The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

The one walking in front was Ji Shuang. She took out eighty medium-grade spirit stones and handed them to the Divine Transformation cultivator who was sitting behind the desk and was responsible for collecting the city entrance fee.

"This is the entrance fee for the four of us."

The four of them were still sighing in their hearts. To enter the city here, one had to collect medium-grade spirit stones, and twenty of them at a time. Low-level cultivators might not be able to afford to enter the city a few more times.

The four people at this time did not know that the mid-grade spirit stones in their eyes were actually low-grade spirit stones here.

The Divine Transformation cultivator glanced at the other three people around Ji Shuang, put the spirit stone into the storage ring, and then pointed at the round magic weapon on the table.

Ji Shuang smiled and said, "We are independent cultivators from other places, not locals."

She also guessed that everyone who had entered the city earlier had taken out a jade token and touched it against the disc. The jade token should be something that represented a person's identity.

Therefore, she felt that there should be no problem if she said that the few of them were independent cultivators from other places.

Xiao Han and the other two didn't think there was anything wrong with what Ji Shuang said.

However, the Jindan cultivator who was charging the fee, including the other three Jindan cultivators guarding the city gate, all looked at the four of them with vigilance.

The Spiritual Transformation cultivator who was collecting the fees patiently said, "Random cultivators from other places also need to have their identity jade tokens inspected."

Xiao Han and the others felt a tightness in their hearts. Where could these four outsiders get their identity jade badges?

The key point is that when Ji Shuang asked the local Nascent Soul cultivator before, he never thought of asking about common sense in daily life.

Ji Shuang immediately decided not to enter the city. She said to the monk guarding the city, "Forget it, we won't go into the city."

After saying that, he looked at the other three and prepared to leave.

A Divine Transformation cultivator guarding the city gate immediately took out a small ball and crushed it.

The four of them flew high into the sky, preparing to find a secluded place to discuss their next plan.

But the next moment, several people felt a terrifying force coming towards them.

The four of them all changed their expressions, and the three Mahayana cultivators instinctively wanted to resist. But the terrifying force instantly restrained them all.

Then, an old man with a short beard stepped directly from the sky above the fairy city and appeared in front of the four people.

Even though Xiao Han and the other three were not clear about the old man's specific cultivation level, they knew at this time that the other party was at least a cultivator who had crossed the tribulation realm, or was above the tribulation realm.

A Divine Transformation cultivator at the city gate also flew up and pointed at the four people, saying, "None of them have identity jade tokens."

The old man hummed, "Alright, you can go back now. I'll take the person with me."

After the Divine Transformation Monk bowed, he returned to the city gate.

Although the four of them didn't understand why they were detained outside the city without their identity jade cards, Ji Shuang subconsciously argued, "Senior, what have we done wrong? We can't enter the city without our identity jade cards, so let's just leave."

The old man didn't listen to Ji Shuang's explanation. He sensed the four people again, but didn't sense any demonic aura, devilish aura, or evil spirit from them. He immediately felt strange.

He was too lazy to answer Ji Shuang's question, but directly used his spiritual power to roll up the four people, passed through the forbidden light curtain, and fell directly into the city lord's mansion.

The old man said to a Fusion Realm guard from the City Lord's Mansion, "Go and inform the City Lord that I have captured four cultivators without identity jade tokens."

Then he led the four people into a tall stone hall.

Soon, another female cultivator whose cultivation level was unknown walked in.

The female cultivator was wearing a lake blue dress of intricate and gorgeous design. The hairpins on her head and a bright and lifelike blue flower were all magical treasures.

Seeing the female cultivator come in, the old man bowed and said, "City Lord, these are the four people. How strange! They are not demon cultivators, not devil cultivators, and they don't have any evil aura, yet none of them have identity jade tokens."

The female city lord glanced at the four people, waved her hand, and asked the old man to remove the restraints. Then she said, "Tell me, where did you live before? Why don't you have identity jade cards?"

