Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 140: Stable Practice
Half a month later, Li Ji'an asked Manager Qi to help with the preparations, and sincerely asked him for advice on matters related to the foundation-building of Xiaoqing, a casual cultivator.

After all, he has been a human for six lifetimes, and this is his first time to build a foundation, so he has no experience.

After everything was prepared, Li Ji'an followed his instructions and took some recently refined second-stage early-stage elixirs to visit the core talent area one by one.

"Fellow Daoist Gou, I have long heard of your great name. I am the alchemist next door and have come to visit you specially." He first went to the residence of Master Gou Kui opposite and stood ten feet outside the door. He introduced himself with his magical powers.

Soon, the door to the Gou Mansion opened, and a wooden puppet appeared behind it. A slightly deep voice emanated from its wooden mouth, "Master Li Dan, nice to meet you. I'm busy at the moment, so I wonder what brings me here?"

Li Ji'an nodded and said, "I'm sorry to bother you, Daoist Fellow Gou. At the end of the month, I sincerely invite you all to a small celebration at my residence. Do you have time?"

After saying this, he handed the invitation and a porcelain bottle containing a pill to the puppet.

"Master Li Dan, you are too polite. I, Gou, will definitely be there." The puppet took the invitation and the porcelain bottle and bowed.

"Then Li will wait for good news. Goodbye."

As the door closed, a hint of envy appeared in Li Ji'an's eyes.

When they just moved here half a year ago, Manager Qi asked if they needed to hire a maid to take care of the mansion.

After all, the mansion is now very large, with pavilions and waterside pavilions, and many flowers, plants and trees are planted inside, so it is still very energy-consuming to take care of it.

But in order to prevent his cards from being exposed, Li Ji'an refused.

At this moment, seeing the puppets in Master Gou’s mansion, he was very jealous.

He even imagined the feasibility of having a puppet to protect him after "rejuvenation".

However, puppets are too rare. I have been in the Immortal City for more than ten years and have never encountered any puppet inheritance for sale.

Now we can only place our hopes on this Master Gou Gui.

Following the same method, we visited the eight mansions in the entire core talent area and received positive responses from all of them.

Including Master Zou Dan of the first mansion, maybe because Li Ji'an called him Master Zou last time, he was also very enthusiastic this time, and even promised that if Li Ji'an could not complete the transaction in the future, he could come to him.

In addition to these neighbors, Li Ji'an also sent a message to Xiao Changfeng to inform him of this matter, but received no reply.

It's not surprising that he was transferred by the sect after establishing his foundation two years ago and there has been no news of him since.

Finally, he entrusted Manager Qi to send someone to the Liu family’s residence in the Immortal City to deliver the invitation, fulfilling the promise he made to Liu Jiuchan when he was building his foundation.

As for the Jiuding Chamber of Commerce, since all the chambers of commerce settled in the Immortal City have an agreement with the Biyun Sect that they are not allowed to interfere in the local situation and not get involved in the affairs of the local cultivation world, it is not appropriate for them to participate in such matters.

At the end of the month,

What Li Ji'an didn't expect was that in addition to the few invited guests, there were also many uninvited guests.

Among the dozen or so people, five were individual foundation-building practitioners, and the rest were from foundation-building families in Cangyun Province. Their purpose was very clear, they hoped to conclude a pill transaction.

All the guests received gifts. The puppet master Gou, whom Li Ji'an cared about the most, did not disappoint him and gave him a simple and elementary puppet and the corresponding puppet-controlling technique.

This basic puppet has no combat power and can only do some odd jobs, but the cost is not low. The material cost is dozens of spirit stones, and spirit stones are also needed as a source of energy.

However, its effect is not as good as that of the gathering area, so there is no market at all.

This is also the reason why puppeteers are so rare, as it is impossible to support one's skills with another.

Liu Jiuchan is the one with the highest status among all the visitors. He is the youngest foundation-building elder among the five major families. Moreover, because of his outstanding appearance, temperament and social skills, he has friendships with many true disciples of the sects.

The gift given this time was the most valuable, a bottle of spiritual beast's essence blood of top-grade bloodline.

It is an important auxiliary medicine for refining several second-level primary elixirs.

He also expressed a clear intention this time, because the life span of the former alchemist in the tribe is coming to an end. In addition to trading elixirs for daily practice in the foundation-building period, he also hopes to cooperate with the beast pill master in the tribe to develop some special beast pills.

This actually made Li Ji'an interested.

However, he obviously looked down on Li Ji'an's status. After giving him gifts and communicating with him, he was the first to leave.

It was only after he left that the communication among the remaining people became easier.

In the end, they exchanged communication tokens and the meeting ended successfully.

At this point, Li Ji'an has completely stabilized.

Relying on the alchemy skills that only a senior second-level alchemist can possess, such as being able to refine foundation-building pills, and the fire of the Fire Spirit that is comparable to the alchemy fire of the middle second-level, the success rate and quality of his second-level primary pills are far beyond that of ordinary second-level alchemists.

If you open the furnace six times a month, you can earn 500 spirit stones, which is enough to fully meet your cultivation and living needs.

