Thus, throughout the vast Jade Bamboo Mountain Range, Qi Condensation Stage disciples could often be seen running about like mad, all to earn a little from regional price differences. And if they were truly hungry, eating the plants of the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range would genuinely make them burst apart and die...
So do not imagine that, in a blessed immortal land like this, one could casually eat grass and dirt to survive. You would not eat until you were full—you would only see your great-grandmother waving at you.
Quite a few weak disciples learned human relations from a young age, working as attendants in teahouses and Immortal Pavilions. They earned a few Low-Grade Immortal Spirit Stones a day, laughed cheerfully all day long, and became slicker than the next.
Some even ran off to the Human Realm to perform street acts...
This was the true state of the Five Elements Sect's weaker disciples. It also surpassed the imagination of outside cultivators—their fellow Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters truly did not treat them like junior living beings at all...!
Moreover, the Five Elements Sect's outer 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 level within that realm met the standard could you be considered one.
The assessments began the moment they entered as Qi Condensation Stage disciples. Every day, they not only had to struggle along the line between food and starvation, but also endure exceptionally terrifying cultivation pressure.
Whether they were descendants of the Liu Family, the Shi Family, or powerful figures of the Five Elements Sect, they had it even worse. It was said they were thrown out while still wearing split-crotch pants, only to belatedly go through "recognizing