Buzz!
Xie An felt as if his brain nerves had been heavily struck by a sledgehammer, causing his head to buzz and his mind to become muddled.
Fortunately, Xie An had anticipated that upgrading his Longevity Destiny might cause more intense discomfort, so he had already circulated the Bright Jade Skill to protect his brain, heart, and other important areas, to avoid unnecessary damage to his body.
Even so, the violent impact on his brain still caused great pain, making Xie An feel dizzy.
Dimly, Xie An seemed to hear a bell sound, as deep and heavy as mountains and seas.
Dang!
The sound waves of the grand bell carried a majestic heavenly power, coming from an unknown place, seemingly from a distant location, yet also close at hand, making Xie An feel as insignificant as dust before this vast bell.
If the bell rang a few more times, he would be shattered into powder.
Fortunately, the bell only rang once, then slowly calmed down.
Only when the bell sound completely dissipated did Xie An's muddled consciousness slowly return to clarity.
He shook his head violently, and when he didn't find any other abnormalities in his brain, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Where did that bell sound just now come from?"
The county town does have temples, and they strike the big bell every New Year, ringing it one hundred and eight times in a row, but it's only October now, far from New Year's Day.
Moreover, the big bell in the county town during the New Year is far inferior to the bell sound he just heard.
Did it come from upgrading the Longevity Destiny?
After thinking it over, this was the only explanation.
Although the bell sound had already passed, the deep and vast artistic conception like mountains and seas still lingered in Xie An's heart for a long time, stirring his soul.
Apart from his brain being numb from the shock... the sound was really nice.
Xie An, who had lived two lives, had never heard such a vast and magnificent bell sound.
After savoring it for a while, Xie An calmed his mind and checked the panel.
【Longevity Destiny has been upgraded.】
Before, it was always "Growth", but this was the first time Xie An saw the word "Upgrade".
【Current Longevity Destiny Level: Level 2.】
【Current Effects: Can advance Health Cultivation Techniques, can sense Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, can sense Exotic Beasts and Spiritual Objects.】
【Currently Available Advanced Health Cultivation Techniques: Five Animal Frolics, Fetal Respiration Technique.】
【Currently Detectable Spiritual Object: Seven Treasure Exquisite Box.】
Even at Xie An's age, he couldn't help but be shocked by the effects of the Level 2 Longevity Destiny.
The Level 1 Longevity Destiny only had the effect of accelerating the cultivation of Health Cultivation Techniques.
As for the effect of increasing lifespan, it was actually brought about by the Health Cultivation Techniques, and the Destiny itself didn't play a big role.
But the Level 2 Longevity Destiny was amazing, in addition to enhancing the abilities of the Level 1 Destiny, it also added two major functions: Advancement and Sensing. And it's currently... meaning there may be more in the future.
Advancing Health Cultivation Techniques, as the name suggests... is to allow the already fully cultivated Health Cultivation Techniques to continue to advance into higher-level cultivation methods.
Sensing is divided into two parts: Sensing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and Exotic Beasts and Spiritual Objects.
Xie An knew about Exotic Beasts and Spiritual Objects, the Destiny even sensed the Seven Treasure Exquisite Box, things like these are Spiritual Objects.
Then the question arises.
What is Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy?
According to Xie An's understanding of this world, the Great Qian Empire is equivalent to a low-martial or mid-martial world. Martial masters cultivate internal energy, grandmasters open secret treasures, but there is never any mention of spiritual energy.
Isn't spiritual energy something needed only in the world of immortal cultivation?
Or is it that the heat cultivated from the Bright Jade Skill is a type of spiritual energy?
There was too little information to refer to, and Xie An couldn't make a distinction, and finally had to give up analyzing.
"It seems I need to look through more ancient books and contact some important figures to obtain enough information to compare and analyze."
Xie An felt that the Longevity Destiny wouldn't activate these abilities related to immortal cultivation for no reason.
Since it's activated, maybe there's really a possibility of immortal cultivation in this world?
Although this was just Xie An's initial guess, it undoubtedly gave Xie An a glimmer of hope.
Xie An carefully scrutinized the panel information given by the Level 2 Destiny, making sure that every word and sentence was not missed, and there was no deviation in understanding, before stopping.
"Level 2 Destiny is much more powerful than Level 1 Destiny."
"Let's advance the Five Animal Frolics first to test the waters."
With this thought, Xie An opened the panel of the Five Animal Frolics.
Xie An moved his mind: Advance!
