Chapter 1: Do you also need a bride price in the world of immortal cultivation?

Author: Light and Shadow

Chapter 1: Do you also need a bride price in the world of immortal cultivation?

Yunling Town.

Marriage Pavilion.

"Fellow Daoist Qin, why did you leave Zhenyang City? It's a big city under the gate of Zhenyang Sect Mountain. The cultivation resources are far beyond our small town."

Qin Gengyun sat upright and slightly nervous, and answered to the blind date sitting opposite the table:

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

"Why do you have to hide it from fellow Daoist Qin? Isn't it just that I can't make it in the big city and I can only return to the town?"

The female monk smiled, ignored Qin Gengyun's embarrassment, and then asked:

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

Qin Gengyun quickly replied: "You can have three spirit stones in a month."

The female monk's eyes flashed and her smile was like a flower:

"Fellow Daoist Qin has a good appearance and character, and I am barely satisfied. Let's talk about the bride price."

"Borrow gift?" Qin Gengyun was stunned. Will the world of cultivating immortals need a betrothal gift to marry?

The female monk opposite stretched out three green onion fingers: "Three hundred spirit stones, a spiritual vein immortal palace, only my name can be written on the deed."

"What?!" Qin Gengyun's eyes widened in an instant.

He can only earn three spirit stones a month. In order to drive away the elixirs in his body over the years, he has spent all his savings over the years. Where can he get three hundred spirit stones?

As for the spiritual vein immortal palace, the cheapest one is a thousand spirit stones, which is not something that he, a low-level cultivator, can imagine.

How could the bride gift from this world of cultivation be even more outrageous than the world before traveling through time!

Qin Gengyun couldn't help but ask the female monk: "Fellow Daoist Li, how much is your monthly income?"

The female monk replied: "I am a waitress in Rouge Pavilion and I can get two spirit stones a month."

Qin Gengyun was surprised: "Fellow Daoist Li, you only have two spirit stones a month, why do you want such a high bride price?"

The female monk looked at him disdainfully: "By my appearance, I don't even look down on the male cultivator who earns ten spirit stones a month. I just think you are honest and can be entrusted with someone. I didn't expect that you can't even get this little gift, so you can leave."

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

"Fellow Daoist Qin, how are you talking?"

Qin Gengyun shook his head helplessly: "She doesn't like me."

"Fellow Daoist, don't worry, there is something suitable for you here."

Matchmaker Wang smiled and took Qin Gengyun to another room.

Wenyuan Pavilion is the largest cultivator media outlet in Yunling Town, which is dedicated to those cultivators whose cultivation has stagnated and who want to find another way to attack the foundation-building method by relying on the method of dual cultivation to see the Taoist couple here.

Every step of the monk needs a lot of resource support, but almost all the cultivation resources are in the hands of the sects and are only for talented and backgrounded inner disciples.

If ordinary casual cultivators rely solely on hard practice, let alone immortality, it is difficult to reach the sky even if they build a foundation.

Therefore, dual cultivation has become the last chance for many ordinary casual cultivators to try.

If you can achieve dual cultivation, it is a carp that jumps over the dragon gate.

If you fail to achieve dual cultivation, you will lose your mind and become an ordinary couple, with the rest of your life.

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

But for Qin Gengyun, dual cultivation was his only hope for survival.

Qin Gengyun traveled through time two years ago. This body with the same name is the same as in the previous life, with an ordinary talent and an ordinary background. In this world of immortal cultivation, he is just an ordinary casual cultivator.

When Qin Gengyun came over, his body was already thirty-three years old, and he had been practicing for almost twenty years, and his cultivation was only the second level of Qi training.

What's even more miserable is that in order to survive, the original body has been doing elixirs and poisons for alchemists over the years, completely destroying the body.

The so-called elixir is the remaining toxic medicine residue after elixir refining. The elixir doctor's duty is to clean up these toxic medicine residues.

However, long-term exposure to elixirs caused his spiritual field to be polluted, his qi and blood were both deficient, and his cultivation could not improve in an instant.

Even if he cannot completely remove the elixir in his body, he will not live to be forty years old.

Qin Gengyun, who took over this body, could only inherit this tragic fate helplessly.

He inquired everywhere and finally learned that if he wanted to remove the elixir in his body, he needed to take "Bing Xin Huichun Pill".

But that is a fourth-grade spiritual pill, which is a hundred times more valuable than the life of an ordinary casual cultivator!

Moreover, this level of spiritual pill is only in the hands of the sects, and no sect will spend such precious pills to save a casual cultivator.

