I am about to die of old age, and I have awakened the character of longevity.

Chapter 179 Comprehensive advancement, rejuvenation!
hum!
Xie An felt as if his brain nerves were hit hard by a sledgehammer. His head was buzzing and he became confused for a while.

Fortunately, Xie An had anticipated that upgrading his longevity might lead to more severe discomfort symptoms, so he practiced Mingyu Gong early on to protect important parts of his body such as the brain and heart to avoid unnecessary damage.

Even so, the severe impact on the brain still brought great pain, making Xie An dazed.

Faintly, Xie An seemed to hear a bell sound as deep as the mountains and seas.

when!
The resounding roar of the mighty bell carried a majestic aura, coming from nowhere. It seemed to emanate from some distant place, yet it also seemed to be right before his eyes. Xie An felt insignificant, like a speck of dust, before this immense bell.

If this huge bell rang a few more times, I would be shaken to pieces.

Fortunately, the bell only rang once and then slowly calmed down.

After the sound of the bell completely faded away, Xie An's confused consciousness slowly returned to clarity.

He shook his head violently, but found nothing unusual in his brain, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where did that bell sound come from just now?"

The county town did have a temple, and every New Year they would ring a large bell, a hundred and eight times in a row. But it was only October, and the New Year hadn't even begun yet. Furthermore, the county town's New Year bells were far inferior to the sounds I had just heard.

What does upgrading the longevity character bring?
After much thought, this is the only explanation.

Although the sound of the bell has faded, the profound and magnificent artistic conception as vast as the mountains and seas still lingers in Xie An's heart for a long time, stirring his heart.

Apart from the fact that my head was 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 thinking about it for a while, Xie An finally calmed down and checked the panel.

【The longevity character has been upgraded.】

Before, it was always "growth", and this was the first time Xie An saw the word "upgrade".

[Current longevity level: Level 2.]

[Current effects: can be used to advance health-preserving exercises, can sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, can sense exotic beasts and spiritual objects.]

[Currently available advanced health-preserving exercises: Five Animal Exercises, Fetal Breathing Exercise.]

[Currently able to sense spiritual object: Seven Treasures Exquisite Box.]

Even at Xie An's age, he couldn't help but be shocked after seeing the effect of the second-level life-growth grid.

The first-level longevity horoscope only has the effect of accelerating the practice of health-preserving exercises. As for the effect of increasing longevity, it is actually brought about by health-preserving exercises, and the horoscope itself does not play a significant role.

But the second-level long life is more powerful. In addition to enhancing the capabilities of the first-level life, it also adds two major functions: advancement and induction. And it is currently... which means it may exist in the future.

Advanced health-preserving exercises, as the name suggests... are to allow the health-preserving exercises that have already been mastered to be further advanced into advanced exercises.

Sensing is divided into two parts: sensing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and sensing the spiritual energy of exotic beasts and creatures.

Xie An knew about the strange beasts and spiritual creatures. He could even sense their fate with the Seven Treasures Box. Things like these were spiritual creatures.

Then the problem is coming.

What is the spiritual energy of heaven and earth?
According to Xie An's understanding of the world, Daqian was a world of low-level or mid-level martial arts. Martial artists cultivated internal energy, while masters unlocked hidden treasures. But there was no such thing as spiritual energy.

Isn’t spiritual energy something only needed in the world of immortal cultivation?

Or is it that the heat generated by Mingyu Gong is of the same kind as spiritual energy?

There was too little information available for reference, so Xie An was unable to make a judgment and finally had to give up the analysis.

"It seems that I need to read more ancient books and meet more important figures to obtain enough information from them before I can make a comparative analysis." Xie An felt that the longevity personality would not activate these abilities related to cultivation for no reason.

Now that it has been opened, maybe it is really possible to cultivate immortality in this world?

Although this was just Xie An's initial guess, it undoubtedly gave Xie An a little hope.

Xie An carefully sorted out the panel information given by the second-level fate, making sure that not a single word was missed and there was no deviation in understanding, and then he stopped.

"The second level of destiny is much more powerful than the first level."

"Let's try the Five Animal Exercises first."

Thinking of this, Xie An turned on the panel of the Five Animal Play.

The first health-preserving exercise Xie An practiced was the Five Animal Frolics. After completing his practice, Xie An forgot about it and never used it again. But Xie An had a fondness for it...it was his lifeline in times of hardship.

