The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

He took the last bit of spiritual water and hemp grass to Tianyifang and sold it, and got three spiritual stones and forty spiritual beads.

Since he had decided to continue writing storybooks, he needed a good pen. Today, Xiao Han planned to find a shop that made magical instruments to see if they could customize a hard pen that could write continuously, similar to a pencil or fountain pen.

The vast majority of those living in Fuyuan City are independent cultivators. Without a master's hands-on instruction and a systematic and comprehensive inheritance, the four essential skills of immortal cultivation—alchemy, talismans, weapons, and formations—are a pipe dream. In the immortal realm, cultivators who possess these skills are even more reluctant to teach their apprentices than the craftsmen of the mortal world.

Therefore, even if you spend spirit stones to become a disciple and learn skills, what you can learn is basically just the most superficial knowledge.

In order to earn spirit stones, those apprentices could only produce the most basic elixirs, talismans, etc. every day.

This is also why the most commonly used and best-selling talismans, such as the Light Body Talisman and the Sound Transmission Talisman, are relatively simple and auxiliary talismans, and only sell for ten spirit beads. Because the talisman paper cost is low and the success rate of drawing talismans is almost 100%, the apprentices produce a large number of them every day, so naturally they can only make a small profit and sell in large quantities.

Xiao Han found the only shop on the main street that could customize magic tools and walked in.

The shopkeeper was a twenty-something weapon refiner apprentice. He was a little surprised to see Xiao Han was only at the first level of Qi training and still wearing waders. He didn't look like a customer wealthy enough to order a custom weapon. But he still politely asked, "Are you looking for a custom weapon?"

Xiao Han nodded and asked, "I want to make a pen with a hard nib that can write quickly without constantly dipping it in ink. Can it be made? It doesn't need any other functions, just the ability to write continuously on paper. Also, the nib should be very fine so it can write clearly and small characters."

After thinking for a moment, he gave another instruction, "It doesn't require spiritual energy stimulation, it's something that ordinary people can use, and try to choose the cheapest materials."

She was afraid that if she didn't remind him, he would give her a high-end luxury pen, and she wouldn't have the spirit stones to pay for it.

Thinking of the descriptions in those immortal cultivation novels, where one could use spiritual consciousness to directly engrave words on jade slips, she envied them immensely. If that were possible, she could write tens of thousands of words a day without having to copy them.

Unfortunately, here, not only were Qigong cultivators unable to use their spiritual sense to record jade slips, but even books on jade slips were practically nonexistent. Her jade identity card was likely made of a similar material to jade slips. However, it was rare in Fuyuan City and was only used for specialized purposes like ID cards.

The information in her identity jade token was not engraved by her spiritual consciousness, but by a special spell.

In reality, Fuyuan City, situated at the outermost edge of the Immortal Mountain, was like modern society, living deep within the mountains, with limited access to and use of advanced technology. Fuyuan City's knowledge of many aspects of the Immortal Realm, whether materials, skills, or spells, was limited. Their knowledge and ability to utilize them were minimal.

Fortunately, what Xiao Han wanted to customize was very simple and basically did not fall into the category of magical weapons.

For a weapon refining shop that can refine magical weapons, this is not a problem at all.

The apprentice carefully inquired about the style of the pen and some detailed requirements, and then asked Xiao Han to pay a spirit stone.

This job is really too simple. He can do it easily by himself. Besides, it is not a magic weapon, so how can he have the nerve to charge a high price for it.

Xiao Han paid a spirit stone and agreed to pick up the goods tomorrow.

After leaving the shop, he sent a sound transmission talisman to Hu Linghua, asking her to set a time and place to return the twenty-five spirit stones he owed her.

Xiao Han is the kind of person who, when he owes others money, wants to save up money to pay it back and put his mind at ease.

Jiang Yaohua's debt is a huge amount, and she currently has no ability to pay it back, but she doesn't want to default on Sister Hu's small amount of money, so she will pay it back if she can.

