In her match against the merman, Xu Chunniang had wagered a full fifty thousand Immortal Crystals and won back twenty-five thousand.
After repaying the portion of Immortal Crystals she had borrowed from Elder Gong, she still had a full fifty thousand Immortal Crystals in hand!
Fifty thousand Immortal Crystals seemed like an enormously vast cultivation resource, but once one truly began cultivating, it was not much at all.
Someone had once calculated that for a Human Immortal to break through from the initial stage to the mid-stage, at least one hundred thousand Immortal Crystals would be consumed.
And breaking through from the Human Immortal mid-stage to the late stage required even more Immortal Crystals.
After becoming a Human Immortal, every minor breakthrough required mountains of resources to pile up. This was why more and more immortals, seeing no hope of advancement, chose to give up.
Immortals had nine realms in all. Even the lowest Human Immortal Realm required so many Immortal Crystals to advance through. One could imagine that the realms ahead would only become increasingly difficult.
Rather than spend an entire lifetime scrambling about, cultivating bitterly for a goal that was too distant and nearly impossible to reach, it was better to let go early and seize the day.
After all, Human Immortals were still immortals. Like Earth Immortals and Heavenly Immortals, they enjoyed a lifespan spanning an entire great calamity—one hundred and twenty thousand years.
Even if they perished and their Dao vanished after one hundred and twenty thousand years, they could enter reincarnation again in the body of an immortal. If protected by the golden light of merit, they were even destined to possess excellent bones and talent in their next life, easily stepping onto the path of cultivation once more.
Since that was the case, why