Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 196 Accumulation in Advance
Ever since obtaining the Holy Beast Pill eight months ago, Gua Gua has been working extra hard and has been waiting for this day to come.

During this period, it dug a deep pit for itself at the top of the mountain, a hundred feet deep underground. Xiao Qiao then guided the earth-type spiritual energy for it, which turned out to be a good cave for it.

Three days later, Li Ji'an informed him in detail about the precautions for taking the medicine and the Holy Beast Pill, and reminded him to pay attention to any changes during the transformation. Then, he, Xiao Qiao, and Xiao Huo Ling watched him enter the cave.

The bloodline of demon beasts is similar to the spiritual roots of humans. Both are innate and theoretically determined at birth.

However, there is a possibility that the bloodline of monsters will mutate after birth.

Li Ji'an deduced from this that the human race's spiritual roots might also have the possibility of breaking through their natural limits, but humans have not yet found the method, or perhaps it existed in ancient times, but was buried in the dust of history and has not yet appeared in the world.

He was not in a hurry to change his spiritual roots. He would try his best to reach the limit of his natural spiritual roots in the next life.

After Guagua entered the cave and adapted to the situation for a day, he followed Li Ji'an's instructions and took and refined the medicine first.

Li Ji'an sat on the top of the mountain, carefully sensing his spiritual sense and the spiritual bond with Gua Gua.

During the induction, after the medicine entered Gua Gua's body, its qi and blood began to disperse and became extremely thin. Then, the blood in its body suddenly overflowed from the surface of its body, and the life source where the demon core was condensed slowly flowed out of its essence and blood, and the breath of the whole frog dropped sharply.

After three hours, his Qi, blood and essence had almost reached their limit.

Li Ji'an nodded slowly. This was the effect of the medicine. Before the bloodline was transformed, the low-level essence and blood needed to be weakened to ensure the injection of high-level bloodline and replace the low-level bloodline to become the dominant bloodline of this body.

The key factors that determine the effect of bloodline transformation are, firstly, the grade of the essence and blood of the monster used as the main ingredient in refining the Holy Beast Pill and the quality of the resulting pill; secondly, the degree to which the bloodline of the pet taking the medicine is diluted.

Guagua's bloodline is originally at the bottom, and his lifeblood energy is insufficient, so it is relatively easy and thorough to dilute it.

"Good, both factors are excellent, the effect won't be too bad! Keep it up!"

Li Ji'an was quite looking forward to it.

Gua Gua then swallowed the top-grade holy beast pill.

Boom~ The moment the Holy Beast Pill was refined, the medicinal liquid turned into surging blood essence and began to madly impact Gua Gua's whole body.

The already weakened essence and blood were almost instantly dissipated by the impact of the new essence and blood, and then began to replace the original essence and blood and merge into Guagua's limbs and bones...

After three days of observation, when the high-level blood essence completely took over, it began to invade the origin of the demon core bit by bit. This step is a gradual and assimilation process, which will be very slow.

However, at this point, the success of this transformation has almost been declared.

The specific improvement will have to wait until complete assimilation.

At the same time, Li Ji'an also had some enlightenment in his heart.

If the method of Gua Gua transforming blood is used on human spiritual roots, it may not be impossible.

After recording all the details he observed in the jade talisman, Li Ji'an no longer paid attention to Gua Gua. According to Liu Xuanting's introduction at the time, this kind of transformed bloodline would take as little as half a year or as long as several years to truly fully integrate and assimilate. The longer the time, the more of the innate essence was replaced, and the better the effect of the bloodline transformation.

"Uncle Li, my Earth Spirit Sutra has been upgraded again. Not only has the range of my sensing underground expanded to ten miles, but I can also condense the essence of the earth." Xiao Qiao then reported the good news to Li Ji'an.

"Essence of the Earth?" Li Ji'an looked at her with a smile. Xiao Qiao's Earth Spirit Sutra was so magical that he couldn't see any clues at all. Her body, Qi, blood, and magic power were still the same as before when she was in the middle stage of Qi training.

A smile spread across Xiao Qiao's face, a smile that was completely spontaneous and free, without any flattery or restraint.

"Hmm!" Stars flashed in his eyes, and he nodded frequently. "It has a better nourishing effect on plants growing on the ground than the previous inspiration, you see."

As he spoke, Xiao Qiao danced with her hands and pointed at the medicinal field not far away.

The grass on the outermost edge is visibly greener and obviously more vibrant.

"..." Li Ji'an suddenly raised his eyebrows.

Tianzun little green bottle?
However, after carefully examining the condition of the grass, he smiled and shook his head. It did not have the effect of ripening, but only gave it vitality.

"Put all your strength on that piece of dead branch." Li Ji'an immediately said to Xiao Qiao.

Ever since that dry branch left the Abyss Spirit Eye, its vitality had been weakening day by day. Li Ji'an was afraid that it would die completely in the past two months.

"Yes. Uncle Li, don't worry, I will definitely bring it back to life." Xiao Qiao patted his chest confidently.

