Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

"The Yan family? The Yan family that Zhang Tiezhu went to reclaim wasteland for?" Li Ji'an had some impression of this Yan family.

He wanted to tell Chen Qingling that unless there was a major conflict of interest, or an overwhelming disparity in strength, adults with sound minds in this world where everyone held the truth wouldn't engage in unnecessary conflicts as irrationally as children like them.

Chen Zhaohu's strength as a Tier 1 mid-stage body cultivator meant that even Qi Refining level six cultivators had to be wary of him getting close.

"You underestimate your brother's strength!" In the end, he didn't explain too much.

After this little episode, Chen Qingling was no longer in the mood to take Li Ji'an around the market, and took him straight back to the dojo area near the outer edge of the market's east side.

The so-called dojo was actually a section of rental houses planned by the market's management, specifically for loose cultivators like Chen Qingling who had no backing.

The closer to the spirit vein core area in the west, the denser the spiritual energy, and vice versa.

Dojo rentals also varied accordingly.

A single courtyard in the most central area cost upwards of three hundred spirit stones a year, while the area where Chen Qingling lived cost around ten spirit stones a year, but it wasn't a single courtyard, but a row of two-story buildings, one household per unit.

Coincidentally, there was a vacant room upstairs from Chen Qingling, which Li Ji'an rented.

"Fortunately, Chen Zhaohu gave me ten spirit stones, otherwise the pressure would have been a bit too much. These twenty-four spirit stones should barely be enough for my plans for the next year." Sitting alone in the room, sorting out his spirit stones and making plans, Li Ji'an nodded with a smile.

The next morning, Li Ji'an dragged Chen Qingling to the North Street stall area again.

First, he had to choose a cultivation technique.

He didn't dare to hope for a mid-grade technique like the one Chen Qingling practiced. According to Chen Zhaohu, it cost him a full fifty spirit stones to buy it from a customer, and it was also sealed with a divine soul restriction, so only Chen Qingling could practice it.

"Once you choose a cultivation technique, there's no room for regret for people like us. You won't get a chance to re-cultivate, so how you choose is very important. Of course... for you, it's not that troublesome, and you can only cultivate fire-attribute techniques." Although his face was full of reluctance, Chen Qingling still brought Li Ji'an to the stall area, and carefully explained some precautions when he learned that he wanted to buy a cultivation technique.

"No room for regret?" A hint of a smile appeared on the corner of Li Ji'an's mouth.

This life doesn't matter. It would be a success to be able to initially understand the situation of cultivation and accumulate some experience for the next life.

It doesn't matter what cultivation technique he practices, just treat it as an experience.

Moreover, Chen Qingling was right, he only had two strands of fire spiritual root sensing spiritual rhyme, and the others were only one strand, so there was no need to worry.

He would try a fire-attribute technique in this life first.

"Fellow Daoist, please stop, take a look at our magic weapons that we risked our lives to obtain in the eerie secret realm. They are genuine high-quality..."

"Don't miss it, don't pass it by. These are all talisman papers washed with secret methods by young girls, guaranteeing a 30% increase in the success rate of talisman masters."

"Secretly made Body Cleansing Pills, prepared with ancient methods, and then added with top-quality spiritual rice, not only can it cleanse the body, but also replenish spiritual energy."

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As soon as he entered the stall area, the cries of vendors were endless, and there were all kinds of bargaining, swearing, sarcasm, and angry scolding, and the voices of people were boiling.

The not-so-wide street was crowded with people, very lively.

"How many spirit stones are you planning to spend on a cultivation technique?" Chen Qingling asked.

Li Ji'an waved his hand indifferently: "Let's take a look first, if it doesn't work, I'll just buy a 'Nine Yang Manual'."

The "Nine Yang Manual" and several other techniques are relatively common techniques in this world. In addition to the relatively weak cultivation efficiency and refined mana, the main reason is that the technique has been spread by too many people and has no commercial value.

