Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 83 Taming the Queen Ant
The wind is a little stronger in the evening, and the forest is deep and sparsely populated.

Entering the Fallen Dragon Ridge Mountains again, Li Ji'an's mentality was completely different from thirty years ago.

At that time, I knew very little about this world and was full of awe.

Today, thirty years later, there is a cultivator at the peak of the first stage of physical training, a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi training, and a spirit beast that is about to be promoted to the late first stage.

They sped all the way and it was already late at night when they entered the mountains. Li Ji'an released Gua Gua and let it escape underground, while keeping watch on the surroundings.

He sat in meditation on the spot, trying to recover some of his magic power.

After just a moment, he opened his eyes again and said, "As expected, the spiritual energy in this deep mountain forest is too mixed. No wonder it's called a mixed spiritual land. It's not as good as a barren spiritual land for human cultivation. It's quite risky. Only demonic beasts can use it to transform their bloodlines."

Then he took out a Qi-replenishing pill from his storage bag and swallowed it.

"Quack~" Not long after, there was an unusual movement from the soul that was connected to the Beast Taming Card through Gua Gua.

Li Ji'an's spiritual consciousness condensed and immediately merged with the soul of Gua Gua in the Beast Taming Card.

The next moment, Li Ji'an had an additional field of vision.

It was the quack view ten miles away.

Guagua had now escaped into the ground, with only a pair of eyes looking out through the cracks in the earth.

Not far away, seven or eight dark shadows were slowly approaching.

Dirty robbery!

This is very common here, and most of them are like-minded independent cultivators.

The resources for cultivating immortals are monopolized by those family forces. They have poor qualifications and no special skills, but they are unwilling to be ordinary people. They also look down on those small businesses that accumulate too slowly, and are even more unwilling to settle down and accumulate for several generations. Their ambitions are high as the sky, but their lives are fragile.

Li Ji'an shook his head, and the flying sword beside him instantly soared into the sky, bringing up a burst of flames.

"Get out!" The energy and blood were stimulated, and thunder rumbled.

At the same time, the spiritual awareness comparable to that of the late stage of Qi training was directed towards the direction of several people, accompanied by a burst of spiritual pressure!
"Oh no! It's a late stage Qi training overhaul, retreat!"

"Senior, please calm down. We are blind and ignorant. Please forgive us."

"Thank you, senior, for showing mercy."

……

Several robbers fled with their heads in their arms.

Those who were able to hide in the mountains and become robbery cultivators were all frightened by the joint guards of the eight major families.

Those who are truly capable do not need to practice Tribulation Cultivation. As long as they have the strength to reach the late stage of Qi training, the eight major families will definitely give them the status of guest officials.

Li Ji'an ignored it and after regulating his breathing, he headed towards the depths of the mountains again.

But he did not take Gua Gua back, and still let it use its earth escape capability to explore the way ahead.

The next morning, they arrived at the location marked by Chen Zhaohu.

It is a depression with towering mountains on three sides.

This place is close to the depths of the Fallen Dragon Ridge Mountains, and there is a possibility of encountering second-level monsters. It is a place that the eight major families will not easily set foot in.

The fact that Chen Zhaohu and his party were forced to come here to hunt was closely related to the eight major families' reclamation of wasteland.

"Go ahead, don't miss any place." Li Ji'an stood on the top of the mountain and ordered Gua Gua.

The soul-hosting ant was discovered by him through the help of Yan Qingwan, who consulted many classics of the clan and almost read all the ancient books about the soul in the entire study in the market, before he found the most likely way for him to make good use of Gua Gua in this life.

Once he rejuvenates, his body will return to being eight years old, and at the same time everything will be purified. His soul will also be purified, eliminating all effects. The memories imprinted in his soul will become nutrients, feeding back to his soul, making it stronger every time it rejuvenates.

The only thing that allows him to control Gua Gua without fail now is the Beast Taming Card.

The Beast Taming Card is a soul contract signed between his soul and Gua Gua's soul.

This contract is not only connected to Gua Gua, but also to his soul.

Theoretically, once one party's soul dissipates, the contract becomes invalid.

