The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Now the north wind is howling outside, and it is time to wear a cotton-padded jacket, but Xiao Han has already cultivated to the second level of Qi training, and can completely keep out the cold by wearing only a layer of padded clothes.

Xiao Han felt that she had to practice hard just so that she could reach a high level of cultivation and not be afraid of extreme heat or cold.

Who would like to wrap themselves in a big cotton-padded jacket in the middle of winter, with their hands tucked into their sleeves, their neck hunched, and shivering with cold?

After entering the second level of Qi training, she finally no longer had to clean a whole room and had to do it several times.

In a happy mood, Xiao Han arrived at Qian Wanshan's bookstore at the agreed time.

When Qian Wanshan saw her, he immediately started to complain. After listening for a while, Xiao Han finally understood that it was pirated novels that had taken away the market share of legitimate novels, causing him to lose a lot of money this time.

It turned out that as soon as Qian Wanshan printed out the ending of the second volume of "The Son-in-Law", someone bought it and secretly printed it, and then sold it privately at half the price.

For these book-chasing monk readers, since the story content is the same, why not read cheap pirated books?

As a result, the final volume, which Qian Wanshan had printed based on the sales of the first half of the story, only sold about one-third of its original volume. When he discovered something was amiss and privately investigated, he discovered the truth.

This really pissed Qian Wanshan off. But protecting copyright when it comes to piracy has always been as difficult as it is now.

As a last resort, Qian Wanshan had to lower the price.

But in this way, the hope of making a fortune from the finale will be dashed.

In order to prove that he did not lie, Qian Wanshan took Xiao Han to read the third and final book piled up in the library, and said that he had also reported the matter to the City Lord's Mansion, hoping that the City Lord's Mansion could give him justice.

However, piracy had never happened before, and it was just a business dispute where the opponent was not even clear, and it was not a very serious dispute. The City Lord's Mansion did not want to spend energy to deal with it.

Qian Wanshan also told Xiao Han that there were even novels on the market written by pseudonyms like "Wandering in New Time and Space" and "Wandering in Old Time and Space." He had bought some and read them, and found that both the plot and the sentence structure and tone of these novels closely imitated the original "Wandering in Different Time and Space."

But according to his evaluation, it is just patchwork and plagiarism, a bunch of shit.

After hearing this, Xiao Han really couldn't explain how he felt.

The fact that my book was pirated, my story was copied, and my pen name was copied was a testament to my writing success, and I should be happy about it. But when these people encroached on my interests, and I couldn't do anything about them, I couldn't help but feel frustrated.

A book is essentially divided into three volumes: upper, middle, and lower. This time, Qian Wanshan only earned 700 to 800 spirit stones from the upper and middle volumes. As for the lower volume, the spirit stones earned from selling the one-third that was sold were not enough to cover the cost.

Xiao Han suggested, "You could just combine the three books into one, print it, and then sell it in other cities where cultivators live."

Qian Wanshan sighed, "You don't know how shrewd those monks who specialize in business are. Since this book is so popular, why would they need to buy from me and sell it back home? They can just buy a set of the storybooks, print them themselves, and then sell them in the bookstore."

Xiao Han: Okay, this is another blatant piracy. They didn’t even give Qian Wanshan and themselves a sip of soup.

Finally, Qian Wanshan said, "You go back and work with your brother to slowly prepare the third storybook. There's no need to rush this new book out. I'll let them read those messy new and old time-space stories to whet their appetites. I won't let them get away with cheap books without good ones."

Xiao Han couldn't help but want to laugh. Qian Wanshan was probably so angry because there were too many second volumes piled up in the warehouse that he didn't even push for the manuscript.

However, the popularity of both books also made Qian Wanshan feel a sense of crisis. In order to keep Xiao Han and his sister, according to the contract, he only needed to give Xiao Han a few dozen spirit stones as a reward, but he directly gave Xiao Han a hundred spirit stones.

But this time, Qian Wanshan gave not spirit stones, but a certificate worth one hundred spirit stones.

Qian Wanshan held up a small jade piece similar to an identity jade token and explained to Xiao Han, "This is a newly opened Spirit Stone Bank in Fuyuan City. It functions similarly to banks in the mortal realm. If you deposit 100 Spirit Stones, they charge a storage fee of one Spirit Stone per year. I deposited 5,000 Spirit Stones and received 50 of these Spirit Stone jade tokens."

Why don't you buy a storage bag? Every time you take some spirit stones back, you have to put them in a leather or cloth bag. It's too eye-catching. From now on, just use these spirit stone jade tokens so you can exchange them for spirit stones at any time."

Xiao Han felt that this bank was a great success. She had always thought that in those novels about cultivating immortals, transactions between cultivators were often worth millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions. If one spirit stone was the size of an egg, the pile would be huge.

It’s just that the storage bags described in those novels are all ridiculously large, but the largest storage bag sold in the magic weapon shop here is only about the size of a small truck. If the transaction involves more than 100,000 spirit stones, you have to bring several storage bags to store the spirit stones.

However, if I had this kind of spirit stone certificate jade token, I don’t know how much space I would save.

However, Xiao Han wasn't prepared to accept the offer. Since it was a newly opened bank, if the other party ran away after collecting enough money, a poor person like her, whose entire fortune consisted of only a few spirit stones, simply couldn't afford the risk.

In the end, Xiao Han left the bookstore carrying a leather bag containing 100 spirit stones, and then she went directly to the magic weapon shop.

Not to mention the spirit stones she had accumulated before, she earned a total of four hundred spirit stones just from this second storybook.

Xiao Han originally wanted to save up spirit stones to pay off the huge debt, but without a storage bag, it was too inconvenient. After thinking it over, Xiao Han felt that he could do without other things, but he really needed to buy a storage bag.

This time, she came to inquire about the price of the storage bag.

However, after looking around, Xiao Han backed off again. Alas! With the few spirit stones she had, she could only afford a storage bag about the same size as the one Jiang Wan was carrying.

The storage bag was only about the size of a suitcase. If it were a storage bag like the one Jiang Yaohua used, which was about the size of a van, it would cost at least three or four thousand spirit stones.

Forget it, I’ll consider the storage bag after I pay off the huge debt.

If you can't afford a storage bag, you can still buy some monster meat to take home as a snack and celebrate your cultivation upgrade.