【Five Animal Frolics is advancing...】
【Undead Energy/Demon Essence/Faith Energy is insufficient... Advancement failed.】
【Hint: 1000 strands of Undead-like Energy are needed to advance the Five Animal Frolics into the Five Animal Qi Circulation Technique.】
Xie An: "..."
Although Xie An could understand: after all, it's the advancement of a Health Cultivation Technique, equivalent to a wise man revealing wisdom, it's reasonable to need a little price.
But... why does it feel like this Longevity Destiny has become aloof after being upgraded to Level 2?
Xie An closed his eyes and sensed the white Dao Talisman floating in his mind, faintly releasing white light, flickering on and off.
Okay... 1000 is 1000.
Once Huang Silang confesses, it won't be too difficult.
The Five Animal Qi Circulation Technique after advancement looks very awesome.
Qi Circulation Technique?
Qigong?
Based on the many novels Xie An had read on Qidian Chinese Website in his previous life, he judged that Qigong should be a very amazing method. His heart became more and more expectant.
I just don't know what the Fetal Respiration Technique will be after advancement.
The Fetal Respiration Technique is already a more advanced Health Cultivation Technique than the Five Animal Frolics, so it's estimated that it will need more Undead-like Energy, but it doesn't cost money to try.
Xie An opened the panel of the Fetal Respiration Technique.
【Fetal Respiration Technique: Divine Light Manifestation 1000/1000 (Perfected)】
Xie An moved his mind: Advance.
【Fetal Respiration Technique is advancing...】
【Undead-like Energy is insufficient... Advancement failed.】
【Hint: 10000 strands of Undead-like Energy are needed to advance the Fetal Respiration Technique into the Black Tortoise Breathing Method.】
10000...
This number scared Xie An.
In the past eight years, Xie An had worked hard to barely harvest 10,000 strands of Undead-like Energy, barely maxing out the fusion degree of the Level 1 Destiny. And you, a Fetal Respiration Technique, directly asks for 10,000?
Why don't you just rob me...
Making the old man Xie An's breathing speed up a lot.
After a while, Xie An recovered, and then thought about it.
This may not be a bad thing, the more Undead-like Energy needed for advancement, the more powerful it means after advancement.
When practicing the Five Animal Frolics, the progress bar for the last stage of Nurturing Internal Energy was only 100. As a result, after filling it up, the effect was just so-so...
And the progress bar for the last stage of Divine Light Manifestation of the three forms of the Fetal Respiration Technique was 1000. The effect after filling it up was very amazing.
This time's advancement, a tenfold difference... it's worth it.
Expectation is worth expecting.
But Xie An also discovered that he needed more and more resources to fiddle with these things...
Unless another Corpse Refining Hall comes to send warmth, it will be difficult to complete the advancement of the Fetal Respiration Technique.
This is just the resources needed for advancement, what about the progress increase after advancement? I'm afraid the resources consumed will be even greater...
I've only heard that immortal cultivators need a lot of resources.
But Xie An hasn't even found the path to immortal cultivation yet, and he already needs such a huge amount of resources... it's worrying.
After a period of weighing, Xie An became more determined to take the path of the imperial court: to consume such a huge amount of resources, it's absolutely impossible to rely on individual struggles, establishing a sect... is also unreliable. He still has to constantly improve in the imperial court and use the power of the entire Great Qian Empire.
After studying the ability to advance, Xie An began to study the ability to sense.
Sensing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy.
Xie An walked around inside and outside the room, but there was no movement.
It seems that there is no so-called spiritual energy here.
If there was, the Dao Talisman should have reacted.
Sensing Exotic Beasts and Spiritual Objects.
There are no Exotic Beasts...
There is one Spiritual Object: the Seven Treasure Exquisite Box.
Xie An took out the Seven Treasure Exquisite Box and looked at it carefully.
The palm prints on it are still the same as last time, the only difference is that when Xie An's hand touches the immortal box, the Dao Talisman will sense it. But... that's it. There is no more information.
As for what the Seven Treasure Exquisite Box is, how to open the immortal box... the Destiny didn't give any other hints.
Xie An felt that it should be because the level of this immortal box is relatively high, or the sealing of the box is too good, causing the Destiny to be unable to penetrate the immortal box to sense the treasures inside.
The Seven Treasure Exquisite Box is already a Spiritual Object, the things inside must be even more remarkable.
I just don't know what it is.
Helpless, Xie An had to put the immortal box away and put it away.
Xie An focused on the white Dao Talisman in his mind, and began to think about another question: the level one Longevity Destiny had the problem of fusion degree. The pseudo-immortal energy could be used to increase the fusion degree.
