Fate Technique
Zhang Xuezhou has connections with many influential figures, but these connections are not made public.
If you're not in this circle, outsiders wouldn't even know who Zhang Xuezhou is on good terms with.
Although Zhang Xuezhou seems to have connections with many people in Western Capital City, his connections with many people in terms of interests are not obvious. Only Song Fengying and Li Yingbo have an inseparable connection in the Alliance No. 9 Project.
Many people were unaware that he was Song Fengying's son.
For example, Zhao Tianhua was clearly unaware of his connection with Song Fengying.
Of course, this is also because Zhao Tianhua had never seen Zhang Xuezhou before, so he didn't care who Zhang Xuezhou's parents were. And Song Fengying, a live broadcast host, was not even considered by top authorities.
Their identities seem to maintain close ties with top figures, but no one would have accepted such connections before Zhang Xuezhou joined the committee and formed a vested interest.
Under these circumstances, Zuo Quan's attempt to win over Zhang Xuezhou was not a sign of madness, but rather a fairly normal thing to do.
"The mysteries of Fortune Technique are truly Infinite! Zuo Quan's power is far greater than mine, which relies on my Essence Blood to Curse others!"
Zhang Xuezhou sighed inwardly, realizing that he had only just begun to understand the Fortune Technique of Fortune Technique and that his application of it was not Zuo Quan Quan's.
But he didn't study it for very long.
After closing his eyes, Zhang Xuezhou could only put aside his condition and then switch worlds to return to Chang'an City.
The first thing Zhang Xuezhou did after returning to Chang'an City was to contact Cai Ma.
He had never paid much attention to Cai Ma's cultivation of Fate Technique, after all, his physical condition was not that of a long-lived person, and the existence of Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon meant that he had to struggle within his limited lifespan, so cultivating Fate Technique would not bring him any real benefits.
However, after the Changkong Luo drug trial incident and the need to trade R33 catalyst with Qimeng Haige, Zhang Xuezhou believed that it was highly necessary for him to use his Fate Technique to judge the efficacy of drugs.
He didn't need to be very strong in cultivating his Fate Technique; he only needed to be able to judge the effects of longevity medicines to be further enhanced. He believed that his cultivation of such Fate Technique should be very shallow.
Moreover, he could hear a hint of surprise in Cai Ma's previous tone, which suggested that it was strange that he lacked cultivation in the Fate Technique.
"Shi Niang!"
Just as Zhang Xuezhou was about to open his eyes, he heard Rong Li talking to Cai Ma.
Compared to the Lady Yourong's fear of cultivators, Rong Li was undoubtedly bolder.
During the twelve days Zhang Xuezhou was away, Cai Ma, who stayed at Zhang's residence, clearly became quite familiar with everyone, and everyone had relatively smooth communication with Cai Ma.
"You are currently fifty-four years old. If nothing unexpected happens, you should be able to live to seventy. However, after seventy, your health will decline year by year, and you could die at any time!"
"Living to seventy is a long life," said Shi Niang, which pleased Aunt Rong. "I'll cook you a special dish tonight, and I guarantee you won't smell a trace of pork!"
"Aunt Rong's cooking is really good, much better than Uncle Jin's barbecue skills!"
"Barbecuing can't remove the fishy smell; only very high-quality ingredients are edible. Our local fragrant wood seeds are especially suitable for removing the odor from smoked meat. It's just a pity that spices aren't sold in Chang'an City!"
"I recognize a shop that sells spices, specifically those used in medicine, but I don't know..."
Cai Ma stopped talking when she saw Zhang Xuezhou wake up and open his eyes.
Cai Ma's sensory abilities are indeed somewhat lacking; he needs to see to understand things.
This disorganized exchange only came to an end when Zhang Xuezhou regained consciousness.
"It depends on fate?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.
"What kind of fate do you have? One moment I feel like you'll live to be less than thirty, the next I feel like you're close to sixty, and then I feel like you've lived for over a thousand years?"
Zhang Xuezhou's awakening brought Cai Ma back to her senses. She grabbed Zhang Xuezhou's Zhang Xuezhou hand, her slender fingers measuring his arm repeatedly.
"Strange, I've returned to the age of twenty-seven. How can my fate keep changing?"
Cai Ma gestured repeatedly, and even used her fingernail to draw a line on Zhang Xuezhou's palm with considerable force.
"Your lifeline is strange, it looks like it has a dead end, it looks like you're destined to die young or suddenly," Cai Ma said without any hesitation.
"Can your Fate Technique detect cultivators at the same cultivation level?" Zhang Xuezhou asked with great interest.
