Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

Confirming that his condition had reached its peak, Li Ji'an sent a message to Zhao Shuyao.

"Xiao Fan is finally about to establish his foundation!" Zhao Shuyao received the message, a trace of excitement appearing on her usually calm face.

Sixty-seven years ago, the five of them came to this world from the Immortal Bestowed Dynasty.

As a result, among the five, only Zhang Tiezhu went the furthest, stopping at the sixth level of Qi training.

And now, in the second generation, Zhang Tiezhu's child is in the Yan family, and will most likely stop at the late stage of Qi training for the rest of his life. Dong Jiangling's daughter has children and is almost cut off from the path of immortality. Only Li Ji'an's son is finally going to see the scenery of the Foundation Establishment stage for their generation.

Besides this significance,

Zhao Shuyao and the other two had previously placed their hopes on Li Ji'an helping them take revenge after establishing his foundation, to avenge the hundreds of Immortal Bestowed Dynasty geniuses who were deceived into coming to this world more than a hundred years ago.

However, as they grew older and learned more about the cultivation world,

especially after being almost certain that it was one of the five major families, they became more and more desperate.

Zhang Tiezhu and Dong Jiangling had completely given up.

She was even more unwilling to let future generations live with the hatred of their generation, it was too tiring.

Most importantly, even if Li Ji'an successfully established his foundation, he would still have no chance of winning against the fake Dan ancestor of that family.

Unless Li Ji'an could form his Dan, but they all understood that this was almost impossible!

Perhaps after he establishes his foundation, he can find a Taoist partner with comparable talent, and then there will be hope in the next generation.

"Yao Yao, accompany Aunt Yao on another trip." Calming her emotions, Zhao Shuyao, at the advanced age of ninety-five, gradually increased her energy and blood, and once again had the aura of a first-order perfect body cultivator.

Tong Yao Yao circled around Zhao Shuyao, clicking her tongue in wonder, as if she was seeing again the scene from her childhood when she was ambushed on the road and Zhao Shuyao, in her thirties, rescued her from the hands of demon cultivators with her strength as a body cultivator.

"Aunt Yao, relax, I'm here now." Tong Yao Yao stepped forward and took Zhao Shuyao's arm, comforting her.

"I'm sometimes really jealous of that kid, I feel like you're not as nice to me as you are to him, just because of his heartless father!"

"Don't talk nonsense again."

Before long, the two arrived at the inner city rental cave district.

"Hmm? There are still so many people paying attention to this kid." Just as she arrived at the entrance of Li Ji'an's rented cave, Tong Yao Yao paused slightly.

Immediately, she released her divine sense and dispelled the several divine senses that enveloped the area.

"Xiao Fan's alchemy skills are profound. Once he successfully establishes his foundation, he will definitely be promoted to a second-order alchemist. It's normal for people to pay attention." Zhao Shuyao patted Tong Yao Yao's hand, signaling her not to think too much.

Being isolated from divine sense窥探 by Tong Yao Yao, who was in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, several people in the inner city residential area were instantly shocked and decisively gave up paying attention to Li Ji'an.

Some people even hurriedly transmitted a voice to Tong Yao Yao: "Senior, please forgive me. This old man is just confirming whether Alchemist Li can successfully establish his foundation, so that I can ask him for something in the future. I have no other intentions."

Li Ji'an sensed the arrival of the two and made a special trip out of the cave to thank them.

Since he entered the cave three days ago, some Foundation Establishment cultivators near the cave have been paying attention to him. He didn't care about this and it had no impact on him.

The Foundation Establishment cave has a formation to isolate it, a formation that can even isolate the divine sense of Core Formation cultivators. They naturally can't break through it, they can only sense the spiritual energy fluctuations outside the cave to make a judgment.

After Zhao Shuyao and Tong Yao Yao sat down outside the cave, Li Ji'an entered the cave without any worries.

Having undergone four times of rejuvenation, he was truly touching the foundation of immortality for the first time.

As all the formations in the cave were activated, Li Ji'an began to operate the Foundation Establishment technique.

According to his research on Foundation Establishment over the years, whether it was from ancient records or Yan Qingwan and Xiao Changfeng's experience and insights, one point was clear.

Foundation Establishment builds the foundation of the Great Dao. Only after Foundation Establishment is successful can one be truly qualified to seek immortality and ask questions.