After a year and a half of living on the lonely peak, Xiao Qiao is getting more energetic and relaxed.

In the following year, Li Ji'an stabilized his mid-stage foundation-building state and solidified his magic power.

Finally, I succeeded in drawing the fine talisman of the later stage.

A Moon Blade Talisman, a Golden Tripod Talisman, and a Speed Talisman to warm the Dantian can all unleash 50% of the power of the fake elixir.

Coupled with the prototype of the magic weapon, the glass lamp, which had never been seen in public, he had the confidence to protect himself against the fake Dan Zhenren.

At the same time, he was confident that he could draw out the special spirit-awakening talisman in this talisman inheritance. Then he could go to the underground stone tomb in the wilderness again and open the third-level stone box.

The only thing missing now is the late second-stage spiritual bamboo required for the awakening talisman.

The second-stage late spiritual bamboo is a hot commodity, whether it is used for refining weapons or making talismans. Looking across the entire Cangyun Province, it is only produced by the Qin family in Zizhu Mountain, and it is difficult for ordinary people to obtain.

However, there is no need to rush this matter. He estimated that the third-level stone box is likely to contain the third-level talisman inheritance.

After all, as a Jindan Zhenren, it is impossible for the talisman master to only have second-level talisman skills.

During this year, Jiang Yunzhou sent deacons here twice.

The first time, he was told that the Law Enforcement Hall had condemned Lingshou Mountain, and Lingshou Mountain insisted that Guo Qi was not appointed by them.

The second time was to remind Li Ji'an that Wu Weixiong was wanted throughout the region and was forced into the Daze Mountains two months ago. He might have sneaked back to Cangyun Prefecture.

In addition to asking Xiao Qiao to strengthen the protective warning formation of the isolated peak, Li Ji'an also buried warning talismans within a hundred feet of the isolated peak to be on the safe side.

Li Ji'an felt threatened by Wu Weixiong's body-building boxing technique, especially with the presence of the second-level peak Earth-Splitting Bear, which should not be underestimated.

However, the second-level monster did not have the ability to sense its own broken limbs from a distance. In addition, the broken palm had been burned inside and out by the little fire spirit long ago, so it was unlikely that Wu Weixiong would come to find him.

On this day, Li Ji'an received a new monthly elixir task.

As expected, Dandingfeng is still constantly testing his production capacity.

This year, the monthly task had already been increased three times. He didn't care about this. Now that he was stable in the middle stage of foundation building, his cultivation had returned to normal, so there was no need to rush. Moreover, after the promotion to the middle stage of foundation building, his mana would be stronger, which theoretically could increase production capacity. As long as he kept it within eight furnaces of second-level middle-stage pills per month, it wouldn't be too exaggerated.

The main reason is that he really lacks sect contribution points to exchange for several types of resources he has already set.

One of them is the Crystal Condensing Pill from the alchemy tradition obtained in the Abyss Cave. After two years of research, Li Ji'an has a great deal of recognition of the effect of the pill on forming the pill described by it.

The principle behind this research was based on the effect of the Seven-Colored Jade Tree, a spiritual treasure that can form elixirs, on cultivators' condensation of solid elixirs in their dantian.

If taken during the process of forming a pill, it will be helpful for the formation of the pill.

These are the resources he must plan for in order to achieve the Jindan stage in his lifetime.

Most of the medicinal materials need to be of the third level, and in the entire Cangyun Province, only the Biyun Sect has abundant reserves of such third-level resources, and is more likely to be gathered.

However, he couldn't get the third-level medicinal herbs by refining pills, and could only exchange them with contribution points.

Secondly, forming a pill requires the impact of at least a third-level dojo. The abundance of spiritual energy has a decisive influence on the success or failure of forming a pill. In Cangyun Province, only the inner cave of Biyun Sect meets the requirements.

Even in the entire Tiancang Realm, the reason why there are no independent cultivators in the True Dan stage is because the third-level dojo in Tianyuan Prefecture and Daoyuan Prefecture will never be easily used by outsiders, especially independent cultivators.

The third-level spiritual vein cave of the Biyun Sect requires a large amount of contribution points to be used.

Of course, this is just a possibility. As for whether the guest official can use the sect's third-level cave to achieve the Jindan stage, there has never been a precedent in the thousands of years of history of the Biyun Sect.

After all, most of those who can become guests of Biyun Sect are independent cultivators. Even if these independent cultivators have extraordinary skills and talents, their talent for cultivation is not particularly good, and they are hindered by their skills. Many of them are either past the best age for forming a pill, or their potential is exhausted and they are unable to cultivate to the perfection of foundation building.

"There are still fifty years to complete the foundation building. Everything is possible!" Li Ji'an was not particularly worried about this.

After checking out the latest mid-stage second-order elixir that day, Li Ji'an pondered for half a day and finally controlled his escape light to head to Danding Peak.

Although this kind of elixir is new to him, it is not difficult to make. However, he still took this opportunity to ask Master Yudan for advice.

