Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 79 Preparations for Returning to Childhood
In the world of cultivation, due to the relatively long lifespan, the seniority hierarchy is rather chaotic.

For cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage, some get married and have children at the age of twenty, such as those families that recruit sons-in-law, the purpose of which is to supplement the number of new generations in the clan.

There are also those who, when they are seventy or eighty years old and their physical energy and blood begin to decline, their health begins to go downhill, and there is no possibility of further cultivation, only then do they think of continuing the family line. These people are generally those with slightly better spiritual roots, who have broken through to the late stage of Qi training before the age of fifty and want to break through to the foundation building stage.

But most of them still get married and have children in their thirties or forties like Zhang Tiezhu.

The eldest elder belongs to the majority. He is now over a hundred years old, but his granddaughter is only eighteen.

Looking at the Great Elder's sincere expression, Li Ji'an realized that he couldn't stop him without a strong argument.

"Great Elder, your words are too kind. I've long forgotten that matter. As for your granddaughter... To be honest, I already have someone in my heart. I'm sorry, I can't obey your order."

"Hmm? You... Xiao Li, a real man should be devoted to cultivation and indulge in skills, and should not be emotional. Marriage and having children are just to continue the family line. It doesn't matter who you have the children with. Just find someone with better spiritual roots so that the next generation can be more talented, isn't that enough?" The Great Elder was obviously stunned for a moment before he reacted and was very surprised at what Li Ji'an called his ideal partner.

It’s not that there is no love in the cultivation world, but people like them at the bottom of the cultivation world don’t deserve love, especially as a family from the wilderness.

Li Ji'an was not surprised by his words.

Not to mention this world of cultivation.

Even from what the Xianci Dynasty had seen and heard before, none of the powerful families and those in power had the so-called love between men and women.

The good thing is that female practitioners in the cultivation world have the same cultivation paths as male practitioners, and there is almost no gender superiority or inferiority, so they are relatively equal. If they don’t want to talk about love, then don’t talk about it. They are more like companions on the path of cultivation.

In the Xianci Dynasty, the powerful and wealthy, apart from marriages for profit, mostly regarded women as playthings and tools, to be summoned and dismissed at will, with the power of life and death. Any powerful and wealthy person who indulged in love was a waste, without ambition, and was wasted on playthings.

"I'm sorry to have made the Great Elder laugh. I'm a junior... I have no ambitions and haven't given up worldly love. I'm really..."

"..." The Great Elder frowned and looked at Li Ji'an, somewhat disappointed.

What's so hard to get over? You're actually addicted to love!

Isn’t it great to make elixirs? Isn’t it great to draw talismans?
"Well, love is not a bad idea... Come on, follow me back to meet my granddaughter. Isn't love just lust at first sight? My granddaughter is quite pretty." Yan Kongyi only wanted a person with extraordinary comprehension in the clan to inherit his legacy of talismans, and nothing else mattered.

Li Ji'an shook his head firmly: "Great Elder, you don't understand love!"

"..."

In the end, the skinny old man with a big beard left with a stiff face and dull eyes.

Seeing that Li Ji'an did not go back for the blind date even though the Great Elder came to invite him personally, Yan Qingwan realized the problem.

I'm afraid it's not as simple as she imagined.

Li Ji'an had always refused before, and she initially thought that Li Ji'an wanted to find someone with good spiritual roots.

Later I thought he wanted to find a beautiful one.

Later I thought he wanted to find someone of higher status.

Now, these three things are almost complete... She doesn't understand what kind of person Li Ji'an is looking for.

Seeing that Yan Qingwan was probably not in the right state to make the elixir today, Li Ji'an didn't want her to urge him to get married again, so he simply took leave and returned to the courtyard.

"Qua~"

Ten years later, Guagua had grown a lot bigger and when he squatted beside him, he was almost as tall as his shoulder.

"Come on! Continue." After feeding him a Ningbi Dan, Li Ji'an's blood surged.

"Quack~" Quack instantly fell to the ground, showing a gesture of submission.

Over the past ten years, with the steady growth of his Lei Yanjing body refining, Li Ji'an's blood and energy became increasingly rich, and he often felt hot and uncomfortable. By chance, he discovered that Gua Gua had thick skin and flesh, and was a good sparring partner.

After practicing many times, he found that this method could not only refine his own qi and blood, but also benefit the transformation of Gua Gua's blood.

Now he has almost reached the peak of the late stage of physical training, and Gua Gua also shows signs of transforming to the late stage.

Not long after, the man and the frog started fighting again in the yard.