He wondered if the level two Longevity Destiny also had a fusion degree, and what could be used to increase it.
He vaguely realized that the level two Longevity Destiny was essentially different from the level one Longevity Destiny, and the gameplay and conditions for increasing the fusion degree might be different.
After some fiddling, as expected:
[Current Longevity Destiny Level: 2, Fusion Degree: 0/10000]
[Hint: Obtaining spiritual energy can increase the fusion degree.]
"Spiritual energy..."
Xie An rubbed his forehead, feeling a headache coming on.
Sure enough, it leveled up.
After the Destiny stepped into level two, it directly improved the level. It turned the pseudo-immortal energy into something used to cultivate advanced exercises, and to increase the fusion degree... he needed to obtain a higher level of spiritual energy.
"I have lived in this world for thirty-eight years, and I have never known what spiritual energy is. It seems that the difficulty of increasing the fusion degree is beyond imagination."
Xie An shook his head helplessly, feeling quite embarrassed.
Fortunately, Yu Nian gave Xie An a surprise.
The latest novels are first published on 69shu!
[Yu Nian: 108 years]
This was good, considered a consolation prize.
It directly increased fifty years, giving Xie An enough time to obtain the so-called spiritual energy, as well as pseudo-immortal energy. But in his heart, there was also a bit more solemnity.
The Longevity Destiny was an extremely large unit. Although there were many benefits, it was not easy to feed this guy...
"Don't rush, take it slowly. I've survived fifty-eight years, what's there to worry about now."
Adjusting his mentality, Xie An began to study the most anticipated Bright Jade Skill.
This was what Xie An was currently most looking forward to.
The Bright Jade Skill had only been cultivated to the eighteenth node before, and there were still six solar terms behind, far from reaching the point of advancement. As long as it didn't advance, there was no need to spend a huge amount of pseudo-immortal energy.
Of course, Xie An felt that if he needed to advance the Bright Jade Skill, it would probably require more than 100,000 units of pseudo-immortal energy. This was undoubtedly an astronomical figure. However, what the Bright Jade Skill would look like after advancement... Xie An didn't even dare to think about it.
He opened the Bright Jade Skill panel, and a very cheerful smile appeared on his face.
[Bright Jade Skill: Beginning of Winter 18/200]
Although the denominator had become two hundred, but... winter was coming!
He had broken through the barrier of the Beginning of Winter.
The Longevity Destiny was awesome!
In front of the Destiny, the Bright Jade Skill really had no barriers at all.
Li Changchun used fetal breathing to feign death, and then used the earth vein yin water to nourish himself, spending a hundred years of slumbering torment to break into the Winter barrier and reach the nineteenth level of the Bright Jade Skill.
He had done it in eight years.
This made Xie An feel very excited.
The white fox was his lucky star...
"I'll try the effect."
Xie An sat down cross-legged, urging the Bright Jade Skill, a surge of heat as turbulent as a river gushed out from the Crimson Palace, quickly flowing all over his limbs and bones, deep into his muscles and organs.
From the Yongquan point on the soles of his feet to the crown of his head, everything was covered by this heat.
Every cell in his body seemed to be bathed in the magical heat, feeling numb and warm. A vortex of heat covering a range of four meters formed outside Xie An's body.
The heat in the vortex was running at high speed, creating a vortex of heat that pulled in the surrounding tea sets, tables, and lamps, and then tore them to pieces, making "crackling" sounds.
At this moment, Xie An seemed to have become a huge magnet, sucking everything around him into it, forming a gust of wind blowing around, and the entire room was shaking.
But Xie An seemed unaware of all this.
Eighteenth node, Frost's Descent!
After the vortex outside his body stabilized, Xie An clearly felt that his body was undergoing some kind of change, even more powerful than the previous Frost's Descent.
The next moment.
Nineteenth node, Beginning of Winter.
Whoosh.
The flying snow outside the window sprinkled in from the window, rotating with the vortex of heat outside Xie An's body.
Xie An clearly felt that his five senses, speed, and strength were rapidly improving, with an essential leap compared to Frost's Descent.
Suddenly, a stream of cold air appeared in his body.
That's right.
It was cold air!
This was something that had never happened before.
Xie An had cultivated the Nourishing Life Skill for a full eight years, and what he cultivated was heat, and the greater the heat, the higher the level of the Nourishing Life Skill. Now that he had stepped into the nineteenth level of the Bright Jade Skill, cold air had actually appeared.
It was simply unbelievable.
