Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

Hua Hongling possessed extraordinary talent from a young age. Later, she was taught the Thousand Refinement Body Tempering Method, suitable for refining tools, and she meticulously cultivated fire-type Dan fire. Her tool refining skills are excellent, with a high success rate in crafting high-quality magical artifacts.

It's even possible that, if she's willing to expend effort and disregard costs, she could create top-grade magical artifacts.

Many mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators struggle to possess even one top-grade magical artifact, with most having high-quality artifacts.

The highest-grade magical artifacts in Golden Brilliance Immortal City are high-quality.

Li Ji'an indeed has a great need for this.

However, he really has no way to satisfy her request for a medicinal pill that would restore her body to a normal female cultivator's form.

The Bone Transformation Pill that female cultivator sought before was only to slightly alter the facial bone structure, not only was the effect small, but the bone structure change almost severed her path to cultivation.

"Brother Li, your alchemy skills are so outstanding that you can even refine such a niche Bone Transformation Pill. You must be able to refine the medicinal pill I need. You must help me."

Hua Hongling was still unwilling to give up, clasping her hands and half-squatting in front of Li Ji'an, the iron tower-like figure making a pitiful appearance.

Li Ji'an felt a strong sense of oppression.

"Fellow Daoist Hua, please forgive Li for speaking frankly. Fellow Daoist has a beautiful face and outstanding appearance. The only slight flaw is your somewhat robust physique, which can be completely ignored. Especially since Fellow Daoist has already successfully established her foundation, an object of envy and admiration for many rogue cultivators. You really shouldn't be so fixated on this small flaw. Haven't you heard of the beauty of imperfection?"

Hua Hongling pouted, not buying Li Ji'an's argument: "Since Alchemist Li speaks so well, how about we become Daoist partners?"

"Li is focused on the great Dao and doesn't want to for the time being..."

"Bah! You're all so hypocritical! There are millions of paths to the Great Dao. Who says there's only the path of ruthlessness? Haven't you heard that the extreme of emotion is the extreme of the Dao?

Moreover, you and I are both rogue cultivators. Don't tell me you still want to seek Core Formation?" Seeing that Li Ji'an probably didn't have the ability, Hua Hongling stopped pretending.

"..." Li Ji'an was speechless.

She wasn't easy to fool.

For the majority of cultivators.

In Azure Cloud Continent, even the entire Azure Heaven Domain, rogue cultivators establishing their foundation are already one in ten thousand. As for Core Formation, there have only been a handful in over six thousand years of history, and all of them had great opportunities.

After all, the Core Formation stage, in this cultivation domain where sects control and monopolize most of the upper-level resources, it is almost impossible for rogue cultivators to plan for Core Formation resources.

In addition to resources, Core Formation, as a crucial step towards the Great Dao, is extremely difficult.

If the Foundation Establishment stage is about laying the foundation and planting the seed of the Dao.

Then the Core Formation stage is about condensing the true prototype of the Great Dao.

At least during the Foundation Establishment stage, there are Foundation Establishment Pills and other pills that can directly increase the success rate. However, during the Core Formation stage, there are no pills that can clearly increase the success rate. One can only rely on natural treasures and some auxiliary pills to assist the Core Formation process and improve the quality of the Core.

The fundamental factor still lies in the cultivator's spiritual root talent and their comprehension and compatibility with the Great Dao.

Only top-grade spiritual roots are considered Core Formation seeds.

And those who become rogue cultivators are almost without exception lack good spiritual roots.

The reason why Li Ji'an had the extravagant hope of attempting Core Formation after establishing his foundation was due to the confidence brought by the high-quality Foundation Establishment Pill. His basic mana aura after entering the Foundation Establishment stage was no worse than Xiao Changfeng's, a top-grade spiritual root Core Formation seed.

Of course, it was also due to his alchemy skills, which gave him the possibility of exchanging for natural treasures.

For ordinary Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators like Hua Hongling or Alchemist Zou, their respective skills could almost support them to cultivate to the late Foundation Establishment stage, which was the limit.

To hope for Core Formation, they could only pray for heavenly opportunities.

"Fellow Daoist Hua, you might as well be more optimistic. Once you form your core, you can regenerate limbs, and perhaps even reshape your physique," Li Ji'an encouraged after a moment of silence.

