Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 72: Dan Shop Opening

Lianhefang Market, South Street.

Today, colorful silks are fluttering and gongs and drums are beating.

The Yan family's alchemy shop reopened, and a grand banquet was held, inviting heroes from all over the world.

The head of the family, Yan Zongsheng, led several elders of the clan to appear at the alchemy shop.

The other seven of the Eight Families of the Wasteland all came to show their support. Except for the Zheng family, the head of the eight families, the heads of the other six families personally presented gifts.

Seventeen Qi training families in the surrounding area and some well-known independent practitioners also came to congratulate.

Yan Qingwan was pushed to the forefront by the clan, praised by everyone, thanked them one by one, and personally presented with the elixir she had made. For a time, she was the most famous and glorious person in the clan.

She is praised as the number one female alchemist in the wilderness, the most beautiful female alchemist, a woman of both talent and skill... and many other titles.

Li Ji'an stood at the end of the crowd, looking at Yan Qingwan from afar as she was being the center of attention, and silently wished her well.

The Fallen Dragon Ridge Wasteland was only allowed to be reclaimed more than 500 years ago by order from the Supreme Being. At that time, countless families, independent cultivators and even sects came here to seek opportunities. However, after many rounds of cleansing, those sects and families with original foundations evacuated after gaining enough rewards. In the end, only the current eight major families occupied their respective second-level spiritual veins, and another seventeen Qi-training families occupied the first-level spiritual veins. Gradually, the situation stabilized.

Previously, this place was in chaos and order. Moreover, since it was far away from the northern cities, there was no decent trading market within a radius of thousands of miles. Many materials had to be purchased from other places, which was quite inconvenient.

No family was willing to use the clan land they occupied to build a market.

Until more than ninety years ago, the two Qi-training families fought each other for this place, and eventually it was taken advantage of by the eight foundation-building families today. They established a market for trading and living, which can be regarded as a small contribution to the countless independent cultivators in this place.

Li Ji'an suspected that the reason why the Yan family and the Wei family finally reconciled and cooperated three years ago, apart from the incident with Wei Huairen, was mainly because they had learned a lesson from the spiritual vein in Lianhefang City. They knew that if they continued to fight, it would be a lose-lose situation in which the fisherman would gain the advantage.

"Zheng Tianxiang, on behalf of the Zheng family, presents a hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum to congratulate the Yan family's alchemy shop and the great alchemist Yan!" With the doorman's knock on the door, the opening banquet reached its climax.

As the head of the eight major families in the wasteland, the Zheng family has three people who have established the foundation, and they sit firmly in the top seat in the wasteland. They also occupy the largest second-level medium-grade spiritual vein Taoist temple in the wasteland. The family territory covers an area of 100 miles, and they monopolize nearly 80% of the elixir business and magic weapon business in the entire wasteland.

Both strength and financial resources are outstanding.

If the clan gives birth to more descendants with extraordinary spiritual roots, perhaps one day they will be able to produce a Jindan Zhenren.

By then, the entire southern wasteland of Fallen Dragon Ridge will belong to the Zheng family.

If the other seven families had not been smart enough to understand the harm that a monopoly would do to their interests, they would have united long ago, forcing the Zheng family to temporarily not dare to violate the joint agreement reached by the eight families.

However, the strength of the clan is there. Even if it competes openly with the other seven companies, the other seven companies will find it difficult to shake its market share.

"Qingwan, I haven't seen you for several years. I never thought that you have achieved such success. Congratulations!" After Zheng Tianxiang paid his respects to the heads of the seven families, he came to Yan Qingwan with a warm smile and extraordinary demeanor.

"Young Master Zheng, you're too polite. However, please be mindful of your address." Yan Qingwan remained calm and composed, but a hint of resentment could be heard in her voice.

"Ah, Qing...Master Yan Dan is still blaming me, and I have no choice." Zheng Tianxiang shook his head helplessly.

"But it doesn't matter. Now my clan has ordered me to be on duty in the market. In the future... I will have time to communicate more. I believe that people's true nature will be revealed over time." After saying this, without waiting for Yan Qingwan to say anything else, Zheng Tianxiang was led to the courtyard by a group of family heads and sat down like a star.

Li Ji'an stood aside, looking at Zheng Tianxiang who was welcomed in from in front of him, with a strange smile on his face.

The reason why he laughed strangely was that he had naturally heard some rumors during his seven years in the Yan family.

