The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Just like in modern society, ordinary people have to save money by living frugally if they want to buy a house or a car.

Xiao Han not only had to pay the annual rent of 7,200 spirit stones, but also had to save money to buy the Spirit Cleansing Pill. Naturally, she tried to save as much as possible on other expenses.

Of course, she no longer has to eat pickles and porridge, but in order to save money and time, she has changed to taking fasting pills.

I only cook for two meals because I'm really hungry.

Monthly living expenses, including the light body talisman, as well as spiritual fruits and snacks for a snack, should not exceed one hundred spirit stones.

Then there's the combined monthly rent for the two stalls, which is three hundred spirit stones. The underground fire room charges by the hour, two spirit stones per hour, which adds up to about two hundred spirit stones per month. There's also the miniature spirit gathering array, which requires about two spirit stones to operate each night. Over the course of a month, that's another several dozen spirit stones.

All in all, no matter how frugal she was, the rent, living expenses, stall fees, rental of the underground fire room, and the spirit gathering array would cost more than 1,200 spirit stones.

The money she made from the scrap business was not stable, sometimes more, sometimes less. But she also sold some small magical instruments, and sometimes collected some small refining materials and resold them. On average, she could earn 2,400 to 2,500 spirit stones.

That is to say, at present, after deducting all expenses, she can save about 1,200 yuan a month.

After two years of rent expired, Xiao Han paid the rent. The total of his previous and current savings was only a little over 40,000 spirit stones.

Unfortunately, the money is still not enough, so she has to continue saving.

Then another year passed, and with the help of the high-density cave and the micro spirit gathering array, she finally reached the peak of the fifth level of Qi training in just three years, and was ready to find a way to break through to the sixth level of Qi training.

She now has almost 60,000 spirit stones in her hands.

The rent was due in a year, and even after buying the elixir, there would still be about 10,000 spirit stones left. This way, whether it was working capital needed for business, rent due in a year, or other unexpected events, there would be spirit stones available for turnover.

Xiao Han finally decided to go find Ye Qi.

In the past three years, although she and Ye Qi were neighbors, they had different living circles, went in and out at different times, and met very rarely.

Xiao Han went directly to Ye Qi's cave and triggered the forbidden formation.

But after a while, no one came out. Xiao Han knew that Ye Qi was probably not at home.

She didn't know whether Ye Qi had gone out of town to hunt or was still in the city.

After thinking about it, I simply sent her a sound transmission note.

It's a pity that she was using the lowest level of sound transmission talisman, which has a limited transmission distance. Perhaps Ye Qi was in the mountains far away from Zixiao City, and the sound transmission talisman could not reach him, and eventually the energy was exhausted and turned into waste paper.

Xiao Han had no choice but to suppress his anxiety and continue his life as usual.

If she hadn't known about the existence of the Soul Cleansing Pill, she could still cultivate peacefully. But now that she knew, she became even more unbearable with her current spiritual root aptitude.

But no matter how unbearable it was, she still insisted on practicing every night.

Even if her dantian can no longer accommodate a trace of spiritual energy, she can always have a chance to break through the barrier by constantly practicing and squeezing it, and slowly grinding it.

Some cultivators can stay in a small realm of cultivation for more than ten or twenty years without being able to break through. Is it because their qualifications are extremely poor?

Not really. It’s just that some cultivators are impatient to do useless work and practice endlessly after their dantian can no longer accommodate a trace of spiritual energy, so they waste their time like this.

Xiao Han knew that he hadn't even reached the late stage of Qi training yet, and the real obstacle was still ahead. Therefore, he relied on slow and steady work, spending several years to break through the barrier. Once he reached the late stage of Qi training, each upgrade became truly hopelessly difficult.

Breakthroughs during the Qi training period have nothing to do with one's state of mind or comprehension; all that matters is aptitude. If one's aptitude is too poor, one can only rely on throwing a lot of spirit stones at one, and one can still break through the barriers.

For Foundation Establishment cultivators, their breakthroughs also require the refinement of their state of mind. And when they reach the Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages, besides the state of mind, comprehension is also very important.

Of course, these are too far away for Xiao Han now.

All she was thinking about now was how to break through to the sixth level of Qi training.

Then a few days later, she sent a sound transmission note to Ye Qi again, and Ye Qi went directly to the place where she set up her stall to find her.

After activating the soundproof array, Xiao Han asked Ye Qi about the male cultivator at the seventh level of Qi training in the hunting team who bought the Soul Cleansing Pill.

Seeing that she was anxious to see him for this very matter, Ye Qi immediately asked, "Are you also looking to buy the Spirit Cleansing Pill?"

Xiao Han nodded, "I've saved up a little bit of money, and I want to take it for a gamble."

Ye Qi looked at her with disapproval and said, "Do you know how Xiao Xie is doing now?"

Xiao Han's heart sank when he saw the expression on her face. "What happened to him? Is the pill poisonous?"

Ye Qi was amused by her words again and said with a smile: "If the pill bought with 50,000 spirit stones is not only ineffective but also poisonous, the alchemist would have been beaten to death long ago."

After laughing, he sighed softly, "It's only a 10% chance, how could it be that easy to encounter one? Xiao Xie took the elixir and found it had no effect. In order to save money to try again, he teamed up with others and went into the mountains again during our team's rest period. As a result, he was unlucky and encountered two peak-level third-level monsters. One was a one-horned barbarian bull that few dared to challenge on earth, and the other was a golden eagle, the king of the sky.

As a result, Xiao Xie, who was only at the seventh level of Qi training, was seriously injured and barely managed to escape with his life after exhausting all his means. Now, because of the serious injury that damaged his foundation, he is likely to remain at the seventh level of Qi training forever.

Xiao Han's mood suddenly became heavy.

She understood Ye Qi's good intentions, but her only goal was to work hard to improve her cultivation.

For her, all her hard work in earning money was for cultivation. Otherwise, if she gave up, her cultivation level would have peaked at the fifth level.

"But I still want to give it a try."

She was able to improve her physical condition by relying on a folk remedy and buying and decocting the medicine herself, so perhaps this Xiling Pill was also an opportunity given to her by God.

Ye Qi had nothing to say about Xiao Han's insistence. They weren't even close friends, so she was doing her best to remind her and advise her not to waste money.

Xiao Han gave Ye Qi a hundred spirit stones as a fee and asked him to help her find the cultivator who had brought the elixir to Xiao Xie.

In addition to the price of the pill itself, which is 50,000 spirit stones, Xiao Han also needs to pay a fee of 1,000 spirit stones to the cultivator who brought the pill.