Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

After Li Ji'an's figure disappeared from sight, four Foundation Establishment cultivators appeared outside the Yan family's territory.

"Fellow Daoist Yan, is Fellow Daoist Li unwilling to offer assistance?" Wei family's old ancestor transmitted his voice through divine sense.

Yan family's old ancestor shook his head in dismay, "Fellow Daoist Li has always been cautious, avoiding disputes and battles. Unless the Yan family faces complete annihilation, he won't take action!"

The four of them pondered upon hearing this, and eventually left awkwardly.

Of the eight great families in the Wasteland, only the Zheng family and their five-family alliance remained.

However, this alliance was merely a temporary gathering for warmth. If any family had the chance to control the Wasteland, none would give it up.

This time, Yan Qingwan didn't even mention persuading Li Ji'an to get involved, not only because she knew Li Ji'an's teachings but also because there was no reason to do so.

The old ancestor's words were merely to use Li Ji'an's name to deter the other four families.

The overall situation in the Wasteland, after a long period of division, will eventually unite, and after a long period of unity, will eventually divide again. Unless one side is completely wiped out, the final outcome is hard to predict.

The two families previously destroyed by the Zheng family, besides their territories being closest to the Zheng family, it was possible that the other five families used this opportunity to eliminate rivals.

If the bandits hadn't unexpectedly entered the scene, perhaps the six great families of the Wasteland would have already divided up the territories of those two families and profited together.

Previously, Yan Kongyi's trip to the Immortal City for procurement was funded jointly by the five families. Although he didn't explicitly state what means he used to completely exceed the transaction, the other four families guessed that the Yan family might have gained connections in the Immortal City.

Li Ji'an's visit this time made them suddenly realize the truth.

While marveling at the life experiences of this outsider who came from the Yan family, they were also shocked by his current achievements and were even more convinced that his background in the Immortal City was not simple.

Not only were the other four families slightly disappointed by Li Ji'an's departure, but even most of the Yan family members felt resentment. They originally thought Li Ji'an had returned to repay his gratitude, but he just left like that.

At the same time, the Zheng family received this news almost immediately.

"Heh~ Just like his father, timid as a mouse. I only gave a slight warning, and he obediently left," Zheng Tianxiang said with a hint of pride.

"Tianxiang, don't be arrogant. Before figuring out this child's background in the Immortal City, don't provoke him again."

"This child was orphaned at a young age and was able to establish his Foundation Establishment in the Immortal City. Besides having extraordinary encounters, he must have outstanding qualities. He should not be underestimated. Now that he hasn't gotten involved, we must not form a feud with him."

Several older Foundation Establishment ancestors of the Zheng family warned.

Everyone had different thoughts, but Yan Qingwan watched Li Ji'an's figure disappear into the horizon, then turned around and returned to her alchemy room.

She spread out a piece of paper, closed her eyes, recalled Li Ji'an's face, and picked up her brush to draw.

After a moment, looking at the lifelike half-portrait of Li Ji'an on the paper, she let out a long breath.

"Brother Li, Fan'er is doing great, you can rest assured… I wonder if I will ever see you again in this life?"

Based on Li Ji'an's bone age from her previous life, under normal circumstances, he would already be ninety-five years old. According to Yan Qingwan's knowledge, with Qi Refining fourth level and a first-order beginner body cultivator, if there were no accidents, he would only have about ten years of lifespan left.

And if she didn't have any accidents, she would have at least one hundred and seventy or eighty years of lifespan left.

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A streak of light flashed across the sky and instantly landed on a wasteland that had been almost flattened by pioneers.

This place was covered with rubble and withered grass turned to mud.

The only difference from the surroundings was that this place had no vitality.

Although it was already deep into the Fallen Dragon Ridge, it was still far from the dangerous area where second-order demons might appear.

Li Ji'an fully opened his divine sense. Just as Yan Kongyi said, the underground here was full of jagged rocks, making it difficult to distinguish the target boulder.

He then released Guagua to check for dangers around, while he followed the records of Yan Kongyi's ancestors to find that underground boulder.

Not long after, ten zhang underground, among a pile of seemingly indistinguishable boulders, Li Ji'an discovered the boulder described by Yan Kongyi's ancestors.

Li Ji'an protected himself with mana and activated a first-order late-stage tortoise shell talisman on Guagua, instructing it to burrow down along the direction of the boulder.

At the same time, he connected to Guagua's vision.

After descending for more than ten zhang, a seemingly natural crack on the side of the boulder came into view.

Guagua entered smoothly.

The inside of the boulder had been hollowed out into a small space, only one zhang in radius. In the middle of this space, there was a pile of decayed remains, and in front of the remains were three burnt-out incense ashes.

This matched Yan Kongyi's description. His ancestor had taken away the decayed remains' robe and storage bag and offered incense to the remains.

According to Yan Kongyi, when his ancestor accidentally discovered this place, he checked it several times and found nothing else before leaving with the storage bag and robe.

After returning to the family, he learned after studying the inheritance in the storage bag that this place, which seemed to only have this little space, actually had a secret arranged by the talisman master. If one wanted to open the secret space, one had to use a talisman called the Spirit Activation Talisman from his inheritance.

For this reason, the Foundation Establishment old ancestor returned to this place several times, using all means without any results. He eventually guessed that the talisman master's talisman techniques were probably extraordinary.

Unfortunately, no one in the Yan family for several generations had the talent for talismans, so they had never been able to open this secret space.

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"Is he really an ancient talisman master?" A hint of anticipation appeared in Li Ji'an's eyes.

He then had Guagua spit out the Spirit Activation Talisman from its mouth.

He then attached a Peeking Talisman to the entrance, and then quickly retreated from the inside of the boulder.

As soon as Guagua left, Li Ji'an activated the Peeking Talisman with his divine sense. After Guagua left, Li Ji'an himself flew up and stood in the high sky, and then activated the Spirit Activation Talisman.

"Buzz~" In the vision transmitted by the Peeking Talisman, as the Spirit Activation Talisman was activated, a flash of light appeared, and the inside of the boulder trembled slightly.

Immediately afterward, a small piece of the stone wall behind suddenly moved slowly like flowing water. In the blink of an eye, a stone door rose, revealing a dark compartment one meter high and half a meter deep behind it.

A jade talisman lay quietly in the dark compartment.

There was nothing else.

After waiting for nearly half an hour, nothing unexpected happened, and the decayed remains remained motionless.

"It's really an inheritance!" Li Ji'an was delighted and ordered Guagua to take the jade talisman.

Throughout the entire process, he watched the whole time, and still nothing unexpected happened.

Until the jade talisman was brought up by Guagua, he tested it with his divine sense, easily read the information in the jade talisman, and finally completely relaxed.

However, the first sentence in the jade talisman made him frown suddenly.

"Since there are no immortals in the world, use talismans to worship the heavens!"

This opening sentence made Li Ji'an feel a little suspicious. According to Yan Kongyi, when his ancestor obtained this person's first-order inheritance jade talisman, although it said that if one could not thoroughly study the first-order inheritance, one was not qualified to know who he was, it also roughly expressed that he was a cultivator from ancient times, at least seven or eight thousand years ago.

And Li Ji'an had seen some ancient ruins information over the years that clearly stated that the ancient times had abundant spiritual energy, the immortal path was prosperous, the heavenly path was grand, and all laws contended, which was a true prosperous age of cultivation.

"That kind of prosperous age had no immortals?"

"If that kind of prosperous age had no immortals, wouldn't the current cultivation world have no hope at all?"