Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

Besides needing to condense their own alchemic fire, alchemists also require spiritual power as a guide.

Moreover, the success rate and quality of the pills are closely related to the alchemy recipe, experience, comprehension, and the quality of the medicinal herbs.

Fifty percent of cultivators with alchemist aspirations are stopped at the hurdle of condensing alchemic fire. Of the remainder, ninety percent are tormented to the point of wishing for death by the spiritual power barrier.

Even those who pass these two basic hurdles fall due to the accumulation of alchemy experience and comprehension, ultimately becoming the lowest-level alchemists, just scraping by.

This is solely because the path of alchemy, in addition to individual hardware, requires multiple personal attempts at refining, self-comprehension, accumulation of experience, and a high demand for talent in comprehension and alchemy.

And this practice process requires the consumption of a large amount of medicinal materials, making it an expensive endeavor.

Li Ji'an already understood these situations.

Even with his powerful spiritual power, extraordinary comprehension, and the experience of ten years of detailed study of medicinal materials in the martial academy's pharmacy in his previous life, he still didn't have much confidence in how far he could go on the path of alchemy in this life.

It was more for accumulating experience for future lives.

For all paths with a large proportion of similar experience accumulation, his advantage would be more obvious.

If one life is not enough, then two lives, or even ten or a hundred lives, will eventually be enough.

Accumulating sand to form a tower, gathering fur to make a robe, small streams merging into a great river, there will always be a life in which he can become a great alchemy master.

Of course, it is also the most suitable means of making a living for him at present.

"First-grade alchemy furnace, twenty spirit stones, firm price!"

"Ancestral recipe for a Grain Avoidance Pill, streamlined Dao sequence, cheap medicinal materials, only five spirit stones."

"Finished medicinal materials for Qi Nourishing Pills, high quality and low price, high pill production rate, thirty spirit stones."

...

Silently noting the prices, Li Ji'an's face did not show disappointment. His original plan was not to refine pills behind closed doors.

This time was just for understanding.

Insufficient talent, scarce resources, and zero foundation, only someone with a problem in their brain would start by building a car behind closed doors.

Chen Qingling looked at Li Ji'an, but was disappointed again. It was still that indifferent and calm face, which made him even more annoyed.

"Now you should give up, right?"

"Hmph, I told you that you were daydreaming. Alchemy isn't that easy. Even if you have enough talent, don't even think about getting started without a thousand spirit stones worth of assets."

"Don't you see how much effort those immortal cultivation families spend to cultivate an alchemy seedling? And what's the result? How many families have succeeded? Don't they all have to invite alchemists to be enshrined!"

Li Ji'an didn't take it to heart and smiled slightly: "Which places are recruiting alchemy apprentices?"

"..."

"Uncle! You're already thirty years old... and you still want to be an alchemy apprentice?"

"Do you think there are few people who want to learn alchemy through this method? To tell you the truth, the alchemy apprentices under those real senior alchemists are packed, do you know how much some people pay to become an alchemy apprentice?"

"Some alchemists' requirements for recruiting alchemy apprentices are even higher than the sect's!" Chen Qingling was even more shocked.

Accustomed to his attitude, Li Ji'an didn't care and still said calmly: "I'm not looking for a senior alchemist, and I don't necessarily have to be an alchemy apprentice, just doing odd jobs is fine."

"You... you're really too naive! Don't even mention being an assistant to an alchemist, even alchemy apprentices have to do odd jobs for three years and serve for five years before they can get a little guidance from the alchemist. You're already thirty years old, even if you really learn a little bit, you'll be forty or fifty years old. By the time you can really earn spirit stones by refining pills, it will be at least another twenty years, then... is there any meaning?" Chen Qingling was a little speechless.

"Is there any meaning? Of course, there is!" Li Ji'an smiled and did not answer, just looked at him seriously.

Chen Qingling was stunned by his gaze.

"You... you really want to be an alchemy servant?"

"Yes."

"..."

Chen Qingling felt that he had made his words clear enough.

"I don't care, I don't care, do as you please, I have really tried my best, I will be a dog if I try to persuade you again in the future.

But remember, if you regret it in the future, don't blame me for not reminding you, this is your own choice, I have done my best..." In an instant, he was not sure whether he was touched by Li Ji'an's perseverance or completely despaired.

