Cultivating Immortality Through a Hundred Lifetimes in Both Realms

"I still haven't been able to refine the pill patterns for a mid-grade second-tier pill."

"It's too early to try to become a second-tier high-grade alchemist at this time."

Jiang Yun glanced at the youth-preserving pill he had just refined and couldn't help but shake his head inwardly.

He walked out of the alchemy room and into the courtyard where the alchemy hall was located.

Thirty years have passed in a flash. The carved railings and jade steps remain, but things have changed and people are no longer the same.

Elder Zhou Hongchang of Dantang passed away eight years ago at the age of 117.

He only reached the rank of a high-grade alchemist in his life, but he did train two outstanding disciples.

These two apprentices have now become first-grade high-level alchemists and have both comprehended the Fire-Wood Alchemy Technique.

Over the years, Jiang Yun would occasionally share his alchemy insights with them whenever he had free time.

The two of them have become increasingly skilled at refining first-grade high-quality pills.

Thirty years have passed, and Jiang Yun is now eighty-five years old.

Apart from the clan head Zhou Hongde, the other elders of the Zhou family's "Hong" generation have all passed away.

Time waits for no man; having failed to establish a foundation, he ultimately only had a lifespan of one hundred and twenty years.

Zhou Hongdao, Zhou Hongchang, and Zhou Hongsheng all passed away in the past decade, and even the mistress Ye Hongyi has become a withered skeleton.

These people were all at the peak of Qi Refining in their previous lives.

Unfortunately, by the time he reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining cultivation, he was already over sixty years old, and even with a Gathering Yuan Pill, there was no hope of Foundation Establishment.

As people age, they can only gradually wither away.

After the passing of the Zhou family elders of the "Hong" generation, the members of the "Zong" generation began to take over many family affairs.

However, this all happened ten years ago.

Now, Jiang Yun is 85 years old. The "Zong" generation of the clan members are the same generation as Jiang Yun's mother.

They are already over a hundred years old.

Among them, Jiang Yun's eldest uncle Zhou Zongcheng and second uncle Zhou Zongxian had passed away two years ago.

My third uncle, Zhou Zongxiao, and my fourth uncle, Zhou Zongyao, are still alive, but they are both over 109 years old.

Zhou Zongting is the youngest of the five, but she is already 107 years old this year.

It is worth mentioning that thirty years ago was the first year that Jiang Yun went into seclusion to comprehend the Myriad Spirit Pill Manual.

Zhou Zongxiao and Zhou Zongyao married and had children, ensuring the continuation of their family line.

Now, these two have many wives and concubines and a house full of children and grandchildren, which can be considered as having children late in life.

"The Great Way is merciless, and so is the passage of time."

Jiang Yun stood in the courtyard of Dantang, lost in thought.

Thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye.

"This year, our ancestor Zhou Ren is 184 years old."

"The clan chief, Zhou Hongde, is already 131 years old."

Thirty years have passed, and Zhou Ren, the patriarch of the Zhou family, has long since reached the Great Perfection of the late Foundation Establishment stage.

However, achieving the Core Formation stage is as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Clan leader Zhou Hongde has also raised his cultivation to the late Foundation Establishment stage and has remained there for many years.

As for Jiang Yun, he is just two drops short of liquid mana to break through to the late Foundation Establishment stage.

"Thirty years have passed, and I have accumulated fifty-nine drops of liquid mana in my dantian."

"If you condense two more drops, for a total of sixty-one drops of liquid mana, you will be considered a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator."

"It seems that the Crimson Flame Burning Gold Technique, a foundation-building cultivation method, has a fairly considerable cultivation speed."

Jiang Yun pulled himself out of his thoughts and began to ponder.

If one could condense just one more drop of liquid mana, one could break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

If one's cultivation level is raised to the late Foundation Establishment stage, then perhaps one will be able to refine the pill patterns of a mid-grade second-tier pill.

Then you can start trying to become a second-tier high-grade alchemist.

"In the past thirty years, the first twenty years were spent cultivating and refining liquid magic power, and the rest of the time was spent comprehending the Myriad Spirit Pill Manual."

