The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Xiao Han naturally didn't know what happened after she left. At this moment, she was rushing back and still calculating how many spirit stones she had earned while on the way.

The raw material cost of a watch is about five spirit stones, and the labor cost of refining it is calculated as five spirit stones per watch. The selling price of these twenty spirit stones is double the price.

In other words, if she didn't factor in the cost of refining, she could earn fifteen spirit stones per watch. Ten men's watches would give her a month and a half's wages, which was quite satisfying.

Being an apprentice in a weapon refining workshop allowed her to buy cheap scraps and she didn't have to pay for renting underground fire, which really reduced her costs a lot.

This business has great development prospects.

However, the workshop would not say anything if she made a few watches on a small scale. But if she made more, the workshop would probably have objections.

After thinking about it, Xiao Han decided to wait until after get off work in the evening and use Hua Lingshi to rent the workshop's fire and tools.

In fact, Dihuo Peak has many single-room Dihuo rooms that are rented out to alchemists and weapon refiners, but there is only Dihuo in them, and no other smelting and forging tools.

Xiao Han doesn't have the spare money to buy these tools now, so it is most cost-effective to directly rent the equipment from the workshop.

So after work in the evening, Xiao Han found Manager Cao and said that in order to practice more weapon-making skills, he wanted to rent the workshop's underground fire room after work to learn weapon-making, but he didn't know how much rent he should pay.

Manager Cao waved his hand and said that there would be no rent. As long as Hu Xi's workshop was closed, Xiao Han could use it as he pleased.

The underground fire rooms at Earth Fire Peak were all set up by the City Lord's Mansion to draw out the underground fire, and then rented out to groups of cultivators and individuals in need. The underground fire rooms rented by the workshops were all under long-term contracts, such as five or ten years. Therefore, Xiao Han's use of the underground fire after the workshop's masters had finished work had no impact on the workshop at all.

Besides, Manager Cao was very happy that the apprentice was willing to work hard to learn weapon forging. Regardless of whether Xiao Han would renew the contract after the three-year period, it would always be good for the workshop if the apprentice could learn some skills.

Xiao Han didn't expect the workshop to be so easy to deal with. He didn't even have to spend a single extra spirit stone, and he was in an extremely good mood.

She seemed to have already seen a bright future in which she could make a fortune by refining watches and earn so much spirit stones that her storage bag would not be able to hold them all.

Without having time to eat, Xiao Han put the prepared food into the storage bag and then returned to the workshop to work.

Master Hu would only work overtime to refine a magical instrument in one go when he was particularly interested in refining a difficult one. Otherwise, he would leave work on time, sometimes even leaving early.

After all, he is also a cultivator, so he still needs to set aside some time for cultivation.

Xiao Han worked attentively. After she had made ten men's watches and ten women's watches, she looked at the timekeeping device hanging on the wall and was suddenly shocked. She didn't expect that she had been so absorbed in her work that it was already midnight.

The magic clock on the wall was a creation Hu Xi had made in advance to teach Xiao Han how to make a watch. After all, Hu Xi had never made a timekeeping magic instrument before, so he couldn't teach Xiao Han without trying it himself.

A watch is naturally much simpler than a large magical clock that has to display the year, month, day and time. It is not difficult for Xiao Han, who is familiar with it, to refine it. It’s just that her cultivation level is low and her spiritual consciousness cannot be projected. When shaping the watch, she has no spiritual consciousness to assist her and can only rely on spiritual power to complete it, so the process will be very slow.

This was during her afternoon shift, and in her spare time when she wasn't helping out, she had already smelted and forged the raw materials. In the evening, she only did the final assembly and shaping, and it was already so late, which made Xiao Han even more distressed about her low cultivation level.

It was already two quarters past midnight, and Xiao Han was very hesitant.

If she went back, she would have to travel back in the dark. If she didn't go back, she could meditate in the workshop overnight, but the spiritual energy here was naturally far inferior to that of the cultivator's cave where the formation was set up.

Xiao Han finally decided to go back at night.

Cultivators can see at night by infusing spiritual power into their eyes. In addition, she has been walking the road from the cave to the Earth Fire Peak for a year and will not get lost even with her eyes closed, so it seems no big deal to travel in the middle of the night.

So Xiao Han left the workshop, put on a lightness talisman, and started running towards home.

Although the Earth Fire Peak is not far from the cultivator's cave, it still takes half an hour, about forty to fifty minutes.

Xiao Han ran alone on the quiet mountain road. Apart from the chirping of insects in the grass, the only sound was her own breathing.

The weather today is not very good. Not only is there no moon in the sky, but even the stars are not very bright.

Before she traveled through time, Xiao Han would never have dared to walk alone in the wilderness at night. Now that she was a cultivator, she felt that she couldn't be afraid of ghosts.

Just don't be afraid of ghosts, you still have to be afraid of people.

The security in the fairy city may be okay during the day, but who knows what it will be like at night.

Therefore, not long after Xiao Han left the workshop, he took out a medium-grade golden needle talisman from his storage bag and held it in his palm.

But she didn't expect that the talisman she had prepared just in case would actually come in handy.

When she turned out of the mountain road and was about to enter a small path near the spiritual field, she suddenly felt an unusual fluctuation of spiritual power behind her.

Xiao Han subconsciously turned her head while running, and saw a figure rushing towards her from behind.

Xiao Han was so frightened that her soul was about to burst out. She released her spiritual power and activated the golden needle talisman that she had been holding in her hand for a long time. Then, when the opponent was less than a meter away from her, she slapped the golden needle talisman directly at him.

The golden needle talisman exploded with a loud bang, and the indiscriminate attack caused Xiao Han to be attacked by several golden needles as well.

But she didn't care about the pain or healing, she just ran forward desperately.

The shadowy figure probably hadn't anticipated that the other party had already grasped the talisman in their palm, and had even activated it while they were so close. Because the talisman exploded after being thrown at him, he naturally bore most of the golden needle attack.

Xiao Han was not able to release her spiritual consciousness yet, so while she was desperately trying to escape, she had to turn her head to look from time to time.

If the other party continued to chase her, she would have to use the top-grade light body talisman, which cost fifty spirit stones each, to escape. If the other party stopped chasing her, she would still want to save fifty spirit stones if she could.

Fortunately, no one chased her until she ran to the main road.

Only after running to a crowded place did Xiao Han's nervous mood relax a little.

When she returned to her cave and saw the holes on her waist, arms, and thighs, as well as her clothes soaked in blood, she realized that she was seriously injured.

He hurriedly performed rejuvenation surgery on himself to stop the bleeding, then applied muscle-growing powder. After bandaging it, he felt a surge of fear.