Chapter 8 After the fluctuations in the newcomer assessment, Xu Hui was directly...
After the fluctuation, Xu Hui was directly teleported to one of the squares in Quxian City. As one of the largest cities in the world of cultivation, Quxian City was jointly established and managed by the ten major families. It was used for communication, competition, and sharing of resources among families.
The world of cultivation is vast and boundless. In addition to their own immortal palaces, the immortal cultivation families also govern a large area of land and many towns, which is equivalent to a super dynasty. The aristocratic families are the royal family, and the affiliated families are the feudal lords.
Most cities are managed by one company, and whoever is on the territory belongs to that company.
The only exception is Quxian City, which was a territory specially opened up for the aristocratic family competition. Later, it gradually developed into its current huge scale, with a permanent population of more than tens of millions of super-large cities.
This is a city where monks and mortals live together, and most of the people living here are descendants of monks and mortals.
A cultivator's fertility is related to his cultivation level. From Qi training to Golden Elixir, his fertility becomes stronger and stronger. Before the Nascent Soul stage, a cultivator can leave behind as many descendants as he wants.
However, the probability of a child having spiritual roots is less than one percent, which is slightly better than that of ordinary people and about the same as that of low-level cultivators. It is extremely difficult to give birth to a child with outstanding talents.
From the Nascent Soul stage onwards, childbirth becomes immediately difficult, but the children born are usually well-endowed, with at least three spiritual roots.
Moreover, the higher the level of cultivation, the more difficult it is to give birth, and the child's qualifications are also exceptionally good.
Therefore, the number of direct descendants of each major family is not large, which is completely inconsistent with the huge population, but they always produce talented people.
They were born when their parents had high levels of cultivation, and had various resources to nurture their spiritual roots from even before they were born. It would be strange if they didn't have good aptitude.
In order to ensure that their children have good qualifications, aristocratic families rarely marry before the Nascent Soul stage, and they pay special attention to every child they give birth to, because there are not many of them.
Cultivators who have no hope of advancing to the Nascent Soul stage are not so particular. Instead, they will have more children to obtain more children with spiritual roots.
Therefore, the population of this world is beyond imagination, a hundred times that of the Earth where Xu Hui is.
Fortunately, this world is also very large. Not to mention the world of cultivation, the mortal world alone is thousands of times the size of the earth.
The mortal world is just a small piece of land separated from the world of cultivation. By this calculation, the entire world is vast and sparsely populated.
There are many big cities like Quxian City, but it is the only city where all the ten major families have their bases.
Therefore, the business here is particularly developed, with all kinds of family specialty products and local specialties available.
Xu Hui admitted that she was a country bumpkin. Everything here dazzled her. The so-called shopping paradise in modern times was really not even a fraction of what this place could offer.
It is said that there are millions of different kinds of goods in the entire Quxian City, and the same goods are divided into various grades.
Even though Xu Hui knew nothing about the world of cultivation, she could intuitively feel how poor she was.
I used to think that more than 10,000 low-grade spirit stones were a lot, but when I looked at the street vendors, an unknown weed would cost two or three hundred spirit stones.
A low-level magic weapon made by the stall owner himself, which can only be used in the early stage of Qi training. It is not very effective when it reaches the fourth level of Qi training, and it also costs three thousand spirit stones.
In the mortal world, the maximum amount is four or five hundred low-grade spirit stones, which is a difference of more than ten times!
No wonder people in the mortal world can also cultivate immortality, but all cultivators yearn for the world of cultivation. The price difference alone is greater than the difference between cultivators and mortals.
For a low-level cultivator who can successfully enter the top ten families, even if it is just a menial job, it is equivalent to reaching heaven in one step.
For example, in the Mu family, menial disciples can receive 500 low-grade spirit stones, two bottles of Qi-replenishing pills, and one bottle of rejuvenation pills per month.
As long as you save up a little, you can buy a magic weapon in a few months. At the low level, the elixirs given are enough. Apart from daily chores, you don’t need to spend extra time making money, and you can use it all on cultivation.
