Longevity Family: Let Her Live At The Beginning, Let Her Live

Zhang Ran felt that there was nothing to hide about this matter.

That person doesn't want to expand and strengthen their family.

"What's wrong? Of course, it's better for the family to prosper and grow. Is there something else to consider?" Princess Zhaoren covered her mouth and chuckled lightly, holding a formation flag in her hand. She caressed it and said, "My lord, there's nothing special about it. I just wanted to ask, after all, under the Great Qian Dynasty, if someone's power becomes too great, do you think anyone would feel at ease?"

"This girl, what does she mean? She's acting as if she's advising me," Zhang Ran's mind flashed with many thoughts in an instant.

Doesn't this statement imply that the Qian Emperor won't let him grow too big? Isn't this girl the Qian Emperor's daughter?

Why is she trying to divert the topic? Zhang Ran had no choice but to calmly say, "There's nothing to worry about. My Zhang family doesn't like expanding territory. We only seek peace in one region. Currently, we are developing alchemy, refining tools, and cultivating demonic beasts. As for military expansion, I haven't considered it."

Zhang Ran drew a formation pattern and demonstrated it to Princess Zhaoren.

He continued, "I understand what you're saying, but with my Zhang family's situation, who wouldn't feel reassured? More and more people will come to cooperate with me. After all, everyone in the cultivation world is pursuing the path of immortality. If we can work together to achieve this goal, why resort to fighting and killing?"

Princess Zhaoren didn't expect Zhang Ran to have such thoughts.

In the past, she had never heard of such a thing. The cultivation world was full of deceit and danger.

She knew how many fathers and sons killed each other for treasures, women, pills, opportunities, and so on.

She herself had seen her mother's true colors and the disgusting faces in the palace during a chance event.

They were all selfish and self-serving. If it weren't for her cleverness, she would have died long ago.

Later, she was saved by the Fifth Prince.

"Ninth Prince, I think your idea is too idealistic. How could so many people be thinking about stable development? If you were to refine a Nine-Rank Soul Refining Pill or a Fifth-Order pill that defies the heavens, or a Third-Stage Extreme Spirit Pill..."

The Third-Stage Extreme Spirit Pill was a highly sought-after pill by cultivators in the later stage of Soul Formation.

After reaching the later stage of Soul Formation, one had to enter the peak of Soul Formation.

This required the fusion of three gods.

The Primordial Spirit (Nascent Soul), the Flesh God (Physical Body), and the Qi God (Spiritual Power).

These three represented the three most important components of a cultivator. Only after they merged could one step into the peak of Soul Formation.

In this way, one could truly reach a pseudo-god state. After reaching the peak of Soul Formation, one's divine power, body, and spiritual power would undergo a tremendous transformation, and they would also experience a Heavenly Tribulation.

After successfully crossing the Heavenly Tribulation and managing the peak of Soul Formation for a long time, one could attempt to break through to the legendary Infant Transformation realm. Some people even reached the Divine Transformation realm.

As for the mysteries within, Zhang Ran could only understand them when he reached that stage.

After hearing Princess Zhaoren's words, Zhang Ran smiled and remained silent. Suddenly, he reminded her, "Be careful."

The formation in front of them accidentally caused some explosions under Princess Zhaoren's control.

Some fluctuations made Princess Zhaoren panic.

After Zhang Ran made a few imprints, the fluctuations slowly disappeared.

"That was close. Otherwise, the formation that I used to train my disciples would have been destroyed."

Zhiran, who knew she had caused trouble, also blushed and secretly wondered why she was so careless.

"Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention just now."

Looking at her blushing face and Zhiran's continuous apologies, she also held a lot of spirit stones in her hand as a gesture of apology.

"It's just a small matter, just be more focused next time."

Zhiran felt warm in her heart. This was the first time someone didn't scold her for making a mistake.

Thinking back to the past, her mother often scolded her, saying she couldn't do anything right since she was young.

This was the first time someone recognized her. Although the Fifth Prince never said anything to her, she knew that he only saw her as a pawn.

Seeing Princess Zhiran lost in thought, Zhang Ran asked, "What's wrong? Why are you daydreaming? Didn't you want to learn formations?"

Princess Zhiran immediately snapped back to reality and said somewhat embarrassedly, "Actually, I'm not interested in formations at all."

She lied because of the Fifth Prince's task.

"Then what are you interested in?"

Princess Zhiran shook her head. "I don't know. I don't know what I'm good at, but it seems like I'm not very proficient in formations."

Her character of not being good at anything had been instilled in her since she was young, causing her to forget her talents and strengths.

Zhang Ran also noticed this and smiled, saying, "That's alright. Let's take it one step at a time. How about learning alchemy?"

"Alchemy? Sure!" Princess Zhiran's eyes lit up. She didn't expect the prince to not blame her and patiently teach her like this.

A warm current flowed through her heart, something she had never felt before.

Her empty heart was gradually being filled. In the past, her heart was always suppressed, filled with despair and discomfort.

At this moment, she only felt that her heart was so comfortable, a feeling she didn't want to disappear.

She wished she could follow Zhang Ran forever.

Until she followed Zhang Ran drowsily to the alchemy room.

A sound of "pa".

Zhang Ran ignited the alchemy fire and opened the alchemy furnace.

"Since you have no foundation, let me first tell you the steps of alchemy. The first step of alchemy is to know the order."

"After igniting the alchemy fire, preheat the furnace. Then we divide the medicinal materials. Remember, each type of medicinal material has a different harvesting time, and the sealing time is also different. You have to slowly remember all of this."

"Then, according to the prescription, put in the appropriate amount of medicinal materials, and then use your spiritual power, control the alchemy fire, and observe the changes in the furnace, allowing the essence of these herbs to slowly refine."

As Zhang Ran finished speaking, a fairy grass and a dissipating grass were thrown in.

Then, a flame emerged from his fingertips.

Under the burning of the flame, a jade forest fruit gradually turned into a pool of liquid.

Then, many impurities were thrown out of the liquid.

Zhang Ran also poured the liquid into the furnace.

"Remember, when refining pills, you also need to pay attention to the heat, observe the extraction of the herbal essence and the integration of the pill. These are all things we need to control. Because the alchemy furnace has a very high temperature, alchemists must have powerful spiritual power and extremely keen senses. Otherwise, we won't know how to refine pills."

As Zhang Ran carefully explained step by step, Princess Zhiran listened attentively and unconsciously leaned against Zhang Ran's embrace.

She didn't know if Zhang Ran really wanted to teach her or deliberately prolonged the explanation, but it took him four hours to refine a second-grade pill.