Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

After delivering the pills, Li Ji'an purchased another batch of medicinal herbs and high-grade talisman paper.

Then he went to the spiritual rice shop in the outer city, bought spiritual rice, spiritual flour, and monster meat, and by the way, went to the spirit pet shop and painfully spent one hundred spirit stones to purchase late-stage beast pills for Gua Gua.

The beast pills used by spirit beasts are essentially different from the pills used by human cultivators. Not only are the medicinal materials different, but the core efficacy is also different, and they cannot be compared. Only beast-controlling families have a lot of research on them.

The spirit stones that had just been obtained hadn't even warmed up before seven or eight tenths of them were spent.

Last month, he was almost living off his savings. Five hundred spirit stones were used to pay the rent, and the purchase of medicinal herbs and rice and noodles almost emptied him. Now his savings are only a little over two hundred spirit stones.

After finishing the purchase, Li Ji'an came to Taiping Inn, the same one that Yan Qingwan had brought him to eleven years ago, the largest inn in the Immortal City.

Leaving the wilderness and coming to the Immortal City, in addition to planning for foundation building resources and improving his skills, another key point was to obtain information and gain a deeper understanding of this world.

Information barriers exist everywhere, and in this world, they will only be deeper.

"Alchemist Li, you're finally willing to come out," a greeting came from behind him just as he reached the entrance of the inn.

Li Ji'an turned around and saw an old woman with a little girl.

"Fellow Daoist You, Xiao Qiao," Li Ji'an nodded with a smile.

The grandmother and granddaughter were next-door neighbors. A few days after Li Ji'an moved in, they came to visit. Those who could live in that location generally had extraordinary skills and were mostly independent cultivators. Mutual friendship and resource sharing were the norm.

Granny You was a senior array master who had also worked for the array master Liu family, one of the five major families, but she had not been given much importance, only given the status of a guest elder. Later, because of internal strife within the family, the lineage she was friendly with failed, and she left, settling here for several decades.

Her granddaughter, Xiao Qiao, was taken in two years ago and is now only five years old.

Xiao Qiao was a little shy, hiding behind Granny You, blinking her big eyes and secretly sizing him up.

"I was originally thinking that I would have to visit you today, but it's a pleasant coincidence," Granny You said with a chuckle.

Li Ji'an nodded, guessing that she probably wanted to buy pills. During the last visit, they exchanged gifts. He gave Granny You a medium-grade Qi Supplementing Pill, and Granny You helped him reinforce the protective array of the small courtyard.

The quality of pills is comprehensively judged according to efficacy, pill toxins, drug resistance, etc., but it is also difficult to divide them very finely. Therefore, even the same medium-grade pills have subtle differences.

Li Ji'an was confident in his pills. Experienced cultivators could also feel the difference when taking the pills.

This was also the reason why Granny You was much more amiable than during her first visit.

"Meeting by chance is better than an invitation. Alchemist Li, please do me the honor of letting me be the host today?"

"It is impolite to decline a gift from an elder, then I will let Fellow Daoist You spend money," Li Ji'an agreed with a smile, anyway, he came here to listen to all sides.

The three quickly entered the inn's lobby. Coincidentally, this time, Granny You also chose the same seat that Yan Qingwan had chosen eleven years ago, in the corner, secluded.

Granny You ordered a lot of spiritual food and specially ordered expensive snacks for Xiao Qiao, a pot of spiritual wine for Li Ji'an, and a pot of spiritual tea for herself.

This was enough to show her financial resources as a senior array master.

Array masters are difficult to enter and master, not only requiring a high level of spiritual power, but also requiring the basic skills of drawing symbols and engraving inscriptions, and they must also be proficient in the principles of heaven and earth, good at borrowing the five elements of feng shui and surveying, and the good thing is that the requirements for mana are not very high.

Compared to pill refinement and talisman making, it is generally difficult for independent cultivators to get started.

However, this is also related to the fact that the market demand for arrays is not as great as that for pills and talismans.

She greeted Li Ji'an politely, chatting with Li Ji'an about everything under the sky, but very tactfully did not ask for any private information.

Li Ji'an had a lot to talk about with this kind of knowledgeable elderly cultivator. When chatting, he didn't have to worry about her probing into his privacy without understanding human relationships, making the scene awkward. The communication process was very easy and casual.

Xiao Qiao hid behind Granny You and secretly ate snacks.

"Alchemist Li, alas, it's my fault today. I didn't consider it carefully. I don't know if you young people like this kind of place. Next time I have the opportunity, I'll invite Alchemist Li to Chunfeng Tower to relax," after the last topic ended, Granny You took a sip of spiritual tea and smoothly prepared to cut to the next topic.

Li Ji'an smiled awkwardly: "Fellow Daoist You is overthinking. Li is cultivating his moral character and has a light personality. He doesn't like to go to those places. This place is very good."

"Oh? Alchemist Li has given me a new look. Young and promising, full of vitality, and able to restrain himself, it is commendable. I will use tea instead of wine to toast Alchemist Li."

"I don't deserve it," Li Ji'an raised his glass.

"I like to come here, not because I like the excitement, but because I want to hear more about what is happening in the world today, so as not to be eliminated by the times."

"Since Fellow Daoist You wants to know the current affairs, why not subscribe to the Dibao?" Li Ji'an has been considering subscribing to the Dibao recently.

However, the Dibao is not cheap, and it is a bit uneconomical for him to subscribe alone. At this time, he took the opportunity to co-subscribe with Granny You.

Granny You shook her head: "Hehe, that Dibao thing, three points true, seven points false. Under the rule of the sect, you only see what they want you to see. It is better to listen to the nonsense of the travelers from all over the world."

Li Ji'an nodded with a smile. That was the truth. He naturally understood, but he couldn't kill everything with one blow.

Under the rule of the sect, the news in the Dibao seems to be affected by the sect, but it can also infer the situation of the sect by the direction of the Dibao.

After chatting for a while, not much of the spiritual food was touched, but Xiao Qiao unknowingly ate all the snacks.

Li Ji'an got up to say goodbye.

Granny You also followed him back to the residential area.

Sure enough, after entering the courtyard, Granny You opened her mouth and hoped to buy pills.

Compared with ordinary alchemists selling to pill shops, Granny You gave a slightly higher price, but it was slightly lower than the price he sold to Dan Ding Pavilion as a guest elder.

Li Ji'an did not bargain about this. They were all selling high-grade pills, and the difference was not much. It was just a reward for her accompanying him to chat and providing him with emotional value.

He was not a petty person.

"Alchemist Li is so young, and his alchemy skills are so superb. I admire him," after the transaction was completed, Granny You praised again.

"Eh, Alchemist Li also refines Marrow Cleansing Pills, such unpopular pills?"

Today, the delivery of pills basically emptied the high-quality pills, and before going, in order to make room for the high-quality pills, he mixed some of the remaining medium-grade pills with other pills.

At this moment, the pills given to Granny You were stained with a bit of the scent of the high-quality Marrow Cleansing Pills that Li Ji'an had refined in advance for his next life.

"Fellow Daoist You is so familiar with Marrow Cleansing Pills?" Marrow Cleansing Pills are pulse-nourishing pills for body cultivators in their youth. The lack of body cultivators in this world is one aspect, and the most important thing is that young people nourished by spiritual energy do not particularly need Marrow Cleansing Pills.

And ordinary people, even other alchemists, if they are not familiar with a kind of pill, cannot smell the taste and immediately call out the pill.

"Hehe, I also had an alchemist friend in the family before, who was good at refining this kind of pill."

Brush~

Before the words fell, a flash of inspiration flashed through Li Ji'an's mind...