Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 45: One Year Expiration

"Oh, I've already told you that you're already old enough to start absorbing and refining spiritual energy. You don't need to sense it anymore... Sensing it is for children whose spiritual roots haven't fully grown yet to nourish them. You..."

Faced with Li Ji'an's very sincere request, Chen Qingling was quite impatient.

Until I saw the secret garlic fried chicken that Li Ji'an handed over...

"That's all trivial. I'll pass it to you right after I finish eating."

After a year of getting along, Li Ji'an became more familiar with the Chen Zhaohu brothers.

Chen Zhaohu did not spend resources on cultivation himself in order to provide resources for his younger brother Chen Qingling.

When Chen Qingling was eight years old, she had five strands of fire spiritual charm in her spiritual test, and there was hope that she could cultivate a medium-grade spiritual root.

Therefore, in recent years, Chen Zhaohu rented a Taoist temple for him in Lianhe Market. Except for occasionally coming back to accompany Chen Zhaohu when he got bored, he spent most of his time in the market "sensing the qi".

Half a year ago, after testing his spirit and confirming that there was not much potential for further growth, he began his true practice.

Unfortunately, the fire spiritual root can sense nine strands and is almost a mid-grade spiritual root.

He practiced the fire-based technique "Flame Spirit Technique" purchased for him by Chen Zhaohu, and reached the first level of Qi training last month, making him a true Qi training cultivator.

"Old Li, you're already thirty years old, why are you still sensing qi? After the age of fifteen, there's no need to sense qi anymore. Your spiritual roots have already taken shape, so there's no point in sensing a flower.

If you really don't want to give up, then go buy a technique and start practicing. Don't waste any more time." Another first-level elementary physical cultivator in the team said jokingly while drinking.

"Why practice Qi? Brother Li has extraordinary physique, I'm afraid he's almost surpassing Brother Hu. It's enough for him to practice body training. At least he doesn't have to spend so much money like us. We have finally saved up some spirit stones, but we are reluctant to go to Tianxian Tower. Life is too boring!" Another teammate who was at the second level of Qi training complained.

In Chen Zhaohu's hunting team, except for Chen Zhaohu, Li Ji'an and two junior physical cultivators, the rest of the Qi-cultivating cultivators are temporary.

Most of these temporary cultivators are helpless and independent cultivators. In order to stay in the market to practice, they have to find ways to earn spirit stones.

Li Ji'an smiled and shook his head. "I'm late, but I can teach the next generation in the future. I can practice on my own and have a better understanding of it. That way, when my children and grandchildren ask for advice, they won't be completely in the dark."

He really thought so.

The difference is that he is accumulating experience in sensing qi for his next life.

"Hey, I'm talking to you guys. You haven't even lived a good life in this life, and you're always thinking about making the next generation live a good life... Aren't you tired?"

"If Tiger hadn't been for this ungrateful little bastard, with his physical strength, he could have married a whole house of women. He might even have found one with good spiritual roots. What a pity..."

While sucking his fingers, Chen Qingling rolled his eyes at the third-level Qi training cultivator who called him an ungrateful person.

But he didn't dare to talk back.

There was nothing special about it. It was just that after he started practicing Qi, he understood how difficult it was. In his eyes, the third level of Qi training was already a senior master. He was no longer like a newborn calf that was not afraid of a tiger.

That night, Li Ji'an finally got the Qi Sensing Technique from Chen Qingling for free, saving three spirit stones.

The reason why they wanted to keep an eye on Chen Qingling was mainly because his method of sensing qi was a superior method that his brother bought for him with spirit stones, which was much better than those helpless independent cultivators in the team.

"There are five elements in the sky, which restrain and generate each other. There are five elements in humans, which complement and reinforce each other. Heaven and man are in tune with each other, and the energy is stored in the body..."

After Chen Qingling's impatient explanation, Li Ji'an went back to his room to ponder on his own.

"That's not difficult..."

With the superposition of five generations of souls, this entry-level method can be understood at once.

After only the fifth operation, he could sense a faint resonance between the air and his dantian.

"This is spiritual energy...it's really very thin!"

No wonder Chen Qingling said that in this spiritually poor place, it is useless to sense the energy, because there is no way to sense it at all.