Nowadays, those who sell this technique only earn the labor cost of imprinting the technique and the material cost of the jade talisman.

"Have you thought about it clearly? Once the cultivation technique is started, it can't be changed," Chen Qingling reminded again.

Li Ji'an nodded.

Chen Qingling pouted and was too lazy to talk nonsense. He directly brought Li Ji'an to a stall full of imprinted jade talismans.

"This person specializes in imprinting cultivation techniques. Other than those few common ones, the others are not guaranteed to be genuine."

Li Ji'an listened to the advice and did not have the illusion of finding a bargain. He decisively only bought the "Nine Yang Manual", spending five liang of spirit sand.

Seeing Li Ji'an get the jade talisman, Chen Qingling turned around and prepared to go back.

"Wait, take me to find a place that sells pills." Li Ji'an called out to him.

Cultivation has hundreds of arts: pills, weapons, talismans, and arrays.

The reason why "pills" are in the front is because no cultivator in this world can live without them.

If there is insufficient spiritual energy, you need Qi Replenishing Pills; to accelerate the condensation of mana, you need Qi Gathering Pills; if you don't eat, you need Body Cleansing Pills... to break through realm bottlenecks, you need Realm Breaking Pills; even Foundation Establishment requires Foundation Establishment Pills.

And it is also the largest consumable item for cultivators.

"You still want to buy pills?" Chen Qingling was very surprised and a little resistant. He had been restraining his impulse to buy pills recently, because his pill consumption had been too high recently, and he clearly felt Chen Zhaohu's pressure.

So he wanted to try not taking pills and relying on time and effort.

"Just to learn about them in advance," Li Ji'an replied.

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Coming to the cultivation world for the first time in this life, without any support, he naturally couldn't be a full-time warrior like in the Immortal Bestowed Dynasty. A pill master was naturally the first choice.

Fortunately, he practiced fire-attribute techniques and could condense pill fire.

Pill refining in this world cannot be done with ordinary firewood, it must be pill fire, so it greatly raises the threshold for pill masters.

Chen Qingling bit his lip impatiently, and finally brought Li Ji'an to the stall where he had been buying pills before.

"Yo, Fellow Daoist, it's been a while since you came. Is it the same as before?" The stall owner greeted Chen Qingling with a smile, while already picking up a white jade porcelain bottle.

"No... no need, I don't need pills for the time being." Chen Qingling smiled awkwardly and hurriedly waved his hand.

Li Ji'an ignored him and squatted down on his own, asking about the pills on the stall one by one.

"Beginner Qi Replenishing Pill, five liang of spirit sand each; Qi Gathering Pill, eight liang of spirit sand each; Spirit Concentrating Pill, ten liang of spirit sand each..."

Fortunately, with Chen Qingling's endorsement, the stall owner patiently answered Li Ji'an's questions.

He also chatted with him, revealing some inside information about the pill business.

That night, Li Ji'an followed the experience Chen Qingling shared about entering the Qi Refining stage and tried to cultivate the "Nine Yang Manual" for the first time.

"The five elements of spiritual energy in the world are mixed. To cultivate fire-attribute techniques, you need to sense fire-attribute spiritual energy and absorb it into your body according to the guidance of the technique. My 'Flame Spirit Manual' only needs three cycles to refine it into mana,

but your 'Nine Yang Manual' does require five cycles.

However, the initial difficulty is not in refining, but in comprehending the technique.

Understand the operation after the spiritual energy enters the body.

A complete operation is one cycle.

It only took me one day from the first time I came into contact with the technique to complete one cycle. For you... don't worry, it's not bad if you can complete one cycle in three days..." Seeing Li Ji'an start to operate the technique and absorb spiritual energy, Chen Qingling continued to tell him about the possible problems and normal process.

However, before he could finish speaking.

Li Ji'an had already slowly opened his eyes.

"Is this one cycle? Spiritual energy entering the body is indeed miraculous..."