Ling Rui'er was a third-layer qi refining cultivator.
She works at the store as a store attendant for 8 hours every single day except for Sunday, which was her rest day.
And every single month, the pay that she received was but a mere 3 lower-quality spiritual stones.
Now, let's talk about rent.
Because Silver Moonlight Market possesses a formation that envelops the entire market…
It was difficult for rogue cultivators and wild magical beasts to attack Silver Moonlight Market.
After all, to even get into the market, they would first have to be able to break through the formation.
And in theory, with enough spiritual stones, and as long as the attacks weren't too much for the formation to handle, the formation could last forever.
Also, since Silver Moonlight Market has high realm cultivators patrolling and guarding it, it added another layer of safety to the market.
Most of the time, there wasn't even a need to activate the formation.
Just the high realm cultivators were enough to deter away the rogue cultivators and wild magical beasts from the market.
Furthermore, not only does the formation provide safety for the market, but it also helps to increase the density of spiritual energy within the market.
This caused the spiritual energy within Silver Moonlight Market to be much denser than the spiritual energy of the territories that were outside of Silver Moonlight Market.
With the aspects of safety and denser spiritual energy, even the smallest house in Silver Moonlight Market requires a monthly rent of 1 lower-quality spiritual stone.
Now, that was only the rent, and just the rent alone had already taken up a third of Ling Rui'er monthly salary.
What about food?
If a cultivator were to eat mortal food to fill their stomach…
And by mortal food, mortal food was basically food that did not possess any spiritual energy in them.
As time passed by, filth will begin to accumulate within a cultivator's body, and this wasn't a good thing for a cultivator as it would affect their cultivation speed.
Therefore, most cultivators would opt to either eat magical beast meat or spiritual grain.
And if they had no money to afford either of those two, they would opt to use hunger abstaining pills.
As its name implies, hunger abstaining pill was basically a pill that helps a cultivator to abstain from feeling hungry.
However, although hunger abstaining pill was made with medicinal herbs which contain spiritual energy…
Aside from helping the user to not feel hungry, the pill itself doesn't help to increase a cultivator's spiritual energy.
On the other hand, not only did magical beast meat and spiritual grain taste great, but they were also able to help increase a cultivator's spiritual energy when eaten by a cultivator.
Therefore, every month, most cultivators would have to spend at least half a spiritual stone on food.
Now, to the next point, what if a cultivator wanted to increase their cultivation speed?
This would mean that they would have to spend money on buying spiritual pills.
Then, what about their own protection?
From things like talismans, armors, weapons, cultivation technique, offensive and defensive martial skills, and so on…
All of those cost spiritual stones.
With all these points, it can be seen just how costly it was to be a cultivator.
For cultivators who were in the qi refining realm…
When they reached the middle stage of qi refining realm…
This was when they could finally start taking jobs that paid much more than 3 lower-quality spiritual stones per month.
Therefore, normally, only when a qi refining realm cultivator reaches the middle stage of qi refining realm…
Which was basically the fourth layer of qi refining realm…
Then would a qi refining realm cultivator have to finally make the hard decision of whether they should spend money on buying a spatial pouch or not.
In this cultivation world, the majority of cultivators did not even have enough spiritual stones to spend on themselves.
Therefore, it was only natural that there were pretty much no male cultivators who would actually do something as dumb as giving their own resources to a female cultivator.
The previous host could really be counted as an odd one out within this cultivation world.
It was no wonder that Ling Rui'er would try her best to get the previous host to keep on simping for her.
After all, Ling Rui'er was really poor.
Without the previous host giving her pills every few days…
Who even knows just how long it was going to take for her to be able to break through to the fourth layer of her cultivation?
In this world where majority of cultivators were poor, it was only natural that all they would have in their minds was how to obtain more spiritual stones.
In the end, could anyone really blame Ling Rui'er for what she did?
Perhaps, the previous host did have some sort of right to blame her, but the previous host himself was also to be blamed for being too naïve.
However, if there was someone who didn't blame Ling Rui'er at all…
That someone would be Ye Hua, who was currently enthusiastically calculating his wealth.
10 lower-quality qi congregation pills are worth half a lower-quality spiritual stone.
Since Ling Rui'er's reciprocal rate is 10 times…
It means that I am able to obtain 5 lower-quality spiritual stones every week!
In a month, that is a total of 20 lower-quality spiritual stones!
What's more, I haven't even faction in the reward that I had gotten from the system…
The thorough understanding of a peak level 1 alchemist!
If Ye Hua memories served him well, alchemist was a job that paid very well.
It was not an exaggeration to say that an alchemist was basically an occupation that prints money.
That was, of course, so long as the alchemist was a good alchemist, unlike the previous host!
As to the reason why it wasn't an exaggeration to say that an alchemist was practically able to print money…
Take the previous host for example.
The previous host's assigned task was to concoct and hand over 500 lower-quality qi congregation pills to the store.
However, the amount of ingredients that the store provided for the previous host was enough to concoct up to at least 1500 lower-quality qi congregation pills.
The reason the store provided that amount of ingredients was because…
If an alchemist was able to possess a 33% success rate when concocting pills…
The alchemist would be regarded as a qualified alchemist.
And if the alchemist possessed a higher success rate than 33%...
It was consensus that the extra pills that were concocted by the alchemist belonged to the alchemist.
With this logic…