Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

Since the Qi family announced their first auction half a year ago, the number of people in Immortal City has been increasing daily.

It reached its peak this month.

Everyone knows that this auction is intended to establish their reputation and highlight the advantages after taking over, so they will definitely offer great deals.

Since they cannot compete with the Bi Yun Sect in terms of security, they must emphasize advantages in commerce, product quality, and price to develop the Immortal City more prosperously and earn spirit stones from the buyout funds after the Bi Yun Sect calculates its century-long profits.

Although the Bi Yun Sect will definitely impose many conditions to maintain long-term stability in the region, such as banning the sale of high-level materials or restricting transaction permissions between certain forces, there will certainly be loopholes to exploit.

Moreover, for the first auction to establish their reputation, they should also tacitly allow some slightly out-of-standard products to be listed.

As for subsequent development, since the Bi Yun Sect no longer directly manages the Immortal City, there is a lot of room for secret operations between various chambers of commerce.

For example, Yan Kongyi secretly purchased a second-tier Vajra puppet from the Nine Tripod Chamber of Commerce that could affect the wasteland war and a batch of late-stage area-of-effect talismans.

Therefore, the current Jin Huang Immortal City has almost become a holy land for cultivators in the entire Cangyun State.

Powerful forces, such as the five major families and other foundation-building families with deep foundations, will most likely come for that top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill.

Forces in war will come for some strategic materials.

Even rogue cultivators within the state will come to find bargains.

For a time, the Immortal City was crowded with all kinds of cultivators coming from all directions.

All the inns in Immortal City were fully booked a month ago, and the area outside the city was surrounded three times over.

That day, Li Ji’an added three spirit stones to the courtyard's protective array and added three more restriction talismans, then carefully装好 seven trump card talismans before instructing Guagua and Xiaoqiao not to be careless and not to open the array to anyone.

Since the Qi family took over the Immortal City, Granny You’s yard next door had been taken back and is now rented to another cultivator.

Xiaogiao now lives here permanently.

Finally, after putting all his eight thousand spirit stones into his storage bag and changing into a gray-white robe, the most common attire in Immortal City, Li Ji’an walked towards the open-air auction venue in the center of the Immortal City.

The road was crowded with people, and Li Ji’an mingled in the crowd, slowly changing his bones and muscles through the Qi and Blood Condensation Technique, changing with each step, and after ten steps, his height was three inches shorter.

Then, following the same method, he used the Disguise Technique, and after a hundred steps, he had become a very ordinary-looking, unremarkable middle-aged cultivator with a yellow face.

After the Bi Yun Sect withdrew, especially with the influx of a large number of cultivators into the Immortal City in the past two months, many previous rules have changed.

Whether it was to meet the needs of some customers who did not want to reveal their privacy or because they lacked the ability to control it, the city gate registration, mana imprints, and the rule of not hiding one's face have all been cancelled.

Li Ji’an scanned with his divine sense and found that 80% of the people around him were disguised.

However, these Qi training stage cultivators had much weaker souls than him, and he could see through their true appearances at a glance.

"Fellow Daoist, don't push, I have a great treasure here, you will have to compensate me if it gets damaged," a burly man who was almost unable to stand due to being squeezed by the crowd shouted anxiously.

Li Ji’an's eyelids twitched slightly. It was clearly a young female cultivator who had disguised herself as a middle-aged man.

However, ordinary disguise techniques are just tricks. If you touch the real thing, it's still the original appearance.

Li Ji’an could see clearly that the female cultivator was almost deformed from being squeezed.

He estimated that the souls of the male cultivators around her were stronger than the female cultivator, and they had already seen through her disguise, so they were doing it on purpose.

Moving slowly with the crowd, it took almost half an hour to reach the square, which would normally take a quarter of an hour.

Arriving at the square, it was even more noisy.

Fortunately, the square had been expanded again, and it was expanded upwards, with many more ascending cloud ladders.

In addition to the auction core area, which required an admission fee, temporary flights were allowed on the periphery to watch the event.

Li Ji’an presented the admission ticket that Manager Wu had helped him obtain three months in advance and stepped into the auction venue.

The auction venue, which could accommodate thousands of people, was already full, except for a few symbolic positions at the front that represented status and position.

Li Ji’an's position was on the edge, not very noticeable.

As soon as he sat down, he keenly sensed several divine senses sweeping over him, and even more spiritual senses were sensing him.

He immediately guarded his sea of consciousness and used the Breath Concealment Technique to try to minimize his presence.

Before long, the organizer of the event appeared on time and, after a passionate speech, invited the finale figure to the stage.

The moment the Qi family's Jindan True Person appeared, the real person's aura deliberately released enveloped the entire venue in an instant, and the entire audience was silent.

It was not until nearly two hours later that the Qi family finally finished talking about how brilliant the Immortal City would be in the future, vowing to build it into a trading Immortal City connecting Tianyuan State and Cangyun State, and the benefits for the cultivators of this realm.