Leaving him more time and energy to study talismans.

A year flies by.

"Puff~" That day, just as the last stroke was about to be completed, a wisp of green smoke still rose up mercilessly.

During this year, I have basically understood the inheritance of the second-level talismans.

He was almost completely confident in everything from putting pen to paper, outlining, blending his mind and soul, and even sensing the inspiration of heaven and earth. However, the only thing he lacked was the rich and long-lasting mana required to draw a second-level talisman.

Some simple second-level talismans are okay nowadays, but once it comes to more difficult talismans such as attack and defense, the magic power will easily lag behind, resulting in a lower success rate.

The materials for a second-level initial talisman cost over a hundred spirit stones. Since I started practicing three months ago, I have been losing money almost every month.

Another loss this time.

"I still have to rely on the magic pill!" Li Ji'an adjusted his breathing for several hours and had to take a second-level early stage pill that nourished magic power.

This pill can extend the Dantian's mana by 30%, and can effectively improve the durability of mana.

"Swoosh~" With a flash of lightning, it finally worked this time.

The second-level primary lightning talisman is of top quality. It has a full-strength attack with lightning-attribute magic power comparable to that of an early foundation-building cultivator, and has a strong inhibitory effect on gold-based magic power.

This is the third second-level offensive talisman that has been successfully drawn in the past year.

In addition, there is a Moon Blade Talisman and a Golden Cone Talisman.

With these three talismans, if you meet a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building like Zheng Tianxiang again, you can take advantage of his unpreparedness and use all three talismans at the same time, and have a chance to kill him with one blow.

Putting away his new trump card, Li Ji'an looked at the Fire Spirit beside him.

Over the past year, every time the little fire spirit took out the inheritance jade talisman for study, he would be attracted to it and would often lie on it to absorb its breath.

In the end, Li Jian concluded that it was the magical power of the ancient Senior Shen contained in the jade talisman that benefited it.

"Okay, you have absorbed all the magic energy. Go back to your stone." Li Ji'an waved his hand, put away the inheritance jade talisman, and waved his hand again to throw the fire spirit onto the stone that he had obtained from the bottom of the Flame Mountain.

According to the fire spirit itself, it should have been born from this stone.

But since returning that year, Li Ji'an has checked all the information he can find.

There is no further description about the Fire Holy Spirit, and as for the stone that can give birth to the Fire Holy Spirit, it is unheard of.

Over the years, he has studied this black and red stone as big as a washbasin many times, but to no avail.

It was not until half a year ago that he discovered that the magic power in his dantian was no longer able to nourish the fire spirit, so he took it out and let the fire spirit live in it.

The fire spirit dwells on it, which has a restorative effect.

"Uncle Li, Sister Hua is here again." At this moment, Xiao Qiao's voice came from outside.

Hearing this, Li Ji'an's eyelids twitched slightly, but he finally stood up and left the secret room.

When I came to the main hall, I saw the strong figure like an iron mountain at a glance.

It was the weapon refiner next door, Hua Hongling.

A year ago, Xiaoqing was a little surprised when he first met Hua Hongling.

She is two years younger than Li Ji'an and had already established her foundation ten years ago. This is because she has shown an extraordinary talent for refining weapons since she was a child. Strictly speaking, she is not a casual cultivator because she has been taken in by her master since she was a child.

His master is also a late second-stage weapon refiner and is very famous in Tianyuan Prefecture.

His high net worth provided Hua Hongling with excellent conditions for cultivation.

For some unknown reason, he was sent here and became a popular weapon refiner in the Immortal City.

However, she was notoriously bad-tempered. Once, a customer was slightly dissatisfied with a customized magic weapon, so she chased him across half of the fairy city with a hammer. In the end, Elder Jiadan of the Biyun Sect intervened to stop her.

When Li Ji'an just moved in here, Manager Qi specifically instructed him about this matter.

However, it was only one year.

"Brother Li, did I disturb you?" When he saw Li Ji'an coming, he immediately trotted over to greet him.

Suddenly there was a huge earthquake.

Li Ji'an hurriedly stopped him: "Don't disturb me, don't disturb me, what brings you here, Fellow Daoist Hua?"

"It's just that thing." Hua Hongling suddenly showed a hint of shyness.

Li Ji'an took a deep breath and said, "Friend Hua, I have already said this before. When we are together, we should be sincere and open. We should just be like we normally are. Don't do this."

"To be honest, I really have no idea what kind of elixir Fellow Daoist Hua is looking for. I'm afraid I'll disappoint Fellow Daoist Hua."

Originally, Hua Hongling seemed to have a bad temper towards Li Ji'an. When Li Ji'an first wanted to buy a self-defense magic weapon, she was irritable.

It was not until half a year ago when a female cultivator brought her own medicinal herbs and came to Li Ji'an to ask for help in refining a batch of bone-changing pills that Hua Hongling's attitude changed drastically.

During this period, she has been begging Li Ji'an to help her refine a pill that can shrink her body. For this, she promised to make a top-grade magic weapon for Li Ji'an.

(End of this chapter)