"Yes, but it's a bit inaccurate," Cai Ma nodded.
"That's still amazing!"
Zhang Xuezhou offered a word of praise.
As someone who wanted to learn the Fate Technique from Cai Ma, Zhang Xuezhou didn't care about Cai Ma's words, which sounded like Curse.
When it comes to their own profession, Cai Ma's words sound almost heartless, but this is just a feeling arising from different perspectives. For example, Rong Li was quite happy to hear that he could live to be seventy years old.
"What's wrong with your health? Why have you been lying down for twelve days?" Cai Ma asked, puzzled.
"This is my practice," Zhang Xuezhou casually replied. "I need to enter this state to practice the Grain Avoidance Technique. By the way, could you give me a basic introduction to your Fate Technique? I'd like to learn some too!"
"You've finally come to your senses, haven't you?" Cai Ma said happily. "If you lack natural talent, you need to make up for it with lifespan. Others spend ten years breaking through a cultivation realm, but we can spend fifteen years catching up. There's no need for such a rush!"
"That makes sense!"
Zhang Xuezhou nodded.
After a rambling conversation with Cai Ma, Zhang Xuezhou quickly got to his own point, indicating that he wanted to learn the Fate Technique from Cai Ma.
This made Cai Ma extremely happy, feeling that Zhang Xuezhou's realization was not too late.
For cultivators like them who have acquired their skills, if they don't live longer, any high realm is just a passing cloud, and they rarely have the opportunity to even touch it.
Throughout history, few great cultivators have become top cultivators in the Three Realms after only a few decades of cultivation. If we were to cite some exceptional cases, there might be a few or even a few dozen in the hundreds or thousands of years, but no one would dare to bet on becoming one of those rare individuals.
Even becoming a renowned cultivator, let alone a great master who will be remembered throughout history, is difficult enough to be known in one's hometown or county. To become a top cultivator in one's era, whether in a prefecture, a vassal state, a dynasty, or the Three Realms, is even more challenging.
The peak of most cultivators' lives is the Body Transformation Realm, only a very few can step into the Divine Ability Realm, and even fewer become cultivators of the Sole Self Realm, while only a handful can reach the True Self Realm.
The reason why cultivators stood at the top of the Three Realms a thousand years ago was not because their talent was so hopeless that later generations could not catch up. The real reason was that these people had long lifespans, enough time to make mistakes and time to cultivate, and enough time to collect the necessary cultivation resources.
If these cultivators of the Great Han Dynasty were given a hundred or even several hundred years to cultivate, Cai Ma felt that the major Sacred Land would inevitably need to replace their existing populations.
Later generations have indeed surpassed their ancestors in their continuous development, but their biggest shortcoming is a lack of time.
Cai Ma felt that Zhang Xuezhou had a quick awakening; he understood the key to cultivation Grain Avoidance Instruction twelve days.
There's a reason why the Fate Technique is ranked as the most important cultivation technique in the Three Realms. This isn't due to the power of Fate Technique, but rather Fate Technique it can grant people a sufficiently long lifespan.
"I always said we should live a long life, so that I won't see you as a dying old man in thirty or forty years," Cai Ma said happily.
"You've cultivated for so many years, how can you live this long?" Zhang Xuezhou asked in surprise.
Cai Ma possessed remarkable beauty-preserving skills, appearing to be an eighteen or nineteen-year-old woman, but Zhang Xuezhou knew that she had actually cultivated herself for decades.
Judging from Cai Ma's words, the other party seems to be little different from the present in thirty or forty years.
Cai Ma's tone suggested that he didn't care about thirty or forty years as much as most people did. Even if he were close to seventy or eighty or even a hundred years old in thirty years, Cai Ma could still live for a much longer time.
Zhang Xuezhou was astonished by the life span that the Fate Technique could produce.
He never expected that even after leaving the Spiritual Qi environment of the Sacred Land, Cai Ma could still live a long life.
This long lifespan also allows one to maintain a youthful physical condition.
He made a rough comparison between Cai Ma's appearance and age in his mind, and felt that the other party was likely to live to be two or three hundred years old.
"Can you really live for another two hundred years or so?" Zhang Xuezhou asked doubtfully.
"How do you know I have about two hundred more years to live? Do you also possess the talent to cultivate the Fate Technique?"
Cai Ma responded, which made Zhang Xuezhou's heart skip a beat.
He never imagined that while many elderly people in the real world struggle to live longer, Cai Ma and others directly achieved longevity through their cultivation of Fate Technique.