Besides, the old saying goes: If you borrow, you must pay it back, and it will not be difficult to borrow again. But in her case, it is also true that if you owe, you must pay it back, and it will not be difficult to owe again.

Hu Linghua quickly replied with a note and set the time and place for the meeting tomorrow morning.

Xiao Han thought it was okay. She had to go out to the main street to get a pen tomorrow anyway, and it was a good opportunity to meet Sister Hu by the way.

She hadn't planted the vegetable seeds she'd brought back from Grandma Yuan last time. Since her pen wasn't ready yet and she was too lazy to start writing, Xiao Han decided to tackle the vegetable planting issue today.

When planting spiritual plants, in addition to having a spiritual field that contains at least a little spiritual energy, the most important thing is to replenish spiritual fertilizer in time and water them with spiritual water.

The main sources for making spiritual fertilizer are the feces of raised spiritual beasts, the inedible internal organs of hunted monsters, bones that have no value for refining weapons, and other odds and ends. In short, anything that contains spiritual energy, can rot, can be integrated into the soil and absorbed by plant roots can become fertilizer.

Of course, those wild grasses that have no medicinal value but contain a thin spiritual energy can also be used as fertilizer.

In Granny Yuan's orchard, the reason why the purple-red fruit can grow to its medicinal effect is because the land in her orchard contains quite good spiritual energy. In addition, she buys spiritual fertilizer regularly to fertilize the fruit trees, and sprays the trees with the spring breeze and rain technique every three to five days to ensure the spiritual energy needed for the growth of the purple-red fruit.

Xiao Han's vegetable planting was essentially a way of growing vegetables in pots, much like people do on modern balconies. Rather than just growing vegetables, it was more of an alternative, pleasurable activity.

Since it is a potted plant, it is naturally impossible to obtain spiritual energy from the soil. Therefore, Xiao Han decided to go to the wild to find some wild grass containing thin spiritual energy, chop it up, and put it in the soil as fertilizer.

I remember that when I was doing the weeding task, all the weeds I pulled out were required to be placed in piles in the ditches of the fields. Now I think that those spiritual wild grasses will definitely be collected by the owner of the spiritual field and used to make spiritual fertilizer.

There were no flower pots at home, so she had to go to the market in the mortal settlement to buy some. It just so happened that she needed to buy some daily necessities at home, so she went to the mortal market to buy them. After all, everything there was cheap, and for her, anything that could be made do was fine.

Along the way, he poured spiritual power into his eyes and indeed found some wild grass containing thin spiritual energy.

Xiao Han suddenly thought that he could also cut spiritual wild grass and sell it to the monks who made spiritual fertilizer.

However, this kind of income is definitely very low. Occasionally, when I get bored of writing storybooks, I can come out to get some fresh air, cut some spiritual wild grass, earn some spiritual beads and buy a few kilograms of spiritual rice.

He would pull up any spiritual weeds he found and put them in a cloth bag, continuing his search as he went. The closer he got to areas where mortals lived, the fewer spiritual weeds he would find, until he could find none at all.

After going to the market and buying all the necessary items, I didn't look for spiritual wild herbs on the way back. I just started running at top speed.

After putting the things away at home, I went for a walk around the cave and found traces of the spiritual wild grass being cut. Only then did I realize that there were indeed cultivators cutting this thing and selling it for money.

She found a place with abundant wild grass and filled a bag with some fertile-looking soil. She chopped the wild grass into small pieces and put it into the pottery basin she had bought, then filled it with soil.

Sprinkle the rapeseed, cover with a thin layer of soil, and finally water it with the spring breeze and rain technique.

I didn't do much, just made two ceramic basins.

When I get tired of writing stories every day, I can move the vegetable pots outside to get some sunshine and water them. Then, when the seeds sprout, the green leaves can be used to soothe my eyes.

If you think about it, you will find that this kind of life is actually pretty good.

Sure enough, the happiness of the poor is really too simple.