Li Ji'an also understood the theoretical knowledge of the Foundation Establishment stage. The essence is to condense the gaseous mana refined into the dantian during the Qi training stage into liquid mana, further nourish the dantian, and cause the dantian to transform, thereby laying the foundation for future Dan formation, Nascent Soul formation, and even Transformation God.

The principle is to infuse the body with vast spiritual energy and compress the gaseous mana in the dantian with strong spiritual pressure, and finally condense the gas into liquid.

The first step is to infuse the body with spiritual energy.

This step is also a crucial test of the physical body.

Once the physical body is flawed or not strong enough, it will be difficult to withstand the instantaneous vast spiritual energy pressure.

The stronger the physical body, the stronger the spiritual pressure it can withstand, and the more spiritual energy that can be poured into the body. Conversely, it will be less and weaker.

"Boom~"

In this stage, Li Ji'an's first-order body cultivation is perfect, and he has no fighting injuries. He is confident that his physical body has reached the peak of Qi training cultivators in this world. Except for those legendary special physical constitutions, he believes that he is not weaker than anyone.

As the physical body valves opened, the abundant spiritual energy condensed in the cave instantly poured in frantically.

"Hiss~" Although he was mentally prepared, when he truly endured this, even with his physical body, he couldn't help but feel a shock all over his body.

The moment the spiritual energy entered his body, he felt that every cell was under tremendous pressure and tearing.

However, he didn't intend to stop absorbing spiritual energy, and continued to allow the spiritual energy to pour in, impacting his physical body's limit.

Because the more spiritual energy poured in, the stronger the final spiritual pressure would be, and the easier it would be to compress mana into liquid.

While spiritual energy entered his body, his divine sense was not idle. He fully opened his divine sense and carefully observed every change in his body, analyzing every detail.

In addition to accumulating experience for the next life, it was also to gain insight into the origin, find omissions and make up for deficiencies, and find places for optimization.

A full three days later,

Li Ji'an took a deep breath and controlled his energy and blood to slowly close the physical body valves, stopping the absorption of spiritual energy.

He had finally reached his physical body limit and could no longer accommodate any more spiritual energy.

At this moment, every part of his body seemed to be filled with spiritual energy.

At the same time, he sensed that the spiritual energy in the cave was still abundant.

"This stage is two percent stronger than Xiao Changfeng's!" When Xiao Changfeng shared his experience, he absorbed it for a full two days in the physical body stage before stopping, but at that time he was using the quasi-third-order dojo of the sect elder, the spiritual energy was more concentrated and abundant, and with his high-grade spiritual root, he absorbed spiritual energy faster. Comprehensively, the total amount of spiritual energy infused into his body in the first step was only two percent less than Li Ji'an.

After completing the spiritual energy infusion, Li Ji'an immediately began to condense the mana in his dantian.

In this life, he is cultivating the Yan family's "Flame Dragon Art", which is said to have the potential to be cultivated to Core Formation, comparable to the sect's high-grade technique, but from previous comparisons with Xiao Changfeng, the mana intensity is still a bit worse, but because of the refining of the fire spirit, it is more pure.

At this moment, in the second stage of mana, in theory, the stronger and purer the mana, the smoother the liquefaction will be after being squeezed by spiritual pressure, and the greater the amount will be, and the more able to fill the entire dantian.

He can't pursue the amount of liquefaction, after all, his mana is not strong enough, he can only pursue the refining of mana.

Several days later, after refining the mana to the extreme as much as possible, Li Ji'an decisively swallowed the superb Ningbi Pill to further refine the mana.

Half a month later, when the mana was refined to the limit, the third stage of divine sense intervened.

The process of the vast spiritual energy squeezing the mana in the dantian must be regulated by divine sense.

If it is less, the liquefaction will be incomplete, and if it is more, the dantian may rupture.

Therefore, the divine sense stage is the most crucial.

Moreover, this step lasts for a long time and requires the divine sense to work persistently.

However, for Li Ji'an, this stage is the least worrying stage. His divine sense is already comparable to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, and his divine soul is strong. At this moment, sensing the dantian and deploying spiritual pressure is as easy as pie. Whether it is the degree of refinement or the duration, it is perfect.

In this way, two months passed in a flash.

On this day, observing his dantian, the vast spiritual energy absorbed in the first step has been guided by his divine sense and injected into the dantian.

The refined mana in the dantian itself is in the middle of the huge spiritual pressure.

The last step is also the step that determines success or failure. It requires continuous spiritual pressure to completely liquefy the mana and condense it into a ball.

