Because of rooting problems and the lack of Qi-Inducing Pills to assist, it took Jiang Yuebai three full months to draw Qi into his body and enter the first level of Qi Refining.
She really brought nothing here except her memories.
If she were in the Tianyan Sect, she wouldn't even be able to be a handyman. It was obvious that Hong Tao was right to hesitate and not want to accept her. Even if he accepted her, she would only be able to tour the Tianyan Sect for a month and then be kicked out.
When a servant starts to learn to practice Qi, he has only one month to draw Qi into his body. If he fails to enter the first level of Qi training within that time, he will be expelled from the sect.
There was a huge sense of gap, but there were also objective reasons, such as not having enough to eat, the spiritual energy in the mortal world was too thin, and she had to help take care of her younger brother during the day, etc., which wasted too much time.
The most important point is that in a family of immortal cultivators, children are not officially accepted into the Tao until they are six years old. This is because before the age of six, the meridians and bones in the body have not grown to the best condition. Rashly drawing Qi into the body will not only hurt the body, but the success rate of entering the Tao is also not high.
But Jiang Yuebai didn't care about so much. She was just glad that she could start practicing early.
Although she could not learn the Cloud and Rain Art to solve the drought problem for Jiangjia Village as she had imagined, she now had enough strength to protect her parents and younger brother.
Human power has its limits, and nothing in the world is perfect.
Jiang Yuebai began to understand the meaning of Mayfly's last words. She was not a saint. If she could do it, she would try her best. If she couldn't, she would accept her selfishness calmly and never make things difficult for herself or demand herself to be perfect in every way.
That's her nature.
On the day Jiang Yuebai entered the first level of Qi training, the village chief summoned all the people in Jiangjia Village and decided to relocate the entire village and flee towards Yong'an City.
Yong'an City is the largest city in Qingzhou. Once we get there, we will definitely find a way to survive. However, for a cultivator, it only takes one or two days to control a magic weapon from Jiangjia Village to Yong'an City.
But for these hungry refugees with their families, it would take at least three to five months to get there.
For people who have been farming for generations, it is difficult to leave their homeland. It is already their limit to hold on until this moment. If they don’t leave, they will really starve to death in the village.
Despite knowing this, many elderly people still chose to stay. Everyone knew the reason and could only kowtow with tears in their eyes and bid farewell one by one.
During this period, Jiang Yuebai has been helping to take care of her younger brother and is no longer as naughty as before. Her parents are very surprised at her change and repeatedly ask her if something has happened to her.
Jiang Yuebai made up a dream fairy for herself according to the plots in the stories that Yun Shang had told her before, saying that the fairy taught her many things, so she became wise and grew up.
Since they couldn’t even fill their stomachs, their parents didn’t care too much.
And after Jiang Yuebai asked her father Jiang Dashan to convert the family's unicycle into a two-wheeled vehicle, her parents began to believe that she might have really met an immortal.
Because after the car was modified according to Jiang Yuebai's complex designs and drawings, it looks like an ordinary cart, but it is very light and easy to push.
Even if all three of them were sitting on it, plus the luggage, Jiang Dashan only needed to exert a little effort to control the direction, and walking on the bumpy road would not be shocking.
These were very simple for Jiang Yuebai, and were not as complicated as the farming puppets she made.
Jiang Dashan was curious about the principle behind it, so he squatted in front of the car and touched and knocked on it. However, everyone had left one after another, so he could only wait until he arrived at a new destination to study it further.
Jiang Yuebai looked at her father's obsessed look and understood a little bit that she liked to get to the bottom of everything and find out who she took after.
On the day of departure, her mother Bai Yulian held her younger brother Jiang Yang, while Jiang Yuebai held the last bit of food in her family, which was actually three and a half black dry biscuits and a can of turbid water.
This amount of food was not enough for an adult to eat for a day, but it had to support the family of four to walk to Yong'an City. Everyone hoped to find some wild vegetables and leaves on the way.
On the way, Jiang Yuebai held the water jar quietly, secretly using the Herbal Secret to absorb the vitality of the surrounding plants and inject it into the water in the jar.
In this way, everyone can eliminate fatigue by just taking a small sip.
They still took the same road as before and encountered the same things as before: refugees from other villages, bandits blocking the road, conflicts over water sources, and even robbing officials and bandits.
In such a world, the lives of refugees are worth less than that of dogs.
Although Jiang Yuebai has already reached the first level of Qi training, her spiritual energy is too little and she can only use it to protect her family.
Fortunately, the people of Jiangjia Village are very united, and her father Jiang Dashan also has some prestige in the village. Jiang Yuebai used the female fairy as an excuse to let Jiang Dashan discuss with the village chief and lead everyone to find water sources in advance, find wild vegetables that have not been picked up, and avoid refugees and bandits.
After stumbling and struggling several times and escaping death several times, it took four full months before everyone finally saw the gate of Yong'an City.
Even so, most of the people in Jiangjia Village died on the road.
The mass grave outside Yong'an City is still there, but this time, my parents and my brother are no longer corpses at the bottom of the pit.
At this moment, Jiang Yuebai felt a sense of relief somewhere in his heart, as if he had achieved fulfillment.
There were refugees everywhere outside Yong'an City. The city gates were closed and refugees were not allowed to enter the city. Those refugees could only settle down outside the city and survive on the porridge that they could not even steal.
