Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 184 The situation changes again

Half a month later, all the monks in the state who responded to the call returned.

All the monks from the summoned families gathered at the gate of Biyun Sect three days ago and received rewards from the sect.

Yan Qingwan reported that this time she had appeared before the top brass of the Biyun Sect, and was rewarded with many resources and a fine magic weapon. The sect also recognized the Yan family's status in the wilderness, so the trip was well worthwhile and she returned with satisfaction.

As the leader of the team, I am unable to come to the fairy city to reunite, which is a bit regretful. I invite Li Ji'an to come back to the wilderness often when he is free.

Li Ji'an was also happy for her.

Now the Yan family has an officially recognized identity, and their future development in the wilderness will be smoother.

Compared with the previous hundred years, the Zheng family's position is more stable.

At the same time, Li Ji'an and Zhang Tiezhu got in touch.

I also got a general idea of Akaishi Sanren's movements from him.

In this case, there is no need to rush to meet Chishi Sanren.

He should have at least another thirty or forty years to live.

As for Li Ji'an himself, his main goal now is to improve his cultivation and reach the middle stage of foundation building as soon as possible. By then, his means of protecting the Dao will be taken to a higher level.

Half a year has passed by in a flash.

On this day, Li Ji'an finished his meditation and sensed the growth of the liquid mana in his dantian. The bottleneck of the middle stage of foundation building was getting closer and closer.

However, he almost understood the root cause of the bottleneck in the foundation-building stage.

The changes in mana during the entire foundation-building period are all to prepare for the liquid mana to condense into solid pills during the pill-forming period. It is also a process of qualitative change. The difference is that this qualitative change is no longer entirely a change in the quality of mana, but also includes some fusion of spiritual inspiration.

The fire magic he cultivated, when his dantian was undergoing transformation during the foundation-building period, required him to comprehend the spirit of fire and understand its source of energy.

Compared with the bottleneck of the Qi training stage, the foundation-building stage is not mainly based on the amount of Dantian magic power, but mainly on perception.

However, comprehension cannot be quantified, so there is no elixir that will definitely lead to a breakthrough like the bottleneck in the Qi training stage.

The breakthrough pill in the foundation-building period also has the effect of increasing some insights.

"From this perspective, the amount of mana in the middle stage of foundation building doesn't change much compared to the early stage. The main reason is that the mana has initially integrated the five elements of spiritual energy, so it is more powerful!"

Regarding his comprehension of the fire element, he seemed to be cheating.

After all, he had a true Holy Spirit of Fire.

Over the years, he has captured and studied the little fire spirit many times.

Because of this, now he only needs to wait until the basic magic power of the initial stage of foundation building is satisfied, and then he can achieve success in one fell swoop and directly step into the threshold of the middle stage of foundation building.

Thinking of the refining of basic mana, Li Ji'an couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

Through his personal practice of the Yan family's clan martial art "Flame Dragon Art" over the years, combined with his experience of practicing "Nine Yang Art" in his previous life, he had a glimmer of understanding about the problem of "Flame Dragon Art" not being strong enough in refining magic power during the foundation-building period.

He also tried to compensate for this by optimizing and fine-tuning, but the result was counterproductive. After all, he had been absorbing and refining according to this route before, and the spiritual veins in his body had already formed an inherent memory, which could not be reversed in a short time.

The most important thing is that it is still in the theoretical demonstration stage and there is no guarantee of feasibility.

However, as for the research of martial arts, he did not have too much hope in this life.

Compared to the average person, his understanding is indeed superior, thanks to the accumulated blessing of six rejuvenation experiences.

But it's not to the level of a monster.

In addition, he has only been in the cultivation world for two lifetimes, just over a hundred years at most, and has not accumulated as much experience in the cultivation world as the older generation of Qi-cultivating cultivators.

Nowadays, accumulation is still the main focus.

After accumulating experience over several lifetimes, with hundreds or thousands of years of experience in cultivation, and adding a few more boosts to one's understanding through rejuvenation, it will be easy to create a technique.

"Fellow Daoist Li, please come into the mansion for a chat." At this moment, Doctor Bai sent a message.

After Doctor Bai was recruited to the Daze Mountains, his daughter came to him to ask for the Breakthrough Pill. When Li Ji'an returned to the Immortal City half a year ago, Doctor Bai came to express his gratitude in person. In addition, during the two years when he was in the mountains, Li Ji'an took care of the Bai family, and the relationship between the two became closer.

During the past six months, Doctor Bai also took the initiative to guide Li Ji'an's medical skills.

When Li Ji'an arrived at the Bai Mansion, except for Duanmu Qin and Gou Kui Shi, everyone else was there, including the manager Qi.

"Master Li Dan." Manager Qi stood up to greet him.

"I have no choice but to invite all of you fellow Taoists here today." It turned out that it was not Doctor Bai who summoned them today, but Manager Qi who came to discuss matters with them privately in his personal capacity.

"Manager Qi, we have been together for more than 20 years, so we can be considered old acquaintances. If you have anything to say, just say it directly." Doctor Bai spoke on behalf of everyone in the hospital.

Manager Qi nodded and said helplessly, "My fellow Daoists, I have been dismissed from my position as the clan's manager because of my incompetence and my failure to gain the respect of the clan members in my twenty years in charge of the Immortal City. A new manager will be appointed to take my place soon."

"I'm informing you all in advance today, mainly to say goodbye..."

His words revealed several key points.

The Qi family was dissatisfied with the performance of Xiancheng in the past twenty years, and Manager Qi was the one to take the blame.

