I was once again shocked by the powerful heritage of the Xiaoyao School, and I was also ashamed of my former frog-like thoughts at the bottom of the well, and at the same time I had a longing for the "Recipe for Longevity" in the mouth of Grandma Tong, which was unprecedented in the past, a pursuit of supreme martial arts, where is the limit of the human body? This is a question I have often asked myself since I practiced the Heavenly and Human Sword Technique, and maybe the answer is here.

Xu Ziping left for a while, and then walked in slowly, I felt slightly awe-inspiring, this middle-aged scribe is not known in the rivers and lakes, but he is the person who has only been discovered since my martial arts mastery, and his skills are by no means under Yelu Zangming.

But he heard Xu Ziping say indifferently: "After discussion among my elders in the valley, we agreed that Murong Gongzi would exchange the Heavenly and Human Sword Technique for the Supreme Martial Arts Sect I sent to learn the Immortal Technique, and you can stay in the valley for ten days, and then leave on your own." ”

I sighed slightly in my heart, it is really difficult to say whether this deal is cost-effective, first of all, the immortal recipe is not necessarily superior to the heavenly and human sword technique, and secondly, I have a hunch that the heavenly and human sword technique can reach the level of the innate master in the mouth of the master after cultivating for a long time, and I can only say that we did not take advantage of this exchange.

But I heard Wu Xingyun say: "What we want to see is the original of the scriptures, not your manuscripts." ”

Xu Ziping said with an ugly face: "This is impossible, the scripture of the "Recipe for Longevity" has long been lost, and we only have the manuscript handed down by the ancestor in the valley, and the disciples in the valley are also manuscripts. ”

Wu Xingyun sneered: "Xu Ziping! You don't pretend to be garlic with me, when did the dignified Immortal Valley degenerate to such a stingy state, and you and I have lived in vain all these years? As far as I know, the original of the "Recipe of Eternal Life" is kept in your Eternal Life Valley, and everyone knows the difference between the original and the manuscript, in short, I will not stop if I don't see the Recipe of Eternal Life. ”

Xu Ziping didn't expect Grandma Tong to be so difficult, her face changed several times, and after a while, she said, "Could it be that the original of your Heavenly Sword Technique was also brought over?" ”

Wu Xingyun said: "The Heavenly Sword Technique was naturally not here, but we promise that we can let you send a descendant disciple to our sect to observe the original Heavenly Sword Technique!" ”

Xu Ziping snorted angrily and said, "That's it, come with me." ”

I sat aside and didn't understand it at first, and then it suddenly dawned: the top martial arts cheats, its subtlety is not only in the formula itself, but also in the text strokes left by the master who created the cheats, which is also an important part of the cheats, just like the original of the Heavenly Sword Recipe of my Loose School, to put it bluntly, it is the word "sword" engraved in the cave behind the Eagle Palace, and the smart strokes imply the cultivation direction of the Heavenly Sword Technique, which has a unique significance for comprehending the Heavenly Sword Technique. The sword spectrum under the Wuliang Mountain, the stone carving of the sword technique of the Vulture Palace, and the personal teaching of Master Wuyazi are all ways to comprehend the sword technique of heaven and man, but in comparison, I think the stone carving of the sword technique of the Vulture Palace is the original that is closest to the true meaning of the ancestor.

Follow Xu Ziping through the middle of the Immortal Valley to the valley, along the way I saw many people meditating and cultivating, and there were also people who danced and swords, all of them were masters of superior martial arts, and many of them were not under my Murong family's retainers Deng Baichuan and Gongye Qian. I secretly sighed in my heart, no wonder the Immortal Valley can be respected by the older generation of masters such as Wu Yazi and Wu Xingyun, and it is listed as the two holy places of the righteous path along with Cihang Jingzhai, and its strength is really unfathomable.

