Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 141 Spiritual Root Hope
Hua Hongling was gifted since childhood, and was later taught the Thousand Hammers Body Refining Method suitable for refining weapons. She specialized in the fire element of Dan Fire, and had excellent refining skills. She had a high success rate in creating fine magic weapons.

Even if he is willing to spend time and effort, regardless of the cost, it is possible to create a top-grade magic weapon.

It is difficult for many cultivators in the middle stage of foundation building to have a top-grade magic weapon, and most of them are fine-grade magic weapons.

The highest-level magical weapon in Jinhuang Immortal City is the exquisite one.

Li Ji'an really needs this.

However, he really had no way to get the elixir that would restore her body to the normal form of a female cultivator.

The bone-changing pill that the female cultivator had asked for before could only slightly change the facial bones. Not only was the effect small, but the change in bone structure almost ended her path.

"Brother Li, your alchemy skills are so outstanding. You can even refine the unconventional bone-changing pill. You must be able to refine the pill I need. You must help me." Hua Hongling was still unwilling to give up. She clasped her hands together and half-knelt in front of Li Ji'an. Her figure was as strong as an iron tower, and she looked pitiful.

Li Ji'an felt a strong sense of oppression.

"Fellow Daoist Hua, please forgive me for speaking the truth. You have a beautiful face, but your body is a little bulky. This flaw can be completely ignored. Especially since you have already successfully established your foundation and are the envy and admiration of many wandering cultivators, you really shouldn't be obsessed with this small flaw. Don't you know that imperfection is beautiful?"

Hua Hongling pouted, not buying into Li Ji'an's rhetoric. "Since Master Li Dan says it's so good, how about we become Taoist companions?"

"Li is focused on the Great Dao and doesn't want to..."

"Bah! You're all so hypocritical! There are thousands of great ways, who says there's only the ruthless way? Have you ever heard that the ultimate of love is the ultimate of the way?
What's more, you and I are both independent cultivators. Do you really want to achieve Dan?" Seeing that Li Ji'an probably didn't have the ability, Hua Hongling stopped pretending.

"..." Li Ji'an was speechless.

It's not easy to fool people.

For the general monks.

In Cangyun Province, and even in the entire Tiancang Territory, only one in a million can establish a foundation as a casual cultivator. As for forming a pill, it is also extremely rare in the history of more than 6,000 years, and all of them are people with great opportunities.

After all, in this cultivation domain where the sect is in charge and monopolizes most of the upper-level resources, it is almost impossible for independent cultivators to obtain the resources for the Jindan stage.

In addition to resources, forming a pill is a key step to the great road and is extremely difficult.

If we say that the first stage of foundation building is to lay the foundation of the Tao and sow the seeds of the Tao.

The first stage of forming the elixir is to condense the true prototype of the great way.

At least in the foundation-building stage, there are elixirs such as foundation-building pills that can directly increase the success rate. However, in the stage of forming the elixir, there is no elixir that can clearly increase the success rate. One can only rely on spiritual objects in heaven and earth and some auxiliary elixirs to assist in the process of forming the elixir and improve the quality of the elixir.

The key lies in the cultivator's spiritual roots and talent, as well as his understanding and alignment with the Great Dao.

Only the best-grade spiritual roots are considered as the seeds for forming elixir.

Ordinary people who become casual cultivators rarely have very good spiritual roots.

The reason why Li Ji'an had the extravagant hope of reaching the Jindan stage after establishing his foundation was because of the confidence brought by the fine foundation-building pill. The basic mana aura after he first entered the foundation-building stage was no worse than the Jindan seed of Xiao Changfeng, a top-grade spiritual root.

Of course, it also depends on his alchemy skills, which may allow him to exchange them for spiritual objects from heaven and earth.

For ordinary foundation-building practitioners like Hua Hongling or Master Zou Dan, their skills are almost the limit for them to be able to support their cultivation to the late stage of foundation-building.

If you want to hope to form a pill, you can only pray for an opportunity from heaven.

"Friend Hua, you might as well be optimistic. Once the elixir is formed, you can regenerate severed limbs, and maybe even rebuild your body." Li Ji'an was silent for a moment, but still encouraged.

"Reshape the body?" Hua Hongling stood up suddenly.

The only true Jindan masters in Cangyun Province are the three supreme masters of Biyun Sect, and ordinary people have no chance to meet them.

