Longevity Technique

In this era, Blood Qi Pills were priceless, peerless treasures.

But in the new age of Spiritual Qi Resurgence in the future, they were not anything worthy of mention.

Warriors of the new age

had, more or less, swallowed quite a few Blood Qi Pills.

They were the most widespread cultivation-pill resource after the era of Spiritual Qi Resurgence began.

After the Spiritual Qi Resurgence of later generations, martial arts entered a golden age, and the widespread availability of Blood Qi Pills was no small part of the reason.

Their simple refining methods,

their relatively ordinary ingredients,

made them the most widely circulated medicinal pill!

Yang Qingyun had spent ten years struggling at the bottom rung after the Spiritual Qi Resurgence in his Previous Life. With nearly everything required for Cultivation needing to be handled personally, he naturally had mastered a thing or two about refining them.

The process of refining Blood Qi Pills was not actually complicated.

Fine charcoal burned, extracted, simmered, then slowly refined over a smothered flame.

Yang Qingyun began each step with practiced ease.

Inside the pill furnace,

Spiritual Qi, under the blazing heat, was sealed within the pill. It continuously drew in the Medicinal Power from the herbs, gathering and taking shape within the furnace.

Another three days passed.

Yang Qingyun lifted the furnace lid, and a faint bloody gleam spilled forth.

A rich medicinal fragrance began spreading in all directions!

Delight crossed Yang Qingyun's face.

It had worked!

Just as expected,

Inside the pill furnace sat a round, crimson pill the size of a ping-pong ball. Beneath it lay all manner of scorched, dried medicinal dregs.

Yet that pill stood quietly atop the blackened dregs, its body smooth and red, utterly out of place amid those ugly, charred remnants!

Like a lotus blooming from a pool of mud, unsullied by dust!

Looking at the Blood Qi Pill inside the furnace,

A faint smile appeared on Yang Qingyun's exhausted face.

However, he did not take it out and consume it at once.

Instead, he sat cross-legged on the ground to meditate, recovering the energy expended over the past three days of intense concentration on pill refining.

Before using the Blood Qi Pill to lay his foundation, Yang Qingyun still had one matter to settle.

That was the Cultivation Technique he would train after stepping onto the Martial Path once more!

Martial cultivation was not something where one could simply refine Qi and Blood merely by having sufficient food, medicinal herbs, and vital essence.

To refine Qi and Blood,

One first needed a Cultivation Technique!

As an expert who had once reached the Viscera Refining Realm in his Previous Life, and who had struggled through ten years of chaos, Yang Qingyun naturally possessed no small number of Cultivation Techniques.

"The first technique I cultivated in my Previous Life, and the one I cultivated for the longest, was the common-as-dirt Iron Cloth Shirt I trained when I first stepped onto the Martial Path."

"I am the most familiar with this technique."

"But this technique's rank is simply too low, too ordinary!"

Yang Qingyun's gaze flickered, and he immediately abandoned the idea of cultivating the Iron Cloth Shirt, the technique he had practiced upon embarking on the Martial Path in his Previous Life.

In his Previous Life, cultivating the Iron Cloth Shirt

had been a choice born of helplessness.

Compared to his Previous Life,

He had better Cultivation Techniques in his mind!

In the end, Yang Qingyun set his sights on a miraculous Cultivation Technique he had acquired and switched to after the Spiritual Qi Resurgence!

"Longevity Technique."

Yang Qingyun silently recited those three words.

In his Previous Life,

In order to resolve the problems with his body, he had deliberately collected and perused all kinds of manuals concerning cultivation, internal arts, Martial Skills, and more, to see if he could find a solution.

Then, after the Spiritual Qi Resurgence, Xuantian Realm invaded, and the martial world suffered a tremendous blow. Numerous Cultivation Techniques and Martial Skills that had once been kept secret scattered far and wide.

This had undoubtedly given him an excellent opportunity.

In his Previous Life, he could be said to have devoured books by the cartload!

And back then,

He had ultimately chosen the extraordinary technique he had obtained by chance, the Longevity Technique, as the Cultivation Technique to switch to.

This was because

The Longevity Technique itself possessed the ability to slowly improve a cultivator's Talent during cultivation!

