Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

The other party arrived as promised, but this time, there were three people.

The old man still wore his disguised face, while the other two revealed their true appearances after entering the Li residence.

"Alchemist Li, this pill formula is a core secret of my family, and I'm a little uneasy. I've asked them to guard the outer courtyard so they won't disturb your alchemy," the old man explained as soon as he entered.

With the current chaotic situation, their actions were understandable. Many legitimate pill seekers had done the same before.

Li Ji'an didn't refuse, as this suited his intentions. Otherwise, he would have to spend time and energy chasing them down later.

Immediately, Li Ji'an led him directly to the alchemy room in the backyard.

As soon as they entered the backyard, Li Ji'an activated the shielding formation in front of him.

"Alchemist Li, this formation can actually block the spiritual sense of a Foundation Establishment cultivator? Excellent, excellent. This puts me even more at ease." The old man looked up, sensing the formation's effect, his face full of smiles. He had originally planned to waste a shielding talisman when he made his move later, but this saved him one.

Li Ji'an found his appearance rather uninteresting.

He was right beside him, yet he released his spiritual sense to sense the formation.

"Boom!" He attacked without hesitation.

A second-order body cultivator, assassinated at close range.

And the opponent was in a completely unprepared state.

There was no better opportunity than this.

"You..." Only when the fist was about to hit him did the old man suddenly react.

If a Foundation Establishment cultivator didn't have the instinct to protect himself, he wouldn't even have been able to activate his protective shield.

"Crack!" However, the self-activated protective shield was ultimately too weak. Li Ji'an's fist, at such close range, could shatter even his full-strength protective shield in three blows. At this moment, it shattered almost instantly.

"Pfft~" The old man was struck in his dantian, flying back ten meters, spitting out blood.

Fortunately, the shield had dissipated most of the force of the fist, otherwise, this punch would have pierced his dantian.

"You actually plot to kill for wealth..." The old man's dantian shattered, and his mana rapidly dissipated.

He never expected that the soft persimmon they had chosen for over a month was actually a second-order body cultivator. He also never expected that this alchemist with a good reputation and high moral character would, like them, plot to kill for his pill formula.

"Swoosh~" Another wind blade flashed, and his head rolled to the ground, his eyes wide with disbelief.

Only then did Li Ji'an relax his mind, and the natal Fierce Halberd Talisman and Golden Bell Talisman, which he had been nurturing in his dantian, resurfaced.

"He doesn't even have a natal magic weapon?" He had made several preparations, but he only needed to use the method he least expected to solve the problem.

This was a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Although his mana aura couldn't compare to the sect's direct disciple, Jiang Yunzhou, it was more powerful than ordinary early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators by more than double.

The difference between each small realm in the Foundation Establishment stage was significant. Under normal circumstances, without external force, it was impossible to level up in a pure mana battle.

What Li Ji'an didn't expect this time was that the other party was too careless and would be so close to him.

Who could resist this?

When he received education about Jianghu experience in the Yan family's ancestral hall, the clan elders explicitly warned everyone that when going out, they must maintain a safe distance from unfamiliar cultivators and not be distracted, and their spiritual sense must be vigilant at all times.

"So he also nurtured a natal talisman." At this time, the old man died completely, and a talisman floated to the ground from his dantian.

Li Ji'an shook his head after scanning it with his spiritual sense. It was a second-order elementary attack talisman, but the quality wasn't very good, only middle grade. It looked like it had been nurtured for some years.

A natal talisman couldn't protect its owner on its own. It just didn't require mana and soul activation. If this person hadn't nurtured a natal talisman but had nurtured a defensive magic weapon, he could have lived a few more breaths.

Without thinking further, Li Ji'an's spiritual sense turned to the front yard.

A man and a woman were still observing the layout of the front yard without making a sound.

Because he had a deep foundation in the properties of medicinal herbs in alchemy, he had a lot of talent in poison research in recent years.

If he hadn't lacked samples and test subjects, he was confident that he could concoct a poison that would work on late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

And this time, it could be regarded as his first time testing the medicinal properties on someone.

However, the most difficult thing about poisons in the cultivation world was how to release them silently and make the other party realize it later.

