Not far from the city gate, under the city walls, there are rows of simple and low-rise houses, which are in stark contrast to the grand mansion compounds in the center of the city.

There is a huge spirit gathering array arranged in the center of the city, and the closer it is to the center of the city, the stronger the aura of heaven and earth becomes, so most of those big families gather around the spirit gathering array in the center of the city. On the edge of the city, the influence of the Spirit Gathering Array is already minimal, only a little stronger than the aura outside the city, and most of the scattered cultivators live here.

Li Hui walked to a simple bluestone house, took out a jade talisman and pressed it on the door, and the stone door opened automatically. Li Hui walked into the house with a large bag of things in his hand.

Entering the room was a reception room with only Zhang Xu Fangyuan, which was simply furnished, with only a wooden table and a few wooden stools. Li Hui put all the things in his hand on the table, sat down slowly, reached out and picked up the teapot and poured a glass of water, looking at the home with only four walls, his eyebrows couldn't help but tremble.

"Dad, mother!" Li Hui muttered softly, caught up in the reminiscences of the past.

Bixiao Gate is a sect of cultivation hidden in the vast Bixiao Mountains. It belongs to the first-class cultivation of immortals. It has been inherited for thousands of years, and in this thousand years, it has also risen and fallen several times, and there are thousands of disciples now, although it is only a drop in the ocean in the cultivation realm, it can be regarded as prosperous.

If Edgeworth flies in mid-air and looks down, he will find that the Bixiao Gate is surrounded by towering peaks, like a natural barrier surrounding the Bixiao Gate.

Starting from Bixiao Gate, walk two hundred miles east to reach the foot of Bixiao Mountain Range. The west, south and north directions are all vast mountains, which makes people feel that there is no end to it. Bixiao Gate is very convenient, as long as you guard the eastern portal, you don't have to worry about foreign invasions. And the various medicinal materials and ores in Bixiao Mountain are more like an inexhaustible treasure house.

Cultivating truth is against the sky, every step is extremely difficult, some immortal cultivators in the Bixiao Gate feel that the avenue is hopeless, they will leave the sect, live near the Bixiao Gate, marry a wife and have children, and gradually form some immortal cultivation families.

Some scattered cultivators who do not have a sect tend to gather near these sects of cultivating immortals, where everyone communicates with each other, and slowly forms a fang market, as time goes by, more and more immortal cultivation families and scattered cultivators gather here, and these fang markets have slowly developed into a city where immortal cultivators gather.

Li Hui's father originally belonged to the Li family, a declining small immortal family in Lingxiao City. It is said that the Li family was at its peak three hundred years ago, and at that time, there was an ancestor of the Jindan period in the family in Bixiao Gate, and the Li family also had a lot of status in this Lingxiao City.

Later, this ancestor Shouyuan was exhausted, and after returning to reincarnation, the Li family never had any descendants with particularly good qualifications.

Being able to have a spiritual root is one in ten thousand among mortals, and those heavenly spiritual roots and true spiritual roots are even rarer. This Li family, since the ancestor of the Jindan period sat down, there were no more monks with Heavenly Spirit Root or True Spirit Root. Slowly, the status of the Li family gradually declined.

The city's estates were swallowed up by other families, and the size of the families continued to grow. By the time of Li Hui's father's generation, the Li family had already sold the property they lived in the center of the city and moved to a place where they lived under the city wall.

At the beginning, the head of the Li family at that time also asked the monks in the clan to go into the mountains to collect medicine, or hunt some demon beasts, and then hand over part of them to the clan, and use these clan properties to cultivate some descendants with slightly better qualifications.

Later, no one paid any attention to this, and each man stopped giving his own possessions to his clan, but used them all to improve himself. In the end, the then head of the Li family disbanded the family. Since then, there is no longer a family surnamed Li in Lingxiao City, and the original real estate in the clan has also been distributed separately. Li Hui's father was assigned this small house.

Later, Li Hui's father became acquainted with a casual cultivator, and the two became Taoist couples, and this woman was Li Hui's mother.

After a few years, Li Hui was born, fortunately Li Hui also has a spiritual root, so that he can embark on the immortal path and stay in Lingxiao City, and unfortunately, Li Hui has the worst five spiritual roots among cultivators, which is commonly known as the waste spiritual root.

