The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Ye Qi, Qiu Yinong and He Yanling, although the hunting team consists of three people with rich hunting experience, are very cautious and do not take risks for money.

Therefore, although not many monsters were hunted in the past few months, they were always safe, and the harvest was enough for them to survive safely in Crescent City.

According to the clues about the time of borrowing money provided by Xiao Han, Ye Qi discovered that the three of them went out of the city to hunt once after that.

This time they stayed in the Monster Forest for five days and harvested a second-level monster and a third-level monster. After returning, they sold the prey and each received more than 2,000 spirit stones.

During this period, He Yanling never revealed anything about buying the Foundation Establishment Pill.

The only unusual thing was that the team usually rested for three days after returning from hunting, but He Yanling proposed to rest for five days, saying that he had some personal matters to deal with.

He Yanling just said that she had some personal matters to deal with, so Ye Qi and the others naturally didn't ask any further questions.

So the original agreement was to rest for five days before continuing to go out hunting, but when we tried to contact He Yanling five days later, we couldn't get through.

At first, the two of them weren't too worried. After all, this was a low-level sound transmission talisman, and there were many specific places where it might not reach the recipient. Furthermore, since it was a rest period, everyone was staying in the Immortal City, so their safety was guaranteed.

But when they still couldn't get in touch on the second and third days, they started to get anxious.

He Yanling and Ye Qi Qiuyinong do not live in the same area, they just live in the south side of the city.

The three of them have reached the great perfection of Qi training and do not need to practice. Apart from going out hunting as a team, the rest of the time they go shopping and inquire about news related to foundation building.

It is said that in addition to bidding for the Foundation Establishment Pill at the auction, Xinyue City can also obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill through other channels.

Ye Qi guessed that He Yanling must have heard that there was a Foundation Establishment Pill for sale at an underground auction house or on the black market. In order to prevent herself and Qiu Yinong from joining the scramble, she secretly borrowed money from Xiao Han and went there secretly.

However, they had not heard anything from He Yanling before, so naturally they could not guess where He Yanling got the news from, nor did they know where he had gone or whether he was safe now.

It has been less than half a year since they came to Xinyue City. Xinyue City is a city of immortals with a complex class of cultivators, mostly independent cultivators, and all kinds of evil spirits gathered. In such a vast sea of people, where can they go to look for people?

Xiao Han thought of a possibility, so he said, "Could it be that He Yanling has already bought the foundation-building pill and is looking for a place to build her foundation?"

This possibility wasn't out of the question. After all, they came to New Moon City to build their foundation. With the foundation-building pill, they would definitely start building their foundation right away.

There are special caves in Xinyue City that are rented out to cultivators who are trying to build their foundation or form their elixir.

Simply put, it is a cave dwelling specially arranged with a small, medium or high-level spirit gathering array. The rent for such a place is calculated on a daily basis.

If He Yanling wanted to build a more secure foundation, he could only rent a temporary cave there.

The three of them immediately went to the office of the City Lord's Mansion that rented houses and temporary caves to inquire.

Ye Qi told the deacon disciple of the Juxian Sect about his concerns and speculations, and asked him to help see if there was a male cultivator with a similar appearance who came to rent a temporary cave in the past few days.

The deacon disciple said disdainfully, "There are so many cultivators who come to rent temporary caves every day, and this doesn't require an identity jade token. How would I know who you are looking for? Please engrave that person's appearance on this jade slip, and I'll see if I've seen him before."

After saying that, he threw a blank jade slip to Ye Qi and reminded him, "Qi cultivators don't have strong consciousness. They must place the jade slip on their foreheads, close their eyes, and focus their entire mind on the slip. Then, use their consciousness to replicate the person's appearance."

Ye Qi did as he was told and returned the jade slip to the deacon disciple.

The disciple took the jade slip and placed it against his forehead, using his spiritual sense to examine the image of the person inside. After a moment, he shook his head.

"This person has probably never been here to rent a temporary cave. I have no impression of him at all."

The last clue was lost, and the three of them left the City Lord's Mansion with disappointment on their faces.

Now I really have no clue.

In the end, Xiao Han had no choice but to return to his residence.

At this moment, Xiao Han already had a bad feeling in her heart. She felt that He Yanling was probably in great danger.

Thinking back to when they were in Xingyao City, that group of robber cultivators set up a trap to kill the four of them, and the old cultivator and his family of three, their superb acting skills were worthy of an Oscar.

I don’t know if He Yanling fell into someone else’s trap again, and was lured out and robbed and killed using the Foundation Establishment Pill as bait.

Alas! My debt of 30,000 spirit stones is a small matter, but a friend's life is a big deal.

Unfortunately, the three of them didn't even know the truth of the matter and could do nothing!

He Yanling has disappeared and her life or death is unknown.

But Xiao Han and the others still have to continue living in Crescent City.

Xiao Han didn't know how Ye Qi and Qiu Yinong would hunt in the future. She was still busy setting up a stall to collect scrap magic weapons, and smelting, hammering and separating them in the underground fire room.

The 30,000 spirit stones lent to He Yanling were probably wasted, which meant that all her work for the past few months was in vain.

But that's how life is. No matter how many difficulties and setbacks there are, as long as you are still alive, you have to look forward and there is no use in regretting.

Ten days later, she sent a sound transmission note to Ye Qi, asking about their recent situation and whether there was any news about He Yanling.

Ye Qi replied, telling her that there was still no news about He Yanling. As for the two of them, they had now joined a hunting team composed of Juxian Sect's outer disciples. That team consisted of only four people, and the highest-level disciple was only at the seventh level of Qi training.

They were attracted by the security of their identities as disciples of the Juxian Sect, and the disciples of the Juxian Sect were attracted by their fighting power. For both sides to team up and hunt together was a win-win situation.

Xiao Han felt relieved when she knew that they could still earn spirit stones by hunting.

Her own combat skills were too poor to team up with them, and she was unwilling to give up her scrap business, which, while hard, provided a guaranteed income. As a friend, she was naturally happy that Ye Qi and the others could earn a good living.

The days passed one by one, and a year had passed since they came to settle in Crescent City.

He Yanling still didn't show up. The three of them knew in their hearts that He Yanling was 99% dead.

After they arrived in Crescent City, the long-awaited news of the Foundation Establishment Pill auction finally came out.