Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

The quality of a pill furnace mainly depends on the precision of controlling and adjusting the pill fire, as well as its ability to withstand the pill fire. Theoretically, as long as the pill fire resistance is sufficient, a second-grade, low-quality pill furnace can also refine second-grade, late-stage pills.

However, the higher the grade, the lower the requirements for the pill master's skills, and the higher the pill formation rate and pill quality.

Some first-grade pill masters even use second-grade pill furnaces to refine first-grade pills to compensate for insufficient skills and improve the pill formation quality.

Previously, the second-grade pill furnaces on the local Cangyun State market were mostly low-quality and inferior, and their target customers were some experienced first-grade pill masters.

Now that a high-quality pill furnace has appeared, it has instantly attracted the fiery gazes of many pill masters.

“This old man offers eight hundred spirit stones.” Almost as soon as the auctioneer finished speaking, an old man excitedly announced the price.

“A second-grade, high-quality pill furnace, and you think you can buy it for eight hundred? One thousand five hundred spirit stones.” Someone sneered.

“One thousand six hundred spirit stones!”

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Relatively speaking, the market demand for pill furnaces has certain limitations, and there are not many people in Cangyun State who can afford a second-grade, high-quality pill furnace.

Therefore, the atmosphere on the field was not as high as that of some previous commodities.

However, the competition is also extremely fierce.

Before long, it was almost the same price as purchasing from Tianyuan State.

“Everyone, this old man is Zou, a resident pill master of Immortal City. I hope you fellow Taoists will give me some face. If you have any pill refining needs in the future, this old man will definitely not forget today's favor.”

At this time, seeing that the price exceeded his psychological expectations, an old pill master couldn't sit still and didn't hesitate to show off his connections.

This old pill master, Li Ji'an, was naturally no stranger to the Immortal City for eleven years. He was the number one loose cultivator pill master in the Immortal City and also a second-grade pill master.

He had previously accepted the task of helping people refine Foundation Establishment Pills, but his pill skills were not very good, and the pill formation rate and quality were unsatisfactory.

The number one first-grade pill master in the Immortal City has always been his closed disciple.

Seeing him announce his name and show off his connections, several competing family pill masters hesitated.

After all, these families needed him to help refine Foundation Establishment Pills.

“Senior Zou, it's not that this junior doesn't give you face, it's just that this junior's pill skills are not good enough and I need this pill furnace to make up for it. Please forgive me, one thousand nine hundred and fifty spirit stones.” Naturally, there were also people who didn't need him and didn't give him face.

“That's right, Senior Zou already has a second-grade pill furnace, why bother competing with us juniors? I offer two thousand spirit stones.”

Pill Master Zou glanced at a few people and finally sat down dejectedly, no longer competing.

After that, there were only four people left competing on the field.

“This old man offers two thousand and one hundred spirit stones.”

“Two thousand two!”

Li Ji'an remained calm. Seeing that the price exceeded expectations, he also lost his desire to compete.

His psychological price was two thousand and two, which already included the risk fee for going to Tianyuan State and crossing the Daze Mountains.

The main reason was that he analyzed that this type of material would become more abundant in the Immortal City in the future. Even if it might be difficult for second-grade high-quality pill furnaces to appear in the short term, there should still be second-grade medium-quality ones.

In addition, with the Biyun Sect no longer controlling the city's chambers of commerce, there was a lot of room for manipulation. At worst, he could go find Tong Xiangyu again.

Moreover, he was confident in his pill skills. A second-grade medium-quality pill furnace would be enough to refine Foundation Establishment Pills.

A second-grade medium-quality pill furnace should not cost more than one thousand six hundred spirit stones.

Just as he was about to give up.

“This old man offers two thousand five hundred spirit stones!” Suddenly, an old man not far away announced the highest price.

“Two thousand five hundred spirit stones?” Li Ji'an was a little surprised. This price was too much of a premium and was completely uneconomical. Unless it was urgently needed, it was just someone who was rich and stupid.

