Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 7: Bottom-level Monk
When Yi Dong was in seclusion practicing.

There are many young cultivators in Zijin Mountain who work hard to cultivate spiritual fields for resources.

In a spiritual field.

Four young men were using a sled-like instrument to plow the fields.

I saw that the magic weapon had a long spiritual line, and one end of the line was inserted into a cylindrical power supply pole-like magic weapon.

With the power of magical instruments, the sled easily turned over the hard spiritual field.

A young man suddenly closed his magic weapon and let out a long sigh.

A young man nearby also stopped.

"What's wrong, Brother Hao, are you tired?

Would you like to drink some mountain spring water?"

Yi Hao looked at his brother and said with a sigh:

“Come to think of it, Yidong and I were born on the same day.

Because he had a natural spiritual root, he had everything from birth.

When it was time to practice, the family arranged for him to enter a Taoist temple, but I, along with most of my brothers, could only practice with the old Qi-refining practitioners invited by the family.

Even though his grandfather is no longer with us, he is only in the Qi Refining Stage, yet he owns a sacred mountain and countless spiritual stones.

As for us, we have the same father and have only seen spirit stones a few times since we were born. We usually use gold and silver, and at most we exchange them for some broken spirits for cultivation.

We are all members of the Yi family, why is it so unfair? "

Yi Jun took a sip of water and said calmly:
“What can we do about it? It’s because we only have three spiritual roots. Our spiritual roots are innate and there is no way to change this.

It’s a good thing we came to Purple Gold Mountain. In the past, when we planted spiritual fields for the family, we needed to rent spiritual cows and cast spells to irrigate the fields and remove weeds and insects ourselves. Our magic power was never enough, and we didn’t even have much time to practice.

That’s fine, but after working hard for half a year, sometimes I still spend more than I earn.

It’s different here. There are special instruments for plowing, watering, weeding, pest control, and even harvesting. In the past, we could only cultivate ten acres of spiritual fields. Here, with the help of these instruments, the four of us have cultivated a full two hundred acres, and the harvest is much better than before.”

"Ah Jun, aren't you unwilling?

We are just working like cattle and horses here, while Yidong can just sit back and enjoy the fruits of his labor."

"Why should I be unwilling to accept this? Just look at how many newborns our Yi family has every year, and how many people with spiritual roots in the family have become independent cultivators and don't even have the opportunity to practice.

What’s more, our brothers don’t even have spiritual roots.

Those are the truly miserable ones.

We have arrived at Zijin Mountain. Apart from anything else, we have made a fortune by being able to cultivate in the spiritual energy-filled environment of Zijin Mountain."

Yi Jun is very satisfied, happiness comes from contrast.

After the Yi family secretly split up, countless relatives became independent practitioners, with no place to practice.

In the Qiantian Xiuxian Kingdom, all cities above the county level have spiritual veins. In the cities, one can still practice with the thin spiritual energy. However, in places like villages and towns, the spiritual energy is so thin that it is almost non-existent. Living in such places, one is basically isolated from practice.

As far as Yi Jun knew, several of his cousins, who usually got along well with him, had fallen into poverty and had to live in the town.

Those cousins contacted him many times, trying to find a way to join Purple Mountain.

With such a comparison, Yi Jun was very satisfied.

Seeing Yi Hao still angry.

Yi Jun was not surprised.

This half-brother often complains and laments that he was born on the same day as Yi Dong. In fact, he is still Yi Dong's brother. He always laments the unfairness of fate and family.

Yi Jun is different.

He already knew what the Yi family's situation was.

For many brothers, even brothers from the same family, there is a huge divergence in their lives the moment their spiritual roots are tested, and they basically become strangers from then on.

Yi Jun also met Yi Dong when he was a child.

He would never forget Yi Dong's arrogant look.

At that time, he knew that among the Yi family, only a few people like Yi Dong were the real masters of the Yi family. They were born to be a brick of the Yi family.

Yi Jun accepted his fate at a very young age, so he was very open-minded.

Looking at Yi Jun's appearance, Yi Hao felt sorry for him for not fighting back.

Now is the golden age of cultivating immortals. In fact, the quality of spiritual roots is not that important.

Even if one has five spiritual roots, as long as there are enough resources, one can reach the Golden Core or even Nascent Soul stage.

As far as Yi Hao knows, there are some families with conservative ideas, and their patriarchs all have four or five spiritual roots.

Yi Hao fully recognizes the history of the Yi family.

The Yi family had built many foundations in the past.

However, as more people built their foundations, everyone scrambled for the opportunity to break through to the golden elixir, which put the Yi family in turmoil for a time.

Because in this world, when it comes to breaking through the Golden Elixir, as long as the resources are in place, there is no such thing as a failure rate, so naturally everyone is scrambling for it.

The Yi family had been in chaos for decades, and it was my great grandfather who brought it down.

However, my grandfather is not a person who is dedicated to the public.

After he took control of the Yi family, not only did he exile many members of the branch clansmen, he also established clan rules that it was better to have nothing than to have too many people.

In other words, they concentrated their resources to give a minority of people a chance to break through to the foundation-building stage. It was also because of this strategy that among the tens of thousands of cultivators in the Yi family, only six of them were at the foundation-building stage.

With those six people around, the rest of the Yi family would be unable to make any progress. It would be useless even if several members of the Yi family broke through to the foundation-building stage.

Because those six people possess all of the Yi family’s magic weapons.

Originally, Yi Hao also thought that the Yi family would become a stagnant pool.

