Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

Yan Qingwan's voice was still gentle, but this time it lacked the natural sense of superiority that a superior usually unconsciously reveals towards subordinates.

Li Ji'an cupped his fist slightly: "Thank you, Miss. I just want to stay in the clan."

Hearing this, Yan Qingwan smiled even more and nodded approvingly: "Bestowing kindness without seeking reward, concealing merit without resentment, you are very good!

However, that was something I had promised before. This time you saved my life, and I must repay you. Speak boldly, I will back you up!"

"In that case... I want to seek stability for my descendants," Li Ji'an tentatively said.

"Good! I promise you!" Yan Qingwan was even happier to hear this.

"To be honest, before you answered this question, I was already prepared to have a good fight with the uncles in the clan. After all, your spiritual root is poor, you are old, and you have no potential in cultivation.

If you ask for further progress in the path of immortality, the clan elders will definitely not agree.

What's more, it is now a time of tight front lines and scarce resources."

Li Ji'an bowed slightly and smiled: "I still have some self-awareness."

"Hehe~ What a self-awareness, isn't this the self-awareness you said before, 'Everyone is not optimistic about you, but you are also the most unambitious'?" Yan Qingwan was in a good mood, and even mentioned the joke Li Ji'an seriously said when she casually asked about Li Ji'an's past during their three years of jointly studying alchemy.

"However, I need to inform you in advance that the clan is now in need of manpower. In order to recruit foreign aid, the elders have included the condition of accepting people into the clan, which has led to the fact that our Yan family's already small number of female cultivators are not enough to marry. If you plan to have offspring, you must tell me in advance. Although I can't guarantee finding you a Taoist partner with very good spiritual roots, I will try my best to find you one with a spiritual root induction above five."

"Thank you, Miss!"

After finishing this matter, Yan Qingwan once again asked Li Ji'an to demonstrate and guide her on Alchemist Mo's alchemy skills from the past three months.

That night, when he returned to the small courtyard and was about to cultivate, he received a message from Zhang Tiezhu.

As the conflict between the two clans intensified, Zhang Tiezhu, who had originally become cannon fodder for the Yan family on the front lines because of land reclamation, had no time to return to the clan and was constantly stationed on the front lines.

After reading Zhang Tiezhu's message, Li Ji'an couldn't help but smile.

His words all meant one thing: 'The people are stupid and the money comes easy, come quickly.'

He said that the front line war situation had escalated, and the number of people fighting on both sides had greatly increased.

His opponents, who were mid-stage Qi training cultivators, were also Wei family mid-stage Qi training clansmen. In addition, he had the advantage of body refinement, so he was like a fish in water on the front lines.

Not only had he repeatedly made military achievements, but he had also privately intercepted a lot of spoils.

He imagined that after this clan war ended, he would have the opportunity to accumulate the wealth to break through to the late stage of Qi training.

Moreover, he also said that he had been granted a powerful earth-based spell by the Yan family, which could cause earthquakes and landslides in an instant.

He said that if he were in the Immortal Bestowal Dynasty, he would definitely be revered as the God of Earth!

Li Ji'an could feel the excitement and anticipation in his tone.

In addition, there was also a suggestion in the second half of his message.

"Now that we have completely integrated into this world of cultivation, why don't we follow the rules of this world... It would be better for cultivators to call each other 'Daoist'..."

His words were hesitant and stuttering, and Li Ji'an smiled and shook his head.

He didn't care about titles long ago.

Maybe the next time he "rejuvenated," he would have to call that憨货 (hān huò - a silly or simple person) Uncle.

Li Ji'an immediately replied to him: "Of course, when in Rome, do as the Romans do."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Tiezhu replied very quickly this time.

"Okay, okay, Daoist Li, have you considered it carefully now? The Yan family is now in need of manpower. With your body refinement strength, you will definitely stand out from the crowd. If you are accepted by the Yan family and can cultivate in a second-order spiritual vein dojo, then you will be able to see hope, otherwise... there is no hope in this life."

"Daoist Zhao wrote to me a few days ago, saying that he also relied on his body refinement strength to gain appreciation from his employer and has a bright future."

