Yunling Town.

Marriage Pavilion.

"Qin Daoyou, why did you leave Zhenyang City? It was a big city under the mountain gate of Zhenyang Sect, and its cultivation resources were far from comparable to that of our town. ”

Qin Gengyun sat upright, slightly apprehensive, and replied to the blind date who was sitting across the table:

"Li Daoyou doesn't know, although Zhenyang City is a big city, there are more resources and opportunities, but it also means that the rent and daily expenses are more expensive, it is better to return to Yunling Town, away from the hustle and bustle, so that you can practice with peace of mind."

"Why should Qin Daoyou cover it up, isn't it just that he can't get along in the big city, so he can only go back to the town?"

The female monk smiled, ignoring Qin Geng's embarrassment, and then asked:

"I heard that you work in the alchemy workshop in the town, how many spirit stones can you earn?"

Qin Gengyun hurriedly replied, "There can be three spirit stones in a month. ”

The friar's eyes flashed, and her smile was like a flower:

"Qin Daoyou's appearance and character are acceptable, I am barely satisfied, let's talk about the bride price."

"Bride price?" Qin Geng was stunned, does the world of cultivating immortals also require a bride price to marry a wife?

The female monk on the opposite side stretched out three white fingers: "Three hundred spirit stones, a spirit vein immortal mansion, only my name can be written on the deed." ”

"What?!" Qin Geng's eyes widened for a moment.

He can only earn three spirit stones a month, and in order to expel erysipelas from his body over the years, his savings for many years have also been exhausted, where can he make up three hundred spirit stones?

As for the Spirit Vein Immortal Mansion, the cheapest one is also a thousand spirit stones, which is not at all something that he can dream of as a low-level cultivator.

How can this bride price in the world of cultivating immortals be even more outrageous than the world before crossing over!

Qin Gengyun couldn't help but ask the female monk, "Li Daoyou, dare to ask you what is your monthly income?" ”

The friar replied, "I work as a maid in the Rouge Pavilion, and I can have two spirit stones a month. ”

Qin Gengyun was surprised: "Li Daoyou, you only have two spirit stones in a month, why do you want such a high dowry?" ”

The female monk glanced at him disdainfully: "With my appearance, I don't look down on a male cultivator who earns ten spirit stones a month, but I just see that you are honest and can be trusted, but I didn't expect you to not even be able to take out this little dowry, you can go." ”

Qin Gengyun stopped talking, got up and walked out of the room, and waited for the matchmaker Wang who was outside to come forward and ask:

"Qin Daoyou, how are you talking?"

Qin Gengyun shook his head helplessly: "She doesn't look down on me." ”

"Don't worry, Daoist friends, go this way, there is something suitable for you."

With a smile on her face, Mrs. Wang walked to another room with Qin Gengqian on her face.

The Marriage Pavilion is the largest monk matchmaker in Yunling Town, which is dedicated to monks who have stagnated their cultivation and want to find another way to build a foundation by relying on the method of double cultivation.

Monks need a lot of resources to support each step, but the cultivation resources are almost all in the hands of the big sects, and they are only used by inner disciples with talents and backgrounds.

If ordinary casual cultivation only relies on hard cultivation, let alone immortality, it is difficult to build a foundation like ascending to the sky.

As a result, double cultivation has become a last-ditch opportunity for many ordinary casual cultivators.

If double cultivation can be achieved, it is a carp jumping over the dragon gate.

If you can't achieve double cultivation, you will break off your Dao heart and become a mortal couple, firewood, rice, oil and salt, and live a lifetime.

For ordinary casual cultivators, double cultivation is a shortcut to seeking immortality.

But for Qin Geng, double cultivation was his only hope for survival.

Qin Gengqian crossed over two years ago, this body of the same name is the same as in his previous life, with ordinary talent and ordinary background, and he is just an ordinary casual cultivator in this world of cultivating immortals.