But from Yi Dong's operations, he saw a way out.

In the past, when he heard about how powerful Jin Xiu was, he thought it was nonsense. But after he arrived at Zijin Mountain and saw the mountain protection formation, he realized that the Yi family could not do anything to Yi Dong.

His mind changed.

He didn't know Jin Xiu, and he thought he could become Jin Xiu.

If you want to become a Jinxiu, you can only go through Yidong.

Because he was acquainted with Yi Fu's brother, through that brother, he knew that Yi Dong would go to Qingzhu Taoist Temple every month to get a batch of Jin Xiu's information.

The problem is how to contact Yidong.

Direct contact is impossible.

Yi Hao also met Yi Dong once in Zijin Mountain.

The way Yi Dong looked at his brothers was not as blood relatives, but as cattle and horses.

"Ah Jun, you have a good relationship with A Zu, can you help me ask how his brother got involved with Yi Dong?"

Yi Jun looked at Yi Hao in surprise, and only spoke after he had made Yi Hao somewhat angry.
“No need to ask, Ade and Afu went to Qingzhu College to deliver supplies to Brother Dong more than a year ago.

At that time, Dong Ge was planning Zijin Mountain. From then on, the two of them ran between the county town and Bowang County every day, acting as Dong Ge's contacts.

It can be said that these two people made great contributions to Dong Ge's acquisition of Zijin Mountain."

At this point, Yi Jun remained silent, implying that Yi De’s and Yi De’s paths could not be replicated.

Otherwise, there are countless brothers and sisters on Zijin Mountain who would want to show off their hard work in front of Yi Dong.

"If I offer a treasure, do you think it's possible for Yi Dong to value me?"

“Offering treasures?
What treasure do we have?"

Yi Jun burst out laughing.

The spiritual energy between heaven and earth is now basically locked around the spiritual veins by sophisticated formations.

The spiritual veins nowadays are either occupied by aristocratic families or owned by immortal kingdoms.

There are many spiritual places with harsh environments that are not suitable for human survival, and the fairyland’s celestial patrol instruments are always watching over them.

It can be said that in the fairyland, there are basically no spiritual creatures that are ownerless.

It is basically impossible to do it underground. The Immortal Kingdom has explored the sky and the earth, and at least the spiritual mines that are closer to the surface and easier to mine have been recorded. The caves of the ancient cultivators have basically been dug out, and the treasures inside and even the corpses of the ancient cultivators have been collected by the Immortal Kingdom in antiquities management or research laboratories.

In fact, except for the aristocratic families who have their own spiritual veins, most of the independent cultivators who rely on the city’s thin spiritual energy for cultivation will have their entire lives recorded by the ubiquitous imaging instruments in the city.

In the fairyland, there are basically no opportunities left for independent cultivators.

Even if a secret space appears, the Immortal Kingdom will detect it in advance and clear it out early.

In this situation, Yi Jun really couldn't think of what treasures Yi Hao had.

Seeing that Yi Hao looked unhappy, Yi Jun continued:
“In fact, many treasures are precious to us, but they are probably useless to Brother Dong.

According to A-Zu, the students in the Taoist temple practice differently from us.

Just like the pills we take, as long as they are roughly the same, we don’t care about the quality.

But it’s different in the Taoist Academy. Those top-grade elixirs on the market are basically garbage in their eyes. The elixirs they use for cultivation are basically mixed by themselves. It is very troublesome to refine an elixir, and it is common to take ten days or half a month to refine it.

According to what A-Zu heard from his brother, those students were skeptical about most things.

Especially the things left behind by the ancient cultivators, such as magic weapons, formations, etc., are just research materials in the eyes of those students.

Well, it’s time to get to work.”

Yi Jun, who is serious about life, feels that he can no longer waste time with Yi Hao, who is always daydreaming, so he activates his magic tool and starts plowing the fields.

Yi Hao looked at Yi Jun, opened his mouth to say something, but fell silent again. Then he activated his magic weapon and started plowing the fields.

The lives of Yi Jun and Yi Hao are a reflection of the lives of the lower-level monks in the Yi family.

In the heyday of cultivating immortals, his path of cultivation actually became more difficult.

If it were during a chaotic period, when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was not restrained by sophisticated formations, the birth rate and death rate of immortal cultivators were basically the same, and the number of immortal cultivators was relatively small, people like them with three spiritual roots could become independent cultivators or even join small sects. As long as they did not collapse midway, they would have a high probability of cultivating to the peak of Qi Refining or even Building the Foundation. If they were lucky, obtaining the Golden Elixir would not be a problem.

In prosperous times, people like them can only get insignificant rewards for their hard work. Opportunities and luck are basically lost. Even if they want to take risks, they can hardly find any place to take risks.

And within the Immortal Kingdom, there are countless independent cultivators whose situations are worse than theirs.

In the fairyland, there are countless people with natural spiritual roots who cannot even build a foundation due to their poor origins, because there is simply not enough spiritual energy and resources for them to cultivate to the peak of Qi Refining.

There are also many people living in villages and towns. Most of them have no chance to test their spiritual roots in their entire lives. Let alone natural spiritual roots, even their spiritual bodies can only turn into dust after a hundred years.

For most easily satisfied people in the world, these are prosperous times.

But for people like Yi Hao who are unwilling to be ordinary, the prosperous times are a cage.

However, Yi Hao firmly believed that he could break the cage of fate.

Yi Hao, who was plowing the field, couldn't help but look at the ancient ring in his hand.

(End of this chapter)