The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Xiao Han was nervously thinking about how to save her life without getting married and having children.

Hall Master Yin looked at Xiao Han, who lowered her head and remained silent, and instead felt a certain admiration. She was unwilling to do something, even if her life was threatened, and she would not bow down. It was truly remarkable that such a female cultivator could be a Taoist companion for a disciple of the Yin family.

However, his Yin family was not some evil sect, and the sons of the Yin family were not unable to find a Taoist partner, so they naturally would not force others to marry in. After Xiao Han clearly stated that she did not want to marry and have children and was willing to do hard labor, he no longer had this idea.

The twisted melon is not sweet!

The threat I made just now was just to scare you.

Seeing that the other party lowered his head, neither agreeing softly nor being stubborn and not caring about his life, he said: "Since you don't want to, then let you go see your companions."

As soon as these words were spoken, Xiao Han cried out in shock, and his body involuntarily stepped back, looking up at Master Yin with a look of horror on his face.

Is he going to kill me now?

Then she saw that Hall Master Yin threw a sound transmission talisman in his hand towards her.

Feeling her own spiritual energy on the sound transmission note, she was even more surprised and reached out to activate it involuntarily.

Then, Ye Qi's voice came.

"Xiao Han, we have been released by the Yin family. They also sent us the correct route map. After receiving the message, you will immediately meet up in a hook-shaped valley over a hundred miles southwest of the Yin family's territory."

Ever since deciding to be true friends with Xiao Han, Ye Qi no longer calls her Fellow Daoist Xiao, but calls her by her name.

"Ah?" Xiao Han exclaimed again, and involuntarily looked up at the cultivator from the Yin family in the air, only to see that the man had already left in a graceful manner with his clothes fluttering.

So, I was threatened and forced just now, and the other party was just playing a trick on me?

What he said about killing all his companions was all a lie.

Thinking of his own despair just now and the other party's possible laughter in his heart, Xiao Han was confused.

For a moment, she didn't know whether she should silently scold the other party to vent her anger, or thank the other party for not being the kind of person who treated low-level cultivators as ants and human lives as worthless.

After finally meeting up with Ye Qi and the other two, the first thing Xiao Han did was to exchange a dozen sound transmission talismans with each of them.

It would be more convenient if I had a mobile phone.

Unfortunately, communication-related things fall into the category of talismans. Even if it is a communication magic weapon, it is mainly runes, supplemented by the magic weapon that carries it.

With the accurate map provided by the Yin family, they traveled around in circles for more than a month before finally arriving at Xinyue City.

Before entering the city, you can see the towering mountains on the edge of the Monster Forest in the southwest.

That is the mountain mentioned in those books, like one of the two walls.

The closer they got to New Moon City, the more cultivators they encountered. Besides the Qi-cultivating cultivators who were also using light-weight talismans to hasten their journey, there were also high-ranking cultivators swiftly flying overhead, piloting flying swords and other types of flying instruments.

Xiao Han and the other three slowed down a bit and carefully observed their surroundings, fearing that they would accidentally fall into someone else's trap and fail.

When they saw Crescent City from afar, everyone was shocked by the city wall that was nearly two hundred feet high.

It's not just because it's high, but also because the city wall stretches so wide.

Then, they saw an even more incredible scene.

Beneath the tall city walls, there are densely packed stone houses, thatched houses, and wooden houses.

As long as one looks at those unplanned, crisscrossing alleys and the various houses that appear to have been built at will, one can guess that these houses have absolutely nothing to do with Xinyue City or the Juxian Sect.

When they arrived at the city gate and saw the notice hanging high above, they realized that cultivators without New Moon City identity tokens needed to pay an entrance fee of twenty spirit stones. Cultivators with identity tokens also had to pay a one spirit stone entrance fee each time they entered the city.

Looking at the endless stream of monks coming in and out, several people couldn't help but sigh in their hearts. Not to mention anything else, the entrance fee alone brings in a huge amount of income every day in Crescent City.

Before entering the city, the four people could already feel the high cost of living here.

Each person paid an entrance fee of twenty spirit stones. When they entered the city, they saw the bustling crowds, shops with various signs hanging on them, and the noisy sounds. They felt that the prosperity here surpassed all the great immortal cities they had passed by on the road.

Then, the spiritual energy, which was obviously much richer than that outside the city gate, made everyone feel refreshed.

Xiao Han secretly sighed that if she could practice in such an environment from the beginning, she would definitely have reached the ninth level of Qi training several years earlier.

Considering the difference in spiritual energy concentration between inside and outside the city, it is almost unnecessary to guess that the Juxian Sect must have set up an ultra-large spirit gathering array in Crescent City.

Alas, the Juxian Sect is good at making money, but they are also generous in infrastructure construction.

The four of them had moved to Crescent City specifically, and now they were heading straight to the City Lord's Mansion with a clear goal in mind to apply for identity tokens.

It cost another one hundred spirit stones to apply for an identity token.

This made Xiao Han sigh. Fortunately, she had just entered the world of immortal cultivation and started from the poorest Fuyuan City. Otherwise, if she had traveled to the vicinity of Xinyue City, even if she knew she had spiritual roots, she would not be able to survive. She would either suffer from human disasters or be fed to beasts.

After getting the identity token, the next step is naturally to rent a cave.

The monks' caves in Xinyue City were all single-story stone houses. The cheaper ones were just small stone houses, while the more expensive ones had their own entrance, yard, living room, kitchen, bedroom, training room, and even a spirit beast room.

Of course, these are not the best. Those tall and majestic palace-style buildings are the offices of other major forces in Crescent City besides the City Lord’s Mansion.

As the largest sect in the world of immortal cultivation, every force wants to have good relations with it and get closer to it.

Since they cannot set up an office contact point within the other sect, Crescent City is the best place to maintain relations.

Of course, Xiao Han and his three companions were now shocked, their mouths wide open, not to mention the high-end houses with independent entrances and yards, even the middle and lower-end ones.

The cheapest cave, which costs one thousand spirit stones a month, will be rented out immediately as soon as it becomes available, and it will definitely not be the turn of the few people who have just arrived in Xinyue City.

The caves that cost 2,000 spirit stones a month are also fully occupied. Now the cheapest ones only have about ten caves left that cost 3,000 spirit stones a month.

No matter how shocked they were at the rent in Zixiao City, which was more expensive than the cave dwellings where the foundation-building cultivators lived, they still had to pay the spirit stones.

What made them even more uncomfortable was that the rent here was at least six months, and they had to pay a month's rent deposit. According to the Juxian Sect's deacon disciple who rented the room, this deposit was to provide a buffer period for cultivators who practiced special skills or secret techniques and couldn't stop to pay rent when the time came.

As long as you renew the lease within 25 days, the deposit will still be there.

Essentially, this meant that when they first paid rent, they had to pay seven months' rent in one lump sum, which was 21,000 Spirit Stones. Subsequent leases would require six months' rent each time, which was 18,000 Spirit Stones.

Xiao Han sighed secretly. Not to mention other expenses, even the rent was enough to make a casual cultivator feel suffocated.

No wonder Tian Tian gave up Xinyue City and moved back to Zixiao City.

No wonder there are so many monks who build their own houses outside Crescent City.