Outer disciples have one thousand spirit stones and double the amount of pills, but they need to complete tasks regularly, and there are rewards.
Each task can be exchanged for corresponding points, and the points can be exchanged for skills, spiritual weapons, elixirs, spiritual pets, etc. Everything is available as long as the points are enough.
The inner sect's salary is even more exaggerated. The salary is more than ten times higher, and the inner sect disciples can also be selected to serve as attendants for the masters and young ladies of the main family.
Although he is a follower, he is actually a trusted subordinate.
Every son of a noble family will train his own subordinates to work for them, protect their safety, manage their properties, etc.
They have plenty of resources and are not stingy in using them to train their subordinates. Even if a little bit leaks through their fingers, it is enough to allow ordinary cultivators to advance all the way, and even have the possibility of ascending in the end.
Of course, these children from aristocratic families are very picky. Only those with dual spiritual roots have a chance to be selected, and only those with single spiritual roots can be trained with emphasis.
And none of this has anything to do with Xu Hui, a loser with five spiritual roots. The more he understands the current situation, the more he understands his own situation.
If nothing unexpected happened, she would definitely be rejected and would not be able to enter a big family like the Mu family.
As for the affiliated families of the Mu family, they are not within the scope of this recruitment, nor are they eligible to recruit new members in Quxian City.
In order not to offend anyone, they will only recruit new members within their own territory. Xiancheng is the reserved area of the top ten families.
The ten great families are jointly recruiting new members this time because the once-in-a-century Tianjiao Competition is about to begin.
The so-called geniuses are cultivators who are under a hundred years old and have reached the Jindan stage or above.
They will represent their respective family heads to participate in the competition and select the top ten. On the one hand, this will demonstrate the family's heritage and strength and warn the villains. On the other hand, the rewards for the Tianjiao Competition are also extremely generous, and the top ten families will take out various extraordinary treasures.
Other families and forces also participated, offering rare prizes and recruiting outstanding geniuses for their own families.
There are opportunities everywhere in the world of cultivation. Just because you have a good family background and high talent doesn't mean you can take advantage of all the benefits.
Some people are lucky enough to get the opportunity and grow up to be geniuses with a bright future.
Every time there is a list of geniuses, there are always many dark horses emerging. They are either independent cultivators with good talent, perseverance and luck, or they were supported by someone before, but the sponsor could not keep up with the speed of their promotion, so they had to choose another force to join.
This way of changing allegiance is quite respectable, because when a major force recruits a genius, it will also provide certain resources as compensation and reward the family or individual that supports him.
There is even a tradition of one person leading an entire family. As long as he is grateful and does not forget to support his previous family after joining a new force, wouldn't that be a win-win situation?
Therefore, anyone with the strength of the Golden Core Stage is willing to participate in this Tianjiao Competition. Even if they do not plan to change their allegiance, the rewards are extremely attractive.
There are almost no ordinary items in the collections brought out by the ten major families and several family forces.
The first place winner will take away half of the prize pool, the second and third place winners will get the remaining half, and the seventh to tenth place winners will split the last half equally, with the winners selected first according to their ranking.
Being number one on the Tianjiao list not only gained fame but also received benefits, which was truly dazzling.
In the book, Mu Yuan won the first place in the genius competition, and therefore left a deep impression on the heroine Zhong Xinyue and the supporting actress Zhong Lingyue. Who wouldn't yearn for such a proud, willful and talented genius?
As for why the ten great families suddenly recruited new members before the Tianjiao Competition, it was probably because of the status quo that the heroine deserved.
The heroine is ranked first on the newcomer list, which is a perfect match with Mu Yuan's ranking on the genius list. It will become a good story later on!
But none of this had anything to do with Xu Hui. She didn't know how the heroine, Zhong Xinyue, was doing, or whether her injuries had healed. There was also the reborn female supporting character, Zhong Lingyue, and many others whose cultivation and talent were higher than hers. It was impossible for her to take advantage of them.
