The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

After moving to a new cave, there weren't many spirit stones left in the storage bag.

However, Xiao Han still put her next goal on the agenda, which was to refine a set of inner armor with good defensive performance for herself.

That dangerous experience while walking at night made her want to get more defensive things for herself.

Inner armor was undoubtedly the first choice. After all, if she wore it inside, others wouldn't notice her, and might underestimate her when attacking. Furthermore, the inner armor's defensive effect was better than ordinary vestments.

After spending over a year in the weapon refining workshop, she had gained a great deal of knowledge. Naturally, she also knew that demon beast hides with good defensive properties were the best choice for refining inner armor. This was because they not only provided defensive capabilities, but were also as soft as clothing, making them very comfortable to wear.

Secondly, it was like the soft armor Huang Rong wore in the modern martial arts novels she read. However, in those novels, the soft armor had spikes and a certain degree of offensive power. In the world of immortal cultivation, however, the soft inner armor, crafted from mineral-like materials, was only defensive, not offensive.

Inner armor is usually worn over the inner garment, has no collar or sleeves, and tightly wraps around the main torso of the body.

With Xiao Han's financial resources, he naturally didn't need to consider monster hides. After all, monster hides with good defensive properties were beyond Xiao Han's reach. Cheap monster hides with poor defensive properties were useless to wear.

She decided to choose Xiling Stone, which had a certain dissolving effect on spells, and Silver Fern, which was soft but resilient.

Xiling Stone is one of the commonly used raw materials for refining defensive magic weapons. The main reason is that the refined and forged Xiling Stone is mixed into defensive magic weapons, which can dissolve part of the magic power when resisting magic attacks.

The silver fern is a plant that grows in damp and dark cracks in rocks. It looks like a ball of tangled hemp thrown into a crack in the rock, but it is difficult to cut it with an ordinary sword.

After removing its skin, it looks like a bunch of white hairs.

The Xiling Stone is refined and forged into a thickness equivalent to that of a dozen hairs put together, then mixed with silver fern and woven together, and finally forged into a whole piece of inner armor skin.

After Xiao Han asked Master Hu, he learned that a piece of inner armor like this would cost roughly 400 yuan in raw materials and 200 spirit stones to refine. In a typical magic tool shop, it would sell for 800 spirit stones.

The magic weapon Vajra Awl that Xiao Han bought only cost 500 spirit stones, but a low-level inner armor was so expensive because the defensive raw materials were relatively rare.

After selling another batch of watches, Xiao Han bought the Xiling Stone and Silver Fern he needed in the raw material warehouse of the weapon refining workshop. Then, before Master Hu assigned him a new refining task, he asked Master Hu to teach him the refining method.

When she encountered a part that her spiritual awareness could not complete independently, she had to ask Master Hu for help.

After a day of hard work, Xiao Han finally finished refining her inner armor. The inner armor she made for herself, except for the sleeves, also covered the legs. Although it cost a few more spirit stones for the raw materials, it was much safer.

The main reason why I didn't make sleeves was that I was afraid that it would affect the swing of the hammer when refining equipment, and when doing some work that requires flexibility of the arms, so as to avoid being affected.

After all, inner armor is not clothing, so its softness is limited.

After taking it to the test area for testing, Xiao Han was still very satisfied. At least unless there were special circumstances, a cultivator at the middle level of Qi training would not be able to seriously injure himself in a short period of time.

After resolving another worry, Xiao Han stopped struggling and became an apprentice peacefully. He then refined some watches to sell and accumulated spirit stones for future preparation.

The apprentice salary she earns now is not enough to pay for a month's rent. If she didn't have the support of the watch business, she would not dare to rent such an expensive cave.

When her three-year junior apprenticeship contract expired, Master Hu happened to be away for a while on some business, so Xiao Han made an agreement with the workshop that she would sign a new contract after she had retreated to the fourth level of Qi training.

With his improved physique and the rich spiritual energy in the cave, Xiao Han has now been at the top of the third level for more than a month. Xiao Han decided to buy a small Huandan, which is one level less effective than the Pozhan Dan, to help.

The effect of Xiao Huan Dan is not as good as Po Zhan Dan, but Xiao Han’s cultivation is still low, so it is easier for him to break through the barrier.

Given her current situation, even without using elixirs, if she works hard on her own for another half a year, she would be able to upgrade to the fourth level of Qi training.

But she lacks time.

One Xiao Huan Dan pill costs three thousand spirit stones, and one Po Zhan Dan pill costs four thousand spirit stones. Xiao Han didn't know the cost of a batch of Xiao Huan Dan, but the main ingredient of a batch of Po Zhan Dan is three thousand spirit stones, and with the auxiliary ingredients, it probably doesn't exceed four thousand spirit stones.

The maximum success rate for a furnace of pills is five pills. If the success rate is 60%, then three pills can be produced, which is 12,000 spirit stones. Even if the success rate is only 40%, and two qualified pills are produced, it can still earn 4,000 spirit stones.

No wonder whether in the novels about cultivating immortals or in this world of cultivating immortals, alchemists are the richest and most profitable profession.

Xiao Han had accumulated tens of thousands of spirit stones from refining watches, so he was willing to spend three thousand spirit stones on a small pill.

This is the good thing about living in Daxian City. Many cultivation resources can be purchased as long as you have money.

Thinking back to when Jiang Yaohua bought a Barrier Breaking Pill, not only did she have to pay a higher price than here, she also had to go to the mortal world to find the medicinal ingredients that the alchemist needed.

Now Xiao Han thinks that leaving Fuyuan City and heading towards the larger Immortal City is a very wise decision.

After buying a small pill of Huandan, she did not rush to swallow it, but directly ate the Qigong pill and began to practice in seclusion.

She practiced day and night, pushing down the barrier in her dantian. After a month of seclusion, she finally swallowed the Xiao Huan Dan.

With the help of the elixir, Xiao Han finally broke through the barrier easily and entered the fourth level of Qi training.

The fourth and third floors are indeed a watershed.

When the spiritual energy barrier disappeared, the dantian became larger again, and the whole person seemed to suddenly become lighter.

At the same time, when she tried to close her eyes and observe her surroundings, it seemed as if an all-round camera was installed in her mind, and she could see clearly within a range of about ten feet around her even with her eyes closed.

After a distance of just over ten feet, the invisible vision began to blur until it became completely invisible.

After experiencing the wonderful feeling of turning on the all-round camera, Xiao Han did not rush out, but stayed in seclusion for a few days before preparing to go to the workshop again.

As a cultivator advances in his cultivation, he must meditate to consolidate his cultivation after each level up.

If you fight with others right after upgrading and consume a lot of spiritual energy, it will cause your realm to be unstable and there is a risk of falling back to a lower realm.