The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Chapter 972: Another Choice

Just then, a voice, devoid of any emotion and sounding like an electronic mechanical voice from Earth, suddenly came from the gatehouse.

"Ascending cultivators, enter the God Realm from here."

Xiao Han was startled and scanned the area around the gatehouse with her divine sense. However, she found no living creatures.

The voice just now came from nowhere.

Xiao Han took a deep breath and slowly walked forward.

Just as she stepped below the gate tower, a beam of light shone down from above, enveloping her entirely.

Xiao Han felt as if she had been thoroughly examined and scrutinized, from the inside out, even down to the depths of her soul.

Ba Dou, which she had originally stuffed into her spirit beast pouch and ascended to the divine realm with her, was forcibly pulled out of the pouch by an invisible force and underwent a scan as well.

As the beam of light disappeared, Xiao Han suddenly felt as if she had been reborn.

Ba Dou stared with his round little eyes, looking completely bewildered, and asked, "Master, where is this? Why do I feel like I'm a little different from before?"

Xiao Han calmly stated a fact that left Ba Dou even more bewildered.

"We are now in the realm of gods, because your master, I, have ascended to the realm of gods."

Unfortunately, Ba Dou was a little skeptical, thinking its owner was joking. However, before it could ask any further questions, Xiao Han had already continued walking forward, passing through the gatehouse area.

Ba Dou hurriedly followed and flew to Xiao Han's side.

Stepping out of the gatehouse, a bright and open view suddenly appeared before me.

Beneath our feet lies a smooth, flat surface paved with white jade. In the distance stretches a sea of ​​clouds, dotted with countless floating fairy islands, palaces scattered like stars, rainbow bridges spanning the sky, and mythical beasts roaming freely.

The place where I was standing seemed to be a small square.

"Newcomer, this way."

Just as Xiao Han stood there, looking around, she suddenly heard a voice that seemed to be calling her.

Xiao Han turned her head and noticed a white jade table at the edge of the square on her right.

Behind the white jade table sat a man dressed in a bamboo-green robe.

Behind him, there was a house nestled in the sea of ​​clouds.

Xiao Han sensed his cultivation level and found that his spiritual pressure was similar to hers, indicating that he was a cultivator of similar realm. She felt much more at ease.

He then walked over and gave a greeting as a peer, saying, "Xiao Han greets fellow Daoist."

"All ascending cultivators must fill in their name, bone age, and the name of the cultivation technique they practice, and then undergo a aptitude test."

The male cultivator tossed Xiao Han a white jade tablet, indicating that she should inscribe the three basic pieces of information he had just mentioned into it.

Xiao Han took the jade tablet, and after the inscription was completed, she handed it to him.

The male cultivator then took out a small, crystal-clear sphere that seemed to contain a swirling nebula and handed it to her.

"Hold it in your hand and circulate the energy."

Xiao Han did as instructed.

However, the small sphere did not emit any light.

That's not right. I've already ascended to the God Realm, so it's impossible that I don't have spiritual roots, right?

Just as Xiao Han was filled with confusion, the male cultivator grabbed the jade tablet that recorded her basic information and engraved the test results inside.

Then, he tossed the jade pendant back to Xiao Han and pointed to the house behind him.

"Go inside and get your identity token."

Xiao Han accepted the jade token and then walked into the house behind.

Seeing that Ba Dou was carefully nestled close to her, she simply stuffed Ba Dou into her spirit beast pouch.

Then, she focused her consciousness into the jade tablet in her hand and found that there was another note after her basic personal information.

Qualifications: Nothing special.

Could it be that the sphere just now wasn't testing spiritual roots, but rather detecting some other special aptitude?

Nothing special, perhaps meaning that he is not a special talent.

Xiao Han chuckled to himself and then walked into the main hall.

She couldn't help but be surprised by what she saw inside the main hall.

There were seven or eight people, all with the same aura of ascended cultivators as her, queuing up to apply for identity jade tokens.

These people included both men and women, and their expressions varied. Some were nervous, some were arrogant, and some looked completely bewildered.

Xiao Han walked to the back of the line and waited.

At this moment, a kind-looking middle-aged female cultivator in front of her turned around and greeted her in a low voice, "You also just ascended here?"

Xiao Han nodded.

The middle-aged female cultivator then spoke to Xiao Han telepathically.

"There are two types of identity tokens here: one is for independent cultivators, and the other is for joining the Divine Palace and working within it. Which one would you like to choose?"

Xiao Han hurriedly asked, "Are there any special considerations for these two things?"

The middle-aged female cultivator said, "There's no need to talk about rogue cultivators; they have to fend for themselves. Joining the Divine Palace is actually similar to joining a sect in the lower realm."

Xiao Han immediately said, "Then it's definitely better to join the Divine Palace. With the protection of a sect, wouldn't that be better than being a rogue cultivator?"

The middle-aged female cultivator clearly did not agree. "That guiding priest said that once you join the Divine Palace, you have to follow orders. But I've observed that the other cultivators who joined the Divine Palace before me were assigned tasks such as planting divine herbs, mining, processing medicinal materials, or working as assistants somewhere."

Which of these ascended cultivators wasn't a powerful figure in their own right?

Asking them to do such work is really asking too much of them.

Xiao Han thought of an important question and quickly asked, "What kind of currency is used for transactions here?"

The middle-aged female cultivator gestured forward, revealing that it was the ascended cultivator in front of her who was asking the question.

Then the fair-skinned, beardless middle-aged male cultivator, the guiding priest, said, "The divine realm uses divine stones, which are definitely more advanced than immortal stones. You are new here and don't have a single divine stone. Join the divine palace and you will immediately receive your wages."

Xiao Han: After all the hard work to ascend to the God Realm, am I just here to work again?

The guiding priest continued to persuade, "This divine realm is not like the immortal realm. It's alright during the day, but at night, there will be fierce winds from the heavens. If you don't have a cave to live in, being exposed to these fierce winds for too long may cause your foundation to become unstable and your cultivation to regress."

After much persuasion, the ascended cultivator finally chose to join the Divine Palace.

Xiao Han is currently in a dilemma.

Joining the shrine means being controlled, just like going to work, with absolutely no freedom.

Being a wandering monk seems more free and easy, but life is precarious.

As the number of cultivators ahead dwindled, Xiao Han discovered that the ratio of those who joined the Divine Palace to those who remained independent cultivators was roughly equal.

When it was Xiao Han's turn to join the Divine Palace, the middle-aged female cultivator in front of her also chose to join.

After she received the identity token, she smiled at Xiao Han before leaving.

However, she did not ask Xiao Han about her choice.

Xiao Han handed the jade tablet containing her identity information to the guiding priest.

The other party scanned the area with their divine sense and then asked, "What kind of identity token do you want to apply for?"

The identity tokens for joining the Divine Palace and becoming a rogue cultivator are even different colors; the other party is asking her for her choice.