After a moment of silence, Qi Zhiheng inquired again and found out that the organization might accept cultivators over twenty years old.
Zhang Shuo listed some sects, but more detailed information, such as their attitudes towards disciples, was beyond his reach. After all, with only ten mid-grade spirit stones, the information he could obtain was limited.
Of course, besides
Qi Zhiheng observed his family members and realized that he himself was already twenty-one years old. The only people who had entered the sect through the normal procedures were twenty-year-old Yang Yitian and his two twin brothers...
Qi Zhiheng's gaze shifted to the two twins.
Second brother Qi Zhirui & Third brother Qi Zhiwu: ? ? ?
Qi Zhiheng beckoned to the two of them: "Xiao Rui, Xiao Wu, come here for a moment."
The twin brothers are now six years old. Both brothers have the aptitude of a single spiritual root, making them arguably the most promising talents in their generation within the Qi family.
The twins began learning to read at age three and started learning martial arts at age five, but they were a bit too young for that.
The concept of "drawing qi into the body" is somewhat difficult to grasp. Currently, they are still two ordinary people with decent aptitude. Sending such children to a sect would be the best option.
The Qi family has a habit of soaking in medicinal baths. Qi Dong secretly prepared a lot for the whole family. Although the two twins have not yet achieved Qi cultivation, the medicinal baths prepared by Qi Dong are gradually improving their spiritual root aptitude.
Two clear, childlike voices rang out: "Big Brother!"
Qi Zhirui and Qi Zhiwu both admire Qi Zhiheng because they often hear others praising their older brother, which makes them, as the older and younger brothers, feel a little proud.
Qi Zhiheng has been busy outside for many years, and to be honest, he doesn't have much contact with his two younger brothers. They are usually taken care of by their mother, Qiu Yuerong.
Qi Zhiheng thought about how his mother had spoiled him in the past, and suddenly felt that it was understandable that his two younger brothers had not been able to cultivate Qi into their bodies. Fortunately, they were still young and should not have been raised badly.
Qi Zhiheng patted his two younger brothers on the head one by one, and then said earnestly, "Xiao Rui, Xiao Wu, your older brother is getting old, and it may be up to you two to support the family from now on."
Qi Zhirui and Qi Zhiwu immediately became serious, a sense of mission welling up within them. The second brother, Qi Zhirui, was filled with lofty ambition: "Big brother, don't worry about taking care of yourself in your old age. The third brother and I will work hard to earn spirit stones to support the family!"
Qi Zhiheng: "..." No, he's not old yet.
Qi Zhiheng's idea remained the same: send his two younger brothers into a sect. With their talent, they were sure to get good disciple status and perhaps even find a good master, thus securing a powerful backer. However, he wasn't comfortable with just the two children going, so the choice of sect was somewhat deliberate. Yang Yitian could enter the sect with the twins, while those of them who were older should ideally choose sects that required members to be over twenty years old.
If there are still people who can't enter, they can open a shop in this Juxian City to make a living. As long as they know that someone has connections in a major sect, not many people will come looking for trouble.
As for the people from Xuanling Continent who followed us, that depends on their own plans.
Although Qi Zhiheng wouldn't interfere much in this matter, he still handed over a copy of the list of sects compiled by Zhang Shuo to other forces.
It's not difficult for someone with Golden Core cultivation to enter a sect. Bringing along a few servants or disciples is perfectly acceptable. Qi Zhiheng believes that most people can find a force that will accept them.
The sect's selection process starts with young talents, and only later can older people be selected. For example, cultivators at the Golden Core stage can enter the sect as guest elders.
Besides Qi Zhiheng, Yang Yitian, and Yang Yao's mother Ye Xin, the Qi family only has two twins who haven't entered the Golden Core stage yet, so their chances of being selected should be quite high.
Ye Xin's cultivation level is not high, but she has reached the early stage of Foundation Establishment. However, considering that she is nearly ninety years old, she is not young. Even if she enters as a servant or disciple, there will not be much of a problem.
Qi Zhiheng had already come up with a reason. Because his two twins were going to join the sect, his whole family was worried and wanted them to join as well!
That explanation makes perfect sense! Qi Zhiheng thought to himself.
After devising a plan, Qi Zhiheng went to find the most suitable sect.
Since it's a sect that the whole family is going to join, it's best to choose a better sect. If the sect has a bad reputation, it will be very difficult for the whole family to leave.
They've settled down in the new place, and now it's time to get busy making a living.
You need to know everything about this city, including what good things it has, what trades are available, and how to earn spirit stones.
In the following time, Zhang Shuo was pulled aside by the leaders of several factions and asked many questions. Because they were all greenhorns who had just arrived in the cultivation world, they knew far less than Qi Zhiheng, which led to Zhang Shuo having to answer a lot of baffling questions.