The auction officially began.

The first item up for auction excited the entire audience.

"This is a top-grade magic robe woven by a famous weaving master using carefully selected century-old golden silkworm silk, mixed with Ice Soul Cold Paste, and supplemented with Red Blood Tree leaves. It has the effects of storing spiritual energy, purifying mana, warding off fire and heat, and clearing the mind and calming the spirit. The starting price is one spirit stone."

"Wow! As expected of a great immortal family from Tianyuan State."

"Good, good, such a rare top-grade magic robe is actually starting at one spirit stone. The Qi family is very sincere."

"Jin Huang Immortal City is about to take off!"

…

Because Cangyun State lacks magic robe materials and has almost no weaving masters, there are very few local magic robes, and because the Bi Yun Sect previously had heavy taxes on merchants, it would be very expensive to transport magic robes tens of thousands of miles away, so the number and style of magic robes in the Immortal City are very few, and the quality is almost mainly middle and lower grade.

This top-grade magic robe did indeed tempt many people.

The most important thing is that the Qi family really kept their promise and started the auction at one spirit stone.

Of course, everyone knew that it would be useless to have a low starting price, and the final transaction price would definitely not be cheap.

"One hundred spirit stones!" As expected, the first person directly raised the price to the psychological price.

"Three hundred spirit stones!" However, the first item of the auction is usually a bit special, and many people want to win this first prize.

"Three hundred and fifty spirit stones!"

…

"Five hundred and fifty!"

In the end, the first magic robe was bought by one of the five major families sitting in the first row.

The price of five hundred and fifty spirit stones was a bit of a premium.

The second item up for auction raised the atmosphere again.

"This is ten mid-grade Youth Preservation Pills. One Youth Preservation Pill can keep you young forever for thirty years. They can be auctioned separately. The starting price is one spirit stone."

The female cultivators present were instantly excited.

Although the Youth Preservation Pill is a first-order pill, it contains the power of time and cannot be refined by second-order alchemists. Moreover, because of its strong demand, the local second-order alchemists in Cangyun State cannot supply it in time. In the past, it often happened that the effect of the pills was about to disappear for beauty-loving female cultivators, but they could not buy them.

At this moment, the Qi family directly took out ten pills for a one-time auction, which can be called a big deal.

Moreover, they are mid-grade pills. Almost foundation-building female cultivators can bid for all ten pills, which is enough to keep them young forever.

"I want all ten, two thousand spirit stones!" A female cultivator couldn't wait for the auctioneer to call start and rushed to quote.

"I want all of them, two thousand two hundred spirit stones."

"Two thousand three hundred spirit stones."

…

Women's love for beauty is human nature, and female cultivators are even more so, quickly igniting the atmosphere again.

At the same time, because of the quality of the first two items, all the cultivators at the scene were even more looking forward to this auction.

In the end, the crazy female cultivators炒到了 the price of ten Youth Preservation Pills to a high price of three thousand five hundred spirit stones.

This further strengthened Li Ji’an’s determination to study medical aesthetics pills in the future.

No matter where you are, the money from women who love beauty is definitely the easiest to earn.

The subsequent auction items did not disappoint the cultivators present.

From breakthrough pills for the late stage of Qi training to longevity pills urgently needed by elderly cultivators.

From mid-grade cultivation techniques to the inheritance of senior alchemists.

There were even second-order weapon refining materials, second-order talisman materials, and second-order medicinal materials…

Of course, there were no finished strategic talismans, magic weapons, puppets, etc., only some materials.

During this period, there was also an auction item that Li Ji’an was quite tempted by.

A young spirit beast suspected of having an earth-grade bloodline.

However, it was eventually bought at a high price by the Beast Taming Liu family.

Li Ji’an was no stranger to the bidder. It was Liu Jiuchan, who owed him a promise in the Flame Mountain Jedi a few years ago.

Now that the Immortal City is in chaos and demons are rampant outside the city, he happened to meet him and wanted him to fulfill his promise, saving him another trip out of the city.

The only thing that made him hesitate was that the other party had now successfully established his foundation.

With an unequal identity and strength, he was a little unsure.

While thinking about this, another auction item made Li Ji’an sit up straight instantly.

"This is a second-order top-grade pill furnace created by our Qi family's ancestor, a weapon refining master, with a lifetime of effort. It uses the Earth Core Lava Copper Marrow as the main material, supplemented by Six Harmonies Earth, and then immersed in the Flame Carving body to warm it for forty-nine days. Finally, it was tempered by the spiritual flames of heaven and earth…

This furnace greatly enhances the control of spiritual pressure, the adjustment of pill fire, and the sensing of pill conditions.

It was once loved by a second-order senior alchemist in Daoyuan State and followed him to produce no less than ten Foundation Establishment Pills…

Starting price, one spirit stone, please, alchemists!"

"Second-order pill furnace!"