"In the following ten years, he mastered the Wanling Danpu (Myriad Spirit Pill Manual) and refined three kinds of second-grade mid-level pills, becoming a second-grade mid-level alchemist."

"Rather than focusing on the pill patterns for refining mid-grade second-tier pills, it would be better to break through to the late Foundation Establishment stage first."

After becoming a mid-grade second-tier alchemist, Jiang Yun began to try refining the pill patterns of mid-grade second-tier pills to further improve his alchemy skills so that he could eventually become a high-grade second-tier alchemist.

Unfortunately, the pill patterns for refining second-grade mid-level pills are quite difficult to obtain, and several years of effort have not been successful.

Today, Jiang Yunjing was feeling restless, so he left the alchemy room for a walk and decided to break through to the late Foundation Establishment stage before considering the matter of pill patterns.

Raise your cultivation to the late Foundation Establishment stage, refine the pill patterns of a second-tier pill, and then attempt to become a second-tier high-grade alchemist.

"Go to the Treasure Pavilion to exchange for some Foundation Establishment Elixir to break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment."

Having made up his mind, Jiang Yun stepped out of the Pill Hall and headed to the Ningyuanfang Treasure Exchange Pavilion.

"I haven't been to the Treasure Exchange Pavilion for thirty years, and I don't know if anyone has exchanged my three kinds of pill formulas yet."

Just before entering the Treasure Pavilion, Jiang Yun suddenly remembered the matter of selling pill formulas.

Thirty years ago, he earned more than 70,000 contribution points by selling three kinds of pill formulas at Duibaoge.

Over the past thirty years, there have been countless instances of people exchanging for the elixir formula.

He can earn contribution points as long as someone exchanges for the pill recipe.

Entering the Duibao Pavilion, Jiang Yun walked to the counter and smiled, "Thirty years have passed since we last met. Manager Qiu, how have you been?"

"Very good." Qiu Jiantian stroked his beard and smiled when he saw Jiang Yun.

"You have so many contribution points, yet you haven't come to exchange them for treasures for thirty years. I suppose you've been studying the Myriad Spirit Pill Manual all these years?"

Having obtained the Wanling Dan Manual from Qiu Jiantian, he could roughly guess what Jiang Yun had been doing for the past thirty years.

"Here I am," Jiang Yun said, taking out his identity token and placing it on the counter. "In the past thirty years, has anyone come to exchange for my three pill formulas?"

"In the first ten years, there were still a few people who came to exchange for it sporadically." Qiu Jiantian took out a jade slip and handed it to Jiang Yun. "After that, no one came to exchange for it anymore."

Jiang Yun nodded.

A family can exchange for a pill formula once and use it for a lifetime; naturally, they can't exchange for it a second time.

He picked up the jade slip and began to examine it.

It was discovered that in the first ten years of these thirty years, the recipe for the Qi-Boosting Pill had been redeemed thirty-one times, totaling 15500 contribution points.

The recipes for Qi Condensation Pill and Qi Nourishing Pill have been exchanged a total of fourteen times, generating 8400 contribution points.

"These are all accounts from the first ten years; no one has redeemed them in the last twenty years."

"It seems that I will no longer be able to earn contribution points from these three pill formulas."

After examining the accounts in the jade slip and confirming that everything was correct, Jiang Yun returned it to Qiu Jiantian.

Seeing this, Qiu Jiantian picked up Jiang Yun's identity token and began distributing contribution points.

"Three pill formulas, totaling 23900 contribution points."

"The Zixiao Sect will take 30%, so you can receive 16730 contribution points this time."

As he spoke, Qiu Jiantian had already distributed the contribution points.

On the back of Jiang Yun's identity token, the total amount of contribution points changed again.

Zhou Yun, Contribution Points: 52423

Jiang Yun glanced at his contribution points before speaking, "Manager Qiu, I'd like to exchange for ten drops of Foundation Establishment Elixir. Thank you for your trouble."

"Tsk tsk, ten drops of Foundation Establishment Elixir." Qiu Jiantian clicked his tongue. "You don't seem to care about the contribution points."