Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 134 Changing Dojo
After bidding farewell to Zhao Shuyao, Li Ji'an returned to the residential area at the junction of the inner and outer cities.

As soon as I stepped into the alley, neighbors came forward one after another to greet me respectfully.

By the time he reached the gate of his yard, almost all the neighbors in the alley had followed him.

Li Ji'an has lived here for almost thirteen years, and his social skills and interest exchanges are reasonable and measured. Apart from his confidant Grandma You, who can chat and relieve his boredom, his interpersonal relationships have always been maintained at a level that is less than friends but more trusting than strangers.

It not only avoids interruptions without a sense of boundaries, but also maintains reasonable transactions.

"Look and enjoy!" Li Ji'an looked calm, but very reasonably, he also had a sense of isolation, saying that strangers should stay away.

After throwing out more than twenty spirit stones, Li Ji'an waved his hand and said, "I hope you will practice diligently. I will be waiting for you at the front."

When dealing with Zhao Shuyao and others, there is no need to act like a senior who has established a foundation. However, when dealing with other people, Li Ji'an still needs to abide by local customs and practices. After all, he does not yet have the strength and confidence to do whatever he wants and play with the world.

After dispersing the crowd, Li Ji'an activated the magic circle and entered the yard.

Xiao Qiao, Gua Gua and Xiao Huo have been looking forward to it.

"Uncle Li!"

"Qua~"

"Huh~"

Li Ji'an put away his expression of keeping strangers away and smiled at them: "I have successfully established my foundation. I will get better and better in the future."

Li Ji'an personally cooked that day and taught Xiao Qiao several of his signature dishes.

It was a small celebration for the family.

After dinner, I wanted to have a fight with Gua Gua. In addition to testing the power of his magic after building the foundation, I also wanted to give Gua Gua a beating. Unfortunately, the yard was too small and I couldn't do anything.

After that, he tried to practice cultivation, and he clearly felt that the level of the first-grade superior spiritual vein here was simply not enough to meet the needs of absorbing and refining spiritual energy during the foundation-building period. Compared with the second-grade superior cave, the efficiency was only about 30%.

Changing the dojo is certain.

Moreover, he already had an idea of this before he even established his foundation.

What does Cangyun Province lack the most? It must be a spiritual vein training ground.

The reason why it is difficult for independent practitioners is that there are no free places for practice.

Whenever there is an ownerless spiritual vein land, countless people will fight for it madly.

However, Li Ji'an now has relatively more choices.

If he wants to do it for free, he can join the five major families as a serving alchemist. As long as he shows 60% of his true alchemy ability, everyone will welcome him.

However, this action almost cut off the path to success, making it impossible to accumulate the resources to form a pill.

Another free option is to join the Biyun Sect as a full-time alchemist. This requires sacrificing freedom and devoting oneself to alchemy, which may even affect the progress of cultivation. The advantage is that one has the hope of accessing elixir-forming resources that are rare in Cangyun Province and cannot be bought even with spirit stones. However, it is not easy to accumulate that level of contribution points.

The main reason is that the Biyun Sect is now devoting all its efforts to doing something big, and the success or failure is unpredictable. It is not a good time to go in now.

In addition to this, there is the rental of a Taoist temple. In addition to the Jinhuang Immortal City, there are two other large-scale markets with second-level spiritual veins in Cangyun State, which are controlled by the five major families.

However, Jinhuang Immortal City is the first choice regardless of its safety, the richness of its spiritual veins, or the abundance of second-level supplies.

The Qi family steward has already extended an olive branch, saying that as long as Li Ji'an stays in the Immortal City, there will be a discount for the second-level Taoist temple in the inner city.

The next morning, Li Ji'an packed up all the things in the courtyard, put Gua Gua into the spirit pet bag, put Huo Ling into his dantian, and brought Xiao Qiao to the Xiancheng Management Office.

Manager Qi was overjoyed and personally took Li Ji'an to the core residential area of the inner city. This area was newly renovated after the Qi family took over. An area was specially designated as a residential area reserved for special talents in Xiancheng.

