Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 154: Surprise
The other party arrived as promised, but the difference was that there were three people.

The old man still had his disguised appearance, while the other two returned to their original appearance after entering Li's mansion.

"Master Li, this elixir recipe is the core secret of my family. I am really worried, so I asked them to guard the outer courtyard so that they will not disturb you while you are refining the elixir." The old man explained as soon as he entered the door.

The situation is chaotic now, so the other party's behavior is normal. Many regular people who sought elixirs did the same before.

Li Ji'an did not refuse, which was exactly what he wanted. Otherwise, a time-consuming and exhausting pursuit would be inevitable.

Then, Li Ji'an took him directly into the alchemy room in the backyard.

As soon as he entered the backyard, Li Ji'an activated the shielding magic circle in front of him.

"Master Li Dan's magic array can actually block the detection of the spiritual consciousness of the Foundation Establishment Stage? Good, good, this makes me feel more at ease." The old man looked up and sensed the effect of the magic array with a smile on his face. He had been planning to waste a shielding talisman when he took action later, but now he saved it.

Li Ji'an looked at him and felt a little bored.

It was actually right beside him, and had released a spiritual sensing array.

"Boom!" He attacked without hesitation.

Second-level physical cultivation, killing at close range.

And the other party is completely defenseless.

There's no better opportunity than this.

"You..." The old man didn't react until the fist was about to hit him.

If it weren't for the Foundation Establishment cultivator's instinct to protect his body, he wouldn't even be able to cast a magic shield.

"Crack!" However, the magic shield that protected the body was still a little weak after all. Even if Li Ji'an had the magic shield at its peak strength, it could be broken with just three punches at such a close distance. Now it was almost on the verge of breaking at the slightest touch.

"Puff~" The old man was hit in the dantian and flew backwards three feet, with blood foam spurting out of his mouth.

Fortunately, the magic shield offset most of the force of the punch, otherwise this punch would have pierced his dantian.

"You actually tried to kill me for money..." The old man's dantian was shattered, and his magic power quickly dissipated.

He never expected that the soft persimmon they had picked out for more than a month was actually a second-level physical cultivator. He also never expected that this highly praised and virtuous alchemist would be like them, willing to kill for money for his alchemy recipe.

"Swoosh~" Another wind blade passed by, and his head rolled down, and he died with his eyes open.

Only at this moment did Li Ji'an relax his mind, and the natal Fiery Halberd Talisman and Golden Bell Talisman stored in his dantian began to rise and fall again.

"You don't even have your own magical weapon?" He had made several preparations, but in the end he only had to use the most unsustainable method to solve the problem.

This is a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.

Although his magical power could not be compared with that of Jiang Yunzhou, the sect's true disciple, it was still more than twice as strong as that of an ordinary cultivator in the early stage of foundation building.

The gap between each small realm in the foundation-building period is quite large. Under normal circumstances, if there is no external force and it is purely a battle of magic power, there is absolutely no possibility of skipping levels.

What Li Ji'an didn't expect this time was that the other party was too careless and was actually so close to him.

Who can bear this?

When he was receiving education in the Yan family hall, the elders of the family clearly warned everyone that when they were out, they must keep a safe distance from strange cultivators, and must not be distracted, and must always pay attention to their spiritual awareness.

"It turns out that it also contains the natal talisman." At this time, the old man was completely dead, and a talisman in his dantian area fell to the ground.

Li Ji'an shook his head after scanning it with his spiritual sense. It was a second-level primary attack talisman, but the quality was not very good, only medium-grade. It looked like it had been nurtured for quite some time.

The natal talisman cannot protect its master on its own, but it can protect the master without the need for magic power and soul stimulation. If this person does not cultivate the natal talisman, but cultivates a protective magic weapon, he can live a few more breaths.

Without thinking any more, Li Ji'an looked towards the front yard.

A man and a woman were still observing the layout of the front yard calmly.

Then use the spirit pet contract to sense the quack.

I saw Gua Gua silently releasing the Soul Sealing Powder under the ground below the man and the woman.

Soul Sealing Powder was a poison Li Ji'an had concocted himself in the past few years after frequently consulting Doctor Bai. He combined the principles of the Poison Sutra that Doctor Bai occasionally revealed to him, and it was a poison that could seal the magic power of cultivators in the early stages of foundation building.

Because he has a solid foundation in the study of medicinal materials and their properties in alchemy, he has shown considerable talent in the study of poisons in recent years.

If it weren't for the lack of samples and experimental subjects, he would be confident that he could concoct a poison that would be effective against those in the late stage of foundation building.

