The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

The shop selling spirit beast meat sold four or five kinds of monster meat. Among them, spirit chicken and spirit rabbit were domesticated monster beasts, and they were all of the lowest level, so this kind of meat would be cheaper.

The monsters captured by hunting monks outside the city are of varying species and generally contain richer spiritual energy than domesticated spirit beasts. Therefore, even the lowest-level monsters are more expensive than domesticated spirit beasts.

Xiao Han wouldn't even consider buying real monster meat. Even if she wanted to indulge in a treat, she would only buy the cheapest spiritual chickens and rabbits.

Between chicken and rabbit, she chose chicken. Between a whole chicken and half a chicken, she chose half a chicken.

This little bit of chicken, less than a pound, cost her two spirit stones.

Xiao Han felt that he was a little over the top. He spent a month's living expenses just to eat a piece of meat.

Fortunately, after working so hard for so long, this is the only luxury I can afford, so it can be forgiven.

Then she spent thirty spirit beads and bought half a pound of spirit mushrooms. She added them to the chicken and made a stew. Xiao Han estimated that she could eat a large bowl of rice just by drinking the soup.

He spent another thirty spirit beads and bought a small jar of pickled vegetables. These pickled vegetables were made from spirit vegetables, but after pickling, most of the spirit energy of the spirit vegetables was lost, and only the taste remained.

Xiao Han didn't mind. After all, pickles made from spiritual vegetables would always leave less dirt in their bodies than pickles made from mortals.

Go home immediately to light a fire, cook, and stew chicken soup.

Unlike modern chickens, which need to be blanched first, Xiao Han simply placed the chicken and mushrooms into a clay pot, added an appropriate amount of spiritual water, and began to stew.

A quarter of an hour later, the aroma of meat and mushrooms wafting through the cave made Xiao Han's mouth water uncontrollably.

After eating the chicken and shiitake mushrooms, Xiao Han just wanted to say that if he could eat such delicious food every day, he would not trade it for the throne.

The delicious taste was so delicious that she couldn't find the right adjective to describe it.

All I can say is: It’s delicious!

She almost ate too much during this meal because it was so difficult to put down her chopsticks.

After having a full meal and soup, Xiao Han began to think about his future life plan.

After reaching the second level of Qi training, she can learn offensive spells. She can go to ask Grandma Yuan if she is willing to teach her.

If you have learned everything you can there, then go and ask Sister Hu.

There was also the introductory book on refining that she got from Qian Wanshan, which she had already read thoroughly. If she had any extra spirit stones after learning magic, she would also like to buy some basic refining tools to practice.

Without a master to teach, among the four major skills of alchemy, talismans, weapons and formations, only refining can be self-taught, and you can refine some of the simplest things.

In those fantasy novels, the most common and applicable skills for the protagonists are alchemy and talisman drawing. Without the guidance of a master, if one wants to learn according to the methods in the introductory book on alchemy and talisman drawing, it is basically a copycat, and the result can only be similar in form but not in spirit. Even the simplest hemostatic powder and lightening talisman will not be successful.

Then there’s the matter of making money.

Qian Wanshan wasn't in a rush, so he wouldn't sign a high-priced contract. Without a contract and no money, Xiao Han had no motivation to write. So, she had to find some temporary work first.

After completing the planning, seeing that it was still early before dark, Xiao Han decided to go to Grandma Yuan's place.

She couldn't afford to waste her time. If she wasn't practicing or making money, she would learn magic.

During the time when Xiao Han was practicing in seclusion and striving to reach the second level of Qi training, all of Grandma Yuan's purple vermilion fruits were finally picked and sold.

The fruit trees do not require much care in winter. Grandma Yuan only needs to hire someone to apply fertilizer to replenish the nutrients of the fruit trees and prepare for the blooming flowers in the spring of next year.

It is cold outside now. Although Granny Yuan is not afraid of the cold, she can no longer sit outside leisurely.

Xiao Han couldn't help but feel a bit embarrassed when he saw that all the purple-red fruit in the orchard was gone. He had said he'd come help pick the purple-red fruit for free, but Granny Yuan hadn't sent him a message, and he'd been in seclusion for a month, so he hadn't been able to help at all.

Sure enough, owing favors to others is more distressing than owing huge sums of money.

No matter how embarrassed he was, he still had to come. Xiao Han walked to Grandma Yuan's house and called out, "Grandma Yuan, are you home?"

With a creak, the door opened and Grandma Yuan walked out.

Seeing Xiao Hanhan empty-handed, he subconsciously asked, "Has the new storybook not been written yet?"

Xiao Han spun around proudly, "Grandma Yuan, look at my cultivation level! It's improved! Hehe! Just to reach the second level of Qi training, I've been practicing in seclusion for a month. I haven't even started writing the new storybook yet."

Without new stories to read, Granny Yuan's mood wasn't very good. Seeing Xiao Han's smugness, she couldn't help but criticize him, "Upgrading from the first to the second level of Qi training is the easiest. Each subsequent level of cultivation requires several times the amount of spiritual energy of the previous level. Don't get too excited."

After spending a long time with Grandma Yuan, Xiao Han gradually began to regard her as an elder whom he could get close to.

So he smiled and replied, "Since upgrading is difficult, you should be happier after you've upgraded, haha."

The other person was thick-skinned and thick-skinned, so Granny Yuan didn't bother to criticize her. She just asked, "You came here today, didn't you, just to show off your upgrade?"

Xiao Han stopped smiling and said seriously, "Grandma Yuan, I want to pay for magic. You can name the price, as long as I can afford it."

Granny Yuan glanced at her newly upgraded cultivation level and saw how anxious she looked. She could only say, "Then learn the low-level rejuvenation technique first. You don't need to pay for it. When you can, just write a storybook with a female cultivator as the protagonist and show it to me."