Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 145 The Wasteland Changes Again
Half a month later, Li Ji'an flew out of the Fallen Dragon Ridge in one breath, then stopped and looked back.

"Is it a human or a ghost?"

Recalling that last glimpse, Li Ji'an still felt his heart tremble.

It was a humanoid creature, but the flesh wrapped in Yin Sha was mostly rotten, and among the rottenness, there was a faint flash of golden light.

Based on his understanding over the years, this world is strange and different from ghosts.

It is generally believed that it is a kind of rule incarnation formed by the monks who died in ancient times after the collapse of the way of heaven and the shattering of the laws. They were accidentally affected by certain fragments of the laws, and thus possessed abilities that could not be measured by common sense in their rule field.

However, weirdness can only exist within its weird domain, and most of them are in ancient ruins.

"There are no signs of dust in that underground culvert, and it seems to fit the description of the Yin Vein. Could it be a demon cultivator?" Looking back at the details, Li Ji'an made a judgment.

The Yin Meridians condense Yin Sha, and it is a favorite place for a certain type of demon cultivators in this world who practice Yin Sha techniques.

Especially when he recalled the emotional gaze of the decayed figure, Li Ji'an became more certain.

"The Wanfa Palace announced a thousand years ago that the Tiancang Territory's cultivation world was free of demons! I never thought there would still be some that slipped through the net."

After pondering for a moment, Li Ji'an felt a little regretful.

He had just made friends with Chishi Sanren and was getting closer and closer to learning that technique, but now he encountered some setbacks.

According to Gua Gua's sensory feedback, the aura emitted by the rotten corpse was as strong as that of the fake Dan elder he saw during the assessment in Biyun Sect. He was not sure whether Chishi Sanren could escape this disaster.

After regulating the breath, without further thought, return to the gathering area.
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Half a day later,
"Do you really want to kill them all?"

"We have already given up on this place, why are you chasing us so relentlessly?"

"Hmph! How dare a bunch of rogue cultivators attempt to encroach upon the wasteland? If I let you escape into Fallen Dragon Ridge, how will I explain this to those members of my clan who died?"

"Zheng Mosheng, when you, an old bastard, took the initiative to seek an alliance with my eldest brother, you didn't look like this!"

……

Li Ji'an hid under a slope, watching the scene through his croak, frowning slightly.

In addition, he understood the situation here because of the body of a bandit who accidentally discovered him at his feet.

Half a month ago, the soul tablets that Yuan Zheng and Pan Lun left in Hukou Gorge were broken. The last foundation-building cultivator among the bandits made a quick decision to abandon the spiritual vein land and prepared to lead the remaining bandits to hide in Fallen Dragon Ridge.

Before leaving, he massacred the surrounding Qi training families in order to accumulate supplies for hiding in Fallen Dragon Ridge.

As a result, one of them was bribed by the Wasteland Family, and the news leaked. The Zheng Family in the northwest of the Wasteland and the four alliances in the southeast temporarily formed an alliance to hunt down the bandits and divide the territory.

"Can the death of those two people give Chishi Sanren a chance to survive?" Li Ji'an felt a glimmer of hope, and then called back Gua Gua and quickly sneaked into the gathering area.

The already depressed gathering area was now in ruins and shrouded in death, having obviously experienced a bloody massacre by bandits.

The good thing was that Chen Qingling had developed an instinct for hiding after years of exploring ruins with Chishi Sanren, and he hid under a dry well in the yard and escaped.

Seeing Li Ji'an return, he cried with joy.

"Don't worry, we'll head north in a few days."

Further north of the gathering area is the spiritual vein area occupied by bandits, which is currently blocked by the Zheng family and the four-family alliance. In addition to not wanting to have a meaningless conflict, Li Ji'an also holds a glimmer of hope for Chishi Sanren.

His body is comparable to that of a second-level physical cultivator, and with those two bandits supporting him, perhaps a miracle will happen.

After activating two concealment talismans to isolate the courtyard's energy, Li Ji'an came alone to the guest room where he had stayed that year. After releasing the magic restriction again, he released Gua Gua.

First, take out the golden-armored beast that had already died and remove its demon core.

Then he threw the golden-armored beast's corpse to Gua Gua, who had been staring at him eagerly.