Generally, the spiritual root is divided into the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and there are some mutated spiritual roots that are mixed with two or several kinds of spiritual roots, such as wind spiritual roots, thunder spiritual roots, etc.

Those who have a single attribute of the spiritual root are called the Heavenly Spirit Root in the cultivation world, and the Heavenly Spirit Root means the genius spiritual root of the cultivation of the truth, and the immortal cultivators who have the Heavenly Spirit Root have the fastest speed of absorbing and transforming the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and there is no bottleneck when building the foundation and condensing the golden pill.

Mutated Spirit Root monks can often cultivate some special supernatural powers, and their cultivation speed is comparable to that of Heavenly Spirit Root monks, but they can't be exempted from bottlenecks when forming a golden pill.

And the next point is the monk of the double spirit root, which is called the true spirit root among immortal cultivators, and it is also a very rare cultivation talent, and the cultivation speed is also very fast, but it cannot be exempted from the bottleneck when building the foundation and forming the pill.

The rest is the three spirit roots, this is also an ordinary qualification, not good, not very bad, as long as you work hard, it is possible to build a successful foundation, as for the condensation of the golden pill, there are very few.

The four spirit roots are called pseudo spirit roots, and it is difficult to even build a foundation, while the five spirit roots are called waste spirit roots, which are basically unable to break through the bottleneck of foundation building, and can barely be regarded as qualified to cultivate immortals.

Despite this, both husband and wife were very happy and thanked God for their favor. When Li Hui was young, only Li Hui's father went into the mountains alone to collect medicine, while Li Hui's mother took care of the baby at home. When Li Hui was five years old, his father and mother left Li Hui at home alone and went into the mountains to collect medicine.

In Li Hui's childhood memories, he always sat alone at home, waiting for his parents to return.

Although the quality of the spiritual root is not good, Li Hui has been smart and clever since he was a child, he was able to read and write at the age of six, and when he was seven years old, he began to practice the Li family's immortal cultivation method "Splitting the Earth" under the guidance of his father. Since then, in the absence of his parents, Li Hui has been meditating and practicing at home alone.

However, after all, it could not make up for the innate deficiency of poor spiritual root quality, and Li Hui's cultivation progressed very slowly. Every time Li Hui's parents returned from collecting medicine, they saw their son meditating at home alone, and there was always an indescribable sourness in their hearts.

"If Hui'er was born in a big family and had enough pills to assist, he would definitely be able to cultivate to the foundation building period!" this is a sentence that Li Hui's father often said to his mother. The mother was silent, looking at her son who had been cultivating hard with pity.

Since then, the husband and wife have more time to go into the mountains to collect medicine, and often venture into the depths of Bixiao Mountain, where there are demon beasts, and there are very few monks who dare to go there to collect medicine, and they often have good harvests.

However, the unfortunate thing finally happened, when Li Hui was ten years old, his father and mother encountered a demon beast in the process of entering the deep mountains to collect medicine, and his father died under the claws of the demon beast on the spot in order to protect his mother, and his mother was also seriously injured.

Li Hui, who was not yet an adult, lived alone in this Lingxiao City. After burying his mother, the next day, Li Hui picked up the medicine hoe and medicine basket left by his parents and went into the mountains to collect medicine.

A child who should still be singing nursery rhymes in the mortal world and living happily under the protection of his parents has shouldered the burden of life prematurely, and it is in this cruel and cold immortal cultivation world where strength is respected!

Over the years, Li Hui didn't know how much cold eyes he had endured and how much bullying he had experienced, but this stubborn teenager gritted his teeth and persevered. But he also developed a silent and cold character, and only when he was alone, or when he returned home, could he relax and reveal the nature of a teenager.

Every day when he returned from collecting medicine, in addition to buying some necessary daily necessities in the mortal street, Li Hui accumulated all the spirit stones obtained from collecting medicine, and when he was enough, he went to the Fang Market to buy some pills from the Qi refining period and came back.

It's just that the quality of Li Hui's spiritual root is too poor, and he can only occasionally take some of the lowest-grade pill "Qi Gathering Pill" to assist in cultivation, so his cultivation has been progressing very slowly.

