Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 340 The Pill King's Visit
Shocked, Li Ji'an was lost in thought.

Sixty years ago, the Wanfa Palace, which monopolized the ancient tombs in the Blackwater Swamp, suddenly retreated, and it was rumored that Wanfa Zhenjun had an accident when he opened the third tomb.

Although Wanfa Palace denied it afterward, the fact that Wanfa Zhenjun was nowhere to be found during the attack from the two regions confirmed the rumor.

Li Ji'an further combined this with the divination results from Zou Yan's ancestors to confirm that the True Lord of Ten Thousand Laws no longer existed.

However, to everyone's surprise, his spirit was still intact.

However, at this moment, Li Ji'an could not determine whether it was a nascent soul that had left its body and was hiding in the umbrella, or whether it was just a wisp of a remnant soul that had escaped.

Once a True Lord's Nascent Soul is formed, it is equivalent to having an additional soul body on top of the Dharma Body. Even if the Dharma Body is destroyed, the Nascent Soul can still carry its origin to the world, ensuring that the true spirit is not damaged. Once a suitable physical body is found, it can seize another body and be reborn.

Moreover, a fully formed Nascent Soul still possesses one-tenth of its peak strength, making it difficult for anyone other than a late-stage Core Formation cultivator to contend with, and its escape speed is even faster than that of a Nascent Soul Dharma Body.

Therefore, when Li Ji'an confirmed that the other party's soul power was no weaker than Ning Sujin's primordial spirit, he was on high alert, worried that the other party would attempt to possess his body.

If the nascent soul has already shattered, leaving only a wisp of remnant soul, then it is no different from the soul of a cultivator who has not yet formed a nascent soul body, and can only survive temporarily by attaching to something that nourishes the soul.

The fear that the little fire spirit showed when it was burned a second time made Li Ji'an breathe a sigh of relief.

The most likely possibility is a remnant soul.

"It is indeed the True Lord in person! My apologies for my disrespect. I would be grateful if the True Lord could tell me the whole story." After a moment of silence, Li Ji'an asked.

Although the words were respectful, the attitude was firm, and the little fire spirit's flames still enveloped the entire dark light umbrella without leaving any gaps.

"Thank you for your mercy, young friend. I was tricked by the ancient tomb's traps back then..."

Anyone who can achieve the Nascent Soul True Monarch status in this era is undoubtedly a prodigy of their time, especially in the eastern region of the Great Swamp cultivation world.

The reason why Wanfa Zhenjun was able to stand out from the many true disciples of Wanfa Palace back then must be that, in addition to his spiritual talent, his comprehension and willpower must also be top-notch.

Apart from his uncertain personality and temperament, he stands at the pinnacle of the entire Tiancang Domain in every other aspect.

Having experienced nearly a thousand years, he possessed considerable knowledge and keen insight, and quickly determined that Li Ji'an was no easy opponent.

Therefore, instead of trying to intimidate them, he began to recount the whole story as requested.

"The methods used in the third tomb chamber annihilated your physical body with a single strike? Even your nascent soul couldn't escape its clutches after leaving your body? A wisp of your remnant soul lingers under this umbrella, awakened today by the power of the spiritual flames..."

After hearing his account, Li Ji'an looked surprised and doubtful.

“Young friend, I am now merely a remnant soul. If this Dark Light Umbrella were not crafted from ten-thousand-year-old Soul-Nourishing Wood, it would have ceased to exist in this world long ago. I have no other desires now but to pass on the thousand-year-old heritage of my Myriad Laws Palace to my disciples. If you are willing to grant me this wish, I am willing to cast a Heart Demon Soul Curse to not only ensure your safety but also to grant you a place among the true disciples within the palace.” The Myriad Laws True Lord spoke with a sorrowful tone, revealing the desolation of a great hero in his twilight years.

Feeling the sincere emotions conveyed through the divine soul transmission, Li Ji'an's mind was inexplicably affected by it.

"My lord, please accept my condolences. But... the world has changed!"

"Has the world changed?" asked the Myriad Laws True Lord, his voice filled with doubt.

Li Ji'an nodded silently, and then recounted all the changes that had occurred over the years: "Since the True Lord disappeared, the Boundless Realm and the Yellow Heaven Realm..."