Five Animal Exercises: Cultivating Internal Qi 100/100 (Perfect)

Xie An thought: Advance!
[Five Animal Exercises are progressing...]

[Insufficient immortal energy/fairy energy/faith energy...advancement failed.]

[Tip: 1000 strands of Immortal Qi are required to advance the Five Animals Exercises to Five Animals Qigong.]

Xie An: “…”

Although Xie An could understand: after all, it was an advancement in health-preserving exercises, which was equivalent to a wise man revealing his wisdom, it was reasonable to pay a certain price.

But...why does it feel like this longevity character has become more aloof after being upgraded to level two?

Xie An closed his eyes and sensed the white Taoist talisman floating in his mind. A faint white light was released, flickering from time to time.

Okay... 1000 is 1000.

It’s not too difficult to wait for Huang Silang to confess.

The advanced Five Animals Qigong looks really awesome.

Practice Qigong?
qigong?

Based on the many novels he had read on Qidian Chinese website in his previous life, Xie An judged that qigong must be a very powerful method. His anticipation grew stronger and stronger.

I don’t know what the advanced version of fetal breathing exercise will be like.

Fetal breathing exercise is a more advanced health-preserving exercise than the Five Animal Exercises. It is estimated that it requires more immortal energy, but it is free to try.

Xie An brought up the panel for the fetal breathing technique.

[Fetal Breathing Technique: Divine Light Appears 1000/1000 (Perfect)]

Xie An thought: advancement.

[Fetal Breathing Technique is progressing...]

[Lack of immortal energy... Failed to advance.]

[Hint: 10000 strands of Immortal Qi are required to advance the Fetal Breathing Technique to the Black Tortoise Breathing Technique.]

10000...

This number scared Xie An.

Xie An had spent the past eight years painstakingly harvesting only ten thousand strands of immortal energy. He'd barely reached the maximum level of first-level fate integration. And you're asking for ten thousand just for the fetal breathing technique?
Why don't you go grab it...

This made the old man Xie An's breathing speed up a lot.

After a while, Xie An recovered and changed his mind.

This is not necessarily a bad thing. The more immortality you need to advance, the more powerful you will be after the advancement.

When I first practiced the Five Animal Exercises, the progress bar for the final stage of cultivating internal energy was only at 100. But after completing it, the effect was just so-so...

The final stage of the three-step fetal breathing exercise shows a divine light, and the progress bar is 1000. After completing it, the effect is amazing.

This time the advancement is ten times the difference...it's reasonable.

The anticipation is worth the wait.

But Xie An also discovered that in order to deal with these things... he needed more and more resources.

Unless there is another Corpse Refining Hall to provide support, it will be difficult to complete the advancement of Fetal Breathing.

This is just the resources needed to advance. What about the progress after the advancement? I'm afraid the resources consumed will be even greater...

I've only heard that cultivators need a lot of resources.

But Xie An hasn't found the way to become an immortal yet, and he needs such huge resources... It's really worrying.

After weighing the pros and cons, Xie An became even more determined to pursue the path of the imperial court: With such a huge resource consumption, relying on one person alone would definitely not be enough, and establishing a sect...wasn't reliable either. He had to continuously improve himself in the imperial court and utilize the power of the entire Daqian.

After studying the ability of advancement, Xie An began to study the ability of sensing.

Sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Xie An walked around the room, but there was no movement.

It seems that there is no so-called spiritual energy here.

If there is, the Taoist talisman should react.

Sense strange beasts and spiritual creatures.

The beasts don’t have…

There is a spiritual object: the Seven Treasures Box.

Xie An took out the seven-treasure exquisite box and looked at it carefully.

The palm prints on it were the same as last time, the only difference being that when Xie An touched the immortal box, the Dao talisman would react. But… that was it. No further information.

As for what the Seven Treasures Box is and how to open it... the fate does not give any other clues.

Xie An felt that the fairy box was of a relatively high level, or the box was too tightly sealed, which prevented the fate from penetrating the fairy box to sense the treasure inside.

The Seven Treasures Box is a spiritual object, and the things inside must be even more amazing.

I don't know what it is.

In desperation, Xie An had to put the magic box away.

Xie An looked inward at the white talisman in his mind and began to ponder another question: the issue of the fusion degree of the first-level longevity character. Using the immortal energy could increase the fusion degree.

