The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

The few of them only meditated and adjusted their breathing for two quarters of an hour. As the sun was about to set and the tired birds were returning to their nests, they all stopped regulating their breathing.

Anyway, those who weren't on night watch would lean against the tree trunks to take a nap, and their bodies would automatically absorb spiritual energy and slowly recover the energy they had consumed. They were all at the ninth level of Qi training, and their speed today wasn't very fast, so they hadn't consumed much.

Xiao Han nimbly jumped down from the tree, cut some thin branches nearby, and quickly twisted a few leaf headbands to wear on his head as camouflage. He then tied some thin branches with vines to make a camouflage coat.

Seeing her carrying these things up the tree, Ye Qi asked in confusion, "What are you doing?"

Xiao Han smiled and said, "It's for disguise. We'll put this on our heads and this on our bodies, and then slap a breath-suppressing talisman on top. No matter if it's a monster beast or a monster bird, they won't notice us unless they get close to us."

Of course, at times like this, the high-level Breath-Suppressing Talisman is not used. It costs one hundred spirit stones each and is too expensive. Unless it is an important moment, one would not be willing to use it.

A common breath-suppressing talisman conceals the fluctuations of spiritual energy and aura on one's body, preventing passing monsters and birds from easily capturing it. Therefore, Xiao Han had considered wearing a disguise and adding the breath-suppressing talisman to avoid attracting the attention of any monsters or birds.

Ye Qi and the others were actually against wearing leaf headbands and branch robes, thinking that doing so would damage their image as monks. However, thinking of Xiao Han's achievements last night, they felt that her doing so would be helpful.

So he took Xiao Han's special props and put them on.

Because Ye Qi and the others were hunting, most of their clothes were dark. Xiao Han hadn't noticed this before, but when he was making his camouflage clothes, he felt that the color of his current clothes was a little conspicuous, so he hurriedly put on a darker layer of clothing.

Now they are camouflaged on the slope, sitting on a big tree with lush branches and leaves, and with the help of the Breath-Suppressing Talisman, it is difficult to find them unless you search for them specifically.

The four of them would each work an hour, and from then on, they would rotate their shifts every night so that no one would suffer any loss. After all, they didn't know how many days they would have to stay in the wild before reaching New Moon City.

Birds were returning to their nests overhead, and some birds that didn't have nests but were resting on the branches also flew in and rested on the branches.

What reassured everyone was that the birds on the trees were ordinary birds without any cultivation.

What worries them is that some bird droppings might fall on them.

Of course, this kind of thing wouldn't actually happen. Even if the monks resting weren't paying attention, the monks on duty, with their sharp senses, wouldn't let a slowly falling piece of bird droppings hit their companions on the head or body.

The night breeze was blowing, and the leaves were swaying gently.

Xiao Han released his spiritual sense and watched everything around him vigilantly.

Because of her contribution last night, several people unanimously gave her the task of guarding the first shift.

After all, the Hai hour is still in the first half of the night. After finishing the night watch, you can have a good rest for the rest of the night. Even if no one will sleep soundly, but closing your eyes and dozing off, or taking a short nap without being disturbed, is a good rest.

As the time gradually approached eleven o'clock in the middle of the night and the hour of Hai was about to pass, there was movement in the bushes in the distance.

Then Xiao Han saw a second-level peak demon pig coming out.

Seeing it, Xiao Han couldn't help but think of the demon pig he had captured when he returned to Fuyuan City. Thinking of the delicious taste of the demon pig, Xiao Han, who had been eating the fasting pills for a few days, couldn't help but swallow his saliva secretly.

This is a huge pile of walking spirit beast meat.

It’s a pity that they can’t provoke any monsters now, otherwise, they will definitely become their meal.

However, Xiao Han regretted that he couldn't take advantage of it, and it walked towards the big tree instead.

Looking at its expression, Xiao Han knew that this demon pig did not notice the people hiding in the big tree.

The demonic boar walked over and began to scratch its itch on the hard, rough bark of the tree. Even though it was already a second-level cultivator, some of the wild boar's nature would not be abandoned just because of its high cultivation level.

Perhaps because they were tense all night last night, the three people who were not on duty tonight leaned against the tree trunks, and at this moment they had gone from dozing off to light sleep.

But the wild boar's rubbing immediately woke up the other three people.

Fortunately, these three people were not ordinary cultivators after all. When they found out that the culprit was a demon pig and Xiao Han was staring at it intently, they didn't even breathe heavily.

The demon pig didn't even look up. With the breath-suppressing talisman, it naturally didn't detect the breath of the human cultivator. After rubbing against him a few times, it left.

Xiao Han: My pork ran away.

The next morning, Xiao Han and his three companions spent the night peacefully amid the chirping of birds, and set out on their journey again.

They stopped and started along the way, trying to identify the right route. Naturally, their pace was much slower than if they were led by someone. But there was no other way. Safety was the priority. They couldn't accidentally stray into the territory of a fourth-level monster or higher.

Xiao Han didn't expect that they didn't accidentally enter the territory of a fourth-level monster, but accidentally entered the territory of an old friend.

The four of them were running on a hillside with sparse vegetation when they suddenly discovered a third-level demon bear eating a honeycomb with relish under a protruding rock on the hillside on the right side in front of them.

Seeing the four human cultivators suddenly rushing towards it, the spiritual pressure they exuded was all from cultivators of the same level as its own. The demon bear was stunned for a moment, then threw away the honeycomb it had not yet eaten and quickly rushed up the hillside.

Xiao Han: Is this a case of the tide turning?

I remember when I first went from Fuyuan City to Zixiao City, I bumped into a third-level demon bear on the road.

Then, before he could even get up, two people from the caravan grabbed his arms and ran away.

Today, it finally turned into a demon bear. When it saw us, it didn’t even eat the delicious honey and ran away?

As expected, the level of cultivation is the bottom line.

In fact, we have encountered monsters and beasts during the past two days of traveling, but they are usually very far away and everyone is safe and sound.

This is the first time I have encountered a monster at such close range today.

Ye Qi immediately said with regret: "If it weren't for the urgent need to hurry, the four of us would have surrounded and killed this bear monster and earned a large sum of spirit stones."

He Yanling smiled and said, "When we get to Xinyue City, there will definitely be many monsters in the nearby Monster Forest. I'll let you kill as many as you want then."

The quiet Qiu Yinong sneered, "If the monsters were so easy to surround and kill, the Monster Forest would no longer exist. I imagine it might be even harder than hunting monsters in the mountains outside Zixiao City."

When she said this, everyone fell silent.

Whether it was Crescent City or the Monster Forest, they were completely unfamiliar places to them. Whether it was easy to survive there, or whether they could buy Foundation Establishment Pills, everything was still unknown.

Xiao Han didn't think too much about it. To her, the more monks she hunted, the more magical weapons would be damaged, and then her scrap business would be able to continue.

However, the thing that worries me most is whether I can reach Crescent City safely.