The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Xiao Han knew that even if she improved the purity of her spiritual roots, it would be basically impossible for her to successfully build a foundation on her own.

Fortunately, she is still a long way from reaching the great perfection of Qi training, so she can slowly inquire about it.

It must be said that the improvement in her aptitude made her cultivation speed much faster. Coupled with the help of taking Xiao Huan Dan again, it only took her two and a half years to cultivate to the seventh level of Qi training.

Then when she was forty-two years old, she relied on the Barrier Breaking Pill to improve her cultivation to the eighth level of Qi training.

Xiao Han breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his cultivation progress was still going according to his plan.

You must first cultivate to the ninth level of Qi training before you can talk about other things.

When setting up the stall that day, Xiao Han discovered that his neighbor on the left was a young female cultivator who was quite pretty.

Xiao Han's own stall was always rented out on a monthly basis, but the stalls around her had a high turnover of stall owners. Therefore, when she saw a young female cultivator setting up shop next door today, she didn't pay much attention.

But just as she put up the scrap collection sign, the young female cultivator from next door came over.

"Sister, your business is really interesting."

Seeing that her cultivation level was comparable to his, Xiao Han immediately said with some displeasure, "Fellow Daoist, just call me Fellow Daoist. Are you deliberately trying to belittle me by calling me sister?"

Although a monk's skin appears smooth and delicate due to the spiritual energy nourishing his body, and he may look much younger than his actual age, the rings of time will still slowly carve their marks on his face.

Although Xiao Han is already 42 years old, she looks just like those female white-collar workers who are just over 30 in modern society.

But no matter how young he looks, he is definitely older than the female cultivator next to him who looks to be in her early twenties.

Therefore, Xiao Han felt that the other party, a female cultivator who was obviously much younger than him, was deliberately humiliating him by calling him "sister".

The female cultivator seemed to have achieved her goal and immediately laughed, "My fellow Daoist, don't be angry. I really didn't yell at you. Do you know how old I am this year?"

Xiao Han knew from her tone that she was probably not as young as she looked, but what did it have to do with him? He was too lazy to compliment her on her youthful appearance.

He immediately shook his head and said, "I don't know, and I don't want to guess."

Fortunately, the female cultivator didn't play the guessing game. Instead, she said in a rather smug tone, "I'm already fifty years old this year. I'm not kidding."

Xiao Han was surprised for a moment, then immediately sneered, using silence to express his disbelief.

The female cultivator simply extended her wrist and said, "If you don't believe me, I'll let you check my bone age."

Xiao Han felt that the other party was a little baffling.

She was too lazy to check the other person's bone age. Even if the other person was really fifty years old, so what?

She just smiled, without saying anything or making any movements.

The female cultivator was a little surprised, "Aren't you curious about why I look so young?"

Xiao Han placed some low-level magical instruments he had refined on the stall and asked perfunctorily, "Then why is this?"

The female cultivator immediately replied happily, "That's because I took the beauty pill. Here, this is it."

As he spoke, he handed a bottle of pills to Xiao Han.

Xiao Han glanced at the several pill bottles on the other party's stall, and suddenly realized that this young lady had gone around in circles just to promote the pills she was selling.

Unfortunately, the person she met today was Xiao Han, and her deal was doomed to fail.

Not to mention that the money Xiao Han saved was either used to buy Barrier Breaking Pills or Foundation Establishment Pills. Even if she had that spare money and wanted to dress herself up, she would not buy these illicit pills from a street stall like this.

She smiled and asked casually, "How much is one pill of this beauty pill?"

The female cultivator's eyes lit up, and she immediately smiled and said, "It's not expensive, not expensive at all. One pill only costs five hundred spirit stones. Once you eat it, although it won't permanently preserve your youthful appearance, it will slow down the aging process."

Xiao Han nodded and said, "Yes, it's a good pill, but unfortunately I don't have that many spirit stones to buy it."

The female cultivator hurriedly said, "It's fate that we can set up a stall together. How about this, I'll sell it to you for 450 spirit stones?"

Xiao Han still shook his head, "I don't have money to buy it."

The female cultivator said earnestly, "We women should be kind to ourselves. Do you wish to become an old woman so soon?"

Xiao Han smiled and said, "I don't want to either, but I don't have money to buy beauty pills."

The female cultivator curled her lips, "Who are you kidding? You've rented a stall here for a long time, and you only set it up for an hour and a half every day. I don't believe you can't even come up with a few hundred spirit stones."

Xiao Han rarely spoke the truth, "I need to save money to buy foundation-building pills. I really don't have money to buy beauty pills."

An elderly male cultivator stall owner on the other side of the female cultivator also interjected, "That's right. As long as you successfully build your foundation, your appearance will age very slowly. There's no need for beauty pills."

The female cultivator said disdainfully, "Buy Foundation Establishment Pills? You really wish for it. Apart from New Moon City, how many independent cultivators can actually buy Foundation Establishment Pills?"

Xiao Han perked up when he heard this and asked, "Where is Xinyue City? Why is it the only place I can buy it?"

The female cultivator glanced at Xiao Han with a look that looked like a country bumpkin, then said in a boastful tone, "New Moon City is the largest immortal city under the jurisdiction of the Juxian Sect. It is the holy land for independent cultivators to cultivate immortality. Only there can independent cultivators have the opportunity to purchase many rare resources that cannot be found anywhere else."

Xiao Han immediately began to flatter him, "You know a lot, fellow Daoist, but who did you hear that from?"

The female cultivator snorted, "Who cares who told me this? What I said is true anyway."

She was embarrassed to say that she had lived in Xinyue City since she was a child. However, before her mother, who was in the Foundation Establishment Stage, was seriously injured and died, she was afraid that she would have difficulty living in Xinyue City, so she used a rare treasure in her hands as the price to send her back to her mother's hometown, Zixiao City.

Crescent City is indeed a paradise for independent cultivators, but it is also their hell.

The competition for living there was fierce. The cheapest rent was a thousand spirit stones a month, not to mention other expenses. And yet, the places with a rent of a thousand spirit stones a month were the most sought-after and the hardest to find.

In the past, she had her mother's protection, so she had the opportunity to learn alchemy and did not have to worry about the problem of training resources.

It wasn't until her mother's death that she, unwilling to leave New Moon City, gradually began to experience the hardships of life there. After five years of perseverance, she finally gave in and allowed the Foundation Establishment cultivator her mother had entrusted to take her back to Zixiao City.

In New Moon City, she could no longer make a living, and in Purple Sky City, she lost the possibility of building her foundation.