Thus, in the vast Jade Bamboo Mountains, Qi Refining Realm disciples could often be seen running about frantically just to profit from regional price differences. And if they were truly hungry, eating the grass and trees of the Jade Bamboo Mountains would genuinely make them burst apart and die...
So do not even think about casually eating grass and dirt to survive in a land blessed by immortals. You would not eat yourself full—you would only see your great-grandmother waving at you.
Quite a few weak disciples had learned the ways of the world from childhood, working as attendants in teahouses and Immortal Pavilions. They earned a few low-grade Immortal Spirit Stones a day, smiling and laughing all day long, each one slicker than the last.
Some even ran off to the Human Realm to perform tricks for a living...
And that was the true state of the weak disciples of the Five Aggregates Sect. It was likewise beyond what cultivators outside could imagine. Their fellow senior brothers and sisters truly did not treat them like younger living beings at all...!
Moreover, the outer sect of the Five Aggregates Sect had a strict cultivation assessment system. It was not that reaching a certain realm meant you counted as a cultivator of that realm; only when your mastery of that realm met the standard could you truly be considered one.
The assessments began from the moment they entered as Qi Refining Realm disciples. Every day, they not only struggled along the line between hunger and fullness, but also endured extraordinarily terrifying cultivation pressure.
The descendants of the Liu Family, the Shi Family, or even powerhouses of the Five Aggregates Sect had it even worse. It was said that they were thrown out while still wearing split-crotch pants, only realizing years later