Not wanting to be pestered by his tireless persuasion, Li Ji'an was silent for a moment and sent a message: "Daoist Zhang, I appreciate your kindness, but I have already entered the Yan family and am cultivating in a second-order spiritual vein."

Before, when he was in the market, because he was uncertain about the future and had secret dealings with the Yan family, which could not be exposed, he did not tell Zhang Tiezhu, who was half a Yan family member.

Now it doesn't matter.

After this message was sent, there was a long silence.

"Tell me all about it when I return to the clan next time," Zhang Tiezhu replied after a long while.

And this wait lasted a full three years.

This day...

"Peng!" Yan Hongsheng was kicked in the arm, and his whole body flew out.

"Again!" He got up, patted the dust off his body, and rushed towards Li Ji'an again.

"Pa~" Li Ji'an casually blocked, and his legs split apart.

"Hiss~" Yan Hongsheng slowly got up, clutching his crotch: "You have a lot of dirty tricks."

Li Ji'an smiled and cupped his fist: "Seventh Elder, you are too kind."

As a well-known "reckless Daoist," he was not actually like that.

It was just that the family needed a persona that would make outsiders think twice: "impulsive," "irritable," and "not considering the consequences."

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Yan Hongsheng failed to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill twenty years ago and failed to break through to Foundation Establishment on his own, his Dao foundation was damaged, and he had no chance of further progress.

In order to increase his combat power, he had been refining his body in recent years.

Unfortunately, he was too old and his bones were not good, so he barely reached the early stage of body refinement and made no further progress.

He was the second biggest beneficiary of Li Ji'an's saving Yan Qingwan three years ago, otherwise he would probably regret it for the rest of his life.

So after returning from the front line, he met Li Ji'an privately and expressed his gratitude to this handyman who saved Yan Qingwan.

He accidentally discovered that he was also a first-order elementary body refiner, so every time he returned from the front line, he would spar with him.

However, even if Li Ji'an showed his elementary body refinement strength, Yan Hongsheng still had no chance of winning after imprisoning his Dantian mana.

After all, Li Ji'an had spent three lifetimes cultivating his blood energy, and he had twenty years of research on the stimulation of blood energy alone. How could Yan Hongsheng and the others, who cultivated Dantian mana, have this energy?

The subsequent events came naturally.

With Li Ji'an's interpersonal skills, the two became close friends over the past three years.

"Hey, you, I've told you eight hundred times, just call me Seventh Brother."

Li Ji'an smiled and didn't speak. The difference in status, cultivation realm, and so on was too great. If he really got used to calling him "Seventh Brother," this relationship would be broken.

"How is it? Can you break through to the mid-stage of Qi training?" Yan Hongsheng didn't really force Li Ji'an to change his address and turned to ask.

Li Ji'an shook his head: "Not yet."

He was also a little helpless. The spiritual root talent of two strands of fire spiritual rhyme finally made him feel despair.

For a full three years, his third level of Qi training had not yet been completed, let alone the bottleneck to the fourth level of Qi training.

"Hey, if you can't break through to the mid-stage of Qi training, it will be difficult for your lifespan to exceed a hundred. You are thirty-six this year, right?

Tsk tsk, in a blink of an eye, your blood energy will begin to decline, there is no hope, you should quickly find a wife to have children," Yan Hongsheng shook his head.

Li Ji'an could only smile bitterly: "Seventh Elder, why don't you teach me a few more fire spells."

Over the years, Li Ji'an had been studying spells in the same way he had studied martial arts in the Immortal Bestowal Dynasty, trying to accumulate something in the way of spells for the future.

Unfortunately, spells were not like martial arts. There were too many things to understand and comprehend, and his database was too small. He couldn't even draw inferences, so he could only accumulate more samples.

"Hmph, your mana at the third level of Qi training is as thin as a fart. What's the use of learning spells? Not to mention whether you can use them, even if you barely use them, do you expect a fart to kill the opponent?" Yan Hongsheng laughed and scolded.

But despite the scolding, he still taught Li Ji'an a spell as usual - the Nine诀 (jué - secrets) of Burning Heaven!

Just as Yan Hongsheng was teaching the spell, Yan Qingwan arrived gracefully, followed by Zhang Tiezhu, who was stiff and dumbfounded!