At the end of the valley was a long, narrow cave, at the mouth of which was an old man with all white hair, basking in the sun. Xu Ziping respectfully clasped his fists and saluted him: "Elder Su, this is Murong Fu, the new head of the Carefree Sect, with the consent of the Guzhong Elder Council, I brought him over to read the original of the Immortal Formula. ”

The elder surnamed Su squinted his eyes and glanced at me and said, "Murong Fu? But the one in the martial arts called South Murong and North Qiao Feng? ”

I bowed my head slightly and said, "It's the junior."

Elder Su said: "I heard that Gusu Murong Fu inherited from the Xianbei royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Murong family has never forgotten to restore the glory of the ancestors, and your Excellency's name can be seen that the picture is not small." "The Recipe of Eternal Life" is a Taoist holy text, although it is not forbidden for outsiders to practice it, but the successors of the "Recipe of Eternal Life" must not harm the world and slaughter the people. As the guardian of the longevity formula, I have to strictly examine the mental character of the practitioner, if it is a person with improper mental skills, then I will not be able to pass it on to him even if I break the promise of the ancestors. ”

I shrugged my shoulders and said, "I'm lucky, but I'm sorry to lose my life, if you don't borrow it, the junior will leave." ”

Elder Su looked at me seriously and said, "Come over and let me see your hands." ”

I stepped forward according to my words, stretched out my right hand, Elder Su grabbed my hand, looked at it carefully for a while, and then looked at me seriously for a while, and then said happily: "The posture of destiny is unspeakably expensive, and it is rare to have a lot of fate with my Taoist, it seems that the kid who has no cliff has chosen the wrong person." Come with me. Then he said to Xu and Wu: "The Secret of Eternal Life can't be easily shown, I'll take him in, and you stay outside." ”

Xu Ziping should be, Wu Xingyun Master stopped talking, and finally could only signal me to follow the elder surnamed Su in.

This elder surnamed Su is probably more than a hundred years old, but there is no trace of weakness in his whole body, his breath is strong and long, and his eyes are bright.

Elder Su asked as he walked, "Murong Gongzi has recently set off a lot of bloody storms on the rivers and lakes and killed countless people, doesn't he have any sense of shame?" ”

I said lightly: "Life and death have fate, the younger generation adheres to the Taoist heart, and those who die under my sword have their own way to die, not killing indiscriminately and not indulging." The so-called release of life is the way, and killing people is also the way. ”

Elder Su suddenly turned his head, stared at me and said, "A good release is the way, and killing people is also the way." As the so-called heaven and earth are unkind to all things as dogs, Murong Gongzi has quite my Taoist true taste, it is rare not to be affected by hypocrisy and Confucianism, it is very suitable for the taste of the old man, there are successors of the free faction, and there are successors! Wait until you finish reading "The Recipe for Longevity", you can ask me if you have any doubts. ”

I replied: "Murong deserves to be taught by his predecessors. ”

The cave is quite long, and there are still many traces of manual digging, which seems to have taken a lot of effort, after entering a secret room, Elder Su opened a secret mechanism, took out a simple wooden box from the wall, solemnly placed it on a table in it, and after opening it, he saw the "Recipe for Longevity" inside. Elder Su motioned for me to put on the white silk gloves on the table to avoid damaging the scriptures.

My Murong family has a family history, and I know that it is not easy to preserve the ancient solitary books, and there are some particularities in reading the solitary books, so I carefully put on white silk gloves and gently flipped through the "Recipe for Eternal Life". After touching it with my own hands, I found the original anomaly of this "Recipe for Longevity", the whole book is woven with Xuanjin thread, water and fire do not invade, I was stunned when I opened the first page, this crooked, ghost-like text has never been seen, I turned it silently, page by page, after reading the whole book, I felt a slight sense of loss: the whole book has a total of 7,400 glyphs, but only more than 3,000 glyphs can barely be recognized. The book is also densely covered with annotations from those who have read the book, but the annotations are more confusing than the original text. Fortunately, there are seven humanoid figures in the book, none of which are facing each other, and are guided by various symbols such as red dots, arrows, etc., as if to describe a certain method of cultivation, but I dare not practice at will, I myself have the Northern Spiritual Skill, and my internal strength is not trivial, if you practice rashly, it may lead to a fork in the road with internal force, and it is extremely dangerous to go crazy.

