The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Although I bought some raw materials at the wild market, it is still far from enough to collect all the raw materials.

So Xiao Han spent the whole next day wandering around the various markets in Zixiao City. When he had collected almost all the materials, he went to the store to get the last bit of raw materials.

Now that all the materials were ready, Xiao Han sent a sound transmission note to Senior Brother Li Moyun, asking him if he could make him a set of mid-level refining tools.

Li Moyun quickly replied in agreement.

The two agreed to meet at Dihuo Peak to deliver the raw materials.

After Xiao Han handed the raw materials to Li Moyun, he deliberately asked, "Brother Li, should I pay you the refining fee in advance? I have prepared 1,500 spirit stones, which should be enough."

Li Moyun glanced at her, turned around and prepared to leave, uttering two words: "No."

"Ah?" Xiao Han didn't understand what these two words meant.

Li Moyun walked away without looking back and said, "No refining fee."

"Ah!" Xiao Han exclaimed again, this time in surprise.

Although she also wanted to let her senior brother practice and then not charge a high price for refining, it was still a bit unexpected that he didn't charge a penny.

Happiness came too suddenly, and I saved a lot of spirit stones.

When Xiao Han went down the mountain, he almost jumped and skipped.

Sure enough, it was the wisest decision to find a senior brother who was a weapon refiner with some skills but had not yet been officially registered to work for him.

I am such a clever little ghost!

Alas, it's a pity that among the weapon forging workshops on Earth Fire Peak, only the Zhou family came from a background of independent cultivators. Therefore, the nature of the workshop's operation is different, so they only recruit apprentices. Other weapon forging workshops are mostly family-owned or organized, and they will not recruit apprentices from outside.

With my half-baked weapon-refining skills, I don’t know where I can go to further improve them in the future.

The refining tools had to wait for the senior brother to refine them before they could go to work. Xiao Han didn't have to go to work these days, and he felt that he had a lot of free time.

Today, she can finally go for a stroll on the street.

Although I ran around the market all day yesterday, because I had a strong purpose, I basically went to the stalls and shops selling raw materials. I had no time or energy to look at other things.

Today is different, she can stroll around freely.

Although it is said to be casual, there is actually a shopping goal, which is to see if I can find out about the miniature spirit gathering array.

If the purpose of ordinary people in modern society making money is to keep up with the pace of the majority, such as buying a house and a car, and saving money for serious illness and retirement, then in the world of immortal cultivation, cultivators make money for a single purpose: to strive to improve their cultivation.

As long as the monks didn't get hurt, they didn't have to worry about getting sick. They didn't have to worry about being unable to take care of themselves in old age. Their only concern was whether their lifespan could be doubled.

If you want to double your lifespan, you must improve your cultivation, work hard to build your foundation, or go a step further and form a pill.

Xiao Han actually never really thought about how many years she would live. She just felt that there must be a goal to pursue in life.

Her primary goal is to improve her cultivation as quickly as possible and increase her chances of building a foundation.

In order to improve her cultivation, she took great pains to improve her physical condition and rented a cave with richer spiritual energy.

But this is far from enough.

When Xiao Han heard that there was also a miniature spirit gathering array here that could help with cultivation faster, he was naturally very excited.

Unfortunately, it was said that there were no array masters in Zixiao City who could create a miniature spirit gathering array, and the miniature spirit gathering arrays that had been circulated elsewhere were relatively rare on the market. Therefore, if you wanted to buy a miniature spirit gathering array, it was basically a matter of luck.

Xiao Han just wanted to try his luck in the market today.

However, her luck was obviously not that good. All the larger grocery stores, magic weapon stores, and other stores that might sell miniature spirit gathering arrays did not have this kind of array plate for sale.

Alas! I didn't buy the miniature spirit gathering array, but I did spend a few hundred spirit stones to buy some small auxiliary array plates.

For example, there was the soundproof array plate that Su Jinnian had used before, and there was also a defensive array plate that could withstand three attacks from Qi-cultivating cultivators.

Although this defensive array is a bit useless, it is cheap, only 300 spirit stones. Moreover, its main purpose is to prevent sneak attacks while staying outside, so as to buy yourself some time to respond.

In fact, this formation plate is the same one that was activated by the monks in the caravan when Xiao Han and the caravan came to Zixiao City at night.

The country bumpkin Xiao Han was extremely envious at the time, and now she can finally get one for herself.

Besides, buying a defensive array that could withstand the constant attacks of Qi-cultivating cultivators was beyond her current financial resources.

I bought this defensive array just to make my finances less tight for a while and to accumulate some useful assets for myself.

Since the miniature spirit gathering array was not available for purchase, Xiao Han could only think about what other items could replace it, or in other words, what other methods could be used to increase the concentration of spiritual energy?

Renting a more expensive cave with a higher concentration of spiritual energy? That was beyond her means.

Rent needs to be paid monthly, and year after year, it won't be a small amount. But other auxiliary items are different. For example, a miniature spirit gathering array, even if it costs thousands of spirit stones, but if it can be used for ten or eight years, the monthly cost will only be an extra twenty or thirty spirit stones.

This is much cheaper than renting a more advanced cave.

There was no need to rush, so Xiao Han just walked slowly on the road, thinking about where else he could get a miniature spirit gathering array.

Then, her eyes suddenly lit up.

Yes, there are caravans. Zixiao City must also have caravans heading deeper into the Immortal Mountain, to larger immortal cities.

If I could find them, I could ask them to look for them in other immortal cities and buy me a miniature spirit gathering array.

However, with Zixiao City being so huge, she didn't know where to find the monks traveling for business. The caravan she had followed when she arrived only traveled between Zixiao City and Fuyuan City, and never went to other immortal cities.

However, since they are engaged in the business profession, they should know more about other caravans than himself. Xiao Han decided to try to find Yan Zhe to ask.

Since arriving in Zixiao City, Xiao Han has not contacted these people again, nor has he visited Mei Yunchu's robe shop.

Firstly, Mei Yunchu’s robe shop was very far from the cave she rented, and she simply didn’t have time to go there.

Secondly, she herself knew very well that although the people in the caravan were friendly to her on the surface, that was just the merchant's habit of making money through harmony. In fact, they looked down on her because she had low cultivation and little money.

Besides, she really didn't have any free time and had nothing to do with them, so there was naturally no need to contact them.

Now, for the sake of the miniature spirit gathering array, Xiao Han had to go and ask.

I looked at the time on my wrist. There was still more than an hour before dark, so I should be able to run back and forth.

So Xiao Han cast a lightening talisman on himself and ran towards the Dongxing Market in the east of the city.