A Pleasant Surprise

It's a good thing that the Body-Body Technique can be enhanced using the Jade-Breaking Ointment.

More importantly, Zhang Xuezhou entrusted the promotion of the physical body technique to Ren Anran. As long as Ren Anran's brain injury recovers, Zhang Xuezhou will quickly follow suit.

The secret to immortality was given to Zhang Manqian.

Zhang Manqian's headache Poison Avoidance Instruction involves thousands of acupoints, but Zhang Manqian has a very good short-term memory. If the longevity technique only needs to be learned once to be effective, she feels that she can give it a try.

Zhang Xuezhou was quite happy about this. His ability to sense lifespan in the Longevity Formula was a bit low, and the more people who helped him advance his cultivation, the greater his chances of success.

Unbeknownst to him, the tasks that Zhang Xuezhou used to have to test and guide cultivation on his own could now be shared, which greatly reduced Zhang Xuezhou's pressure.

These items may seem unrelated to Zhang Xuezhou's fight against the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon or his healing, but they are nonetheless valuable assets that can bolster his confidence.

Zhang Xuezhou's ultimate goal is to escape the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon, but in the process, he needs to grow. And any growth is inseparable from the need for resources and the conflict of interests. This requires him to better protect himself and to unite all forces that are beneficial to him.

"Should I really swallow this huge gall bladder whole?"

"You can chew it up and eat it, but it's a bit bitter!"

With the help of the combined medical resources of the Ren Household and Wang Household, Zhang Xuezhou didn't need to leave North Rehe to get medicine; as long as he sent a request, someone would deliver the medicine.

The medicines for the Body Regeneration Technique were readily available, but the medicines for the Longevity Mantra presented a challenge for Zhang Xuezhou, who could only try again and again to see if they could advance his cultivation.

Zhang Xuezhou tried more than twenty combinations, involving more than fifty gallbladders of various sizes, some fresh and some dried, but so far he has not been able to achieve the same effect as the medicine Cai Ma had prepared for him.

Zhang Manqian has been enduring so much suffering these past few days in her quest for immortality that she's questioning the meaning of life.

It was time to take her medicine again, and Zhang Manqian stared blankly at the fist-sized gallbladder.

"Can't we practice this Longevity Mantra without taking medicine?" Zhang Manqian asked, suppressing a slight urge to vomit.

"Other Evasion Technique can be honed to some extent without medicine, but this one simply won't work!"

Whether it's the Heavenly Court's Evasion Technique or the Western Sect's physical cultivation techniques, these techniques can be slowly refined using Law Power and Qi and Blood, but the Longevity Formula simply cannot be promoted without the corresponding medicine.

The medicine that Cai Ma used was even a scaled-down version, completely lacking the effects of the life-cultivation era from over a thousand years ago.

As for the medicine Zhang Xuezhou had prepared, it was being reduced again and again, and at this point even the Fate Technique could not be activated.

"This is too difficult!"

Zhang Manqian took a deep breath, then swallowed the medicinal soup and stuffed the bitter gall bladder into her mouth, chewing it haphazardly.

This is a brown bear gallbladder extracted from Zhu Liangping's exotic animal factory. It has a fishy and bitter taste, and when cooked with various medicinal herbs, the smell and taste are indeed very unique.

Zhang Manqian has been taking plenty of medication these past few days, in extremely high doses, but the only problem is that it's not very effective; she can't even activate a single acupoint in her Fate Technique.

Without the correct medicinal catalyst, it is impossible to draw out the life force required for the Fate Technique, let alone guide the completion of the acupoints.

This is somewhat similar to the Fortune Pill taken when one enters the Divine Ability Realm. A purple light appears in the Law Power, which can then guide the Law Power of the Body Transformation Realm towards the transformation of the magic Law Power of the Divine Ability Power Realm. The current group of people lacks this guiding power, and even Zhang Xuezhou's constant matching is of no use.

"You should rest for a few days. I'll look for other medicinal herbs and try some new combinations!"

Seeing that Zhang Manqian's cultivation had failed again, Zhang Xuezhou could only offer words of comfort.

"Should we try it on those people at the Twilight Years Mansion?" Zhang Manqian asked.

"If they succeed, they won't be able to stay at the Twilight Years Mansion, and I myself will also find it difficult to live in peace," Zhang Xuezhou shook his head and said, "Don't underestimate this Daoist art; in the eyes of those who need it, it's priceless!"

"But even if they practice, they may not know the effects," Zhang Manqian said.