The advancement of monsters mostly depends on the evolution of their bloodlines. This golden-armored beast was able to advance to the second level in the Fallen Dragon Ridge, and its bloodline is probably of high quality, which is attractive to other monsters.

The blood pill that Guagua had taken contained the essence of a high-grade spirit beast. Because Guagua's bloodline was low, its potential had been depleted after its promotion to the second rank, and Li Ji'an had no expectations of further advancement. Furthermore, second-rank beast pills were expensive and hard to come by, so he had already cut off its food supply, so this was a small compensation.

After Gua Gua devoured the corpse of the golden-armored beast, Li Ji'an asked him to protect the law and began to refine the demon core.

The "Hundred Forging Golden Body Art" he practiced could only use the demon cores of demon beasts with special properties like the Golden Armored Beast as energy to stimulate the mutation of qi and blood, thereby feeding back to the physical body.

It is somewhat similar to the promotion of monsters.

The only difference is that the bloodline of monsters has innate magical powers, while the physical cultivation of humans only depends on the transformation of flesh and blood.

This also made him guess that the physical cultivation method in this world might have been created by ancient great powers who comprehended the evolution of monsters.

Boom~
The qi and blood that had been stable for many years surged the moment the demon core was refined.

Every cell in the body is madly absorbing the special energy emitted by the demon core.

It wasn't until three days later that the demon core was completely refined.

The Qi and blood in Li Ji'an's body were covered with a faint golden glow. As the Qi and blood flowed in and out of his flesh, blood, tendons and bones to nourish them, the golden glow gradually dissolved into his flesh, blood, tendons and bones.

Half a month later, Li Ji'an slowly opened his eyes, and a faint golden light flashed in his eyes.

He clenched his fist suddenly, feeling the powerful force after the transformation of his body.

"The reputation of a second-level physical cultivator is well-deserved!" He felt that with the power of his current physical body, he could blow up his initial foundation-building magic shield with one punch.

At the same time, he also realized that the physical strength that Chishi Sanren had displayed when hunting the golden-armored beast was probably not the strength of a second-level physical cultivator.

Because compared with the two, the power of Chishi Sanren's physique is probably only 50% of the power of his true second-level physical cultivation.

"He's not a physical cultivator, but he still has such power in close combat?" This made Li Ji'an even more curious about Chishi Sanren. However, there was still no news from him, so he was probably in danger.

After gathering his energy and blood, Li Ji'an stood up, not ready to wait any longer.

That night, he took Chen Qingling and headed north.
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"Third uncle, is it inappropriate to give both spiritual vein temples to the four-family alliance this time?" Zheng Tianxiang frowned and looked at the current number one person in the Zheng family.

Zheng Mosheng smiled faintly: "What's wrong?"

"The ancestor is seriously injured and has not much time left. The three of us in the Zheng family have already established our foundation and are no match for the four-family alliance. If we allow them to become more powerful, I'm afraid our Zheng family will have to surrender.

If we were to give them a spiritual vein training ground, it would definitely cause internal strife among the four families, and even lead to the collapse of the alliance." Zheng Tianxiang expressed his concerns.

"An alliance of four families? Haha~ Without the Yan family, they are nothing but chickens and dogs." Zheng Mosheng didn't care.

"Tianxiang, our Zheng family wants to dominate the wasteland, and our biggest enemy is always the Yan family. As for the others, they can be ignored. Remember, no alliance can last forever, and now is not the time to let them disintegrate.

Giving them both dojos this time is just to allow them to target the Yan family."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Tianxiang understood Zheng Mosheng's intention.

The three members of the Yan family have already established their foundations, and now is the time for them to develop. We really cannot let them develop.

"But I'm afraid they won't be so obedient as to deal with the Yan family."

Zheng Mosheng nodded: "So, now we need you to add fuel to the fire."

"Me? How do I add fuel to the fire?"

"Of course, the purpose is to make the four alliances think that the Yan family has taken action."

"I'm going to attack the Four Alliances and put the blame on the Yan family? The Four Alliances probably won't be so stupid. The Yan family is in need of stability right now, so they won't take the initiative no matter how you think about it." Zheng Tianxiang shook his head, somewhat questioning Zheng Mosheng's decision.

"Haha~ I'm not asking you to put the blame on the Yan family, but... let them think that the Yan family is putting the blame on our Zheng family." Zheng Mosheng smiled profoundly.

(End of this chapter)