The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

There was a strong wind outside, and the north wind was blowing snowflakes, making it impossible to open your eyes.

When Xiao Han left, Granny Yuan stuffed a bag into her hand and pushed her out. "Go back quickly! If you don't leave now, you won't be able to find the way."

Xiao Han held the bag and asked, "What is this?"

Granny Yuan: "These are my own things. I didn't spend any spirit stones on them. Just take them."

After saying this, he stuffed the cloth bag containing the manuscript into her hands and told her to hurry up while also reminding her: "Be careful on the road. Don't run too fast. Be careful not to get lost."

Xiao Han waved goodbye to Grandma Yuan.

There was a vast white fog between the sky and the earth, and thick snow underfoot. If Xiao Han was not so familiar with this road to the orchard, he would have really taken the wrong path.

When they returned to the cave, they opened the things Granny Yuan had given them and found a cleaned and plucked spirit chicken, along with six eggs. This chicken was clearly one of Granny Yuan's spirit chickens, with a small pimple on its comb that Xiao Han had seen when feeding the chicken insects.

Well, nominally she bought groceries and went to have dinner with Grandma Yuan, but in reality Grandma Yuan paid more.

Oh! It seems she has taken advantage again.

As winter turns to spring, the purple-red fruit blooms and bears fruit.

Several high-quality writers who wrote stories about Long Ao Tianwen also appeared in Fuyuan City. In addition, Xiao Han's third book with the male protagonist Long Ao Tianwen did not sell very well, so Qian Wanshan asked her to give up the male frequency and focus on the female frequency.

The main reason is that stories with female protagonists are very popular in other fairy cities and are very popular among female cultivators who love to read storybooks.

What Qian Wanshan didn't expect was that those female cultivators rarely bought pirated novels, but instead bought them from the bookstore that originally sold the "A Pool of Autumn Water" novel. And "A Pool of Autumn Water" was the pen name Xiao Han used when writing novels with female protagonists.

The reason these female cultivators gave for not buying pirated copies was that if Yihong Qiushui didn't make money writing stories with heroines, and stopped writing in the future, they wouldn't be able to see any good stories with heroines.

Since Qian Wanshan's manuscripts for other immortal cities were usually divided into two parts, after the first volume of the second female-themed novel was sold, a female cultivator in the Foundation Establishment stage, said to be the eldest daughter of the City Lord's Mansion and a wealthy and powerful second-generation cultivator, unexpectedly offered 500 spirit stones and asked the bookstore owner to pass them on to the storybook author, Yihong Qiushui, hoping he would quickly write the second volume.

Although these five hundred spirit stones had been deducted layer by layer and only three hundred spirit stones were left in Xiao Han's hands, Xiao Han was still extremely excited.

This is like when a new account starts broadcasting, a fan actually rewards it with a rocket.

This is definitely the top lady on the list!

As a result, "Wandering in Another Time and Space" completely disappeared, and instead, a female-oriented whirlwind swept the storytelling world. Many storytelling books focusing on female cultivators also emerged like mushrooms after rain.

During the entire second year of his arrival in the world of immortal cultivation, Xiao Han, apart from staying in his cave to write storybooks, did two kinds of work outside.

One is to catch insects in Grandma Yuan’s orchard, and the other is to harvest Lingshui hemp grass.

Catching insects not only earns spirit stones, but also allows one to practice the art of entanglement. Xiao Han does it for half a day every day and continues writing in the afternoon.

As for harvesting Lingshui hemp grass, there is a specific location for it. When the time is right, you can go there directly to harvest it and sell it for money.

But this year, Xiao Han didn't see the nest of the green-winged brocade bird there again.

During this year, Xiao Han learned four spells from Grandma Yuan: Wind Blade, Golden Arrow, Quicksand, and the defensive Earth Wall.

Wind Blade and Golden Arrow both belong to the metal element. Wind Blade transforms metallic spiritual energy into a blade-like spiritual wind. Golden Arrow, on the other hand, transforms metallic spiritual energy into a golden spiritual arrow. While it doesn't have the range of a true magical bow and arrow, it still reaches farther than Wind Blade.

It is a very practical and powerful offensive spell.

As for the quicksand technique, it uses earth-based spiritual power to create the effect of quicksand, and applies it to the opponent's feet, making the opponent feel as if they are trapped in the quicksand.

The Earth Wall Technique is to condense earth-based spiritual power into an earth wall to resist the opponent's attack.

Granny Yuan has reached the ninth level of Qi training and is a cultivator over a hundred years old. So far, apart from those auxiliary spells, the spells she has learned that can be used in battle are only the entanglement spell, wind blade spell, golden arrow spell, quicksand spell, and earth wall spell.

In order to learn the art of entanglement, Xiao Han had earlier made a deal with Granny Yuan to catch insects for free for a month.

For the next four spells, you have to pay one hundred spirit stones for each spell, for a total of four hundred spirit stones.

In Grandma Yuan's words, they weren't a master-disciple relationship, so she couldn't teach such a spell for free. She only talked about charging a high tuition fee, but in the end, she only asked for 100 spirit stones each.

Xiao Han naturally knew that Granny Yuan was taking care of her, and she had no way to repay him, so she could only actively send new storybooks. After all, when she went to catch insects, Granny Yuan refused to let her help for free, insisting on paying the normal price of spirit stones.

Xiao Han really wanted to ask Grandma Yuan to be his master, but Grandma Yuan was not interested in taking in disciples.

In Grandma Yuan’s opinion, it’s just right for the two of them to get along like this, neither too close nor too distant!

After Xiao Han learned all the offensive spells that Grandma Yuan knew, he also contacted Hu Linghua to see if she had any other offensive spells.

Unfortunately, Hu Linghua only knew one technique, Wind Blade Technique, and asked for 200 Spirit Stones as tuition. Xiao Han already knew Wind Blade Technique, so he wouldn't pay the high price to learn it again.

Xiao Han had saved up a few spirit stones last year, but after paying for a few spells, there were practically no more left. This year, she'd written one novel with a male protagonist, four with a female protagonist, and with the female-centered novel she was finishing at the end of the year, and with tips from readers who were working on the foundation-building female cultivator, she had amassed around two thousand spirit stones.

If it weren't for the long-term brain-strain of writing, and if it weren't for the fact that she bought some meat and vegetables to make soup from time to time, and if it weren't for the habit of eating snacks when she was stuck, and the money she spent on snacks, she could have saved a little more.

The new bank in Fuyuan City is said to be a branch of a sect called Huading Sect. Many cultivators have begun to use spirit stones as vouchers and jade tokens to conduct transactions.

In order to save the trouble of carrying the spirit stones home, Xiao Han also started to accept the spirit stone certificate jade token given by Qian Wanshan.

Anyway, she still owed Jiang Yaohua the spirit stones, and she couldn't keep these spirit stones and the jade tokens as proof for long.

So at the end of the year, she took the time to go to the bulletin board, spent five spirit stones, and bought a small piece of space for ten days of advertising time.

It’s not really an advertisement; the correct term would be a message board for forwarding information.

It says: Fellow Daoist Jiang Yaohua, if you see this message, please go to the XXX cultivator area to find someone and collect the transaction fee.

The sooner the debt is paid off, the sooner you can feel at ease. Since Jiang Yaohua doesn't come to urge payment, Xiao Han is also prepared to pay it back on his own initiative.

If Jiang Yaohua doesn't see the message within ten days, she will have to wait until next year.

However, on the fifth day after the news was released, Jiang Yaohua came to the door.