"What? These demonic cultivators have actually forgotten our thousand-year-old heritage!" Upon hearing of the destruction of the Myriad Laws Palace, the Myriad Laws True Monarch was shocked and furious.

"My deepest condolences, Your Excellency!"

After a long silence, the True Lord of Ten Thousand Laws finally let out a long, regretful sigh: "Alas, such is the will of Heaven, what can be done!"

"Young friend, since that's the case, I'm afraid I can't keep my promise. I'll have to make up for it in other ways."

Li Ji'an shook his head slightly: "True Lord, you flatter me. You have been in charge of the Myriad Laws Palace and have protected the Tiancang Domain for thousands of years. All the cultivators in the domain have benefited from your kindness and are grateful. Although I am a junior and inexperienced cultivator, I also have the utmost respect for you."

"Young friend, your character is noble and pure. I was wrong to have misjudged you. It's a pity... We met too late, otherwise I would have definitely taken you under my wing." Wanfa Zhenjun sighed.

"You flatter me, Your Majesty!" Li Ji'an bowed slightly.

"Since that's the case, young friend, could you please grant me a wish?" Wanfa Zhenjun pressed on while the iron was hot.

"Please speak plainly, Your Majesty," Li Ji'an said solemnly.

"I implore you, young friend, to find the true disciple of my Wanfa Palace, or an elder of the sect. Before my remnant soul perishes, I wish to know the specific details, otherwise I will die with my eyes open and I will not know how to explain to my ancestors after I go to the Yellow Springs."

Li Ji'an's face immediately showed distress: "I wonder how much longer the True Lord can hold on? The Holy Palace has been destroyed, and many of its disciples have been slaughtered. I don't know if any of them have escaped here. Moreover, the Demonic Cult is currently hunting them down everywhere. I'm afraid..."

After a moment of silence, the True Lord of Ten Thousand Laws sighed again: "So be it, let's leave everything to fate."

"I dare to request the True Lord to impart the Dharma!" Li Ji'an bowed deeply.

“Young friend, I will not pass on my knowledge to you unless it is for me. However, you are now a wisp of a soul with incomplete memories. Unless you find the natal soul jade of my Holy Sect, you can temporarily restore them. I promise you that if you meet a disciple of the Holy Palace in the future and restore your memories, I will definitely pass on a suitable cultivation technique to you and reward you handsomely.” True Monarch Wanfa sighed.

"Thank you very much, True Lord. This junior will certainly spare no effort!" Li Ji'an readily agreed.

Before Wanfa Zhenjun could say anything more, Li Ji'an hurriedly said, "It was my oversight. Zhenjun's remnant soul needs to resist the erosion of death at all times. It has delayed Zhenjun for so long. Zhenjun, please rest and recuperate in the magic treasure."

The True Lord of Ten Thousand Laws, who was about to speak again, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded in agreement: "Young friend, you are very thoughtful."

After speaking, Li Ji'an bowed respectfully, summoned back the little fire spirit, and quickly put away the black light umbrella.

Without hesitation, it burst forth from the mouth of the quack.

Thump~ Thump~
As soon as he came out, Li Ji'an's heart started pounding like a drum.

"Nascent Soul!"

He initially thought it was just a wisp of a remnant soul hidden in the magic umbrella, but as it spoke, Li Ji'an's mind was affected, and a secret fluctuation appeared in his sea of ​​consciousness.

However, a remnant soul that has lost the source of its consciousness cannot possibly perform such a secret technique that affects the consciousness.

After confirming that the other party was a Nascent Soul Soul, Li Ji'an immediately changed his strategy.

Even though his soul was clearly severely damaged and his aura was weak, his nascent soul foundation was still intact. If pushed too far, he would not be able to withstand the power of self-destructing his nascent soul.

Since it is a nascent soul residing inside the umbrella, it will not remain dormant like a remnant soul as it claims, and it must be fully aware of everything in the outside world.

Not only the death of Sima Yu, but also Li Ji'an asking Wu Weixiong for the Black Light Umbrella, the conversation between Li Ji'an and Wu Weixiong, the secret changes in Li Ji'an's identity, the various secrets stored in the universe by Guagua, and the Little Fire Spirit... He knew all of this perfectly well.

