Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

"Is this the place?"

Leaving that collateral branch family, Li Ji'an headed towards the Golden Brilliance Immortal City in the northwest. Passing by the array formation Liu family, with its strange rocks and complete five elements, shrouded in a hazy mist, he gazed from afar, pondering in his heart.

"One hundred and eighteen years!"

A full one hundred and eighteen years had passed since that phrase "It will surely be auspicious."

And he had reverted to childhood twice already.

He wasn't sure if this was where the hundred-plus body cultivation prodigies from the Immortal Bestowed Dynasty were buried.

"Ultimately, I'm still too weak. Cultivation is the foundation. Without becoming a Core Formation True Person, I have no confidence in retreating unscathed." Resolutely withdrawing his gaze, Li Ji'an accelerated his departure.

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"Qian represents Heaven, Kun represents Earth, Zhen represents Thunder, Xun represents Wind... Place the Black Mystic Branch at the Shock Gate, bury the Golden Iron Core at the Li and Kan positions... Inscribe array patterns with magic power... Link array foundations with divine soul, converging at the array eye, drawing in the Earth and Wood elements to merge with the foundation of the earth..."

In the second courtyard, Li Ji'an followed Granny You's array formation inheritance, guiding Xiao Qiao to begin practical application.

Since Xiao Qiao entered the mid-stage of Qi training a year ago, her magic power and divine soul had barely reached the threshold for setting up a first-order elementary array formation.

Li Ji'an then taught her Granny You's array formation inheritance.

Her comprehension in array formations was excellent, not much different from Li Ji'an's.

However, theory is theory. Array formations involve many elements. Besides identifying the theoretical directions and spiritual opportunities, and understanding the array structure diagrams, one also needs to inscribe array patterns with magic power and connect array foundations with divine soul. Furthermore, the array eye needs to link with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Li Ji'an himself had no confidence in practical operation.

The array materials he conveniently bought back from the Liu family were perfect for practicing together.

Li Ji'an and Xiao Qiao each took a set of elementary defense array materials and set up the array formations separately, following the guidance of the defense array diagram.

"Buzz~"

"Hmm?" Li Ji'an had just begun inscribing array patterns when he suddenly felt a burst of vibration behind him.

Turning around, he saw a faint earth-colored protective shield rising from Xiao Qiao's side.

"It's done?" Li Ji'an looked at Xiao Qiao with considerable surprise.

Xiao Qiao herself was somewhat bewildered.

"Did you inscribe the array patterns?" According to Granny You's inheritance, after placing the array foundations in the correct positions, one needed to inscribe array patterns.

Xiao Qiao was only in the mid-stage of Qi training, and the cultivation technique she practiced was ordinary. Her dantian's magic power was weak. Li Ji'an had been worried that she wouldn't have enough magic power for this step to inscribe the array patterns on all the array foundations.

"Uncle Li, I just placed the array foundations according to the array diagram, and then I had a kind of feeling in the dark. I felt several invisible energies from under the earth pouring in, and then... it was like this," Xiao Qiao said truthfully.

"The earth's energy automatically poured in?" Li Ji'an calmed his mind and focused his senses, but he gained nothing.

Except for some rare high-level array formations that use the void as their foundation, most array formations are rooted in the earth.

Li Ji'an vaguely understood Xiao Qiao's peculiarity.

"A natural array formation master!"

"Good! From now on, you will wholeheartedly study array formations." After affirming Xiao Qiao's ability and direction, Li Ji'an continued his first array formation setup.

A full hour later, he finally finished inscribing the array patterns, linking all the array foundations with the array eye, and barely drawing in the Earth and Wood spiritual energies. The array was complete!

"Poof!" However, with just a casual touch, the newly formed elementary defense array shattered.

This was completely disproportionate to his efforts and the cost of the array materials.

"Forget it, you study hard." After instructing Xiao Qiao, Li Ji'an temporarily gave up.

A person's energy is limited. It's better to focus on a few things. In this life, besides the most basic cultivation, he cared most about the protective talismans and the medical skills that could change his spiritual root in his next life.

Fortunately, his previous life's alchemy accumulation was sufficient. In this life, he only needed to study it incidentally each time he refined pills, without needing to spend extra effort, to meet his current daily needs.

Of course, the little fire spirit was key.

Now, under the nourishment of four years of magic power and the constant tempering of alchemy, the little fire spirit was growing rapidly.

Especially after discovering the restorative effect of that black-red stone a few years ago, each time it consumed fire spirit power during alchemy, he would let it return to the black-red stone to rest.

Its current spirit flame power was several times stronger than Li Ji'an's Core Formation stage pill fire.

