Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

During this time, Zhang Tiezhu's letters and messages, apart from expressing his budding love, were mainly about advising Li Ji'an to find a way to join the Yan family.

But today, he prioritized and emphasized one thing.

"Sister Zhao sent a letter, sternly warning to be extremely careful, and accidentally discovered someone is secretly searching for the people who came out of the Sandstorm Forbidden Land three years ago."

Frowning for a moment, Li Ji'an slowly exhaled a breath of air.

Regarding this matter, they had anticipated it when they escaped the Sandstorm Forbidden Land three years ago.

Precisely because of this, they traveled all the way east, spending a whole year to finally arrive at this place.

"Golden Brilliance Immortal City!"

Golden Brilliance Immortal City is located in the northernmost part of Cangyun Province, belonging to the most prosperous cultivation area of Cangyun Province, close to the core province of Tiancang Domain—Tianyuan Province.

Previously, when Zhao Shuyun first arrived at Golden Brilliance Immortal City with the trade association, she praised the immortal city highly.

Zhang Tiezhu also said that Zhao Shuyun is now working for a merchant family in Golden Brilliance Immortal City, suspected of being involved in the intelligence industry, and she unintentionally overheard that she would always pay close attention and send messages at any time.

Three years have passed, and the other party is still in the stage of secretly searching, which makes Li Ji'an feel much relieved.

Before meeting Chen Zhaohu, he was very worried, fearing the so-called 'tracking for ten thousand miles' or divine soul secret techniques.

Only after understanding the realm and abilities of the cultivators in this world did he truly feel at ease.

The cultivators sent by that unknown family to the Immortal Bestowal Dynasty were all in the Qi Refining stage, and the cultivators who intercepted them were also in the Qi Refining stage, and they were all elites within their family, which is enough to explain the strength of their family.

Perhaps it is equivalent to the eight major families here, also a Foundation Establishment family.

It is highly unlikely that it would involve a Core Formation True Person.

The cultivation world is vast and boundless, with a wide territory, and they dare not search openly.

Moreover, Li Ji'an is convinced that their matter of raising blood slaves in the Immortal Bestowal Dynasty must be something they cannot afford to expose, and once exposed, they will inevitably bear a great price.

Even, their current secret search should not be for the blood slaves themselves, but to eliminate the hidden dangers that may leak this matter.

Therefore, the other party will definitely be constrained and afraid of pushing them to desperate measures.

"Is it a family within Golden Brilliance Immortal City?"

Unless the evil deeds of this family are made public, and the enforcers here eradicate them, this threat will always exist.

The other party is looking for them in secret, and they must also know that they want to find out who the other party is.

This is a game, a game of time.

It depends on who locks onto the other party first.

Picking up the message talisman again, Li Ji'an did not let this matter affect his state of mind.

Now that things have come to this, internal friction is useless.

With his current cultivation and strength, blindly hiding would be counterproductive. It would be ridiculous if he was harmed by unrelated rogue cultivators instead of being captured by the other party.

The most important thing to do is to try to improve his strength.

Zhang Tiezhu also mentioned this point later, again advising Li Ji'an to find a way to join the Yan family, or other families if possible.

He enjoys the family's spiritual vein dojo and the family's resource supply, and he is very pessimistic about Li Ji'an's situation.

Especially two months ago, when he successfully advanced to the second level of Qi Refining, he questioned Li Ji'an's style of doing things even more.

"Brother Li, this place is not our hometown, and our talents are even at the bottom. If we don't rely on ourselves to fight for resources, there is no hope for the future. If we want to change our fate, we must take risks. If we are unwilling to take even a little risk, there is really no hope at all..."

Li Ji'an did not argue with him about this statement.

The gambler's mentality and the spirit of adventure are sometimes difficult to distinguish.

Fortunately, he no longer needs to distinguish them. He rejects all risks equally!

He doesn't need to gamble, nor does he need to take risks.

After putting down the message talisman that Zhang Tiezhu gave him, he sighed slightly in his heart. Zhao Shuyun was probably having some thoughts because of the last reply.

Regarding this, Li Ji'an can also understand.

Zhao Shuyun previously wrote a letter wanting to come back and spend the rest of her life with him. Without knowing that he had a cheat, it was actually a good intention, after all, considering the situation of the five of them, Li Ji'an had the least hope.

But Li Ji'an rejected her.

Her psychology of being competitive since she was a child should have been stimulated by the last reply.

Under normal circumstances, Zhang Tiezhu serves the Yan family and often cannot receive letters in time, while Li Ji'an has always been the information hub for the group and can receive and reply to letters most promptly, but she chose Zhang Tiezhu.

However, none of this can affect him in the slightest.

