The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Chapter 1049: The Boss Becomes the Prey Of course, they didn't know which direction the royal city was in, and they dared not ask the people of the Sun Tribe, otherwise they would really be exposed.

Everyone agreed to temporarily travel in the opposite direction from the desert.

It's not too late to ask when we encounter other mortals next time.

Later, Ba Dou painstakingly relayed to Xiao Han the conversation he had overheard between the tribe's elders and others. Only then did everyone realize that the other party had indeed harbored thoughts of robbery and murder.

Although the elder rejected this idea, the group decided to leave the place the next morning and travel downstream along the river.

The biggest advantage of following the river is that you can catch fish to eat whenever you want.

Tonight, it's Xiao Han and Ling Xiao's turn to keep watch.

This isn't a desolate desert with almost no wild animals. Even with the simple maze set up by Old Man Yu, it's still necessary to send someone to keep watch at night.

Lacking any tools for telling time and having lost the unique way cultivators judge time, and unfamiliar with the starry sky, they could not use stargazing to keep track of time, so they could only roughly estimate the time.

Arrange three groups of cultivators, dividing them into three time periods: the first half of the night, the second half of the night, and before dawn. They are to estimate the handover time themselves.

Xiao Han and Ling Xiao were assigned by Xin Ziqi to guard the area during the first half of the night.

After everyone had gone to sleep, the two of them stayed by the fire, adding dry branches every now and then.

Ling Xiao sat down next to Xiao Han and suddenly asked in a low voice, "Aren't you angry that I brought you here to suffer?"

Xiao Han was stunned for a moment, then spoke the truth: "I was angry when I was thirsty and hungry in the desert, but later I came to understand. A group of God Emperors are suffering here, so why can't I, a True God Realm cultivator, suffer?"

After a pause, she smiled and said, "If this is a cultivation course that even God Emperors must go through, then it can't be a bad thing for me to experience it in advance."

After hearing this, Ling Xiao felt quite ashamed of himself.

Even a genius god emperor like him doesn't have the magnanimity of Xiao Han.

If he hadn't been born in the realm of gods, and only needed to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth and the origin of the Great Dao during his cultivation, without the tempering of his mind and the test of inner demons, his cultivation would never have improved so quickly.

So what kind of genius is he? He's just lucky to be born in this highest level of realm and lucky to have high comprehension.

Xiao Han keenly noticed that Ling Xiao was in low spirits again.

"what happened again?"

Ling Xiao forced a smile. "It's nothing."

He took a deep breath and secretly vowed that he would perform well in the future and not give Xiao Han another chance to look down on him.

He wanted Xiao Han to know that he was an outstanding man in any environment.

Xiao Han was completely unaware of Ling Xiao's thoughts. She stood up, glanced around, and remained alert to any movement.

Croton rested on a branch of a large tree nearby, serving as a hidden sentinel with a commanding view.

It must have been late at night when Xiao Han went to wake up Qingwei and Yaoguang, who were taking over the night watch.

After the two of them sat down by the fire to keep watch, Xiao Han and Ling Xiao returned to the place where they had slept the night before to rest.

Ling Xiao has changed his previous domineering ways and no longer holds Xiao Han while sleeping.

He felt that he was performing so poorly, and if he forced Xiao Han to do things she didn't want to do, it would make her dislike him even more.

Without the boost of his cultivation aura, Ling Xiao has become extremely insecure.

The next morning, everyone had a simple fish soup and then started packing their things to prepare for departure.

The fish that were caught but not eaten were salted and wrapped in large plant leaves.

We need to take these fish baskets with us; we'll need them on the road.

The earthenware urn for storing salt, the two jars for boiling water, the seven fish baskets, and the five extra bowls were all public assets, which Xin Ziqi made everyone carry.

As for their private assets, such as their own ceramic bowls for eating and wolf skins, they each took them with them.

The baskets they had woven in the desert were mostly destroyed, with only a few good ones left. Fortunately, Yao Guang and the others hadn't been idle while staying at the camp yesterday; they had woven at least four or five new baskets, which they then contributed to store cans and other supplies.

Xiao Han rummaged through some rotten wood scraps and put them into an empty earthenware jar. Then he put some charcoal that hadn't completely burned, along with some embers still glowing, into the jar.

As long as there are still embers inside the earthenware pot, you won't have to go through the trouble of rubbing sticks together to start a fire next time.

You can also add small pieces of dry twigs along the way to keep the sparks from going out.

Xiao Han's own basket had long been used up in the swamp, and now all her personal belongings were placed in Ling Xiao's basket, which he carried.

A group of bigwigs embarked on the Long March once again.

However, in order to deal with the wild beasts they might encounter on the road, they also had to look for suitable trees along the way and sharpen the ends to make wooden guns.

This simplest weapon should be made available to everyone.

It was a cloudy day with no sun, and everyone didn't rest much, only stopping to catch their breath when cutting tree branches to make spears.

Another advantage of a long spear is that it can be used as a walking stick, making walking easier.

There's no need to stir up trouble; the snakes can't even bite through their boots and trousers.

The group walked until it was almost dark before finding a suitable place to set up camp and rest.

The journey was through areas interwoven with thorns, bushes, miscellaneous trees, and wild grass, so the walking speed was not fast.

But these people were in good physical condition, and by the end of the day, they had walked about several dozen miles.

They divided the work and cooperated: setting the fish baskets, gathering firewood, grilling, boiling, and steaming the fish, and eating the fish in different ways.

After being hungry all day, and not yet tired of fish, everyone was still able to accept it.

Xiao Han thought to herself, if we continue eating fish for another two days, I wonder if these people will get sick of it.

But along the way, they were always rushing, and there was no time to hunt or even look for wild vegetables.

Well, when these people really can't eat anymore, everyone will naturally come up with a solution.

Nothing happened that night, and everyone continued walking along the river.

By noon, everyone had a long wooden spear with a sharpened tip.

At this point, someone suggested going hunting.

Looking at the faint mountain mists ahead, Xin Ziqi decided to travel for another day, rest well tonight, and then go hunting for a day tomorrow.

But sometimes, plans can't keep up with changes.

As they made their way through waist-high weeds and bushes, Ba Dou, who had been scouting ahead and was now returning, suddenly emitted a sharp, piercing alarm.

"Leopard leopard leopard..."

Before anyone could understand what it meant, a leopard suddenly leaped out of the bushes and pounced on a middle-aged cultivator walking on the left side.

This cultivator was usually very taciturn, and Xiao Han only knew that his surname was Chen.

The leopard was so fast that no one had time to react.

Perhaps it should be said that now that they are mortals, their reactions are much slower.

The next moment, the cultivator was pounced on and knocked to the ground, its sharp leopard teeth piercing directly into his throat.

Such precise chokehold technique left Chen Xiushi completely powerless to fight back.

After its successful attack, the leopard tried to drag Chen Xiushi away.

Once they realized what was happening, everyone gripped their spears and thrust them at it.