When Li Ji'an killed the beastmaster and obtained the beast-controlling card, Gua Gua was already an ownerless beast. It was he who reconnected his soul to the beast-controlling card and signed the contract again.

If he were to rejuvenate at this moment and his spirit was purified, the spirit previously within his sea of consciousness would naturally dissipate, and the Beast Taming Card would lose control. Spirit beasts are also beasts, so naturally, they cannot be gambled with.

The solution he tried was to use the soul-hosting ants to deposit a trace of his soul before he regained his youth. By then, even if his original soul dissipated, the contract with the Beast Taming Card would still be there.

All he needed to do was to rebuild and condense his spiritual consciousness as quickly as possible, and he would be able to control the Beast Taming Card again.

This is also the reason why we have been looking for soul-parasitic ants over the years.

"Quack~" Until the red sun set, Guagua was already exhausted, but still hadn't found the ant nest.

The reason why soul-hosting ants can host the soul is because they feed on the soul. Therefore, where there are a large number of soul-hosting ants, spiritual perception will fail.

Once the spiritual consciousness approaches a certain range, it will be absorbed by it and will not receive any feedback.

This is also the reason why Li Ji'an asked Gua Gua to keep searching underground.

Unfortunately, the depression was quite large, and the nest of the soul-parasitic ants was particularly deep, so they were unable to accomplish anything for the time being.

"You have to work hard, not only for me, but also for yourself!"

"Once you verify that this method is feasible, you will truly have a great opportunity."

"Not to mention low-grade bloodlines, even ordinary toads, as long as they follow me, there is hope of ascending."

"Come on, your destiny is in your own hands!"

Feed the beast pills again and again, and give sincere encouragement again and again.

It was not until five days later that the good news finally came.

First, through vision sharing, Li Ji'an clearly saw the densely packed soul-parasitic ants, which were more than ten times larger than ordinary ants.

What made him most happy was that the queen ant was in the ovulation period. Her body was crystal white and her belly was shiny white, and it seemed like it was about to burst.

According to ancient records, this state is the easiest to tame.

"Good! You have done a great job." Li Ji'an was in a good mood and immediately asked Gua Gua to come back.

Guagua also seemed very excited when he received the praise, with endless anticipation in his eyes.

Looking forward to what Li Jian had said to encourage it before.

Li Ji'an rewarded it with a beast pill, and then let it open its mouth and swallow him into its mouth.

As Guagua is about to break through to the late first stage, the internal space of its "Devouring the Sky" talent has reached nearly five meters cubic meters. Li Ji'an had previously tested it on living creatures and found that they could survive for nearly three days.

After swallowing Li Ji'an in one gulp, Gua Gua used the earth escape technique again and came to the ant nest fifteen feet deep underground.

"Eat, these worker ants are yours as a reward!" If you want to tame the queen ant, you naturally have to cut off its food supply first.

Guagua was instantly overjoyed, and his fleshy tongue seemed like a high-frequency vibrating and retractable artifact, and he began to devour the tens of thousands of worker ants in the ant nest frantically.

Li Ji'an began to nourish the queen ant with a small amount of Qi and blood...

Ancient books record that it only takes three years to fully tame it.

However, three years passed, and fortunately Li Ji'an had enough fasting pills in his storage bag, otherwise he would not have been able to hold on.

"I'm obedient, but my appetite is really too big. I haven't even seen any signs of being full yet."

He guessed it was related to this queen ant. The queen ants recorded in ancient books were not as big as this one.

Six years passed in a flash.

On this day, Li Ji'an fed the queen ant with blood and energy according to the routine. Gua Gua still stayed at his post, with only his eyes exposed, observing the outside world through the cracks in the ground.

Suddenly, Guagua sensed something and Li Ji'an's vision was instantly connected with it.

A familiar figure came into view.

Chen Qingling, whom I hadn't seen for thirty years, had grown into a strong middle-aged man, and was now following a sloppy old Taoist priest respectfully.

The old Taoist priest was holding a formation plate in his hand, his expression solemn and his eyes excited.

"Could this be the gravedigger?"

(End of this chapter)