Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

Li Ji'an revealed sixty percent of his Dan arts prowess, informing Xiao Changfeng that his current pill refinement success rate for high-quality pills and monthly output rate were nearly equivalent to those few specially cultivated future Tier 2 senior alchemist seedlings within the Azure Cloud Sect.

This caused Xiao Changfeng to begin taking Li Ji'an seriously.

No longer simply regarding him as an ordinary rogue alchemist.

Nor merely associating with him because of the favor of waking him up that morning eighteen years ago.

His Dan arts had already reached the point where he was qualified to associate with him on equal terms.

If the sect was short on pills, he could even purchase them from him.

"Brother Li, I was blind before," Xiao Changfeng said, clasping his fist in a much more solemn manner this time.

Li Ji'an did not take it to heart: "Brother Xiao is too polite."

After this, although Xiao Changfeng's attitude did not change, he clearly spoke more.

He chatted with Li Ji'an about many things he had seen and heard, no longer worrying about whether some words were appropriate to say.

Previously, there were some things he wanted to say, but he was afraid that Li Ji'an's level of understanding would not be sufficient or that he would be discouraged. Now, however, he recognized Li Ji'an's level.

"Brother Li, are you aware of the Limitless Secret Realm in Tianyuan Province?"

Li Ji'an nodded. Eighteen years ago, when Yan Qingwan first brought him to the Immortal City, he had heard people mention it at the Taiping Inn.

At that time, they said that the Limitless Secret Realm would open again in twenty years, which meant it would be in the next year or two.

When he was researching the Heaven and Earth Spirit Flames a couple of years ago, he had also accidentally seen detailed records about the Limitless Secret Realm.

It was located 80,000 miles southwest of the Myriad Dharma Palace in Tianyuan Province.

It was an ancient ruin that the Myriad Dharma Palace had discovered three thousand years ago.

However, that ruin was extraordinary. Even the Myriad Dharma Palace, a super power with a Nascent Soul True Lord overseeing it, led by the palace's top-notch quasi-Tier 4 formation masters, leading nearly a hundred senior formation masters in a joint formation-breaking attempt, and even with the True Lord Ancestor personally taking action, they still could not break the core restrictions within.

After nearly a thousand years, they exhausted one True Lord Ancestor, and only managed to break through the outermost layer of the ruins.

In the end, they had no choice but to give up.

After scavenging everything of value from the periphery, they accidentally discovered an entrance close to the inner layer of restrictions.

After years of research, they speculated that it was a secret realm used by that ancient sect to assess the luck of its disciples.

The secret realm should be connected to the interior of the ruins and is still functioning normally.

Inside is a small world constructed by formations.

It opens once every hundred years, and each time it can only allow a maximum of one hundred people to enter at the same time.

Those below the Foundation Establishment stage can enter, but they have a mark of the small world. They can only enter once in their lifetime, and once they leave the secret realm, they will no longer remember anything that happened inside.

The Myriad Dharma Palace subsequently arranged for disciples to enter. Over nearly a thousand years, they arranged for ten batches of disciples, a total of one thousand people, to enter.

In the end, thirty percent of them obtained some opportunities, but most of them were pills, medicinal herbs, spiritual fruits, low-grade magical artifacts, etc., suitable for the early and mid-stages of Qi training. Only ten percent of them obtained opportunities suitable for the late stage of Qi training.

Out of a thousand people, only three had obtained Foundation Establishment opportunities.

One was a Dao Source Fruit, which was almost extinct. It was said that the Foundation Establishment Pill was imitated from its effects. A hundred-year-old Dao Source Fruit could increase the success rate of Foundation Establishment by thirty percent, and a thousand-year-old Spiritual Source Fruit could almost guarantee the success of Foundation Establishment.

The second was a visualization map that could strengthen the spiritual sense of Qi training cultivators.

The third was a drop of ancient savage beast blood that could temper the physical body.

Apart from that, only one person had obtained a Core Formation opportunity, which was a type of Heaven and Earth spiritual object that helped with the condensation of liquid mana into a core.