Xu Hui sighed. She was unwilling to give up. What a good opportunity!
To make an inappropriate analogy, entering one of the top ten families is equivalent to having a stable job, which is a more cost-effective career than taking the civil service exam.
At least taking the civil service exam won’t make you live longer!
The menial disciples of the ten great families can establish their foundation before their lifespan ends if they work hard. Apart from anything else, the families have no shortage of foundation-building pills. As long as they have enough points, they can exchange them. With foundation-building pills, they will succeed once in three attempts.
After building the foundation, the lifespan will be three hundred years, and it will be a high-quality longevity that maintains a youthful state.
Who, who has just gone through the hellish college entrance examination, would not want such a one-stop retirement life?
It is true that Xu Hui is the king of swindlers, but he is not stupid. If he can swindle on the widest track, why would he choose a single-plank bridge?
But obviously, entering the Mu family is wishful thinking.
This recruitment is divided into three stages. The first stage is to enter the Chaoyun Secret Realm to collect medicinal materials. The victory depends on quantity and quality. The first ten thousand people will pass.
After that, they split up and went to the family where the talent token was located to participate in the second level.
The Mu family values strength. The second stage is a competition. The top 100 will be admitted. It is that simple and straightforward.
The third level is to examine one's conscience. After passing the test of one's character, one will pass if one swears not to betray the head of the family.
Xu Hui is not afraid of picking herbs and planting, but she is really not good at fighting in the ring. She has not entered the Qi training stage and cannot use any means of attack.
It seems that the only hope of getting ashore is the accidentally obtained Wei family token. As a family of alchemy, they will not reject special talents who can collect high-quality herbs, right?
Yes, Xu Hui plans to change the entrance hall. The task requires joining a noble family. There is no requirement to join the Mu family, so it is also fine to change to the Wei family.
Thinking of this, she strode forward, crossing one street after another, and came to the street where the Wei family was stationed.
Most of the shops here are run by the Wei family, mostly selling various elixirs, but there are also some that sell magical instruments and talismans.
Since you can't attack, just defend and run away.
First choose a defensive magic weapon, preferably one that can block attacks below the Foundation Establishment stage, so that her safety is basically guaranteed.
She walked into a store that was neither too big nor too small, with the Wei family logo on it. She looked around and saw the tip she wanted in front of a shelf.
That’s it, you can get a 30% discount by using the Talent Na token!
In the original book, the heroine Zhong Xinyue could only buy the elixirs she needed at the Mu family shop at a 20% to 20% discount.
But since the Zhong family saved Mrs. Wei's life, the Wei family gave the Zhong family a token. Anyone holding the token has priority purchasing rights in all Wei family stores and always gets a 10% discount.
This makes the heroine shine, and those who follow her, with her help, enjoy this unique benefit.
Let’s put it this way, in her previous life, the heroine had everything going smoothly, and the people around her also benefited from it.
In this life, the heroine is being retaliated by the supporting female character. It’s hard for the heroine to say anything, but the people around her suffer the same fate. It’s kind of...cause and effect?
Xu Hui carefully searched the shelf for a product that suited her. Soon, she found a bracelet-shaped defensive magic weapon that could withstand attacks from cultivators below the Foundation Establishment stage. It was extremely sturdy and not easy to damage. Its only drawback was that it consumed too much spiritual energy.
When other cultivators use it, they will inject spiritual power into it until the spiritual power is exhausted and it loses its effect.
Xu Hui's spiritual power, which is not even at the first level of Qi training, is almost useless, so choosing a magic weapon is very important. The Zhiwu bracelet is the most suitable one because it can use spiritual stones instead of spiritual power.
In addition, she also chose a pair of gripping boots, which can increase her speed. After using them, she can run at full speed, which is equivalent to the speed of the late stage of Qi training. She can also use spirit stones instead of spiritual power.
These two items cost her more than seven thousand spirit stones in total. Fortunately, she had enough elixirs for the time being, so she went to buy some suitable talismans, especially those that could temporarily confuse people and facilitate escape.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
