Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

Before his words had even finished, Li Ji'an, while appearing calm on the surface, had already raised his vigilance to the maximum. The close-fitting talisman was ready to be activated at any moment, and he simultaneously summoned Guagua to be on standby.

Due to its characteristics, the Marrow Cleansing Pill had limited uses in the cultivation world.

He only needed it because his body before the age of eight had not been nourished by spiritual energy, so he needed to prepare it in every life.

The fact that others in this realm were refining Marrow Cleansing Pills, and were even "good" at refining them, couldn't help but make Li Ji'an overthink.

The first Marrow Cleansing Pill of the Immortal Bestowed Dynasty was bestowed by an "Immortal Master."

Now, coupled with the fact that Granny You came from the Array Formation Liu Family, one of the five great families here, his suspicion only deepened.

He even felt that she might be deliberately testing him.

"I was just practicing with some low-grade pill formulas when I first started studying the art of alchemy," Li Ji'an replied with a smile.

Granny You nodded: "Yes, that kind of pill has no market, and is mostly made for practice."

"This old woman won't disturb Alchemist Li any longer. Farewell."

"Xiao Qiao, say goodbye to Uncle Li."

Xiao Qiao shrank back, not moving.

Watching the grandmother and granddaughter leave, Li Ji'an came back to his senses. He might have been overthinking things. He had already "rejuvenated" once, so she probably wasn't testing him.

However, Li Ji'an took note of the Array Formation Liu Family she mentioned.

After calming his mind and contemplating for a long time, he decided to inform the other three about this matter.

Zhao Shuyao was now eighty-four years old, Zhang Tiezhu seventy-four, and Dong Jiangling seventy, all of them past their prime and with little hope for further advancement.

Having a reachable hope in life could boost their vitality.

Moreover, this matter was also their shared long-cherished wish!

Not long after he sent out the message, Dong Jiangling was the first to reply. His gathering place was not far from the Array Formation Liu Family. Compared to the other four major families, it was closer to the southern wilderness. His daughter had married into a family affiliated with the Liu Family. He said he would pay more attention in the future, but advised Li Ji'an not to be distracted and to prioritize cultivation to increase his strength.

Because he was staying in the Yan Family, Zhang Tiezhu had limited access to information and had no knowledge of this, but he reminded Li Ji'an to be careful and wait until he had established his foundation before taking action.

Zhao Shuyao did not reply until later in the evening, when she came with Shopkeeper Wu.

Shopkeeper Wu praised him lavishly throughout, and Zhao Shuyao also expressed her surprise at his alchemy skills.

After dismissing Shopkeeper Wu, Zhao Shuyao became serious.

"Xiao Fan, listen to Aunt Yao, you are still young and have little experience. Sometimes you may not be able to handle things properly. Don't pursue this matter any further, focus on your cultivation. Everything will be easier to discuss after you establish your foundation. Leave the rest to us old folks."

Li Ji'an was slightly stunned. He hadn't thought much of it when Dong Jiangling and Zhang Tiezhu advised him before.

But now that Zhao Shuyao was saying the same thing.

They were treating him as their only hope.

However, he was not young.

"Xiao Fan, tell Aunt Yao the truth, is your father… secretly investigating this matter?" Before Li Ji'an could answer, Zhao Shuyao condensed her blood and Qi, and transmitted her voice secretly.

Li Ji'an raised an eyebrow, never expecting her to think of that.

"No news at all!"

Zhao Shuyao frowned slightly, but ultimately didn't press the matter further: "Good, if your father knew of your current achievements, he would be very happy. You are amazing!"

After seeing Zhao Shuyao off, Li Ji'an stopped thinking about it. They were right, without even the strength to establish a foundation, there was no need to think about those things.

And now he had established himself in the Immortal City. Here, as long as you had spirit stones, many resources that were only available to the core disciples of families in the wilderness could be bought at will.

And he possessed a skill that could make him rich.

In the following year, with the help of sufficient high-quality pills, abundant spiritual rice, spiritual flour, and demon beast meat to nourish him, as well as a first-grade spiritual vein dojo providing stable spiritual energy, he finally broke through to the sixth layer of Qi training a month ago without using late-stage breakthrough pills, becoming a late-stage Qi training cultivator.

A late-stage Qi training cultivator could be a reserve elder in any family in the wilderness! Or even a family's top combat power.

