The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

After listening to Xiao Han's story about how Crescent City auctioned the Foundation Establishment Pill, Lu Xinyu understood even more how comfortable her life had been before.

The younger generations in a large family basically do nothing when they are young. They just practice, learn magic, and have fun.

Before they have established their foundation and their qi and blood have begun to decline, they have no pressure in life.

All my worries stemmed from losing to a clan member of equal strength in a family competition, or from a talented sibling being praised and rewarded by the elders, while I was left as the last one to make much progress.

The source of Lu Xinyu's spiritual power, apart from the family's monthly welfare, comes from the occasional gift from his father and mother who help the family with things.

In the past, she, like Zhen Miaomiao, spent almost all the spirit stones she had. It was not until she decided not to get married and wanted to leave the family that she began to tighten her belt and learn to save spirit stones.

But up to now, she has only accumulated more than 20,000 spirit stones.

This amount of money is not even enough to buy the Foundation Establishment Pill on your own.

Large families all had their own alchemists and access to the spiritual herbs needed to refine Foundation Establishment Pills. While their Foundation Establishment Pills couldn't be freely consumed by their descendants, the vast majority of those who had reached the perfection of Qi training and whose Qi and blood had not yet declined had the opportunity to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill.

If Lu Xinyu had reached the great perfection of Qi training before the marriage proposal began, she would also have had the opportunity to obtain a foundation-building pill.

Even if she got married and went to her husband's family, as long as she achieved the great perfection of Qi training before her Qi and blood declined, her husband's family would give her a foundation-building pill. This was the consensus of the big immortal cultivation families.

After all, having one more foundation-building cultivator in a family always means having one more backbone force.

Of course, you can’t successfully build your foundation with just one foundation-building pill. You’ll have to find ways on your own in the future.

If Lu Xinyu had no intention of leaving the family, she would not have to worry about getting a foundation-building pill.

It was only when she had the idea of becoming a casual cultivator that she realized how difficult it was for a casual cultivator to obtain the things that were easily available to her.

According to the information she got from the independent cultivators in the city, it is really difficult for the independent cultivators in Canghai City to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Not only did they need to accumulate enough spirit stones, they also had to find channels to purchase them, such as the underground black market, black intermediaries, and so on.

In short, Foundation Establishment Pills will not appear at a regular auction as Xiao Han mentioned.

Foundation-building pills are rare on the market, not only because the main medicinal herbs used to refine the pills have a harsh growing environment, the herbs need to be long-lived and difficult to cultivate, but also because the cultivation resources and land within the fairy mountain are limited.

It can be said that the big sects and big families strictly control the outflow of foundation-building pills for their own interests, so as to prevent more high-level independent cultivators from growing and becoming stronger and competing with them for resources.

Xinyue City gave out some foundation-building pills to independent cultivators, which was a special case and unique in the entire fairy mountain.

"Sister Han, it must be difficult for a casual cultivator to accumulate enough spirit stones to buy a foundation-building pill, right?"

The independent cultivators Lu Xinyu had previously encountered all worked for others in Canghai City. She felt that after deducting rent, food, daily expenses, and other basic living expenses from their wages, there wouldn't be much left.

Xiao Han felt that his previous way of making money by collecting scrap was too niche, so he said, "If a few trustworthy friends of equal strength team up to hunt, the income would be decent. If you accumulate it slowly, you can still accumulate a lot of spirit stones."

Hunting monsters? Lu Xinyu had little interest in fighting, so she rarely participated in hunting activities organized by her peers in the family.

It was not until this moment that she realized her own naiveté.

In addition to finding ways to earn spirit stones to support their livelihood and cultivation, independent cultivators also need to have ways to avoid being bullied and protect themselves.

As a young cultivator who is not interested in fighting, without the protection of her family and the halo of the eldest daughter of the Lu family, can she still live a stable and comfortable life like now?

At this moment, Lu Xinyu suddenly felt that time was becoming very tight.

She has to learn how to fight people, how to fight monsters, and try every possible way to earn enough spirit stones.

Before her family officially arranges a marriage for her, she must accumulate enough spirit stones to buy the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Xiao Han and Lu Xinyu chatted in the teahouse for more than an hour before Lu Xinyu reluctantly let her go.

Xiao Han just thought that Lu Xinyu was curious about the life of a casual cultivator, so in order to repay her for her enthusiastic introduction to Master Lu, he patiently chatted with her for such a long time.

After returning to her cave, Xiao Han didn't immediately give Badou the elixir to level up. Badou had just reached the peak of the third level of cultivation. She hoped that Badou would settle down and stay in this cave with rich spiritual energy for another six months before trying to break through again.

Badou naturally didn't understand Xiao Han's painstaking efforts. Seeing that she was about to start meditating again, he immediately called out, "Badou, improve your realm, Badou, improve your realm..."

Xiao Han had no choice but to patiently explain it to it several times, and finally threatened it directly that if it barked again, he would punish it.

The croton was so frightened that it dared not shout. It tucked its wings between its legs, shrunk its neck, and squatted in the corner, looking pitiful.

Xiao Han hardened his heart and ignored it, and started practicing on his own.

Anyway, the spiritual energy in the cave is rich, and even if Croton does not actively practice, it is still passively absorbing it.

It has reached the peak of the third level, and this passive training will not allow it to increase its cultivation level, but over time, it will always make its cultivation level more solid.

However, without training and being locked up in the cave all day, Croton couldn't help but feel irritated. But under Xiao Han's tyranny, it didn't dare to make a fuss and could only jump around in the cave.

As a result, Xiao Han could no longer immerse himself in cultivation.

After a month, Croton couldn't stand this kind of life anymore, and Xiao Han couldn't stand it jumping and fluttering around him all day long.

In the end, she decided to let it try to break through the realm.

Xiao Han took out the Explosive Spirit Pill and said to Badou, "Badou, I have done my best for you to break through to the fourth level. Whether you can break through in one go depends on you."

After saying that, he also gave it the small spirit gathering array he used for cultivation, and let it stay in the center of the spirit gathering array to eat pills and try to break through.

Croton finally endured enough time to eat the pill and cried out in joy.

When it landed in the middle of the spirit gathering array and felt the richer spiritual energy here, it opened its mouth in joy and made a hoarse sound, which made Xiao Han seriously suspect that it was laughing.

Then, it opened its mouth, pecked open the cork of the pill bottle, sucked out the pill, and swallowed it into its stomach.

Xiao Han squatted on the side, carefully observing its every move.

However, she watched helplessly as Badou went from being excited to gradually calming down, then his eyes began to half-close and half-open, and finally he closed his eyes and began to sleep.

Xiao Han: Is this pill an explosive spirit pill or a sleeping pill?