Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

"Let's go!"

With a command from Seventh Elder, the group set off mightily from the market, heading southeast towards the Yan family's territory.

"Old Li, how's it going? We're about to head to our Yan family's territory. Are you excited?"

"I have to say, Old Li is considered a top servant in the market. To actually be able to join our Yan family as a servant, his luck is really good."

...

At the front of the group was Seventh Elder Yan Hongsheng, riding a unicorn-like spiritual beast the size of a water buffalo. Li Ji'an didn't recognize it, but he could feel the escaping magical energy.

It definitely wasn't an ordinary spiritual steed used for travel.

Behind him were three spiritual carriages, with Yan Qingwan in the first, Alchemist Mo in the second, and the third filled with medicine and pills from the shop, barely contained in fifteen low-level storage bags.

Surrounding the spiritual carriages were family members who had come with Yan Hongsheng as escorts.

As for the original staff of the pill shop, including Manager Yan Tong, they were at the end of the group, sitting on two large carts.

Li Ji'an ignored the slightly jealous shop assistants and quietly used his spiritual sense to discreetly observe.

Besides Yan Hongsheng, the openly known peak Qi Refining ninth layer cultivator, the other ten were all in the middle stage of Qi Refining, and all were core members of the family above the fifth layer of Qi Refining.

From Li Ji'an's understanding of the market over the past four years, this force could be considered top-tier combat power in this area.

This was enough to show the Yan family's importance to Alchemist Mo.

"Old Li, you can close your eyes and rest for a bit. We'll be at the family territory in at most two hours," Yan Tong initiated the conversation, his attitude very friendly.

Today, after learning that Chen Qingling's older brother was actually a half-step late-stage body cultivator, he was truly frightened.

He was nominally a member of the Yan family, and the other party wouldn't dare to openly offend the Yan family, but if they attacked in the dark, the Yan family might not turn against them for his sake, even if they eventually found some clues.

So at this time, he was genuinely grateful to Li Ji'an.

"Thank you, Manager, but I'm not sleepy," Li Ji'an nodded with a smile.

"Since you're not sleepy, how about I tell you some of the family rules? Otherwise, if you accidentally break a taboo, you'll regret it," This was Yan Tong's real intention.

It was also a return for Li Ji'an's kindness.

"In that case, I'll have to trouble you!" Li Ji'an accepted his kindness.

In fact, during the three years he had spent privately with Yan Qingwan, he had a general understanding of the Yan family.

The family had been established for less than five hundred years, and the ancestor was also a solitary cultivator who had seized the opportunity of the pioneering era, leading his sons to risk their lives to build a Dao field here for their descendants.

After three generations of hard work, they cultivated a Foundation Establishment Ancestor, and finally had the Yan family, one of the eight great families!

Moreover, the Yan family now had a strong internal family cohesion and a pioneering spirit, with few internal family conflicts.

However, as Yan Tong explained in detail, Li Ji'an discovered that the information he had learned from Yan Qingwan was quite different from what Yan Tong was saying.

The reason was simple: different identities, different heights, and different perspectives.

Yan Qingwan mostly knew some information and situations from the upper and middle levels, while Yan Tong mostly talked about the cultivation status of the family's lower levels.

"Old Li, there's something I don't know if I should say?" After talking about the situation at the bottom of the family, Yan Tong suddenly lowered his voice.

Seeing Yan Tong's behavior, Li Ji'an was slightly stunned and subconsciously looked at the people in front.

Then he looked at Yan Tong with some helplessness.

The people in front were all experts in the middle and late stages of Qi Refining, with strong spiritual senses. What's the point of you lowering your voice?

But he couldn't blame him. Yan Tong was in the early stage of Qi Refining, with a weak spiritual sense, and couldn't use spiritual sense to transmit sound.

"Please enlighten me, Manager."

"Well, not bad. Today, after going to the family, your life trajectory will have completely changed. You can forget everything from the past. However, your spiritual root is too poor and you are too old. Whether from the perspective of family identity or future potential, it is impossible for you to be cultivated. Moreover, I don't recommend you think about that aspect anymore.

People, sometimes you have to accept your fate. You can't fail to recognize yourself, and you can't be too ambitious.

We're not going to make it in this life, so we have to accept it.

