The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

After upgrading to the fifth level of Qi training, Xiao Han once again considered the possibility of building his foundation.

Although her physical condition has improved, her four spiritual roots and the medium purity of her spiritual roots destined her to find it increasingly difficult to cultivate in the future.

It might take four to five years, or even six years, to advance from level five to level six. Level six to level seven, level seven to level eight, level eight to level nine, and level nine to the Great Perfection of Qi Training.

The further you go, the slower it gets and the harder it gets to upgrade. How much time will this take!

After doing the math, Xiao Han realized that it was basically impossible for him to reach the great perfection of Qi training before the age of sixty.

Putting aside the question of whether her four spiritual roots have any hope of successfully building a foundation, she must reach the great perfection of Qi training before her body functions begin to decline, so as to increase her hope of building a foundation, right?

Therefore, her current cultivation speed is still not enough.

In the past few years, she has been hanging out in the market every day, coming into contact with more cultivators and having more time to chat with them. She has also gained a lot of knowledge about cultivation.

For example, when taking the Barrier Breaking Pill during the Qi Training Stage, the most effective effect is only achieved after the first two doses. The third dose will reduce the effect by half, and the fourth dose will have almost no effect at all.

It was because Xiao Han knew that the Barrier Breaking Pill was not a panacea that he did not dare to use it when he upgraded from the fourth level to the fifth level. Instead, he relied on spiritual energy and time to break through the barrier.

After all, the next seven to eight, and eight to nine, will definitely be more difficult to break through, so she must use the Barrier Breaking Pill at the critical moment.

In this way, from level five to level six, and from level six to level seven, there is one less means of cheating by using money. She can only place her hope of improving her cultivation speed somewhere else again.

Then, she thought about moving again and renting a cave with richer spiritual energy and a higher price.

After several years of doing the scrap collection business, she had accumulated more than 30,000 spirit stones. She originally wanted to save the money for use in building her foundation, but now it seems that she cannot even cultivate to the great perfection of Qi training, let alone build her foundation.

The most expensive cave a Qi-cultivating cultivator can rent is six hundred spirit stones a month, and the minimum rental period is two years.

Of course, there are caves in Zixiao City that cost more than one thousand spirit stones a month, with a minimum rental fee of five years. It is said that these are all caves for foundation-building cultivators.

That kind of cave was not something Xiao Han could dream of, so she turned her attention to the one that cost 600 spirit stones a month.

With the money she has saved now, she can rent it for two years to try out the effects of the practice.

So Xiao Han moved again.

She was really glad that the monk had a storage bag, which made moving very convenient.

Otherwise, with the frequency of her moving, she would be annoyed to death.

Of course, things are different now. Now she has replaced many of her things with monk supplies.

For example, her bowls and chopsticks were no longer the porcelain bowls and bamboo chopsticks that ordinary people used. Now her bowls were also thin and translucent jade bowls, and her chopsticks were Lingnan bamboo chopsticks.

Those mortal clothes were finally put away with honor. Although the clothes he wore now were not high-quality robes, they were also made of spiritual silk.

However, she only had an inner armor and an outer robe, and the rest of her clothes, although they were monk's clothes, were the cheapest spiritual silk clothes without any additional abilities.

I've never used the blankets I brought from the mortal world to sleep on, but I still use them occasionally when I need a short nap to relax.

The cheapest bedding set for a cultivator would cost dozens of spirit stones, so she was reluctant to change it.

The small desk and stool that helped her earn her first pot of gold and pay off her debts and made great contributions have been discarded.

As for the pots, pans, and utensils, they were replaced with the cheapest monk supplies.

Who doesn’t want to use good things? After all, some things, like underwear, cannot be seen by outsiders, but better-looking and more comfortable underwear can also please your body and mind.

I have to say that in the cave with expensive rent, not only is the spiritual energy in the training room more abundant, but the decoration in other places is also much more comfortable.

It is said that the cave dwellings where the foundation-building monks and the Jindan monks live are on a small spiritual vein.

The cave, which cost 600 spirit stones a month, was built on a branch extending from the small spirit vein.

From a distance, the place she was renting looked like a large oval flower bed. That was because the roofs of the houses were covered with tall trees and flowers. The caves in the houses were like patterns on the stone walls of the flower bed.

However, when Xiao Han saw that the house here was only one story high and had its own entrance and exit, she suddenly thought of the comparison between the tube-shaped building and the small villa.

The cave dwelling she first rented was the cheapest, at 30 spirit stones a month, and it was a five-story building with many households. Now, here, a row of individual households, each with its own entrance, costs 600 spirit stones a month, presumably to divide the spiritual energy resources of the entire tube building among just the cave dwellings in this row.

As for the cave dwellings of those foundation-building cultivators and core-forming cultivators, to put it bluntly, they occupy larger spaces and have more exclusive spiritual energy, so naturally the rent they pay is more expensive.

Xiao Han's current cave dwelling had a bedroom with an agarwood step-out bed and wardrobes from the same series. There were tables and stools carved from a single piece of jade, and the floor and walls were as smooth as mirrors.

Each room is spacious and bright, trying to give the monks a very comfortable living experience.

Alas, if a cave worth six hundred spirit stones is decorated so beautifully, how luxurious must the residences of foundation-building cultivators and core-forming cultivators be?

Although Xiao Han also likes this kind of house, what she cares more about is the training room.

The training room was not much bigger than the one in the previous cave, but the scene inside made Xiao Han's eyes light up.

All the walls around the training room, including the roof, were painted with a scene of a mountaintop in the early morning mist. I didn't know how it was done, but I couldn't sense any spiritual fluctuations from the illusion, nor could I tell it was a painting.

Sitting in the middle of the room, it feels like being on the top of a mountain in the early morning, with purple air coming from the east and a relaxed mind.

Sitting in meditation in a room like this really gives you the feeling of an immortal absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the essence of the sun and moon.

Then, Xiao Han sensed the concentration of spiritual energy in the room and found that it was almost 50% higher than the concentration in the previous cave training room.

It's worth it, the money is worth spending.

After visiting all the rooms, Xiao Han took out his belongings and arranged them one by one.

Then she discovered that not only were the mortal bedding that she was reluctant to throw away out of place, but even some of the cheap monk supplies looked even cheaper when set against the decoration of the house.

Xiao Han gave a wry smile. Never mind. Anyway, there were barriers blocking vision outside the main gate. Even if the gate was open, it would be completely dark from outside. She wouldn't invite outsiders into her cave, so what did it matter if the contents were good or not?

I come here to live in order to increase my cultivation speed. I will enjoy other material comforts after I become a foundation-building cultivator.

After tidying up the house, she hurried to the market to set up her stall.

This place is far away from Dihuo Peak and the market where she set up her stall before, so she will have to spend more time on the journey.