These words left Xiao Han and the other four outsiders completely speechless.

The identity of the stowaway must not be revealed unless it is absolutely necessary.

Seeing that the three Mahayana cultivators hadn't come up with a good excuse, Xiao Han rolled his eyes and said, "We originally had identity jade tokens, but because I was going to conduct a special transaction, each identity jade token could only be used once. In order to trade more times, I borrowed their identity jade tokens.

Who knew that when I was returning from the transaction, I was intercepted on the way. The other party had a higher cultivation level than me and stole my storage ring. That's why I can't produce my identity jade token now."

Xiao Han originally thought that the excuse he hastily came up with was too lame and the other party would not believe it.

However, this interface was extremely chaotic, with murder and robbery being commonplace, and the city lord and the old man actually believed it.

The female city lord said, "Old Qi, to be on the safe side, we should take them in for examination. If there is really no problem, each of them will be fined one thousand high-grade spirit stones, and then they will be given new identity jade cards."

The old man called Qi Lao nodded, then restrained the four people and took them to the side hall next to the main hall.

No one knew what kind of formation was set up in this room. General Qi took the four people in for a walk. Seeing that the formation had no reaction, he brought them out.

After releasing the restraints on several people, Elder Qi called a Mahayana-level guard and said, "Have them each pay a fine of one thousand high-grade spirit stones, and then we will reissue their identity jade tokens."

The guard nodded and then said to the four people, "Fellow Daoists, you have heard it. Please pay the fine first. After paying, you can apply for a replacement identity jade card."

The three Mahayana monks looked at each other and discussed with each other through voice transmission.

High-grade spirit stones were extremely rare on the Yuantian Continent, and as Mahayana cultivators, they didn't have many. Ji Shuang and Xuanyuan Heng were considered veteran Mahayana cultivators, each having only accumulated around 10,000 to 20,000 high-grade spirit stones.

Shui Wuhen had accumulated even less, less than ten thousand high-grade spirit stones.

But at this moment, it is not the time to feel sorry for the high-grade spirit stones. Everyone is ready to take out the spirit stones and avoid this disaster first.

As for Xiao Han, there was no need to think about it, everyone knew that she definitely couldn't come up with it, so Shui Wuhen prepared to pay for it himself.

Unexpectedly, Ji Shuang took out a thousand high-grade spirit stones, wrapped them in spiritual energy, and handed them to the guard. The guard's face immediately darkened and he said, "Didn't you hear clearly, fellow Daoist? It's a thousand high-grade spirit stones, not mid-grade spirit stones."

Ji Shuang and the others were stunned, and a bad premonition arose in their hearts at the same time.

She thought of the only top-grade spirit stone in her hand, took it out, and asked tentatively, "Do you want a thousand of these spirit stones?"

The guard nodded, then looked suspicious, "Don't you know what a high-grade spirit stone is?"

Ji Shuang's heart sank, and she immediately smiled bitterly, "We are all poor cultivators, and we don't have any high-grade spirit stones. Can we use other spirit stones as a substitute?"

The guard hesitated for a moment, then finally said, "Alright, then each of you will pay 100,000 mid-grade spirit stones."

But even if it was a mid-grade spirit stone, it was the high-grade spirit stone that Ji Shuang and the others had used. The four of them together were not enough to pay the fine for one person.

Several people looked at each other in confusion, all of them at a loss.

The guard was immediately displeased when he saw this and asked in a harsh tone, "Are you going to pay the fine or not?"

Ji Shuang made up her mind and said, "We don't have that many spirit stones, so we can't pay."

The guard sneered and shouted to Elder Qi who was drinking tea in the main hall, "Elder Qi, they refuse to pay the fine, saying they don't have that many spirit stones."

Mr. Qi had heard clearly the conversation between the few people just now.

He immediately said slowly: "If you don't have spirit stones to pay the fine, then send them to mine to earn spirit stones to pay the fine."