"Reshape my physique?" Hua Hongling suddenly stood up.

The only true Core Formation experts in Azure Cloud Continent are the three supreme beings of the Azure Cloud Sect, whom ordinary people have no chance to contact.

And there is almost no experience or insight about Core Formation in the world. Li Ji'an was also guessing.

"Yes, if you can regenerate limbs, you can definitely reshape your physique!" Hua Hongling's face flushed.

However, after only a moment, she came back to her senses and looked despairing.

Compared to finding some kind of malleable medicinal pill, Core Formation was even more of a pipe dream.

"Forget it, forget it, Alchemist Li, there's always a future. Maybe one day you'll get some ancient pill formula or a flash of inspiration. I'll just stick with you. If you want any magical artifacts in the future, just ask, and I'll give you a discount!" Hua Hongling finally said awkwardly.

After all, only Li Ji'an, who could refine top-grade pills, could give her a glimmer of hope in the entire Immortal City.

After seeing Hua Hongling off, Li Ji'an smiled and shook his head. Half a year ago, he began to take on the business of refining pills for others, and thanks to his reputation for refining top-grade pills even before establishing his foundation, he had a lot of business.

He even gained the favor of many female cultivators with a batch of Youth Preservation Pills.

Later, Bone Transformation Pills, Beauty Pills, Tightening Pills... many female cultivators even came with pill formulas.

Refining these pills was more profitable, and he didn't need to purchase the medicinal materials himself. Moreover, because of the high pill yield, he could even secretly keep some of the medicinal materials.

His income doubled.

After a short rest, Li Ji'an looked at the night and came to the Bai residence across the street.

Physician Bai is a second-order physician.

In addition to spiritual energy nourishing the physical body and making it stronger, cultivators are still essentially mortal wombs. Although they don't get sick, they still get injured, experience qi deviation, have dantian shocks, and damage their origins...

Ordinary cultivators' mana can only protect their heart and internal organs, and cannot heal or repair injuries.

Physicians can use medical skills, using wood-type mana to repair, using water-type mana to nourish, and even some who fail to establish their foundation and damage their dantian can be treated by skilled physicians.

Li Ji'an came to seek Physician Bai not for treatment.

"Senior Bai, you said last time that the spiritual roots that were not nourished by spiritual energy when you were a child can be nourished and restored later?"

Physician Bai is in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, over two hundred years old, and is kind and amiable.

After the first small celebration, Li Ji'an often communicated with him, and the purpose was also this.

The situation before he "reverted to childhood" at the age of eight cannot be changed, so his original spiritual root talent cannot be fully stimulated.

In this life, he had taken Nourishing Origin Pills and cultivated his veins in the Yan family's second-order spiritual vein land from the age of eight to fifteen, and cultivated the Qi Sensing Method, resulting in a maximum of nineteen wisps of spiritual roots, one step away from a top-grade spiritual root.

However, in the dozen years since coming to Immortal City, after consulting many materials, there is no more effective means than the Nourishing Origin Pill.

Even the Azure Cloud Sect's elder's own grandson only used Nourishing Origin Pills plus a third-order spiritual vein environment and Qi Sensing Method when he was a child, which can basically stimulate the innate spiritual root origin.

In this way, Li Ji'an is likely to be unable to break through to top-grade spiritual roots in his next life.

And Physician Bai gave him hope again.

Physician Bai stroked his beard and nodded: "That's right, the five elements are a gift from heaven, which is the foundation. As long as the foundation is there, it can be nourished and restored. However, after it is formed, it is almost hopeless. Alchemist Li was delayed when he was young?"

Li Ji'an sighed, looking slightly depressed.

Physician Bai sighed: "Yes, spiritual veins are scarce here. I don't know how many geniuses have been delayed because they were born poor. That's why we don't hesitate to work hard to create a good background for the next generation."

"Senior Bai is right, but I don't know how much can be restored by postnatal nourishment?" Li Ji'an asked again.

"This is hard to say, it depends on the degree of delay, the time of delay, and it is also related to the nourishing medical method. However, theoretically, if there is enough time and the medical skills are excellent, complete recovery is not impossible," Physician Bai said truthfully.

"Complete recovery!" Li Ji'an's heart surged.

In this way, the biggest problem with his "reversion to childhood" can be solved.