Therefore, he could not allow it to leave the world inside the gull's mouth alive.

However, there is currently no way to prevent it from self-destructing its nascent soul.

Although the little fire spirit is a threat to him, if he were to self-destruct in despair, even if Li Ji'an could escape, the little fire spirit and Guagua would definitely not survive!
Moreover, when faced with the Little Fire Spirit's spiritual flames, a True Monarch's Nascent Soul would most likely only be able to wear them down, rather than completely destroy them.

The only option now is to play along and keep him calm for the time being.

"I wonder if Su Jin has any means to completely subdue him?"

"If we can destroy its soul and leave only its primordial spirit, it would be a good spiritual body to imbue a fourth-tier puppet with!"

"Since it's a nascent soul residing inside the umbrella, it should have a small storage magic item that it carries with it, like a storage ring, right?"

……

After a moment, Li Ji'an suppressed the turbulent thoughts in his heart and left the isolated island dojo again.

Before long, he quietly transformed into a cultivator and began collecting soul-related medicinal herbs throughout the entire Cold Smoke Immortal City.

It wasn't until three days later that Li Ji'an returned to the isolated island dojo. Although he no longer had a way to completely destroy the Nascent Soul of the Myriad Laws True Monarch and could only feign compliance, it was clear that the True Monarch was recovering his damaged Nascent Soul while hiding inside the Dark Light Umbrella.

If it were to recover, the threat would be even greater.

Therefore, he decided to concoct some poisons specifically targeting the soul, not to aggravate the damage to the nascent soul, but only to slow down its recovery.

Half a month later, Li Ji'an successfully prepared several kinds of poisons specifically targeting the soul.

Most of them are second-tier soul poisons, with only two being third-tier.

If the nascent soul of a True Monarch is intact, even a third-tier poison will definitely have no effect. However, since the nascent soul has left the body and its aura is weak, it is obviously severely damaged. Under such circumstances, over time, even a second-tier poison can have some effect.

On that day, he purchased a random batch of magical artifacts in the Immortal City of Cold Mist.

Then he picked out two items to apply the Soul Poison.

Finally, it was mixed in with a pile of magical artifacts and thrown into the mouth of the frog.

Previously, whenever he committed murder and looted treasure, he would throw a pile of things in like this, so at least his actions weren't deliberate.

Currently, the Nascent Soul of the True Lord of Ten Thousand Laws resides within the universe of the Guagua's mouth, yet it is unable to perceive matters of the outside world.

Most importantly, according to its own words, it was just a remnant soul, so it shouldn't be able to sense soul-type poisons.

So even if he noticed something amiss, he could only pretend not to know.

The reason he called himself a remnant soul was to eliminate Li Ji'an's worries, otherwise he was afraid that Li Ji'an would misunderstand that he would possess someone else's body.

However, Li Ji'an was not greedy, nor was he impatient for quick results. He would only throw in a few items every ten days or half a month. Most of them were normal, with only one item occasionally coated with a soul poison.

And so, three months passed.

On this day, Li Ji'an was diligently refining his physique when he suddenly felt a cloud covering the sky above the third-tier mid-grade Daoist temple of the Sishui Chamber of Commerce.

"Wanzhi has officially begun to condense her core!"

Li Ji'an then looked up and gazed into the distance.

Before the auction, Guo Wanzhi began preparing to condense the elixir.

The gathering of spirits officially began only after the auction ended.

Now, three months later, the assault has finally begun.

Back then, when Li Ji'an was attempting to break through to the Core Formation stage in the Biyun Sect's relatively sparse spiritual energy field, it took him half a year to complete the first step of Gathering Spirit. After that, he passed the Explosion Technique stage, initially with only less than a mile of rosy clouds.

That would indicate the extent and purity of his magical power in his previous life.

At this moment, Guo Wanzhi's initial cloud formation rose straight up to a radius of one mile, comparable to Xiao Changfeng's initial stage of Core Formation back then.

Besides the fact that Guo Wanzhi and Xiao Changfeng both have top-grade spiritual roots, the main reason is that the spiritual energy at the Sishui Chamber of Commerce's Core Formation training ground is richer than that of the Biyun Sect.

Otherwise, given Guo Wanzhi's magical abilities, she couldn't possibly be comparable to Xiao Changfeng.

