Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

In the cultivation world, due to the relatively long lifespans, seniority is quite chaotic.

Taking Qi Refining stage cultivators as an example, some marry and have children as early as twenty years old, such as those families who recruit sons-in-law, aiming to replenish the number of the clan's new generation.

There are also those who, at seventy or eighty years old, when their physical strength and vitality begin to decline, and their bodies start to deteriorate, with no further possibility of advancement in cultivation, then think of passing on the family line. These are generally those with slightly better spiritual root aptitude, who break through to the late stage of Qi Refining before the age of fifty, wanting to attempt Foundation Establishment.

However, most are still like Zhang Tiezhu, marrying and having children in their thirties or forties.

The Great Elder belongs to the majority, now over a hundred years old, yet his granddaughter is only eighteen.

Looking at the Great Elder's sincere appearance, Li Ji'an understood that without a strong argument, he wouldn't be able to refuse.

"Great Elder, you are too kind. I have long forgotten about that matter. As for your granddaughter... to be honest, I already have someone in my heart. I really, I'm afraid I can't comply."

"Hmm? You... Little Li, a real man should be devoted to cultivation, immersed in skills, and shouldn't be swayed by emotions. Marriage and having children is just to pass on the family line. Who you have children with doesn't matter, as long as you find someone with a slightly better spiritual root, so that the next generation has better talent, isn't that enough?" The Great Elder was obviously stunned for a moment before reacting, very surprised by Li Ji'an's so-called lover.

It's not that there's no love in the cultivation world, it's just that the bottom of the cultivation world like them doesn't deserve to have love, especially the families in the wilderness.

Li Ji'an was not surprised by his words.

Not to mention this cultivation world.

Even what he saw and heard in the Immortal Bestowed Dynasty, all the powerful nobles and authorities had no so-called love between men and women.

The good thing is that female cultivators in the cultivation world also have the same cultivation paths as male cultivators, with almost no gender advantages or disadvantages, so they are relatively equal. If they don't want to talk about love, they don't. More of them are Dao companions on the path of cultivation.

In the Immortal Bestowed Dynasty, the powerful regarded women mostly as playthings and tools, to be summoned and dismissed at will, with the power of life and death. Any powerful person who indulged in love was considered a waste, lacking ambition, and indulging in pleasure.

"I'm making the Great Elder laugh. I... have no great ambitions and haven't given up on worldly love, really..."

"..." The Great Elder frowned as he looked at Li Ji'an, with a rather disappointed expression.

What's wrong with him? He's actually indulging in love!

Isn't alchemy fragrant? Isn't drawing talismans fragrant?

"Well, love isn't impossible... Come, come back with me to meet my granddaughter. Isn't love just about falling for someone's looks? My granddaughter's appearance is not bad." Yan Kongyi only wanted a seedling with outstanding comprehension in the clan to inherit his talisman inheritance, the rest didn't matter.

Li Ji'an firmly shook his head: "Great Elder, you don't understand love!"

"..."

In the end, the skinny old man with a big beard left with a stiff face and lifeless eyes.

Seeing that the Great Elder personally came to invite him, but Li Ji'an didn't go back for a blind date, Yan Qingwan realized the problem.

It's probably not as simple as she thought.

Previously, Li Ji'an had been refusing. She initially thought Li Ji'an wanted to find someone with good spiritual root aptitude.

After that, she thought he wanted to find someone beautiful.

Then she thought he wanted to find someone with a higher status.

Now, these three things are almost all gathered... She doesn't understand what kind of person Li Ji'an is looking for.

Seeing that Yan Qingwan probably wasn't in the mood to make pills today, Li Ji'an, to avoid her urging him to marry again, simply took leave and returned to the small courtyard.

"Ribbit~"

Ten years have passed, and Guagua has grown a lot, squatting next to him, almost reaching his shoulder.

"Come! Continue." Feeding it a Condensing Emerald Pill, Li Ji'an's blood and energy surged.

"Guagua~" Guagua instantly lay on the ground, showing a state of submission.

Over the past ten years, with the steady increase in body tempering with the Thunder Flame Crystal, Li Ji'an's blood and energy have become increasingly rich, often feeling unbearably hot. By chance, he discovered that Guagua was thick-skinned and sturdy, making it a good sparring partner.

After many sparring sessions, he discovered that this method could not only refine his own blood and energy but also benefit Guagua's bloodline transformation.

Now his body tempering late stage is almost at its peak, and Guagua also has a sign of transforming towards the late stage.

Before long, the man and the frog were fighting fiercely in the small courtyard again.