"Alchemist Li, don't you have a junior who was delayed? Why not bring him to let the old man take a look?" Seeing Li Ji'an continuing this topic, Physician Bai took the initiative to show his favor after observing his expression.

"Thank you, Senior Bai, no, I'm just a little regretful," Li Ji'an waved his hand.

Physician Bai smiled and shook his head, comforting him: "Alchemist Li, it is what it is, the die is cast, life cannot be repeated. Moreover, you have already established your foundation, so you don't need to think about such things anymore. With your alchemy skills, your descendants will at least not be delayed again. Thinking too much is useless, look forward!"

"Thank you, Senior Bai."

After leaving the Bai residence, Li Ji'an felt refreshed. Although he has not yet obtained the possibility of medical inheritance, it at least pointed him in the right direction.

In addition to steadily seeking Core Formation in this life and carefully studying talismans to protect him, he also has the goal of carefully studying medicine.

In addition to nourishing the dantian and spiritual roots, medicine is also a means of protecting the Dao.

Medicine and poison have always been inseparable. Poison is more secret and safer, which is in line with Li Ji'an's philosophy.

Therefore, he also began to pay attention to the wood-type cultivation methods on the market, hoping to find a relatively advanced and more medical-oriented wood-type cultivation method to assist in cultivating this method and lay the foundation for nourishing the dantian and spiritual roots in the next life.

As for the puppet inheritance of the Puppet Master Gou across the street, after several contacts, Li Ji'an temporarily gave up.

Puppet Master Gou is too cautious and acts carefully, almost not giving any chance to make friends, and even many times he only uses puppets to talk.

However, from Hua Hongling, he learned that Puppet Master Gou should have obtained some kind of soul cultivation opportunity.

That's why his divine soul is much higher than that of the same rank, so that he can create a second-order puppet comparable to the Foundation Establishment stage with a Qi Refining late-stage cultivator.

Now, Li Ji'an suspects that he may even be able to create a second-order mid-stage puppet comparable to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

"You can't underestimate the heroes of the world!" Li Ji'an increasingly felt that his trump cards were still too few.

In the next three years, his cultivation life was still stable.

While gradually improving his cultivation, his talisman skills became more refined.

He mainly cultivates fire-type mana, which is more violent and lacks staying power. He can only make up for it with skills and pills.

Fortunately, his divine soul is strong, and his divine sense, which is now comparable to the late-Foundation Establishment stage, can theoretically draw second-order late-stage talismans, but his mana is holding him back.

"Huff~"

"Finally done!" On this day, relying on a high-quality Mana Nourishing Pill to continue his mana, he finally successfully drew the first high-quality second-order early-stage talisman.

The early-stage top-grade talisman is already comparable to the full blow of the early-Foundation Establishment stage, and this high-quality talisman almost touches the power of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

"Let's try the natal talisman with this first!"

The so-called natal talisman is nourished by one's own dantian and infused with one's own essence. As long as it exceeds a certain period of time, it can be activated without divine sense and mana.

Moreover, its power will also increase with the nourishing time. How much it can be increased depends on the time and dantian mana.

However, if you want to improve the quality, it will take a long time, at least ten years to have a small increase, and the upper limit is at most one grade.

The dantian mana in the Qi Refining stage can only nourish one talisman at the limit. In the Foundation Establishment stage, you can nourish three at the same time.

Li Ji'an plans to have one for attack, one for defense, and one for escape.

However, at least it must be a high-quality second-order talisman to have the value of nourishing.

After putting away the talisman, Li Ji'an went out towards the Nine Tripod Chamber of Commerce. Today is Zhao Shuyao's hundredth birthday, and she specially sent a message to Li Ji'an to sit down.

And just when passing through the Immortal City management area, a message made him stop.

The Azure Cloud Sect finally released the news that they discovered an ancient relic in the Great Marsh Mountains to the north twelve years ago, and now the outer restrictions of that relic have finally been opened.

At this time, they are almost using the power of the entire sect to start excavating that relic, which seems to be very simple.

This news made Li Ji'an half happy and half worried.

The good thing is that the relic that can be valued by the Azure Cloud Sect must have many opportunities. The sect monks eat meat, and they will always give some soup to other monks in this world.

The worry is that great opportunities mean great risks, and risks may lead to turmoil.