But I still read it carefully from beginning to end, word by word, and then re-read it twice, making sure that I memorized all the figures in the book, because I knew that reading the Recipe for Longevity was something that was unavoidable in itself. After reading it, I looked at Elder Su who was supervising me on the side, sighed and said with a wry smile: "Do you know that the Recipe for Immortality is originally esoteric and difficult to understand, so you are so generous to show it to an outsider?" ”

Elder Su smiled: "That's not necessarily the case, maybe Murong Gongzi is extremely talented, and he can fully understand the "Recipe for Eternal Life" Originally, it was not known. For more than 400 years since I established the Immortal Valley Sect, it is not uncommon for me to directly read the original and cultivate, and there are also many people who have succeeded in cultivating directly according to the humanoid diagram in the book if they can't understand the text, and of course there is a great risk in this. In fact, Murong Gongzi's martial arts are broad and profound, and he can be called the first in the world when he looks at the world, so don't look at this "Secret of Eternal Life". What's more, your internal strength route has been finalized, and it is difficult to ascend to heaven if you want to concurrently cultivate the "Recipe for Longevity", which is also the reason why Elder Tanaka did not oppose it. ”

I took a deep breath and said, "I can't understand this ancient text, so I ask Elder Su for advice." ”

Elder Su took out a somewhat yellowed book from his body and said casually, "This is the old man's own manuscript and annotations, you can take it and read it." ”

I was in awe, admiring the old man's unconcealed behavior, so I took the manuscript and read it quietly. It is said to be a manuscript, but it contains Elder Su's textual translation and various opinions on the Immortal Formula, as well as the secret record of the experience of Xu Ziling, the patriarch of the Immortal Valley Founding School, and its value is not even below the original "Immortal Formula". I read this manuscript of the Longevity Recipe with hunger and thirst, and many of the confusions and hesitations that I had had in my past cultivation of the Inner Strength Mind Method were easily resolved, and another vast space seemed to have opened up in front of me, giving me countless possibilities for my martial arts cultivation that had reached the bottleneck stage. Especially when I read the "Recipe of Longevity" and the Heavenly Sword Technique of the Freedom School and the Divine Skill of the Northern Underworld, I feel that everything in the world is magical and beautiful, although the internal strength of the "Eternal Formula" is not consistent with the true qi of the Northern Underworld, but there are still many places that can learn from each other, and it can even be said that the Eternal Recipe and the Northern Shengong are different interpretations of the Heavenly Dao, which are completely compatible, but how to practice it takes a lot of time to study. But I have already gained a certain amount, for example, I have a lot of experience in the practice route of the third picture, and I vaguely feel that this picture can be completely integrated into my Northern Spiritual Skills, and the fourth picture should be a good supplement to the Heavenly and Human Sword Technique.

Zi said: Chaowen said, you can die at night. I gradually forgot where I was, forgot everything around me, and even forgot my own existence, and gradually entered a realm of forgetting both things and me, and only the Heavenly Dao expounded by the Eternal Essence was slowly flowing. This kind of enlightenment experience is so precious that many people may not encounter it once in their lifetime.

Elder Su held his breath and condensed, slowly turned around and looked at the stone wall, so as not to disturb my meditation, but he sighed with emotion in his heart: Creation makes people, I can't imagine that this new head of the Carefree School has such an opportunity, and his understanding is high and very deep, so he can enter the realm of "epiphany" here, you must know that this is the third person who has cultivated the longevity formula since Xu Ziling's ancestor has recorded the phenomenon of "epiphany", this kind of epiphany is not a simple understanding of the exercises, but a kind of perception similar to the unity of heaven and man, but the object of the understanding is the secret of longevity. According to Patriarch Xu Ziling's description, the process of entering this kind of epiphany is like having a direct dialogue with the creator of the exercises, without any barriers, and many realms that cannot be described by words and pictures, as well as the routes of internal force and exercises, will be taught in the most authentic way. Creation makes people, there has been no "epiphany" person in the Valley of Eternal Life for more than a hundred years.