Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 66 Ten Years of Agreement
"Quack~Quack~" The frog poked its head out to confirm Li Ji'an's identity, then immediately jumped out of the pond and landed at Li Ji'an's feet in a few seconds, rubbing its head against Li Ji'an's thigh.

After the incident at the medicine garden two years ago, an elder of the Hui ethnic group on the front line took his anger out on the frog and gave Li Ji'an fifty spirit stones, intending to buy the frog, remove its tendons and skin it to vent his hatred.

The asking price of fifty spirit stones is already a significant premium.

After all, this frog is only a first-stage spirit beast with thin bloodline and almost no potential, and it only has the talent of "Swallowing the Sky".

This talent has a similar use to a storage bag, except for special scenarios, such as swallowing things like herb gardens that are connected to the earth veins and difficult to separate and need to be properly placed. Its storage space is similar to that of a mid-grade storage bag, except that it can hold living things for a short period of time.

Moreover, spirit beasts need to be fed with spirit food and animal pills, and they also require the consumption of spiritual energy to control and tame them.

For low-level monks, nothing is as cost-effective as a storage bag.

Even for low-level cultivators who have ideas about taming beasts, it is not as valuable as a spiritual horse. At least after researching it, they can use it to make a carriage for transportation from ordinary gathering areas to the market town.

Of course, spirit beasts with this kind of bloodline have touched upon the primary laws of space and are said to be favored by high-level cultivators, but those are all spirit beasts with at least top-grade bloodlines that have the potential to be promoted to a higher level.

This kind of frog is most likely a niche defective product bred by the Beast Taming Family.

Rare but inexpensive.

At that time, the frog was almost scared to death by the elder. Li Ji'an happened to want to study the art of taming beasts, so he politely rescued it.

In addition, after subsequent research, it was learned that this frog had just been bought by the beastmaster for the Yan family's medicine garden. It was not cultivated carefully at all, but was simply roughly controlled with the beast soul stone. It was equivalent to a tragic experience.

So it tried its best to please Li Ji'an.

"Go ahead. I don't have time to study you today." Li Ji'an waved his hand and ignored its courtesy.

Then he quickly returned to the room, calmed his mind, and looked at his Dantian.

"The transformation is finally complete!"

When he saw that the flesh-colored inner wall of his Dantian had completely turned white, he let out a long breath.

This marked the completion of his Dantian transformation from the early stage to the middle stage of Qi training. He had reached the peak of the third level of Qi training and was ready to strive for the fourth level.

"Five full years!" It took him five full years just to transform his Dantian.

This is the most fundamental disadvantage of having only two strands of spiritual perception.

"The Qi Refining Stage is the process of absorbing spiritual energy, refining it into one's own mana, and storing it in the Dantian. However, the space in the Dantian is limited, and quantitative changes will eventually lead to qualitative changes. The Foundation Establishment Stage is the transformation from gaseous mana to liquid mana. This transformation does not happen overnight, but is gradual, starting slowly from the middle stage of Qi Refining.

In the early stage of Qi training, the magic power is thin, and in the middle stage of Qi training, the magic power must be more condensed!
The middle stage of Qi training…” After observing the transformation of his Dantian, Li Ji’an once again realized the essence of the middle stage of Qi training and even the entire Qi training period.

Now that he has perfected the third level of Qi training, if he wants to cross the threshold of the middle stage of Qi training, the transformation of Dantian is the foundation. Next, he needs to understand the key points of mana condensation, and then use a larger amount of mana refining to compress the mana to achieve the purpose of condensation.

He doesn't need to worry about comprehension, the only thing he worries about is whether the two strands of spiritual sensitivity can provide enough compressed magic power!
In fact, at this juncture, not only he, but also most of the Yan family members, and even all the low-grade spiritual roots in the entire cultivation world, would have this worry. Of course, they also had an additional worry about comprehension.

Ninety percent of the cultivators in the early stage of Qi training who have low-grade spiritual roots can only use Feiyun Pills to assist in condensing and compressing their magic power.

