[Longevity Technique (Water): Completely Ignorant (0%)]
Looking at the skill bar with these words, Chen Fan’s eyes gleamed.
After obtaining this volume, he specially went online to search for information about the Longevity Technique, and the results were quite good.
As its name suggests, the Longevity Technique is a supreme art of staying young and maintaining health. After cultivation, one can not only live as long as a tortoise but also retain youth forever, not aging in appearance.
The entire technique is divided into seven volumes, which are Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, and Yin and Yang. Each volume seems to be a completely different cultivation technique, with the characters on it being obscure and difficult to understand. Forced cultivation of it may easily lead to deviation and severe danger.
But even so, for tens of thousands of years, countless powerful figures have been searching for the whereabouts of this martial art. Even a rumor would stir up a bloody storm.
It is said that the Longevity Technique contains the principles of Heaven and Earth, believing that the human body is a small Heaven and Earth, with another Heaven and Earth outside. As long as one can grasp the connection between these two, the two can merge into one, reaching the Unity of Heaven and Man Realm.
What is the Unity of Heaven and Man Realm? Yes, it is the Celestial Human Realm.
In other words, even someone who cannot cultivate inner strength, if they can understand the secrets within the Longevity Technique, they can directly absorb Primordial Qi from Heaven and Earth for their own cultivation, which is the Innate True Qi mentioned in the Longevity Technique.
In the Yan Country, martial artists must strengthen bones and muscles, refine qi and blood, first feeling a hint of qi in their body. Then, they must enlarge their True Qi, transform the True Qi into True Essence, and condense the Martial Arts True Pill, before communicating with Heaven and Earth and absorbing Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi.
It is imaginable how tempting this martial art is to martial artists.
Unfortunately, since the birth of the Longevity Technique until today, those who can truly understand its secrets are few, leaving behind a sea of explanatory books, confusing later generations.
Even the wise, able to grasp its secrets, cannot explain it to future generations.
Today, several volumes are missing, and even the circulated volumes are preserved by various major families, making it difficult for the general public to see them. Moreover, the preserving families generally keep them locked away, seldomly viewing them over decades.
Chen Fan sighed lightly.
These remnants of Divine Demon Martial Arts, staying with those families are wasted; lending them to him might bring the full version back to light.
But obviously, this is not easy.
Even the Awakened Association can barely benefit from those families, let alone him.
"If someday, my power can overwhelm everyone, this idea of borrowing might materialize."
Thinking of this, Chen Fan laughed to himself, eyes returning to the skill bar.
The Longevity Technique is divided into seven volumes of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Yin, and Yang. Since no one has successfully cultivated them, the effects of each volume are speculative once mastered.
Chen Fan glanced at his experience points, accumulated over fifty million, the most ever.
However, he dared not celebrate too soon, as cultivating the Undying Golden Body to the highest realm consumed twenty million points.
This volume of the Longevity Technique might be a Supreme-level Martial Arts, though whether fifty million points are sufficient remains uncertain.
"Hopefully, it’s enough. If not, I will have to wait until tomorrow."
Chen Fan murmured, adding another million experience points to test the waters.
Immediately, the cultivation progress of the Longevity Technique jumped to two-thirds.
"1.5 million."
Chen Fan calculated inwardly; excluding the experience reduction effect from the Sun Observation Technique, generally it should be 2.5 million points to reach the beginner level.
"Half more than the Undying Golden Body."
He exhaled slightly, thinking maybe 30 million points could bring this martial art to Perfection.
Not daring to drop his guard, he added the remaining required points of 500,000.
Instantly, he felt a warm surge across his body, his senses sharpening, even hearing the sounds from deep underground clearly.
"Constitution improved? And significantly more than just a little?"
With doubts, he looked at the skill bar.
[Longevity Technique (Water): Initial Glimpse (0%), Traits: Longevity Level 1, Art of Staying Young Level 1]
[Longevity: For each skill level increase, the physical attribute enhances by 30,000 points]
[Art of Staying Young: For each skill level increase, aging slows by 10%]
"Two traits indeed."
Chen Fan, surprised and delighted, sighed with admiration that indeed it is part of the Divine Demon Martial Arts; although the same rank as Supreme Martial Arts, its effects are significantly stronger.
Like the first trait, Longevity, each level increase boosts the physical attribute by 30,000 points!
Whereas the Undying Golden Body boosts only 10,000 points per level, differing by threefold!
Reaching the Perfection Realm could boost the physical attribute by 150,000 points! Almost doubling his current attribute.
"No wonder since ancient times, countless people have attempted to decipher its secrets. Just the benefits from reaching the beginner level outmatch most of my past efforts." Chen Fan sighed.