Gu Yin look at the dark room where everyone are sleeping hurdling together, right now it's summer which made it more difficult to endure then winter.
This enclosed room with no window have almost no ventilation system, she request to leave the door open at night for air, but everyone fear that snake or other kind of insect might crawl inside.
So, Gu Lian help them curved a small croaked window on one wall which was not very good shape but was enough to provide them with air.
'1487 days' she thought to herself, as she count the days since she had born here with her past life memory intact.
She used to be ambitionless girl with no dream and going with the flow in her life, her luck was good enough to get a job in company which pay well and have fixed working hours.
She rent herself an apartment after moving out of her house and start living a carefree simple life, while occasionally taking vacation for fun.
It was during one of her vacation when she had gone to mountains for tracking it was famous tourist spot.
Everything was going good untill she was bitten by a snake and didn't reach hospital in time, which result into her death, she was only 27 year old.
Even with her past life memory, her life is not much better. first of all, being in family that favour boys over girl made it difficult to do anything without being scolded or stopped.
Not only that this world seem to have magic elements. people here can absorb spiritual energy in their body which is present in the air and pretty much in everything.
In order for one to cultivate they need spirit root, they are as fire-red, water-blue, earth-brown, wood-green, metal-gold. These are the primary spirit root along with their colour.
One can check their spirit root every six month after they had turn five year old, just six month ago Gu Niu had her spirit root checked which showed that she had five spirit root.
Having five spirit root is called complete root. Cultivaing such root is extremely tiring, time consuming and need lot of resources.
Not only that one also need to have magic talent which is also checked along with the spirit root, higher the number the better and quicker they can absorb spiritual energy.
5 is consider average talent, below 5 is consider worse talent and above 5 is consider genius talent.
The highest number of talent is said to have single water root with 7 magic talent, such people are highly coveted by both clan and powerful sect.
Their are four domain in lower realm, each domain is consist of two cultivation clan and two sect which mean their are eight clan and eight sect.
Theirs another sect which is not joined by any domain and remain neutral to everyone not only that they consist of both evil and righteousness sect.
Normally each domain have two clan to keep each other in check along with one evil and righteous sect to maintain the power in each domain.
But Heavenly pavillion sect are different they had cultivator of both evil and righteous path which made all other sect and clan to be cautious of them.
Moreover, this sect had backer from mid realm which made other to not mess with them, this is all information provided by others to her.
According to her cousins and siblings, it's heavenly pavillion sect who arrange spirit root check every six month for the past two century.
Before that poor people don't even have any chance to know what kind of root they possess, during this test if they found a kid with good talent they will take them to the sect.
Every six month once a kid had turn five year old they can go to nearby city to get their root checked for free of cost.
Not only that once one travel from village to city they will be escorted by lower rank cultivator to ensure safety and present any chances of human trafficking.
They had arrange places to rest where they also receive free porridge to eat, of course one need to show their household registration and other documents as proof.
This is done to prevent other people from benefiting from the free food stall, only once the sky had darken will they distribute leftover porridge to poor or beggars.
Heavenly pavillion sect said to believe in karma cycle, once a person had step into path of cultivation getting one hand stained is pretty normal.
So, these kind of small acts are done in order to soften the lightening that struck them during the heavenly tribulation period.
Then every year disciple test is taken which divided into entry level, basic level and high level each level are suitable for different age.
Entry level is consists of 5-8 year old, basic level is 9-12 year oldand high level is 13-16year old. Anyone above 16 with expectional cultivation can become elder.
The enter level test is said to be easiest, but this test happen in the capital city of heavenly folded valley called hengyuan city.
Since heavenly pavillion sect isn't in any domain but located in heavenly folded valley which is located southeast.
While she live in remote village of Azure river domain (eastern domain), if she decided to head toward heavenly folded valley it will take her five to six month to reach there on horse carriage.
But she don't have any money to fund her trip not only that her young age made her vulnerable to any danger.
Cause of young age issue the villagers only take kids when they are six year old to have some awareness and more maturity.
If she want to leave this place and become stronger either during her test she needed to be triple spirit rooted or less.
Those people from the sect will take her directly although high talent is good with no background or backing its better to be low-key.
Then again it will only happen if she manage to enter the sect successful worrying about it is of no profit.
With that she close her eyes trying to fall asleep without overthinking about anything anymore.