Liao Yi was an independent cultivator, and his late-stage Qi Cultivation combined with his profession as a Talisman Master allowed him to lead a rather comfortable life at the bottom rung of society.
Happiness is all about comparisons.
He naturally could not compare with those Foundation Establishment Cultivators, not to mention True Masters and True Monarchs, who were like celestial beings.
But compared to the old cultivator on the same street, who had lost his middle-aged son and still risked his life venturing into the wilderness for his grandson's cultivation even in his seventies or eighties; the young man who had gone into debt for his family's cultivation but failed to be selected as a disciples in the Daoist halls for three consecutive years; the country cultivator with dreams of studying in the city but who was evicted for failing to afford rent and forced to sleep on the streets; the widow next door who occasionally had to rely on a man's charity to make ends meet...