Jiang Yuebai persuaded Jiang Dashan to leave Yong'an City and go to the Taoist temple on the mountain outside the city. In that Taoist temple, there were monks from the Tianyan Sect in charge.
Everything that happened along the way made Jiang Dashan very convinced of Jiang Yuebai, so he immediately took Jiang Yuebai and his mother and three daughters up the mountain.
The people in the village did not follow because the mountains were also full of refugees, and the porridge and food distributed by the Taoist temple was not as much as that distributed at the city gate.
Arriving at the Taoist temple on the mountain, Jiang Yuebai left his parents, climbed over the wall in an empty place and entered the temple. Sure enough, he saw a "familiar face" there.
A Taoist priest in a blue robe with broad shoulders, a round waist and a square face. Jiang Yuebai remembered that his name was Cai Ren. Jiang Yuebai couldn't tell what his current cultivation level was. He only knew that he was in the Qi training stage and had been on duty in this Taoist temple.
Cai Ren is younger now than he was then, and there is still some arrogance in his eyes. It may be because he has just been sent here and he still feels unwilling to accept it.
Jiang Yuebai remembered that after she established her foundation, she left Cang Yan and returned to Yong'an City. She found that someone in the Lin family was causing trouble. It was with the help of Cai Ren that she was able to resolve the trouble in the Lin family.
However, at that time she was already Li Jiuchuan's direct disciple, but now, she is just a yellow-haired girl.
However, having finally come this far, how could Jiang Yuebai give up such a great opportunity
At that time, Cai Renzheng was directing the people in the Taoist temple to carry firewood, make fire and cook porridge to help the victims. It was something that he could easily handle with his magic of controlling objects, but here he could only pretend to be an ordinary person.
Jiang Yuebai walked towards her quickly. When Cai Ren saw her, he frowned and looked at her. He was slightly surprised to find that she had a spiritual aura.
Jiang Yuebai bowed skillfully, "Junior Jiang Yuebai, nice to meet this senior brother."
If Jiang Yuebai wasn't so pale and skinny, with a dirty face and wearing patched clothes, Cai Ren would have thought that Jiang Yuebai was a boy from some immortal cultivation family with such a skilled and generous posture.
Cai Ren adhered to the principle of not offending others easily, but did not lower his status. He nodded kindly and said nothing, waiting for Jiang Yuebai to introduce himself and explain his purpose.
Jiang Yuebai said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner, "I once met Tianyan Sect's Jiuchuan Zhenren, and was taught the techniques to enter the Dao by Jiuchuan Zhenren. Jiuchuan Zhenren once said that if I want to enter the immortal sect, I can come here to find my senior brother."
Cai Ren opened his eyes wide and raised his hand to scratch his forehead. He knew Master Jiuchuan, but didn’t Master Jiuchuan never leave the sect and always live in the Wanfa Hall waiting to die
Why did he suddenly accept such a disciple? He looks... terrible!
"I beg you, Senior Brother, to help pass a message to Master Jiuchuan, saying that I am waiting here with Lin Jingyue's letter."
Everyone in the world of cultivation knows Wuwei Shanren, but few people know that Wuwei Shanren’s real name is Lin Jingyue.
And the master is one of the few people. He was looking for Lin Jingyue everywhere for the issue of his natal magic weapon. Suddenly he met her who used his name and brought Lin Jingyue's letter to ask for a meeting. The master would definitely come to see her.
As long as I can see the Master, everything else will be much easier.
To be on the safe side, Cai Ren asked some questions about Li Jiuchuan. Jiang Yuebai was able to answer them fluently and even had a certain understanding of the Tianyan Sect. He did not show any panic or nervousness.
Cai Ren then believed Jiang Yuebai's words. It was just a message and it didn't take much effort. If there was any problem, it would be Master Jiuchuan's problem.
Afterwards, Jiang Yuebai took the opportunity to suggest that Cai Ren help settle their family. He thought that no matter how poor Li Jiuchuan was, he was still a Jindan Zhenren. Even if a Jindan Zhenren could not accept disciples, he was still a person with whom he had a close relationship, and he would not want to offend him.
Cai Ren nodded in agreement and asked someone to arrange Jiang Yuebai's family in the backyard of the Taoist temple.
Jiang Yuebai had already figured out Cai Ren's character. He was clearly guarding the Taoist temple back then, but he allowed the Lin family to cause trouble in the city because he did not dare to offend Lin Xiangtian.
Finally getting out of the initial crisis, being able to eat enough food and live in a windproof house, Jiang Yuebai's tense nerves finally relaxed.
But when she thought that she would soon leave her family that she had finally reunited with, Jiang Yuebai's heart began to unbearable again.
That night, Jiang Yuebai was sitting on the steps at the door of the wing room, staring at the moon in a daze, wondering whether she should go to Tianyan Sect later. At this time, her mother Bai Yulian tiptoed over to her and sat down beside her.
"Mother~"
Jiang Yuebai naturally leaned her head on Bai Yulian's arms. Bai Yulian held her shoulders and rocked her gently. Smelling the reassuring scent of her mother, Jiang Yuebai's willpower became weaker and weaker, and she didn't want to leave her family anymore.
"You... aren't my Yue'er?"
Bai Yulian suddenly spoke, her tone sad and firm, which shocked Jiang Yuebai all over. He sat up straight and looked at Bai Yulian in disbelief.
Uh...see you tomorrow~
(End of this chapter)