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#275 - "Eternal Spring Skill"!

With a soft "poof" sound, the last technique gift box also exploded into a pile of powder.

This time, in the center of the sawdust, was a book about the thickness of a finger, with a delicate cover. The dark green surface was printed with unknown plant-like patterns.

It didn't look like a simple thing!

Seeing this, Liang Yue raised his eyebrows, and brushed away the debris from the secret manual behind him.

The three ancient seal characters of "Changchun Gong" immediately came into his view.

"Is it the legendary 'Eternal Youth and Longevity Changchun Gong'? Or is it just something else, a technique from an unknown sect?"

With a hint of doubt and faint sadness in his heart, Liang Yue then picked up the manual somewhat carelessly, and while leaning on the backrest, he slowly began to browse through it.

Originally, according to his thinking, with his current realm, even if he couldn't draw some extremely powerful inheritance from a high-martial world, he should at least get a reliable technique to allow him to transition safely, right?

For example, "Three Points Return to Origin Qi", "Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect", "Profound Martial True Art" or something.

Even if it wasn't that good, you should at least give me a "Longevity Art" or something, but it turned out to be a "Changchun Gong"…

The name alone sounds very ordinary, okay!

With such a trace of dissatisfaction in his heart, Liang Yue curled up on the sofa and began to read the contents of the manual.

While reading, he also poured malt liquor into his mouth in a nonchalant manner.

However, only a moment later, a few traces of suspicion slowly appeared on this guy's face.

He closed the book, threw the glass aside, closed his eyes and pondered for a while, then flipped through the cover and the first few pages of the manual again.

Only then did he continue reading with a somewhat strange expression.

During the process of reading, Liang Yue's eyebrows were sometimes furrowed and sometimes relaxed.

As time passed, the expression on his face no longer had the casual look it had before.

After he roughly read through the "Changchun Gong" from beginning to end, and flipped the manual to the last few pages.

His whole person jumped up from the sofa!

"Damn? This manual is really the 'Changchun Gong'! ?"

Unable to believe it in his heart, Liang Yue couldn't help but flip through the last few pages of the manual again at this time.

Fireball Technique… Soul Stabilizing Charm… Wind Control Art… Object Manipulation… Heavenly Eye Technique… Palm Thunder… Golden Light Curse…

"This is actually a cultivation technique!"

"No way~"

Looking at the Changchun Gong manual in his hand, Liang Yue's mouth had unconsciously grinned to the root of his ears at this time, and his heart couldn't help but fall into a burst of ecstasy.

Immediately, he began to continue flipping through the contents of the pages, while unconsciously wandering quickly on the roof.

A burst of excited energy emanated from his body~!

Staring at those few things at the end of the manual, which seemed to be only the most common and lowest-level spells in the cultivation world, his eyes were almost glued to the pages.

For a time, his flexible brain began to run rapidly, constantly associating the origin of this thing.

After a while, he finally had a seemingly correct answer in his heart.

If Liang Yue guessed correctly, the manual in front of him should be the "Changchun Gong" that Han Lao Mo practiced on Mount Qixuan when he was a child in "A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality"!

It was passed down from his master to the scheming Doctor Mo, and at the end of the manual, there are also a few basic spells appended!

Liang Yue was deeply impressed by this plot in his previous life~

At first, he didn't think about it, after all, how could there be such a coincidence?

Moreover, with his current innate realm, he couldn't temporarily connect with the path of cultivation.

However, in the process of reading this manual, Liang Yue discovered that the content recorded in this Changchun Gong seemed to reveal a strange aura everywhere.

The root of it is that ~ although the initial stage of cultivation of this manual is also about finding the Qi sensation.

However, in the process of cultivation, it is not like his own magical skills, which circulate the internal force of a martial artist, but directly absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth…

Moreover, from Liang Yue's current martial arts insight that has reached the innate level, if he absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into his body according to the method taught by this technique.

The energy cultivated may be very good at nourishing and replenishing the body, but its power is definitely not as solid as martial arts true qi.

However, when he saw the second half of the manual, his whole person was shocked again!

Because, in the records of this technique, the innate realm does not seem to be anything remarkable, and even ~ it can't even be considered a threshold.

As long as you follow the ideas of this manual and cultivate to the eighth level, you can advance to the innate level smoothly.

After that, this Changchun Gong also has more profound levels of the ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth levels…

Only after cultivating to that level will you reach the real threshold and bottleneck!

What realm would that be?

Liang Yue still found it difficult to see any reliable means of defense from the attributes of this technique.

Throughout the whole book, the energy cultivated by Changchun Gong, from beginning to end, almost only has the content of nourishing life and developing the body's potential.

Until ~ Liang Yue saw those seven spells at the back of this manual…

At this time, he suddenly realized and woke up from the fog outlined by this Changchun Gong.

This is not a martial arts manual at all!

… ….

