The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

When Xiao Han contacted the cultivator who could get the spirit-cleansing pill, he found out that this was a caravan from the Tanji Pharmacy in the north of the city. The other party had to accept payment before they would bring the pill.

However, the other party guaranteed that the pills were authentic, because the seal of the jade bottle of each pill had the special mark of the alchemy elder of the Juxian Sect, which could not be counterfeited.

Xiao Han had bought herbs from Tan's Pharmacy twice, specifically those used to improve the physical condition of older people, and both had been successful. This left her with a good impression of Tan's Pharmacy, and she felt that this shop would bring her good luck, and that she would definitely be successful this time.

With the endorsement of this big pharmacy, she felt at ease handing over 50,000 spirit stones to the other party.

As for the commission, I will pay it after I get the pills.

Xiao Han is now like a gambler, betting all his wealth.

If she wins, her chances of building a foundation will at least increase from 10% to 20%.

Lost? What would happen after losing? Xiao Han didn't want to think about it. What gambler, putting all their money on the line, would think about what would happen if they lost? If they did, they wouldn't gamble anymore.

However, the elixir is not available just by chance. It has to wait for the monks in the caravan to bring it back from the great immortal city deeper inside the immortal mountain.

During this period, she still set up a stall to collect waste and refine it during the day, and continued to practice tirelessly at night.

After all, even if the Spirit Cleansing Pill helped her improve her purity, she still had to rely on hard work to break through it. It was just that the higher the purity of the spiritual root, the smaller the barrier.

Three months later, Xiao Han finally received the news that the Xiling Pill had been bought back.

She didn't care about the stall that had only been set up for half an hour and hurried to Tan's Pharmacy.

After paying another thousand spirit stones, Xiao Han finally received an exquisite pill bottle. There was a lotus-shaped seal on the mouth of the bottle. This was because the alchemy elder of the Juxian Sect, whose Taoist name was Qinglian Jushi, had sealed it.

The owner of Tan's Pharmacy told Xiao Han that once the seal was triggered and damaged by spiritual power, a delicate fragrance of lotus would waft out, which no one could imitate.

Moreover, no one dared to counterfeit the elixirs produced by the alchemy elder of the largest sect in the world of immortal cultivation.

If you really do it, you will be putting money before life.

After listening to the shopkeeper's introduction, Xiao Han felt relieved. He did not go to set up a stall again, but went straight back to the cave.

Sitting cross-legged in the training room, Xiao Han meditated for a whole week. After his mind became calm, he took out the pill bottle.

As expected of a high-end pill bottle, that bottle is no ordinary item, it is made of a kind of refining material with the effect of locking spirits. This small bottle alone requires more than ten spirit stones.

Sure enough, if luxury goods don’t have exquisite packaging, how can they still be classy?

A trace of spiritual power was emitted from his fingers and pressed on the center of the lotus.

The lotus mark gradually blurred and then disappeared.

Suddenly, a faint fragrance of lotus wafted into the air.

Xiao Han opened the stopper of the pill bottle and poured out a pill.

The pill is the size of a longan and emits a refreshing and pleasant scent of spiritual herbs.

On the brown pill, there was a faint pattern in the shape of auspicious clouds. This was the legendary pill pattern.

Xiao Han held the pill between two fingers and looked at it carefully.

This is a luxury item worth 50,000 spirit stones. If you swallow it in one gulp, you won’t be able to appreciate it anymore.

After looking at it carefully, she finally put the pill into her mouth.

The pill is too big. If a mortal were to swallow it, he would probably choke.

Fortunately, she was a cultivator, and with a strong swallow, the pill slid into her throat and then went down smoothly.

Xiao Han immediately closed his eyes and began to carefully sense the effects of the elixir.

Soon, a warm current spread from the chest to the limbs and bones, and the whole person felt like soaking in a bucket of warm water of moderate temperature.

No one could tell her what it felt like after taking the pill, she could only experience it slowly on her own.

Then, this comfortable feeling lasted for half an hour before slowly dissipating.

After his body fully recovered, Xiao Han was a little confused.

Was this a success or a failure?

Never mind, let’s practice first.

However, she is now at the peak of the fifth level of Qi training. Before she breaks through to the sixth level of Qi training, she cannot absorb even a trace of spiritual energy.

Therefore, it is impossible to rely on practice to detect whether the elixir has taken effect.

In order to know whether the purity of her spiritual roots had improved, she could only find a spirit-testing plate to test it.

I looked at the time on my watch and found that it was only 2:45 pm.

She immediately stood up and rushed to the City Lord's Mansion.

The spiritual root testing center in Fuyuan City is at the City Lord’s Mansion. She didn’t know whether Zixiao City also had a public spiritual root testing center, so she could only go there and take a look first.

When I got there, I asked a manager of the City Lord's Mansion who handled disputes among the monks in the city, and found out that the place for spirit testing was at the office where the cave was rented out.

Xiao Han went in and told a middle-aged monk on duty that he wanted to test his spirit.

The monk took out the spirit-detecting disk, looked around, and asked, "Where is the spirit-detecting person?"

Xiao Han was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I wanted to test the spirit myself."

The middle-aged cultivator asked curiously, "You've already reached the fifth level of Qi training, don't you know what your spiritual roots are?"

Xiao Han said, "I know, but I want to test it again. This shouldn't be a problem, right?"

The middle-aged cultivator glanced at her and said, "Pay the spirit test fee of twenty spirit stones."

Xiao Han immediately took out twenty spirit stones and handed them over.

The middle-aged monk continued, "Place your palm on the spirit-testing plate and circulate your spiritual power."

Xiao Han was already a cultivator, so naturally she didn't need other cultivators to use a trace of spiritual energy to attract the spiritual roots in her body and activate the spirit-testing disk as she did the first time.

Xiao Han did as he was told, and the spirit-testing plate immediately lit up with four colored beams of light: gold, green, red and brown.

Even though he knew that the female cultivator could tell at a glance what kind of spiritual roots he had and the quality of them, the middle-aged cultivator still followed the procedure and announced, "The four spiritual roots have the attributes of gold, wood, fire, and earth. The purity of the spiritual roots is all medium."

The first time Jiang Wan tested Xiao Han's spiritual power, she was in such turmoil that her control over it was unsteady that it was excruciating. But back then, when she learned she had spiritual roots, she felt a wave of disbelief, like someone who had won the jackpot.

The result of the spirit test only made her feel an empty and unreal feeling in her heart.

She lost the bet.

That one percent chance of a miracle didn't happen to her.

All the 50,000 spirit stones that he had painstakingly saved were wasted.

Xiao Han walked out of the spirit-testing place with floating steps and walked slowly on the street alone.

All 50,000 spirit stones were wasted, but she didn't feel much pain at this moment.

What she is desperate about now is that if the purity of her spiritual roots cannot be improved, then is there any hope for her to build her foundation?