In the days that followed, he always maintained a peaceful state of mind.

Cultivating, refining pills, tirelessly.

Three years passed in a flash.

"Third level of Qi Refining!" Exhaling a long breath, Li Ji'an was in a good mood.

Having been in the market for four years, it only took him half a year to reach the first level of Qi Refining, a year and a half for the second level of Qi Refining, and a full two years for the third level of Qi Refining.

He is still satisfied with this progress.

After all, Chen Qingling, with a spiritual rhyme perception of nine strands, barely advanced to the third level of Qi Refining half a year ago, and she also started cultivating half a year earlier than him.

Calculated, the cultivation speed of his spiritual root with only two strands of spiritual rhyme perception is on par with the spiritual root with nine strands of spiritual rhyme.

The reason is very simple.

First, he has been cultivating continuously, and every day his body and spirit can withstand ten hours, even if the pill refining once or twice a month is delayed, the time spent on cultivation is five times more than ordinary cultivators of the same rank.

Second, since he repeatedly studied the art of pills with Yan Qingwan three years ago, he has become more and more valued by Yan Qingwan, and she simply allowed him to live and cultivate in this small courtyard in the core area, where the spiritual energy is 50% higher than Chen Qingling's residence in the east area.

Third, with a salary from the pill shop, plus Yan Qingwan's frequent rewards, and saving the annual rent in the east area, his spirit stones are relatively abundant, almost achieving freedom of spirit rice, and he can also supplement with monster meat every ten and a half days.

Fourth, under Li Ji'an's guidance, Yan Qingwan's pill refining skills have become increasingly profound, and the success rate and quality of pill formation have improved rapidly. Every time she opens the furnace, she can succeed, and most of the first batch of pills are in Li Ji'an's hands in the name of testing the medicinal properties.

However, compared to Zhang Tiezhu, he is still slightly inferior.

Although Zhang Tiezhu left the gathering area a year earlier than him, he only started cultivating after nine months of joining the Yan family's reclamation team because of meritorious service.

After that, accidentally seeing Yan Qingwan made him even more motivated. He frequently made meritorious service in the past three years. In the first half of last year, he had already reached the completion of the third level of Qi Refining. Three months ago, he made great contributions in the Yan family and Wei family's clan war and was given a mid-stage Qi Refining breakthrough pill, breaking through to the fourth level of Qi Refining in one fell swoop and becoming a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator.

He has also become a front-line combat force of the Yan family and has more opportunities to make meritorious service.

"Breakthrough pill..." Thinking of Zhang Tiezhu, Li Ji'an's emotions calmed down slightly.

The upcoming bottleneck in the mid-stage of Qi Refining naturally requires a breakthrough pill with his inferior spiritual root.

And the price of the breakthrough pill has also increased sharply due to the clan war between the Yan family and the Wei family for the medicine field that started two years ago.

"Still can't afford it!"

Shaking his head, he didn't think too much about it.

Li Ji'an slowly waved his right hand in front of him.

With the fluctuation of mana, a mirror-like magic mirror appeared in front of him.

It happened to reflect his current appearance at the age of thirty-three.

His facial features are delicate, with distinct lines, almost no different from when he left the Immortal Bestowal Dynasty six years ago, and even his skin is fairer and tighter due to the nourishment of spiritual energy.

Overall, he looks more handsome and sunny, worthy of the description of being as graceful as jade, a peerless beautiful man.

With a slight smile, the magic mirror dissipated.

In these three years, Yan Qingwan has taught him many spells. The magic mirror is one of them. In addition to reflecting his handsome and unrestrained appearance, the main function is to absorb other people's mana supply, making his mana attacks like a clay ox entering the sea.

In addition to this attribute-less spell, the main thing is to practice two fire-type spells.

Fire Dragon Escape, Blazing Flame Slash.

It is worth mentioning that, as he expected, his comprehension of martial arts in the Immortal Bestowal Dynasty is also effective for the spells of the cultivation world. As long as he understands the core principles of this spell, he can quickly master it.

However, because his realm is not high and his dantian mana is insufficient, the effect of these two spells is not particularly good, and the power is not as good as the fireball he once researched with the power of qi and blood.

"Now that I have advanced to the third level of Qi Refining, I wonder if the pill fire can be stabilized and whether I can start refining pills?" Thinking of this, Li Ji'an slowly stretched out his palm.

A wisp of golden flame slowly rose.

"It should be enough for first-order elementary pills!" After sensing it carefully, Li Ji'an was pleased.

Just then, the message talisman vibrated.

Taking it out and looking at it, it was a message from Yan Tong of the pill shop: "Come to the pill shop immediately and return to the clan with us."

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