Li Ji'an tried many times and was sure that he had understood the method of sensing qi.

The reason he could sense the resonance of spiritual energy with his dantian even in such a spiritually barren place was naturally thanks to the blessing of his fifth-generation soul. Over the past year, he also understood why each time he regained youth, his spirit became stronger, his thinking sharper, and his understanding higher.

It is the soul!

In this world of cultivation, Qigong practitioners absorb spiritual energy, refine their magic power, and transform their Dantian.

Physical cultivation is similar to the martial arts of the Xianci Dynasty. In the early stages, you strengthen your muscles and bones, and refine your qi and blood. No external objects are needed. However, in the middle and late stages, you need spiritual objects corresponding to the exercises to increase the limits of your physical body and continue to temper it.

No matter which one it is, the soul is crucial.

A Qigong cultivator needs a soul to lay the foundation, and many arts of cultivating immortals also require a soul. The soul is condensed into spiritual consciousness. When the spiritual consciousness is strong enough, it will gather into divine consciousness, and then the primordial spirit, and even the ultimate divine thought... It is indispensable whether practicing fighting techniques, or refining pills and drawing talismans.

Physical cultivation also requires the soul, especially in the middle and late stages. The stronger the soul, the stronger the impact it can withstand when training the body. Otherwise, the physical body can withstand it, but the soul is too weak to bear it, and the soul will easily be damaged.

Moreover, the soul has a greater impact on the sensitivity of physical cultivation.

As for the rare soul cultivators, who specialize in cultivating the spirit and soul and use the soul to survive, there is no need to say more.

Li Ji'an has a great advantage in this regard!

After comparing himself with several cultivators in the early stages of Qi training, he found that their initial spiritual awareness was obviously weaker than his own.

"As soon as possible, find a method to condense spiritual consciousness... Once spiritual consciousness is condensed, the five senses will be greatly improved."

"It's a pity that soul cultivation techniques are so rare, otherwise this path of soul cultivation would be more suitable for my life."

When I finished my exercise and stood up, I saw the morning glow filling the sky.

A new day begins.

It also indicates that the one-year deadline for himself and Chen Zhaohu has arrived.

During this year, Chen Zhaohu actually treated him as a mascot, saying that all he had to do was follow the team.

Just as Chen Zhaohu said, their team did not suffer any casualties this year, and the harvest was better than before.

This further deepened Chen Zhaohu's understanding that Li Ji'an was a person of great fortune.

What he didn't know was that Li Jian'an was just relying on his powerful spirit to sense the possible dangers in advance and secretly guide them to avoid them.

As for the harvest, Li Ji'an also wanted to save more spirit stones.

Practicing Buddhism is not easy, wealth, friends, Dharma and land are essential!
After deducting the living expenses for the year, he took out the remaining twenty-four spirit stones and seventy-three taels of spirit sand from the secret compartment and put them into his arms.

Then he put away the bottom stack of letters.

There were eight letters in total. One was sent by Zhang Tiezhu three months ago, saying that he had successfully joined the pioneering team as soon as he arrived. After nearly a year of hard work, he got the attention of the Yan family's manager, was rewarded, and saw the hope of becoming an immortal.

One letter was from Zhu Linxian, sent half a year ago, and he only said that he was leaving Lianhefang City and going to other places to look for opportunities, and he didn't say anything else.

The other six letters were from Zhao Shuyao.

He wrote a letter almost every two months, covering everything from the time he left the gathering place last year and went to the market town, to his separation from Dong Jiangling and Zhu Linxian, to his failed application for the Lingdan Pavilion... no matter how big or small.

The most done in the first half of the year was persuasion, describing the hopes and future of Xiuxianfang City, hoping to arouse Li Ji'an's fighting spirit.

However, in the second half of the year, especially in the letter last month, he no longer advised Li Ji'an to cultivate immortality, and the words were full of fatigue.

Dong Jiangling disappeared without a trace.

"I hope this little bit of spirit stones can help me gain a foothold in the market!" Li Ji'an went to say goodbye to Chen Zhaohu.

It's time to truly enter the world of cultivation.

(End of this chapter)