The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

However, when Xiao Han saw the raw materials used to make the storage bags, he realized why the storage bags were so expensive.

The raw materials for the storage bag require special monster skins with soul-locking abilities, combined with a spatial array. In other words, to create a storage bag, either the craftsman must also be knowledgeable in spatial arrays, or they must also find a skilled array master who also understands spatial arrays to collaborate with.

In the past, Xiao Han stayed at home all day writing storybooks. There were not many useful books in Qian Wanshan's bookstore, which led to her lack of knowledge about many immortal cultivation knowledge in this world.

When she writes storybooks, she can make up anything based on the fantasy novels she reads online in the modern world. It's like writing modern science fiction: no matter how absurd the high-tech is, or how inconsistent the setting is with real technology, no one will question it, because everyone is just reading for fun.

But stories are stories, and reality is reality. She lives in reality, which means she must read and learn more in order to survive better in this world.

On the second day of work, Xiao Han continued to process blue topaz.

After processing the blue crystals in a warehouse, she was taken by Manager Cao to the workshop of a middle-aged weapon refiner with dark skin and a strong build.

"Old Hu, this is a new apprentice. You will be working with her and teaching her some basic techniques of refining equipment."

After saying that, he left quickly without waiting for Lao Hu to speak.

Xiao Han glanced around the workshop.

Inside the 100-square-meter room, raw materials and half-finished magical instruments were scattered everywhere. Three earth-fire pores stood against the inner wall, but only the middle one was emitting flames. A bluish-red flame enveloped half the length of the small cauldron, and gurgling sounds could be heard from within. It was unclear what was being cooked.

Honestly, if Xiao Han hadn't read introductory books on weapon forging, understood the general process of refining common magical instruments, and noticed that none of the items inside were ordinary, she would have thought this was some mortal's blacksmith shop.

Old Hu watched Manager Cao fleeing and roared at his back, "Cao, if you dare, don't run away."

Manager Cao naturally wouldn't stop. It wasn't that he'd intentionally dumped a newbie here; the other refiners of the same caliber in the workshop were busy working on a large order, and the more experienced apprentices had gone to help out. And Hu Xi's original apprentice had quit after his contract expired, leaving him without an apprentice to help him.

Hu Xi is a talented refiner, but he has a bad temper and a strong personality. He doesn't like to refine the same magical weapon repeatedly. Bailian Refining Workshop doesn't want to let this talent go, so they have to make some compromises.

Just like now, all the weapon refiners of the same level as him have to follow orders to fulfill orders, but he can still leisurely refine the magic weapon he wants to refine.

It’s just that the refiners in the refinery workshop make money based on commissions, so people like him naturally earn less than other refiners.

By the time Hu Xi finished yelling, Manager Cao had disappeared.

Old Hu kicked a basin at his feet with great force in anger. No one knew what material the basin was made of. It looked like a pottery basin, but the sound was dull. It hit an iron pier in the distance, but there was no sign of damage.

Old Hu put his hands on his hips, breathing heavily, and stared at Xiao Han, who was a little at a loss, with his pair of eyes as bright as Zhang Fei's.

Perhaps he felt that it was pointless to get angry at a newcomer like Xiao Han who looked so confused, so he decided to let Xiao Han give up.

"You, go take that sledgehammer and hammer according to my instructions later."

Xiao Han hurried over to where he was pointing and picked up a large hammer. However, when she tried to lift it, she couldn't even lift it.

The spiritual power in the body surged and poured into the right arm.

Finally, I lifted the hammer easily.

She walked to a fine iron block and waited for Master Hu's instructions.

Hu Xi walked to the small cauldron used for smelting, turned off the underground fire, then used the object control technique to roll up a piece of yellow mud-like thing in the cauldron and threw it on the fine iron block.

Then he flipped his hand, and a hammer not much smaller than the hammer in Xiao Han's hand appeared in his hand.

"Watch where my hammer lands. After I hit it, you have to hit it again right away. Do you understand?"

Hu Xi spoke to Xiao Han in a vicious tone.

Xiao Han nodded hurriedly, "Got it."

Hu Xi held a hammer in one hand and a clamp-like object in the other.

Then he hammered down with a bang, and Xiao Han, holding the big hammer tightly in both hands, followed suit and hammered down.

Unexpectedly, Hu Xi glared at her and shouted, "If you don't have the strength, then why are you here to learn weapon refining?"

Then he continued to beat it.

Xiao Han hurriedly increased his spiritual power output and struck down hard with a hammer.

Hu Xi was slightly satisfied.

Afterwards, Hu Xi's shouting continued to be heard in the workshop.

"Pace faster, dilly-dally."

"You haven't eaten yet, try harder."

"Do you think this is just like a mortal forging iron? Just hitting it will do the trick? There must be a specific force and rhythm to the strikes."

Xiao Han swung the sledgehammer silently, constantly adjusting his strength and rhythm of the hammering in response to Hu Xi's roar.

She had read the book on weapon refining over and over again, so she had a solid theoretical foundation. Now that she was doing it herself, many of the theoretical points that she hadn't fully grasped suddenly became clear to her.

Although Master Hu kept yelling at her and had an extremely bad attitude, Xiao Han also found that he had told her many little techniques for beating, which allowed her to get started quickly.

Master Hu stopped hammering until the yellow mud-like material became much lighter in color. He threw it into the small cauldron, turned on the earth fire formation switch, and started the second smelting.

Xiao Han wiped the sweat from his forehead and stood aside watching silently.

This sweat is not the result of exertion, but is secreted purely due to nervousness.

Although she hit hard just now, all she consumed was her spiritual energy.

Hu Xi glared at her again when he saw her standing far away. "You can't even project your spiritual sense. What can you see from so far away? Come here and carefully observe the degree to which this soft mud gold stone must be melted twice before it can be hammered again to remove impurities."

Xiao Han hurried forward and accidentally put her head into the formation. The high temperature of the earth fire and the furnace instantly forced her back, and she involuntarily took two steps back.

The skin on my face felt like it was burning, and my bangs on my forehead curled up.

The next moment, a cool feeling came towards me, and the burning sensation on my face disappeared instantly.

Hu Xi cast a rejuvenation spell on her and then started to glare at her and teach her a lesson.

"You're so reckless, you act like a brat."

After saying that, he pointed to the formation switch on the underground fire platform and taught her how to adjust the size of the underground fire and the range of the formation that sealed the temperature of the smelting area.

Finally, he asked worriedly, "Put a spiritual shield on yourself. This is something you should know, right? Next time you get close, put on the spiritual shield. You don't have to worry even if you enter the formation area."

Xiao Han asked awkwardly, "How do I cast a spell with the Spiritual Power Shield?"

Hu Xi looked at her speechlessly for two breaths, and began to explain how to cast a spiritual power shield on himself.