Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 101 Leaving the Wasteland
Retreat for one year every three years?
This information made Li Ji'an feel a little unusual.

However, Chen Qingling obviously didn't know the reason.

Without further investigation, Li Ji'an left a communication talisman, expressing his hope to stay in touch with his father's friends.

Before leaving, he left behind a bottle of Qi and Blood Pills, which were the pills he had refined for himself in recent years that were beneficial for physical training. Although they were useless after reaching the first level, they had some recovery effect on physical cultivators like Chen Zhaohu whose Qi and blood were declining too quickly.

After bidding farewell to his brothers Chen Zhaohu, Li Ji'an rode his flying sword back to his clan.

The reason why he specifically established contact with Chishi Sanren and Chen Qingling this time was simply because he had already planned to leave the Yan family.

I have already passed the weakest period in this life. If I continue to stay in the Yan family, my alchemy and talisman skills will no longer be able to improve.

Even the lack of resources has affected the progress of cultivation.

With his level of skills in alchemy and talisman art, he could at least gain a foothold in any city in the world.

What's more, after crossing the hurdle of the late stage of Qi training, one must start planning resources for building the foundation, and the wasteland does not have this condition.

"Hmm?" Not long after flying out of the gathering place, Li Ji'an's eyes suddenly fixed.

The divine sense in the early stage of foundation building saw through that the three people in front were in hiding and lying in ambush, and they had all cast disguise spells.

"A ninth-level Qi training cultivator with declining power, and two fifth-level Qi training cultivators...ambushing me?" Li Ji'an was a little surprised.

All together they are not enough to eat.

After years of training as a jungler, Guagua’s combat effectiveness is quite high.

In addition, its ability to shield the souls of the mutated soul-hosting ants it devours can truly kill people without them being seen.

"Swoosh~" The next moment, Li Ji'an's spiritual sense sensed that the ambusher on the far left who was at the fifth level of Qi training had suddenly disappeared.

"Swish~" Immediately afterwards, the fifth-level Qi training practitioner on the right also disappeared.

Just as Gua Gua was about to stick out his tongue at the ninth-level Qi training cultivator in the middle, Li Ji'an was slightly stunned. At this moment, he was within ten feet, and his spiritual sense directly saw through the other party's disguise spell.

He's actually an acquaintance!

After temporarily stopping Gua Gua's movements, Li Ji'an flew directly to the ambush circle which originally consisted of three people but now had only one person left.

"Hehehe~" As expected, as soon as he entered the ambush circle, the acquaintance laughed sinisterly and gradually revealed his figure, as if he had him in his grasp.

"Boy, I heard you were very close to Fairy Yan? If you were killed, Fairy Yan would probably go crazy, right?"

Li Ji'an looked at his funny performance and wanted to laugh: "Wei Huairen, you've been exposed!"

"Huh?" Wei Huairen was obviously shocked.

He didn't expect that the boy opposite would call out his name directly.

He subconsciously turned around to look at his two subordinates behind him, but there was no one there.
"You..." He became even more frightened in an instant.

"Swish!" Li Ji'an stopped talking nonsense and slashed down with an explosive flame.

Wei Huairen was experienced in fighting and quickly calmed his mind. The moment the protective magic shield was activated, a sharp cone of golden light shot towards Li Ji'an.

A talisman that Li Ji'an had prepared in advance flashed with light and turned into a heavy bronze shield, blocking in front of him.

"Bang!" However, the moment the golden cone hit the heavy bronze shield, the heavy bronze shield broke.

It crashed into Li Ji'an's protective shield without stopping, and was finally stopped. It shattered into countless light spots that scattered between heaven and earth.

"A mid-level, mid-grade copper shield talisman can probably only withstand a full-strength attack from a mid-level Qi training cultivator, and can only weaken this late-stage Qi training spell by 30%."

After testing, Li Ji'an had an accurate judgment about his talisman, and without further delay, he ordered Gua Gua to start.

Wei Huairen easily blocked Li Ji'an's explosive flaming blow, and then carefully sensed the surroundings. There was indeed no other aura, and he couldn't help but feel suspicious.

The attack from the boy in front of me was definitely just the power of a mid-stage Qi training cultivator.

"Hmph, little thief, your death..."

"Swish!" Wei Huairen was halfway through his words when a flesh-colored shadow suddenly emerged from the ground behind him and shot towards his heart.

The magic shield that had just blocked Li Ji'an's explosive flame slash was shattered without any resistance, and the flesh-colored shadow passed directly through his chest.

"...The deadline has come." Wei Huairen barely finished his sentence as blood gushed out.

He looked down and saw the flesh tongue piercing his chest.

Turning around again, I saw the green frog that was already as big as a calf.

In an instant, the memory of the raid on the medicine garden nearly fifty years ago emerged. Wasn't the green frog in front of him the red clam with the inferior bloodline that he bought specially from the Liu family of Beast Taming?
The figure of the boy in front of him gradually overlapped with the figure who had smashed the Beastmaster to pieces with the last punch.

"Quack~" It rolled its tongue and swallowed Wei Huairen.

Li Ji'an shook his head, crossed out one person in the notebook, and set off again on his flying sword.

He then told the Hui people about the incident of being intercepted and killed on the road, concealing the other party's identity and the outcome, and only said that he had escaped by luck.

But he emphasized the other party's words. The other party ambushed him halfway, and the target was clear, which was enough to explain the problem.

