The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Although none of these mortals dared to disobey Wu Lin because of his status as a cultivator, he also hoped that others truly respected him rather than just feared him.

He had thought about testing the spirits of the children in Lingyun City before, and then taking them in as disciples to better manage Lingyun City.

But when he thought about the extremely thin spiritual energy in Lingyun City, he felt that it would be meaningless to practice in such a place, and he would probably never reach the fourth level of Qi training even if he died. In addition, he did not have a spiritual measuring plate, so he gave up the idea.

But now, Xiao Han offered to do a free spirit test, which had a different meaning.

The City Lord's Mansion stepped forward to help gather people, and this favor fell on the City Lord's Mansion. Regardless of whether the child sent for spiritual testing had spiritual roots or not, they had to accept this favor.

Wu Lin had occupied Lingyun City for more than ten years. After he killed the entire family of the previous city lord Yan Congxi, he felt a little uneasy, fearing that the other party had some background that he didn't know about.

Therefore, in the first few years, he found a large number of beautiful mortal women as concubines, but he did not even dare to leave any offspring, and did not dare to let those women bear children for him.

After several years, he thoroughly understood the history of Lingyun City and knew that Yan Congxi had no descendants or family members who cultivated immortality. Only then did he feel comfortable letting his concubines get pregnant. However, up to now, he had only had two children.

Over the past few years, the two children have grown up and are now over seven years old. He was just hesitating whether to find a way to test their spirits, and now this good thing has come to him.

"Senior, why don't you rest at the City Lord's Mansion? It will be more convenient this way."

Wu Lin invited him again sincerely.

Xiao Han thought for a moment and said, "You go back first. I'll go around Lingyun City first and then go over there later."

Wu Lin immediately said happily: "Then I will be waiting for you at the City Lord's Mansion."

After Wu Lin left, Xiao Han continued to wander around Lingyun City.

Nearly sixty years had passed since she left here, and there was no one she knew here anymore. Nanny Lin and Shopkeeper Ding, who had once treated her like a fellow villager and given her a chance to survive, had long since returned to dust.

Shopkeeper Ding might have descendants, but Nanny Lin was alone at the beginning.

Xiao Han thought about it and thought that maybe she could ask the people in the City Lord's Mansion to help her find out about the descendants of Manager Ding.

After a stroll and reminiscing about the past, Xiao Han composed himself and went to the City Lord's Mansion.

Wu Lin, who was always paying attention to Xiao Han's whereabouts, came out to greet him almost as soon as Xiao Han arrived at the door of the City Lord's Mansion.

Then, the other people in the City Lord's Mansion saw their usually high and mighty City Lord bowing and nodding to welcome a young woman in.

At the same time, the patrol team of the City Lord's Mansion had begun posting notices everywhere, asking all children of appropriate age in the city to come to the City Lord's Mansion in two days to have their spiritual roots tested free of charge.

Xiao Han, who was sitting in the City Lord's Mansion, was chatting with Wu Lin at the moment.

Xiao Han took a sip of tea and didn't want to drink any more. So, she finally asked a question that puzzled her.

"Fellow Daoist Wu, you left the Immortal Mountain and came to live in Lingyun City. Are you accustomed to the food here?"

Wu Lin said somewhat embarrassedly, "I really wasn't used to it at first. Later, I ran out of fasting pills, and it was troublesome to go into the fairy mountain to buy more. When I was really hungry, I could only eat small amounts of these mortal meals. Over time, I gradually got used to it."

Xiao Han immediately understood. It was like a wealthy man who ate delicacies every day, but one day he went bankrupt and was so poor that he could only eat wild vegetables and coarse grains. Even if the coarse grains scratched his throat, he still had to eat them to fill his stomach.

Humans have the strongest adaptability, but Wu Lin, in order to enjoy being a local tyrant in the mortal world, would rather eat food that is unpalatable to cultivators. All I can say is: everyone has their own aspirations!

The two chatted for a while. Wu Lin really wanted Xiao Han to test his two children first, but he didn't dare to speak up.

Fortunately, Xiao Han thought that if all the children of the appropriate age in the city came, it would take a long time for her to test them alone, so she asked Wu Lin to arrange it and start the test tomorrow.

