Chapter 73: Reality Check

Xuahour, the city of cultivation. I only found out about this title after entering the city. At the southernmost fort of Rong Sat, this capital was huge. There were Viscera Purifying practitioners everywhere and I even saw some Meridian Opening ones walking around casually.

We did not stop at the villages and headed straight to the city after seeing it. It was a vastly new experience than being in Pinchu town. People were more aloof here and they only cared to talk with those they knew. If a stranger asked something, s/he would be judged based on his/her cultivation.

Feng Yi was stunned seeing tall nine-storey buildings and the overall standard of living. If she decided to separate from us, like she had planned to, she wouldn't survive a day here. Body Tempering practitioners were like common people and no one was below rank 4, except for the children and the slaves.

The rain had stopped by the time we reached an inn and there I found out that Yellow Rocks Mansion didn't exist in this place.

''This is a different region, The Great Wilderness. The Tong Clan has no power here. However, you can exchange those tickets for about five thousand gold kins if you go through the Pailong Pavillion,'' informed the innkeeper. He was a fit middle aged man at Viscera Purifying second stage.

With no choice left, I could only do that. 5,000 gold, it wasn't low but wouldn't last for more than two months in this expensive city. And that was without buying the resources necessary for practicing.

''What do we do now?'' Ling'er had also gone through a reality check and had dismissed the idea of finding an instructor. If I didn't have money with me, she and Feng Yi would've had to quickly find a job here.

Even then, they would get cheated first and would have only adjusted to living here after three to four months. Forget about practicing, it would be harder to live without having connections or money in this place.

''I'm thinking, let me have some time first,'' I said, sipping the coutor tea, the cheapest one available. Five golds was the price for one cup.

I had some plans after reaching here but this city appeared to be more high class than I had thought. Wide roads, tall houses, recreation establishments, dedicated cultivation areas, high ranking practitioners… I needed to have some money, power, and fame to peacefully cultivate at such a place.

Which clans were the ruling powers here and how to join them? That was the ultimate question. There were thousands of practitioners here just like us who had come seeking to improve their cultivation.

''Does this place have any kind of Schools?'' I asked the innkeeper. He wasn't so busy right now or else he wouldn't have talked to me.

Dark skin, a high nose and tall height, he seemed more like from Shang desert than us. The innkeeper rubbed his hands on a rug and answered, ''Schools? That's for scholars. You young people seem to follow the martial path, you should aim to enter the Martial Houses.''

He then looked at the girls and back at me. ''I can't say for sure about these maidens, but you have a chance at entering, young man.''

He took note of my rank 8 body. As someone with a higher rank than normal youngsters, he valued me more. Of course, I wasn't at the 'young master level' yet but that was still impressive in the eyes of this innkeeper.

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I then asked him about these Martial Houses as there seemed to be more than just one in this city. He didn't mind telling me. Thinking about it again, I may have gotten a wrong impression of people here. They had adapted to the lifestyle of this city and thus seemed more formal.

The innkeeper turned out to be a nice man after some talk and he even told us that the enrollment day was just three months away. It was a long time for me but that meant I could practice more. In three months, I would've already started practicing Star Pagoda.

The practitioners shouldn't be more than 25 years old and must be at least above rank 5 Body Tempering to qualify. I wondered how they would check someone's age.

We stayed in the same inn that night and later switched to a cheaper place. However nice the innkeeper was, he did not lower the prices. Haggling would only be considered rude… what a place this was.

The very next day, I sold the daggers, the expensive rings and other unimportant treasures, including the piece of spirit stone. With barely any spiritual energy left, it was useless to any Qi gathering cultivator. However, it was considered a gem worth thousands of golds for practitioners.

I got around twenty thousand and five hundred gold kins after selling all that. An average family in this city would have this much money with them. For one person, it was a substantial amount. However, buying herbs and books for various disciplines such as alchemy, forging, inscriptions… that much money disappeared in no time.

We went job hunting starting from next month. By that time, I had already broken through to rank 9. Now my fast speed intrigued Ling'er and when Chunu reached rank 6 just a few days later, Lingling asked for the technique she herself had rejected.

Feng Yi was also about to reach rank 6 and at this rate, she would be left out if she didn't at least try out the technique I had provided. But now I didn't give her the Jade Sword Body so easily.

I told her she would have to agree to help me when I asked for it. She was a hard worker and I had lots of uses for such a person.

I used the skin toughening oil after reaching rank 9 but it honestly didn't have much effect. I stopped using pills after that. I wanted to break through to Viscera Purifying without any external help.

Steelheart fruit was a healthy resource and had no side effects. I resisted eating it as the full advantage could only be taken after reaching the next stage.

We sometimes went out to hunt beasts. Their bodies sold well and eating their flesh was beneficial for a practitioner's body.

Ling'er and Feng Yi both reached rank 8 at the mid of Second Rising. After two months, we had adapted to living here and knew quite a few people. I befriended the innkeeper's son who would also be attending the assessment.

After some consideration we had decided to try for the First Sky Martial House. There were twelve of them and the first one would, of course, be better than the others.

Only five days remained for the assessment day to come and we were preparing in our own ways.

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