Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

As it turns out, many things don't need to be rushed; time will solve all problems.

Of course, ten years is still too short, and it can't solve much.

However, the previously worried matter of Zheng Tianxiang had disappeared without a trace as early as eight years ago.

It is said that he returned to his clan to plan for Foundation Establishment, secluded in closed-door cultivation, guarding against any possible risks that could ruin the Zheng family's chances of having four members achieve Foundation Establishment.

At the same time, the entire Zheng family changed their somewhat arrogant attitude, whether towards the other seven families or the commercial competition in the market; they almost all showed obvious signs of concession and goodwill.

This has allowed the Yan family's pill shop to gain a larger market share in recent years.

Of course, this is also related to the improvement of Yan Qingwan's pill refinement skills.

Li Ji'an's dividends have also steadily increased from the initial 150 spirit stones to 380 per year.

While fully meeting the demand for body refining Thunder Flame Crystals, the investment in Guagua has also been greatly increased, and there are also savings.

In addition, the medicine fields jointly developed by the Yan family and the Wei family have been steadily producing medicinal materials. The Yan family has gradually begun to recover. According to Yan Qingwan, the family has begun to prepare Foundation Establishment Pills for her.

Once Yan Qingwan successfully establishes her foundation, the Yan family will not only have two members with Foundation Establishment but also an additional Tier 2 alchemist!

The value of a Tier 2 alchemist is unparalleled in the wilderness, even exceeding the value of a family with three members at Foundation Establishment.

All of this gives people a sense of prosperity, like cooking oil over a raging fire and embroidering on brocade.

However, Li Ji'an is quite wary of this.

The more the Zheng family acts like this, the more it proves their emphasis on Zheng Tianxiang. Not to mention whether his future potential can impact Core Formation, just the fact that the Zheng family may really achieve four Foundation Establishments in the future.

He is not sure whether the current stable situation of the Eight Great Families in the wilderness can be maintained.

Although it seems that the Zheng family's three Foundation Establishments and four Foundation Establishments are not much different, they still cannot compete with the other seven families combined.

However, it is difficult to guarantee that after their four Foundation Establishments emerge, some of the other seven families will not feel powerless.

At that time, they will think that the rise of the Zheng family is unstoppable and that they will definitely be able to dominate the wilderness in the future. For the sake of family inheritance, they may not become traitors with meritorious service.

Therefore, he is also actively preparing a backup plan. Once the situation here is chaotic after "rejuvenation," he will have to change his plan. It is better to be prepared, and don't put all your eggs in one basket.

"Brother Li, you must go back today. If you refuse again, I will send someone to find you." Today, as soon as he arrived at the pill shop, Yan Qingwan was waiting for him.

Li Ji'an's eyelids twitched.

He still remembered being forced to marry in his previous life before time-traveling. He didn't expect to be forced to marry even in the world of cultivation.

"Brother Li, you are almost sixty years old, and in the blink of an eye, you will be seventy. If you don't get married, I'm afraid it will be difficult to have children!"

"..." Li Ji'an's mouth twitched even more when he heard this. This was even more exaggerated than what his mother said in his first life. As expected of the world of cultivation, in the blink of an eye, one can go from sixty to seventy.

Ever since he turned fifty seven years ago, the Yan family has been helping him arrange marriages.

At first, they were not in a hurry and considered it a benefit for the family, only telling him that he could choose from the women in the family first.

Now, they are somewhat forcing him to marry.

This is naturally thanks to Yan Qingwan.

Half a year ago, they stayed in the alchemy room for two consecutive months. After nearly a hundred failures, they finally successfully refined a high-quality Qi Replenishing Pill in the mid-stage, which made Yan Qingwan jump up excitedly at the time.

And almost without reservation, she told the family elders about Li Ji'an's contributions over the years, especially his talent in alchemy and his superb comprehension.

Now, Yan Qingwan's status as a Tier 1 senior alchemist gives her more say in the family, and she no longer cares about the family's suspicions about her.

"Brother Li, this time it's the Great Elder's granddaughter, eighteen years old, with a beautiful face, full figure, Qi training level three, with a maximum of seven strands of spiritual rhyme. Go and meet her, maybe you'll hit it off. I'm begging you!"

