The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Xiao Han rode Ye Qi's flying sword and flew towards the entrance of the Monster Forest.

However, the entrance to the Monster Forest was incredibly wide, stretching over two or three hundred miles. Therefore, even a small black market like this wouldn't be easily found by anyone without connections.

Ye Qi brought Xiao Han and landed in front of a tall stone palace.

Xiao Han looked at this ordinary, simple stone temple in surprise, which covered an area of only one acre.

From the outside, it looks like a few stone houses built halfway up the mountain, but it is the entrance to the entire black market.

Ye Qi put away the flying sword and took Xiao Han to the gate of the stone hall.

Two Qi-cultivating monks stood in front of the door. One of them held out his hand to block it. "This is a private cave. Please do not enter without permission."

Ye Qi said calmly, "I heard your master got rich, so I came to congratulate him!"

Xiao Han: Which genius came up with this kind of middle school code?

When the two heard this, their attitude immediately changed. They gestured for them to come in and said, "Please come in, both of you!"

Ye Qi stepped forward, pushed open the half-open door, and walked in with Xiao Han.

The hall was empty, with only a small stone door open on the right.

Xiao Han followed Ye Qi through the stone gate, and then saw the empty stone house behind it. There was actually a cave entrance of more than ten square meters below.

And in the direction they came in, there were stone steps extending downwards.

There were also two monks standing at the entrance of the cave. One of them saw them and said, "Ten spirit stones each."

Xiao Han knew that this was the ticket to enter the black market. Just as he was about to take out the spirit stones, Ye Qi waved his sleeves and twenty spirit stones fell into one of their arms.

The two then walked down the stone steps.

After seven or eight meters, Xiao Han saw the scene in front of him clearly and wanted to say one thing: Damn!

This is simply an underground wild market!

On the two-meter-high flat rock top, there are some fist-sized sunstones inlaid, making the entire underground space as bright as day.

The land covering six or seven acres is filled with stalls of all sizes.

There were quite a few monks selecting items they liked inside, making it quite lively.

Xiao Han: Most of the things on these stalls are in a mess. Could they all be goods of ill-gotten origin?

Ye Qi didn't even look at it and walked straight in.

I walked all the way to the corner of the mountain wall before I saw a stone door with a small wooden sign that read "Deacon's Office".

When Ye Qi pushed the door open, he saw two monks sitting opposite each other drinking tea and chatting.

One of them saw Ye Qi push the door open and was about to yell at her, but when he sensed her cultivation as a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he softened his expression and asked, "Is there something wrong, fellow Daoist?"

These two people are actually both foundation-building cultivators.

Ye Qi said, "Let's go to the Colosseum."

One person said, "It's still too early to start. Please wait for 25 minutes before coming back."

Ye Qi: "When will the auction be held?"

The man shook his head and said, "That's not our business. We don't know. There definitely hasn't been any in the last few days."

Seeing this, Ye Qi stepped back.

The two of them stopped in an empty corner, took out the soundproof array and put down the prohibition cloth, and then Ye Qi talked about how she and Qiu Yinong came to the black market.

Before Ye Qi established her foundation, after He Yanling disappeared, for safety's sake, she and Qiu Yinong joined the hunting team composed of Juxian Sect's outer disciples.

After injuring and capturing a third-level monster, one of the outer sect male disciples suggested sending the monster to the black market. That was the first time she and Qiu Yinong knew about the existence of a black market and a fighting arena outside of Xinyue City.

The Colosseum purchased a large number of live high-level monsters and the bids were very high.

At that time, only one of their group had been to the black market or the Colosseum. To broaden the others' horizons, they watched a beast fight there.

The cultivator happened to win the beast fight that day. Although he won, he was almost a bloody man, with his flesh and blood torn by the monsters until the bones were exposed.

A junior sister from the Juxian Sect couldn't bear it very much. She thought that people who watched the beast fights were all crazy, and scolded the cultivators who participated in the beast fights as fools who valued money over their lives.

The outer male disciple said, "Although beast fighting has risks, the rewards are also very good. Fighting a third-level monster, as long as you survive, you will earn 10,000 spirit stones. Isn't entering the Monster Forest also a life-and-death battle with monsters?"

Probably at that time, Qiu Yinong took his words to heart, so after failing to build the foundation, in order to quickly accumulate spirit stones, he actually came to the Colosseum to participate in the beast fight.

There are usually fights in the Colosseum every five days, and today is the day of the fight.

Xiao Han thought of Qiu Yinong and asked hurriedly, "Fellow Daoist Qiu, are you going to fight a beast today?"

Ye Qi shook his head. "I don't know either. I sent her a sound transmission note today, but didn't get a reply. Maybe it's here."

If the sound transmission note triggered the access control at home, the people inside would know. The fact that the sound transmission note could not be received might be because Qiu Yinong was in the backstage of the Colosseum, which was heavily restricted.

Of course, it is also possible that Qiu Yinong is investigating He Yanling's disappearance case.

The two chatted for a while, and then they saw someone walking towards the room with the sign of the Deacon's Office.

Apparently, the Colosseum is about to open.

Then, Xiao Han followed Ye Qi into the room with the sign "Deacon's Office" again. The two of them were now standing next to the innermost stone door in the room.

"One hundred spirit stones." A foundation-building cultivator said to Ye Qi.

Ye Qi took out two spirit stones and a jade token and handed it over. Xiao Han sighed twice and said nothing more.

It's so embarrassing to argue over a small ticket fee in front of outsiders. Never mind, I'll treat her to a meal when I have the chance.

The two walked in through the stone gate, and Xiao Han saw a space similar to a small auditorium.

On the arena in front, which is more than ten feet wide, the names of the cultivators and monsters who will be fighting tonight are written on the forbidden light curtain at the back.

A female cultivator who has reached the great perfection of Qi training fights against a pangolin in the middle stage of the third stage.