Since this is the case, Wu Lin is naturally not in a hurry to spend this evening.

As for what Xiao Han asked him to do, which was to find the descendants of the former manager Ding of Liuxian Tower, he also instructed his men to do it.

Then, it only took half an hour to find out the truth.

Shopkeeper Ding and his wife both died of old age and illness more than 30 years ago. One of his two sons has passed away, and the remaining one is now in his seventies.

Grandchildren, great-grandchildren, it’s a big family in total.

Xiao Han personally visited the Ding family and tested the children of the appropriate age. Unfortunately, none of them had spiritual roots.

She did not give gold and silver directly, but bought two prosperous shops through Wu Lin and gave them to the descendants of Manager Ding's two sons.

These gold, silver, and shops were of no use to her, but giving them to Shopkeeper Ding's descendants would ensure their comfortable living.

Xiao Han returned to the guest room that Wu Lin had prepared for her to rest. Now that there were no outsiders around, Badou could finally cackle to her heart's content.

It started complaining again, "There's no spiritual energy here, and there's no spiritual energy in the food either. Let's leave early."

Xiao Han rummaged through his storage bag and found a bottle of fasting pills. He poured out a pill and said to Ba Dou, "Open your mouth."

The Croton obediently opened its beak. Xiao Han tossed the Qigong Pill into it and said, "We still have one more year to travel in the mortal world. During this year, you just eat Qigong Pills and live a quiet life. If you keep nagging me, I'll make you eat these spiritual-less foods every day."

Badou shrank his neck and dared not mutter any more.

The next morning, those mortals who lived near the City Lord's Mansion and were the first to receive the news that their spiritual roots could be tested today immediately brought all their children over.

The wide road in front of the city lord's mansion gate was suddenly blocked by traffic.

Wu Lin immediately asked the patrol law enforcement team to maintain order, asked the children to line up, and the adults to stand nearby, not allowing them to block the road.

The stewards and servants working in the City Lord's Mansion all had relatives and children. Naturally, the children of these people were at the front of the line.

The two people in the front row were Wu Lin’s children.

As soon as the noon hour arrived, Xiao Han came out, sat down behind the desk prepared for her by Wu Lin, and then took out a round plate as white as mutton-fat jade.

The croton fell on the edge of the table and bounced around on it.

As long as it doesn't disturb him while he's working, Xiao Han generally doesn't restrict its actions.

Wu Lin was also standing next to Xiao Han at this moment. As a foundation-building cultivator working, he didn't dare to sit in the City Lord's Mansion and drink tea.

Besides, he also wanted to see with his own eyes whether his children had spiritual roots.

Xiao Han said gently to the little boy in gorgeous clothes standing at the front of the line, "Put your hand here."

Back then, when she was testing her spirit, Jiang Wan, who was only at the second level of Qi training, used her as a training ground. She suffered a lot during that testing.

Now, as a cultivator who has reached the great perfection of foundation building, she is doing this, so naturally she will not make the child who is testing the spirit feel uncomfortable.

She placed the little boy's right hand on the spirit-testing plate, and held his left wrist.

Then, she inserted spiritual power, which was thinner than a hair, into the little boy's body meridians and dantian, and circulated it around. Then, it came out from the palm of her right hand, activating the spirit-testing disk.

Unfortunately, there was no movement on the spirit-testing plate.

Wu Lin, who was standing by and watching, was immediately disappointed.

Up to now, he only has this son and this daughter, but he didn't expect that they didn't even have the worst spiritual roots.

Xiao Han asked the little boy to move aside and began to test the spirit of the cute little girl behind him.

This little girl is Wu Lin’s youngest daughter. She is only two months younger than the little boy and is now over seven years old.

Xiao Han repeated the action again.

Only this time, five rays of light appeared on the spirit-testing plate.

Wu Lin, who was watching from the side, was immediately overjoyed, "She has spiritual roots, that's great, Yue'er has spiritual roots."

However, when Wu Lin saw the five elements spiritual roots with varying degrees of purity, he felt like he was poured with a bucket of cold water.

Having mixed spiritual roots of the five elements is only slightly better than having no spiritual roots at all.