“Eh?” With a curious mind, Li Ji'an scanned it lightly with his divine sense.

This scan immediately brought a smile to his face.

“It's really true that people meet everywhere in life!”

That old man had the cultivation of the ninth level of Qi training, but his mana was already a little unstable, and his energy and blood had also declined a lot. Under the illusion technique, he was actually an old acquaintance from his previous life.

Pill Master Mo!

Calculating his age, he was now nearly one hundred and ten years old. Except for those who practiced wood-based exercises like Yan Kongyi and were proficient in health preservation, he was considered an elderly cultivator in the Qi training stage.

“It's been sixty years since we last met, Pill Master Mo has actually become rich!”

Li Ji'an couldn't help but sigh with emotion. He was a little surprised.

In previous years, he often heard Yan Qingwan say that Pill Master Mo had been staying in the Zheng family and was said to be quite valued.

Given the situation of offering pill masters in the wilderness, even if they took advantage of the main family, they would eventually invest it in improving their pill skills and personal cultivation. Theoretically, the main family would not give them enough spirit stone resources to leave the family. They would be kept hanging on, working like slaves for life.

However, in the next moment, he suddenly understood.

Since Yan Kongyi brought back a second-grade early-stage Vajra puppet and a batch of group injury talismans last year, the war situation in the wilderness reversed. The Zheng family suffered many casualties, and that group of bandits suddenly backstabbed them, taking advantage of the fire to rob and seize the spirit vein dojo of the joint workshop that was originally occupied by the Zheng family.

The Zheng family had to seek help from the outside again and summoned a large number of mid- and late-stage Qi training middle-level combat forces from nowhere to stabilize the situation.

However, it was not easy to support this large number of foreign aid, and the demand for pills increased day by day.

Pill Master Mo's visit was probably on behalf of the Zheng family. At this moment, bidding for the pill furnace was also being paid for by the Zheng family.

Thinking of this, Li Ji'an's expression became stern. The wilderness was in chaos, and those Foundation Establishment old ancestors would definitely not be able to leave. To avoid being discovered and intercepted by other forces, Pill Master Mo should not have brought too many people on this trip.

“Let's see if you have a chance to fulfill your promise back then!” In the blink of an eye, Li Ji'an had made a decision.

The second-grade high-quality pill furnace eventually fell into the hands of Pill Master Mo.

The subsequent auction proceeded normally, but most of them were auxiliary materials and auxiliary medicines, and the competition gradually decreased.

Li Ji'an bid for three flavors of auxiliary medicines for the Foundation Establishment Pill and several copies of late-stage talisman materials at normal prices, without showing off.

Until the final treasure, the high-quality Foundation Establishment Pill, took the stage, the atmosphere in the entire venue reached its peak.

Looking at the crystal clear and flowing light, the four pill patterns crisscrossing the high-quality Foundation Establishment Pill, the Qi training cultivators present seemed to see a ladder to immortality, and their eyes were full of excitement. If it weren't for the powerful pressure of the Qi family's Immortal City garrison, some people might not have been able to restrain themselves.

Li Ji'an also showed yearning. If he had this pill, he would have a 90% success rate of establishing his foundation. As long as the spiritual pressure of the cave was full and stable, there would be almost no accidents.

Unfortunately, he was short of money. Watching the price instantly soar to tens of thousands of spirit stones, he could only watch it fall into the hands of others in the end.

In the end, the Foundation Establishment Pill was sold for 18,000 spirit stones and was obtained by the Bai family, one of the five major families.

At this point, the grand auction came to a successful conclusion.

The Qi family, the new owner of Jinhuang Immortal City, gained the recognition of most Cangyun State cultivators.

However, there was still a big test to come. It depended on whether the Qi family could guarantee the personal safety of the cultivators coming to and from the Immortal City, including not only the city, but also the outside of the city, as well as the cleaning and deterrence of the robbers along the way.