A bewildered Zhang Shuo was filled with regret! He felt he should have raised the price! Ten mid-grade spirit stones were simply too few!
The next day, Qi Zhiheng specifically asked Zhang Shuo to come along.
Upon receiving this news, Zhang Shuo nearly trembled. He was truly terrified by the questions posed by those "country bumpkins"! Yesterday, one of them even asked what the highest cultivation level in the cultivation world was! Good heavens! Isn't this basic knowledge that everyone in the cultivation world knows? Even those in the Qi Refining stage should know it, yet these Foundation Establishment and Golden Core stages don't even understand it!
Fortunately, Qi Zhiheng, as the employer, was relatively normal among this group of people; at least he had far fewer intellectual disabilities.
Qi Zhiheng still had quite a few spirit stones, but he still inquired about where he could buy pills and other items. Naturally, he wanted to find the most reputable shop to buy pills so he could exchange some spirit stones for them if he needed them in the future.
Zhang Shuo explained that there are many facilities in Juxian City for improving cultivation, such as places to enhance physical fitness, cultivation level, and soul power, etc.
These places naturally charge a lot of fees, and Qi Zhiheng doesn't plan to improve his cultivation here for the time being, because joining a sect would provide better facilities and treatment, and the safety factor would be much higher.
During the few days that Qi Zhiheng was busy trying to understand Juxian City, Yang Yitian was gripped by panic!
His cultivation level, which had previously remained stagnant, was now gradually regressing!
That day, Qi Zhiheng went to several places and bought nearly ten pieces of information from several places that sold comprehensive information. All of them were about sects that would recruit disciples.
He wouldn't feel at ease buying information from just one place; who knows how accurate that information is? Only by comparing various sources can one discern the truth. Moreover, while most of these sources are quite accurate, they are often written in a rather veiled manner. Which information-selling channel would openly speak ill of those major sects? Unless they didn't want to stay in this Immortal Gathering City.
Therefore, Qi Zhiheng still needs to carefully study the hidden meanings of these words.
He had only been inside a short while when he saw Yang Yitian with a pained expression.
"What happened to you? Were you bullied when you went out today?" Qi Zhiheng stepped forward to ask what was going on.
Yang Yitian pouted, looking like he was about to cry: "I'm doomed, I'm going to die! I have a terminal illness."
Qi Zhiheng was puzzled. He didn't see any death aura on Yang Yitian, so he stepped forward and put his arm around Yang Yitian's shoulder, asking, "What's going on?"
"I've been parasitized by something I don't know!" Yang Yitian clutched his stomach. "I'm definitely going to be sucked dry and die."
Qi Zhiheng's expression turned serious: "Parasitized?"
“There are three parasites inside my stomach,” Yang Yitian gestured for him to look.
Qi Zhiheng quickly used his soul power to check and indeed found three peanut-sized objects in Yang Yitian's abdomen. These objects were also connected to Yang Yitian by a single thread. Removing them would likely be difficult: "What have you been doing lately? Can you control your spiritual power to remove the parasites yourself?"
Yang Yitian tried hard to recall, then shook his head and said, "I haven't done anything lately. I've been eating and drinking the same things as everyone else. I don't even know when I started eating them. My cultivation hadn't improved before, right? I thought I'd hit a bottleneck or something. You haven't broken through to the Golden Core stage either, so I didn't think much of it. But this morning I suddenly discovered that half of the spiritual energy I hadn't used much had been absorbed!"
"It can even cause cultivation to regress!" Qi Zhiheng had to become serious. These things could even absorb a person's spiritual energy, so it seemed that the problem was quite serious.
"What should we do?" Yang Yitian looked at Qi Zhiheng. "I tried to separate it, but my spiritual energy was absorbed as soon as I put it in. I couldn't even last a few seconds. If I put in too much spiritual energy, my stomach will hurt!"
Qi Zhiheng pondered: "According to what you've said, then the problem is quite serious. This parasite must be connected to you. If you make any moves against them, you probably won't have an easy time either."
Yang Yitian felt that he was really miserable. He had finally arrived in the cultivation world, so why did he have to encounter such a thing?
Qi Zhiheng said, "Wait a minute, let me check if there are any corresponding parasitic species. Maybe there's a solution."
Yang Yitian nodded: "I'll take a look with you too."
Qi Zhiheng put aside the sect information he had bought and led Yang Yitian into the space to search for information about parasites.
Qi Zhiheng immediately used his divine sense to search through the books, and Yang Yitian was not to be outdone. The two worked for three days without any results. Finally, Yang Yitian said he was hungry, and they stopped searching for information.
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