"You're saying someone already attained 'longevity'... Who was it?"
"Who exactly... I don't know."
Xiao chuckled hoarsely. "Do you remember that stone tablet the Evening Bell Church excavated from beneath the tundra? That was the tablet that recorded the 'Longevity Technique'... Though it was only an incomplete fragment, someone had already successfully deciphered it."
Gu Shen frowned. "That tablet has already been deciphered?"
"That's right..."
Xiao sneered. "Those saints of the Church of Storms are still racking their brains over the inscription, but those idiots are progressing far too slowly. At this rate, it will take at least another ten years to touch upon the answer—perhaps even longer!"
"What does that have to do with someone deciphering the Longevity Technique?"
"Of course it does."
After a brief pause.
Xiao slowly said, "Because those inscriptions weren't the original text of the 'Longevity Technique,' but the translated version after it had been deciphered! Many years ago, the Tundra Tomb Master buried the translation together with his coffin... preparing to die there."
"You and I both saw what happened afterward."
"Years later, heavy snow buried everything. The tomb was empty; the tomb master's coffin remained, but the deceased had long vanished."
"He didn't die."
"He truly comprehended longevity!"
It was a mad conjecture, but sometimes the truth was even crazier than imagination.
Gu Shen thought of the iron armor he had worn for so long.
Now, the iron armor had been completely refined by the Iron Throne into iron scales that could freely change shape.
Yet it was a mysterious ancient artifact whose origins even the Gu family had never figured out!
And there was that bizarre Jade Thumb Ring that could devour "spirit" on its own...
Gu Shen was no longer the inexperienced youth he had once been. He had seen countless