The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

After consolidating her cultivation, Xiao Han went to the workshop again. This time, she planned to sign a contract with the workshop again.

As a junior apprentice for the previous three years, although she followed a good master, her cultivation was too low, and she was unable to refine the refining parts that were slightly technically difficult.

So, after three years, I could only help out. The only magical instruments I could make were simple ones like watches.

The workshop will offer the next apprentice who signs a contract the same salary as an intermediate apprentice for two years.

Xiao Han plans to sign a contract for another two years to learn some real skills.

An intermediate apprentice’s monthly salary is 300 spirit stones, and they also have one more day off, making two days off per month.

Back when Xiao Han was in Fuyuan City, she could earn 300 spirit stones by writing storybooks for two months, and she already considered herself a successful person. But in this more remote Daxian City, being an apprentice, with free meals and the opportunity to learn skills, she could still earn 300 spirit stones. This simply made Fuyuan City look like a piece of crap.

Therefore, it's not without reason that it's so difficult for independent cultivators in Fuyuan City to advance. The main reason is probably that it's difficult to earn spirit stones, difficult to learn techniques, and even if you have spirit stones, you can't buy the cultivation resources you want.

With Xiao Han's current level of Qi training, if he didn't stop being an apprentice and did some other jobs, the minimum salary would be 500 spirit stones a month, but Xiao Han never thought of leaving the workshop.

She has already tasted the huge benefits of being able to refine equipment, so how could she be so short-sighted as to do other jobs?

However, what made her a little depressed was that Master Hu Xi had not returned yet, and the workshop arranged for her to assist another weapon refiner.

The weapon refiner's name is Jiang Qichuang, and he is a master in his sixties.

He actually has a senior apprentice named Li Moyun who has been studying for seven years.

Li Moyun, now 28 years old and at the seventh level of Qi training, was already capable of refining some low-level magical instruments. Given his down-to-earth and willing character, as well as his considerable talent for refining instruments, he would have been able to refine intermediate-level magical instruments if he hadn't followed Jiang Qichang, a rather selfish and stingy master who refused to teach him true skills.

Although Jiang Qichang rarely gave Li Moyun any guidance, Li Moyun had spent seven years with him, just watching and figuring things out on his own, and had learned a lot. Because Li Moyun knew so much, Jiang Qichang, in order to get more commission, took on a lot of the refining work from the workshop, then only refined the core parts himself, leaving the rest to Li Moyun.

But Li Moyun only had two hands, so his efficiency couldn't be very fast. So Jiang Qichang asked the workshop for an apprentice to help him.

In this way, Xiao Han, who had just signed a contract as an intermediate apprentice, was assigned to Jiang Qichuang's workshop because Hu Xi was not in the workshop.

Manager Cao brought Xiao Han over, gave a brief introduction to both parties, and then left.

Jiang Qichang pointed at Li Moyun with a smile on his face, "Xiao Xiao, from now on, just follow your Senior Brother Li and he will tell you what to do."

After saying that, he went to a separate workroom inside, where no one except him was allowed to enter.

Li Moyun is a taciturn person, but now that a new person has come to the workshop, he has to speak up.

"Junior Sister Xiao, can you smelt this thing?"

Xiao Han nodded, "I will."

Li Moyun then handed the materials to Xiao Han, pointed to the underground fire area, and went back to his own work.

Xiao Han immediately took the raw materials to smelt them.

The smelting work is actually very easy. You just need to stand by the furnace, observe the degree of smelting, and then you may need to add some necessary auxiliary materials.

Removing impurities after smelting is a strenuous task. Even with spiritual energy flowing into the arms, the need to concentrate and forge according to the material's unique removal method still leaves one feeling exhausted afterward.

Xiao Han was now a cultivator, and forging relied on expending her spiritual energy. Therefore, physically, she didn't have the same inherent strength differences between men and women as mortals. Furthermore, her life experiences from a young age had cultivated a hardworking character, so she didn't find forging particularly tiring.

Generally speaking, a refiner can refine a magical weapon from start to finish by himself.

It's just that this is a workshop. In order to allow the weapon refiners to produce more finished products and to ensure that the workshop has talents available for generations, the weapon refiners are assigned apprentices to do simple and rough work.

In order to get more commission, Jiang Qichuang took on more work, so the ones who worked hard were naturally Xiao Han, who did the rough work, and Li Moyun, who did the mid-level work.

Xiao Han, who had just arrived here, naturally didn't know about this. When she saw that the raw materials had been melted, she used her object control skills to roll them out and placed them on the fine iron block to forge.

When Li Moyun saw this, he stopped what he was doing, picked up the sledgehammer without saying a word, walked to Xiao Han, and forged with her.

Xiao Han had no idea that Li Moyun was helping him. He adjusted the rhythm and the two of them worked together to pound the wood to remove impurities.

Just when the raw materials were almost forged, Jiang Qichuang came out of his special workshop.

Seeing this scene, he immediately frowned.

However, he remained silent until the raw materials were ready for a second smelting. Then, with a kind expression, he addressed Xiao Han, "Xiao Xiao, you became an apprentice to learn some real skills, right? For simple forging like this, it's best not to ask your senior brother for help. You can do it all by yourself. If you want to be a qualified weapon refiner, you must be able to do everything yourself, right?"

Xiao Han wanted to say that it was Senior Brother Li who took the initiative to join the forging, but he didn't say anything. But thinking that Li Moyun was there to help him after all, he just said yes.

But Li Moyun beside him said, "I want to do it myself."

Jiang Qichang immediately glared at him and asked, "Do you think your work is too little?"

Li Moyun stopped talking and went back to his own work.

Jiang Qichuang naturally knew Li Moyun's temperament. He was the kind of person who would never speak if he could avoid it.

He could only glare at Li Moyun, then turned around and went back to his workshop.

Xiao Han went back to smelting for the second time. She noticed that Li Moyun's work didn't require much concentration, so she wanted to chat with him and learn more about the situation. However, seeing that Li Moyun was busy working without even glancing at her, she gave up the idea of chatting.

However, when she was hammering and forging for the second time, Li Moyun came over with the big hammer again.

Xiao Han hurriedly said, "Brother Li, I don't need your help. I can do it on my own."

Li Moyun, however, still lowered his hammer when Xiao Han raised it, and said, "Don't worry about him."

It took Xiao Han a moment to understand what Li Moyun meant.