There will be a new manager soon, and policies will change in the future.

Li Ji'an listened silently, but shook his head secretly in his heart.

The changes in the Immortal City were due to the shifting situation in Cangyun Province over the past six months. Six months ago, due to the Daze Mountain Range ruins incident, everyone realized that the Biyun Sect wasn't as strong as they had long claimed.

In particular, four months ago, disciples of the Biyun Sect clashed with disciples of the Lieyang Sect in Jinhuang Immortal City. As a result, the Lieyang Sect demanded an explanation, and the Biyun Sect paid a sum of resources as compensation, punished its own disciples, and settled the matter peacefully.

Later, he announced to the public that he would close the sect for a few years to focus on training disciples and not deal with affairs in the state for the time being.

This has caused speculation from the outside world.

There are rumors that the Grand Elder of Biyun Sect was seriously injured when the ruins erupted and needs to retreat to recuperate.

There are also reports that the Biyun Sect gained a lot of profit from the ruins, enough to support a hundred years of cultivation within the sect, plus the Immortal City still has eighty years to expire.

There is also a saying that the Biyun Sect was the one that benefited the most, while the other six sects paid Biyun Sect 60% of the initial excavation expenses in vain, gained nothing, and suffered countless casualties, so they are resentful. The Lieyang Sect suffered the greatest loss, and the Biyun Sect was worried that the six sects would deliberately find fault and take the opportunity to attack, so they endured and concealed themselves and developed dormantly.

Li Ji'an prefers the third possibility.

And he strongly agrees with the approach of Biyun Sect.

There are one palace and seven sects in Tiancang Realm. The strength of Biyun Sect is not very strong to begin with, and it has indeed reaped a lot of rewards this time. Of course, it should improve its strength as soon as it has resources.

When you are strong enough, there is no need to argue with others. Others will give you the respect and courtesy that corresponds to your strength.

Otherwise, the fight would result in bloodshed and countless casualties, which would be of no use except depleting one's own resources and cutting off the possibility of increasing one's strength.

As for temporarily giving up control of the state, it was also unavoidable.

Because of the Daze Mountain ruins, there was originally only one safe passage connecting the three states.

But now, that road has been flattened by countless independent cultivators from the two states and the six major sects, scaring away the monsters hiding inside.

With the sudden change caused by the Earth Dragon, the Daze Mountains that separated Cangyun Province and Tianyuan Province almost disappeared. Now there is no obstacle for cultivators from the two provinces to travel to Cangyun Province.

Under such circumstances, even if the Biyun Sect wanted to strictly control the cultivation environment in the state as before, it would be impossible.

At least the previous prohibitions are almost useless and can no longer be enforced.

Therefore, the current Jinhuang Immortal City is truly about to usher in explosive growth.

In the past six months, passenger flow has increased several times compared to before.

As the only large immortal city near the Daze Mountains, it can be said that the first stop and transaction place for all cultivators who go to the mountains to explore the ruins will be in Jinhuang Immortal City.

The Qi family is not necessarily dissatisfied with Manager Qi's performance over the past twenty years. It's just that due to overall changes in the situation, a more radical manager is needed.

As for Manager Qi telling them these things privately in advance, it may not be without selfish motives. He may also have the intention of criticizing the new manager who is about to replace him.

However, this idea is actually redundant.

With the future changes in the Immortal City, the status of the independent masters in their academy will probably no longer be what it used to be.

After all, it was not easy for Cangyun Province to find second-level independent technicians willing to settle in the Immortal City before, but now the times have changed, and many second-level masters will flock to the other two provinces.

As a result, the interests and privileges of this group of people will be greatly reduced, and they will also face competition.

Li Ji'an had already seen through this trend in the past six months.

It did have a big impact on him.

The positive impact is that certain supplies will be easier to obtain in the future.

And the market prices of most materials will be greatly reduced.

However, there are more negative impacts.

First, security will be greatly reduced. Countless cultivators from the two states will flock here, and all kinds of monsters will gather. In just the past few months, many fights have occurred in the city, and a considerable number of them are caused by the six major sects from other states.

Secondly, as the number of second-level alchemists increases, his alchemy income will definitely be affected.

Thirdly, the Taoist temple residence where he now lives is no longer safe. If a late-stage second-level alchemist comes one day, he might be asked to leave.

However, he doesn't need to worry as much as Doctor Bai and the others.

Because, Biyun Sect had already sent an invitation last month.

The reason why Biyun Sect wants to keep a low profile is that it has sufficient resources within the sect, but insufficient number of alchemists, so it intends to recruit alchemists to settle in the inner and outer peaks of the sect.

Li Ji'an suspected that the reason he received this invitation was not only because of his own fame as an alchemist, but also because of Xiao Changfeng's contribution.

The current tentative plan is to provide a second-level medium-grade dojo on the outer peak, but it is not within the main vein of the sect. It is five hundred miles away from the sect and is relatively remote.

In addition, you can also exchange your contributions to alchemy for sect resources, but there are restrictions on the resources that can be exchanged.

Li Ji'an was actually very satisfied with this. What he needed most now was a stable place for long-term practice.

Of course, whether one can eventually become a guest alchemist of the sect depends on whether the sect's alchemy skills can be tested in person by the sect's alchemist.

The remuneration will also be adjusted according to the actual level of Dan art.

The plan now is to enter the sect next month to test my alchemy skills.

It is worth mentioning that since Master Zou heard the news that Biyun Sect was recruiting guest alchemists, he has been working hard. It is said that he has spent a lot of money, but it seems that he has not been able to achieve his goal.

(End of this chapter)