Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

Half a month later, Li Ji'an entrusted Steward Qi to help him prepare everything and sincerely sought his advice on matters related to a small celebration for a rogue cultivator's Foundation Establishment.

After all, this was his first time establishing a foundation despite living six lifetimes, and he lacked experience.

Once everything was prepared, Li Ji'an followed his instructions and began to visit the core talent area one by one, bearing some recently refined Tier 2 Initial Stage pills.

"Fellow Daoist Gou, I've long admired your name. The alchemist next door has come to pay a visit." He first went to the residence of the Puppet Master Gou across from him, standing three meters outside the gate. He used his mana to amplify his voice and announced his identity.

Before long, the gate of the Gou residence opened, and a wooden puppet appeared behind the gate. Then, a slightly deep voice came from its wooden mouth: "Alchemist Li, a pleasure to meet you. Gou is currently unable to leave. What brings you here?"

Li Ji'an nodded: "Sorry to bother you, Fellow Daoist Gou. At the end of the month, I sincerely invite all of you to a small celebration at my residence. I wonder if you have the time?"

After speaking, he sent the invitation and a porcelain bottle containing a pill to the wooden puppet.

"Alchemist Li, you are too kind. Gou will definitely be there." The puppet accepted the invitation and the porcelain bottle, and cupped its hands.

"Then I will await good news. Farewell."

As the gate closed, a hint of envy appeared in Li Ji'an's eyes.

When he first moved here half a year ago, Steward Qi asked if he needed to hire maids to manage the residence.

After all, the residence was now very large, complete with pavilions and waterside gazebos, and it also had many flowers, plants, and trees planted inside, which took a lot of effort to manage.

However, to prevent his trump cards from being exposed, Li Ji'an refused.

Now, seeing the wooden puppet in the Gou Puppet Master's residence, he was very envious.

He had even considered the feasibility of having a puppet protect him after "reversing aging".

However, the way of puppets was too rare. He had never encountered the sale of puppet inheritance in the Immortal City in more than ten years.

Now, he could only place his hopes on this Puppet Master Gou.

Following the same method, he visited all eight residences in the core talent area and received positive responses.

Including the Alchemist Zou in the first residence. Perhaps because Li Ji'an had called him Master Zou last time, he was very enthusiastic this time. He even promised that if Li Ji'an could not complete the transactions he took on in the future, he could come to him for help.

In addition to these neighbors, Li Ji'an also sent a message to Xiao Changfeng, informing him of the matter, but received no reply.

After establishing his foundation two years ago, he had been transferred by the sect and had not been heard from since, which was not surprising.

Finally, he also entrusted Steward Qi to send an invitation to the Liu family's residence in the Immortal City, fulfilling his promise to Liu Jiuchan when he established his foundation.

As for the Nine Cauldrons Chamber of Commerce, because the chambers of commerce stationed in the Immortal City had an agreement with the Azure Cloud Sect, they could not interfere with the local situation and participate in the affairs of the cultivation world here, so it was not suitable to participate in such matters.

On this day at the end of the month,

To Li Ji'an's surprise, in addition to the people he invited, many uninvited guests also came.

Among the dozen or so people, five were rogue Foundation Establishment cultivators, and the rest were from some Foundation Establishment families in Cangyun Prefecture. Their purpose was clear: they hoped to reach a pill transaction.

All the guests brought gifts. The Puppet Master Gou, whom Li Ji'an cared about most, did not disappoint him and sent a primary simple puppet and a matching puppet control technique.

This kind of basic puppet had no combat power and could only do some chores, but the cost was not low. The material cost alone was dozens of spirit stones, and spirit stones were also needed as a source of energy.

However, its effect was not as good as that of the mortals in the gathering area, so there was no market at all.

This was also the reason why puppet masters were so rare. They simply could not support themselves with their skills.

Liu Jiuchan was the person with the highest status among all the guests. She was the youngest Foundation Establishment elder of the five major families, and she also had friendships with many true disciples of the sect because of her outstanding appearance, temperament, and social skills.

The gift she sent was also the heaviest, a bottle of spirit beast essence blood with superior bloodline.

It was an important auxiliary medicine for refining several Tier 2 Initial Stage pills.

She also expressed a clear intention this time. Because the family's former enshrined alchemist was nearing the end of his life, in addition to trading for the daily cultivation pills of the Foundation Establishment stage in the future, she also hoped to cooperate with the family's beast pill alchemist to develop some special beast pills.

This did give Li Ji'an some interest.

However, she obviously looked down on the level of Li Ji'an's small celebration. After sending the gift and communicating, she was the first to leave.

It was only after she left that the remaining people's subsequent exchanges were easier.

Finally, they left each other's communication talismans and the event ended successfully.

At this point, Li Ji'an had completely stabilized.

With the alchemy skills that only a Tier 2 Senior Stage alchemist could possess, such as being able to refine Foundation Establishment Pills, and the Fire Spirit, which was comparable to Tier 2 Middle Stage fire, his pill formation rate and pill quality for refining Tier 2 Initial Stage pills far exceeded those of ordinary Tier 2 alchemists.

Opening the furnace six times a month could yield five hundred spirit stones, which completely met the needs of cultivation and life.