Combined with the fact that before he went to the Yan family's land, when Yan Qingwan stayed overnight in the market town, his spiritual consciousness accidentally discovered Yan Qingwan lying on the quilt and sobbing, he could almost conclude that the rumor was true.

It is said that the founding ancestors of the Zheng family and the founding ancestors of the Yan family were sworn brothers. They came to the wilderness to fight more than 500 years ago, and it was even the ancestor of the Yan family who persuaded the ancestor of the Zheng family to come.

After that, the two helped each other and achieved success. However, they eventually had conflicts due to the clichéd conflicts of interests and never spoke to each other again.

In this generation, although the Zheng family is the strongest family here, the other seven families also have ancestors who have established their foundation. They are all old guys who have experienced bloody storms and witnessed intrigues and conspiracies, and are not so easy to fool.

It is not easy for the Zheng family to make further progress.

So he took the initiative to establish contact with the Yan family, recalling the good and bad times and recalling the brotherhood of his ancestors.

A child marriage was arranged for Yan Qingwan when she was just born.

however……

What made Li Ji'an laugh was that when Yan Qingwan was seventeen years old that year, Zheng Tianxiang came to cancel the engagement in public.

Compared to the novels he had read in his first life, this one was a bit contrary to Tiangang.

The reason why Zheng Tianxiang broke off the engagement was simple. It was because the Zheng family had established a relationship with the Liu family, one of the five major families in the north, and wanted to marry into the family!
In fact, Zheng Tianxiang's spiritual roots were fully formed when he was fifteen years old. He could sense nineteen strands of spiritual rhyme from his gold-type spiritual roots, which meant he was just one step away from having the talent of a top-grade spiritual root, and he had great hope of forming a pill.

Yan Qingwan almost became the laughing stock of the entire wilderness that time.

People who didn't know the truth thought that the Yan family was trying to curry favor with the Zheng family, but it turned out that the Zheng family looked down on her.

After three rounds of drinks, both the host and the guests were in high spirits, and Yan's Alchemy Shop finally returned to its former tranquility.

The next day, the head of the family and a group of elders returned to the clan, leaving only eight people including Yan Qingwan and Li Ji'an, one of whom was the shopkeeper and five servants.

Previously, because of Master Mo Dan, the owner of the alchemy shop was not a relative of the Yan family. But now, as the alchemy shop is an important business project of the Yan family, the owner must be a relative.

Three of the five servants were the same servants from seven years ago and were also familiar with Li Ji'an.

The difference is that seven years ago, Li Ji'an was just like them, a handyman, and he was just a handyman for the alchemist, a person of an outsider family, and a contract worker.

But now, they are still servants, while Li Ji'an is a guest official.

This was the special status that Yan Qingwan had secured for Li Ji'an in the clan in order to get him to accompany her to the alchemy shop in the market.

Apart from the profits from the pill shop that Yan Qingwan secretly wanted to share with him, the guest official also received a monthly salary of eight spirit stones.

"Uncle Zhong, from now on, everything about the front yard of the alchemy shop will depend on you. Be kind to others, don't use your power to bully others, and don't ruin the reputation of Yan's alchemy shop." Yan Qingwan reminded him one by one.

"Don't worry, Miss. I saved all the trouble." Uncle Zhong looked very honest and kind.

"If I can't spare time in the future, Brother Li's meaning is my meaning. Don't neglect it. I will be responsible if anything goes wrong." Yan Qingwan glanced at Li Ji'an again.

They have been together for seven consecutive years, especially when he saved her life on the way back to her hometown four years ago, and when Master Mo Dan defected and continued to guide her tirelessly for two years. In addition to guiding her in alchemy, Li Ji'an also gave her a lot of spiritual comfort and encouragement, which allowed her to withstand the tremendous pressure and achieve what she has today.

She no longer had the contemptuous attitude towards Li Ji'an that she had previously shown due to his poor spiritual roots and lack of potential. Now she truly admired and was grateful to him from the bottom of her heart.

Moreover, she was very sure that Li Ji'an's talent in alchemy was several times greater than hers. It was a pity that his spiritual roots were poor, his cultivation was low, and his alchemy fire was weak. Otherwise, she was sure that Li Ji'an could become a senior alchemist.

Based on this, she unconsciously changed her way of addressing Li Ji'an to "Brother Li" in the past two years, letting go of the sense of superiority she had as the eldest daughter.

At the same time, she had already made a plan in her mind that she must get a Feiyun Pill for Brother Li this year to help him break through to the middle stage of Qi training.

(End of this chapter)