The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

After testing it, Hu Xi was obviously very satisfied with his work.

Stroking the whip, he said to Xiao Han, "How about naming this magical weapon 'Netherworld Snake Shadow'?"

Xiao Han: You know how to give names.

She gave a thumbs up and said, "This is a good name. It sounds very impressive. When people hear it, they will want to buy it."

Hu Xi suddenly laughed triumphantly.

Seeing that he was in a good mood, Xiao Han took the opportunity to ask, "Master Hu, can you refine a magical instrument to calculate time? It's the one hanging on the wall of the reception hall in the workshop that displays the time and year."

Hu Xi thought for a moment and understood what she was talking about. He said with a bit of disdain, "Although I haven't refined it myself, it should be easy to refine. It shouldn't be difficult."

Xiao Han's eyes lit up, and he asked again, "So, if I could refine a smaller magical instrument that only needed to see the time, could I learn it?"

Hu Xi immediately gave her a look of disdain: "Is this all you have? So, since you came here as an apprentice, all you want is to learn how to refine that little thing?"

Xiao Han laughed dryly and said, "I'm just afraid that I'm too stupid and don't dare to set my goals too high."

Hu Xi spoke earnestly and earnestly, "If you study hard and seriously, you might become a more powerful weapon refiner than me in the future."

Xiao Han: I’ve always been the one making big promises for others, and today someone made big promises for me too.

But I have to say, this cake is really delicious!

After Hu Xi finished refining his long whip, he continued to refine other magical weapons. Xiao Han also followed him to help him.

How should I put it? Hu Xi has a really bad temper. Xiao Han had just joined the workshop and didn't know many simple tasks, so he was inevitably scolded by the hot-tempered Hu Xi.

But this man had no ill intentions, nor was he secretive. He explained every step of the weapon refining process to her without hesitation. He would explain the basics that Xiao Han could understand now. Regarding the more complex parts, given Xiao Han's current level of cultivation and understanding, explaining them was pointless, so he let her read freely.

As time went on, Xiao Han became more anxious about his own cultivation.

Her cultivation level is low and her spiritual consciousness cannot be released, which means that even if she studies hard, she will not achieve anything.

One month after entering the workshop, Xiao Han finally received his first month's salary, which also came with a day of vacation.

She was finally able to spare some time to visit various spiritual herb shops to inquire about the White Jade Red Blood Vine.

In fact, on the way to Zixiao City, Xiao Han asked Xia Muxin, who was in the business of elixirs and spiritual herbs, whether Zixiao City had the main ingredients of white jade red blood vine and barrier-breaking pills for sale.

Xia Muxin had said that the main ingredient of the Barrier Breaking Pill wasn't rare and could be purchased, but he only knew the name of the White Jade Red Blood Vine, but had never seen it. This was mainly because none of the pills he had come across required the White Jade Red Blood Vine.

What Xiao Han needs to do now is to find out where the White Jade Red Blood Vine is for sale.

The Spiritual Herb Shop was a shop that provided raw materials to alchemists. They not only sold various herbs, but also purchased them.

Xiao Han walked into the first spiritual herb shop he saw and asked the young monk who looked like a waiter, "Excuse me, do you have any White Jade Red Blood Vine for sale?"

The waiter asked a little embarrassedly: "Sir, does this herb have any other name?"

Xiao Han shook his head. "I don't know either. I only know it's a spiritual plant that blooms flowers like white magnolias, grows like a shrub, and has blood-red rhizomes."

The waiter smiled apologetically and said, "I'm sorry, we don't have this kind of medicinal material in our store."

Xiao Han found another spiritual herb shop. This time, the shopkeeper was a female cultivator. Xiao Han mentioned the name of the herb, and the other person shook his head decisively, "We don't have this herb. Why don't you go ask somewhere else?"

Then she went to two more shops to ask, but they both said they didn't have the herb.

Xiao Han's heart sank. Although she also felt that the folk remedy she saw in the miscellaneous book was a bit outrageous, she still had a glimmer of hope.

If she couldn't even gather all the herbs, she wouldn't have the chance even if she wanted to try.

After she went to a spiritual herb shop in the market town, the owner told her that the largest spiritual herb shop in Zixiao City was in the North City District, a shop called Tan Ji. If it was not available there, she would have to look for it at the auction house, or post the task list on the task bulletin board.

Xiao Han didn't want to go through too much trouble, so he naturally hoped to buy the best in the spiritual medicine shop.

So she went directly to the North City District, asked the monks there, and finally found Tan’s Herb Shop.

As expected of the largest spiritual herb shop in Zixiao City, this shop not only covers a large area, but also has many customers.

The three guys inside were so busy that they had no time to rest. Even the old shopkeeper was helping to take the goods and do the accounting.

Xiao Han waited for a while and saw that the old shopkeeper had finally finished his work, so he hurried forward to ask.

The old shopkeeper thought for a while but had no clue. Finally, he took out a jade slip that recorded the medicinal materials in the warehouse, immersed his spiritual consciousness into it and searched it, and finally found the record of the white jade red blood vine.

"Wait a moment, I'll get it from the warehouse."

The old shopkeeper said this and left in a hurry. Xiao Han was immediately delighted. A big shop is a big shop, and its collection of medicinal herbs is indeed more complete.

Not long after, the old shopkeeper came back holding a jade box specially used to store precious medicinal materials.

He opened the jade box, revealing a dark brown rhizome that was as thick as a thumb and only as long as a palm.

"Look, this is the rhizome of the White Jade Red Blood Vine that is over fifty years old."

Xiao Han picked up the rhizome and took a look. He found that the two cut-off parts were indeed blood red.

"It's only grown this thick in fifty years?" Xiao Han was a little bit unbelievable.

The old shopkeeper patiently explained, "Although this spiritual plant may look like a shrub with a large cluster of branches and leaves on the outside, it actually only has one main root underground. And this main root grows extremely slowly."

As he spoke, he used his spiritual power to shave off a little bit of his hair so that Xiao Han could take a closer look.

"See inside this stem? It has the same growth rings as a large tree growing in the sun. I counted them carefully when I bought it."

Xiao Han had to admire that the monks had excellent eyesight. On the cross section that was only as thick as a thumb, those faint circles of darker colors actually represented more than fifty annual rings.

"How much is this?" Xiao Han didn't know whether the old shopkeeper was trying to trick her, because she herself was a layman.

"One thousand spirit stones." The old shopkeeper stated the selling price.

"What, one thousand spirit stones?" Xiao Han was shocked. She only had about six hundred spirit stones on her.

The old shopkeeper said, "We spent nearly a thousand spirit stones to buy this herb, but we haven't had an alchemist to refine the elixir that requires it, so we've been keeping it in the warehouse. Selling it to you now, we're basically not making any profit."