"If we don't tell them the effects, why would they have the time to be willing to try the medicine and cultivate?" Zhang Xuezhou replied.

"Too!"

The situation had reached a dead end. Zhang Manqian nodded, resigned herself to her fate, and continued taking her medication.

If one fails to master the Longevity Technique, everything is fine; but if one succeeds, it extends one's lifespan, which is why many people would fight tooth and nail for it.

Of course, it is difficult to know whether cultivation will increase one's lifespan, but many things in the world do not need to be fully verified. Even speculation can tempt people, leading to endless trouble.

Zhang Xuezhou has some techniques that he can share and encourage others to practice, while others he can only reveal to the public when he has sufficient confidence in his own abilities.

At this point, he clearly preferred to avoid trouble.

"Hey, my honorary professorship conferment ceremony? No problem, I'm on my way to Western Capital City!"

Ren Anran's physical body technique is progressing smoothly, Zhang Manqian's longevity formula is stuck in the medicine preparation stage, and after several busy days, Zhang Xuezhou receives a communication and needs to go to Western Capital City to receive the honorary professorship award ceremony.

His research, which was pushing for an honorary professorship, focused on longevity drugs, and Zhang Xuezhou was quite curious about how such theoretically researched drugs could obtain certification.

Of course, Zhang Xuezhou must admit that the Youth Challenge had a significant positive impact, but there are just too many people watching Zhang Xuezhou closely, and any flaw he makes will be magnified and have an Infinite impact.

Lecturers are just going through the motions; there are at least 80,000 to 100,000 lecturers in the Alliance States. Associate professors, on the other hand, have to listen to lectures critically, and their numbers have dropped significantly. Honorary professors need to have outstanding research achievements and be certified to be considered, and many people's research is not recognized until ten or twenty years later.

People Zuo Teng, who want to obtain honorary professorships, can only do so by taking advantage of opportunities at their Lineage research institutes to become the lead research leader for certain projects. These projects must have yielded significant results, but no application for professional titles has been submitted, in order to successfully transfer their positions.

As for truly accomplished professors, they are all leaders in their respective fields. For example, Ren Yisheng is a leader in psychology, having published more than ten books, some of which have become textbooks. While it cannot be said that no one can surpass Ren Yisheng Ren Yisheng psychology, no one can compare to him at his level, giving him an almost absolute advantage.

Being able to fight and engage in academic research are two different things. Zhang Xuezhou was quite curious about how his honorary professorship would be awarded and how he would pass the scrutiny of many eyes in order to integrate into the academic circle of the Alliance States.

"I still have to wait a year to become an associate professor!"

Zhang Manqian muttered something to herself, then quickly covered her mouth with her hand, as if she wanted to vomit.

She was relieved that Zhang Xuezhou was finally going to Western Capital City, which would give her a day or two to catch her breath.

If she could procrastinate until Zhang Xuezhou was in a coma for twelve days, Zhang Manqian felt that her stomach and intestines would definitely recover, allowing her to continue practicing the Longevity Technique.

"Vomit!"

When Zhang Xuezhou left, Zhang Manqian could no longer bear it and had no choice but to reluctantly try to administer the Poison Avoidance Instruction to see if it could alleviate her symptoms.

"This... how come my Poison Avoidance Instruction is even more flexible now, and it seems to be working again? Could it be that I've been taking poison all these days?"

Zhang Manqian originally intended to use drugs to promote the Longevity Formula, but after several days, she ate more and more of different kinds of food, and the Longevity Formula didn't move at all. However, when her body couldn't take it anymore, she unexpectedly found that she felt much better when she activated the Poison Avoidance Instruction.

Zhang Xuezhou confidently asserted that he had chosen only high-quality herbs suitable for making soup, and that the medicine for brewing the Longevity Formula had no toxic side effects. However, he never expected that he would ultimately not be able to escape the category of side effects.

"But taking poison as an antidote doesn't promote the cultivation of the Poison Avoidance Instruction. What kind of medicine is this that is both poisonous and promotes the Poison Avoidance Instruction?"

Unexpected things can happen when conducting research. The failure of the Longevity Formula to Poison Avoidance Instruction brought some results, which Zhang Manqian found to be an unexpected joy.

This accumulation of drug toxins and medicinal power in her body could even happen again, but just thinking about how Zhang Xuezhou had prepared twenty-six different bitter pills, Zhang Manqian felt that rapidly pushing the Poison Avoidance Instruction towards the limit of her current cultivation level would undoubtedly require her to be extremely hardworking.

With her mind focused, she quickly immersed herself in the most important incantation for advancing this Realm Technique.