Until a thousand years ago, the Myriad Dharma Palace came to the conclusion that this secret realm, called the Limitless Hall, was only suitable for those with deep fortune, and the highest opportunity should be the Core Formation stage.

Subsequently, in order to show the style of a great sect and reflect the Myriad Dharma Palace's control over the entire Cangyun Region, they made this secret realm public.

And allocated places to the sects in each province.

The Azure Cloud Sect happened to have five places.

Over the past thousand years, another thousand people have entered to explore, and the results are comparable to the previous thousand years, but the types of items obtained are different. It is speculated that this secret realm should be connected to the sect's internal treasure vault, and each time it opens, it will automatically fill the opportunities from the treasure vault.

So far, no one has been injured or killed.

Li Ji'an naturally wanted to try it.

Of course, not to try his luck, but to test whether the memory loss in the secret realm would reappear in the next life.

However, he estimated that it would be difficult for him to obtain this place in this life.

"Brother Xiao obtained a place in this session?" Li Ji'an asked in reply.

Xiao Changfeng nodded with a smile: "Luck, it's all luck. Remember when we participated in the trials back then, I almost always passed by chance. The sect often rumored that I was lucky and had deep fortune, haha, therefore, the elders in the sect gave me a place.

However, it was agreed that if I obtained a Core Formation opportunity, I would have to hand it over to the sect."

"Congratulations, Brother Xiao has deep fortune. Li is somewhat looking forward to what kind of surprise Brother Xiao will bring."

"I'm afraid I'll disappoint Brother Li. I've always felt that I don't have much fortune. How could someone with true fortune have as many twists and turns as I do?" Xiao Changfeng waved his hand with a smile.

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Just chatting like this along the way, the journey became much easier and not boring.

To avoid Xiao Qiao from getting bored, Li Ji'an prepared some cooking utensils and ingredients for her in advance, so she had something to do.

It is worth mentioning that not long after leaving the Azure Cloud Sect's sphere of influence, Li Ji'an's powerful divine sense sensed two waves of bandit cultivators lying in ambush, but before they could attack, Xiao Changfeng's Azure Cloud Sect inner disciple clothing startled them away.

Even Xiao Changfeng himself did not notice.

Two months later, just after leaving a large area of spiritual barren land, the spiritual energy gradually recovered, indicating that there were spiritual veins nearby.

On this day, in the flying boat soaring through the air, Li Ji'an frowned slightly.

Because he sensed a bloody aura ahead.

Soon after, Xiao Changfeng also suddenly stood up, concentrating his mind to sense the front side.

"Brother Li, something is probably wrong over there."

As the ruling sect of Cangyun Province, the Azure Cloud Sect has the authority to guard the province.

"You wait here for me, I'll be right back." Although he recognized Li Ji'an's current status and value as a senior high-quality alchemist, the prejudice that alchemists are not good at fighting still existed. Of course, it was also to protect Li Ji'an.

"Okay, Brother Xiao, please be careful. Know yourself and your enemy, and don't be brave and fight fiercely," Li Ji'an agreed and waited in place with Xiao Qiao.

Xiao Changfeng nodded, first casting a spell towards where Li Ji'an was standing.

"Brother Li, just wait in this area. This is my carefully cultivated defensive technique, Quicksand Domain. Even ordinary late-stage Qi training enemies can withstand it for a moment. Wait for me to come back."

Before the words were finished, Li Ji'an only felt the ground shake, and the earth within five feet of his body surged, like quicksand, ready to go.

It felt like as long as there was an enemy attack, a sand wall would rise around him to resist the attack.

"Thank you, Brother Xiao!" Li Ji'an thanked solemnly.

Only then did Xiao Changfeng turn the flying boat and fly towards the southeast.

As soon as he left, Li Ji'an released Guagua and instructed it to follow Xiao Changfeng, while sharing its vision with him.

Soon after, Guagua caught up with Xiao Changfeng, and its vision fell into Li Ji'an's sea of consciousness.

He saw that ahead was a mortal gathering area, not as large as the one near the Wasteland United Market.

And at this moment, it looked dilapidated, with corpses piled up on the roads and blood flowing like rivers!