I don't know if the second-level long life grid also has a fusion degree, and what can be used to increase the fusion degree.

He vaguely realized that the second-level longevity grid and the first-level longevity grid were fundamentally different, and the gameplay and fusion degree improvement conditions might be different. After some tinkering, it turned out as expected:

[Current Longevity Level 2, Fusion Degree: 0/10000]

【Tip: Acquiring spiritual energy can improve the degree of fusion.】

"Aura..."

Xie An held his forehead with his hand, feeling a headache.

Sure enough, it was upgraded.

After entering the second level of destiny, the style was directly improved. The quasi-undead energy was transformed into something used to practice advanced skills. To improve the degree of fusion... a higher level of spiritual energy was required.

"I've lived in this world for thirty-eight years, and I've never known what spiritual energy is. It seems the difficulty of increasing the degree of fusion is beyond imagination."

Xie An shook his head helplessly, feeling quite embarrassed.

Fortunately, Yu Nian gave Xie An a surprise.

[Remaining Years: 108]

This is okay, it can be considered a consolation prize.

It directly increased his lifespan by fifty years, giving Xie An enough time to acquire the so-called spiritual energy and the quasi-immortal energy. However, he also felt a bit more solemn in his heart.

The long life cell is a huge unit. Although it has many benefits, it is very difficult to feed this guy.

"No rush, take your time. We've made it through fifty-eight years, so there's nothing to worry about now."

After adjusting his mindset, Xie An began to study the Mingyu Gong that he was most looking forward to.

This is what Xie An is most looking forward to at the moment.

Mingyu Gong had only been cultivated to the eighteenth stage, and there were still six more stages to go, far from reaching the advanced stage. As long as he didn't advance, he wouldn't have to consume a huge amount of quasi-immortal energy.

Of course, Xie An felt that if he needed to advance to the Mingyu Gong, he would probably need over 100,000 Immortal-like Qi. This was undoubtedly an astronomical figure. However, what would the Mingyu Gong be like after advancing... Xie An didn't even dare to imagine it.

He opened the Mingyu Gong panel and a very happy smile appeared on his face.

[Ming Yu Gong: Beginning of Winter 18/200]

Although the denominator has become two hundred, but... it's winter!

Breaking the winter barrier.

Longevity is awesome!

In the face of fate, Ming Yu Gong really has no barriers at all.

Li Changchun used fetal breathing to fake his death, and then used the Yin water from the earth's veins to nourish himself. It took him a hundred years of suffering in a deep sleep before he broke through the winter barrier and reached the nineteenth level of Mingyu Gong.

It took me eight years to do it.

This made Xie An very excited.

The white fox is my lucky star...

"Let me try the effect."

Xie An sat cross-legged and activated the Mingyu Gong. A surge of heat like a surging river emerged from the Jiang Palace, quickly flowing through his body and penetrating into his muscles, bones and internal organs.

From the Yongquan point on the soles of the feet to the top of the head, everything is covered by this heat.

Every cell in his body seemed to be bathed in a mysterious heat, numbing and warm. A vortex of hot air formed outside Xie An's body, covering a four-meter radius.

The hot air in the vortex runs at high speed, creating a hot air vortex that pulls in the surrounding tea sets, tables, and lamps, and then tears them into pieces, making a "crackling" sound.

At this moment, Xie An seemed to have become a huge magnet, sucking everything around him in. A strong wind blew in all directions, and the whole room was shaking.

Xie An seemed unaware of all this.

The eighteenth solar term, Frost Descent!

After the vortex outside his body stabilized, Xie An clearly felt that some changes were taking place in his body, which were even more severe than the previous frost.

next moment.

The nineteenth solar term is the beginning of winter.

Wow.

The flying snow outside the window drifted in and swirled with the hot air vortex outside Xie An's body.

Xie An clearly felt that his five senses, speed and strength were rapidly improving. Compared to Shuangjiang, there was a fundamental leap.

Suddenly, a chill appeared in my body.

That's right.

It's air conditioning!
This has never happened before.

Xie An had been practicing health-preserving exercises for eight years, and all he produced was heat. The greater the heat, the higher the level of his health-preserving exercises. Now, as he entered the nineteenth floor of Mingyu, he suddenly felt cold air.

Simply unbelievable.

