The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

From time to time, cultivators from the lower realms would ascend to the fairyland. It was obvious that these earthly immortal cultivators who couldn't even produce a fairy stone had just ascended.

Seeing Shui Wuhen still hesitating, the cultivator kindly said, "Without immortal stones, you cannot enter any immortal city. If you don't have anything good to exchange for immortal stones, you can go to work and earn some wages."

Working to earn wages? Poor Shui Wuhen was trained by his family since he was born because of his good talent for cultivation. Until now, he has never worried about spirit stones.

The only time he worked with low-level monks was to gain enlightenment. He never expected that after ascending to the immortal realm, he would have to experience the life of a poor monk.

However, he still has some good things in his pocket. Let's go in and see how many fairy stones he can exchange for them.

Xiao Han, who was still working hard in the mine, had no idea that three Mahayana monks had already ascended to the fairyland one after another.

Of course, even if she knew, her life would not change except that she would be happy that she had a few more acquaintances.

After all, you have to rely on yourself to make money.

The raw stone of Green Source Crystal is mixed in a group of waste stones of similar colors. Its shape is very irregular and needs to be dug out little by little along the edge of the raw stone with a pickaxe.

After learning how to identify it, Croton also used its bird claws to dig bit by bit near Xiao Han.

The waste rock is very hard and digging it out is very labor-intensive.

Badou finally dug out a piece with its claws and was about to show off in front of Xiao Han, but its eyes rolled, and it flapped its wings, putting the raw stone into its storage space.

At this time, Badou was really annoyed that its storage space was too small. Otherwise, it would have hidden more raw stones, and when it got out, the owner could have sold them for a lot of immortal stones.

Xiao Han carefully cleaned the piece of raw stone he dug out, and then put the Green Source Crystal into the storage bag.

Then, he turned around and asked Badou, "Badou, did you dig out a piece?"

Croton croaked twice, "No, no, I dug up a piece of waste rock and threw it away."

It has to give its owner a surprise, but it can't tell him in advance.

Xiao Han didn't care, "If you don't know how to dig, just play on the side."

Xiao Han felt a little sorry for letting a bird use its claws to dig at his own stone. It wouldn't matter what it dug, so why bother with it?

Croton continued to dig and dig, and dug out a fist-sized rough stone. It was a little disgusted, so it grabbed it and asked Xiao Han, "Master, do you want this small one?"

Xiao Han smiled and said, "Put it on the ground first, and I'll peel it together later. My Croton is so hardworking, he deserves praise."

She praised him casually, which made Badou even more energetic and he went over to continue digging.

Not only does it fill up its own storage space, but it also helps its owner dig more to earn more wages.

In this way, the man and the bird were in the dark mine. When they were tired of digging, they would sit in meditation and rest, and when they had rested enough, they would continue digging.

After digging up a large pile of green source crystals, Xiao Han became really annoyed and finally took Ba Dou back to the entrance to hand over the ore.

When the Earth Fairyland manager saw such a large pile of Green Source Crystals in the storage bag, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Could it be that this female cultivator stole someone else's storage bag? She dug so much in just three months?

No, if there were spiritual fluctuations from fighting in the mine, how could I not know about it? This female cultivator must have been working tirelessly.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at Xiao Han again, and sighed in his heart: What a good mining seedling!

"After you hand over these ores, will you continue digging? These may be exchanged for a lot of immortal stones. Otherwise, you can continue digging for a few months. When you get out, you will have a lot more money on hand."

Xiao Han said noncommittally, "Senior, please settle the account for these ores first."

The manager then sorted the green source crystals according to their quality, and then reported the wages to Xiao Han.

In these three months, Xiao Han obtained a total of 6,581 fairy stones.

This amount is completely equivalent to the wages of two people.

The manager persisted in his attempt to persuade him, "If you can dig for another six months and take away 10,000 or 20,000 immortal stones, you will be able to live a much more comfortable life in the future. Why don't you dig for another six months?"

Xiao Han's heart suddenly began to beat fast. It was over. Would these people detain him underground and turn him into mining slaves?

"Senior, I still have important things to do. After I finish them, I may come back to mine."

Xiao Han didn't dare to refuse firmly and deliberately left his words unspoken.

Seeing that she insisted on leaving, the steward gave up trying to persuade her. He handed her a jade slip with the amount of immortal stones marked on it and said, "Take this and exchange it for your wages."

Xiao Han picked up the jade slip and teleported up there with Croton.

The Golden Immortal Realm steward she had met when she first arrived was currently talking to an Earth Immortal Realm cultivator. Upon seeing Xiao Han emerge from the underground teleportation array, he pointed directly at the Earth Immortal Realm cultivator without further ado and said, "Give him the jade slip."

After saying this, he sensed the seals on all the storage spaces on Xiao Han's body. Finding that the restrictions were still there, he waved his hand and lifted the restrictions on Xiao Han's storage bracelet and spirit beast bag.

The other cultivator gave Xiao Han the immortal stones according to the number of immortal stones in the jade slip.

Seeing the immortal stones piled in the storage bag, Xiao Han suddenly recalled the scene when he received his first month's salary after working outside on Earth.

It's the feeling of no longer having an empty pocket and finally having a little confidence.

So she cultivated to the immortal realm, but still lived the same life as on Earth? She relied on hard-earned money from part-time jobs to make a living?

If that were the case, she felt like she could just die.

She still had to make money, but she no longer wanted to live this kind of life where she had to rely on selling her labor to barely make ends meet.

After asking the manager who distributed wages about the direction of Lingxu City, Xiao Han slowly began to fly towards that direction.

She finally understood that this so-called fairyland was just a world slightly higher than the lower realm, but everything else was the same as the lower realm.

In order to survive, everyone has to do the work, and there are always people who do it.

Therefore, the immortals in Journey to the West who live in a dreamlike fairyland every day and do nothing but chat and play chess are the real immortals.

People like us are just mortals with stronger powers.

That's not right. Aren't there also many minor immortals doing hard labor in heaven? For example, the Imperial Stables where Monkey King keeps his horses, the minor immortals who do odd jobs at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, the heavenly soldiers guarding the South Heaven Gate, and the fairies who serve tea and water to the great immortals—aren't they all minor figures?

So no matter which level you reach, if you don’t climb up, you will always be just a little fairy doing odd jobs, and you will always be just a small person who makes money by working.

Those who don’t have to work and are free and easy will always be immortals.

The spiritual energy in her body suddenly started to circulate automatically, and Xiao Han immediately realized that she was about to be promoted.

No way, after all this random thought, I’m actually going to advance?

Xiao Han hurriedly flew to the mountain below, found a large flat bluestone, sat down cross-legged, and began to meditate with his eyes closed.

Badou squatted obediently on the branch of a big tree nearby to protect his master, lest any blind monsters come and disturb his master's advancement.

An hour later, Xiao Han opened his eyes and felt that his strength had indeed improved, but it seemed completely different from the advancement in the lower realm.

She looked at the sky.

The sky was blue and the clouds were white, without any sign of impending thunder.

So, is it so casual for low-level cultivators in the fairy world to upgrade without any reaction?