This area is not open to high-level talents recognized by Xiancheng and cannot be rented.

The rent was also very favorable. However, as an alchemist, Li Ji'an didn't have much choice, because the residences in this area were built and decorated according to the craftsmanship. Currently, there were only two second-level alchemist mansions in the area, both of which were built according to the needs of a second-level alchemist, and the layout was mainly based on the alchemy.

A mansion has already had an owner. Master Zou Dan was one of the first masters of skills invited to settle in this area. His mansion is also relatively forward, being the second one on the east side.

In order to separate the residences of masters of similar skills and avoid vicious competition, the residence that Manager Qi showed Li Ji'an was located on the westernmost side.

They are all second-level medium-grade spiritual vein training grounds, covering an area of nearly ten acres, which is equivalent to the size of a football field.

Moreover, the surrounding mansions are more than ten feet apart. Because it is at the very end, the nearest mansions are only the one opposite with the word "Guo" engraved on it and the one to the east with the word "Hua" engraved on it. A little further away is the mansion diagonally opposite with the word "Bai" engraved on it.

Manager Qi introduced that the puppet master in Gou Mansion opposite was a second-level puppeteer. Li Ji'an had heard of this person a long time ago. When the technicians of Xiancheng were selected ten years ago, Master Gou was almost known to everyone.

Who would have thought that a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training could actually create a second-level puppet?
Most people suspect that he has obtained some great opportunity.

If he leaves the fairy city, he will probably disappear soon.

Hua Fu is a second-rank weapon refiner. Manager Qi specifically instructed that he has a bad temper and should be dealt with as little as possible.

As for Bai Fu, Li Ji'an was quite interested in him. He was a second-level doctor.

Li Ji'an was very satisfied with this mansion. It was relatively independent, secluded, and had no shortage of customers.

It is worth mentioning that after Li Ji'an was promoted to a second-level alchemist, his status as a guest official of Danding Pavilion became meaningless unless he could also refine first-level pills.

Because the Chamber of Commerce's pill shop mostly serves mass-consuming cultivators, mainly first-level cultivators, so they can sell in large quantities.

As for the second-level elixirs, the market is not very big, and most people will look for trustworthy alchemists to buy them.

Secondly, it is not easy to make second-level pills. There are only a few of them in a month, and selling them by the number is not suitable for large quantities.

Therefore, it is almost impossible for the Chamber of Commerce in Jinhuang Immortal City to reach cooperation with the second-level alchemists.

Now Li Ji'an's customers have become visitors.

Living here, Xiancheng claims that customers will come to him without him having to worry about anything.

Of course, the most important point is that this area is specially protected by the Immortal City, and its safety is greatly increased.

Finally, by paying 5,000 spirit stones at once, Li Ji'an obtained the right to live in this mansion for ten years.

After Manager Qi handed the jade talisman that controlled the courtyard protection formation to Li Ji'an, he carved the word "Li" in the blank space in the middle of the mansion.

In the next ten years, the Li Mansion will be Li Ji'an's place of practice and enlightenment.

After seeing off Manager Qi, Li Ji'an brought Xiao Qiao in.

The house has four courtyards, and only one side wing of the front yard is larger than the yard I rented before.

There are pavilions, towers and winding paths inside. A trickle of water meanders from the front yard and flows into a large pond in the back yard.

Guagua was very excited and dived in.

Xiao Qiao also started from the front door and measured every place in the mansion step by step.

Li Ji'an first activated the courtyard protection magic circle, and then checked every place with his spiritual sense comparable to that of the late foundation building stage.

Then let Gua Gua go underground and explore the surrounding underground thoroughly.

Only after confirming that there were no problems did I feel truly at ease to stay.

That night, when Li Ji'an was about to send a message to Yan Qingwan to inform her of the news of foundation building and to inquire about the current situation in the wilderness, Yan Qingwan arrived with a message first.

Yan Kongyi was seriously injured and had not much time left, so he wanted to see him one last time.

(End of this chapter)