Li Ji'an sighed secretly. This was a pit he dug for himself, and he must avoid it in the next life.

The main reason was that he knew that the Yan family had more males than females, and there were not enough female cultivators to be distributed within the family. It was difficult to get married without meritorious service, so he often whispered in Yan Qingwan's ear to warm up in advance for the arrival of the next generation.

As a result... he didn't expect Yan Qingwan to bring him to the forefront, and he became a popular figure in the family.

According to Zhang Tiezhu's letter, many female cultivators in the family are now interested in him, and they all feel that the children born with him are likely to inherit his superb alchemy talent and super high comprehension, and then they can rely on their children to gain wealth and status.

"Where is Little Li? I will personally invite you, I can always invite you, right?" Just as Li Ji'an was thinking about how to refuse once and for all, an old and hearty laugh came into the pill shop.

The next moment, Yan Kongyi, the Great Elder who had an intersection with him in the Yan family's medicine garden twenty-one years ago, entered the pill shop.

"Little Li, I heard that you haven't dared to leave the market for seventeen years. I will personally escort you today. Don't worry, unless those Foundation Establishment old guys are shameless enough to come, I will definitely protect you."

"Greetings, Great Elder!" Li Ji'an and several people in the shop greeted him.

"Uncle, why are you here?"

Yan Kongyi waved his hand casually: "It's none of your business, go and get busy. Little Li, let's go inside and talk."

Li Ji'an followed him into the inner room.

As soon as he entered the inner room, a scene that made Li Ji'an dumbfounded happened.

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Yan Kongyi, who had always been quite aloof in the family, smiled and cupped his hands towards Li Ji'an as soon as he entered the inner room: "Little Li, there were too many people outside just now... that, that time it wasn't that I didn't save you, it was really... alas, all the mistakes are my fault. To compensate, as long as you marry my granddaughter, I will pass on my lifelong research on the inheritance of talismans to you, how about it?"

Four months ago, after Yan Qingwan said at the family meeting that Li Ji'an's comprehension and talent in the way of pills, except for Yan Zongsheng and others who already knew the situation, the rest were shocked, but more were questioning.

Then several elders personally came to observe Li Ji'an's alchemy.

After seeing his six-percent success rate of refining high-quality pills in the early stage, they finally believed what Yan Qingwan said.

At that time, the Great Elder was in retreat and had no chance to come. After hearing about it, he had thoughts in his heart.

He is best at the way of talismans.

However, although the way of talismans ranks in the forefront among the hundred arts of cultivating immortals, talismans have a very low lower limit. Anyone with magic power can try to draw talismans, and as long as they have a little more magic power, they can almost make low-level talismans, such as cleaning talismans, dust removal talismans, and purifying talismans... these low-level talismans have long been oversupplied, and the price is very low, even less profitable than selling materials to talisman masters.

Conversely, its upper limit is also very high, but it is extremely difficult to achieve success in the way of talismans.

Even Tier 1 intermediate talismans have extremely high requirements for long magic power and strong divine soul. The most important thing is that drawing talismans requires higher comprehension than the way of pills.

The biggest difference between drawing talismans and refining pills is that refining pills at least has a set pattern to follow, what medicinal materials to use, what order, how much pill fire, what pill furnace...

However, drawing talismans is that each stroke cannot be exactly the same, and refining pills at least has medicinal materials as the core effect, while drawing talismans completely relies on the divine soul to connect the heaven and earth spiritual machine to exist in the talisman material.

If the comprehension of refining pills is a little worse, it may also be successfully refined, even if the pill formation rate and quality are a little worse.

But if there is no comprehension in drawing talismans, it is absolutely impossible to succeed.

He has been drawing talismans all his life, and at first it was to help the family enter the talisman market, but until now he can't guarantee that Tier 1 high-level talismans will not lose money.

When he is in good condition, he can succeed in one out of five talisman materials, and when he is in bad condition, he can't succeed in even ten.

He has unwillingness in his heart, but over the years, he has already recognized it and confirmed that his comprehension is insufficient and there is no hope, but he still hopes that the family will have a genius in the way of talisman making in the future, who can inherit his mantle.

This time, his granddaughter was asked by him to marry Li Ji'an.

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