On that day, Yan Zongsheng thoroughly investigated the spies in the clan.

In the evening, Yan Qingwan came in person to ask if Li Ji'an was injured and to comfort him.

And told him about the current situation in the wasteland.

The Zheng family has four foundation-building cultivators, and the family's spiritual vein temple is increasingly unable to accommodate the simultaneous cultivation of four foundation-building cultivators. A new second-level spiritual vein temple is necessary.

However, the wasteland spiritual vein land had already been occupied, and the second-level spiritual vein land was only owned by the other seven foundation-building families.

Their targets can only be the other seven.

Ten years ago, when Yan Qingwan sent Li Ji'an to the sect trial, the Zheng family had already taken action. Just as Li Ji'an expected, they initially tried to win over the Yan family, wanting to join forces to dominate the wasteland and promised to divide the wasteland equally.

Yan Zongsheng had a clear mind and did not seek the skin of a tiger.

Later, the Zheng family followed suit and tried to win over other families, but they all turned out to be old foxes who understood the Zheng family's evil ambitions.

Now the Zheng family is becoming more and more anxious.

After hearing this, Li Ji'an immediately understood Wei Huairen's purpose in ambush him today. He wanted to kill him and put the blame on other families, most likely the Wei family, in order to stir up a fight between the Yan family and the Wei family and muddy the waters.

I didn't expect that I would become the key person in their efforts to provoke Yan Qingwan.

The chaos in the wilderness is inevitable, and we can’t stay here any longer.

This further strengthened his determination to leave the Yan family.

In the next few months, he used the spirit stones he had saved over the years to buy ten mid-term top-grade talisman papers from the clan every now and then, and finally successfully drew six mid-term top-grade talismans, including a cold wind talisman, a small teleportation talisman, two golden armor talismans, and two golden sword talismans.

Including the previous golden sword talisman, there are a total of seven mid-level top-grade talismans.

These are considered the most superficial trump cards. In case of any situation, they can be used as the first round of measures and are effective for cultivators in the late stage of Qi training.

Guagua is a mid-level trump card, attacking the enemy unexpectedly and catching them off guard.

The most reliable trump card is still the first-level peak physical training strength.

On this day, the supplies in Gua Gua's mouth and the storage bag were sorted out one by one.

In addition to the seven mid-term top-grade talisman cards placed close to the body,

There are less than five hundred spirit stones left.

This included the balance given by Yan Zongsheng in the previous life, the gifts from Zheng Tianxiang and Zhao Shuyao ten years ago, and the less than one hundred pieces seized from the storage bags of Wei Huairen and the two fifth-level Qi training cultivators.

There are four other magic weapons, in addition to his own low-grade flying sword, there are Wei Huairen and the other two, one high-grade and two medium-grade.

In addition, there are a dozen or so early talismans drawn previously and several bottles of ordinary pills.

Of course, there were also the guys eating, a mid-grade alchemy furnace, and the first-level mid-stage talisman pen of the great elder.

In addition, there are two yellowed jade talismans that have been rubbed. One of them is the "Li's Alchemy Biography" compiled by himself in the previous life. It has been supplemented in the past ten years. It includes some analysis of the second-level alchemy inheritance that Yan Qingwan has been studying for several years but still cannot grasp.

The other one contains some of his insights and understandings about talismans gained over the years under Professor Yan Kongyi.

After hiding the two jade talismans under the bed, Li Ji'an only went to see Zhang Tiezhu. Ever since Yan Qing started practicing, he had less pressure and he could be said to have truly enjoyed his retirement these years, but he also had a bit of a sense of old age.

After a brief greeting, Li Ji'an also gave him a bottle of Qi and Blood Pills before leaving.

"Xiao Fan, you... are you leaving too?" This scene suddenly made Zhang Tiezhu feel touched. It was the same thing as before Brother Li left.

Li Ji'an smiled and said, "Take care!"

That night, taking advantage of the cover of darkness, Li Ji'an entered the universe inside Guagua's mouth, escaped underground, and headed towards the Jinhuang Immortal City.

Apart from the only united market in the wasteland area, there are many other markets in Cangyun Prefecture. However, the largest and safest one is the Jinhuang Immortal City under the nose of the Biyun Sect.

I already knew a lot about him ten years ago, and with Zhao Shuyao and Tong Yaoyao around, I could take care of him.

Three days later, Yan Qingwan received a message from Li Ji'an and was told the truth.

The reason I didn't say goodbye to her that night was because I was afraid she would worry and I was also afraid she would try to keep me.

When Yan Qingwan found two jade talismans under the bed according to Li Ji'an's instructions, she finally understood that Li Ji'an had been deliberately hiding his abilities all these years.

"This kid looks just like Brother Li!"

Yan Kongyi was told the truth by Yan Qingwan three months later. After carefully studying the explanation of the art of talismans left by Li Ji'an, his old face turned red. After he came to his senses, he wanted to chase Li Ji'an back, but was finally dissuaded by Yan Qingwan.

In fact, because of the skills of alchemy and talismans that Li Ji'an had demonstrated over the years, they basically didn't think that he would leave the tribe again. Even if he left the tribe, after experiencing the hardships of life outside, he would probably come back in disgrace.

But now, Yan Qingwan and Yan Kongyi knew that Li Ji'an would not come back.

(End of this chapter)