"Huff~" Having successfully passed the first three stages, Li Ji'an still didn't dare to relax at this moment.

According to Yan Qingwan's experience, he needs to swallow the Foundation Establishment Pill at this moment.

The Foundation Establishment Pill can not only strengthen the dantian in a short time, avoiding the instantaneous huge spiritual pressure from bursting the dantian, but also provide instantaneous mana and controllable strong spiritual pressure in the dantian.

Relying on the instantaneous spiritual pressure provided by the Foundation Establishment Pill in the dantian, the mana clouds are squeezed into a liquid state.

It can be said that the Foundation Establishment Pill not only makes up for the lack of physical body, the failure to absorb enough spiritual energy into the body, resulting in insufficient spiritual pressure in the final step.

It also benefits those with insufficient mana.

It even makes up for the lack of divine sense that fails to precisely and continuously deploy spiritual energy into the dantian.

It is simply a life-saving straw for cultivators with insufficient talent.

Li Ji'an took out the high-quality Foundation Establishment Pill, but did not take it immediately. Instead, he gave priority to taking a high-quality Pulse Protection Pill.

"Boom~" The moment the Pulse Protection Pill liquid merged into the dantian, Li Ji'an controlled the spiritual energy to begin squeezing the mana clouds in the dantian.

This was also what Xiao Changfeng did at that time.

The moment the spiritual pressure erupted, Li Ji'an clearly sensed that the originally gaseous mana began to moisten and liquefy bit by bit.

At the same time, the entire inner wall of the dantian was subjected to even greater pressure than the physical body.

Without the Pulse Protection Pill, Li Ji'an couldn't guarantee that the dantian could withstand it.

Time passed bit by bit, and the mana gradually became liquid.

At the same time, a trace of spiritual opportunity was connected to his divine sense, but it was very vague and could not be touched.

Half a month later, Li Ji'an clearly sensed that all the mana clouds in the dantian had turned into liquid mana, but those liquid mana were independent and did not condense into a ball.

And that trace of feeling in the dark has not been touched for a long time.

"After all, it's still a bit short!" After carefully observing for a long time, Li Ji'an sighed slightly and understood the reason.

The most crucial point is that his own mana is insufficient.

This is related to the technique he practiced in this life, and also related to the efficiency of his spiritual root absorption and refining.

Without thinking too much, he swallowed the high-quality Foundation Establishment Pill in one gulp.

"Boom~"

The moment the high-quality Foundation Establishment Pill was swallowed, the dantian was covered with a layer of golden brilliance, and then a powerful spiritual pressure was born out of thin air, and pure mana merged into the dantian.

In the next moment, without Li Ji'an doing anything, the spiritual pressure erupted by the high-quality Foundation Establishment Pill began to squeeze the mana in the dantian.

"Bang!" In just an instant, whether it was the newly born mana or the mana that had been liquefied but not condensed into a ball, all of them were instantly squeezed into liquid and rapidly merged into one, turning into a fiery red liquid mana ball.

The liquid mana ball rotated at high speed, eventually filling the entire dantian, turning the dantian into a mana ball that seemed to be filled with magma.

"Dong!" After another drum sound, all the excess spiritual energy in the dantian and the spiritual energy in the physical body were instantly poured out.

When the vast spiritual energy left the body, it caused a burst of spiritual energy in the cave, and even the spiritual pressure above the cave soared.

"It's done!" Tong Yao Yao instantly opened her eyes outside the cave.

"Xiao Fan has successfully established his foundation?" Zhao Shuyao heard the words, her face was full of relief, and tears flickered in her eyes.

"Hahaha, congratulations to Alchemist Li for successfully establishing his foundation." With the fluctuation of spiritual pressure above the cave, the surrounding people can finally come to congratulate him in a justified manner.

"There is such a large release of spiritual pressure, Alchemist Li's Foundation Establishment is very smooth!"

"My Immortal City has added another second-order alchemist, congratulations!"

……

As the congratulations from the outside world increased, Li Ji'an sat quietly in the cave, but frowned.

While he summarized the experience of this Foundation Establishment, he recalled the trace of spiritual opportunity in the dark.

It was clearly very close, but it suddenly disappeared in the end.

"It seems to have disappeared when the Foundation Establishment Pill took effect!"

After thinking for a long time, he had no clue, and finally he could only keep it in his heart for now.

"This is Foundation Establishment!" After carefully examining his current dantian and feeling the fiery and vast mana, Li Ji'an finally smiled.