There is almost no experience in the world about forming elixirs, so Li Ji'an is just guessing.

"Yes, if a broken limb can be regenerated, the body can definitely be rebuilt!" Hua Hongling's face suddenly flushed.

However, just a moment later, he came to his senses and looked despairing.

Compared to finding some kind of elixir that can be shaped, forming an elixir is even more unrealistic.

"Forget it, Master Li Dan, there is a long way to go. Maybe one day you will get some ancient elixir recipe or spiritual inspiration from heaven. I will rely on you. If you want any magic weapon in the future, just tell me and I will give you a discount!" Hua Hongling finally said embarrassedly.

After all, in the entire fairy city, only Li Ji'an, who can refine top-grade elixirs, can give her some hope.

After sending Hua Hongling away, Li Ji'an smiled and shook his head. Half a year ago, he started to take over the business of refining pills for others. With his reputation of refining top-grade pills before he even established his foundation, he had a lot of business.

He even gained popularity among many female cultivators thanks to his furnace of anti-aging pills.

Later on came the Bone-Changing Pill, the Beauty Pill, the Tightening Pill... even many female cultivators came with pill recipes.

Refining these pills would bring higher profits, and he wouldn't need to purchase the herbs himself. Because the yield rate was high, he could even keep some of the herbs for himself.

Double the profits.

After taking a short breath, Li Ji'an looked at the night sky and came to the Bai Mansion diagonally opposite.

Doctor Bai is a second-level doctor.

Aside from the spiritual energy nourishing the body and making it stronger, cultivators are still essentially flesh and blood. While they won't get sick, they can still get hurt. Their vital energy will reverse, their Dantian will vibrate, and their essence will be damaged...

The magic power of ordinary cultivators can only protect the heart, meridians and internal organs, but cannot heal wounds and repair them.

The doctor can rely on his medical skills to repair with wood magic power and nourish with water magic power. Even for those who fail in the foundation-building and have damaged the Dantian, a skilled doctor may be able to cure them.

Li Ji'an didn't come to see Doctor Bai to heal his injuries.

"Senior Bai, last time you said that your spiritual roots were delayed in childhood. Without spiritual energy to nourish them, can they still be nourished and restored later?"

Doctor Bai is in the middle stage of foundation building, over 200 years old, and a kind person.

After the first small celebration, Li Ji'an often communicated with him, and this was his purpose. If his "rejuvenation" before the age of eight could not be changed, then his original spiritual root talent could not be fully stimulated.

In this life, he had taken Yangyuan Pills, and from the age of eight to fifteen, he had been nourishing his meridians in the Yan family's second-level spiritual veins, and practicing the method of sensing qi. As a result, he had nineteen strands of spiritual roots at the highest level, and was only one step away from having top-grade spiritual roots.

However, after more than ten years in Xiancheng and consulting a lot of information, I found that there is no more effective means except the Yangyuan Pill.

Even the grandson of the elder of Biyun Sect only needed the Yangyuan Pill, a third-level spiritual vein environment and the method of sensing qi when he was a child, which could basically stimulate his innate spiritual source.

In this case, Li Ji'an will most likely still not be able to break through to the upper-grade spiritual roots in his next life.

Doctor Bai gave him hope again.

Doctor Bai stroked his beard and nodded, "Indeed, the Five Elements are a gift from heaven, and they are the foundation. As long as the foundation is there, it can be nurtured and restored. However, after it is fully formed, it is almost hopeless. Could it be that Master Li was delayed for a while?"

Li Ji'an sighed, looking a little depressed.

Doctor Bai sighed, "Yes, spiritual veins are scarce here. I don't know how many geniuses have been delayed because of their poor backgrounds. That's why we are willing to work so hard to create a good background for the next generation."

"Senior Bai's words make sense, but I wonder how much recovery can be achieved through postnatal care?" Li Ji'an asked again.

"It's hard to say. It depends on the extent of the delay and the duration of the delay. It is also related to the warming and nourishing medical method. However, in theory, if there is enough time and the medical skills are superb, full recovery is not impossible." Doctor Bai said truthfully.

"Fully recovered!" Li Ji'an was overwhelmed with emotion.

In this way, the biggest problem of his "rejuvenation" can be solved.

