The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Xiao Han was stunned for a moment, then fell silent.

Although she had long known that the Foundation Establishment Pill was not a panacea for success in foundation building, when the facts were laid out before her, she had no confidence in her future at all.

The Foundation Establishment Pill only taps into a cultivator's potential and increases the chances of success. This process also involves a certain amount of luck.

Xiao Han had heard someone say before: Luck is also a kind of strength.

She felt even more deeply about these words now.

When Xiao Han first met Qiu Yinong, she was already at the ninth level of Qi training, while Ye Qi was only at the eighth level. It was only on their way to Xinyue City that she learned that Ye Qi was two years older than Qiu Yinong.

It seems that Qiu Yinong's early cultivation speed was much faster than Ye Qi's.

Qiu Yinong is four years older than Xiao Han.

In other words, Qiu Yinong is now over fifty years old, and this is the second time she has failed in building her foundation.

It is ideal for a cultivator to succeed in building his foundation in one go. Otherwise, if he fails once, his body will be damaged, which will reduce the chances of success in building his foundation next time.

Now, Qiu Yinong has not only failed twice, but age is not forgiving and all the functions of her body are about to start declining.

By the time she saved enough money to buy the Foundation Establishment Pill and won the bid again, her chances of success had been reduced again.

Seeing Xiao Han's grief-stricken expression, Ye Qi hurriedly comforted him, "You've never built your foundation on your own before, so your body is still in its best condition. Now that you have the foundation-building pill, you might be able to succeed in building your foundation in one go."

Xiao Han smiled bitterly, "I hope so."

She truly had no confidence at all. The only thing she could think of was to frequently visit auctions and get all the elixirs that would be useful for foundation building.

Ye Qi continued, "I asked you to meet me today mainly because I wanted to share with you some of my experiences in successfully building my foundation. I hope it will be helpful to you in building your foundation in the future."

Ye Qi felt that if Xiao Han hadn't strongly invited her to New Moon City, she would likely never have achieved foundation building in her lifetime. Therefore, she now hoped to share some of her experiences with Xiao Han as a token of gratitude.

Xiao Han was naturally overjoyed. He quickly sat up straight and listened carefully to Ye Qi's experience.

After separating from Ye Qi, Xiao Han started her scrap business of collecting spirit stones again.

Although as far as she knew, there were already more than ten people who had joined the scrap collection industry, and there was already a monk setting up a stall at the north city gate who was trying to compete with her, Xiao Han did not lose her composure.

When she met a monk who was selling damaged magic tools, he thought her price was too low and threatened to sell them at the scrap stall across the street. Xiao Han just smiled and agreed.

She doesn't want to do things like high-priced acquisitions and vicious competition.

Having worked in New Moon City for a year, she had a good idea of how much profit she could make from selling a damaged magical instrument. She always kept her purchase price reasonable, offering a price that would still leave her with a reasonable profit margin.

The price cannot be set too high or too low.

However, she didn't expect that the young cultivator at the seventh level of Qi training opposite her had no moral principles. Not only did he buy at a high price himself, but he also offered a very high price to anyone who asked Xiao Han for the price with a damaged magic weapon and then ran to him to ask for the price.

Therefore, those monks who had sold at a high price turned around and looked at Xiao Han with contempt and regarded him as a profiteer.

Although Xiao Han had a heart attack, she didn't care and focused on selling those auxiliary magic tools. She wanted to see how long the other party could hold out against her at all costs.

What's more, the other party is here to set up a stall around the clock. But after he collects the scrap magic tools, he will have to spend time to smelt and separate them. By then, he can still make some money by setting up a stall here by himself.

After all, a monk's circle of friends is much smaller than that of ordinary people. It's impossible for everyone to know that the new monk who set up a stall now offers a higher price, so if there are any damaged magic tools, keep them and sell them to him later.

Sure enough, Xiao Han's guess was correct. After the two of them had been running the stall together for half a month, the young cultivator finally closed up shop and focused on smelting and separation.

So at the north city gate, Xiao Han was still the only one setting up a stall here.

During this period, any monks passing by with damaged magic weapons would naturally sell them to her nearby.

After all, there are so many monks coming in and out of the city gate every day. The base number is large, so it is easy for her to collect three or two damaged magic weapons.

At the end of the month, Xiao Han took stock of her income. After deducting rent and other expenses, she only earned 3,000 spirit stones.

This income is really much less than what she earned when she first started collecting damaged magic tools.

But compared to other jobs, it was still pretty good. Therefore, Xiao Han was not discouraged and continued to set up the stall according to his plan.

Then, Xiao Han couldn't help but secretly laugh at the fact that the unethical young cultivator hadn't appeared in a long time. Xiao Han calculated that the scrap artifacts he had collected should have been melted and separated long ago.

If the smelting and separation have not been completed by now, then the time he has spent will also be more than enough.

Therefore, unless he was delayed by other things and did not come to set up the stall, it is very likely that he did not make much money after finally counting the accounts of the scrap magic tools he collected in that half month.

Fortunately, there were only a few cultivators who were so unprofessional as to challenge their peers directly. Afterwards, Xiao Han still dominated the scrap business at the North City Gate.

Then, half a year had passed since Xiao Han bought the Foundation Establishment Pill, and Xiao Han finally had more than 30,000 spirit stones saved in his storage bag.

With the money, she naturally focused on collecting the elixirs needed to build her foundation.

For example, the six-leaf three-flower pill, and the body protection pill.

Then, she turned her attention to the Sihai Trading Company's auction again.

After learning that Sihai Trading Company was going to hold another auction in the near future, she hurriedly inquired about the specific time, and then went to attend it alone with ease.

Unfortunately, this auction did not include any Foundation Establishment Pills or any other pills related to Foundation Establishment.

Although the auction still had many good items, Xiao Han knew that the few spirit stones he had accumulated must not be misappropriated. Therefore, he only spent a thousand spirit stones on the ticket and left the auction empty-handed.

Although he returned empty-handed this time, he was not too anxious when he thought that he had just reached the middle stage of the ninth level of Qi training, and it would take at least two years to reach the late stage and the great perfection.

On this day, Xiao Han was still setting up a stall at the north city gate when two young disciples of the Juxian Sect came over.

A tall, thin young disciple picked up a rock-shaped screaming chicken warning instrument and asked, "Sister, how much is this?"

The young man was very sweet-talking. Xiao Han, who was about to turn 50, was very pleased with it. He said with a smile, "Others want ten spirit stones each, but you cultivators from the Juxian Sect must give us a discount, eight spirit stones each."