His current strategy is to try not to let him come to him, and to actively ask for advice once or twice every one or two years.

In addition to truly learning his strengths in alchemy, it is also to accumulate friendships in advance and prepare for the formation of elixir in this life.

It's a pity that Xiao Changfeng has been in seclusion since he passed the guest assessment, otherwise he would have been able to understand the sect's situation in more detail.

He has been honing his skills in the ruins for many years and has a solid foundation. Now he has the support of the True Dan Elder, and has won the battle with the sects from other states, obtaining massive resources. There are even rumors that he may have the possibility of being promoted to the true disciple.

"Master Li, Hall Master Jiang has already issued strict orders. As a guest alchemist, it is best for you to concentrate on refining pills in the outer peaks. If it is not absolutely necessary, do not leave."

As soon as they entered the sect's protective formation, the patrolling disciple of the Law Enforcement Hall glanced at Li Jian and warned him.

As for Li Jian, except for a group of disciples and stewards from Danding Peak, other inner disciples did not look up to him. In fact, in the eyes of the inner disciples, the guest alchemist was just a technician serving them.

Moreover, their resources are allocated directly to them by the Internal Affairs Hall, and they don’t even need to deal with Danding Peak or look at Danding Peak’s opinion.

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Ji'an became a guest alchemist, and the upper limit of his life was almost determined.

The best outcome is to work hard in the second half of this life and accumulate some sect connections and resources for future generations.

Li Ji'an nodded slightly. He was already accustomed to the attitude of most disciples in the sect towards his guest status.

However, he still went straight to Danding Peak and did not accept the advice of the patrolling disciples.

However, I just met Master Yudan.

True Man Yudan felt the aura of mid-stage foundation-building magic from Li Ji'an, and his unkempt face froze suddenly.

"Master Li Dan, have you advanced to the middle stage of foundation building?"

"Hiss~ You've only been in the foundation building stage for sixteen years, and you've already broken through to the middle stage of the foundation building stage so quickly?"

It's no wonder that Master Yudan was surprised. After all, under normal circumstances, it would take about thirty years of practice for a top-grade spiritual root to go from the early stage of foundation building to the middle stage without additional supplements. With the addition of elixirs and fighting techniques, the time can be shortened by half. However, this does not include the bottleneck in the middle stage.

Under normal circumstances, ordinary inner disciples in the sect may not be able to break through to the middle stage of foundation building within twenty years.

Like Jiang Yunzhou and Xiao Changfeng, the former is blessed by his ancestors, and the latter has a deep fortune, so only one or two people appear in many years.

Li Ji'an had come this time to deliberately reveal his progress in cultivation, without hiding anything: "I am a dull young man, and can only rely on the rewards of hard work and the extra elixirs to replenish my body."

"Extra elixir to replenish..." Master Yudan simply ignored the principle of "God rewards hard work" and grasped the key point.

Then he nodded secretly. He could clearly sense that Li Ji'an was in the middle stage of foundation building, and his magic power could not be compared with the inner disciples of the sect. It was probably related to taking too many pills or accumulating too much pill poison, in addition to his poor practice.

However, the fact that he was able to break through the bottleneck of the middle stage of foundation building so smoothly, even with the help of the level-breaking pill, proved that he had extraordinary comprehension.

"Could it be that this brat is still planning to form a pill?"

He is young and is eager to advance to a higher level, so his purpose is obvious.

However, Master Yudan repeatedly sensed the magical energy in his dantian and shook his head secretly.

Even if he could cultivate to the peak of foundation building, it would be difficult for him to successfully condense the pill given his magic power.

What's more, the resources required for the middle and late stages of foundation building are quite a lot. With his current contribution to alchemy, it is unknown how many years it will take.

After a moment's silence, Jade Pill Master said with some anticipation, "If Master Li can truly become a third-rank alchemist, then I will have to step down and let the virtuous one take over."

Over the past year or so, he personally checked all the pills delivered by Li Ji'an, and found that the quality of the pills was stable and the efficacy was special. He then deduced his alchemy techniques and skills, and was very sure of Li Ji'an's talent in the art of alchemy.

The only pity is that he was born as a casual cultivator, and it is unlikely that he would reach the third level in this lifetime. Otherwise, if he really became a third-level alchemist, then the many third-level alchemy recipes collected in the sect might come in handy.

And now, Li Ji'an undoubtedly gave him some hope.

Although this hope is very slim.

In the subsequent exchange of alchemy, Li Ji'an clearly felt that Master Yudan was in a more high-spirited mood.

Just before parting, Jade Pill Master suddenly called Li Ji'an back, "Oh, by the way, Master Li Dan, although the sect has announced its closure, we still need to recruit new blood. Now that we're about to recruit new disciples, the Internal Affairs Hall needs us to come up with a test on one's understanding of the Dao of Alchemy. How about giving it to you? It would also be a contribution to the sect."

"My entrance examination questions?" Li Ji'an couldn't help but pause.

(End of this chapter)