Mysterious mirror hanging high

"what?"

Jing Yu was a little surprised.

Such a coincidence?

Could it be fate again?

It's no wonder that Jing Yu is suspicious. Ever since he met the Taoist Lord Jiu Ming, he realized that almost everyone around him was affected by fate.

Now he thinks it's fate if he meets a dog on the roadside.

The middle-aged female cultivator sighed and said, "Come in and talk."

Several people followed the middle-aged female cultivator into the house and saw that the house of dozens of square meters had been arranged into a small mourning hall. It had been a month since Pu Xiu's death and his body had been buried long ago. Now there was no coffin in the mourning hall, only a tablet placed in the middle of the hall. It seemed that the female cultivator was keeping vigil for her father.

"My father has been dead for a month, and his daughter is still keeping vigil. I guess they have a very good relationship." Zhao Yuanxi held the inkstone and carefully observed the displays in the room. He placed the inkstone respectfully on the altar, bowed to the tablet, and thought secretly in his heart.

The middle-aged female cultivator pulled over a few cushions and sat cross-legged in front of the mourning hall with Jing Yu and others. Then she began to tell the story of her father.

It turns out that this girl's name is Puting, and she is Pu Xiu's only daughter. Her mother is a mortal and has passed away long ago. Pu Xiu never remarried, and the father and daughter have been living in the low-rent housing provided by the Xiaoyao League.

Logically speaking, as a cultivator within the system, Pu Xiu could earn less money than alchemists and weapon refiners, but he could still make a stable income. In addition, he could exchange Foundation Establishment Pills for a relatively low price within the Xiaoyao League. With Pu Xiu's wealth, it was more than enough for him to exchange for a genuine Foundation Establishment Pill, and he would not die from the impact of the Foundation Establishment Pill.

But Pu Xiu happened to be a person who loved to take advantage of others. Even though he could buy genuine foundation-building pills at the internal price, he still felt it was too expensive. So he and several Qi-cultivating monks pooled money to buy a batch of foundation-building spiritual medicines, and handed them over to a foundation-building alchemist to start refining the pills... Buying spiritual medicines together and handing them over to the alchemist to refine the pills is the most cost-effective way to obtain foundation-building pills, but this method is also risky. If the alchemist fails and refines useless pills or explodes the furnace, there will be no compensation.

It was also destined that Pu Xiu's group of Qi-cultivating cultivators were unlucky. This alchemist had a good reputation and his success rate in refining foundation-building pills was normal. But something went wrong when he was refining Pu Xiu's batch, and he produced a batch of waste foundation-building pills.

In desperation, Pu Xiu became ruthless and simply used the scrap foundation-building pill he was given to break through the realm, ending up with his death.

In fact, the waste foundation-building pill could only be considered the second worst result. The most unfortunate thing would be that the furnace exploded directly. But in fact, if the furnace really exploded, Pu Xiu would end up with nothing, and there would be no pill to use. Maybe he would not have been so determined to break through the realm, and he would not have died.

"Isn't this also a kind of fate?" Jing Yu sighed secretly in his heart.

"Fairy Pu, Old Mu originally wanted us to visit your father and see if we could set up residence in Xiaoyao Fairy City. But now we've run into this... Oh no! Let's forget about this."

Out of the corner of her eye, Putin caught sight of the inkstone on the altar and sighed, "My father was a solitary man, with few close friends. Uncle Mu is one of the few old friends with whom he still exchanges letters. You are all close relatives of Uncle Mu, so I could have agreed to this... To be honest, I, like my father, work at the Immortal Registry Office in the northern district."

"Oh?" Jing Yu cheered up.

"It's just... now the two fellow Taoists have arrived a little late."

Puting paused and said slowly, "If it were a dozen years ago, a cultivator like Fellow Daoist Zhao, who had reached the late stage of Qi training and had alchemy skills, would have had some difficulties in becoming a monk. However, if he had some internal connections, he would have had a chance."

"But now the number of cultivators in Xiaoyao Immortal City has greatly increased, and a large number of resident cultivators are desperate to become naturalized. However, the benefits enjoyed by registered cultivators in Xiaoyao Immortal City require actual funding from the alliance, so the alliance has had no choice but to tighten its restrictions. It's now impossible to obtain naturalization through connections."

"Now, if you want to settle down in Xiaoyao Xiancheng, you use a points system."

Putin is obviously also very experienced in the business, and he speaks without hesitation:

"The cave dwellings within Xiaoyao Xiancheng are divided into four levels: Heaven, Earth, Xuan, and Huang. Renting a Xuan-level private courtyard in the inner city of Xiaoyao Xiancheng will earn one point per year. If you purchase a Xuan-level courtyard and own its full property rights, you will earn two points per year."

"Renting a [Earth-level] cave atop the Immortal Mountain will earn you three points per year. Buying an [Earth-level] cave will earn you six points per year."

"In the East District of Xiaoyao Immortal City's outer city, there's a commercial area where foreign cultivators can set up stalls. Only within this commercial area can foreign cultivators conduct trade, and the Xiaoyao Alliance collects commercial taxes from the profits."

"Each foreign monk who pays a full year's worth of [commercial taxes] in the East City Commercial District will receive one point."

"In addition, abiding by the law is also a key assessment item. As long as you abide by the laws of Xiaoyao Immortal City, you will be awarded one point every three years."

"If you violate the law, points will be deducted. The number of points deducted depends on the severity of the law you violated, but these points can be redeemed with spirit stones..."

"Every year, any foreign monk can apply for naturalization, but only a fixed number of monks will be admitted each year, based entirely on their points. Monks who have only been here a few years don't need to apply, as they simply can't compete with those veteran monks who often score over 100 points."

"Also, I remember that Xiaoyao Immortal City now prefers young and promising cultivators." Puting glanced at Zhao Yuanxi and continued, "If the cultivator applying is under fifty, there will be a twenty-point weighting, but if the cultivator is over eighty, ten points will be deducted."

"Goodness!" Jing Yu's face was filled with rage. "As expected of one of the most prestigious immortal cities in Yunchuan Territory, it's so difficult to register as a resident."

"Sister Pu, are you a monk now?" Zhao Yuanxi asked doubtfully. She called Sister Pu so sweetly that Putin almost couldn't hold back the corners of her mouth.

She said quite proudly, "Of course I am a monk."

"Sister Pu also accumulated points bit by bit?"

"Haha, that's not the case. When I was born in Xiaoyao Immortal City, my father was already an immortal. As long as one of the two conditions of having one's parents be immortal and being born in Xiaoyao Immortal City is met, one can automatically become an immortal."

Puting patiently explained, "That's why, generally speaking, cultivators in Xiaoyao Immortal City marry and have children very late. They all want to obtain immortal status first, then have children. That way, they can have children all at once, without having to work so hard to accumulate points."

"Is there no other way to become a citizen quickly?" Jing Yu asked.

Putin looked at him strangely and said, "There is another way..."

"As long as you become a Foundation Establishment cultivator, you will automatically be admitted to the Immortal Registry. At that time, the alliance will also provide a non-saleable [Xuan-level] courtyard for Foundation Establishment cultivators to live in free of charge! But... ah, it's too difficult!"

"There are over 300,000 permanent cultivators in the Immortal City right now, but only less than 2,000 are at the Foundation Establishment stage. This shows how difficult it is to achieve this! My father just had wishful thinking, and ended up like this..."

"If Fellow Daoist Zhao wants to be registered, he has to find another way."

Jing Yu smiled faintly:

"It's very simple. I have reached the foundation-building stage, right?"