It was difficult to move an inch without money!

Lin Xun deeply understood the meaning of this sentence after coming to Donglin City. 

Money was needed for clothing, food, housing and transportation. Additionally, as a practitioner, his spending was much higher than that of ordinary people.

For example, ordinary people would be happy as long as they had something to eat, but practitioners must consume aeth grains and aeth vegetables as well as the blood and flesh of beasts to maintain their bodies’ purity. And the cost of such items were terrifyingly high. 

Some cultivators from wealthy backgrounds would even solely consume aeth herbs and aeth pills to supplement their bodies’ needs as to constantly sharpen and improve their cultivation base. Those valuable materials were not something that an ordinary practitioner could afford. 

Moreover, the clothes that cultivators wore, the horses and other animals they rode, the combat equipment they used and the cultivation techniques they required, all required huge amounts of money. 

Why else would there be the saying that children of poor families...