In this regard, many cultivators did not have much confidence. After all, they had come tens of thousands of miles away, and they were not local forces. Insufficient manpower was one thing, and the local robbers would not give them face.

That night, many cultivators who had come to watch the excitement huddled together to keep warm and left the city overnight.

Li Ji'an left a divine soul mark on Pill Master Mo, tracked him to a small inn, and found that the other three people traveling with him were all young and middle-aged men in the late stage of Qi training.

He did not seem to have any intention of leaving for the time being. It was estimated that he still needed to purchase some pills and even wanted to purchase some strategic materials.

However, now that the Immortal City had just changed hands, major chambers of commerce would definitely not risk selling them unless they had trusted intermediaries, for fear that the Biyun Sect would come back and kill the chickens to warn the monkeys.

The divine soul mark he left on Pill Master Mo could last for seven days and could be sensed within a ten-mile radius.

After thinking about it all night, the next day, Li Ji'an decided to go to the residence of the Liu family of Beast Control in the Immortal City.

The main consideration was that if he missed this opportunity, it was unknown whether he would see Liu Jiuchan again next time.

If he went to the Liu family's territory alone, he would feel a little insecure.

What's more, now that the Qi family's Core Formation True Person was still in the Immortal City, no matter how much Liu Jiuchan disliked him, she would not do anything too drastic to him, which was a guarantee.

On this day, Li Ji'an came to the Liu family's residence in the inner city of the Immortal City with his original appearance.

“I am Li Fan, seeking an audience with Senior Jiuchan.” Li Ji'an said, handing a trapped spirit talisman to the guard.

The guard looked at the trapped spirit talisman, then looked at Li Ji'an, with a look of embarrassment on his face.

As the pride of the Liu family, one of the five major families in Cangyun State, and now having established her foundation, how could she be seen by ordinary Qi training small cultivators?

The most important thing was that she was angry because of the earth-grade cub beast auctioned yesterday...

“Li is a boutique pill master in the Immortal City and also a guest pill master of the Jiuding Chamber of Commerce. I have had dealings with Senior Jiuchan before. Please help me to inform her.” Seeing the guard's thoughts, Li Ji'an had no choice but to raise his own value.

“Boutique pill master? Then Pill Master Li, please wait a moment, I will report to you.” The guard looked a little relieved and turned around to report.

Before long, the guard breathed a sigh of relief and came out: “Pill Master Li, my family elder invites you in.”

“Thank you.”

After thanking him, Li Ji'an entered the Liu family's residence under his guidance.

Entering the back garden, he saw a familiar red dress from afar, a few points more gorgeous than three and a half years ago.

“Junior Li Fan, pays respects to Senior.” Li Ji'an saluted from afar.

Liu Jiuchan turned her eyes, playing with the trapped spirit talisman in her hand, glanced at Li Ji'an: “Heh, it's really true that people meet everywhere in life, Li Fan, you still have the guts to come find me?”

Li Ji'an raised his eyebrows, was she trying to break her promise?

Silently sighing that women are untrustworthy, and the more beautiful women are, the more untrustworthy they are.

Slightly raising his head, meeting Liu Jiuchan's phoenix eyes that were as bright as peach blossoms, he hurriedly lowered his head again, pretending to be frightened and said: “Senior, please calm down, Junior… Junior believes that I have not done anything inappropriate?”

Liu Jiuchan sneered, slowly got up, and paced to Li Ji'an.

Her Foundation Establishment pressure was wantonly vented, with a sense of overbearing power.

Compared to three and a half years ago, Liu Jiuchan's face was more delicate, her expression had more arrogance, and her gestures had a queen-like temperament, high above, overlooking the world.

Li Ji'an knew that this was her nature, and three and a half years ago, it was just because she had something to ask for, so she seemed humble.