As a mid-grade spiritual root, it only took him a year and a half to break through this bottleneck. Apart from realizing the key to condensing gaseous mana into liquid mana early on, resources played a significant role.

"It's stabilized!" On this day, his seventh layer Qi training realm stabilized. The pill fire in Li Ji'an's hand was condensed. The previously dark red pill fire had turned deep red, and there were signs of it turning orange-red.

The color of the pill fire represented its power. Yan Qingwan's pill fire was only deep red when she was in the late stage of Qi training, and only had an orange-red pill fire after establishing her foundation.

"It should be enough to refine high-quality late-stage pills!"

Late-stage pills had relatively higher profits than mid-stage pills, after all, the difficulty was somewhat increased, and the ratio of market supply and demand was relatively smaller.

"Now this divine sense intensity, should it be almost comparable to the mid-stage of foundation establishment?"

At the moment he broke through to the late stage of Qi training a month ago, his divine sense had improved again. His divine sense, which could only be released ten feet before, could now be released fifteen feet, and his perception was more detailed and subtle.

The growth of ordinary cultivators' souls was a passive growth through refining spiritual energy, which was equivalent to the increase in the realm of mana. Li Ji'an's soul intensity was much higher due to the foundation of "rejuvenation."

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"With the current intensity of divine sense, if I could have a pill fire comparable to the Foundation Establishment stage, refining second-order pills would not be a problem."

He needed to plan for Foundation Establishment now, and the most critical point was the Foundation Establishment Pill.

However, the Foundation Establishment Pill was not an ordinary pill, but a strategic material that could truly change the situation in a region.

And its main ingredient, 'Nine Star Tuckahoe', was too scarce, and mostly firmly controlled by the sects, almost monopolized.

Every time one appeared on the market, it would be snatched up.

It was said that more than three thousand years ago, when the main ingredient of the Foundation Establishment Pill had not yet been monopolized by the sects, the price of a Foundation Establishment Pill was only about a thousand spirit stones, but now, it was almost always speculated to more than five thousand spirit stones, and sometimes even six thousand.

The most important thing was that the general quality of what appeared on the market was not very good, and genuine pills (lower grade) were almost the limit.

A genuine Foundation Establishment Pill only increased the success rate by an additional 20%, which was too low for Li Ji'an!

In addition to buying finished pills, there was another way. If one could prepare the medicinal materials themselves, some famous second-order senior alchemists were willing to charge a certain fee to help refine them, but they would not guarantee the success rate and the quality of the pills. Most of them also used this to improve their alchemy skills. After all, the medicinal materials for the Foundation Establishment Pill were expensive and difficult to find, and many second-order alchemists may not have the opportunity to practice.

Li Ji'an was also unwilling to choose this, the risk was too great. As an alchemist himself, he was more willing to trust himself in refining pills.

In addition to this, there was the sect.

However, it also depended on the sect's heritage. Through contact with Xiao Changfeng, the Azure Cloud Sect's Foundation Establishment Pills were also not so abundant. He had broken through to the late stage of Qi training three years earlier than Li Ji'an. In addition to cultivation, he had been taking on sect missions all these years in order to accumulate the contribution points for the exchange of Foundation Establishment Pills.

For this reason, he had reduced his daily cultivation resources a lot.

He also complained many times that he had no time to return to the sect, otherwise he would definitely go to the Immortal City to find Li Ji'an.

The last time they communicated, it seemed that it was still out of reach, and he already had the idea of ​​impacting without the aid of the Foundation Establishment Pill.

The upper-grade spiritual root did have this confidence, after all, the upper-grade spiritual root came with a 20% success rate of foundation establishment. As long as the mana was polished purely, the physical body's Qi and blood were abundant, there were no hidden injuries, and the soul was stronger, these three major passes each accounted for 20% success rate, and did not need to be fully satisfied, there was a 70-80% success rate.

In the end, Li Ji'an still had no good way for the time being, it seemed that he could only wait for it to appear on the market to compete.

This required spirit stones, a lot of spirit stones.

With his current income and expenditure, after being promoted to the late stage of Qi training, although he could refine late-stage pills and increase his income, the same late-stage Qi training resources would also increase.

He still had to open up new sources of income!

On this day, Li Ji'an received a message from Zhang Tiezhu that the family was at war again. This time the scale was unprecedented, and all eight families were involved.