When Qin Gengqian crossed over, this body was already thirty-three years old, and he had been cultivating for almost twenty years, and his cultivation was only at the second level of Qi cultivation.

What's even more tragic is that in order to survive, the original body has been making erysipelas for alchemists all these years, and his body has been completely damaged.

The so-called erysipelas is the toxic residue left after alchemy, and the duty of the erysipelas is to clean up these toxic residues.

But long-term exposure to erysipelas has polluted the spiritual field in his body, and he has lost both qi and blood, and his cultivation has not been able to advance an inch.

Even, if he could not completely remove erysipelas from his body, he would not live to be forty years old.

Qin Cultivation, who took over this body, could only reluctantly inherit this tragic fate.

He searched around and finally learned that if he wanted to remove erysipelas from his body, he needed to take the "Bingxin Rejuvenation Pill".

But that's a four-grade elixir, which is worth a hundred times more than the life of an ordinary casual cultivator!

Moreover, this grade of elixir is only in the hands of the big sects, and no sect will spend such a precious pill in order to save a loose cultivator.

Coincidentally, Qin Gengqian worked in a chemical factory before crossing over, and because of long-term exposure to toxic chemical waste, his health was not good at the age of forty.

The chemical workers and the erysipelas are similarly miserable.

In order to fight for a glimmer of life, Qin Gengqian came to Zhenyang City under the gate of Zhenyang Zongshan, there are more opportunities in the big city, and it is easier to earn spirit stones, if you are lucky one day, you may have the opportunity to buy life-saving pills.

It's just that there are too many monks in Zhenyang City, and the competition is fierce, not to mention earning spirit stones, even if you survive, you have to exhaust all your strength.

If this continues, even if erysipelas does not attack, Qin Gengqian feels that he will not live to be forty years old.

He could only leave Zhenyang City and move to Yunling Town, where the pressure of survival was not so great.

However, the spirit stones earned in Yunling Town were simply not enough for Qin Cultivation to purchase the "Ice Heart Rejuvenation Pill" before the age of forty.

If you want to survive, there is only one way - to refine the Ice Heart Rejuvenation Pill by yourself.

Qin has been in the alchemy room for many years and has some understanding of alchemy, but the alchemist also needs cultivation support, he only has the cultivation of the second layer of qi cultivation, and he can't even refine the ordinary first-grade pill.

Therefore, to become an alchemist, you must first improve your cultivation.

But his spiritual field has been polluted by erysipelas, and his normal path of cultivation has been blocked.

All the ways of life were blocked, and only the last path remained: double cultivation.

"Qin Daoyou, this is Zhang Daoyou, you two have a good chat."

Walking into another room, Mrs. Wang said a few words and went out, Qin Gengyun sat down, and opposite was a young female cultivator with a charming temperament and a gentle smile:

"Qin Daoyou, your situation has already been told to me, if you have anything you want to know, you can ask me."

Qin Gengyun talked with this Zhang Daoyou for a while, and both parties felt that it was quite appropriate, and soon talked about getting married, and the female monk said:

"Qin Daoyou, since you and I are so compatible, I am also willing to marry you, you only need to give some meager dowry."

Is it a bride price again?

Qin Gengyun hurriedly asked, "Zhang Daoyou, how much dowry do you want?" ”

The female monk smiled and said: "Qin Daoyou, I am from Qishan Town outside the Feiyun Sect, according to the customs of my hometown, when a female cultivator marries, her husband's family needs to give five hundred spirit stones, plus a spirit vein immortal mansion, but I know that it is not easy for you, the spirit vein immortal mansion is not needed, just a two-story small building with a courtyard." ”

Qin Gengyun was dumbfounded: "Zhang Daoyou, this bride price is too ethereal, can it be realistic?" ”

The gentle smile on Zhang Daoyou's face disappeared: "Qin Daoyou, if I marry you, I will serve you, and I will give you children in the future, the benefit is you, and the loss is mine, if you can't build a foundation in the future, you and I will be reconciled, I will have to have some protection, right?" ”

Qin Gengyun smiled bitterly: "Zhang Daoyou, you and I haven't gotten married yet, so you're thinking about getting married?" Besides, we got married more to study the method of double cultivation, not to ask you to serve me, so why did you suffer? ”

"Yes, if we can indeed double cultivate in the future, then I will help you cultivate, and this little bride price is nothing!"

