Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

United Market, South Street.

Today, colorful ribbons flutter and drums fill the air.

The Yan Family's Pill Shop is reopening, hosting a grand spirit banquet and inviting heroes from all directions.

The head of the family, Yan Zongsheng, leads several elders of the clan to appear at the pill shop.

The other seven of the desolate eight families all come to offer their support. Except for the Zheng family, the head of the eight families, the heads of the other six families personally present congratulatory gifts.

The surrounding seventeen Qi training families and some well-known rogue cultivators also come to offer their congratulations.

Yan Qingwan is pushed to the forefront by the clan, praised by everyone, and returns the thanks one by one, personally presenting the elixirs she has refined. For a time, she is unparalleled and infinitely glorious.

The number one female alchemist in the wilderness, the most beautiful female alchemist, talented in both arts and virtues... etc., praises are added to her.

Li Ji'an stands at the end of the crowd, watching Yan Qingwan being the center of attention, silently blessing her.

The Desolate Dragon Ridge Wilderness was only allowed to be reclaimed by order from above more than 500 years ago. At that time, countless families, rogue cultivators, and even sects came here to plot opportunities. After many washes, those sects and families with inherent foundations withdrew after seizing enough rewards. In the end, only the current eight major families occupied their respective second-order spiritual veins, and another seventeen Qi training families occupied first-order spiritual veins, gradually stabilizing the situation.

Previously, this place was chaotic, with no order, and because it was far away from the northern cities, there was no decent trading market within a radius of ten thousand miles, and many supplies needed to be purchased from other places, which was quite inconvenient.

Moreover, no family was willing to take out their occupied territory to establish a market.

It was not until more than ninety years ago that the two Qi training families fought each other in order to compete for this place, and ultimately benefited the current eight foundation-building families, who established a market for trading and residence, which can be regarded as making a meager contribution to the countless rogue cultivators in this place.

Li Ji'an suspects that the main reason why the Yan family and the Wei family finally reconciled and cooperated three years ago, in addition to the matter of Wei Huairen, was also to learn a lesson from this spiritual vein in the United Market, knowing that if they continued to fight, it would inevitably be a lose-lose situation where the snipe and the clam fought, and the fisherman benefited.

"Zheng Tianxiang, on behalf of the Zheng family, presents a hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, to congratulate the Yan family's pill shop, and to congratulate the great alchemist Yan!" With the doorman's announcement, the opening banquet reached its climax.

As the head of the eight major families in the wilderness, the Zheng family has three foundation builders, firmly sitting on the top spot in the wilderness. It also occupies the largest second-order middle-grade spiritual vein dojo in the wilderness, covering a radius of hundreds of miles, and monopolizes nearly 80% of the elixir and magic weapon business in the entire wilderness.

Its strength and wealth are unparalleled.

If a descendant with extraordinary spiritual roots is born in the clan, maybe one day they will be able to support a Core Formation cultivator.

At that time, the entire southern wilderness of the Fallen Dragon Ridge will be the Zheng family's world.

If the other seven families were not smart and understood the harm of one family dominating to their interests, the seven families would have united long ago, forcing the Zheng family to temporarily not dare to violate the joint covenant established by the eight families.

However, its clan's strength is there, even if it openly competes with the other seven families, it is difficult for the other seven families to shake its market share at all.

"Qingwan, I haven't seen you for several years. I didn't expect you to have such achievements. Congratulations!" After Zheng Tianxiang paid his respects to the heads of the seven families, he came to Yan Qingwan, with a warm smile and extraordinary bearing.

"Young Master Zheng is being polite, but please pay attention to your address." Yan Qingwan's expression remained unchanged, and her tone was calm, but one could hear a hint of dissatisfaction.

"Hey, Qing... Alchemist Yan is still blaming me. I can't help myself either." Zheng Tianxiang shook his head helplessly.

"However, it doesn't matter. Now the clan has ordered me to be in charge of the market. In the future... there will be time to communicate more. Zheng believes that time will tell." After saying that, without waiting for Yan Qingwan to speak again, Zheng Tianxiang was surrounded by a group of family heads and went to the courtyard to sit down.

Li Ji'an stood aside, looking at Zheng Tianxiang being respectfully welcomed in front of him, with a strange smile on his face.

The reason why it was a strange smile was because he had naturally heard some rumors during his seven years in the Yan family.

