Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

“Croak~ Croak~” The frog poked its head out, confirmed it was Li Ji'an, and immediately leaped out of the pond. In a few hops, it reached Li Ji'an's feet, nuzzling his leg with its frog head.

Two years after the medicine garden incident, an elder from the Hui clan on the front line, angered by this frog, offered Li Ji'an fifty spirit stones, wanting to buy the frog, skin it, and extract its tendons to vent his hatred.

The asking price of fifty spirit stones was already a considerable premium.

After all, this frog was only a Rank 1 Initial Stage spirit beast with a thin bloodline, almost no potential, and only the talent of "Devouring the Heavens."

Aside from special scenarios, such as swallowing things like the medicine garden that were connected to the earth veins and difficult to separate, yet needed to be properly relocated, this talent was similar to a storage bag. Its storage space was comparable to a mid-grade storage bag, with the sole exception that it could temporarily hold living things.

Moreover, spirit beasts needed to be fed spirit food and beast pills, and their souls needed to be controlled and tamed.

For low-level cultivators, it was not as cost-effective as a storage bag.

Even for low-level cultivators who had ideas about beast taming, it was not as valuable as a spirit colt. At least after studying it, they could use it to pull a carriage for transportation between mortal gathering areas and the market.

Of course, spirit beasts of this bloodline touched upon the elementary laws of space and were said to be favored by high-level cultivators, but those were at least high-grade bloodlines with hope of advancing to higher ranks.

This frog was likely a niche defective product cultivated by beast taming families.

Rare but not expensive.

At that time, this frog was almost scared to pee by that elder. Li Ji'an happened to want to study the path of beast taming, so he politely saved it.

In addition, after further research, he learned that this frog had just been bought by that beast tamer for the sake of the Yan family's medicine garden. They had not cultivated it with care, but simply controlled it crudely with beast soul stones, meaning it had a tragic experience.

Therefore, it tried its best to please Li Ji'an.

"Go, I don't have time to study you today," Li Ji'an waved his hand, ignoring its eagerness.

Then, he quickly returned to his room, calmed his mind, and examined his dantian.

"Finally, the transformation is complete!"

When he saw that the layer of flesh-colored dantian wall inside his dantian had completely turned white, he let out a long breath.

This marked the completion of his dantian's transformation from the Initial Stage of Qi Training to the Middle Stage of Qi Training. He had reached the peak of the third level of Qi Training and could attempt to break through to the fourth level of Qi Training.

"A full five years!" He spent a full five years on just the step of dantian transformation.

This was the most fundamental disadvantage of having only two strands of spiritual sense.

"The Qi Training stage is the process of absorbing spiritual energy, refining it into one's own mana, and storing it in the dantian. The dantian space is limited, and quantitative change must eventually lead to qualitative change. The Foundation Establishment stage is the transformation from gaseous mana to liquid mana, and this transformation is not achieved overnight, but gradually, starting slowly from the Middle Stage of Qi Training.

In the Initial Stage of Qi Training, mana is thin. In the Middle Stage of Qi Training, mana must be more condensed!

Middle Stage of Qi Training..." After examining the dantian's transformation, Li Ji'an once again comprehended the essence of the Middle Stage of Qi Training and even the entire Qi Training stage.

Now that he had reached the perfection of the third level of Qi Training, if he wanted to cross the threshold of the Middle Stage of Qi Training, dantian transformation was the foundation. Next, he needed to understand the key to mana condensation, and then refine a larger amount of mana to compress it, achieving the goal of condensation.

In terms of comprehension, he didn't need to worry. His only concern was whether the two strands of spiritual sense could provide a sufficient amount of mana for compression!

In fact, at this hurdle, not only him, but most members of the Yan family, and even all cultivators with low-grade spiritual roots in the entire cultivation world, would have this concern. Of course, they also had the additional worry of comprehension.

Ninety percent of Initial Stage Qi Training cultivators with low-grade spiritual roots ultimately could only use Flying Cloud Pills to assist in mana condensation and compression.

