Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 47: Start practicing Qi

"The Yan family? The Yan family that Zhang Tiezhu went to open up wasteland?" Li Ji'an had an impression of this Yan family.

He wanted to tell Chen Qingling that unless there was a major conflict of interest or a completely overwhelming gap in strength, in this world where everyone held the truth, adults with sound minds would not irrationally engage in unnecessary conflicts like children like them.

Chen Zhaohu is a mid-stage first-level physical cultivator, and even sixth-level Qi training cultivators have to be wary of him getting close.

"You underestimate your brother's strength!" In the end, not much explanation was given.

After this little episode, Chen Qingling was no longer in the mood to take Li Ji'an to visit the market, so she took him straight back to the dojo area on the east side of the market, near the periphery.

The so-called Taoist temple is actually a group of rented houses in the planning office of the market administrator, specially prepared for independent cultivators like Chen Qingling who have no foundation.

The closer to the core area of the spiritual vein in the west, the richer the spiritual energy will be, and vice versa.

The rental fees for dojo also vary accordingly.

The rent for a private courtyard in the core area is over 300 spirit stones a year, while the rent for the area where Chen Qingling lives is around 10 spirit stones a year. However, it is not a private courtyard, but a two-story townhouse with one room per household.

It just so happened that there was an empty room upstairs from Chen Qingling, and Li Ji'an rented it.

"Fortunately, Chen Zhaohu gave me ten spirit stones, otherwise the pressure would be too great. These twenty-four spirit stones should be barely enough for my plan for the next year." Sitting alone in the room organizing the spirit stones, Li Ji'an nodded with a smile.

The next morning, Li Ji'an took Chen Qingling to the street stall area on North Street again.

First, you have to choose a technique.

He didn't dare to hope for the kind of mid-grade martial arts that Chen Qingling practiced. According to Chen Zhaohu, he spent a full fifty spirit stones to buy it from a customer, and it was also subject to soul restrictions, so only Chen Qingling could practice it.

"Once you choose a certain technique, like us, there will be no room for regret, and you will not be given the opportunity to practice again. Therefore, how to choose is very important. Of course... in your case, there is no need to go through so much trouble, and you can only practice fire-based techniques." Although he was reluctant, Chen Qingling still brought Li Ji'an to the stall area. When he learned that he wanted to buy a technique, he carefully explained some precautions.

"No room for regret?" A smile appeared on Li Ji'an's lips.

This life doesn’t matter. As long as you can have a preliminary understanding of the situation of cultivation and accumulate some experience for the next life, it will be considered a success.

It doesn’t matter what kind of practice you do, just treat it as an experience.

And what Chen Qingling said was right. Only his fire spiritual root could sense two strands of spiritual energy, while the others could sense only one strand. There was no need to worry about it at all.

In this life, I will try the fire-based skills first.

"Fellow Daoist, please stay and take a look at the magical weapon I bravely entered into this strange secret realm and exchanged my life for. It is truly of top-grade quality..."

"Don't miss this if you pass by. These are all talisman papers made by young girls using secret methods. They guarantee that the success rate of talisman making by all talisman masters will be increased by 30%."

"The secret recipe of the fasting pill is brewed using ancient methods and added with high-quality spiritual rice. It not only has the effect of fasting, but also replenishes spiritual energy."

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As soon as you enter the street stall area, you will hear endless hawking sounds, as well as various bargaining sounds, swearing, ridicule and cursing, and the whole place is bustling with people.

The not very wide street was crowded with people and very lively.

"How many spirit stones are you willing to spend to buy the skills?" Chen Qingling asked.

Li Ji'an waved his hand nonchalantly: "Let's take a look first. If it doesn't work, just buy a copy of the 'Nine Yang Secret'."

The "Nine Yang Secret" and several other techniques are among the more common techniques in this world. In addition to the fact that their efficiency in practice and the mana refined from them are relatively weak, the main reason is that the techniques have been spread by too many people and have no commercial value.

