The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Xiao Han was so engrossed in watching that he had long forgotten that Manager Wu was beside him.

It wasn't until Wu Qingping coughed and reminded her that the time was up that she came to her senses.

Wu Qingping said, "You can keep this book for a month. I will take it back after a month. Now follow me."

Xiao Han hurriedly put away the book and followed Wu Qingping.

Wu Qingping first took her to get a set of apprentice work clothes. Don't underestimate these work clothes, they are made of fireproof and high-temperature resistant fabrics, just like vestments.

The clothes Xiao Han wore today were made of mortal fabric. If a spark landed on this kind of fabric, it would instantly burn a hole. However, a cultivator's skin was blessed with spiritual power, so a small spark wouldn't hurt.

Therefore, whether it is the master or the apprentice, the outer robes they wear are specially made clothes.

After receiving the work clothes, Wu Qingping took her to the workshop in the back, handed her over to a manager named Cao, explained her apprentice status, and then left.

Manager Cao was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties. When he saw Xiao Han, a young woman, coming to be an apprentice in refining weapons, he was immediately surprised.

Although cultivators used spiritual energy to refine weapons, unlike mortals who were limited by physical strength, women were not required to forge iron. However, in the world of immortal cultivation, few female cultivators would learn this skill. After all, learning any of the other three skills was better than the clanging image of hammering with a large hammer.

Of course, there are female cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation who learn to refine weapons, but they are very few.

There are female cultivators in the Bailian Weapon Refining Workshop, but they are all middle-aged women who do odd jobs there and will not swing a sledgehammer.

When Manager Cao thought about the fact that all the apprentices here had to sign a three-year contract, he immediately felt sympathy for Xiao Han.

The girl signed the contract, so even if she regretted it, it was too late.

Thinking that if this female cultivator made trouble in the future, he would have to persuade and calm her down, he suddenly became a little irritated for no reason and his face looked bad.

"Your name is Xiao Han, right? Come with me over there and learn how to process the raw materials first."

Xiao Han's heart sank when he saw Manager Cao's face suddenly fall and then speak in a somewhat nasty tone. Oh no! He had a boss who was difficult to get along with. His future was definitely going to be tough.

She followed Manager Cao obediently and came to a small compartment outside the warehouse.

Manager Cao pointed to a cabinet against the wall and said, "Put your storage bag in the cabinet. I'll open the cabinet and return it to you when we finish work at noon."

When Xiao Han signed the contract, it was stated in the terms that some places did not allow storage bags to be brought into the work. The old shopkeeper had explained this to her at the time, and Xiao Han could accept it now.

She took off the storage bag from her waist and put it in the cabinet. Manager Cao locked the cabinet door and led her into the room inside.

Then Xiao Han noticed that when Manager Cao entered, a light flickered on the door frame. But when she walked past, nothing unusual happened.

Manager Cao said, "See? If you cheat and have other storage bags on you, they will be detected when you pass through this door. I have a storage bag on me, so there will be a flash of light on the door."

Xiao Han finally understood, but she also understood the purpose of the weapon refinery. After all, monks all had storage bags. If the apprentices secretly transferred some raw materials into their own storage bags, and the weapon refinery couldn't just check the monks' storage bags, then if the raw materials were missing, there would be no way to explain it.

The workshop is very large, covering more than two hundred square meters, and is filled with a dark gray ore.

The job that Manager Cao asked Xiao Han to do was to use the wind blade technique to remove the dark gray rock on the surface of these ores, leaving only the light blue kyanite inside.

Kyanite is a kind of adhesive. When refining magical instruments, adding some blue crystal powder can better integrate the various raw materials in the instrument. Because it is used in the refining of most magical instruments, its consumption is extremely high, and the refining workshop also has a large amount of kyanite.

Manager Cao carved a stone as a demonstration, and then watched Xiao Han carve another one with his own eyes. Then he left the workshop to do other things.

So on Xiao Han's first day as a weapon-making apprentice, he sat on a small bench in the warehouse and used wind blade technique to cut stones.

The density of this kind of stone is not very high. Using wind blade technique to cut the stone is like peeling a melon with a knife. It is not strenuous and does not consume much spiritual energy, but people will get bored after a long time.

Fortunately, Xiao Han was a worker who had been baptized by the assembly line operations in modern factories, and he did not find it unbearable to keep cutting stones.

At noon, Manager Cao came over to tell Xiao Han to pack up and have lunch, and he also checked her work. Seeing the pile of scraps and a pile of blue topaz, he knew Xiao Han hadn't been lazy, and he nodded in satisfaction.

Xiao Han took out his storage bag and followed Manager Cao to the dining hall.

Those who were eating in this hall were all apprentices and some odd jobs. When the apprentices saw Xiao Han, a young woman, wearing the same work clothes as them, they immediately started whispering to each other.

Manager Cao took Xiao Han to the cook who was serving the food, gave her some instructions, and left.

Xiao Han took out the bowls and chopsticks she brought with her. The cook put two dishes in one of her bowls and a full bowl of rice in another. She found an empty table, sat down, and started eating.

I have to say, this weapon forging workshop is just like those modern large companies with good welfare benefits, and the food in the cafeteria is really good.

Back home, eating meat once a month was a luxury. Although the meat and vegetable dishes here only had two or three pieces of meat, if she ate like this every meal, she felt that for the food and the monthly salary of one hundred spirit stones, she could really treat it as a job.

At this time, a young male cultivator wearing an apprentice's uniform, who looked very smart, came over with a half-eaten meal and sat down opposite her. He greeted her with a smile, "Fellow Daoist, can I sit here?"

Xiao Han nodded and said casually, "Please sit down."

The young male apprentice sat down, took a bite of his food, and started chatting. "Looking at the clothes you're wearing, are you here to be a weapon refining apprentice as well?"

Xiao Han's mouth was full of food, and he just hummed.

The male apprentice immediately looked around, then leaned forward and whispered like a thief, "Did someone trick you into coming here? They call you an apprentice, but in reality, you're just doing hard labor. If you were really doing hard labor, they'd be paid well. We only make a hundred spirit stones a month, which is less than what you get from doing odd jobs."