This was also the first time he asked someone to test the medicinal properties.

However, the most difficult thing about poison in the cultivation world is how to release it silently and make the opponent realize it before they are hit.

After all, monks can hold their breath and isolate themselves from external objects.

Apart from the magic weapon being poisoned, it is very difficult to poison.

The good thing about Li Ji'an is that he has a helper named Gua Gua who has extraordinary concealment ability.

"Sister-in-law, you are... Oh no, my magic power..." Not long after, when the man stood up, his expression suddenly changed and he realized the problem.

"Poisoned?" The woman realized it belatedly and reacted instantly.

Immediately, a flash of green light flew out from his dantian. Then, the green light blossomed and transformed into a green halo, enveloping the two of them.

"There is also a natal talisman?" Li Ji'an was a little surprised.

And it actually contains a detoxification talisman.

"Swish~" Guagua received the order and his tongue shot out from the ground.

It pierced through two monks who had just been detoxified but whose magic power had not yet fully recovered.

A cultivator who has lost his magic power will have a body equivalent to that of an early first-stage physical cultivator. How can he withstand the attack of a second-stage monster like the Gua Gua?
Soon, Gua Gua brought the two bodies to the backyard.

Li Ji'an looked at the three corpses with their eyes wide open and shook his head slightly: "My magic power is not weak, it's because I have nurtured three natal talismans."

He emptied the three people's storage bags and let Gua Gua swallow them all in one gulp.

After swallowing the three people, Gua Gua went straight to the small courtyard where they rented a house, where there was also a young cultivator in the late stage of Qi training.

While waiting, Li Ji'an checked the storage bags of the three people.

After checking this, I took a deep breath.

The leader actually had nearly 20,000 spirit stones in his storage bag.

There are dozens of mid-to-high-grade magic weapons of various types, and the highest-grade one is a fine magic weapon, the Mountain-Splitting Axe.

There are also a lot of different kinds of pills, and the quality is mixed.

"Huh? This is..." Suddenly, a piece of animal skin caught Li Ji'an's attention.

The animal skin was old and broken, showing signs of severe erosion over time, and it was obviously just a small broken piece.

But on this piece of broken animal skin, three large characters were clearly written: Six Spirits Condensed...

And below these three big characters, there are three medicinal herbs.

These were the medicinal herbs that the old man had recommended to Li Ji'an at that time.

"This person is not completely deceiving!" Li Ji'an put away the tattered animal skin carefully.

This gave him hope for the "Six Gods Condensing Yuan Pill".

Restraining the excitement in his heart, Li Ji'an once again checked the storage bags of the other two cultivators in the early stage of foundation building.

There were very few things in the two men's storage bags.

However, Li Ji'an discovered something unusual in the woman's storage bag.

There are actually many talismans.

There are also many talisman materials.

"He's actually a second-level talisman master!"

Li Ji'an couldn't understand why a second-level talisman master was practicing tribulation cultivation.

At least there isn't even a second-level independent talisman master in Cangyun Prefecture.

A second-level talisman master can draw strategic materials that are threatening to foundation-building monks, and all second-level talisman masters are basically accepted into the sect.

In addition, the second-level talisman materials in Cangyun Prefecture are also controlled and very scarce, and ordinary talisman masters do not have many opportunities to practice.

In the nine years since Li Ji'an inherited the second-level talisman, he has obtained less than thirty talisman materials in total, many of which were obtained by helping others refine pills and through private transactions.

"It's also possible that he was able to train a second-level Talisman Master through looting."

"Talisman pen!"

Finally, Li Ji'an was pleasantly surprised to find the talisman pen used by the female talisman master in a jade box.

It turned out to be a second-grade mid-quality talisman pen.

It is a whole grade higher than the talisman pen Li Ji'an has been using in recent years.

It has to be said that Li Ji'an was pleasantly surprised by this harvest.

"There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with being a soft persimmon."

Not long after, Guagua returned.

The storage bag of a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training only contains the elixirs used for daily practice, nothing else.

After dealing with this family, Li Ji'an summoned Xiao Qiao and told her that she could come back.

Before the other party came, Li Ji'an asked Xiao Qiao to go to Duanmu Qin's mansion.

However, before Xiao Qiao could return, a piece of news that was a surprise to all the casual cultivators in the Immortal City spread.

"In order to demonstrate righteousness, the Biyun Sect has decided to auction off some of the rare resources excavated from the ruins, giving all cultivators in the state a fair chance to compete."

(End of this chapter)