The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Although the map of Fuyuan City is not marked in great detail, at least the main roads, iconic buildings, and major branch paths are all marked.

Therefore, Xiao Han was able to find the approximate location by following the map.

When he got nearby, he asked an elderly monk who was observing the growth of spiritual grains in the spiritual field, and only then did he get the specific location.

After passing through a bamboo forest, you will see a large orchard with pale purple, egg-sized fruits.

The entire orchard was shrouded in a wire mesh supported by trees, and a thorny plant over two meters tall was planted around the perimeter as a fence. These measures could protect against people, wild animals, and birds, but not against flying insects.

Xiao Han didn't recognize this kind of spiritual fruit. He stood outside and took a few glances at it, then walked along the path.

More than a hundred meters ahead, there are several brick houses next to the thorny fence. That should be the entrance to the orchard.

Xiao Han walked over and saw an old woman with wrinkled skin and white hair feeding seven or eight hens that were kept in a room surrounded by iron fences.

Even though Xiao Han had never learned spiritual pressure sensing and had never seen a demon beast, she could tell at a glance that these chickens were definitely not ordinary hens.

When the old woman saw Xiao Han coming over, she glanced at her and asked, "Little girl, are you here to catch insects?"

Xiao Han nodded immediately.

The old woman shook her head and said, "You can't do it."

After saying that, he took the remaining chicken feed and went into another room.

Xiao Han was unwilling to accept that he had gone to such great lengths to find the insect, only to be dismissed with just one sentence. Standing outside, he asked, "Old man, could you please explain more clearly? How do I catch this flying insect? Can I really not catch it?"

The old woman walked out of the house, and Xiao Han realized that although she looked very old, her eyes were still clear and bright, and her steps were still vigorous and powerful.

She sat down on a rattan armchair, looked at Xiao Han and said, "Your cultivation is too low, and the spiritual energy stored in your body is too little. I'm afraid you won't be able to catch more than a few flying insects before your spiritual energy is exhausted."

Although Xiao Han had already prepared himself mentally for the possibility that he might not be able to do it, he still felt a little uncomfortable when he was ruthlessly rejected.

Why is it so difficult to earn some spirit beads?

She picked up a small stool and sat down below the old woman.

"Old man, what level of cultivation do I need to reach before I can complete this mission?"

The old woman said, "You have to reach at least the second level of Qi training. If you use up all your spiritual energy, catching one or two hundred flying insects shouldn't be a problem."

"How much can you earn for catching one or two hundred flying insects?" Xiao Han asked again.

The old woman shifted her body to make herself more comfortable and replied, "One red-armored flying insect and one spirit bead."

"Are there a lot of flying insects in here?" Xiao Han asked tentatively.

The old woman didn't hide anything and said directly, "The peak period for the red-armored flying insects to lay eggs has passed. There aren't that many now, but if you look carefully, you can still catch thirty or forty of them in an hour."

Thirty or forty spirit beads in an hour. Xiao Han thought about how he had only earned fifty spirit beads after pulling weeds all day. It was indeed difficult for mortals to make money, and they could not compare with cultivators.

Just then, a young man walked out of the orchard and handed a storage bag to the old woman.

He muttered, "There are fewer red-armored flying insects now. It's boring to catch them. I won't come tomorrow."

The old woman stood up and fetched a bamboo basket from under the eaves. She transferred all the flying insects from the storage bag out and used her spiritual power to pull them away a few times. Then she said, "There are thirty-seven in total. I'll give you thirty-seven spiritual beads."

Xiao Han leaned over to take a look and found that they were some flying insects that looked like bees, but had hard shells on their backs and were dark red all over.

The old woman gave the spirit bead to the young monk, then waved her sleeves, and the flying insects were immediately rolled up and thrown into the chicken coop through the gap in the iron fence.

The chickens inside immediately swooped over, vying for food and soon devoured all the flying insects.

After the young man left, the old woman suddenly handed the storage bag in her hand to Xiao Han.

"Why don't you go in and try to catch as many as you can."

Xiao Han took the storage bag and was overjoyed, "Really?"

Then he said a little embarrassedly: "I haven't used a storage bag before, I don't know how to put things in it."

The old woman could understand her pitiful level of cultivation.

He said, "This is actually very simple. Just use the object control technique to transfer the items in. And when taking the items out, if your cultivation is low and your spiritual consciousness cannot be directed outward, you need to infuse the spiritual energy in your eyes, then find the item you want to take out in the storage bag and use your spiritual power to roll it out."

Perhaps fearing Xiao Han still didn't understand, he explained in detail, "The storage bag is a spatial artifact. As long as you use your spiritual power to control the volume of the rolled-up items so that they don't exceed the storage bag's space, the items can be stuffed into the bag through the opening."

After a pause, she asked again, "You can control objects, right?"

Xiao Han nodded hurriedly, "Yes."

She is now very adept at using the art of controlling objects.

The old woman said, "That's fine. Come on, I'll take you in to catch some red-armored flies."

After saying that, he led the way and took Xiao Han into the orchard behind the house.

As the old woman walked, she kept telling Xiao Han about the characteristics of the red-armored flying insect.

The red-armored flying insect is a low-level spiritual insect that prefers to lay eggs on the purple vermilion fruit. When the eggs hatch, it is just when the purple vermilion fruit is about to mature. These young red-armored flying insects grow by absorbing the spiritual properties of the purple vermilion fruit.

When the purple-red fruit is young, it is light purple. When it grows up and is about to mature, the middle part begins to turn red, but its ends remain purple, hence the name purple-red fruit.

It is still too early for the purple vermilion fruit to ripen, so it is neither edible nor has any medicinal properties. Therefore, the old woman can safely let the strange monk walk around in the orchard and catch insects.

Walking a little further inside, the old woman slowed down her pace and looked up to search among the fruit trees.

Soon, she pointed at a purple pearl fruit half covered by leaves and said to Xiao Han, "Do you see any flying insects?"

Xiao Han took a closer look and indeed found a red-shelled flying insect lying on the fruit with half of its body under the leaves.