He Song had not known about these things before.
Although he had known Wei Fan for five years, their previous gatherings were mostly about sharing interesting stories and bonding with each other.
It was the first time that Wei Fan specifically talked about the internal affairs of the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Pavilion like today.
While following Wei Fan to familiarize with the environment, He Song quickly gained his own understanding of Bamboo Mountain Immortal Pavilion.
Bamboo Mountain Immortal Pavilion.
Belongs to the Golden Elixir Major Faction's Thick Earth Sect's Green Wall Immortal City.
There are two sources of personnel within the pavilion.
The first one is the loose cultivators like He Song, who were recruited into the pavilion after being seen by someone and became an internal cultivator of the pavilion.
The second is the ones who come from the Thick Earth Mansion, like Wei Fan and Meng Guan.
The Thick Earth Mansion is a place specially set up by the Thick Earth Sect to screen disciples.
Those who cannot break through to the Qi-refining mid stage within a certain age in the Mansion would be assigned to various Immortal Cities or Immortal Pavilions to take up duties.
If they perform well in the future and improve their cultivation rapidly, those cultivators sent from the Thick Earth Mansion may join the Thick Earth Sect again and become the disciples of the sect.
However, within the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Pavilion, there is almost no significant difference between these two types.
Next, it's about the treatment of the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Pavilion.
In the Qi Refining Early Stage, most internal cultivators work hard all year and only have 20 to 30 spirit stones at most that they can use freely.
However, due to their low cultivation, they can still quickly improve their own cultivation just by absorbing the spirit Qi within the pavilion.
This was an unwritten rule that existed in almost all Immortal Pavilions.
The purpose, of course, is to screen out cultivators with perseverance, determination, and vision.
If one cannot bear it, they are free to leave at any time.
Loose cultivators can earn more without entering the pavilion and don't have to pay rent, which naturally makes them wealthier than the Qi Refining Early Stage cultivators within the pavilion.
The threshold of ten spirit stones a month for rent is also specially designed.
The purpose is to drive away cultivators with no talent and let them retreat from difficulties.
At the same time, it attracts talented loose cultivators to contribute to the development of Immortal Pavilions.
In the Qi Refining Early Stage, only by joining an Immortal Pavilion and becoming an internal cultivator can one live in the pavilion without being affected.
Some rely on an annual salary, while others have accommodation directly included.
Even if there are few spirit stones available, being able to live within an Immortal Pavilion is a huge benefit in itself.
As for when one reaches the Qi-refining mid stage,
The resources available to internal cultivators will no longer be as scarce as in the Qi Refining Early Stage.
Cultivators who can cultivate to the Qi-refining mid stage in the Immortal Pavilion can master some techniques for earning spirit stones. Coupled with the annual support they receive from the pavilion, life can be tolerable.
It is at this moment that the cultivators who can endure the boring and tedious cultivation in the Qi Refining Early Stage truly pass the most difficult hurdle in their path to immortality.
Those who lack perseverance, determination, and vision would have been weeded out in the Qi Refining Early Stage, becoming loose cultivators with a high mortality rate.
And this is precisely what the big Immortal Pavilions want to see.
After removing the false and preserving the true, the cultivators who can stay must have their own extraordinary qualities.
As for cultivators in the Qi-refining late stage...
They are the backbone of the Immortal Pavilion, with more resources available to them. As long as they are in the Immortal Pavilion, their presence serves as a great deterrent to evil cultivators.
In addition, Qi-refining late stage cultivators generally strive towards Foundation Establishment and require many resources.
Naturally, the more resources they can obtain, the better.
As Wei Fan narrated, He Song came to understand many things that he had never understood before.
At the same time, he began to have more motivation to improve his cultivation.
Once he reaches the Qi-refining mid stage, or even the late stage, his life will definitely be better than it is now.
Wei Fan took He Song on a tour of the small courtyard, arranging for He Song to stay in one of the second bedrooms and giving him access to one of the quiet rooms. As they settled in, the sky gradually darkened.
"I'm sorry for the hurried return today, so you'll have to make do with a simple meal for now. Tomorrow, I'll buy some good wine and food to welcome you properly!" At the dinner table, Wei Fan poured a cup of wine for He Song and apologized.
However, by his side,
He Song looked at the sumptuous dishes in front of him, the fragrant spirit rice in the bowl, and sensed the spirit alcohol in the wine cup. He couldn't help but feel helpless.
It turned out that cultivators in the Qi-refining late stage must be living much better lives than those in Qi Refining Early Stage like himself.
What Wei Fan referred to as a casual meal was spirit rice with spirit alcohol, and dishes made with spiritual materials and demonic beast meat.
He Song had only eaten such a luxurious meal once before at Osmanthus Pavilion.
At that time, it was Lin Cong who had broken through to the Qi-refining mid-stage and invited him to the meal.
Truth be told,
He Song could only occasionally afford to eat spirit rice. As for spirit alcohol and spiritual materials with demonic beast meat, it was beyond the budget of a small cultivator like him in the Qi Refining Early Stage.
However, having learned about the treatment of cultivators at the Qi-refining mid-stage or even the late stage, He Song didn't feel much envy in his heart.
As his cultivation improved, he would eventually have access to all these things.
That's the beauty of cultivating immortality.
As long as one's cultivation level rises, their strength, status, identity, and power will all be significantly improved.
Everything is possible as long as one's cultivation reaches a certain level.
That's why He Song could maintain a calm attitude.
As long as he lived long enough, his cultivation would eventually improve.
When it comes to having a long life,
He Song wasn't afraid of anyone.
"Come on, let's drink!" Ignoring Wei Fan's apologies, He Song picked up his wine glass and clinked it with the other.
With a ding, the two wine glasses touched.
Soon, the small courtyard was filled with laughter and cheerful conversation.
...
He Song settled down at Wei Fan's small courtyard.
He no longer went to the spirit field every morning as he used to.
Unless the crisis of the Red Spirit Gold Mine erupted, He Song didn't even want to step out of Immortal Pavilion.
His cautious nature was at work in his mind.
At the same time, he worried that evil cultivators might take advantage of the situation, so he resorted to such measures.
However, as a spiritual plant farmer of the Immortal Pavilion, there would be penalties if one didn't complete the cultivation of the spirit field.
If the harvest of the five-acre spirit field didn't meet the standard, the missing spirit rice would have to be borne by the spiritual plant farmer.
As a last resort, He Song asked a familiar spiritual plant farmer to look after his spirit field for twenty spirit stones.
Being able to earn an extra twenty spirit stones,
The spiritual plant farmer who was familiar with He Song was naturally delighted.
His job was just to extend the duration of the Spirit Rain Skill he previously cast, from half an hour to a full hour.
The unexpected income of twenty more spirit stones was a pleasant surprise.
In this way, He Song, with one less worry, began to immerse himself in diligent cultivation in Wei Fan's small courtyard.
The spirit Qi in Wei Fan's small courtyard was much richer than where He Song had lived before.
This made He Song's cultivation speed faster, and the spirit power in his body began to grow more rapidly.
Meanwhile, without delaying his cultivation, He Song started to study the Array Tao Introduction in his mind every day.