The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

This day was another calm day, both during the day and at night.

For three consecutive days, they did not encounter any danger, which gave the four members of the relocation team more confidence in reaching Crescent City on their own.

But today, when they were walking in the afternoon, several people had a disagreement about the mountain blocking their way.

It was a mountain that looked like a giant dragon stretching across the sky. If you took a detour from the base of the mountain, no matter which side you took, you wouldn't be able to see the dragon's head or tail.

If you go directly over the mountain, you can see from a distance that the upper part of the high ridge is the terrain that large birds of prey like to build nests on.

Even if they were a group of four, all at the ninth level of Qi training, they wouldn't have to worry if they encountered a single third-level raptor. However, if they encountered a raptor couple, their chances of victory would be fifty-fifty. After all, fighting raptors on the upper part of the mountain, due to the terrain, a cultivator would only be able to achieve 70% of their full attack power.

If you encounter one above level four, there is really no place to escape.

Therefore, He Yanling thought it would be better to take a longer detour and find a suitable place to climb over. Xiao Han also felt that walking at the foot of the mountain seemed a little safer.

Ye Qi and Qiu Yinong, who advocated crossing the mountain directly, believed that there was also a chance of encountering a fourth-level monster at the foot of the mountain, and that escaping would be equally difficult. Since there was a chance of encountering one, it would be better to just cross the mountain directly, at least saving a lot of distance and time.

Then, Xiao Han, who was not firm in his stance, felt that what Ye Qi and the others said made sense. Yes, since the probability was the same, it was just a gamble of luck, so it would be better to choose the one with greater benefits.

So, she also agreed to go over the mountain directly. With the odds being three to one, He Yanling, wanting to play it safe, had no choice but to agree to the plan of going over the mountain.

However, they definitely couldn't make it over today. They decided to move up carefully and find a cave or other place to rest halfway up the mountain.

In fact, in the wild, unless you are surrounded and attacked by someone with ulterior motives like that day, a cave is the safest place to rest.

After all, apart from special groups like wolf packs that fight together, few monsters have the habit of killing prey in groups.

In the cave, as long as the monks are not surrounded by a group of people, it is much easier for them to keep watch at night. They only need to pay attention to half of the directions, and they can also guard against sneak attacks.

Ye Qi and Qiu Yinong walked in front to explore the way, Xiao Han, who had the least experience and the lowest cultivation, walked in the middle, and He Yanling walked at the end. The group looked for a suitable resting place as they walked.

Finally, seeing that night was about to fall, I barely found a cave that was less than two meters deep, sloping in height, only one meter high at the innermost part, and about three meters wide at the entrance. It was not a cave.

In order to rest peacefully at night, He Yanling went to a nearby place and cut a flat rock to use as a barrier gate.

With such a shelter, everyone put up breath-suppressing talismans at night. Unless a snake demon came in from the gaps on both sides, no demon beast would discover that there were people inside.

That night, for some unknown reason, the roars of beasts could be heard from the distance outside the cave from time to time, making everyone in the cave restless.

But the area around the cave was relatively calm, and no monsters passed by.

The next morning, when everyone opened the stone gate and looked at the mountaintop hidden in the clouds, the quiet valley and the lower mountains in the distance, the roar of the beasts last night seemed to have become particularly distant.

The four of them walked up slowly and cautiously again.

When you finally step onto the top of the mountain shrouded in clouds and mist, the scene of standing on the top of the mountain and overlooking all the other mountains will truly appear before your eyes.

Xiao Han stopped and watched for a few moments. He felt that he had come to this strange time and space, eaten unimaginable delicacies, and seen beautiful scenery that he had never seen before. Even if he died, he would have no regrets.

However, not long after she finished expressing her feelings, a huge falcon suddenly appeared in the sky.

At first, everyone was inwardly sighing, wondering if this terrain was indeed the habitat of a bird of prey, as they had suspected. But when the giant bird soared overhead in an instant, its immense spiritual pressure surpassing that of a third-tier demonic beast, everyone's expressions suddenly changed.

Xiao Han: Actually, I don’t want to die yet. If I die now, I will still feel regretful.

The other three people: Is this what you fear will come true? The most terrifying possibility is directly placed in front of them?

If Ye Qi and Qiu Yinong said that they had no regrets at this moment, they would be lying.

Then, everyone exerted their maximum speed and ran forward desperately. Whether they could outrun this flying falcon of level 4 or above was no longer a question for them.

Running forward desperately is just an instinctive struggle.

However, in just a moment, the falcon flew over their heads.

It’s over. I’m really going to die here today.

This is the voice of everyone at this moment.

Xiao Han even directly slapped the defensive talisman that could withstand three attacks from a foundation-building cultivator on his body.

As for how she would resist the falcon's attack after the three attacks, her already blank brain had long since stopped thinking about it.

But what the four people who were in despair did not expect was that the falcon flew over their heads without stopping for even a moment.

Seeing the falcon flying high in the sky in front of them, the four people who were struggling to death were stunned for a moment and immediately stopped.

Just as they were hesitating whether to turn around and run back, they heard the heart-wrenching sound of birds singing in the distance.

Then, they saw a golden long-tailed monkey jumping up from the top of the mountain, followed by the sound of a monkey roaring.

The four people who had just walked through the gates of hell stood there in a daze, watching the bird-monkey battle in the distance. It wasn't that they had forgotten the importance of escaping, but rather that this life-and-death struggle between the bird-monkey was a hundred times more exciting than the battle between the Foundation Establishment cultivator and the giant ape in Zixiao City.

Logically speaking, the falcon had the advantage of being at high altitude and should have had more advantages, but the golden long-tailed monkey, perhaps because of its higher cultivation level or stronger innate magical powers, the monkey and the bird actually fought on equal terms.

Just as the falcon soared high into the sky again, circling and diving, the four finally regained their composure. Without even bothering to continue watching this rare bird-beast battle, they turned and sprinted diagonally down the mountain path ahead.

At this moment, there is no need to worry about encountering other monsters.

Even after they reached the foot of the mountain and ran about a hundred miles, they could still faintly hear the cries of eagles and the roars of monkeys.

Stopping and looking back, the four people who finally escaped couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from their foreheads and prepared to express their feelings.

Xiao Han was just regretting wasting a defensive talisman worth over a thousand spirit stones when he heard someone ask, "Who are you?"

The four of them turned around and saw a Foundation Establishment cultivator standing on a flying sword in the sky, looking down at them from above.