After all, cultivators could hold their breath and isolate themselves from external objects.

Apart from dipping magic weapons in poison, poisoning was very difficult.

The good thing about Li Ji'an was that he had Guagua, a helper with excellent concealment abilities.

"Sister-in-law, I have... Not good, my mana..." Not long after, when the man got up, his expression suddenly changed, realizing the problem.

"Poisoned?" The woman realized belatedly and reacted instantly.

Immediately, a flash of green light flew out of her dantian.

Then, the green light bloomed, turning into a green halo, enveloping the two of them.

"She also has a natal talisman?" Li Ji'an was slightly surprised.

And she had nurtured a detoxification talisman.

"Swish~" Guagua received the order, and its tongue shot out from the ground.

It pierced through the two cultivators who had just detoxified but whose mana had not fully recovered.

A Foundation Establishment cultivator who had lost his mana was equivalent to a first-order early-stage body cultivator. How could he withstand Guagua's second-order demon beast attack?

Soon, Guagua brought the corpses of the two to the backyard.

Li Ji'an looked at the three corpses with wide eyes and shook his head slightly: "My mana isn't weak, it's because I nurtured three natal talismans."

He emptied the three storage bags and had Guagua swallow them in one gulp.

After Guagua swallowed the three, it went straight to the small courtyard rented by the group, where there was also a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator.

While waiting, Li Ji'an checked the three storage bags.

Upon this check, he took a deep breath.

The person in charge actually had nearly 20,000 spirit stones in his storage bag.

There were dozens of mid-to-high-grade magic weapons, all kinds of them, the highest grade being a high-quality magic weapon, the Mountain Splitting Axe.

There was also a large pile of miscellaneous pills, with mixed quality.

"Huh? What's this..." Suddenly, a piece of animal skin caught Li Ji'an's attention.

The animal skin was old and tattered, with severe traces of age erosion, obviously only a small, incomplete piece.

But on this incomplete animal skin, three large characters were extremely clear: "Six Spirit Condensing..."

And below these three characters were three medicinal herbs.

They were the medicinal herbs that the old man had reported to Li Ji'an at the time.

"This person wasn't completely lying!" Li Ji'an carefully put away the broken animal skin.

This gave him hope for the "Six Spirit Condensing Yuan Pill".

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Li Ji'an checked the storage bags of the other two early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators again.

There were very few things in these two storage bags.

However, in the female's storage bag, Li Ji'an found something unusual.

There were actually many talismans.

There were also many talisman materials.

"She's actually a second-order talisman master!"

Li Ji'an couldn't understand why a second-order talisman master would be a robber.

At least, there wasn't even a second-order rogue talisman master in Cangyun Prefecture.

Second-order talisman masters could draw strategic materials that posed a threat to Foundation Establishment cultivators. Basically, all second-order talisman masters had been recruited by sects.

In addition, second-order talisman materials were also very scarce and controlled in Cangyun Prefecture. Ordinary talisman masters had few opportunities to practice.

In the nine years since Li Ji'an obtained the second-order talisman inheritance, he had obtained less than thirty talisman materials in total, many of which were obtained through helping people refine pills and trading privately.

"It may also be that they cultivated a second-order talisman master by looting."

"Talisman brush!"

Finally, Li Ji'an was pleasantly surprised to find the talisman brush used by the female talisman master in a jade box.

It was actually a second-order middle-grade talisman brush.

It was a whole grade higher than the talisman brush Li Ji'an had used over the years.

It had to be said that this harvest surprised Li Ji'an again and again.

"It doesn't seem bad to be a soft persimmon."

Not long after, Guagua returned.

The late-stage Qi Refining cultivator's storage bag only contained pills for daily cultivation and nothing else.

After dealing with this family, Li Ji'an sent a message to Xiao Qiao, telling her that she could come back.

Before the other party came back, Li Ji'an asked Xiao Qiao to go to Duanmu Qin's residence.

However, before Xiao Qiao returned, a piece of news that could be regarded as a surprise for all the rogue cultivators in the Immortal City spread.

"In order to show great righteousness, Biyun Sect has decided to release some of the rare resources excavated from the ruins for auction, so that all cultivators in the state have a fair opportunity to compete."