qinglong City, the name of this city, doesn't seem to be on their route.

Several people hurriedly took out the map and watched from the side.

Then they discovered that although Qinglong City was far away from Tianque City and was not in the same direction at all, it was very close to another fairy city, Xingyao City, which had a teleportation array and was not on the route.

In fact, they can also go through Xingyao City. Anyway, these large immortal cities with teleportation arrays can definitely be connected in series. The most they have to do is spend a little more on travel expenses.

So the four of them went straight to Chen's Medicine Shop.

The waiter thought it was a customer who came to buy pills and hurried forward to greet him. When he learned that it was a customer who had signed up to go to Qinglong City, he immediately called the shopkeeper out.

When the shopkeeper learned that the four of them were all going to Qinglong City, he also quoted a travel fee of 500 spirit stones per person.

For Xiao Han and his companions, the cost of the journey was not a problem; safety was their top priority. Having a family caravan like this to lead the way would at least significantly improve their safety.

After the four agreed on the price of the fare, the shopkeeper asked them to gather here early in the morning on the 12th.

Everyone was delighted to have found a reliable caravan so easily. With only a few days left until their departure on the 12th, Ye Qi, He Yanling, and Qiu Yinong went shopping together, while Xiao Han remained alone in the inn to cultivate.

It’s not that she doesn’t want to go shopping and have fun, but she really doesn’t have much golden time left to build her foundation.

It was not until the afternoon of the 11th that Xiao Han finally went out.

There was a reason for going out this time. The main reason was that Ye Qi and the other two accidentally learned while shopping that there was an arena in the City Lord's Mansion of Feihuang City that was specially set up for cultivators to fight. Then, two cultivators had just had a feud and fought on the arena of the City Lord's Mansion.

Monks are not allowed to fight in the fairy city, otherwise the consequences will be very serious.

However, some monks, after forming grudges, were eager to fight each other to the death, so the City Lord's Mansion simply set up an arena to give these monks who wanted to fight a place to vent their anger.

Of course, fighting in the arena is not free, you have to pay. However, the arena is divided into general arena and life and death arena.

In a typical arena, the loser pays the venue fee, but in a life-or-death arena, the winner pays the venue fee. After all, the loser is already dead and can't get up to pay.

Ye Qi felt that Xiao Han, as a businessman and weapon refiner, had too little practical experience, so he rushed back to the inn and told her to stop practicing and go watch the fight together.

Normally, if outsiders were to witness this kind of private fight, wouldn't they be able to clearly understand the two cultivators' fighting styles and moves? But that's how the City Lord's Mansion operates. If you want to fight, then let everyone watch you do it.

Then, the monks who wanted to fight would fight to the death in the ring, while the monks watching below would comment on their actions.

When Ye Qi and Xiao Han rushed over, the two men had been fighting on the ring for quite a while.

These were two male cultivators at the ninth level of Qi training. They had similar cultivation levels and were evenly matched in their battles. Furthermore, it didn't look like a life-and-death duel.

One of them was wielding a sword while the other was wielding a knife. It was really a lively scene with flashes of swords and sabers.

After so many years of cultivating immortals, this was the first time that Xiao Han witnessed with his own eyes how others used magical weapons to fight. He felt dazzled.

Then, she heard the three people around her whispering and severely disparaging the combat experience and level of these two people.

The more Xiao Han listened, the more ashamed he became.

It's over. A novice in fighting like her, who only has the ninth level of Qi training, is probably no different from a cultivator at the third level of Qi training to people like Ye Qi who have been fighting monsters and beasts for years and living on the edge of a knife.

Alas! No wonder Ye Qi dragged me here to watch.

Not to mention the experience of fighting in person, I can't even understand what others are doing when they fight. This level of cultivation is just a decoration to scare lower-level cultivators.

When a monk casts spells, they consume more spiritual energy, and there's a certain amount of casting time. However, using a magical weapon is different. It's like a sword: after infusing it with spiritual energy, you can wield it directly, using its energy to injure others.

It can also be thrown out and controlled by spiritual consciousness to directly attack the opponent at close range. The attack of magic weapon is flexible, there is no time interval between casting, and it wastes less spiritual energy, which is why it is the first choice for cultivators in battle.

The two monks fought back and forth for half an hour. Just when everyone thought that the fight would end in a draw and there would be no exciting moments, the monk wielding the knife suddenly threw the knife towards his opponent.

The opponent naturally would not allow it to chop him, and immediately threw out the flying sword in his hand to resist the invading enemy.

Then, the swords collided again, and a new round of sword flashes and shadows began in the air.

At this moment, a thin chain suddenly shot out from the handle of the big knife and instantly bound the flying sword. The long sword struggled violently and the sword body hummed.

Just when the opponent wanted to increase his spiritual control and forcibly pull back his sword, the big knife slashed at the long sword again and actually cut off the opponent's long sword directly.

The monk wielding the sword immediately burst into laughter. "You're really courting death by wanting to fight me. If you lose, you'll have to pay the winnings tomorrow."

After saying that, he put away his knife, jumped off the stage with a big laugh, and walked away.

Ye Qi and the other two were shocked by this reversal. They hadn't expected that they had misjudged the monk. The monk who wielded the sword had clearly concealed his strength. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to easily cut off the opponent's magic weapon while restraining his sword.

When Xiao Han saw the broken sword, his eyes suddenly lit up.

She had collected too many of these things, and she couldn't help but estimate the value of them in her mind.

Then, she saw the defeated monk hand over the arena usage fee to the steward of the City Lord's Mansion and was about to leave.

She hurried forward, stood in front of the other person, and with a flip of her hand, placed a wooden sign in front of the monk that read "Recover damaged magic weapons."

"Fellow Daoist, would you like to sell me the broken sword? It's already scrap anyway, and I can get some of my money back by selling it to me."

The cultivator lost the competition and was feeling depressed, but Xiao Han stopped him and tried to collect the broken sword, which was like rubbing salt into the wound.

If it weren't for the fact that Xiao Han was also at the ninth level of Qi training, he would have dragged him to the ring and taught him a lesson.

Now he could only glare at Xiao Han fiercely, then turn around and run away.

Only Xiao Han stretched out Erkang's hand and groaned twice.