Instead of struggling bitterly and getting hurt, it's better to recognize the situation early and create conditions for the next generation.

I suggest that you can start looking for wives and concubines and preparing for procreation as soon as you enter the family.

Only by marrying a woman from the family can you truly stay in the Yan family."

Li Ji'an nodded slowly and bowed his fist in salute: "Thank you for your teachings, Manager."

Li Ji'an understood that Yan Tong's teachings were truly for his sake, because according to what he knew, Yan Tong himself had done this.

However, whether it was Zhang Tiezhu's advice to fight and take risks, or Yan Tong's words to recognize reality, seek stability, and plan for the long term, neither could be said to be wrong, but neither was suitable for him.

At the same time, a smile appeared on the corner of Yan Hongsheng's mouth at the front, very satisfied with the teachings that Yan Tong had passed on to Li Ji'an.

After three years of alchemy, the Yan family's higher-ups naturally heard Yan Qingwan talk about Li Ji'an, and had long ago agreed to Yan Qingwan's request that, no matter what, they would eventually allow Li Ji'an to retire in the Yan family.

Yan Qingwan also heard Yan Tong's words clearly and nodded in satisfaction.

After three years of getting along, she had a good impression of Li Ji'an, and could even say she had some affection for him.

Putting aside his cultivation potential and strength, his temperament was as light as water, his behavior was mature and stable, his words were frank and occasionally humorous, and most importantly, his eyes were very pure.

Of course, he was very serious and attentive in assisting her in alchemy.

She sometimes felt that Alchemist Mo was not as good as Li Ji'an's guidance.

The only pity was that he was a bit old, and his potential and strength were almost non-existent. Otherwise, she would have even thought about introducing her cousin to him.

Now Yan Tong's suggestion gave her a new plan. If Li Ji'an's children were promising, she would be willing to provide extra support, which would be considered fulfilling her promise to Li Ji'an.

"Hmm?"

Li Ji'an, who had just thanked Yan Tong for his teachings, suddenly sensed a faint aura.

Three years ago, after Yan Qingwan passed on the method of condensing spiritual sense to him, he sensed that his spiritual sense at the first layer of Qi Refining was stronger than Yan Qingwan's spiritual sense at the sixth layer of Qi Refining.

Now, after three more years of Qi Refining, his understanding of spiritual sense was even clearer, and he clearly knew that his current spiritual sense had almost reached the peak of the Qi Refining stage.

He estimated that if he "returned to his youth" next time, perhaps his divine soul would condense and he could achieve divine consciousness, which would greatly increase his safety in childhood!

"Old Li, what's wrong?" Yan Tong saw Li Ji'an's expression become serious and immediately asked.

Li Ji'an was slightly worried: "Will the Wei family intercept and kill Alchemist Mo on the way?"

"Hahaha, Old Li, you don't understand our Seventh Elder. He can't wait for the other party to come and die," Yan Tong laughed.

"Oh?"

"Seventh Elder is the strongest combat power in our family after the Ancestor, and he is also the most headache-inducing existence for the other seven great families around him. He has always liked to be brave and fight, uphold justice and help the weak, and was given the nickname 'Rogue Wave Daoist' early on."

"Do you know why he's called the Rogue Wave Daoist? He's the kind of person who can stir up three-foot waves even when there's no wind!" Yan Tong explained with a smile.

However,

"Buzz~" Just as Yan Tong finished speaking, a buzzing sound rang out in the high sky.

"Enemy attack!" Someone immediately warned.

"Humph! Good timing." Yan Hongsheng laughed instead of being angry, and immediately patted his storage bag, and a purple-gold Xuantian Hammer rose into the sky.

In the next instant, a golden light flashed and instantly turned into a hundred-zhang giant net, covering down.

"Trifling tricks, show yourself!" Yan Hongsheng shouted loudly, cast the Fire Dragon Escape, turned into a firelight, calmly avoided the descending golden light cover, and shouted towards the distance.

At the same time, the horn on the head of his crotch spirit beast suddenly rippled a halo, covering the three brocade cars,

Other monks also surrounded the brocade cars of Mo Alchemist and Yan Qingwan at the first time, focusing on protection.

"Yan Hongsheng, you are fooled!"

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