Cultivators face many restrictions upon entering the human realm, and their strength is suppressed. Unless absolutely necessary, people generally avoid going to places with sparse spiritual energy.
Duanmu Qiao had never been to the human realm, and he could hardly imagine how much suffering Xu Jiaojiao must have endured there.
He only heard from Elder Fu Xianzong, who had previously experienced training in the human realm, that the place was extremely patriarchal, with many female infants being abandoned at birth. Even if some girls were raised by families, they were required to abide by the three obediences and four virtues, and some were even confined to large houses for their entire lives, having to endure their husbands having multiple wives and concubines...
The elder was a female cultivator who had witnessed too many tragedies involving women in the mortal realm, which even affected her Dao heart. She eventually returned to the Fuxian Sect and never went to the mortal realm again.
Duanmuqiao still remembers how Xiaoxu Jiaojiao cried after the elder spoke of the harsh treatment of girls in the human world.
She said she didn't like the human world, and she would never go there...
Duanmuqiao had been saying these things for almost the entire journey.
It sounds like the human world is some kind of hell on earth.
Qin Ling said helplessly, "Aren't you overthinking it? The mortal realm is just a bunch of ordinary mortals. No matter what, your junior sister has a life-saving magic weapon. Besides, Junior Sister Tian came from the mortal realm, as did Senior Sister Shi, Senior Brother Fu, and Senior Brother Jiang from Sword Guardian Mountain. I heard that their master brought them up from the mortal realm."
As a native of the cultivation world, Duanmu Qiao naturally knew nothing about the human world; he had only learned about it from the elders' words when he was young.
He grabbed a group of people from Hujian Mountain, trying to find psychological comfort.
Shi Qinxin and the others were brought to the Sword Guardian Mountain when they were young. In their memories, life in the human world was not good. They often did not have enough to eat or wear.
Shi Qin thought for a moment and said, "Your junior sister has long since abstained from grains, so she should be fine in the human realm."
That seemed to make sense, and Duanmu Qiao breathed a sigh of relief.
But he was also worried that those demonic cultivators would chase after Xu Jiaojiao and her group all the way to the human realm.
For over a decade in the human realm, Tianning spent her time on the mountain undergoing the old man's grueling training. She had little contact with people, and the old man mostly ran errands for her. She only needed to ask for what she wanted, which was much more convenient than taking a ride-hailing service like Meituan or a food delivery app.
However, the old man had specifically drawn up a map to show the distribution of the Tianning human realm.
Before they set off, the Fuxian Sect spent a lot of spirit stones to have the Tianji Pavilion perform a divination. Xu Jiaojiao's location was indeed in the human realm, but the person from the Tianji Pavilion could only give a rough location.
Tianning is studying this location, which is near the border between the human realm and the cultivation world.
She reassured Duanmu Qiao that they were in the capital, a very prosperous city. Even demonic cultivators wouldn't be so arrogant as to cause trouble in the capital. After all, in the words of the cultivation world, the emperor of the human realm, though he had no cultivation, still possessed the protection of a true dragon.
The capital city was the territory under the emperor's feet.
In addition, the sect leaders repeatedly instructed that the main focus in the human realm should be on finding people, and that one should never easily get involved in the karma of mortals.
The group of them rode on the backs of the Taotie and sped along, creating a beautiful scene on the road.
Near the border between the human realm and the cultivation realm, they were stopped by the guarding cultivators, who forbade them from flying any further.
Then Taotie returned to human form.
From the moment they stepped across the line of the cultivation world, everyone could clearly feel their cultivation being forcibly suppressed, as if an invisible stone was pressing down on them, bending their backs. They wanted to straighten up, but they couldn't move that heavy stone.
Tianning, on the other hand, seemed to be doing alright.
She always felt that if she wanted to cause trouble in the human world and unleash her full cultivation, the world... seemed to indulge her?
Tian Dao, standing beside her, tugged at Tian Ning's sleeve, his face serious, signaling her to take it easy.
Unlike these humans, Taotie and Qiongqi seemed to sense something.
Taotie raised an eyebrow, saying with amusement, "Looks like you're in trouble."
Tianning: "..."
Surely they can't just create a flower for her in the human realm, can they?
But for Taotie to say such things, Tianning had a bad feeling. If the four ferocious beasts could feel pleasure, what was wrong with the capital?
After a moment of silence, Tianning decisively picked up the storybook.
Taotie was speechless. "Can't you be serious for once!"
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