“Raise your head!” Liu Jiuchan finally stood one zhang in front of Li Ji'an and spoke quite majestically.

Li Ji'an raised his head, and his eyelids twitched wildly.

Although Liu Jiuchan's height was a little higher than ordinary women, she was still half a head shorter than Li Ji'an, but at this moment, in order to create a sense of overlooking, she actually floated in the air, just two heads taller than Li Ji'an.

“Senior…”

“Bold Li Fan, you dared to deceive me three and a half years ago, causing me to fail in the end and not be able to catch that beast, resulting in a delay of two years before I established my foundation last year, do you know your crime!”

Li Ji'an's eyes widened instantly, pretending to be terrified and looking at Liu Jiuchan.

“Senior, Junior only took out three trapped spirit talismans according to Senior's request. As for capturing the monster beast, Junior can…”

Now the Qi family's Core Formation True Person was still there, and it was just when the Immortal City had just opened for business, let alone Liu Jiuchan, even the Liu family's Pseudo Core old ancestor would not dare to act recklessly in the Immortal City.

Moreover, she could waste so much words, which meant that she was not prepared to do anything at all.

She was just bluffing, or wanted to force him to take the initiative to give up his promise back then.

“Humph! Li Fan, you still dare to quibble? You clearly had more advanced late-stage trapped spirit talismans back then, but you only sold me three mid-stage trapped spirit talismans.” Liu Jiuchan immediately interrupted.

“…” Li Ji'an's mind raced.

He quickly understood that she might have later passed through the area where he captured the fire spirit and sensed the aura of the trapped spirit talisman.

“Senior, is there a misunderstanding? When did Junior ever have late-stage trapped spirit talismans?” Li Ji'an prepared to deny it to the death.

Liu Jiuchan sneered: “Misunderstanding? You still dare to deceive me! If I didn't have evidence, would I bother with a junior like you?”

Li Ji'an immediately said excitedly: “Junior absolutely did not deceive Senior, I really don't have late-stage trapped spirit talismans!”

“Hmm?” Seeing this, Liu Jiuchan was slightly stunned. She was also just bluffing.

Seeing Li Ji'an's expression at the moment, she was a little less confident.

“If that's the case, do you dare to make a great oath of inner demons?”

Hearing this, Li Ji'an's heart skipped a beat. This woman was really difficult to deal with.

The great oath of inner demons concerns the cultivator's state of mind and has a great impact every time they advance to a major realm. How can it be made casually?

“How can Senior insult me like this? Since Senior believes that it was Junior who delayed Senior back then, then the previous promise is voided, and Junior will also return the spirit stones to Senior.” Saying that, Li Ji'an took out fifty spirit stones from his storage bag and pretended to hand them to Liu Jiuchan.

These were the spirit stones that Liu Jiuchan paid him for the three trapped spirit talismans back then.

Liu Jiuchan looked straight at Li Ji'an, seeing his expression of not being willing to be humiliated, she suddenly smiled: “Little Li, why be so serious, it's just a joke, how could I, Liu Jiuchan, be a person who goes back on my word?”

After a pause: “I just want to make you understand that you didn't have any help to me in that matter back then.”

Li Ji'an breathed a sigh of relief and cupped his hands to Liu Jiuchan: “It's Junior who doesn't have this blessing, I'm ashamed.”

“Forget it, say it, what kind of beast pill do you want to buy?” Seeing Li Ji'an's attitude with her own eyes, the trace of resentment in her heart back then dissipated, and Liu Jiuchan prepared to fulfill her promise.

Li Ji'an was certain in his heart. Fortunately, he didn't admit it to the death, otherwise she would definitely use this to break her promise.

“Junior wants to buy a blood pill!”

Liu Jiuchan frowned slightly: “Say that again? What do you want to buy?”

Li Ji'an had expected this. As a key pill for advancing to a second-grade spirit beast, it would not be easily sold under normal circumstances. If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have asked for this promise back then.