The remaining 10% who did not take Feiyun Pill to break through the level mostly did so through life-and-death battles, gaining insights and condensing their skills in the battles.

A small number of them are consolidated bit by bit over time through slow and steady efforts.

Naturally, there are also those who are blessed with great fortune and who can gain breakthroughs from the spiritual objects of heaven and earth.

As for Li Ji'an, he was the first one to be eliminated because he was good at fighting and risking his life.

Hoping for a good fortune or a chance encounter is like a gambler's mentality and should not be taken seriously. All that's left is Feiyun Dan and Shuimo Gong.

Two years ago, after the head of the Yan family returned to his clan, he praised him publicly and rewarded him handsomely.

After asking for his opinion, he promised him a Feiyun Pill and a Yangyuan Pill.

The reason why it was a promise was that the resources within the Yan clan were in serious shortage, and no one except the frontline combatants could be given the Breakthrough Pill, unless Li Ji'an could go to the front line.

At that time, Li Ji'an realized that Yan Zongsheng wanted him to go to the front line. After all, he had shown the strength of a first-level primary physical cultivator, and Yan Hongsheng affirmed his strength. If he went to the front battlefield, he would be able to fight against the backbone of the Wei family who were in the middle stage of Qi training.

Because of the incident at the medicine garden, conflicts on the front lines intensified during that period, with casualties occurring every day. Both sides were blood-thirsty, and the Yan family was truly lacking in core combat power in the middle stage of Qi training.

Li Ji'an refused without a second thought, and Yan Zongsheng had no choice but to turn the reward into a promise, promising that if the alchemist in the clan could refine Feiyun Pill and Yangyuan Pill, he would give them to Li Ji'an.

Li Ji'an accepted this, but... he didn't know when it would happen.

The alchemist in the clan now naturally refers to Yan Qingwan.

As for his alchemy skills... he can barely be considered a first-level intermediate alchemist, and is already able to refine some elixirs needed by mid-stage Qi training cultivators. In fact, after two years of tireless communication and training with Li Ji'an, his success rate and quality of pills have greatly improved, and he can already make a profit.

However, the breakthrough pills or even the nourishing source pills are still a long way off.

At least her spiritual awareness must reach the late stage of Qi training.

But it's still a hope.

Moreover, since the incident in the medicine garden two years ago, the Wei and Yan clans fought several fierce battles in succession. For some reason, the situation suddenly calmed down. Until half a year ago, they even suddenly announced cooperation to jointly develop the medicine field, and the situation completely stabilized.

He now lives a comfortable life in the Yan family and is not in a hurry.

It is worth mentioning that according to Yan Hongsheng, the reason why the two tribes suddenly cooperated was because of Wei Huairen’s incident.

Wei Huairen was born in a branch of the Wei family. He was very talented, had a mid-grade gold spiritual root, and his cultivation went smoothly. The Wei family even intended to train him to become the next generation of foundation-building ancestor.

However, for some unknown reason, when he was ready to break through to the foundation-building stage after completing the Qi training stage, his clan did not provide him with the foundation-building pill.

He was filled with resentment, and at some point he met a master whose background he did not know. He was eventually bewitched and wanted to take control of the Wei family. The appearance of the medicine field gave him the opportunity.

Two years ago, the two ancestors were both defeated. It was not because of the fight between the two ancestors, but the work of the person behind them, which intensified the conflict between the two tribes to the extreme.

Later, because of the matter of the medicine garden, he wanted to force the two tribes into a life-and-death battle.

Afterwards, the two ancestors met secretly for the survival of the clan, and only then did they figure out the matter.

Unfortunately, Wei Huairen was seriously injured but still escaped. The two foundation-building ancestors were suspected of having fought with the man behind him, but the two ancestors kept silent about the outcome.

"Brother Li, it's time for us to set off!" At this moment, Zhang Tiezhu's voice sounded outside.

The ten-year agreement has expired, and they are returning to the starting point of this world.

As for the five people from that year, Li Ji'an was not sure how many of them would show up this time, and he had no expectations.

The main purpose of his trip was to find Chen Zhaohu to discuss some matters concerning beast taming.

(End of this chapter)