Coincidentally, Qin Gengyun worked in a chemical factory before traveling through time. Because of his long-term exposure to toxic chemical waste, he was unable to do it at the age of 40.

Chemical workers and elixirs are just as tragic as they are.

In order to gain a glimmer of hope, Qin Gengyun came to Zhenyang City under the gate of Zhenyang Zongshan. There were more opportunities in the big city and easier to earn spirit stones. If one day is lucky, he might have the opportunity to buy life-saving pills.

However, there are too many monks in Zhenyang City and the competition is fierce. Not to mention earning spirit stones, even survival requires exhaustion.

If this continues, even if the elixir does not occur, Qin Gengyun feels that he will not live to be forty years old.

He had to leave Zhenyang City and move to Yunling Town, where the survival pressure was not that great.

However, the spirit stones earned in Yunling Town were not enough for Qin Gengyun to buy the "Bingxin Rejuvenation Pill" before he was forty years old.

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

Qin Gengyun has been in the alchemy room for many years and has had some understanding of alchemy. However, an alchemist also needs cultivation support. He only has the second level of Qi training and cannot even refine ordinary first-grade elixirs.

Therefore, to be an alchemist, one must first improve one's cultivation.

But his spiritual field has been contaminated by elixirs, and his normal path to cultivation has been blocked.

All the roads of life were blocked, and only the last path of sheep intestine was left: dual cultivation.

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

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

"Fellow Daoist Qin, matchmaker Wang has told me about your situation. If you have anything you want to know, please ask me."

Qin Gengyun talked with this fellow Taoist Zhang for a moment, and both sides felt it was quite appropriate. Soon, when it came to marriage, the female monk said:

"Fellow Daoist Qin, since you and I are so close, I am willing to marry you. You only need to give me some meager bride gifts."

Is it a bride price again?

Qin Gengyun asked quickly: "Fellow Daoist Zhang, how much do you want for a bride price?"

The female monk smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Qin, I am from Qishan Town outside Feiyun Sect. According to the customs of my hometown, the female cultivator needs to get married, and her husband's family needs to give her five hundred spirit stones, plus a spiritual vein immortal palace. But I know it is not easy for you, so the spiritual vein immortal palace is not needed. You only need a two-story building with a courtyard."

Qin Gengyun was stunned: "Fellow Daoist Zhang, this bride price is too ethereal. Can it be more practical?"

The gentle smile on fellow Daoist Zhang's face disappeared: "Fellow Daoist Qin, if I marry you, I will serve you, and I will have children for you in the future. The benefits are due to you and the losses are due to me. If you cannot build a foundation in the future, you and me will be separated, I will have to have some guarantees, right?"

Qin Gengyun smiled bitterly and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhang, you and I have not gotten married yet, you are thinking about divorce? Besides, we get married more to study the method of dual cultivation, not to ask you to serve me, why are you suffering a loss?"

"Yes, if we can practice both in the future, then I will help you practice. This dowry is nothing!"

The female monk was even more confident.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, dual cultivation is beneficial to both parties, why is it that you help me practice?"

Qin Gengyun defended.

"Haha." The female monk gently stroked her hair on her forehead, showing a look:

"Since I am a dual cultivation, if I gain the great way in the future and become an immortal class, you will marry a fairy with five hundred spirit stones, wouldn't you make a lot of money?"

"." Qin Gengyun had no way to argue, so he had to stand up and bow:

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, let me think about it again when I go home."

After leaving the room, Matchmaker Wang immediately met: "How?"

Qin Gengyun smiled bitterly: "Although these two fellow Taoists are as beautiful as flowers and jade, their hearts are higher than the sky and the dowry is higher. I am afraid that I can't get to the top."

"Fellow Daoist Qin, don't worry, a thousand miles of marriage is a thread, and the good fortune is in the Marriage Pavilion. I will take you to see other female cultivators again."

Next, matchmaker Wang took Qin Gengyun to see several female cultivators. Some looked down on Qin Gengyun and some looked down on him, but without exception, they all asked for a considerable bride price.

Qin Gengyun couldn't get it out at all.

In the end, matchmaker Wang was a little helpless and said to Qin Gengyun:

"Fellow Daoist Qin, it is natural for women to ask for a bride price. They just want an attitude of their future husband. If you can't afford a bride price, how can you see your sincerity?"

Qin Gengyun was speechless.

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

I have been with several girls for a while, and when I get to the stage of discussing marriage, the other party always offers a sky-high bride price.
To be continued...