The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Xiao Han greeted the two young men who were busy on the roof, told them to leave after they finished their work, then locked the door and left.

Anyway, there is no need to go into the house to check the tiles, and she doesn't need to help. It will probably be done before noon.

Xiao Han was thinking about finding a job while on his way.

The first job that came to her mind was still working in a restaurant.

After all, it is convenient to eat in such places, and the employers usually provide meals for employees.

However, the nearest monk gathering place to Dawan Village is about an hour's walk away. There is no bus here to facilitate her commute, so even if she finds a job, she will still waste two hours every day on the road.

Of course, there are tools to travel quickly, such as the Light Body Talisman.

It's a pity that the cheapest talisman costs ten spirit beads. If she buys the talisman to travel, it would be like someone in modern society who earns 3,000 yuan a month but takes a taxi to and from get off work every day.

The money was given to the taxi driver.

Oh, how depressing!

I was thinking about something and it didn't take long for me to arrive at the monks' gathering place.

All the houses and caves inhabited by cultivators in Fuyuan City belonged to the City Lord's Mansion. Cultivators could only rent; they could not buy houses, let alone build their own.

Mortals can build their own houses in the area designated by the City Lord's Mansion, or they can cultivate wasteland. However, after two years of cultivation, they will have to pay taxes on the land.

Generally speaking, the cave dwellings used by monks for cultivation are cave dwellings, equipped with a barrier to protect the cultivators from outside interference. Furthermore, because the monks' cave dwellings are built atop a large spirit-gathering formation, the concentration of spiritual energy within them is much higher than that outside. Furthermore, each individual cave dwelling has a spirit-locking effect, preventing the high-level monks next door from seizing more spiritual energy.

As for those brick and tile houses or stone houses built in the market town, they are used by monks to do business, so they do not have the anti-disturbance prohibitions and soul-locking effects of the cave residence. In addition, the concentration of spiritual energy is much lower, so there are very few monks who practice here.

Yesterday, Jiang Wan had briefed Xiao Han on the distribution of cultivators' residences. The caves where the cultivators lived were divided into several areas. The higher the concentration of spiritual energy, the higher the rent. Even the worst-off areas cost five spirit stones a month.

Of course, the concentration of spiritual energy in the cave that costs five spirit stones a month is several times higher than that in the mortal village where Xiao Han lives now.

Xiao Han couldn't even solve the problem of food and clothing now, so naturally he didn't dare to hope to rent a cave.

Arriving at the market square belonging to the monks, which is closest to Dayuan Village, the geographical location here is obviously not comparable to the main street just after entering the city, so the business in the shops is relatively bleak.

Xiao Han walked around the entire market and found that although the shops were smaller and the variety of goods was not as comprehensive as on the main street, they still sold most of the common items used by cultivators. However, there were no large restaurants, only two small ones.

Xiao Han shamelessly asked the two restaurants if they were hiring helpers, but both restaurants said they were not hiring.

There's a cultivator's cave for rent nearby at the cheapest price, and this market is dedicated to these low-level, poor cultivators. Therefore, neither the scale of the shops here nor the labor costs can compare to the main street.

Relatively speaking, the prices of items sold here are slightly lower than those on the main street.

If Xiao Han went to the main street to look for a job, it would be farther away from where she lived and more inconvenient.

In fact, Xiao Han also knew in her heart that she had just begun to draw Qi into her body, and was no different from those mortals in Dayuan Village. The work that she could do, those mortals could also do.

For bosses who need to hire people, it would be more cost-effective to hire mortals for things that mortals can do. After all, mortals are more honest and obedient, and it is easier to lower their wages.

In reality, the mortals living in Fuyuan City also had a difficult life. It wasn't easy for them to earn spirit beads, but most of the things here were for cultivators, and prices were naturally set according to the cultivators' purchasing power. This naturally made the prices too high for them.

However, no mortal was willing to leave this place and live in the mortal realm. After all, living in a place rich in spiritual energy, even if they couldn't cultivate and retain it within their bodies, it could still nourish their bodies to some extent. Furthermore, the rice, flour, fruits, and vegetables they ate also contained a thin layer of spiritual energy, which made their bodies less susceptible to illness, allowing most to live in good health into their eighties and nineties.

The most important thing is that they can reproduce and thrive here, and they can also test their children's spiritual roots as soon as possible. If a child with spiritual roots is born, not only can the child become a cultivator in the future, but they can also receive more care.

Xiao Han was now so poor that he was even worse than the poorest mortal here. He even wandered around until noon and didn't dare to buy some food to fill his stomach.

Seeing that it was unlikely that she would find a job here, she simply headed straight towards the main street.

Although she didn't have much spiritual energy in her body now, as long as she traveled at a normal speed, her legs could still handle the spiritual energy nourishing her body.

Once she reached the main street, she shamelessly began to ask in every restaurant one by one, but all she got was that they were not hiring.

From the time he left home in the morning till now in the afternoon, the starving Xiao Han felt the pitiful number of spirit beads in his skin bag, and finally went to buy the cheapest steamed bun, spending five spirit beads.

He sat down on a bluestone slab at the entrance of the alley to rest his feet, drank a few sips of boiled water from the water bag around his waist, and then took a bite of the Lingmian steamed bun.

The delicate and slightly sweet taste, which was incomparable to ordinary steamed buns, made Xiao Han, who was already hungry, eat it uncontrollably as if he were eating delicacies from land and sea.

Emma, no wonder that little girl Jiang Wan despises the delicacies of Lingyun City so much. Even the cheapest steamed buns with the least spiritual energy are so delicious. How delicious must the other spiritual foods be.

Xiao Han finished the Lingmian steamed bun in a few bites, and almost couldn't control his steps as he walked towards a nearby restaurant.

She felt that she would never get tired of eating only these Lingmian buns.

No, she must find a way to find a job to earn spirit beads and eat spirit noodle buns every day.

In order to stay away from the temptation of the spiritual buns, Xiao Han simply walked through the alley and went to another road.

But as she was walking, she suddenly slapped her forehead and immediately turned around and walked back.

Because she thought of the plot of issuing tasks that are common in those immortal cultivation novels. Although Fuyuan City is not the world in a certain immortal cultivation novel, there are many places here that are similar to the settings in those immortal cultivation novels. Therefore, she has to ask if there is a place to issue tasks here.

As soon as I walked out of the alley, I saw a middle-aged woman with a kind face walking towards me.

Xiao Han hurriedly went over and bowed, then said, "Excuse me, Senior, but I'd like to ask if there's a place in Fuyuan City where quests are posted? Is that the kind where you need help with something, or want to hire someone, and you post these requests specifically?"

She had not yet learned the art of sensing, and did not know what level of cultivation this middle-aged woman had reached, so she simply called her "senior"; it would never go wrong.

The middle-aged woman looked her over and asked, "Are you going to issue a mission?"

Xiao Han shook his head, "No, I just want to find something to do."

The middle-aged woman noticed that the spiritual pressure on her was extremely weak, and asked with some understanding, "Did you come from the mortal realm?"

Xiao Han did not hide it and nodded directly.

The middle-aged woman looked at her face and knew that she was not young, and she immediately felt a little sympathy for her.

At such an old age, he has just reached the first level of Qi Refining. In the future, he will be just another poor cultivator struggling at the bottom of the world of immortal cultivation.

"Can you endure hardship? Are you willing to work in the fields?"

Xiao Han nodded vigorously, "I'm capable. I can endure hardships and can do farm work."

The middle-aged woman said, "Okay, come see me tomorrow. My last name is Hu, so you can just call me Sister Hu from now on."