Chapter 1: What is the Experience of Becoming an Outer Disciple of the Immortal Sect?

Everyone knows that having spiritual roots is the prerequisite for cultivating immortality.

However, among the countless beings in the world, only one in ten thousand possesses spiritual roots. Moreover, spiritual roots are also divided into different grades. If the spiritual roots are too inferior, one cannot even enter the sect.

Therefore, becoming an outer disciple of the Immortal Sect already surpasses more than ninety percent of the people in this world.

That's already quite outstanding!

So... what kind of experience is it to become an outer disciple of the Immortal Sect?

The outer disciples of the Immortal Sect that you think of are like this:

The sect provides everything for your clothing, food, shelter, and transportation. They also regularly distribute cultivation resources such as spirit stones and medicinal pills. All you need to do is focus on cultivation, strive to improve your realm, and then stand out in a sect-wide competition, advancing to the inner sect, or even obtaining true inheritance, soaring to new heights from then on.

Doesn't it sound like a bright future?

In reality, a true outer disciple of the Immortal Sect is like this...

In the scorching summer.

The blazing sun scorches the earth, stirring up waves of heat.

Xu Ke stands in a field of hemp, wielding a sickle and bending over to harvest the "silverleaf yellow hemp" in the field. Sweat drips down his cheeks, bringing a bitter taste to his lips and his heart.

Is this the daily cultivation life of an outer disciple of the Immortal Sect?

Shouldn't cultivation be about enjoying the elements and being carefree?

Who can tell me why I have to farm while cultivating?

This doesn't fit the picture at all!

I came here to cultivate immortality, not to farm! Damn it!

Xu Ke wiped away his sweat, rubbed his sore back, and muttered curses in his heart.

Just a moment ago, when Xu Ke "awakened" in this fourteen-year-old "cultivating youth," he learned that he had transmigrated to a world of cultivation and that he was an outer disciple of the "Haoyang Immortal Sect." His heart was filled with both surprise and joy, and he had a kind of inexplicable confidence that he was the "main character."

However, before he could indulge in ambition and envision the future, reality struck him hard.

The outer disciples of the Haoyang Immortal Sect were not the type who "produce nothing and only focus on cultivation."

In fact, in the entire cultivation world, there were no outer disciples who "produce nothing and only focus on cultivation." It was impossible to have such outer disciples.

Does everyone just cultivate and not work? Do cultivation resources just fall from the sky?

Not only do outer disciples have to engage in the production of cultivation resources, even inner disciples have to do so. Only true disciples can completely devote themselves to cultivation and not bother with miscellaneous tasks.

In the structure of the sects in the cultivation world, outer disciples are responsible for the production of basic resources such as planting, breeding, and mining. Inner disciples are responsible for "refining and processing," such as alchemy and artifact forging. They are all producers of cultivation resources.

Only true disciples and high-level sect members do not need to engage in production; they are the martial strength of the sect.

An outer disciple who wants the sect to provide everything for their clothing, food, shelter, and transportation? Want to receive cultivation resources like spirit stones and medicinal pills on time?

Haha, the sect takes in disciples, not guests!

Therefore, thelife of an outer disciple of the Immortal Sect is not as wonderful as imagined.

Take Xu Ke, for example. At the age of ten, it was discovered that he had spiritual roots and was accepted as a Daoist disciple by the Haoyang Immortal Sect, entering the sect.

You ask about the attributes and grade of his spiritual roots? There was no detailed testing at all!

As long as it's not an extraordinary talent that directly becomes a true disciple, who cares about your spiritual root attributes? Who cares about your spiritual root grade? Just give you an introductory cultivation technique, and you'll figure it out as you practice.

When practicing cultivation and absorbing spiritual energy, if it's easier for you to absorb a certain type of spiritual energy, it means you have the corresponding attribute talent.

If you can absorb any type of spiritual energy and can't distinguish the attribute of the spiritual energy, what's the leaning towards?

It's simple, just practice the "Five Elements Mixed Yuan Scripture"!

That's how Xu Ke learned the "Five Elements Mixed Yuan Scripture."

At the age of twelve, Xu Ke started his cultivation journey, reaching the Qi Refining stage. He also learned the cultivation techniques for planting "silverleaf yellow hemp" and "thousand catty millet," mastering the necessary spells for farming. After passing the assessment, he was promoted from a Daoist disciple to an outer disciple.

And then... the sect allocated him ten mu of land, a thatched cottage, some farming tools, and seeds, and let him start farming.

According to the sect's rules, outer disciples engaged in planting need to hand over seventy percent of their annual harvest to the sect, and the remaining thirty percent belongs to themselves. This thirty percent income is used to sustain their clothing, food, shelter, and cultivation expenses.

If the harvest is good, there might be some surplus. If the harvest is bad... it's difficult to even sustain their lives, let alone have resources for cultivation.

So, after two years, Xu Ke hasn't even filled up the progress bar of the "Qi Refining stage," and his cultivation journey has been quite lonely.

Fortunately, if he doesn't eat spiritual rice, ordinary rice and grains are cheap, so he doesn't have a problem with food and clothing.

But... I came here to cultivate immortality!

Xu Ke is filled with frustration. He swings his sickle and cuts down the silverleaf yellow hemp in front of him...