Unfortunately, Guagua is still only a Rank 1 mid-stage demon beast, and its main talent is not in skin and flesh defense. He now has the body tempering strength to smash the protective magic罩 of a Qi Refining peak cultivator with one punch, but he only dares to use 50% of his strength.

However, Guagua's tongue forces Li Ji'an to be wary. Although soft and smooth, it can secrete a paralyzing toxin, which can cause numbness even to his physique, limiting the stimulation of blood and energy.

"Swoosh~" Guagua's tongue suddenly shot out from underground.

Li Ji'an left an afterimage in place, and in an instant, he arrived at the place where the tongue shot out.

Before Li Ji'an's figure appeared, the ground squirmed, and Guagua burrowed away again.

This guy had long been beaten scared by Li Ji'an, and now it's always this tactic.

But Li Ji'an can't do anything about it.

Until half an hour later, Li Ji'an seized the opportunity, risking being paralyzed by the long tongue, following the trajectory of its tongue retraction, releasing his blood and energy, and going two zhang deep underground, finally pulling Guagua out and beating it with a set of combo punches until it had no strength to escape.

"Not bad, go!" Throwing it two beast pills, Li Ji'an tried Thunder Flame Crystal body tempering again.

A moment later, he slowly finished his practice, and almost no Thunder Flame Crystal was consumed beside him.

"It seems to have really reached the top! I have to break through to Rank 2."

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To break through to the second level of the Hundred Refinements Golden Body Technique, one needs the demon core of a Rank 2 Golden Armor Beast, which is almost impossible for him now, or even for the entire Eight Great Families of the Wasteland.

So he didn't think much about it.

After collecting all the Thunder Flame Crystals he had deliberately accumulated over the years, he threw them to Guagua and stored them in its mouth.

These are enough for body tempering after rejuvenation.

Then, after thinking about it, he threw all of the mid-grade fire-based cultivation technique 'Lava Sutra' he had purchased in the market some time ago, as well as the high-quality beginner pills he had refined over the years, into Guagua's mouth.

Before there were such big changes in the Zheng family, he actually preferred the Yan family's 'Flame Dragon Art', after all, that was the foundation for the Yan family to gain a foothold here, a true high-grade cultivation technique, with the possibility of Core Formation.

It is almost the best fire-based cultivation technique in the Wasteland, the refined mana is condensed, explosive, and most suitable for condensing pill fire.

The highest-grade cultivation technique that can be bought in the market is only the mid-grade 'Lava Sutra', and some others also have divine soul restrictions. After his next life of rejuvenation, both his body and soul will return to their original state, purifying all traces. The restrictions signed with his current divine soul will be useless at that time.

This is just a backup plan.

"In my previous life, my blood and energy began to decline at the age of sixty-one and I rejuvenated. In this life, I haven't had any sensation yet." After carefully sensing again, there was still no sign of decline, and his blood and energy were still strong. Li Ji'an was not sure when he would rejuvenate in this life.

This is naturally thanks to absorbing spiritual energy and nourishing his blood and energy.

Theoretically, at the peak of Qi Refining, one's lifespan can reach about 150 years old. Of course, this is an idealized state. Cultivators inevitably face battles and fights throughout their lives, as well as the backlash brought about by breaking through bottlenecks, or the pill poison that invades from taking pills. Except for cultivators who practice wood-based mana with health-preserving effects and water-based mana with healing effects, most people do not live to this lifespan.

In the mid-stage of Qi Refining, especially since he is only at the fourth level of Qi Refining, his theoretical lifespan is at most about 110 years old.

However, his body tempering has also reached the peak of the first level. Based on this alone, his lifespan should also be about 120 years old.

"Could it be that my blood and energy will only decline at seventy or eighty?" Li Ji'an was not in a hurry about this. The more time he had, the more preparations he could make and the safer it would be.

At least he hasn't solved the problem of the divine soul purification at the moment of rejuvenation and the failure of Guagua's beast soul card.

If this cannot be solved, he naturally dare not bring Guagua with him, in that case, the training of the past ten years would be wasted.

For this reason, in recent years, in addition to Chen Zhaohu, he has also specifically found several teams who often go to the depths of the mountains to hunt and issued rewards, and also sought help from several vendors in the market who specialize in selling exotic treasures and spiritual insects.

Now he can only wait quietly.

A month later, Zhang Tiezhu wrote again.

It was to report good news to him.

His son, Yan Jue, is only fifteen years old this year, and his spiritual root has been formed, measuring a medium-grade earth spiritual root with 13 strands of induction.

This news also made Li Ji'an a little excited, and it also confirmed his previous speculation, making him even more expectant of his spiritual root talent in his next life.