Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 86 Start from the beginning!
Return to childhood tonight!

The moment a flash of inspiration came to his mind, Li Ji'an's spiritual awareness was fully activated, not missing any details.

The three previous times he was rejuvenated, he discovered his youthfulness right after waking up from a sleep, and he couldn't sense it the night before. But this time, perhaps because he had condensed his spiritual consciousness, his senses were more acute.

This evening, he planned to use his spiritual awareness throughout the entire process, hoping to discover more mysteries of "rejuvenation".

While waiting for that moment to come, he was not idle. He first put medicinal herbs that could nourish the bones and muscles and cleanse the veins and marrow into the wooden barrel.

This batch of medicinal herbs is more effective than those in the Xianci Dynasty. After all, they are grown in a place with spiritual energy.

As a physical cultivator, he has a natural advantage in physique, which is also the biggest guarantee and trump card in the future at this stage. He will not give up and hopes to go further.

Afterwards, he disguised himself as an old man and came to the post station in the gathering area. He sent a letter that had been prepared long ago to the Yan family. If nothing goes wrong, it will be delivered at noon tomorrow.

After returning to the house, he called Gua Gua back, appealed to its emotions and reasoned with it, recalled the first time he met Gua Gua, and recalled their close companionship for exactly thirty years. He spent half an hour being intimate with it, and then fed it a first-grade late-stage high-quality beast pill that he had prepared nine years ago.

This touched Gua Gua deeply.

Afterwards, Li Ji'an let it hide underground and carefully protected it, but when an outsider broke in, he tried his best to stop it and told it that he wanted to practice a magical skill, which would make it terrifyingly powerful after it was mastered.

Although it is not certain how much it understood, the double insurance of emotion and soul contract was somewhat effective.

As the sensation got closer, he activated a first-stage protective talisman, placed the queen ant that housed a wisp of his soul aside, and used a fire to boil a wooden barrel of medicinal liquid containing herbs for cleansing the essence and marrow. Finally, he prepared a set of childhood clothes, took out the marrow cleansing pill and the source-nourishing pill and placed them in front of him, sat cross-legged, and concentrated his mind on the sensation.

Time passes minute by minute...

"Swish~" After an unknown amount of time, Li Ji'an suddenly opened his eyes.

Looking at his body that had returned to childhood and feeling his frail constitution, he felt dazed.

I was clearly not sleepy at all and my mind was fully focused, but I still lost consciousness without noticing, and when I woke up again, I was like this.

"About an hour..."

"This 'rejuvenation' is truly miraculous. What exactly happened in this hour... I wonder if a Foundation Establishment Stage consciousness can penetrate it?"

Without time to think about it, he immediately followed the instructions, first taking the marrow cleansing pill, and then soaking in the wooden barrel medicinal bath.

After the effects of the Marrow Cleansing Pill are fully absorbed, take the Source Nourishing Pill in one gulp.

He had experienced the nourishing effect of the Cleansing Marrow Pill on his bones and muscles in his previous life, but this was his first time using the Nourishing Source Pill. The moment the Nourishing Source Pill transformed into spiritual fluid and flowed into his dantian, he felt a burning sensation in his lower abdomen, as if a ball of fire was scorching. However, it was only for a moment, and the heat faded, transforming into a warm current that slowly nourished his dantian...

After making sure that there was no problem with the two pills, he stopped thinking about other things and focused on practicing the method of refining his soul.

After another "rejuvenation", the base strength of his soul was further improved. As the soul-refining method taught to him by Yan Qingwan was put into practice, the originally illusory soul began to slowly shrink, and transformed into spiritual consciousness bit by bit.

When the sun rose and the sky turned white, the first stage of soul refinement was finally completed, and he possessed spiritual awareness comparable to that of the initial stage of Qi training.

“If my soul grows stronger in this life, I wonder if it can break through to the foundation-building stage after it is fully condensed?” He was expecting it in his heart, but did not continue.

With spiritual consciousness, the soul contract can be renewed.

At this moment, he and Gua Gua completely lost touch.

Fortunately, the wisp of soul from the previous life is still there in the soul-hosting ant's sea of consciousness, but it feels very strange now.

He held the beast-controlling token in his hand and slowly injected spiritual consciousness into it.

An hour later, he finally wiped out the previous wisp of soul and bound the contract with Gua Gua's soul again.

"Gua~" The moment the contract was formed, Guagua's momentary confusion was palpable. The next moment, it emerged from the ground, revealing a head. Its eyes, a bit intelligent but not quite, stared at the unfamiliar Li Ji'an with a slightly bewildered look. However, Li Ji'an didn't continue their previous friendship with it, and looked at it with the same unfamiliarity. Because the soul contract was now in place, Guagua was under his control, no matter what he thought.

Moreover, for Gua Gua, the newly signed soul contract was obviously with another person. With his intelligence, it would be difficult to make him believe that he was still himself.

Afterwards, Li Ji'an stored the storage bag and other items into the space in Gua Gua's mouth, and ordered him to take good care of the queen ant.

When Gua Gua disappeared into the ground again, Li Ji'an breathed a sigh of relief.

The most crucial step in this life was completed as planned.

Although he was powerless at the moment and had no magic power to protect himself, he was protected by Gua Gua, a late-stage first-level spirit beast that was good at earth escape. As long as he did not encounter a Taoist who was building a foundation, he would be safe in the entire wasteland.

It took another two hours to practice the Qi sensing method that he had mastered in his previous life, and he could sense the thin spiritual energy here.

"Yangyuan Pill, Qi Sensing Method... and the Spiritual Vein Dojo... I wonder if this lifetime spiritual root can reach the middle grade?"

Everything was ready. Li Ji'an called back Gua Gua and left the house quietly through Gua Gua's Qiankun. He appeared again in the central square of the gathering area.

Everything seems the same as yesterday, nothing has changed, the only thing that has changed is myself.

"Hey, little kid, where are your parents? Do you want to come and test your talent? If you have potential, we can take you back to your clan. From then on, you will have no worries about food and clothing, and you can even hope to enter the Dao."

After waiting in the square for a while, someone came up and started chatting with me.

They are people from some Qi training families around here that lack foundation.

This is very common here. After all, there are many orphans in the world of cultivators. Most of them are because their parents left once and never came back. Some of them are because their parents are unable to provide a path for their children, so they bring them to the market, and then leave on their own, leaving the children in the market.

However, those who are able to become orphans generally have limited spiritual root potential, and these families are just taking a chance.

In addition, a female cultivator who looked like a brothel owner came up to chat with him, praising Li Ji'an for his delicate appearance and calling him a good candidate, and wanted to take him away.

And an old Taoist who calls himself a casual cultivator and wants to find a successor.

Li Ji'an kept his distance, saying that his parents would be here soon.

During this period, he also met Chen Zhaohu who had returned from outside. At this time, Chen Zhaohu had already shown his old age, his energy and blood had declined sharply, and he no longer had the former momentum.

By chance, the two of them looked at each other for a moment, but then they passed each other like strangers.

Until the sun sets, people who have gone out come back one after another.

Suddenly, a streak of light shot out from the southeast of the gathering area.

At the same time, it is accompanied by powerful spiritual pressure.

"Li Changan!" The next moment, a familiar gentle voice came from far away and enveloped the entire gathering area.

At this point, Li Ji'an breathed a sigh of relief, and the last trace of worry disappeared.

And seeing Yan Qingwan's attitude, he couldn't help but feel moved.

A dignified Taoist who had established his foundation actually ran eight hundred miles just for a letter... and even shouted out his previous life's name in public.

This life is stable!

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