Cultivation Starts with Rejuvenation

The dozens from the Fierce Tiger Gang met their end in an instant, their bodies and heads separated as scarlet mist sprayed like a fountain at the scene.

The ordinary people around the small tavern, oppressed by the Fierce Tiger Gang for years, were all dumbstruck.

It wasn’t until the gang leader’s body hit the ground, raising a cloud of dust, that the crowd finally accepted the reality.

The next moment, they looked at Li Ji’an with a mix of admiration, fear, and gratitude in their eyes. Ultimately, they all appeared wary, quickly distancing themselves or closing their doors.

”Senior...” The father and son, shocked, also revealed a look of fear and spoke nervously.

Li Ji’an picked up another bowl of wine and drank it: ”Speak freely!”

”Please forgive us, Senior. May we ask... what exactly is your cultivation level?” The middle-aged man summoned his courage to ask nervously.

From the way Li Ji’an just dispatched the Fierce Tiger Gang members with mere magical decapitation, the father and son couldn’t determine how strong he truly was.

”How does it matter?” Li Ji’an responded carelessly.

”Senior might not know, but the leader of the Fierce Tiger Gang was one among the many consorts of Mo Die Wanderer. Mo Die Wanderer is at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, known for being harsh, cunning, and is said to have killed a late Foundation Establishment wanderer. Senior...” the middle-aged man worriedly said.

”Mo Die Wanderer? Where is she now?” Li Ji’an smiled faintly.

Since the Boundless Domain and Yellow Heaven Domain invaded, the desert’s situation changed drastically. Especially after its complete fall, many demon cultivators from the Two Domains come to Fallen Dragon Ridge’s desert to seek Yin Vein Blood Fiend and ancient opportunities.

After the Yan Family and several other local desert families were ravaged and killed by passing demon cultivators, countless loose cultivators flooded in. The spirit vein lands were excessively consumed, and now the spiritual qi isn’t what it used to be. Only the Yan family’s core ancestral land can barely maintain a Second Tier Middle Stage level, practically with no Foundation Establishment cultivators stationed here.

”To report to Senior, Mo Die Wanderer has always occupied the Yan family ancestral land.”

”Yan family ancestral land?” Li Ji’an’s eyes narrowed slightly.

”Yes, Mo Die Wanderer claimed the Yan family ancestral land alone. Only her favorites are within, and the few major gangs in the desert have developed under her protection, often her consorts,” the middle-aged man said with some excitement.

Li Ji’an nodded, and his figure vanished into thin air.

The father and son were left stunned where they stood, their eyes filled with extreme shock.

Such an ability to disappear instantly was not something any ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator could perform.

”Is there hope for the desert?” The middle-aged man muttered, his eyes slightly red.

As long as the desert can be led like the rumors about Yan family were, the compatriots emerging from the Storm Forbidden Land would surely have hope.

”Father, the Senior left something.” Suddenly, the young man noticed something on the chair Li Ji’an had sat on.

Two jade talismans and a bottle of pill medicine.

”Quick, kneel and bow.” The middle-aged man’s eyes widened suddenly, hurriedly stopping the boy from taking the items and instead pressed him down to bow deeply in the direction Li Ji’an had disappeared.

It wasn’t until the young man’s forehead bled that he respectfully stepped forward and picked up the jade talismans and the jade bottle with both hands.

The young man’s excitement grew stronger as he probed with a slight spiritual sense.

One was a fire element cultivation technique, ”Flame Dragon Technique.”

One was called ”Li’s Pill Records,” an alchemy inheritance.

The pills in the jade bottle were Source Supplement Pill and Nourishing Source Pill.

”Upper grade cultivation technique!”

”No, this is... it seems like the Yan family’s legendary Clan’s Secret Technique is the ’Flame Dragon Technique!’”

”Alchemy inheritance! It points directly to the Tier Three Pill King.”

”Nourishing Source Pill, Source Supplement Pill, these were the immortal pills Fairy Yan provided for the lonely children of the desert to supplement the lack of innate spirit veins back then!”

The young man was thunderstruck; these were the divine objects that every aspiring immortal path seeker in the desert dreamed of.

At the same time, a wave of boldness surged within him.

Because he increasingly felt like those favored sons of heaven in the storybooks.

Encountering a supreme expert in life’s low points, then being gifted with a grand opportunity, thereafter rising against the odds, soaring to the sky!

As the boy fantasized about his future, a path of blazing glory and prosperity, ascending to immortality, punishing those who had wronged him, the ruins of the market had already undergone a bloody massacre.

All faction forces, without exception, were cleansed by an aged elder.

From then on, for a hundred years, no one dared to form factions here again.

Half a day later,

Li Ji’an arrived at the Yan family’s ancestral land, standing in Yan Qingwan’s exclusive alchemy room.

An image hung at the front of the alchemy room, depicting a full portrait with a smile and eyes filled with encouragement, resembling Li Ji’an’s fourth life when he first entered this world to assist Yan Qingwan in alchemy.

However, the portrait had now been torn in half.

Standing quietly for a moment, Li Ji’an put away the painting scroll.

Then his divine sense focused on those cultivating together in Yan Qingwan’s secluded chamber.

The person wore full black attire, a black veil over their face, and had Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivation, but their magical power was chaotic and mixed.

At this moment, they were continuously absorbing the essence of several male cultivators.

Through the veil, Li Ji’an saw the anomaly on this woman’s face, half corroded by poisonous fog, forming a dark carapace, while the other half was not unfamiliar.

It was indeed Liu Qun who back then, under the name of Dong Jiangling, deceived the Liu family’s Young Master to the Biyun Sect and snatched away the Liu family’s Young Master’s Foundation Establishment Pill.

Also, Dong Jiangling’s granddaughter.

After more than a hundred years, meeting an old acquaintance’s descendant, Li Ji’an could only sigh gently.

Gugu then dived in with the Little Fire Spirit, instantly resolving everyone, as the Little Fire Spirit incinerated the bodies and Yin souls completely.

With one last glance at the Yan family, soon to vanish in the annals of time, Li Ji’an flew deep into Fallen Dragon Ridge.