The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

The rest of the journey went smoothly without any incidents, and we returned to Crescent City smoothly.

After returning to the small stone house, Xiao Han, who had learned the cleaning technique and no longer needed to take a bath with water, used the Spring Breeze and Rain Technique to wash himself thoroughly this time, and then performed the cleaning technique several times before changing into new clothes from head to toe.

He had been recuperating in the cave for three days, but both his internal and external injuries had not yet fully healed.

But there are still a lot of things in the storage bag that need to be dealt with.

So Xiao Han, who had just rested at home for one night, went to the shop that bought monster meat the next day.

A middle-aged strong man was holding a low-level magic weapon-level sharp knife and was skinning and deboning a monster with ease.

Seeing Xiao Han come in, he didn't stop what he was doing, but just asked, "Are you buying or selling meat?"

Although he has a butcher shop in the market that specializes in selling meat, some restaurants and small eateries also come directly to his shop to place orders.

Xiao Han said, "Selling meat."

The burly man threw the knife onto the table, walked over, pointed to an empty table nearby, and said, "Put it on there. Let me see what kind of monster meat it is."

Xiao Han took out a unicorn sheep with only first-level cultivation and placed it on the table.

The burly man took a look and said, "Although the unicorn's meat is delicious, the sheep's cultivation is too low, and the spiritual energy contained in the meat is a bit thin. Also, the sheep was not bled in time, which affects the taste when eaten."

He glanced at Xiao Han and said, "How about this? Apart from the horn, the whole sheep is priced at seven spirit stones per pound. The horn is 50 spirit stones. How about that?"

The horns of unicorn sheep are materials for refining weapons. Although the first-level horns are not valuable, fifty spirit stones are still a bit low.

Xiao Han is not going to sell this to him.

But she didn't know how much the whole sheep sold for.

The price of a whole sheep included the fur, internal organs, bones, and meat. Each part was definitely worth a different price, and the butcher wouldn't buy it at market price. Xiao Han understood all of this, but he had no idea whether seven spirit stones per pound was a high or low price for a whole sheep.

Anyway, there are so many things in the storage bag, she can sell some and then go to another place to sell them and ask for the price.

So Xiao Han took out a second-level unicorn, "How do I collect this second-level one?"

The sturdy man's eyes lit up, and he looked over the dead sheep. He said with some regret, "It's a pity that it wasn't bled in time. The price is slightly lower than normal. I'll give you 300 for the horns, and 20 spirit stones per pound for the rest."

A first-level unicorn weighed about 100 kilograms, while a second-level one weighed just over 100 kilograms. In other words, she could earn over 700 spirit stones from a first-level unicorn, while only over 3,000 from a second-level one.

This price was much lower than she had imagined. However, there were too many monks hunting in New Moon City, and the monster materials here were generally low, so she didn't know what the price given by the butcher was.

"This price is too low, can't you increase it a little?"

Xiao Han tried to bargain.

"I'm offering the highest price. You can ask around. I, Old Jia, have always been the most conscientious buyer of monster meat."

The burly boss patted his chest loudly.

Xiao Han then said, "I won't sell these two sheep horns. Please weigh the sheep."

The butcher picked up the boning knife, cut out the horn from the sheep's head, put it aside, and then picked up the sheep to be weighed.

Xiao Han put the sheep horns into the storage bag. She planned to keep a few second-level ones for her to practice when refining weapons, and sell the rest to the Zhang family refining shop, with which she had cooperated for several years.

After the final weighing, the first-level sheep weighed 104 jin and was sold for 728 spirit stones.

The second-level one weighed 168 kilograms and was sold for 3,360 spirit stones.

Xiao Han collected the spirit stones and went out to find another shop to continue selling them.

This time, she found a big restaurant and asked the owner if she wanted unicorn lamb.

The shopkeeper only wanted mutton, and the price he offered was not low, but he didn't want the whole sheep, just the processed mutton.

Xiao Han was too lazy to shave the hair, skin and gut the animal himself, so he gave up.

He wandered to a shop on another street that bought monster meat and also took out a first-level monster and a second-level monster.

After looking at it, the other party said the same thing as the burly boss in the first shop, and offered the same price.

Xiao Han then shipped all the unicorns directly to this store.

Of course, all the unicorns were left behind.

Not counting the value of these horns, she earned about 15,000 to 16,000 spirit stones just from selling the sheep.

Now she finally understood that hunting was indeed profitable, but the risks were no joke. Moreover, the investment in resources such as talismans and elixirs was not a small amount.

No wonder Ye Qi and the others, even at the Great Perfection of Qi Training, still teamed up to hunt. Besides the fact that having more people made it easier to surround the prey, reducing the cost of using talismans and discouraging the robbers from plotting against them was also crucial.

As for what to do if they encounter a fourth-level monster, Xiao Han believes that they must have a way to deal with it.

For example, advanced defensive talismans and defensive arrays must have been prepared.

Xiao Han's current weapon refining level is still at the stage of refining some simple low-level magic weapons, so she kept two legs of the fourth-level human-faced spider's remains, and sold the rest together with the horns of the unicorn sheep to the weapon refining shop.

In the past few years, the raw materials from smelting scrap magic tools were all sold to the Zhang family's weapon refining shop. That was the female weapon refiner who offered the highest price after comparing prices among three shops and did not like smelting magic tools.

After dealing with each other for several years, the two are naturally old acquaintances.

She was surprised when she saw what Xiao Han took out. "This is new stuff that hasn't been processed yet. Have you changed your career to hunting?"

Xiao Han naturally wouldn't say that he was originally going to look for medicinal herbs, and that these prey were incidental. He simply smiled and said, "The scrap business is tough, so I went hunting with my friends. We harvested these together, and I brought them to you to sell. You have to give me a good price, otherwise I won't be able to explain myself to my teammates."

Shopkeeper Zhang said as he inspected the merchandise, "We've been doing business for several years now. When have I ever given you a low price?"

After checking the quality of the goods, she finally quoted a price that Xiao Han was quite satisfied with.

The fourth-level monster was indeed more valuable. It was just the remains of a human-faced spider, and she had cut off two of its legs, leaving it with only six legs. Together with the silk sac and other things, it was sold for more than 15,000 spirit stones.

The sheep horns were only sold at the first level, not many spirit stones.

But all the gains added up to more than 30,000 spirit stones.

Well, excluding Jie Xiu’s storage bag, the expenses for her talismans and high-level defensive talismans have been recovered.