Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

Chapter 118 Reclaiming Identity

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A restaurant somewhere in the Immortal City.

Ji Shuxuan cautiously walked in and found Yan Hengchuan busy in the kitchen.

He whispered, "Yokokawa, let's go to Immortal Peach Mountain now to pay our respects to Senior Li."

Upon hearing this, Yan Hengchuan calmly put down what he was doing and casually called out to a somewhat short-looking young man beside him, "Xiao He, I'm going out for a bit. When Chef Mo Ling comes back, tell him."

"Okay, Brother Yan." The short young man smiled somewhat reluctantly.

Yan Hengchuan didn't take it seriously and left with Ji Shuxuan.

Seeing the two leave, a look of frustration and malice appeared in the short youth's eyes: "Youngster, how dare you be so insolent in front of me."

What Yan Hengchuan didn't know was...

In fact, this short young man had another identity.

He was Yan Liming, a Core Formation cultivator who had possessed another body.

He had mistakenly fallen into a trap. Under the combined attack of Mr. Yan and True Man Fenglan, he had no choice but to expend a large amount of his life force to use the "Blood Wing Escape Technique" to escape.

After escaping capture, he discovered that his essence and lifespan were almost exhausted, leaving him no choice but to possess another body.

For righteous cultivators, possession is an outright act of demonic cultivation, and once discovered, it will be condemned by the cultivation world.

However, as a demonic cultivator, Yan Liming naturally had no objection to possession.

Because demonic cultivation techniques have serious consequences and can damage one's physical body if one is not careful, it is quite normal for demonic cultivators to possess other people's bodies. This has even led to the development of industries such as "body cultivation and trading".

However, Yan Liming knew that all the demonic cultivators were selfish, treacherous, cunning, and heartless.

Once his former fellow disciples find out that he has fallen to the point of possession and lost his Core Formation realm combat power...

Those former close friends and acquaintances will most likely tear off their masks and open their jaws to him.

At that time, not only will all the resources and treasures he has accumulated over half a lifetime be taken away, but he himself will probably be captured and his soul refined into treasures.

Therefore, before his strength reached the Foundation Establishment stage, Yan Liming dared not even consider Islam.

After searching around the immortal city, he finally found a child with spiritual roots.

After concealing his physical body and storage bag, he did not hesitate to separate his soul from his body and possess another. With the strength of his soul at the Core Formation stage, possessing a mere uncultivated child was naturally an easy success.

However, before he could retrieve his storage bag, he was taken to the Immortal City by the elders of the children's village to cultivate.

"That's fine too. Anyway, with my current cultivation level, I don't need the items in the storage bag." Yan Liming thought to himself, a cold glint involuntarily flashing in his eyes: "Once I reach the ninth level of Qi Refining, I'll retrieve the storage bag, and then—"

A voice interrupted Yan Liming's thoughts: "Xiao He, come out quickly, someone is looking for you!"

"You're asking for death!" Yan Liming felt a surge of violence as soon as he saw someone dare to disturb him.

However, he soon realized that he was no longer Yan Liming, a Core Formation cultivator, but He Yunyi, a Qi Refining Level 1 cultivator.

He immediately walked out of the kitchen without making a sound, and in just a moment, he saw the senior who had brought him to the Immortal City for cultivation standing in the main hall waiting for him.

Gu Musheng chuckled and asked, "Yunyi, are you settling in well here?"

Yan Liming bowed to the low-level cultivator in front of him, feeling aggrieved: "Thank you for your concern, senior. I'm fine here."

He couldn't even remember how many low-level cultivators like this, whom he could crush with a flick of his wrist, he had killed over the years.

But now, he is like a dragon trapped in shallow water, forced to bow his head.

Gu Musheng was an extremely shrewd person; how could he possibly miss the slight awkwardness in Yan Liming's bow?

But he assumed the little guy was just nervous about arriving in the Immortal City for the first time and didn't pay much attention to it.

Gu Musheng smiled and said, "It's good that you can adapt. Here is a sum of spirit stones that an elder from your village entrusted to me. You are the only cultivator in the village, so I have decided to give you all of these spirit stones. When you achieve something in your cultivation in the future, remember to give back to the village."

Yan Liming was somewhat taken aback upon hearing Gu Musheng's words.

After all, if such a thing happened in the Demonic Sect, not only would all the spirit stones entrusted to them by the village elders be swallowed up, but Gu Musheng should also go to the village, arrest everyone, and use soul-searching and torture to find out if the village elders left behind any other treasures.

"Oh...oh." Despite his surprise, Yan Liming still took the cloth bag that Gu Musheng handed over.

"Alright, if you encounter any problems in the future, remember to come to me." After handing the spirit stone to Yan Liming, Gu Musheng gave him a few more instructions before turning to leave.

Yan Liming weighed the cloth bag in his hand, which contained more than a hundred low-grade spirit stones.

"As expected, it was right for me to stay in the righteous territory to recover my cultivation." He smiled and said, "Junior, for the sake of the spirit stones, I will spare your life once I have recovered my cultivation."

Just then, another voice rang out: "What are you grinning about? Get back to work!"

Despite his inward sneer, Yan Liming showed no outward reaction and obediently went about his work.

"Hey, where did Yan go?" Chef Mo asked again.

