"Could it be that you, too, had cultivated Immortal Path Cultivation Techniques?" Qin Shiyue asked.
Hearing this, Zhang Xiaohua was secretly puzzled as well. Yes, cultivating the Carefree Heart Sutra allowed him to release his senses and perceive the Primordial Qi between heaven and earth, but such Qi was rarely encountered in ordinary times. He had only sensed a few wisps of it in the herb fields. Could it be that Ma Rulong had also cultivated Immortal Path techniques? And that he too possessed a place where Primordial Qi was abundant?
Zhang Xiaohua could not help pricking up his ears.
Ma Rulong gave a bitter smile. "How could this old man have such immortal fortune as to obtain cultivation techniques? Such techniques had gradually been lost as early as ten thousand years ago. Even though my Ma family exhausted every effort to preserve them, we could not do so. They had vanished several thousand years ago. Besides, did I not just say that most techniques were recorded on jade slips? Even the Qi within jade slips could not endure forever. How could the techniques remain?"
"Then how exactly did you learn of it?"
"This old man did not sense it. I saw it."
"Huh?" Qin Shiyue and Zhang Xiaohua cried out in unison.
Qin Shiyue's expression darkened slightly as he glanced back at Zhang Xiaohua. Then he turned and asked, "You could actually see Primordial Qi?"
"Hahaha, how could this old man see Qi? I expect Lord Di Shitian of the Divine Cult was the same as I was. He saw changes in the restrictions around forbidden grounds, and only then realized that the Primordial Qi had changed!"
Seeing Qin Shiyue's confusion, Ma Rulong explained, "Restrictions are like formations; both require Primordial Qi. Yet many powerful restrictions do not rely