Li Hui started cultivating at the age of seven, and by the time he was thirteen years old this year, six years later, he was still at the third layer of the Qi Refining Period! Only when you reach the foundation building period can you truly step into the ranks of immortal cultivators!

The ninth layer of the Qi Refining Period, the first three layers are just the beginning, if it is a Heavenly Spirit Root Cultivator, with the assistance of enough pills, I am afraid that it will only take half a year to cultivate to the third layer of the Qi Refining Period.

From this, it can also be seen how useless Li Hui's cultivation qualifications are!

And the third to fourth layers of the Qi refining period can be regarded as a small realm leap, the Heavenly Spirit Root Cultivator is completely barrier-free before condensing the Golden Pill, and the True Spirit Root Monk will not have any bottlenecks in the foundation building period, while a Five Spirit Root Cultivator like Li Hui will encounter the first cultivation bottleneck.

Li Hui had been stagnant in the third layer of Qi refining for a year, and this year, Li Hui had made many attempts to break through, all of which ended in failure.

And Bixiaomen only opens every ten years to recruit disciples. The standards for accepting disciples are also extremely strict.

Monks with Heavenly Spirit Roots and Mutated Spirit Roots can directly join Bixiao Sect and become inner disciples and worship under the disciples of some Jindan Ancestors. These disciples are the true core of Bixiao Sect and have a very high status in Bixiao Sect.

Monks with dual spiritual roots can also directly join the Bixiao Gate and become inner disciples, these people are often accepted by some monks in the foundation building period, the foundation building period monks are the backbone of the Bixiao Gate, and some things in the sect are in charge of the foundation building period monks. Therefore, the disciples who can worship the monks in the foundation building period also enjoy a high status in the sect.

And the monks of the three spirit roots, the four spirit roots, and the five spirit roots can only join the Bixiao Sect and become an outer disciple only when they reach the seventh layer of the Qi refining period. The outer disciples are assigned to each hall and are led by the head of each hall.

After becoming an outer disciple, you can go to the outer sect to choose the basic cultivation method that suits you, and if you encounter problems in cultivation, you can also ask the monk who is in charge of it. In addition to cultivating, outer disciples also have to undertake some chores, such as supervising mining, taking care of medicine fields, and completing some tasks issued by the sect. These sects will also give certain rewards.

If the outer disciples can get lucky enough to break through the Qi refining period and build a successful foundation, they can turn into inner disciples and devote themselves to cultivating and pursuing the Great Dao.

Every time Bixiaomen opened the Immortal Gate to accept disciples, the monks who wanted to join Bixiaomen were all squeezed out. If you can't become an inner disciple, it's also a good thing to be an outer disciple of Bixiao Sect. After all, you can choose the exercises that suit you, and the sect will also distribute some spirit stone pills every month, and you can also get some rewards for completing the tasks of the sect. These are of great appeal to monks and lay monks from small families.

Only those disciples in the big immortal cultivation families, if they can't become inner disciples, will choose to stay in the family, so that not only are the cultivation conditions not inferior to the outer sect of Bixiao Sect, but they can also have a little power in the family.

Become a disciple of the outer sect of Bixiao! This is Li Hui's greatest ideal at this stage!

With a sigh, Li Hui came back to his senses from his memories and smiled bitterly, how easy it was to break through to the seventh layer of the Qi Refining Period and enter the Bixiao Gate!

It has been three years since the last time Bixiao Gate opened the mountain gate, if you can't break through to the seventh layer of the Qi refining period within seven years, then you have to wait another ten years, if you still can't break through after ten years, then there is no hope at all to join Bixiao Gate.

Thirty years old, this is the minimum age limit for Bixiao Sect to choose disciples. If a monk can't build a foundation before the age of forty, then he will miss the best age to build a foundation, and even if he barely succeeds in building a foundation in the future, he won't be able to go further on the road of cultivating immortals. And at the age of thirty, he has not yet broken through to the seventh layer of the Qi Refining Period, so you can imagine how slim the hope of building a foundation within ten years is. For this kind of disciple who has no future, Bixiao Sect will not be included in the sect, otherwise there would not be so many scattered cultivators in Lingxiao City.

Thinking of the insult that Han Hao gave him in front of Huitong Building today, Li Hui's fists couldn't help but clench tightly again!

