The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Meditation practice may seem novel at first, but after a long time, it will become boring.

Take Jiang Wan for example. With her aptitude, if she could persist in meditating for four or five hours every day, her cultivation would definitely reach the peak of the third level of Qi training.

But it is too difficult for a child to sit there motionlessly and repeat the same thing every day.

It’s not that Jiang Yaohua didn’t urge Jiang Wan to practice more every day, but she had her own needs to practice and earn spirit stones, so she couldn’t keep an eye on her all the time, so she could only let Jiang Wan do what she wanted.

It is now April in the lunar calendar, and it has been almost a year since Xiao Han traveled through time.

In other words, Xiao Han is now twenty-one years old.

At such an old age, the innate Qi in the meridians has long since disappeared, so whether it is absorbing or circulating spiritual energy, cultivation will be more difficult than in childhood. This is why the best time to cultivate is during childhood, when the spiritual roots and bones are firmly established, and cultivation should begin immediately.

Even though Jiang Yaohua and his disciple had never mentioned to her that her advanced cultivation would be more difficult because of her age, Xiao Han had a vague feeling that it would be more difficult for her to advance.

After all, starting to practice in childhood is not only easier to practice, but also has the advantage of longevity.

Qigong cultivators are said to have a lifespan of nearly 120 years, but this is not absolute. If there are hidden injuries in the body, it will definitely have a certain impact on lifespan.

Apart from factors that affect lifespan, after reaching the age of sixty, Qigong cultivators' Qi and blood begin to decline, and the success rate of foundation building begins to decline. The older they are, the lower the success rate of foundation building.

Under the same conditions, a cultivator who has been practicing since childhood will definitely reach the peak of the ninth level of Qi training earlier than a cultivator who started practicing at the age of twenty, and naturally has more hope of building a foundation.

Simply put, by the time Jiang Wan was twenty-one, she might have reached the fifth level of Qi training, while Xiao Han had just started practicing. Putting aside other factors such as chance, it was obvious who had a better chance of building a foundation.

But Xiao Han didn't even consider these issues right now. For her, becoming a cultivator meant having more self-protection power, freeing her from the common colds and cancers of ordinary people. That was the greatest benefit. And the spiritually rich delicacies that only cultivators could enjoy were the ultimate perk of enjoying life.

Therefore, whether or not she could establish her foundation was not even within Xiao Han's consideration. Being able to live to over a hundred years old without any illness or disaster, and being able to enjoy delicious food regularly, she felt that this journey of reincarnation was well worth it.

Although he never expected to build a foundation and live longer, Xiao Han urgently needed to practice hard and earn more spirit stones to pay off his debts after improving his cultivation.

Therefore, staying up at night to meditate and practice cultivation was not something boring or unbearable for Xiao Han. After all, workers who screwed screws in electronics factories performed the same process and movements every day for twelve hours. Even if they found the work boring, they would still do it day after day for the sake of the money.

Xiao Han's cousin has been working at a single workstation in an electronics factory for fourteen years to cover her social security contributions. Her daily tasks involve soldering a small electronic component.

Therefore, for someone like Xiao Han who once lived at the bottom of society, he could endure any hardship for the sake of living, let alone something that was not difficult.

Xiao Han continued practicing until the next morning, when she was startled by the voices of villagers who came to check the tiles outside the house, and she ended her practice.

Xiao Han was very satisfied when she felt the spiritual energy in her dantian increase a little bit. Gradually, she could level up.

When the two mortal guys saw the young girl coming out, they remembered that the headman said that the other party was a cultivator, so they didn't dare to look directly at Xiao Han and hurriedly bowed their heads to salute.

One of the guys with a camera said, "Fairy, the village chief asked us to check your roof."

Xiao Han saw the basket of tiles and wooden ladders they brought and nodded, "Okay, let's get started."

After saying that, he went into the house and gathered his bedding and other things together and put them away to prevent them from being dirty by dust falling from the roof.

Without a clay pot, she couldn't boil water. She first went to the small river at the east end of the village to wash her face and rinse her mouth, then prepared to go to the market to buy the things she wanted to buy last night, and then start looking for a job to earn a living.

Behind Dawan Village, over a small hill, was another mortal village. The market was located between the two villages.

The village chief had pointed it out to Xiao Han last night. Standing in the village, one could actually see the houses in the market town.

Xiao Han walked along a small path in the village towards the market.

After walking for about ten minutes, they arrived at the market. Xiao Han looked around and saw a short street about ten feet wide, with shops lined on both sides.

As far as the eye could see, there was a grocery store with two storefronts, a fish and meat stall with one storefront, a tofu shop, and a fabric shop.

She had no time to go shopping, so she went straight into the grocery store and bought three items: a pottery jar, a flint, and a padlock, spending a total of twenty-one spirit beads.

Lingzhu is actually a set of spiritual stone beads as big as glass marbles cut from spiritual stone fragments.

One Spirit Stone can be exchanged for one hundred Spirit Pearls. Both Spirit Stones and Spirit Pearls come from the hands of large sects.

In short, the large sects that own spirit stone mines are like the great princes in the mortal kingdom who have the right to mint coins. They are the ones standing at the top of the food chain.

Xiao Han now wished he could break the spirit pearl into ten petals to spend, so he didn't dare to wander around the market for too long. After buying the necessary items, he hurried back.

On the way back, when I passed a barren hill covered with weeds and short trees, I collected some dead grass and branches.

Seeing herself wearing clothes made of the best fabrics bought in Lingyun City, holding a pottery jar on her left and a bundle of firewood on her right, Xiao Han couldn't help but smile bitterly. She was indeed destined to be poor.

When she returned home, she saw the two guys working on the roof. She didn't care what they were doing and just took a clay pot to fetch a jar of water from the creek.

Half of the earthen stove had collapsed. Xiao Han saw that the outline of the stove was still there, so he used the water and mud in the jar to repair the top of the stove, narrowing the circle so that the clay pot could barely be placed on it to boil water.

She grew up in the countryside and was no stranger to wood stoves. She even made a three or four-inch long chimney at the back end with mud.

Anyway, she is now making do with everything and keeping everything simple.

The flint here is a fire-related mineral unique to the world of immortal cultivation. Simply rubbing two pieces of stone together will create sparks. A more vigorous movement will even produce a fleeting flame.

The dry grass can be easily ignited by rubbing it quickly in the pile. The mortals here, as well as those monks who do not know how to cast a fireball, will prepare two small pieces of flint to start a fire.

The shop owner had demonstrated it to Xiao Han before, so she used a flint and struck the dry grass very smoothly.

After boiling a pot of water, she started to eat breakfast.

After the food box was taken out of the storage bag, it lost its heat preservation effect and now it was full of cold rice and cold dishes.

Xiao Han soaked some rice in boiling water and ate a little bit.

The food in the lunch box could only sustain her for one day at most. She had to find a job as soon as possible to earn a living.