In his Previous Life, he had been trapped by his poor Talent. Every step forward required ten, even a hundred times more effort than others.

Thus, after being reborn, his obsession with Talent ran profoundly deep.

The Longevity Technique was the only technique capable of gradually improving one's Talent!

"As the foundational technique cultivated by the disciples of that forbidden giant standing above the Seven Nations, the Longevity Technique has the drawback of requiring costly cultivation resources. Yet the Qi and Blood it refines is upright and balanced, deep and enduring. Not only does it not harm the body, it can continuously make subtle changes to one's physical Talent."

"If I cultivate this technique, then through its imperceptible influence over time, my Talent will certainly improve even further!"

A trace of determination appeared on Yang Qingyun's face.

In his Previous Life, he had entered the Martial Path when the very source of his body had nearly been Squeezed Dry. Being able to reach the Viscera Refining Realm afterward had already been a blessing stolen from heaven!

The reason he had gradually advanced from the initial stage of Viscera Refining to the peak Viscera Refining Realm, continuing to improve,

Apart from the great changes in heaven and earth, the endless emergence of spiritual treasures, and the vast increase in cultivation resources,

One particularly important reason

was the Longevity Technique he had switched to!

It was precisely because he had cultivated the Longevity Technique alongside his other arts over the following ten years, slowly and continuously repairing his body, that he had been able to bear the growth of his Qi and Blood and gradually reach the peak Viscera Refining Realm.

However, the Longevity Technique's effects went no further than that.

The three dark years in the mine had ravaged his body in his Previous Life far too severely.

The Longevity Technique could only improve his body slightly; it had no power to reverse fate and grant rebirth.

But that did not mean the Longevity Technique was weak.

On the contrary,

Among the many Cultivation Techniques Yang Qingyun had acquired in his Previous Life, the Longevity Technique had the most formidable potential for future development!

Moreover,

Yang Qingyun had another calculation in choosing this technique.

The Longevity Technique had an extraordinary origin. It came from a mythical forbidden force that stood above the Seven Nations!

Such an existence was rumored to have threads of connection stretching endlessly to the more distant Central Land, where martial arts were even more flourishing!

And the Longevity Technique itself had further stages beyond it!

It was said to be a great Method pointing directly toward the path beyond Grandmaster!

Having returned through rebirth,

Yang Qingyun's ambitions naturally would not stop at Grandmaster!

"Judging by the timeline, in roughly another ten years, the forbidden force known as the Sacred Extremity Sect will suffer a disaster it cannot resist, and the entire sect will be annihilated."

"Once the suppression of that forbidden existence is gone, the Seven Nations will also begin to descend into chaos."

"At that time, perhaps I can profit amid the turmoil and obtain the subsequent Methods of the Longevity Technique!"

"Even if I lack the strength to participate in that upheaval ten years from now, I can wait until the storm passes, then calmly head to its ruins and plunder them. After all, I spent quite some time at those ruins in my Previous Life. At present, I fear no one understands them better than I do."

A faint smile surfaced on Yang Qingyun's face.

When he entered the Sacred Extremity Sect ruins in his Previous Life, that place had long since been visited by who knew how many people over who knew how long.

All the good things had already been swept clean.

But now,

With the memories of his Previous Life, he could calmly make his arrangements and seize the greatest benefits ahead of everyone else!

Having made up his mind,

Yang Qingyun calmed his thoughts

and began meditating in peace.

Half a day later,

With his spirit restored to its peak, Yang Qingyun did not linger any longer.

He took out the Blood Qi Pill from the furnace

and swallowed it whole in one gulp!

Afterward,

He sat in meditation,

began circulating the Longevity Technique, and refined the Blood Qi Pill within his abdomen.

As time passed, it felt as though a blazing furnace had ignited in his belly. The intense pain made Yang Qingyun feel as if he had swallowed a piece of red-hot iron!

Dense beads of sweat began seeping from his forehead.

Yet his expression did not change much. He continued circulating the technique in an orderly manner, melting and refining the Blood Qi Pill's Medicinal Power.

Streams of scorching Qi and Blood

spread from his abdomen into his meridians.