The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Chapter 254: Lu Xinyu Wants to Become a Free Cultivator

When they got to the street, the girl in pink and white asked the girl in blue beside her in confusion, "Cousin, we all have spirit stones on us, why did you say that?"

The blue-shirted girl scoffed, "That shop owner is clearly treating us like fat sheep. Why bother arguing with him? Besides, he's not the only one selling monster cubs in the city. We should go to a few more shops when we have time. Maybe we can see more interesting monster cubs somewhere else."

The girl in pink and white pointed at the croton and said, "Why don't we go buy a mynah bird? Mynah birds can talk, so they're more fun."

Croton flapped its wings and suddenly said, "Fun, fun..."

This immediately made the two girls giggle.

The girl in pink and white clothes said to Xiao Han, "Senior, how many spirit stones do you spend on it every year?"

Xiao Han: "Not much, maybe more than 20,000 spirit stones."

"Ah! So much?" the girl in pink and white exclaimed. Her own annual expenses were only a few thousand spirit stones.

The blue-shirted girl smiled and said, "Senior's cultivation is high, and the cultivation level of the spirit pet he raises is also high. We definitely can't compare to him."

The two girls were completely helpless because Xiao Han's cultivation was higher than theirs, so they acted restrained and chatted with Xiao Han all the way.

Then, Xiao Han knew.

The girl in light blue clothes is called Lu Xinyu, and the girl in pink and white clothes is called Zhen Miaomiao. Both of them are from a large family of immortal cultivators.

Lu Xinyu's family was the Lu family that controlled Canghai City, and the Zhen family was also a family of immortal cultivators affiliated with the Huading Sect. Zhen Miaomiao's mother was married to a woman from the Lu family, so Lu Xinyu and her were cousins.

The cultivation resources for these children from aristocratic families are all provided by their families. They have never experienced the hard work of earning the resources for cultivation on their own. Therefore, they have the leisure time to buy a spiritual pet to raise for fun.

In fact, it is rare for a single monk to train his own spiritual pet as a combat partner.

It was simple. Most demon beasts cultivated passively, their abilities slowly accumulating over time. If a cultivator wanted to cultivate a spirit pet as a combat partner, they would have to devote a significant amount of resources to help it improve its abilities.

Instead of giving these resources to your pet, you might as well use them on yourself to enhance your own strength.

Raising a spirit pet for fun is naturally different. You just spend some money to feed it and entertain it in your spare time.

If Xiao Han was still a Qi-cultivating cultivator, she certainly wouldn't have the leisure to raise croton seeds, let alone spend tens of thousands of spirit stones a year to buy meat for it.

In the final analysis, it was just that she had become more capable of making money and could afford the expenses of Croton, so she kept it for fun.

Let’s get back to Lu Xinyu.

The reason why Lu Xinyu took the initiative to ask to take Xiao Han to see her great uncle, Master Lu, was that she wanted to make friends with Xiao Han.

Almost as soon as she saw Xiao Han, she knew that the female cultivator in front of her must be a casual cultivator.

Not only had Xiao Han never even heard of her great-uncle, the Great Alchemist Lu, but more importantly, her temperament and behavior were very different from those of the women from immortal cultivation families.

Lu Xinyu wanted to get to know a wandering cultivator because she wanted to prepare for leaving home and becoming a wandering cultivator. Through Xiao Han, she wanted to learn about the possibility of building a foundation after becoming a wandering cultivator.

When children of a large immortal cultivation family enjoy the family's resources and protection, they naturally have to fulfill their obligations to the family's prosperity and inheritance.

The men in the family bear the responsibility of reproducing offspring, while the women are the marriage partners to gain more benefits for the family.

Lu Xinyu has heard her mother complain a lot since she was a child.

She complained that because of her and her brother, she had wasted her time for cultivation, and that consecutive pregnancies and childbirths had damaged her foundation, so she was unable to successfully establish her foundation.

Her father not only failed to take good care of her mother, but also took a concubine.

If she cannot build a foundation, my mother will only have a lifespan of a little over a hundred years, and can only rely on constantly taking beauty pills to forcibly prevent the aging of her face.

Without her father's favor, she had to compete with a concubine in wits and courage to gain more cultivation resources for her children.

Lu Xinyu doesn't want to live like this.

But in a large family of immortal cultivators, a woman will not be arranged to marry unless she has very good qualifications and hopes of forming a pill in the future.

Lu Xinyu's qualifications can only be considered average, neither good nor bad, so she has no right to choose not to get married.

Although she did not have a lot of resources for cultivation in the Lu family, she had a small courtyard with pretty good spiritual energy. She could receive a fixed amount of spirit stones every month, someone to teach her magic, high-quality magic weapons given by the family, talismans for self-defense, and elixirs for emergency healing.

She is not an eldest lady who does not understand the sufferings of the world. She knows that her life is what many casual cultivators dream of.

But she still wanted to abandon it all.

Just to exchange for freedom! Just to avoid becoming a tool for bearing children!

As she grew older, and as the sisters of her generation in the family gradually began to discuss marriage, she knew that it would be her turn in a few years.

These days, Lu Xinyu has been constantly weighing the pros and cons, going out frequently, and making friends with some female cultivators.

However, all she heard were flattery and envy of her, complaints about the life of a casual cultivator and hopelessness in building a foundation.

After that, she also wavered.

I thought I should just stop struggling. At worst, I could just have fewer or no children after getting married, so I could build my foundation as quickly as possible.

But her cousin's wife's experience immediately shattered her fantasy.

Her cousin's wife, who was two years younger than her, gave birth to a son just two years after marrying into the Lu family.

After finally recovering the essence and blood lost during pregnancy and childbirth, and planning to cultivate to perfection in Qi training before building the foundation, she unexpectedly became pregnant for the second time.

Originally, my cousin's wife had taken a pill to lock up her menstrual fluid after giving birth, so she couldn't get pregnant. Unexpectedly, my cousin secretly tricked my cousin's wife into taking a pill that could restore a woman's pregnancy function, causing her to get pregnant again.

The furious cousin's wife wanted to abort the child, but was threatened by her cousin that if she dared to abort the child, she would never get the foundation-building pill. He would also take a concubine, so that the son she gave birth to would not have more resources for cultivation in the future.

The reason why my cousin wanted to have more children was because he himself had poor aptitude. He had failed in building his foundation twice and felt ashamed in the family.

So he placed his hopes of success on his children.

He wanted to have more children, in case one of them had good spiritual roots and became the focus of training in the family in the future.

His son has a bright future and will be able to build a foundation and form a pill in the future. As a father, who would dare to ridicule or discriminate against him?

It was precisely because of her cousin's actions and her cousin's wife's personal experience that Lu Xinyu's fantasy was shattered.

Rather than end up like my cousin's wife, or follow my mother's old path, I would rather live my life with nothing but regret and complaints.

She wants to give it a try!