Nowadays, those who sell this technique only make money from the labor cost of branding the technique and the material cost of the jade talisman.

"Think carefully, once you master the skills, you can't change them." Chen Qingling reminded again.

Li Ji'an nodded.

Chen Qingling pouted, not wanting to waste any more time talking. She led Li Ji'an directly to a stall filled with jade talismans imprinted with cultivation techniques. "This guy specializes in imprinting cultivation techniques. Aside from the common ones, he doesn't guarantee the authenticity of any of the other random techniques."

Li Ji'an listened to the advice and had no illusions of finding a bargain, so he decisively only bought the "Nine Yang Secrets" and spent five taels of spiritual sand.

Seeing Li Ji'an get the jade talisman, Chen Qingling turned around and prepared to go back.

"Wait, take me to find a place that sells elixirs." Li Ji'an called him.

Hundreds of arts of cultivating immortality, including elixirs, weapons, talismans and formations.

The reason why "Dan" comes first is because no cultivator in this world can do without it.

Insufficient spiritual energy requires Qi-replenishing pills, accelerating the condensation of magic power requires Qi-condensing pills, not eating requires fasting pills... Breaking through the bottleneck of realm requires level-breaking pills, and building the foundation requires foundation-building pills.

It is also the largest consumable item for monks.

"You still want to buy pills?" Chen Qingling was very surprised and a little resistant. He has been restraining the urge to buy pills recently because he consumed too much pills some time ago. He clearly felt the pressure from Chen Zhaohu.

So I want to try not taking pills, but relying on time and hard work.

"Learn something in advance." Li Ji'an replied.

I have just arrived in the world of cultivation in this life and have no one to rely on. Naturally, I cannot be a full-time warrior like I was in the Xianci Dynasty. Alchemist is naturally the first choice.

It just so happened that he practiced a fire-attributed technique and was able to condense elixir fire.

To refine elixirs in this world, ordinary firewood cannot be used, but elixir fire is required, so the threshold for alchemists is greatly raised.

Chen Qingling bit her lip impatiently, and finally brought Li Ji'an to the stall where he had been buying pills before.

"Hey, young Taoist friend, you haven't been here for a while. Is it still the same as before?" The stall owner saw Chen Qingling and greeted him with a smile, while picking up a white jade porcelain bottle.

"No... no, I don't need the elixir for the time being." Chen Qingling smiled awkwardly and waved his hands hurriedly.

Li Ji'an ignored him and squatted down, asking about the pills on the stalls one by one.

"Primary Qi Replenishing Pill, 5 liang of Spiritual Sand per pill, Qi Condensing Pill, 8 liang of Spiritual Sand per pill, Mind Condensing Pill, 10 liang of Spiritual Sand per pill..."

Fortunately, with Chen Qingling's endorsement, the stall owner patiently answered Li Ji'an's questions.

He also chatted with him and revealed some secrets of the medicine business.

That night, Li Ji'an tried to practice the "Nine Yang Secret" for the first time according to Chen Qingling's experience in getting started with Qigong.

"The five elements of spiritual energy are mixed in the world. To practice fire-attributed exercises, one needs to sense the fire-attributed spiritual energy and absorb it into the body according to the instructions of the exercises. The "Flame Spirit Art" I practiced only needed three cycles to be refined into magic power.

The "Nine Yang Art" you are practicing does indeed require five cycles of practice.

However, the difficulty at the beginning is not in refining, but in understanding the skills.

Understand the circulation of spiritual energy after it enters the body.

One complete rotation is one week.

It only took me one day from the first time I came into contact with the technique to the time I completed a full cycle. As for you... don't worry, if you can complete a full cycle in three days, it's not bad..." Seeing Li Ji'an start to practice the technique and absorb spiritual energy, Chen Qingling continued to explain the possible problems he might encounter and the normal process.

However, he had not yet finished speaking.

I saw Li Ji'an slowly opening his eyes.

"Is this a complete cycle? The spiritual energy entering the body is truly miraculous..."

(End of this chapter)