Xie Lingyu was not used to bustling inns, so she had rented a house for her temporary stay in Cangzhou.
The house was somewhat out of the way and not particularly large. Even counting the kitchen, it only had five rooms, though it did come with a small courtyard.
The Black Tortoise Kingdom was unlike Central Province. Without enough cultivators to form a foundation, it could not establish small cities specifically catering to cultivators like those in Central Province.
All it could offer were small markets for cultivators, and even those were often several regions apart.
Besides, everything sold in those little markets was beneath Xie Lingyu's notice.
When cultivators from the Black Tortoise Kingdom's sects came out on business, they mostly stayed temporarily in mortal towns as well.
It was a remote place, after all. Those sent out on business were mostly minor Qi Refining cultivators, with at most a single Foundation Establishment cultivator leading them.
Cultivators like these could not build a simple house with a wave of their hand. Even if they put in the effort, all they could build were crude, unfinished houses.
I'm already cultivating to become an immortal. If I still have to live in misery, worse off than a mortal, haven't I cultivated for nothing?
How nice it was to stay at an inn! Good food, good sleep.
Besides, having taken up cultivation, they ought to show off a little. Even the small fry and nobodies within their sects were addressed as "immortal master" by every mortal outside.
This was genuine nourishment for the soul, giving these bottom-rung cultivators the exhilarating feeling that-all this damn cultivation really had not been for nothing.
The house Xie Lingyu had rented was not small for two people. After all, she had not expected anyone else to