Combining the scene where Yan Qingwan stayed overnight in the market before going to the Yan family's territory, and the scene where his spiritual sense accidentally discovered Yan Qingwan sobbing on the quilt, he could almost conclude that the rumor was true.

It is said that the founding ancestor of the Zheng family and the founding ancestor of the Yan family were sworn brothers. They came to the wilderness more than 500 years ago to work hard, and it was even the Yan family's ancestor who persuaded the Zheng family's ancestor to come.

After that, the two helped each other and both achieved success.

However, in the end, due to the mundane disputes of interest, there were conflicts, and they died without communicating with each other.

In this generation, although the Zheng family is the strongest family here, the other seven families also have foundation-building ancestors, and they are all old guys who have experienced bloody storms and seen intrigues and conspiracies, so they are not so easy to fool.

It is not easy for the Zheng family to go further.

Therefore, it took the initiative to establish contact with the Yan family again, recalling the past hardships and sweetness, and recalling the brotherhood of their ancestors.

It even set up a baby marriage when Yan Qingwan was just born.

However...

What Li Ji'an found funny was that Zheng Tianxiang came to publicly break off the engagement when Yan Qingwan was seventeen years old that year.

Compared to the plot of those novels he had seen in his first life, it was a bit of a reversal.

The reason why Zheng Tianxiang broke off the engagement was also simple, because the Zheng family had hooked up with the Liu family, one of the five first-tier families in the north, and wanted to marry them!

Moreover, in fact, Zheng Tianxiang's spiritual roots were completely formed at the age of fifteen, and it was determined that the gold-type spiritual root had a spiritual rhyme induction of nineteen strands, which was almost the aptitude of a high-grade spiritual root, and there was a great hope of forming a core.

Yan Qingwan almost became a laughing stock in the entire wilderness that time.

Those who didn't know the truth thought that the Yan family was trying to curry favor with the Zheng family, but the Zheng family didn't like her.

Until the wine was over three rounds, the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves, and the Yan Family's Pill Shop finally returned to its usual tranquility.

The next day, the head of the family and a group of elders returned to the clan, leaving only eight people, including Yan Qingwan and Li Ji'an, including a shopkeeper and five servants.

Previously, because of Alchemist Mo's reason, the pill shop's shopkeeper was not a member of the Yan family's clan, but now, as the pill shop is an important business plan of the Yan family, the shopkeeper must be a member of the clan.

Three of the five servants were the servants from seven years ago, and they were also familiar with Li Ji'an.

The difference is that seven years ago, Li Ji'an was also a servant like them, and he was just an alchemist servant, a foreigner, and a contract worker.

Now, they are still servants, but Li Ji'an's identity is a guest elder.

This was a special status that Yan Qingwan had fought for him in the clan in order to let Li Ji'an accompany her to the market pill shop this time.

In addition to the pill shop income that Yan Qingwan secretly wanted to give him, the guest elder also had a monthly salary of eight spirit stones.

"Uncle Zhong, I will rely on you for the affairs of the front yard of the pill shop in the future. Be kind to others, don't use your power to oppress others, and don't ruin the reputation of the Yan Family's Pill Shop." Yan Qingwan instructed one by one.

"Miss, don't worry, I know everything." Uncle Zhong looked very honest and had a friendly appearance.

"If I can't spare time in the future, Li's brother's meaning is my meaning, don't neglect him, I will be responsible if something happens." Yan Qingwan glanced at Li Ji'an again.

After seven years of continuous interaction, especially after saving her life on the way back to the clan four years ago, and after Alchemist Mo defected, he patiently guided her for two years. In addition to guiding her in alchemy, Li Ji'an also gave her a lot of spiritual comfort and encouragement, allowing her to withstand the huge pressure, and only then did she have today.

She no longer had the slight contempt for Li Ji'an because of his poor spiritual roots and lack of potential. Now she really admires and is grateful from the bottom of her heart.

Moreover, as of now, she is very sure that Li Ji'an's talent in alchemy is several times greater than hers. It's a pity that his spiritual roots are poor, his cultivation is low, and his alchemy fire is weak. Otherwise, she is sure that Li Ji'an can become a senior alchemist.

Based on this, her address to Li Ji'an has unconsciously changed to "Brother Li" in the past two years, putting down the superiority of being a young lady.

At the same time, she had already planned in her heart that she must get a Flying Cloud Pill for Brother Li this year, to help him break through to the middle stage of Qi training.