"But how do I remember that Han Lao Mo in the original 'A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality' once said that after practicing this secret manual, there can be no martial artist's true energy in the body?"

At this thought, Liang Yue almost instantly woke up from his initial ecstasy.

Then, as his eyes wandered, this guy began to constantly search for various reasons in his mind, trying to overturn his conclusion.

"This should be the lie that Doctor Mo concocted to prevent Han Lao Mo from being distracted, right?"

"That's not right either. Didn't that child also try it later? It's just because he couldn't practice martial arts, nor could he use it to drive martial arts techniques, so he chose the 'Blinking Sword Technique' that could kill without internal force…"

"…But at that time, Han Lao Mo seemed to just say that after learning the Evergreen Skill, he could no longer practice martial arts internal skills. The reason was probably because the energy level cultivated by this Evergreen Skill was too high.

After all, this is spiritual power directly converted from absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which can at least be equivalent to innate-level true energy!"

"Now, if I can go against the grain and use the power of martial arts to convert to spiritual power, maybe it will work?"

…

After a period of restlessness and entanglement, Liang Yue sat on the sofa again, flipping through the secret manual of "Evergreen Skill" several times.

Afterward, he solemnly put it into his storage space.

In fact, in his heart, he was already a little impatient at this time, and wanted to find a quieter place to try it out quickly.

However, cultivation is something that can never be rushed.

If there are any concerns in the heart, it will ultimately be impossible to achieve perfection.

Especially when his concerns are still somewhat difficult to let go of.

"System, I want to draw that innate martial arts insight!"

Walking to the edge of the library roof, Liang Yue, while looking at the constantly changing celestial phenomena outside, and the plants that were growing wildly and withering, said to the system.

As soon as he finished speaking, a somewhat special lottery turntable instantly appeared in front of him.

There were not many items available for selection on this turntable. Roughly counting, there seemed to be only forty-nine, and the angular space occupied by each item was also different, no longer the equal share as before.

Some were only as big as a needle's eye, while others were large enough to fit Liang Yue's palm. At first glance, it looked like a snail shell-shaped scale dial.

At this time, the items placed in these different shares were also of various shapes and forms.

Some rippled like water, some were as ethereal as a cloud, some resembled a ball of restless flames, and some looked like just a piece of flowing sand.

There were also some that looked like intangible substances, empty and nothing, but in Liang Yue's current innate-level spiritual perception, he could faintly feel the trace of a mysterious thing on them!

In addition to this, there were also various sword-shaped, plant-shaped, frost-lightning, and other special forms of matter.

Seeing this situation, even if Liang Yue thought about it with his fingers, he could understand that the smaller the share occupied by the various martial arts insights on the turntable, the more precious it must be!

"Ding~! The martial arts innate insight selection has been arranged, may I ask if the host will start the extraction immediately?"

"Draw~! Start!"

Looking at the turntable in front of him, Liang Yue narrowed his eyes at this time, and then stared at the turntable closely, giving the order.

In an instant, the pointer in the middle of the turntable began to rotate rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it had exceeded his observation and calculation limit.

This running speed is much faster than the general lottery mode~!

Seeing this, Liang Yue immediately rolled his eyes, so he no longer placed any hope on it, and directly ordered.

"Stop!"

…

"Ding~! Congratulations to the host for drawing a composite innate martial arts insight, 'Thunder Fire Wood'. May I ask if you want to start the transmission."

"Thunder~ Fire… and Wood? What is this?"

Hearing this, Liang Yue looked at the tree stump floating in front of him after the turntable disappeared, with flames all over its body and traces of electric arcs, and said speechlessly.

"Ding~! A certain martial arts practitioner, under a chance encounter, observed an ancient tree that failed to sublimate in the heavenly tribulation. Under the urging of thunder and fire, a new mutated sapling was accidentally born on the incomplete shell of the ancient tree. Later, he felt the power of life, and under the guidance of the opportunity, he realized the composite innate realm of Thunder Fire Wood."

"Hmm?"

After hearing the system's words, Liang Yue immediately put away a trace of contempt in his heart, and then fixed his eyes on the tree stump in front of him, which had been reduced by several times.

Sure enough~ In the center of this scorched tree stump, a small, tender yellow twig was sprouting and growing there.

Under the reflection of the surrounding flames and tears, this branch appeared particularly petite and weak, but it was full of an unusual aesthetic of life!

"Even under the interweaving of thunder and fire, seemingly weak life can take root and sprout under the old shell, shed the remains, and usher in new life…"

Thinking of this, a moment of emotion arose in Liang Yue's heart.

After a moment, a burst of bright light began to flicker in his eyes.

Immediately, he silently came to the battlements on the edge of the roof, sat down cross-legged on the spot, looking at the forest outside that was constantly withering and rejuvenating, and remained silent for a long time.

It wasn't until there were no more distractions in his heart that he continued to say to the system.

"Start the transmission."

…