Out of curiosity, Xie An continued to practice, pushing the Mingyu Gong to continue to rise.

buzzing.

The cold current in his body grew stronger and stronger. Then this cold current and the overwhelming heat in the Crimson Palace collided and repelled each other, fighting for the initiative, causing Xie An's body to alternate between cold and hot, and he suffered unspeakably.

Suddenly it felt like being in a sea of ​​fire or a frying pan, and suddenly it felt like being in an ice cellar or a snowy mountain.

My body feels like it's about to explode.

"How could this be?"

The Ming Yu Gong booklet doesn't mention that such a situation would occur.

Xie An felt very uneasy and had to use his skills carefully while thinking in his mind.

Since I can't figure it out, I'll start with the name of the technique.

The name of a practice, like the title of a book, is the root of all practices. Even though the content of a practice may vary, it still has its roots.

Mingyu Mingyu...

The meaning of jade is something as crystal clear as jade, which is used to describe beauty and whiteness.

The key is clarity.

Ming means brightness, and the brightness of the ancients came from the sun and the moon... The sun and the moon are collectively called Ming.

The sun is yang and the moon is yin.

The sun and the moon represent hot and cold, yin and yang.

Thinking of this, Xie An suddenly understood.

It wasn't that there was something wrong with his own cultivation, but rather that this was the essence of Mingyu Gong. It was just that the first eighteen sections were just the basics, not the most subtle and profound aspects of the art.

The onset of winter... is the time when the cold current of Mingyu Gong comes!
Hot and cold are incompatible, conflicting and damaging. No wonder winter presents the greatest barrier, and no wonder Li Changchun must practice fetal breathing to fetal death, relying on the nourishment of the earth's yin water to enter winter.

It was because Li Changchun was unable to reconcile the conflict between the cold and hot energies that he needed to rely on the Yin water of the earth's veins for a hundred years to nourish his body, allowing it to gradually adapt to the Yin energy before entering winter.

All the questions are explained.

Xie An's longevity was already effective for health preservation, so he just entered winter. This was equivalent to breaking through the game directly.

Thinking of this, Xie An no longer hesitated and continued to circulate the cold and hot energies according to the Mingyu Gong technique.

Even though the panel showed that Xie An had already mastered the Beginning of Winter solar term, many problems still occurred during the practice and he endured considerable pain.

After several hours, Xie An was able to reconcile the cold and hot energies and stay in the Crimson Palace.

Ninety percent is heat and ten percent is cold.

The excess Yang energy dominates, which is conducive to the stability of the cold and hot energy in the Jiang Palace.

call!
Xie An breathed a sigh of relief, "I've finally gotten used to this situation. Let's try practicing again."

After adjusting his body and entering into a state of meditation to clear away distracting thoughts, Xie An practiced the Beginning of Winter solar term for the second time.

Wow!

At this moment, what was rushing out from the Crimson Palace was no longer hot air, but a mixture of cold and hot air, nourishing the organs, muscles and bones of the whole body like a stream of water.

Then, the most amazing thing happened:

Xie An clearly felt that his organs were getting younger.

The skin and bones are showing signs of reverse growth.

Although Xie An had previously experienced younger growth while practicing Mingyu Gong, it was very slow and imperceptible to the naked eye. However, the reverse growth at this moment was visible to the naked eye.

Xie An opened his eyes immediately and saw that his skin was becoming smoother and smoother, all the wrinkles around him were gone, and his hair was becoming darker and more shiny.

Rejuvenation! ?

Taoism says that Tai Chi gives birth to two opposites, Yin and Yang, and these two energies give rise to all life. The cold and hot energies of Ming Yu Gong surprisingly have a similar miraculous effect on the evolution of life!

After his Qigong practice stabilized, Xie An got off the bed while practicing Qigong, walked to the floor-standing bronze mirror and looked into the mirror.

As he continued to practice, Xie An clearly saw himself in the mirror growing younger.

In a short while, he became an eighteen-year-old boy.

If I continue to practice this skill, I'm afraid I'll turn into a child.

Xie An immediately stopped practicing and stared blankly at the masculine 18-year-old boy in the mirror. His heartbeat suddenly quickened. He stroked the delicate and firm skin on his face and could hardly believe it.

"As expected... Mingyu's nineteenth stage, rejuvenated!"

(End of this chapter)