Song Chengxi, Cao Jinxing, and Bai Yunxiu returned laden with spoils, withdrawing from the Heavenly Maiden Mountain Secret Realm one after another.
But the battle in the mountains continued, and Heavenly Secret Twenty-Five was still fleeing for his life.
The two divine beasts pursued and intercepted him, one in the sky and the other on the ground.
Heavenly Secret Twenty-Five did not dare clash head-on with the Fire Phoenix at all. He dodged with all his might, absolutely refusing to touch the Undying Fire, even if that meant leaving himself exposed to the Qilin's sneak attacks. The wounds on his body kept multiplying.
But as an inheritor of the Guigu Sect, the strongest school of the Warring States period, and a peerless expert who cultivated the supreme Immortal Grade "Profound Subtlety True Explanation," Heavenly Secret Twenty-Five could do more than run...
Guiguzi, the founding patriarch of the Guigu Sect, was not only a representative figure of Daoism, a master of military thought, and the founder of the School of Diplomacy. He was also versed in the teachings of the School of Yin-Yang, Legalism, the School of Names, and the other schools of thought. He understood the secrets of the Heavenly Dao and nature, could identify a thousand medicinal herbs, and knew the healing arts... In other words, Guiguzi had also studied medicine deeply, and had written a "Golden Book" devoted to cultivation, longevity, and immortality!
It was the lost second half of the "Profound Subtlety True Explanation."
The first half briefly described this book, which Guan Lu regarded as the foundation of immortality.
Throughout all these years, besides studying Guigu martial arts and heavenly calculation, the third most important subject for successive Heavenly Secret Masters had been medicine!
Heavenly Secret Twenty-Five was no exception.
He was extraordinarily gifted to begin