Xie An, with curiosity, continued to circulate his energy, urging the Bright Jade Skill to continue to rise.
Buzz buzz buzz.
The cold current in his body became larger and larger. Then, this cold current and the majestic heat in the Crimson Palace began to repel each other, competing for dominance, causing Xie An's body to be cold and hot, and he was in unspeakable pain.
Sometimes it felt like he was in a sea of fire, and sometimes it felt like he was in an ice cellar snow mountain.
His body seemed to be about to explode.
"Why is this happening?"
The Bright Jade Skill manual didn't say that this would happen.
Xie An felt very uneasy and had to carefully circulate his energy, while pondering in his heart.
Since he couldn't figure it out, he would start with the name of the skill.
The name of the skill, like the name of a book, is the origin of all techniques. Even if the content of the skill changes in thousands of ways, it cannot be separated from the root.
Bright Jade, Bright Jade...
Jade means crystal clear jade-like things, describing beauty, describing whiteness.
The key is in Bright.
Bright means light, and the light of the ancients came from the sun and the moon... The sun and the moon together are called Bright.
The sun is Yang, and the moon is Yin.
The sun and the moon inherently represent cold and heat, Yin and Yang.
Thinking of this, Xie An suddenly became enlightened.
It was not that there was a problem with his cultivation, but that this was the essence of the Bright Jade Skill. It was just that the previous eighteen nodes were equivalent to the foundation, and did not involve the most subtle part of the mysteries.
Entering Winter, Entering Winter... was to cultivate the cold air of the Bright Jade Skill!
And cold and heat are difficult to be compatible, conflicting with each other, hurting oneself. No wonder the barrier to entering Winter was the biggest, and no wonder Li Changchun had to use fetal breathing to feign death, relying on the earth vein yin water to nourish himself before he could enter Winter.
It was because Li Changchun could not reconcile the conflict between the cold and hot energies. Therefore, he needed to rely on the earth vein yin water to nourish himself for a hundred years, allowing his body to gradually adapt to the yin energy before entering Winter.
All the questions were explained.
And Xie An's Longevity Destiny had miraculous effects on the Nourishing Life Skill, which is why he entered Winter in one step. This was equivalent to directly cheating to break the game.
Thinking of this, Xie An did not hesitate any longer, and continued to run the cold and hot energies according to the Bright Jade Skill's mantra.
Even though the panel showed that Xie An had already practiced the Beginning of Winter solar term, many problems still occurred in the process of Xie An's energy circulation, and he endured considerable pain.
After a full few hours, Xie An barely reconciled the cold and hot energies, staying in the Crimson Palace.
The heat occupied 90%, and the cold occupied 10%.
The excess of Yang energy occupied the dominant position, which was conducive to the stability of the cold and hot energies in the Crimson Palace.
Huff!
Xie An breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally barely adapted to this situation. Let's try to circulate the energy again."
Adjusting his body, and after entering meditation to eliminate distracting thoughts, Xie An circulated the Beginning of Winter solar term for the second time.
Whoosh!
At this moment, what gushed out from the Crimson Palace was no longer heat, but the mixed cold and hot energies, nourishing the organs, muscles, and bones throughout the body like water.
Then, the most magical situation appeared:
Xie An clearly felt that his organs were getting younger.
His skin and bones were undergoing reverse growth.
Although Xie An's cultivation of the Bright Jade Skill had also shown symptoms of becoming younger, it was very slow and could not be perceived by the naked eye. But the reverse growth at this moment was visible to the naked eye.
Xie An immediately opened his eyes and clearly saw that his skin was becoming more and more delicate, and all the wrinkles disappeared. His hair was also turning black and shiny.
Rejuvenation!?
Taoism says that Taiji generates two forms, two forms are Yin and Yang, and Yin and Yang energies evolve all things and life. The cold and hot energies of the Bright Jade Skill actually had a magical effect similar to the evolution of life!
After the energy circulation stabilized, Xie An walked off the bed while circulating his energy, came to the floor-to-ceiling bronze mirror, and looked at himself in the mirror.
As the energy circulation continued, Xie An clearly saw himself in the mirror undergoing reverse growth.
In a short while, he became an eighteen-year-old boy.
If he continued to circulate his energy, he would probably become a child.
Xie An immediately stopped circulating his energy, staring blankly at the eighteen-year-old masculine teenager in the mirror, his heart rate suddenly accelerated. He stroked the delicate and firm skin on his face, unable to believe it.
"Sure enough... Bright Jade Nineteenth Node, Rejuvenation!"
