Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 103: Steady Progress
Although he told Zhao Shuyao the truth about his current alchemy skills, and expressed his confidence that his alchemy skills would be further improved once he was promoted to the late stage of Qi training.

Li Ji'an didn't expect his boss to be so straightforward.

This is enough to show the boss's trust in Zhao Shuyao.

It also shows the integrity of Zhao Shuyao's actions over the past few decades.

She didn't even check her own alchemy skills!

However, Li Ji'an is also confident that he will live up to this trust.

After bidding farewell to the boss, Zhao Shuyao was going to take Li Ji'an downstairs to see the shopkeeper Wu to handle the registration matters, but the boss kept her and Li Ji'an went downstairs alone.

Not only did she not understand Zhao Shuyao's feelings for Li Ji'an, she also strongly disapproved of it.

The world of cultivation is full of crises and challenges, and it is even more unpredictable. Even if it is a biological child, it will not be kept in a greenhouse and cared for forever, let alone if it is not a biological child and there is no blood relationship. Too much kindness will bring disaster.

He is already twenty-six years old and is not a child without the ability to control himself.

The most important thing is that Zhao Shuyao is her family's maid, and the one she is closest to should be her own family.

Li Ji'an's thoughts were similar to his boss's. He understood Zhao Shuyao's spiritual sustenance and friendship for him, but he never accepted or asked for it with peace of mind. After all, he had never helped them in his previous life. Value exchange was the basis for maintaining the relationship.

For a younger generation like me, it is cheating.

After bidding farewell to the two, Li Ji'an went downstairs to register his identity and received the Jiuding Chamber of Commerce guest identity card.

With this identity card, one's starting point in the Immortal City is much higher than that of ordinary casual cultivators.

I bought some medicinal herbs before leaving.

After leaving the Chamber of Commerce, Li Ji'an went directly to the residential area at the junction of the inner and outer cities that he had set his sights on ten years ago.

All the property rights here belong to Biyun Sect.

Finally, they chose a recently vacant townhouse located at a first-grade, superior spiritual vein, with an annual rent of 160 spirit stones.

It is called a small courtyard, but in fact it is just two bungalows with a front yard of about 30 square meters.

However, this level of housing would require an ordinary, helpless cultivator to work hard for decades to accumulate enough money before he could rent it with peace of mind.

With insufficient skills and unstable income, renting this kind of house would be very stressful.

The original tenant was a dedicated weapon refiner from another small family in the west. Unsatisfied with the need to improve his skills, he left his family and moved here to the north. Now, more than 20 years have passed, and he finally decided to return to a small place to retire.

After completing all the formalities, Li Ji'an closed the gate, released Gua Gua from the spirit pet bag and let it dig a pond in the yard. He immediately reported his safety to Yan Qingwan and Zhang Tiezhu.

Yan Qingwan replied promptly, reassuring him not to feel pressured. Most of the elders in the clan also did not think too much about it and advised him not to cut off contact. They welcomed him back as a guest when the situation in the wilderness calmed down, and also said that if they had the chance, they would come to study alchemy together.

He replied to Wanyan Qingwan's message and sent a message to Zhao Shuyao to inform her of his address. He tactfully said that he would have little time to accompany her in the future as he would focus on studying alchemy. In fact, he didn't want her to spend too much time on him and make it difficult for her to work for her employer.

"Huh~" After replying the message, Li Ji'an lay on the bed, feeling relaxed.

Fifty-seven years ago, when I first came to the world of cultivation, I didn't understand the situation and the logic of the world of cultivation. I integrated into it and explored it bit by bit. With my extraordinary understanding, I was able to enter the Yan family. I was able to survive safely and accumulated more favors and skills than expected for this life.

In his second life, he received help from the Yan family, especially Yan Qingwan, and was able to successfully cultivate his spiritual roots in the Yan family. His spiritual root talent exceeded expectations, and he unexpectedly came into contact with a sect. At that time, he was indeed not mentally prepared.