This left him with more time and energy to study talismans.

A year passed in a flash.

"Poof ~" On this day, just as he was about to finish the last stroke, a puff of green smoke rose ruthlessly.

In this year, he had basically mastered the Tier 2 talisman inheritance.

He was almost confident in writing, outlining, merging with the divine soul, and even sensing the spiritual opportunity of heaven and earth.

However, the only thing was that the mana required for drawing Tier 2 talismans was thick and long, which was always lacking.

Now, some simple Tier 2 Initial Stage talismans were fine, but once they involved slightly more difficult talismans such as attack and defense, the mana was easy to hold back, resulting in a low success rate.

A Tier 2 Initial Stage talisman material cost more than one hundred spirit stones. Since he started practicing three months ago, he had almost lost money every month.

This time he lost another one.

"I still have to use the Spirit Nourishing Pill!" Li Ji'an adjusted his breath for several hours and had to take a Tier 2 Initial Stage pill to nourish his mana.

This pill could extend the mana in the dantian by 30% and effectively improve the duration of mana.

"Swish ~" With a flash of lightning, this time it finally succeeded.

Tier 2 Initial Stage Lightning Talisman, Superior Grade, possessed a full blow comparable to the lightning-attributed mana of the Foundation Establishment Initial Stage, and had a strong restraint effect on the metal-attributed mana.

This was the third Tier 2 attack talisman successfully drawn in the past year.

In addition, there was a Moon Blade Talisman and a Golden Cone Talisman.

With these three talismans, if he encountered a Foundation Establishment Initial Stage cultivator like Zheng Tianxiang again, he could launch three talismans at the same time while he was unprepared, and have a chance to kill him with one blow.

After putting away the new trump card, Li Ji'an looked at the Fire Spirit beside him.

In the past year, every time he took out the inheritance jade talisman to study, the little Fire Spirit was attracted to it and often lay on it to suck its aura.

Finally, Li Ji'an judged that the mana aura of the ancient Senior Shen contained in the jade talisman should be beneficial to it.

"Okay, the mana aura has been absorbed by you. Go back to your stone." Li Ji'an waved his hand, put away the inheritance jade talisman, and then waved his hand again, throwing the Fire Spirit onto the stone he had obtained from the bottom of the Flame Mountain back then.

According to the Fire Spirit himself, it should have been conceived from this stone.

However, since returning that year, Li Ji'an had consulted all the information he could find.

There were no deeper descriptions of the Fire Saint Spirit, and the stone that could give birth to the Fire Saint Spirit was unheard of.

Over the years, he had also studied this washbasin-sized black and red stone many times, but to no avail.

Until half a year ago, he discovered that his current dantian mana could no longer nourish the Fire Spirit, so he took it out and let the Fire Spirit live on it.

The Fire Spirit living on it had a recovery effect.

"Uncle Li, Sister Hua is here again." At this moment, Xiao Qiao's voice came from outside.

Hearing this, Li Ji'an's eyelids twitched slightly, and he finally got up and left the secret room.

Arriving at the main room, he immediately saw the iron-mountain-like sturdy figure.

It was the refiner next door, Hua Hongling.

He was a little surprised when he first saw Hua Hongling at the small celebration a year ago.

She was two years younger than Li Ji'an, and had established her foundation ten years ago, because she had shown a good refining talent since she was a child, and she was not a rogue cultivator in the strict sense, because she was taken in by her master since she was a child.

Her master was also a Tier 2 Late Stage refiner, who was very famous in Tianyuan Prefecture.

She was wealthy and provided Hua Hongling with very good cultivation conditions.

He didn't know why she was sent here and became a popular refiner in the Immortal City.

However, her temper was notoriously bad. Once, a customer was slightly dissatisfied with the magic weapon he had customized, and she chased him with a hammer for most of the Immortal City. In the end, the Azure Cloud Sect's Pseudo Core Elder took action to stop her.

When Li Ji'an first moved here, Steward Qi had specifically told him about this.

However, in just one year.

"Brother Li, am I bothering you?" When she saw Li Ji'an arriving, she immediately trotted up to him.

Suddenly, the ground shook.

Li Ji'an hurriedly stopped her: "Don't bother, don't bother, Fellow Daoist Hua, what brings you here?"

"Isn't it just that matter." Hua Hongling suddenly showed a hint of shyness.

Li Ji'an took a deep breath: "Fellow Daoist Hua, I have already said before that our relationship should be sincere and open. Just be yourself as usual, don't be like this."

"To be honest, I really have no clue about the kind of pill that Fellow Daoist Hua is asking for. I'm afraid I will disappoint Fellow Daoist Hua."

Originally, Hua Hongling's temper was not very good towards Li Ji'an. At first, when Li Ji'an wanted to buy a defensive magic weapon, her attitude was irritable.

Until half a year ago, a female cultivator brought her own medicinal materials and asked Li Ji'an to help refine a furnace of Bone Changing Pills, Hua Hongling's attitude changed drastically.

During this period of time, she had been begging Li Ji'an to help her refine a pill that could shrink her body a little. For this, she promised to build a top-quality magic weapon for Li Ji'an.