Longevity Instruction

Cai Ma 'Cai Ma lifespan was close to three hundred years. This kind of lifespan was not the kind where one is old but doesn't die, but rather one whose body aged three times more slowly than the average person.

Even though Cai Ma is already sixty years old, the other person's body will be like that of a normal twenty-year-old.

If Cai Ma's Fate Technique continues to improve, this aging process will slow down.

Practicing Fate Technique can reduce the effects of physical aging, and this technique, when practiced at the appropriate age, will bring countless benefits.

If Zhang Xuezhou were to cultivate Fate Technique at the age of fifty or sixty, even if his lifespan were extended, his body would find it difficult to return to its youthful state. Only certain heavenly materials and earthly treasures could possibly mitigate the effects of aging.

Compared to seeking fortuitous opportunity in old age, practicing Fate Technique in one's youth is undoubtedly a better choice.

Cai Ma's current strength is far inferior to some geniuses who excel in cultivation, but Cai Ma will surely have a place in the world a hundred, one hundred and fifty, or two hundred years from now.

Compared to others who have only a few decades of cultivation time, Cai Ma has an exceptionally long cultivation period.

After getting a general understanding of the situation, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but feel envious of Cai Ma.

He rarely envied others, but Cai Ma was someone Zhang Xuezhou truly envied.

If he had as much time as Cai Ma, he wouldn't need to go through two separate periods of time constantly; he could easily and freely cultivate and advance.

Of course, this ease and casualness must be based on defeating the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.

Thinking of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon residing in his body, Zhang Xuezhou finally felt that he didn't mind working a little harder.

If someone like him doesn't keep moving forward, he'll never have a chance to relax.

"I want to be able to clearly perceive my own lifespan. How long does this kind of cultivation take?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.

"With your talent, you should be able to master it in ten or fifteen days," Cai Ma said.

Teach me! Teach me!

The Kunlun Sacred Land has many strict rules, including strict regulations for teaching, imparting knowledge, and resolving doubts. It is extremely serious to secretly study without meeting the requirements.

However, these rules rarely apply to the level of holy sons and daughters.

Cai Ma felt that the Fate Technique was a necessary skill for new members of the Kunlun Sacred Land to cultivate, and that Zhang Xuezhou learning it shouldn't break the rules. Even if Zhang Xuezhou returned to the Sacred Land to learn the Fate Technique, he would most likely be learning from her.

After careful consideration, Cai Ma felt that teaching Zhang Xuezhou the Fate Technique in Chang'an City was a fairly normal thing.

"Why do I feel like you're teaching a technique with One Hundred and Eight Thousand Acupoints?"

After the explanation, Zhang Xuezhou felt that Cai Ma's Fate Technique was similar to the One Hundred and Eight Thousand Acupoints Technique.

Cai Ma's Fate Technique is divided into two parts: one part involves 36,000 acupoints, and the other part involves 72,000 acupoints.

Not every aperture exists independently in these two parts; rather, they overlap, forming two cycles of interaction, one large and one small. This unique interaction is what makes life different.

"The 36,000 acupoints in the 'Longevity Manual' can cultivate the lifespan of a terrestrial immortal, while these 72,000 acupoints can cultivate the lifespan of a celestial god," Cai Ma said. "I am currently a terrestrial immortal with a lifespan of 300 years. As long as I use the Fate Technique Divine Ability enter the cultivation of the 72,000 acupoints, my lifespan will double. And once the cultivation of the 72,000 acupoints is complete, living a thousand years will not be difficult for me!"

"So long!"

Zhang Xuezhou was amazed, finding the mysteries of Fate Technique truly captivating.

Having a lifespan that is ten or even more than ten times that of an ordinary person provides countless hours of grace and allows one to enjoy the fruits of cultivation over endless years.

The cultivation problems that cannot be solved in a certain era may be easily solved by future generations decades or hundreds of years later. Those with long lifespans can easily enjoy the results, while those with short lifespans will be buried in the ground for who knows how many years.

"You are not a professional practitioner of Fate Technique, so it is unlikely that you will live for a thousand years. You can only try your best to seek the lifespan of a terrestrial immortal of three hundred years," Cai Ma said.

"Three hundred years is already quite good," Zhang Xuezhou said.

"I will bestow upon you the first part of the 'Longevity Manual,' but I will not memorize the second part. You won't be able to learn it anyway, and it will save me from talking until my mouth goes numb," Cai Ma said.

"Can!"

Zhang Xuezhou nodded.

For Zhang Xuezhou, who is proficient in many One Hundred and Eight Thousand Acupoints Technique, learning a technique with 36,000 points is not a difficult task.

With the right medication, he could easily live for three hundred years. How could Zhang Xuezhou not be satisfied with such a good thing?

The 72,000 techniques were not part of Zhang Xuezhou's plan.

His initial goal was simply to understand his own lifespan and then figure out the effects of taking the life-extending drug; the extension of his lifespan was not part of Zhang Xuezhou's original plan.

Giving Zhang Xuezhou three or five hundred years of lifespan is meaningless. As long as he fails to overcome the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon, no matter how many years of lifespan he has, it won't matter.

For Zhang Xuezhou, learning some simple and useful skills is enough for now.

Zhang Xuezhou also had to thank Cai Ma for providing the "Longevity Manual" and the Evasion Technique, which were similar to each other, making his cultivation not too complicated and almost effortless except for the need for medicine.

"A 500-year-old ginseng is the most basic auxiliary medicine?"

After Zhang Xuezhou figured out the medicines for cultivating Fate Technique, he couldn't help but frown.

"You can just pick a couple of old ginseng plants from the Sacred Land, but this hundred-tael licorice root is the real trouble. This herb is very light after being dried, and it took me a long time to collect the full hundred taels!"

"Yes, you're right!"

Zhang Xuezhou replied to Cai Ma casually, having already figured out why Cai Ma was so attached to Chang'an City and unwilling to return to the Kunlun Sacred Land.

Medicines that can be easily obtained in the Kunlun Sacred Land are rare in the Great Han Dynasty, and large doses of commonly used medicinal materials are scarce in the Great Han Dynasty Kunlun Sacred Land, making it difficult to gather enough quantities.

Zhang Xuezhou and Cai Ma faced different conditions. He wasn't worried about the hundred taels of licorice, but he was troubled by the need for a high-end medicine like a five-hundred-year-old ginseng.

This also involves older varieties of astragalus, he shou wu, san qi, ling zhi, and deer antler, which are not conventional medicines.

The older the medicinal materials, the better the composition of the refined medicine, and the faster the cultivation of the "Longevity Manual" will be.

As for relying on the slow and steady practice of the "Longevity Formula," it's basically impossible. The time spent meditating and refining the "Longevity Formula" each day is far longer than the time one could gain in lifespan, making it extremely difficult to break through the threshold.

This is also why the "Longevity Manual" and the Evasion Technique are similar yet different. Zhang Xuezhou does not need to take medicine when practicing the Evasion Technique. This situation of needing medicine for cultivation is somewhat similar to the "Cloud Technique".

"It seems we can only wait until Li Shaojun arrives in Chang'an City to plan how to acquire some powerful medicines!"

Zhang Xuezhou originally wanted to use Li Shaojun to make Life-Creating Fortune Pill, but to this day they still haven't obtained the prescription, and Zheng Wukong and the others have also disappeared. It is a difficult task to refine a similar pill.

He had only hoped that the pill refining wouldn't go wrong and that the matter of recruiting Li Shaojun would be resolved.

Now, Zhang Xuezhou has clearly defined what he needs.