The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

After Xiao Han returned to his cave, he built a bird's nest for Croton in less than half an hour.

This bird's nest looks like a mini version of a horizontal bar with a large bowl underneath. It is made of iron juice mixed with crystal sand, and its color looks very much like stainless steel.

The horizontal bar is for the croton to rest, and the big bowl is the bird's nest for sleeping.

Xiao Han placed the successfully forged bird's nest in the corner and said to the jumping Croton on the ground, "This is your bird's nest. You can sleep or play there in the future."

The croton flew over immediately, paused on the horizontal bar for a moment, and then flew into the big bowl below, making a cheerful croaking sound.

"The bird's nest of Croton, the bird's nest of Croton..."

Because it was a stone cave purely for retreat, there was nothing in the house. Xiao Han came here for retreat and cultivation, so naturally he would not buy furniture or anything.

Therefore, in the one and a half years since he came here, Badou basically just found a place on the ground to close his eyes and sleep.

Now that Croton finally has something that belongs to him, he is naturally very happy.

Xiao Han looked at the smooth stainless steel bowl and was worried that the croton would slip inside. It seemed that he had to put some monster skin to pad it so that the little guy could live more comfortably.

With a roll of his eyes, Xiao Han said, "Badou, your bird's nest is bare. You need to cover it with some soft monster skins, right? And you need to eat meat every day, right? Go hunting in the mountains with that beautiful young lady we met today. Then I'll have spirit stones to buy you meat and cover your bird's nest with beautiful, soft monster skins."

Croton tilted his head and said, "I can't catch them."

Xiao Han: "It's okay, you don't have to catch them. You just need to explore the way ahead and tell them where the monsters are and what level they are. You don't have to do anything."

Croton immediately flew up and circled at the door, "Master, let's go and catch the monster."

Xiao Han smiled and said, "Don't worry, she will come to you when she is ready."

Then she took out some snacks and fruits she had bought and put them aside.

"Badou, I'm going to practice. You can eat when you want, sleep when you want, and practice when you want, but don't make any noise and don't disturb me while I'm practicing."

When Badou saw the snacks and fruits, he didn't care about anything else. He cackled twice to show that he understood, and then started to eat them with relish.

The fourth-level demon bird, like the foundation-building cultivators, could already practice fasting. However, when there was food to eat, no demon beast would refuse it.

Besides, monsters don't need to earn rent, nor do they need to buy skills, magic weapons, talismans, elixirs, or other miscellaneous items. For them, the only thing they need is to fill their stomachs.

Therefore, even when they reach the fourth stage and can survive without eating, they still need to eat something from time to time.

Xiao Han was not worried that Croton would be hungry, so he ignored it and started to concentrate on practicing.

She had spent so many spirit stones to rent the cave, so she didn't dare to waste time.

Three days later, Lu Xinyu came to the address and took away the croton.

It was not until the evening at 11:00 PM that Lu Xinyu returned with the croton.

As soon as she saw Xiao Han, Lu Xinyu said happily, "Sister Han, do you know how many monsters we hunted today and how many spirit stones we earned?"

Then, before Xiao Han could ask, she couldn't wait to say, "Today we hunted a third-level monster and five second-level monsters. We sold them for a total of over 11,000 spirit stones, and each person got over 2,000 spirit stones. If I could earn this much spirit stones every day, I could save enough to buy the Foundation Establishment Pill in a year, hehe."

She picked three sisters from the clan, two of whom were at the ninth level of Qi training, and one was at the seventh level of Qi training.

Originally it was just a try, but unexpectedly with the help of Ba Dou, a few young ladies with little combat experience actually gained so much. The sisters were so happy that they all clamored to go out of the city and into the mountains to continue hunting early tomorrow morning.

Xiao Han poured a bucket of cold water on her, "You can't go hunting every day. The monsters aren't stupid. After a while, they'll figure out it's Croton that's tipping off, and they'll hide the moment they see Croton. So it's best for you to go hunting every few days, and preferably in a different spot each time."

After a pause, she reminded Lu Xinyu again, "Cultivation is the most important thing. You must seize the time to practice. You must know that all the spirit stones you earn are for improving your cultivation."

It’s like she spent more than one million to rent a cave, all for the purpose of improving her cultivation quickly.

Otherwise, with so many spirit stones, she could rent a cheap cave and enjoy a good life with delicious food and drink.

Lu Xinyu also thought it made sense. "Okay, I'll go back and tell them to rest for two days and then go hunting somewhere else."

Then, she handed Xiao Han two spirit stone certificates with a face value of one thousand and three spirit stone certificates with a face value of one hundred.

"This is Croton's share. There are four of us sisters, plus it, so all the income is divided equally among us five times."

Originally, her three sisters were quite dissatisfied with Ba Dou and the others sharing the harvest equally, but it was Lu Xinyu who insisted.

She had originally planned to tell Xiao Han that she would let Badou live in the spirit beast bag and follow her back to the City Lord's Mansion, so as to avoid having to pick him up every day. Later, the attitude of her sisters made her change her mind.

She decided to continue hunting tomorrow, but without Badou, and let her three sisters see how many monsters they could hunt on their own without Badou's help in searching and pointing out the specific location of the prey.

Xiao Han didn't know that the team had different opinions on the distribution, nor did she know Lu Xinyu's little thoughts. She accepted the spirit stones with peace of mind.

Although Croton will not participate in the battle, its importance is no less than that of a combat-type team member.

"By the way, did you get the monster skin that I asked you to bring?" Xiao Han asked again.

When Lu Xinyu came to pick up Badou in the morning, Xiao Han asked her to help buy a small piece of monster skin on the street to make a bird's nest for Badou.

Lu Xinyu took out a piece of furry tail and said, "This is a piece of cleaned mink tail that I asked the store owner for when I was selling the monster. I didn't pay for it."

Xiao Han thanked her, took the thing and placed it in Badou's bird's nest.

Then, as soon as Lu Xinyu left, Badou immediately said proudly: "Master, Badou has earned spirit stones, Badou wants to eat meat."

Half of the two or three pounds of demon pork that Xiao Han had stored for it last time was left. He took it out immediately and put it in its special bowl.

"Badou did a good job today, so there will definitely be meat to eat."

Although two thousand spirit stones are not a lot, at least it is enough to feed Croton, and Xiao Han is still very satisfied.

The next day, Lu Xinyu and his group went out of the city to hunt again.

The three of them didn't see Badou, so they asked Lu Xinyu why she didn't bring Badou with her. Lu Xinyu lied and said that Xiao Han didn't allow Badou to go out hunting every day and that he had to practice at home.

Today she wanted to let these three people know that without croton, they would be lucky if they could hunt one or two second-level monsters.

You know, when she had been hunting with Seventh Brother and the others before, they were not only more capable but also more experienced in searching and surrounding prey. But at the end of the day, they still didn't earn as much as they had yesterday.

Sure enough, after wandering around in the forest for a day, the four of them only harvested a second-level seven-colored phoenix, a second-level spotted snake, and three first-level monsters.

After a tiring day, each person only got a few hundred spirit stones.

Looking at the three dejected people, Lu Xinyu secretly laughed. After today's lesson, they would not be reluctant to give Badou the spirit stones when he participated in the hunt again.