Entering the City

Seeing the female cultivator before him hesitate, the city guard sneered.

"Pay up, now. There are people waiting behind you, so don't hold things up! If you can't afford the spirit crystals, then don't enter the city."

Xu Chunniang expressionlessly took out ten spirit crystals and handed them over without a word.

This man had probably realized that she had just ascended from the lower realm, with no one to rely on, and was plainly trying to charge her extra spirit crystals.

Right now, the important thing was to enter the city and convert all the spiritual energy in her body. Ten it was, then.

After accepting the spirit crystals, the gate guard gave a soft snort before finally letting her through.

He had seen plenty of cultivators who had flown up from the lower realms. Every last one of them thought themselves heaven's favored sons, proud and arrogant.

In truth, they were merely lucky. Once they reached the battlefield, fewer than one in five would survive.

Rather than die on the battlefield with their remaining spirit crystals, they might as well give them to him.

Xu Chunniang stepped into the city, paying no heed to the little incident just now as she discreetly observed the cultivators coming and going.

She noticed that none of these cultivators wore storage artifacts. No wonder that guard had recognized at a glance that she had come from the lower realm.

It seemed that the Spirit Realm had more sophisticated storage methods.

Xu Chunniang put away the Storage Ring on her hand and entered an inn.

An attendant came forward to greet her. "Senior, are you dining or staying the night?"

Xu Chunniang inwardly marveled. This truly was the Spirit Realm.

Even the errand-running attendant in some random establishment was actually in the Nascent