Three days later, the clouds above Guo Wanzhi's temple expanded to a mile and a half, more than half a mile longer than Li Ji'an's previous life, but less than half a mile shorter than Xiao Changfeng's.

After stabilizing for a few more days, the cloud cover surged again.

It expanded from one and a half miles to six miles in an instant.

Seeing this, Li Ji'an nodded secretly, a look of joy appearing on his face.

In his previous life, he was less than a mile tall at the beginning, but after consuming that mid-grade Condensing Crystal Pill, he grew to four miles tall. The Core Formation Spiritual Treasure that Guo Wanzhi consumed was clearly similar to the mid-grade Condensing Crystal Pill he consumed in his previous life.

This indicates that the Sishui Chamber of Commerce truly provided them with one of the top 100 Core Formation Spiritual Treasures.

Three days later, the clouds above Guo Wanzhi's temple settled at Bali.

At this level, it's already on the verge of becoming a true elixir.

Moreover, Li Ji'an heard that Jade Flute Immortal had purchased a Concentration Flower at the auction, and it seemed that he had ultimately gifted it to Guo Wanzhi.

Guo Wanzhi has been practicing alchemy for many years, so her spirit and soul are already quite strong. With the help of this flower, she has a good chance of passing the final stage of alchemy.

Until the eight-mile-long cloud formation in mid-air formed a giant funnel and poured down onto Guo Wanzhi in the dojo, the cloud gradually disappeared, and the process of transforming liquid into elixir began.

This stage will take at least six months to a year.

"Not bad!" Li Ji'an smiled with satisfaction and looked away.

At the same time, he was also quite looking forward to the formation of his core at the Feihong Dojo six months later.

Although his magical power is not as strong as that of those geniuses who cultivate heavenly-grade techniques and have heavenly spiritual roots or even spiritual bodies, the purity of his magical power is not much different due to the years of refinement by the little fire spirit.

Moreover, there are four precious Core Formation treasures, including the Premium Crystal Condensation Pill, one of which is the Seven-Colored Jade Tree, which is ranked number one even in the Wanshang Domain.

Moreover, the earth essence that Xiao Changfeng gave him in his previous life had the effect of purifying impurities in magic pills.

Most importantly, he had personally experienced the process of condensing the core in his previous life, and this experience was far more formal and detailed than any other person could teach him by word of mouth.

Therefore, he has great confidence in this life.

Nowadays, all you need to do is queue up for the top-tier Fei Hong Dojo in the entire East, and you'll have no problem getting in.

In order to wait for Fei Hong Dojo, he was very cautious during this period. Apart from going out a few times to purchase materials for the Divine Soul Poison to deal with the Nascent Soul of the Myriad Laws True Monarch mentioned by Gua Gua, he did not leave the Dojo at all.

He declined several invitations from Yao Rui and Master Yuxiao during this period.

As for Jia Yuanqing's several further attempts to test him, he avoided meeting them.

However, on the third day after Guo Wanzhi's spiritual energy dissipated, the person Li Ji'an least wanted to see still appeared.

On this day, Li Ji'an was attempting to create a mid-stage second-tier humanoid puppet when Jade Flute Immortal's message arrived again.

My first instinct was to find an excuse to refuse, but when I saw the message, I immediately frowned.

"The King of Dan has come to visit; come to pay your respects immediately!"

The wording used in the message was "to pay homage".

Not only is Master Chunyuan a late-stage Core Formation cultivator, but he is also the chief Pill King of the Nine Cauldrons Chamber of Commerce. He represents the Nine Cauldrons Chamber of Commerce within the domain and is indeed qualified to surpass a small chamber of commerce like the Sishui Chamber of Commerce.

"It's finally here!"

After a moment's hesitation, Li Ji'an got up and headed to the main hall of the Chamber of Commerce.

From the moment Master Chunyuan asked the leader of the Jueying Sect to redeem the Black Light Umbrella at the auction, Li Ji'an had foreseen this day.

However, he wasn't too worried, considering that he only had a brief interaction with Wu Weixiong on the spirit ship.

Moreover, if the old thief Chun Yuan really suspected his identity, he wouldn't have met him so openly.

(End of this chapter)