The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Nearly 180,000 spirit stones definitely cannot be collected piece by piece.

Xiao Han later found out that the jade token of spiritual stone certificate that she had seen in Fuyuan City was sold in a shop similar to a money shop opened by Huading Sect.

The Huading Sect was the second largest sect after the Juxian Sect, and its territory was located in the southeast. Judging from the panoramic map of the entire Immortal Mountain, it was indeed very far away from Fuyuan City.

Fuyuan City is located at the outermost edge of the Immortal Mountain and is too far away from the Huading Sect. No wonder the Huading Sect did not open a branch in Fuyuan City until more than 20 years ago.

After Xiao Han learned that these spirit stone and jade tokens were issued by the second-largest sect in the world of immortal cultivation, she no longer worried about the bank's bankruptcy. With the support of a major sect, she was now accustomed to using spirit stone and jade tokens.

The Huading Sect’s spirit stone certificate jade tokens are divided into three denominations: one hundred, five hundred, and one thousand.

Therefore, more than 170,000 spirit stones are actually not much when converted into a jade certificate.

I paid the spirit stones and received pills, talismans, and formation plates.

Xiao Han followed the instructions of the female cultivator, went out of the back door of the small room, walked through a corridor, and then arrived at a large shop belonging to Sihai Trading Company.

There were many customers in the store, and no one paid attention to Xiao Han who was walking down from upstairs.

After leaving the store and onto the street, Xiao Han stood at the door and waited for a while, but Ye Qi and the others didn't come out. Just when he was wondering, he suddenly received a sound transmission note from Ye Qi, and then he realized that they had already left.

When the three of them met, they found out that the first and second Foundation Establishment Pills were indeed won by them according to the order they had agreed upon beforehand, and everyone was very happy.

Now that the foundation-building pills were in hand, Ye Qi and Qiu Yinong were ready to build their foundations again. Xiao Han himself was still far from that stage, so he blessed the two of them and then hurried back to the rental house.

With a better spirit gathering formation and the spiritual energy in the rental house in Xinyue City which is much higher than that in Zixiao City, she hopes that she can cultivate to the great perfection before the age of fifty and reach the foundation-building stage as soon as possible.

Of course, the next day, she still had to continue her scrap business.

However, what she didn't expect was that someone finally came to compete with her in the scrap business.

Xiao Han had been doing business of buying damaged magic tools for a year. After a long time, he finally attracted the attention of someone with ulterior motives.

Melting and separating the useful raw materials from damaged magical instruments is actually a very meticulous, tedious, and laborious task. This is probably why no one thought of doing this business before.

After all, cultivators who learn to refine weapons all aim to become masters of refining weapons. Who would want to learn a skill and then do the hardest and lowest-level apprenticeship work for the rest of their lives?

However, let alone becoming a master weapon refiner, even becoming a weapon refiner who can stand on his own feet will not be achieved in three to five years.

Naturally, there were many independent cultivators who, by chance, became alchemists and weapon refiners. However, before achieving academic success, maintaining their living expenses was a major concern for independent cultivators.

Recycling damaged magic tools, melting and separating them, and then selling the useful raw materials, just because Xiao Han persisted for a year, they also saw the business opportunity.

Xiao Han is certainly not the only cultivator who can and is willing to endure hardships for a living.

Therefore, without Xiao Han's knowledge, people had already started doing this business at the other three city gates.

But no business is easy to do.

Take the business of scrap magic tools for example. If you offer too low a price, others may not be willing to sell it and would rather throw it in a storage bag to take up space.

It’s like you spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy a computer, but later you can’t use it, and the junk collector asks you to recycle it for ten or twenty dollars. How many people will sell it to the junk collector without hesitation?

But the asking price is too high, and I may not earn much after all the hard work.

Furthermore, the raw materials for some instruments are difficult to separate. For some instruments, the usable raw materials after separation are very small, and the work may even be in vain, and you still have to pay the rent.

Of course, in the scrap collection business, there might be opportunities to pick up bargains for a small sum of money, but the problem is that it takes time to set up a stall there. It also takes time to go to the underground furnace to smelt and separate, and the underground furnace requires rent.

So it’s hard to say whether the money you earn in the end is within your ideal range.

The reason why Xiao Han was able to make money was that she had been collecting waste in Zixiao City for more than ten years and had also experienced some losing businesses, which gave her the vision and the right purchase price.

However, the cost of trial and error for her at that time was much lower than that in Crescent City.

Xiao Han heard from a monk who was selling damaged magic tools that there were people collecting scrap at the south city gate, but the price was too low, so he came here specifically to sell. Only then did he realize that he had a colleague.

But in business, no one can monopolize a business. Even the King of Hell and doctors compete with him for sales.

So she wasn't too upset.

But what was frustrating was that her screaming chicken warning magic weapon and the disposable tiger magic weapon for scaring off monsters were also copied by weapon refiners and put on sale in the shop.

Although these two things were small magical tools that she separated out by taking one of the functions from other magical tools, they were also the first ones that she separated out and refined into auxiliary small magical tools separately.

Now that other refiners were openly making and selling the same product, she didn't know whether she should be proud of her unique vision and cleverness, or angry that the thing she made had the same fate as the watch.

No matter what, life must go on, and her scrap business has not been affected that much.

Then, three months later, she received the news that Ye Qi had successfully established his foundation.

After closing the stall, he hurried to a teahouse. Before he even entered, he saw Ye Qi sitting by the window on the second floor.

It was still the same familiar, handsome face, but there was an inexplicably distant aura about him that made her pause. However, Xiao Han soon discovered that it wasn't a distant aura, but the natural pressure emanating from a cultivator who was a realm above her.

It is an aura that prevents low-level cultivators from acting recklessly, and it is also a warning message to stay away from danger.

So, is this what a Foundation Establishment cultivator is like? Even if that person is a good friend, he can still feel an inexplicable sense of distance. This sense of distance is nothing more than the natural self-protection consciousness of a weak and low-level being.

Xiao Han walked up to the second floor with mixed feelings and entered the private room of the teahouse where Ye Qi was.

"Xiao Han, come and sit down." Ye Qi, who was in a very good mood, asked her to sit down and immediately poured her tea.

"Congratulations, you've finally become a Foundation Establishment cultivator." Xiao Han was genuinely happy for her and congratulated her sincerely. After all, Ye Qi was the one she had strongly invited to come to New Moon City.

Ye Qi smiled at her and expressed his gratitude with the same sincerity: "I can become a Foundation Establishment cultivator thanks to you. If I hadn't come to Xinyue City with you, I might never have succeeded in building a foundation in my lifetime in Zixiao City."

The two of them smiled and lamented the difficulty of coming to Crescent City.

Seeing that she was the only one in the room and Qiu Yinong was nowhere to be seen, Xiao Han instinctively asked, "You are the only one here, where is Fellow Daoist Qiu?"

Ye Qi's smile disappeared, and he sighed softly: "Xiao Qiu failed in her foundation building again this time!"