Soon, upon learning from Yan Liming that Yan Hengchuan had gone to pay respects to his own grandmaster, Mo Lingchu immediately shut her mouth.

He had long known that Yan Hengchuan's grandmaster was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, someone he could not afford to offend.

……

Upon hearing that Yan Hengchuan and Ji Shuxuan had come to pay their respects, Li Ping greeted them with a smile.

Upon seeing Li Ping, the two immediately bowed and said, "Greetings, Grandmaster (Senior)."

Li Ping waved his hand, indicating that the two did not need to bow. Just as the two stood up, he scanned them with his divine sense and found that Yan Hengchuan had also broken through to the second level of Qi Refining, making him equal to Ji Shuxuan in cultivation.

He immediately asked the two to tell him about the problems they encountered in their cultivation, and he gave them guidance one by one.

After instructing the two on their cultivation, he took out four bottles of Qi-boosting pills and distributed them to the two before sending the delighted pair away.

……

Shortly after the New Year, Zhang Tie's wedding was held as scheduled.

Li Ping met his wife, a woman who wasn't particularly beautiful but had a gentle temperament and seemed to have the potential to be a virtuous wife and loving mother.

When the two came to pay their respects to him, he also expressed his best wishes to the newlyweds and prepared some elixirs that he would not tell outsiders.

……

The next six months passed peacefully.

Qi Hanmo arrived at Xiantao Mountain to bid farewell to Li Ping.

Li Ping, in his personal capacity, gifted him five hundred spirit stones and five second-tier low-grade spirit talismans.

Qi Hanmo quickly declined, because this amount was more than the spirit stones he had contributed to the Foundation Building Fund.

However, under Li Ping's insistence, he ultimately had no choice but to accept it.

Watching Qi Hanmo's departing figure, Li Ping nodded slightly.

The reason he gave Qi Hanmo spirit stones and talismans was primarily because these things were nothing to him and he could easily take them out.

Secondly, Qi Hanmo left without obtaining a Foundation Establishment opportunity within the Tongzhou Association, and did not ask for his contribution spirit stones back.

Although the reason was that he had a better choice and no longer needed to worry about the opportunity to establish his foundation.

However, Li Ping still felt slightly indebted to him, so he personally compensated him with five hundred spirit stones and five spirit talismans so that he could safely arrive at Jixia and have a smoother start.

Soon after, Li Ping learned that Qi Hanmo had bid farewell to the others and had already embarked on his journey to Jixia with the caravan.

"With the outbreak of the war between the righteous and the demonic forces, the situation at Jixia Academy isn't as good as we imagined." He sighed. "I hope everything goes smoothly for you at Jixia Academy and that you successfully establish your foundation."

……

It's unclear whether Zhang Tie's accuracy was truly remarkable or if the pills he gave him were effective.

Not long after Qi Hanmo left, Zhang Tie ran over excitedly to tell him that his wife was pregnant.

Seeing Zhang Tie so overwhelmed with happiness, Li Ping smiled and wished him well, while also reminding him to be patient for a while.

Zhang Tie accepted Li Ping's blessing and left happily.

Seeing Zhang Tie's happy expression, Bai Lin couldn't help but feel envious. She clung to Li Ping's arm and said coquettishly, "Young Master, I also want a child."

Li Ping simply shook his head: "Having children will distract you. You should focus all your energy on cultivation now. That way, you might have a chance to establish your foundation in the future."

Bai Lin possesses four spiritual roots, so her aptitude can only be described as average.

However, she cultivated in a second-tier high-grade spiritual land and consumed a large number of pills to enhance her cultivation.

Before he was even twenty-four, he had already broken through to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

At this rate of cultivation, she is expected to reach the peak of Qi Refining before the age of fifty and attempt to break through to Foundation Establishment.

Li Ping has always been generous to his people, and Bai Lin has been with him for so long, how could he possibly mistreat her?

When the time comes, he will definitely try to get a Foundation Establishment Pill to protect her during her Foundation Establishment breakthrough.

Of course, Bai Lin has four spiritual roots, so her success rate in Foundation Establishment is not high to begin with.

Moreover, since she has lost her primordial yin body, her success rate is even lower than that of ordinary cultivators with four spiritual roots.

But that doesn't mean there's absolutely no chance.

Bai Lin understood the meaning behind Li Ping's words, and a look of surprise appeared in her eyes. She stopped mentioning having children and went off to do her own thing.

Li Ping returned to the alchemy room to continue refining pills, absorbing the innate spiritual energy of the pills to strengthen the power of his health cultivation technique.

The second-grade low-level pill he was refining, the Qi Cultivation Pill, required spiritual herbs that were over a hundred years old, making the purification and extraction process extremely troublesome.

It takes at least ten days to refine a batch of second-tier pills.

Fortunately, he possessed a second-tier top-grade alchemy furnace, his alchemy skills had reached the third tier, and he was blessed with the inheritance tree that guaranteed a 100% success rate in alchemy.

Therefore, when refining pills, some tedious steps can be omitted, reducing the pill-making time to about seven or eight days.

In this way, alchemy will not affect his cultivation.

Aside from alchemy, the egg he obtained from Zhang Tie, under his continuous infusion of the life-preserving technique's power, has seen its vitality grow ever stronger, its origin becoming almost extremely powerful.

Li Ping estimated that the spirit bird with its ancestral bloodline would be born in less than a year.