He vaguely felt that maybe the uncle with deep good fortune in front of him would really not return to the mortal gathering area.

"Don't worry!" Li Ji'an nodded with a smile.

"If you really want to be an alchemy servant, don't look for it in the stall market, the alchemists here have enough alchemy apprentices, not only are they hardworking and willing, but they also serve like their own fathers, and they don't need to pay remuneration. Go to South Street," Chen Qingling turned around and left numbly.

"South Street?" Li Ji'an remembered that South Street was where family shops and branches of other local forces were located.

"Only those family alchemy shops on South Street recruit alchemy servants."

"The eight major families here have not been established long enough, only one family has cultivated its own alchemist, and the other families involved in the sale of elixirs are all foreign alchemists who are enshrined, and they often have notices posted for recruiting alchemy servants," Chen Qingling explained weakly.

As for the reason, he naturally did not think about it in detail.

However, after listening to his words, Li Ji'an quickly captured several keywords from this sentence.

"Enshrinement."

"Foreign alchemist."

"Recruiting servants..."

After seven steps, Li Ji'an raised his eyebrows slightly, and already had a clue in his mind.

Previously, there were still some missing understandings of some basic common sense in the cultivation world, and he couldn't make some correct judgments, thinking that there should be no shortage of people to work in the cultivation family with so many people.

But now, after listening to some of the information Chen Qingling told him, he understood.

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The enshrined alchemist naturally wants to enjoy the enshrinement for a long time.

The family hopes to save this part of the expenses, and they must hope to cultivate their own alchemist within the family.

Under the natural contradiction, there is a way to neutralize it. The enshrined alchemist promises to take apprentices, but the number is definitely limited, and they will definitely not teach the bottom-of-the-box things until the end.

And he would rather find outsiders to do some chores than let the family arrange family members again.

After all, some key alchemy techniques may be hidden in some subtle places.

"Okay! I'll go to the alchemy shop on South Street!"

In this context, his old age and poor qualifications have become an advantage.

Sure enough, three shops on South Street were recruiting servants, mainly responsible for assisting the alchemist, two of which also had age requirements, not wanting young people, but wanting those who obviously had no hope of becoming an alchemist, over thirty years old.

It seemed to be tailor-made for him.

"Lingzhu Mountain Yan Family... monthly salary of one spirit stone and fifty taels of spirit sand."

"Purple Bamboo Valley Wei Family... monthly salary of one spirit stone."

"Silver Sand Lake Wang Family... monthly salary of one spirit stone."

Unsurprisingly, all three were family alchemy shops, and the alchemists were all foreign enshrinements.

The Yan family enshrined a first-grade intermediate alchemist, who was in his forties.

The other two families enshrined first-grade late-stage senior alchemists, who were older.

After comprehensive consideration, Li Ji'an chose the Yan family's alchemy shop.

"Li Chang'an? From the wasteland gathering area, thirty years old... Qi training first level... well, good, good." The steward of the Yan family's alchemy shop on the second floor and the enshrined Alchemist Mo met Li Ji'an together.

Alchemist Mo was very satisfied.

Steward Yan Tong also breathed a sigh of relief.

As an outsider who was granted the Yan surname and valued by the elders, letting him be responsible for the alchemy shop in the market put a lot of pressure on him.

Especially when facing the enshrined Alchemist Mo, he did not dare to neglect him at all.

Today, he finally recruited a servant that he was satisfied with, which can be regarded as solving his urgent need.

"Chang'an, you will follow Alchemist Mo in the future, work hard, the shop will not treat you badly, if Alchemist Mo is satisfied with you, there is still room for the monthly salary to increase."

Li Ji'an cupped his hands: "Thank you, Alchemist Mo, thank you, Steward Yan."

The two parties signed a soul contract and reached an employment relationship.

Except for special circumstances, Alchemist Mo opened the furnace once every five days, each time for less than two hours. Li Ji'an only needed to come to the shop two hours in advance when Alchemist Mo was refining pills, prepare the medicinal materials according to Alchemist Mo's requirements, clean the alchemy furnace, and clean up afterwards.

In this way, Li Ji'an barely managed to gain a foothold in the market, at least enough to pay the annual rent.

What surprised him slightly was that he was cultivating that night when Yan Tong came to visit...