"You must break through to the seventh layer of the Qi Refining Period within seven years!Dad, mother, you must bless the child in the Heavenly Spirit!" Li Hui prayed silently.

After calming down a little, Li Hui's eyes turned to the bottle of Qi Gathering Pill on the table that he had just exchanged for twenty lower-grade spirit stones today.

"I hope I can break through this time!" Li Hui clenched his fists, grabbed the Qi Gathering Pill and walked towards the inner room.

The interior room is similarly rudimentary, with only a double bed and a small table.

Li Hui sat cross-legged on the couch, put the Qi Gathering Pill beside him, closed his eyes, sank his mind into the dantian, and operated according to the method of "Splitting the Earth".

A small sea of qi in the dantian was slowly running at this moment, dividing out a stream of spiritual energy to swim in the meridians around the body. After completing a week's operation, you can see that these spiritual qi have grown a little stronger, and then return to the dantian and inject into the sea of qi.

After a few hours like this, Li Hui found that no matter how much he tried to split the earth, he couldn't make the qi sea in the dantian expand even more, and those cultivated spiritual qi could not really merge into the qi sea, and it would dissipate after a while. Li Hui knew that this was the so-called cultivation bottleneck, and this was also something that could not be helped. His own Five Spiritual Root Assets are really too bad, and his induction and transformation of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi is too slow.

Li Hui woke up from his state of settling down, sighed, and a wry smile flashed at the corner of his mouth, his qualifications were too poor after all, it was so difficult to break through from the third layer of the Qi Refining Period to the fourth layer, and it was even more slim to cultivate to the seventh layer of the Qi Refining Period.

After a while, Li Hui took a long breath, expelled the loss in his heart, his gaze became firm again, he reached out and took the bottle of Qi Gathering Pill and poured it into the palm of his hand, put it in his mouth and swallowed it. Immediately, his mind sank into the dantian again, and he felt a warm current rushing into the dantian, which instantly spread to the limbs and veins.

Li Hui hurriedly followed the practice method of "splitting the earth", guiding these medicinal powers to circulate in the meridians, and finally returned to the sea of dantian qi like a hundred rivers entering the sea......

...... 5 days later......

Li Hui sat on the bed in a daze, looking a little dazed.

"It's just a little bit! it's just a little bit ......" Li Hui's eyes were dull and empty, and he couldn't stop muttering.

The spiritual power in the dantian qi sea was already like a pool filled with water, it was already overflowing, and it could no longer be contained, but at the last moment, the spiritual power in the qi sea dissipated like a tidal wave, and returned to the third layer of the qi refining period again!

Looking at the vial next to the bed that had been consumed and originally contained the Qi Gathering Pill, the bitterness on Li Hui's face became even stronger.

Could it be that in this life, I can only live like this, I have been bullied and despised by others, and I have spent my life only in promises, and finally turned into loess!

"I'm unwilling!" Li Hui suddenly opened his eyes and hissed at the sky!

The hardships of my parents when I was a child, the hard survival of my parents after they passed away, the hardships of collecting medicine in the mountains, the cold reception I received on the streets, and the humiliation and bullying of the evil young man Han Hao a few days ago...... These things are like pictures and scenes in Li Hui's mind.

How many times, he thought about it, give up, and casually go to the secular world to find a Jianghu sect to mix in, it is bound to be a generation of natural capital, and become a hero. It's too tiring and difficult to live like this now, not to mention, he's only a thirteen-year-old boy!

But since I was a child, I have lived in Lingxiao City, and I have been exposed to people who have cultivated the truth, and those martial arts masters, princes and nobles in the secular world are just ants-like existence in the eyes of these cultivators!

Ants are ants, and there is no distinction between high and low.

After seeing Dapeng spread his wings and soar 90,000 miles, how could he be interested in the jumping of sparrows?

After a long time, Li Hui's mood slowly calmed down. The delicate and somewhat mature face that did not belong to this age was full of firmness again.

He walked out of the inner room and picked up from the table the tools necessary to go into the mountains to collect medicine, such as the medicine hoe, medicine basket, and dry food that he had bought again in the mortal street that day. Taking off the old clothes that had turned into strips of rag on his body and changing into slightly newer clothes, Li Hui walked out of the door and walked towards Bixiao Mountain again.