Because his previous life in the wilderness had limited knowledge of the sects at the top of this world's food chain, and he was hastily taken by Yan Qingwan to participate in the sect trials, the process of getting to know the sects seemed somewhat naive. But now, thanks to the favors he had left in the Yan family in his previous life, he had passed the middle stage of Qi training in the Yan family as he had expected in his previous life, and finally made the next step and gained a foothold in the Immortal City.

Whether it's broadening your horizons or providing resources and opportunities, the starting point is several levels higher than in the previous life.

Take steady and solid steps one by one, and move forward from life to life. Don't be impatient or panic.

After three days of rest, Li Ji'an began to refine the elixir.

He is at the sixth level of Qi training, but has never taken any low-grade elixirs to accelerate his cultivation. This has ensured the purity and concentration of the magic power in his Dantian, without any accumulation of elixir poison. The condensed Dan fire is stronger than that of many people in the late stages of Qi training.

His alchemy skills were further improved on the basis of his previous life. The rate of high-quality first-stage mid-stage pills increased to 70%, and the rate of high-quality late-stage pills was also guaranteed to be 60%.

Once you advance to the later stage of Qi training, if the elixir fire is further improved, the rate of high-quality elixirs in the later stage will be at least more than 60%.

Three hours later, the first batch of mid-stage pills came out.

Compared with the training-level medicinal materials used by the Yan family, the quality of the medicinal materials in this furnace is several times higher. The cost of one piece of medicinal materials is ten spirit stones, and the success rate of the pill is 80%, and among them, there are five high-quality pills, one medium-quality pill, and two low-quality pills.

The maximum number of pills that can be made from one portion of medicinal materials is basically ten.

According to the price of purchasing top-grade elixirs here, a mid-stage Qi Condensation Pill, genuine, that is, low-grade, costs two pills for one spirit stone, a mid-grade pill costs one spirit stone, a top-grade pill costs three spirit stones, and a top-grade pill costs five spirit stones.

Generally, a first-level alchemist can refine a mid-stage Qi Condensation Pill with a success rate of about 50%, which is considered to be a decent skill. However, if they purchase this kind of medicinal materials, they will basically suffer a loss. They usually only refine ordinary pills with a higher success rate.

The success rate of senior alchemists is about 70%, and the success rate of high-quality pills is 60%. Refining this batch of Qi Condensation Pills can bring a 50% profit.

With this furnace, Li Ji'an's profit will more than double by 50%.

In addition to his guest status, the price of purchasing elixirs increased and the price of purchasing medicinal materials was discounted, so the profit of one furnace almost doubled.

In order to ensure the quality of the products, the medicinal properties will be squeezed out, so other than the high-quality pills, the other pills will not be very good.

As a first-level alchemist, he could earn twenty spirit stones from one furnace of pills, and his profitability was terrifying.

The most crucial thing is that ordinary alchemists would consume too much mana and soul when refining pills. Normally, they would make one furnace every three days, and the more diligent ones would make one every other day. However, Li Ji'an's consciousness was comparable to that of an early stage foundation building, so two furnaces a day was no problem.

However, his expenses were also high. At least for this batch of pills, he had to take two high-quality Qi Condensation Pills himself to improve his cultivation.

In addition to refining pills, he also needs to study the art of talismans, and he cannot delay his cultivation, so he plans to make one furnace every day.

Overall, he could earn more than 200 spirit stones from alchemy in a month, which could basically cover his expenses for studying talisman art, as well as his daily practice and all other living expenses. If he worked a little harder and refined two more furnaces, he could still have some surplus and provide Gua Gua with fine food.

However, he did not have the idea of getting rich through hard work. Instead, he hoped to improve his art of talismans and achieve a breakthrough in his cultivation, so that he could become rich through his skills and quality.

January has passed in a flash.

On this day, there was a vibration from the guest identity card.

Shopkeeper Wu's message carried a different emotion.

Normally, the minimum requirement for a guest alchemist is to sell pills worth no less than 300 spirit stones to the alchemy shop every month. This is also considered a kind of alchemy skills review. Otherwise, they will be dismissed.

"However, there are still three days before the deadline." Li Ji'an raised his eyebrows slightly. He understood this. After all, it was his first time and he didn't know his alchemy skills well.

(End of this chapter)