"Master Li Dan, do you have any younger generations who have been delayed? Why not bring them here for me to take a look?" Seeing that Li Ji'an continued with this topic, Doctor Bai observed his expression and took the initiative to show his goodwill.

"Thank you, Senior Bai. No, I just feel a little regretful." Li Ji'an waved his hand.

Doctor Bai smiled and shook his head, comforting him, "Master Li, the matter has come to this. It's a done deal. Life cannot be reversed. Besides, you've already successfully established your foundation, so there's no need to dwell on that matter. With your alchemy skills, your descendants won't be delayed any longer. There's no point dwelling on it. Just look forward!"

"Thank you, Senior Bai."

After leaving Bai Mansion, Li Ji'an felt relieved. Although there was no possibility of inheriting the medical skills for the time being, at least it pointed him in a direction.

In this life, in addition to steadily pursuing the goal of forming an elixir and studying talismans in depth to protect the Tao, he also has another goal of studying medicine in depth.

In addition to warming and nourishing the spiritual roots in the Dantian, medical skills are also a means of protecting the Tao.

Medicine and poison have always been inseparable, and poison methods are more secretive and safer, which is in line with Li Ji'an's philosophy.

For this reason, he also began to pay attention to the wood-based exercises on the market, hoping to find a relatively advanced wood-based exercise that was more medically effective, and to practice this as a supplement to lay the foundation for nurturing his Dantian spiritual roots in the next life.

As for the puppet inheritance of Master Gou Gui from the opposite door, after several contacts, Li Ji'an temporarily gave up.

Master Gou Gui was too cautious and careful in his actions, hardly giving anyone any chance to make friends, and even many times he only communicated with puppets.

However, Hua Hongling told us that Master Gou Kui must have obtained some kind of soul cultivation opportunity.

It is precisely because of this that his soul is much higher than that of the same level, which allows him to create a second-level puppet comparable to that of a cultivator in the foundation-building stage as a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training.

Now, Li Ji'an suspected that he might be able to create a second-stage puppet that was comparable to the middle stage of foundation building.

"Don't underestimate the heroes of the world!" Li Ji'an increasingly felt that he had too few cards up his sleeve.

During the next three years, my practice life remained stable.

As his cultivation gradually improved, his talisman skills became more advanced.

He majored in fire magic, which was violent but not lasting, and could only be compensated by skills and elixirs.

Fortunately, his soul was strong, and now his consciousness was comparable to that of a late foundation building cultivator. Theoretically, he could draw talismans of the late second stage, but he was held back by his magic power.

"Whoo~"

"Finally did it!" On this day, relying on a fine magic pill to continue the magic power, he finally succeeded in drawing the first fine second-level initial talisman.

The early stage top-grade talisman is already comparable to a full-strength attack in the early stage of foundation building, and this fine talisman almost reaches the power of the middle stage of foundation building.

"Let's try this natal talisman first!"

The so-called natal talisman is nurtured by one's own Dantian and infused with one's own essence. As long as a certain period of time passes, it can be activated without the need for spiritual consciousness and magic power.

Moreover, its power will increase with the nurturing time, and how much it can be increased depends on the time and the magic power of the Dantian.

However, if you want to improve the quality, it will take a long time. It will take at least ten years to have a slight improvement, and the upper limit is one grade.

During the Qi training period, the limit for the Dantian magic power is to nurture one card. During the foundation-building period, three cards can be nurtured at the same time.

Li Ji'an planned one attack, one defense and one escape.

However, it must be at least a high-quality second-level talisman to be worth nurturing.

After putting away the talisman, Li Ji'an went out and headed towards the Jiuding Chamber of Commerce. Today was Zhao Shuyao's 100th birthday, and she specifically summoned Li Ji'an to come and have a chat.

Just as he was passing through the Xiancheng Management Area, a piece of news made him stop in his tracks.

The Biyun Sect finally made the news public. Twelve years ago, they discovered an ancient relic in the Daze Mountains in the north. Now, the outer restrictions of the relic have finally been opened.

At this time, almost all the strength of the sect began to excavate the ruins. It seemed that the ruins were not simple.

This news made Li Ji'an feel mixed emotions.

The good news is that a relic that is so valued by the Biyun Sect must have many opportunities. When the sect's monks eat meat, they will always give some soup to other monks in this world.

The worry is that great opportunities mean great risks, and risks may lead to turbulence.

(End of this chapter)