The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Xiao Han wanted to persuade Senior Brother Li again so that he wouldn't be blamed by Master Jiang for helping him.

But seeing that Senior Brother Li's words just now seemed to show that he did not have much respect for Master Jiang, he kept silent.

Fortunately, Jiang Qichuang did not come out until they finished forging.

Later, Jiang Qichang discovered that Li Moyun was still helping Xiao Han with the rough work. The old master, who had seemed amiable, suddenly changed his expression and scolded both of them. Of course, he focused on scolding Li Moyun.

However, Li Moyun acted as if he didn't hear his scolding or see him, and continued to do his own thing.

This attitude made Jiang Qichang furious, but he could do nothing about it.

Because his relationship with Li Moyun wasn't a true master-disciple relationship. Li Moyun, the apprentice, belonged to the workshop, not to him personally. If he really made a fuss, the workshop would transfer Li Moyun to another refiner and replace him with a lazy, less skilled apprentice, which would put him at a greater disadvantage.

Although Li Moyun always resisted him with silence, he never stopped working. So it wasn't that Li Moyun couldn't leave him, but that he couldn't leave Li Moyun.

In the end, Jiang Qichuang had no choice but to let Li Moyun go.

It was only after working for three days that Xiao Han finally understood why some apprentices always complained that they had been cheated. They were doing the rough work of handymen but receiving the wages of weapon-making apprentices.

During these three days, Xiao Han basically had no rest during working hours. He was either smelting, forging to remove impurities, or doing preliminary processing of some materials. All the work he did was rough work that did not require much technical skills.

It’s not that smelting and forging don’t require skills, but if you just do these things every day, what’s the point of learning any skills?

When she was following Master Hu Xi, Hu Xi would ask her to follow him from beginning to end every time he refined a magical weapon.

It wasn't like Master Jiang's place, where refining magical instruments was a routine process, and she was only responsible for the most basic tasks. Although Li Moyun did help her with the work, it was only for the physically demanding tasks. As for the other less technically demanding, easier, and more trivial tasks, Xiao Han did them all.

So it's not that the ancients didn't understand the advantages of assembly line production; they just sometimes didn't have the conditions for it. Take Jiang Qichang's case, for example. If Xiao Han hadn't taken over some of the rough work, this assembly line wouldn't have run as smoothly as it does now.

Just when Xiao Han was muttering to himself that he couldn't learn any skills from this new master, Li Moyun finally transferred the semi-finished product in his hands to Jiang Qichuang.

Then, he said to Xiao Han, "Now you follow me and help me."

Xiao Han naturally could only nod.

Then, Li Moyun asked Xiao Han to follow him everywhere. For each step, Li Moyun would do a little bit himself and let Xiao Han do the rest.

It seemed that Li Moyun was being lazy and pushed all the work onto Xiao Han, but Xiao Han understood that Li Moyun was teaching him step by step.

This time, they were going to refine a few low-level magical instruments. Since refining low-level instruments was not expensive, Jiang Qichuang naturally wouldn't get much in commission. But Jiang Qichuang figured that since Li Moyun could refine these instruments, he might as well take them and let Li Moyun refine them.

Anyway, the two jobs he had on hand were going to be more complicated later, and he still had two days to work on them. It was not a good idea to leave Li Moyun idle. He didn't want to let him just sit there and watch.

It would be better for him to do the work on the low-level magic weapons. Li Moyun is a fixed salary man, and the commission earned from the magic weapons belongs to Jiang Qichuang.

Xiao Han actually knew the steps and techniques for refining many magical instruments, having observed them frequently under Master Hu. However, she hadn't had many opportunities to personally refine them. Firstly, her cultivation level was low, and she couldn't even project her spiritual consciousness, making it impossible for her to perform many of the steps that required spiritual awareness.

Another reason was that, while Hu Xi was forthright and willing to teach, he had a short temper and was impatient. He couldn't stand Xiao Han's nagging when it came to complicated matters. Therefore, when it came to more complex matters, Xiao Han would basically stand aside and watch silently.

Now, following Senior Brother Li, she can get started working directly. She is so happy that she doesn't mind doing more work.

Li Moyun is a quiet man, but if Xiao Han does something wrong, he will directly do it again for Xiao Han to see. It can be said that this is not a senior brother, but a master.

In a blink of an eye, Xiao Han had already been working for Master Jiang for two months. She didn't regret being assigned to Master Jiang at all.

Jiang Qichuang didn't teach her any knowledge about refining weapons, but she met a good senior brother.

This apprentice brother is actually a better master than Master Hu.

Just when Xiao Han thought that she could learn from Senior Brother Li Moyun to become a qualified low-level magic weapon refiner, a bolt from the blue came: Bailian Refining Workshop was going to change owners.

The owner behind the Bailian Refining Workshop was a Foundation Establishment-stage refiner named Zhou. Due to the limitations of their cultivation, refiners in this stage rarely managed to create magical weapons. However, this Zhou master gained fame for refining a low-level magical weapon while still in the Foundation Establishment stage.

The four major skills of cultivating immortality: elixir, talismans, instruments, and formations. If one could master any of them, they would never be too poor. Master Zhou was naturally no surprise. After he was able to refine low-level magical instruments, the number of cultivators seeking him for instrumental refinement continued to increase.

Finally, he hired a few familiar individual weapon refiners and opened this Bailian Weapon Refining Workshop.

In the past ten years or so, he has handed over the management of the workshop and shop to the hired manager, while he has been in seclusion to reach the Jindan realm.

But I didn't expect that I would fail at this level.

When Xiao Han heard the news, he was really stunned for a while.

Isn't it said that in this alternate time and space, there are no thunder tribulations in this immortal world, only barriers and tests of inner demons? Could it be that Mr. Zhou fell to this inner demon?

Then, after hearing other people's discussions, she realized that when the cultivators here break through the Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages, in addition to the test of their inner demons, there is also a danger. That is, if they fail to successfully condense the Dan or form a Nascent Soul in one go, the spiritual energy in their body is likely to rush against the heart meridian, causing the cultivator to die directly.

Their Zhou family fell because of this very reason. Actually, the person who spoke about how spiritual energy could surge against the heart meridian was vague, and Xiao Han was even more confused.

But for her, forming a pill was too far away, so far away that she didn't even bother to inquire about it carefully.

After all, for her, successfully building a foundation is as difficult as winning the jackpot in the lottery, so why bother to consider the more illusory formation of the elixir?

Moreover, what Xiao Han was more concerned about was that the owner was a casual cultivator, without family or wife or children to inherit the property. Who would have taken over the workshop? Who would be the new owner? What would happen to an apprentice like himself?