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Chapter 252 - 120: Martial Arts Legend, Undying Divine Skill_3

Chapter 252: Chapter 120: Martial Arts Legend, Undying Divine Skill_3

Li Guanyi was overjoyed. After waiting for it to cool down, he picked up the two scrolls and scanned them with his gaze.

The characters on them seemed to have been pricked out using a needle; one scroll was a cultivation technique, recorded in meticulous detail. Li Guanyi said, "Eternal Moon Undying Divine Body?" He scanned through this cultivation technique, which was precisely the magic skill practiced by Hou Zhongyu, and also the very mantra his master spent sixty years on to dissolve the madness and violence within.

It was a method from the green-robed guest, one of the legends in martial arts.

As Li Guanyi perused, he saw that it tightly grasped vitality, proposed the ingestion of a large amount of meat, and followed the Taoist path of refining essence and transforming Qi. However, under normal circumstances, martial artists breathe in Primordial Qi and absorb the power of medicines, which would either integrate into their bodies or be expelled.

This cultivation technique allowed for the transformation of such medicinal power and essence into [vitality].

And then, forming a Golden Core in the dantian.

Like a large medicine within the body.

It was the Primordial Essence Qi and vitality of the self; thus, once injured, immediately drawing upon the Primordial Qi and vitality within the Golden Core and activating it according to this magic skill could instantly recover from injuries. In theory, if this Golden Core in the abdomen was fully tempered, it could trade injury for death, rendering oneself undying and immortal.

Li Guanyi finally understood why Hou Zhongyu was so difficult to kill.

The fellow had cultivated his Golden Core right at his heart, which had accumulated vitality for who knows how many years.

Li Guanyi suddenly connected the content of Hou Zhongyu’s teacher’s letter and felt a sudden shock.

"That martial arts legend intended to follow the path of ’Gathering All Living Beings into One Body’. Plus, Hou Zhongyu’s teacher had once seen his teacher practicing Midnight Blood Drinking; this original divine skill was probably meant to consume flesh and blood to maintain one’s existence."

"Bloody and cruel, yet it directly points to the undying great path."

"So Hou Zhongyu’s teacher said he was both horrified and yearning, and would unknowingly begin to practice it because magicians all seek the Taoist Heart of immortality and longevity."

"It seems that martial arts legend was someone with an overbearing and self-centered disposition."

However, that magician spent sixty years transforming this demon skill, which required drinking human blood and devouring others’ vitality, into a mysterious skill for accumulating one’s own vitality and then using it. It probably also mixed in some elements of the Elixir of Immortality.

He was a magician with a compassionate and merciful heart.

Alas, he has passed away.

Li Guanyi looked at this scroll, and the Green Bird’s Dharma Form appeared, seemingly very interested in this divine skill. The Green Bird, master of the wood of vitality, danced in the air. Since it was given to him by Li Guanyi’s mother, it seemed to possess higher spirituality than his own Dharma Forms, actively creating a breeze with its wings to flip through the scroll.

Li Guanyi was curious.

It seemed that all major Dharma Forms had corresponding divine skills.

When practicing divine skills, the corresponding Dharma Forms would undergo changes.

The Red Dragon Burning Power, the White Tiger Armor Break, and the Mystic Turtle’s predilection for profound Taoist charm.

Thinking it over, the Four Spirits’ Dharma Forms were only missing the Green Bird’s.

With this addition, it seemed complete—wondering whether practicing this skill would bring about changes, such that each of the Four Spirits corresponds to a divine skill...

Li Guanyi looked at the other scroll, which turned out to be Hou Zhongyu’s records.

’Failure, failure, the blood of the Fire Qilin is simply incapable of success.’

’I have decided to take a bold risk and record my inheritance here; should I die, there may be someone who comes after me. I now understand why the Fire Qilin cannot make the Immortality Elixir. Its flames are violent, within the Five Elements it rules over killing and slaying, not an auspicious Qilin but a god of slaughter like the White Tiger.’

’Pursuing violent flames for immortality is like bathing in magma.’

’The ancestors of Chen Country are fools.’

’Only the earth element with its generous and nurturing nature can carry things, with its blood, one can achieve longevity and immortality.’

’I have found a magic technique that, should I obtain the [Mountain Marrow], a spiritual object of heaven and earth, and temper it, it would be enough to transform the Innate Primordial Qi of the Qilin from fire to earth, becoming an Earthly Auspicious Qilin. At that point, I can fully obtain longevity!’

’Emperor Chen is cunning, always testing me. Such an old fellow, so young yet with the scheming mind of hundreds, no wonder he looks prematurely aged but his power is profound. I wonder how... Whoever comes after me, if I am dead, you are fortunate to obtain this item, do not forget to seek out the Qilin.’

’If the thing I pursue is successful, please write a letter and burn it for me.’

’If this endeavor succeeds, my death would be worthwhile!’

The rest included detailed techniques; Hou Zhongyu apparently worried that those who came after him would not understand his research and recorded every step, truly consistent with his personality.

Li Guanyi finally understood why he directly asked for Mountain Marrow.

However, to transform fire to earth, let fire generate earth, an Earthly Auspicious Qilin?

Clutching Hou Zhongyu’s belongings, a glint of light briefly passed through Li Guanyi’s eyes.

He had finally found it.

A way to make the Qilin leave openly and honorably.