"Croak, come!" As he was about to return to the talisman chamber, Li Ji'an caught sight of Guagua lying comfortably in the pond, basking in the sun with its belly up, and had a sudden idea.

"Croak~" Guagua flipped over abruptly, its large eyes filled with grievance, then its whole body slowly changed color, instantly merging with the pond water and air.

Li Ji'an didn't indulge it: "The Li residence doesn't support idlers. Xiao Qiao studies array formations, Xiao Huo assists with alchemy, and you just bask in the sun every day?"

Before his voice faded, Li Ji'an left an afterimage in place, using the strength of a second-order body cultivator to confront the second-order frog demon head-on.

"Bang!" The long tongue struck Li Ji'an's body, and the huge impact forced Li Ji'an back three steps.

Guagua hurriedly retracted its long tongue in pain.

"Croak~" The next moment, Guagua sank into the water, instantly disappearing.

Li Ji'an's divine sense was fully open, but he felt nothing.

"Swoosh~" The sound of air being torn apart came from behind him. Li Ji'an was struck in the back again, leaving another afterimage as he staggered.

When he reappeared, he was already at the place where Guagua had just appeared.

However, he lost track of Guagua again.

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Back and forth like this, although Guagua was a second-order demon beast, it lacked offensive means. The power of its long tongue was also insufficient to break through Li Ji'an's current second-order physical body.

But Li Ji'an couldn't sense its location, and all his attacks missed.

It wasn't until Xiao Qiao secretly pointed out the location to him that he finally punched Guagua away the moment it emerged from the ground.

However, although Guagua's long tongue lacked the power to break through defenses, the skin on its body had excellent protection. Li Ji'an's eighty percent strength couldn't hurt it.

Temporarily letting Guagua go, Li Ji'an returned to the talisman chamber.

Now, besides cultivation, he spent most of his energy on talismans.

Unfortunately, the success rate of drawing second-order high-quality talismans was still too low.

The main reason was that the magic power refined by the "Flame Dragon Art" was not thick and long enough.

Besides the fact that this technique was not of high grade to begin with, it was also related to its fire attribute. Fire attribute magic power was not known for being thick and long.

In addition, it was also related to the talisman brush he had been using.

Second-order talisman brushes were hard to find. He had asked the auction house to look out for him several years ago. Unfortunately, talisman brushes that could produce strategic second-order talismans were also strictly controlled by the sect, even more so than second-order talismans, and there was still no news of one.

However, the shortcomings of the talisman brush could actually be compensated for by skill. With his current skills, the impact on drawing early-stage second-order talismans was not very large.

Li Ji'an calmed his mind and focused his senses, eliminating all distractions, and wholeheartedly drew talismans.

Thus, a year and a half passed quietly.

That day, shocking news came from the Great Marsh Mountain ruins.

The ruins that the Azure Cloud Sect had publicly devoted all its efforts to excavating two years ago had erupted today.

The most shocking thing was that a hundred-acre ancient medicinal field was discovered inside. It was speculated that it might have been a third-order medicinal field in the past. There were still a small amount of medicinal materials remaining inside, including several second-order main medicines, and even a few key third-order medicine kings, with long enough years!

In addition, it was said that several storage bags were filled with high-quality and top-quality magic tools.

Some people suspected that magic treasures had appeared.

And what attracted Li Ji'an the most was the several ancient spells discovered inside, as well as a wood-attribute cultivation technique suspected to be of earth-grade quality.

In recent years, because he increasingly felt the influence of the cultivation technique on the cultivation realm and magic power, he had specially studied the cultivation techniques of this world.

Heaven, Earth, Xuan, Huang. In the Wasteland, the so-called low-grade cultivation techniques were basically of Huang-grade, while middle-grade and high-grade were of Xuan-grade.

The Yan family's "Flame Dragon Art" was called a high-grade technique, only because it had the possibility of cultivating to the Core Formation stage, but its cultivation speed and the power of the refined magic power had not reached the level of a true high-grade technique.

The sect technique that Xiao Changfeng cultivated was a true high-grade technique.

And once a cultivation technique was practiced, unless one switched to another technique after reaching a major realm, re-cultivating after dissolving one's power would affect the foundation. Even if one cultivated other techniques after Foundation Establishment, there would be some negative effects because of the transformation of the dantian by the Qi training technique, if the newly cultivated technique was far from the Qi training technique.

Therefore, he had strong expectations for the cultivation technique of his next life, which was why he went to the Wasteland to befriend Red Stone Wanderer last time.

"The Azure Cloud Sect will revive the glory of its ancestors!" This sentence had recently been circulating in Immortal City, and even throughout the three states of the Heavenly Azure Domain.