Hyper-Dimensional Player

Chapter 719 - 40: Everlasting Youth Technique (Part 3)

It seems that as more people are killed, his physical characteristics are getting stronger, even without Inner Strength or Qinggong, he can do things that others in Human Form can achieve.

"Why do I feel like my path now is a bit like physical cultivation?"

Duncan could feel that as he refined his killing aura more efficiently, the difference between him and other people in the martial world became more apparent.

His Innate Realm differs from other martial experts, more like the body refining phase of physical cultivation.

In just a few breaths.

The Corpse Dissolving Immortal arrived near the secluded valley, glanced at the corpses of the Three Immortals of the South Sea without any emotional expression, and eagerly entered the depths of the valley, ultimately stopping in front of the thousand-year-old withered wood vine.

Others could only catch a glimpse of a swiftly moving green-haired figure.

But Duncan saw the green-haired creature crouching down, greedily sucking the sap from the withered wood vine, for which the blood-sealing poison, that Sun Girl claimed could kill upon contact, was like dew. After drinking at the root for a while, the hair on the green-haired creature became more vigorous, and the withered appearance it had when fighting people completely disappeared, much like grass spreading leaves after a rain.

"Is it consuming the strange poison?"

This Corpse Dissolving Immortal possessed extraordinary Daoist mystical skills, returning to simplicity, focusing on cultivation rather than extraordinary techniques, and moved like a monkey.

After consuming the tree sap, it glanced back in this direction from a distance, then quickly disappeared into the distance.

It seemed to be looking for someone again.

At this moment, Sun Girl's surprised voice arose, "Look, there's a cave over the cliff."

Cave Dwelling?

Everyone looked over in surprise and saw water flowing out of one side of the cliff, with a lot of growing plants nearby that covered the cave entrance. It would have been quite challenging to find if Sun Girl hadn't discovered it accidentally.

"Let's go."

"Go take a look."

With Duncan as a human booster, no need to fear any hundred-zhang cliffs, he could even throw people across.

Sun Girl was the first to land on the stone wall of the cliff, where there was a polished winding path, but over time it had weathered. After slicing through the vegetation to enter, it was a stone chamber cave dwelling excavated from the mountain, with a stone table and stools apparently carved out with a sword.

A cane made of vine wood hung smoothly on the wall, and next to it were three jade boxes, covered in dust.

Fu Jianhan carefully opened one of them, and inside was an ancient text, with the words "Everlasting Youth Technique" written on it. Before the ecstatic him could pick it up, the ancient text crumbled at a touch, turning into ashes.

"After a thousand years, it has already decayed."

Sun Girl had a regretful expression as well. The other two boxes contained pills. The pills made with Outer Core techniques had been there so long, they looked like black lumps of iron with some oxidized green on them.

Who dares to eat that?

"Don't eat carelessly. Those things made with Outer Core techniques are not something you can eat," Duncan warned Fu Jianhan beside him.

Consider the possibility of heavy metal poisoning.

Sun Girl waved her sleeve, sweeping away the dust in front, and then joyfully said, "Look, there's a training diagram on this stone wall."

— Everlasting Youth Technique.

There are altogether sixteen diagrams of movement and breathing techniques, all showing different Daoist cultivation postures. Duncan, having remarkable Inner Strength insight now, after just a glance, said, "They all follow the Liver Meridian of the Foot Jueyin, I fear I can't practice it for now."

Liver is associated with wood.

This Daoist mystical skill focuses on the liver and spleen meridians, with special human acupuncture points involved, making it quite suitable for the other three.

Sun Girl's medical Inner Strength ensures her True Qi is neutral, allowing her to operate virtually any technique. Her True Qi has a property similar to Little Non-Phase Technique. Fu Jianhan practices Pure Yang True Qi, which is fire-type and compatible with earth and wood, wood gives rise to fire, fire gives rise to earth, so he can practice all the techniques depicted. As for Yu Yaonu, she practices the Five Immortals Technique and can only practice half of it for now.

Duncan could also practice it, the earth and metal generate one another, but he'd have to skip the first eight diagrams and jump straight to the latter eight.

"The Earth-Wood brother? Everlasting life?"

This breathing technique is probably practiced in conjunction with the withered wood vine outside, first cultivating the liver meridian, then penetrating the spleen meridian, finally using one's ability to detoxify, utilizing the withered wood vine to attain Everlasting Youth.

Clearing the liver and spleen meridians strengthens detoxification ability.

This world has many strange skills. It is said Li Bai practiced the mysterious text "Tai Xuan Jing" from the late Western Han Dynasty, it being so profound and difficult, unparalleled in talent, he couldn't grasp it, being famed along with the "Can Tong Qi" as the most difficult Daoist mystical skills in the world.

Many techniques in this world cannot be practiced.

From the Three Immortals of the South Sea, Duncan found a book titled "Great Sun Exchange Technique," Sun Girl said it was originally called "Stealing the Sky and Changing the Sun Technique," also known as the Stealing Heaven Art, implying fire and earth dual cultivation, once a renowned skill for longevity.

Sun Girl, after observing for a long time, finally said softly, "Practicing this mystical skill to the end can cultivate a special type of True Qi, 'Flourishing of Withered Wood.'

"It rejuvenates the body, making one young again."

"However, every cycle of sixty years requires a tribulation, the Five Calamities of the human body, corresponding to the heart, liver, spleen, lung, and kidneys. At worst, one can go mad, and at worst, die on the spot."

"If after three hundred years one hasn't ascended to immortality, the Five Decays of Celestial Beings will occur, beyond redemption."

This is an Immortality Method.

At least one could become a Corpse Dissolving Immortal.

Duncan looked a few more times, then asked, "Will practicing the latter part lead to the body growing green hair?"

Hearing this, Fu Jianhan hesitated, wanting an answer.

Strength is determined by the version, but being handsome is a lifetime matter.

The hair of the green-haired creature was green.

Yu Yaonu initially intended to channel energy according to the diagrams, but upon hearing this stopped immediately; the maiden cherished beauty, unwilling to let her body grow green hair.

Sun Girl pondered for a moment, then said, "Excess of liver wood can cause the body to grow green hair."

"Using the withered wood vine to assist in practice likely led to strange phenomena due to the difficulty in neutralizing the liver wood's strange poison."

"If not relying on external objects, it should be fine."

"There might also be another treasure here, called the Ten Thousand Year Stone Stalactite, also used to aid practice and body refinement."

Earth and wood dual cultivation.

This world's superior techniques, aside from the Extraordinary Meridians, largely involve parts of the Twelve Standard Meridians, but practicing the Twelve Standard Meridians, unusual phenomena easily appear in the body because they directly affect basic bodily functions.

Which means, when you have practiced the Twelve Standard Meridians to the end, you are already beyond mortal.

The Extraordinary Meridians began to become popular only after the Han Dynasty.

Gradually becoming the mainstream meridians for martial arts in the martial world.

"Then I should be able to practice the latter eight diagrams too."

Hearing this, Duncan was quite relieved; the average person really can't tolerate growing green hair.

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