The friars were more justified.

"Zhang Daoyou, double cultivation is already beneficial to both parties, why are you the only one who helps me practice?"

Qin Gengqian argued.

"Huh." The friar stroked her forehead with a touch of her hair, and her face turned pale:

"Since it is a double cultivation, if I get the Great Dao in the future and rank in the immortal class, you will marry a fairy with five hundred spirit stones, won't you make a lot of money?"

"......" Qin Gengqian had no way to refute it, so he had to get up and give up:

"Zhang Daoyou, let me go home and think about it."

Out of the room, Mrs. Wang immediately greeted her: "How?" ”

Qin Gengqian smiled bitterly: "Although these two Taoist friends are like flowers and jade, their hearts are higher than the sky, and the bride price is higher, I am afraid that I will not be able to climb high." ”

"Qin Daoyou, don't worry, a thousand miles of marriage is a thread, a good relationship is in the marriage pavilion, I will take you to see other female cultivators."

Next, Mrs. Wang took Qin Gengqian to see several female cultivators, some of them looked down on Qin Gengqian, and some of them did, but without exception they all asked for a lot of dowry.

Qin Gengqian couldn't take it out at all.

In the end, Mrs. Wang was also a little helpless, and said to Qin Geng:

"Qin Daoyou, it is natural for women to ask for a bride price, they just want an attitude from their future husband, if you can't afford the bride price, how can people see your sincerity?"

Qin Gengqian was speechless.

He suddenly remembered his previous life, when his parents urged him to get married, and he often went on blind dates.

I have been with a few girls for a while, and when it comes to the stage of talking about marriage, the other party will always propose a sky-high bride price.

The rhetoric is no different from the two nuns just now:

I just want a guarantee, I want you an attitude.

I have a monthly salary of 3,000, but a man with a monthly salary of 10,000 is not worthy of me at all.

I can't get this bride price, how can I see your sincerity?

However, if I can easily come up with a sky-high bride price, why bother to go on a blind date?

Qin Gengqian silently walked out of the marriage pavilion, and it was already rainy outside, and there were few pedestrians on the lively streets on weekdays.

He held up his umbrella and walked in the icy winter rain, shivering.

He was on the second level of Qi training, and he could still feel the cold to the bone.

It's just that his heart is colder.

When he first crossed over to this world of cultivating immortals, Qin Gengqiang was also full of pride, wanting to change his life against the sky and reach the peak.

However, just like before he crossed over, he was full of enthusiasm when he was on campus, and less than a year after entering the society, his former dreams were shattered by reality.

The only meaning of life is to survive.

Crossing into the world of cultivating immortals, the reality is even more cruel.

Cultivating desperately and climbing hard, in the end, a little bride price blocked his last way of life.

In this world, there are many casual cultivators who are just as difficult as him to survive, and at the age of thirty or forty, they are still in the early stage of qi refining, and they are lucky to be able to earn three or four spirit stones a month.

The foundation is simply out of reach, and immortality is even more ethereal.

Qin Gengyun had seen a disciple of the inner sect of the Zhenyang Sect from a distance in Zhenyang City, who had built a foundation and overhauled the foundation, and was said to be not very talented, but his father was an elder of the main peak of the inner gate.

It can only be said that some people have been working hard to build a foundation all their lives, and some people have already built a foundation when they are born.

And an ordinary person like him, whether in his previous life or in the world of cultivating immortals, was the same difficulty.

It is difficult to cultivate immortals, it is difficult to marry a wife, and it is difficult to survive!

Difficult! Difficult! Difficult!!