Unfortunately, Guagua was only a mid-level first-order demon beast, its primary talent not in skin and flesh defense. He was confident he could shatter the protective shield of a peak-level Qi training cultivator with a single punch, but he only dared to exert 50% of his physical strength. However, Guagua's tongue did force Li Ji'an to be on guard. Though soft and tender, it secreted a paralyzing toxin that numbed even his body, limiting the flow of his Qi and blood.

"Swoosh~" a quacking tongue suddenly shot out from the ground.

Li Ji'an left a shadow on the spot and in an instant he arrived at the place where the tongue was shot out.

As a result, before Li Ji'an showed up, the ground began to wriggle and Guagua disappeared into the ground again.

This guy has been scared by Li Ji'an for a long time, and now he uses this tactic.

But Li Ji'an couldn't do anything about it.

It was not until half a moment later that Li Ji'an seized the opportunity. He risked being paralyzed by the long tongue and followed the tongue's retraction trajectory. He released his Qi and blood and went two feet deep into the ground before he finally pulled Gua Gua out. He beat it with a combination of punches so that it had no power to escape.

"Good, go ahead!" After throwing two beast pills to him, Li Ji'an tried to refine his body with the Thunder Flame Crystal again.

After a moment, he slowly finished his exercise, and the Thunder Flame Crystal beside him was almost not consumed.

"It seems like I've really reached the top! I need to break through to the second level."

To break through to the second level of "Hundred Tempering Golden Body Art", one needs the demon core of a second-level golden armored beast. This is almost impossible for him now, or even for the eight major families in the wasteland.

So he didn't think much about it.

After collecting all the Thunder Flame Crystals that he had deliberately accumulated over the years, he threw them to Gua Gua and stored them in his mouth.

These are enough to refine the body after rejuvenation.

Then he thought about it and threw the mid-grade fire-type martial arts technique "Lava Sutra" that he bought in the market some time ago and the fine primary elixirs he had refined over the years into Guagua's mouth.

Before the Zheng family underwent such a big change, he actually preferred the Yan family's "Flame Dragon Art". After all, that was the foundation for the Yan family to gain a foothold here. It was a real top-grade skill with the possibility of forming a pill.

It can almost be regarded as the best fire-based skill in the wilderness. The magic power refined from it is condensed and explosive, making it most suitable for condensing elixir fire.

The highest-quality martial arts that can be purchased in the market is the mid-grade "Lava Sutra", and some of the others have restrictions on the soul. After one becomes young again in the next life, both the body and the soul will be restored, and all traces will be purified. The restrictions signed by one's soul at this time will be useless by then.

This is just a backup plan.

"In my previous life, my Qi and blood began to decline at the age of 61, and I became younger, but I haven't felt any effect in this life yet." After carefully sensing it again, there was still no sign of decline, and the Qi and blood were still very strong. Li Ji'an was not sure when he would become younger in this life.

This is naturally the result of absorbing spiritual energy and nourishing qi and blood.

Theoretically, at the peak of Qi training, the lifespan can reach about 150 years. Of course, this is an idealized state. Throughout a cultivator's life, it is inevitable to fight and struggle, as well as the backlash from reaching bottlenecks, or the poison from taking elixirs. Except for cultivators who practice wood-type magic with health-preserving effects and water-type magic with healing effects, most of them cannot live to this lifespan.

As for those who are in the middle stage of Qi training, especially when he is only at the fourth level, his theoretical lifespan is around 110 years at most.

However, he has also reached the peak of the first level in physical training. Based on this alone, his lifespan should be around 120 years.

"Could it be that I have to wait until I'm seventy or eighty for my energy and blood to decline?" Li Ji'an was not in a hurry about this. The more time he had, the more preparations he could make and the safer he would be.

At least the problem of instant soul purification during rejuvenation and the ineffectiveness of the Quack Beast Soul Card has not been solved yet.

If this problem cannot be solved, he naturally would not dare to bring Gua Gua along. Otherwise, the past ten years of training would be in vain.

To this end, over the years, in addition to Chen Zhaohu, he also found several hunting teams that often went deep into the mountains to offer rewards, and also sought to buy from vendors in several markets who specialized in selling rare and precious insects.

Now all we can do is wait.

A month later, Zhang Tiezhu wrote again.

It is to announce the good news to him.

His son Yan Jue is just fifteen years old this year. His spiritual roots have been fully formed and he has been tested to have a medium-grade earth spiritual root with thirteen strands of sensitivity.

This news made Li Ji'an somewhat excited. It also confirmed his previous speculation and made him look forward to his spiritual roots and talents in his next life even more.

(End of this chapter)