The remaining ten percent who did not take Flying Cloud Pills to break through mostly comprehended and condensed their mana in life-and-death battles.

A small number painstakingly solidified their foundation over time.

Naturally, there were also those with deep blessings who broke through with natural treasures.

As for Li Ji'an, fighting and killing, putting himself in a life-or-death situation, was the first thing he ruled out.

Hoping for deep blessings and encountering opportunities was even more of a gambler's mentality, which was unacceptable.

The only things left were Flying Cloud Pills and painstaking effort.

Two years ago, the Yan family head returned to the clan, publicly praised him, and rewarded him generously.

After asking for his opinion, he promised him a Flying Cloud Pill and a Yangyuan Pill.

The reason it was a promise was only because he said that the clan's resources were severely scarce. Except for front-line combat personnel, no one could be granted breakthrough pills, unless Li Ji'an could go to the front line.

At that time, Li Ji'an realized that Yan Zongsheng wanted him to go to the front line. After all, he had revealed his Rank 1 Initial Stage body cultivator strength, and Yan Hongsheng had affirmed his strength. If he went to the front-line battlefield, he could fight against the Wei family's Middle Stage Qi Training backbone.

Because of the medicine garden incident, the conflicts on the front line intensified during that period. There were deaths and injuries every day, and both sides were fighting fiercely. The Yan family really lacked Middle Stage Qi Training backbone combat power.

Li Ji'an refused without even thinking, and Yan Zongsheng could only turn the reward into a promise, promising to give Li Ji'an Flying Cloud Pills and Yangyuan Pills if the clan's alchemists could refine them.

Li Ji'an accepted this, but... who knew when that would be.

Now, the clan's alchemist naturally referred to Yan Qingwan.

As for her alchemy skills... she could barely be considered a Rank 1 Intermediate Stage alchemist. She could already refine some pills needed by Middle Stage Qi Training cultivators. Moreover, after two years of tireless communication and training with Li Ji'an, her pill production rate and pill quality had greatly improved, and she could already make a profit.

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However, breakthrough pills and even Yangyuan Pills were far away.

At least her spiritual sense had to reach the Late Stage of Qi Training.

But at least it was a hope.

Moreover, after the medicine garden incident two years ago, the Wei and Yan families fought several fierce battles in a row. For some reason, the situation suddenly eased down. Until half a year ago, they even suddenly announced cooperation and jointly developed that medicine field, and the situation completely stabilized.

He was living very comfortably in the Yan family now, so he was not in a hurry.

It is worth mentioning that, according to Yan Hongsheng, the reason why the two families suddenly cooperated was because Wei Huairen's incident was exposed.

Wei Huairen was from a Wei family branch. He had very good talent, a middle-grade metal spiritual root, and his cultivation had been smooth. The Wei family even intended to cultivate him to become the next Foundation Establishment ancestor.

However, for some reason, when he was at the perfection of the Qi Training stage and preparing to break through to Foundation Establishment, the family did not manage to find a Foundation Establishment Pill for him.

He was resentful in his heart, and he did not know when he met a high-level person whose background was unclear. In the end, he was bewitched and wanted to take control of the Wei family. Then, the appearance of the medicine field gave him an opportunity.

The two families' ancestors were both injured two years ago, not because the two families' ancestors fought, but because of the actions of the person behind him, which intensified the conflict between the two families to the extreme.

After that, because of the medicine garden incident, he wanted to promote a life-and-death battle between the two families.

Afterwards, the two families' ancestors secretly met for the sake of the life and death of the clan before they could see through this matter.

But unfortunately, Wei Huairen was seriously injured and still escaped, and the two Foundation Establishment ancestors seemed to have fought with the person behind him, but the two ancestors kept silent about the outcome.

"Brother Li, we should set off!" At this moment, Zhang Tiezhu's voice sounded outside.

The ten-year agreement had arrived, and they were going back to the starting point of this world.

As for the five people back then, Li Ji'an was not sure how many people would attend this time, and he had no expectations.

His main purpose this time was to find Chen Zhaohu to inquire about some information about beast taming.