Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

After reading "The Evergreen Chronicles", Li Ping felt his horizons broadened.

To his regret, apart from the geography of the Western Wilderness, other parts of the travelogue, such as the information on famous people and the power of various countries, seemed to have been deliberately deleted.

Clearly, these parts may have mistakenly included something that shouldn't have been written, thus violating taboos and being censored.

Immortal City Bookstore once printed a novel featuring a cultivator as the protagonist. In that novel, a scene was described: a Foundation Establishment cultivator named Bai Xiaosheng fabricated a scandalous story about a Nascent Soul ancestor. As a result, the Nascent Soul ancestor captured him across thousands of miles and had his collarbone locked, then hung up in the market as a public spectacle.

At that time, Li Ping was still very young and was very obsessed with this novel.

Unfortunately, this cultivation novel was abandoned in the end, and there has been no sequel to this day.

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Having satisfied his curiosity, Li Ping put the "Changqing Fengwu Zhi" into his possession and began to study the "Zeshui Yangsheng Jue," a cultivation method that seemed to be practiced by ancient cultivators.

If, as described in the Turkic legends, the spiritual energy in every part of the world in ancient times was indeed more abundant than the best spiritual veins in the cultivation world today.

Even cultivators with five spiritual roots, as long as they have enough talent in alchemy, would probably dare to confidently cultivate this unique technique.

Even a technique like the "Burning Heaven Technique," which Li Ping considered an evil cultivation method, would likely have been practiced by many cultivators in ancient times if spiritual fire from heaven and earth had been easily obtained, in order to overpower their peers.

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The main limitation of "Ze Shui Yang Sheng Jue" lies in breaking through bottlenecks.

Li Ping was already a Foundation Establishment cultivator, so there was no obstacle to him converting the Foundation Establishment mana in his body into the Foundation Establishment early stage health cultivation mana.

However, if he wants to continue breaking through bottlenecks in the future, he still needs to replenish the "innate qi" of that first-tier pill.

Therefore, when he needs to refine pills in the future, he must start with low-grade first-level pills.

Li Ping didn't care about this. Anyway, he had an "astonishing talent" with a 100% success rate in alchemy, so he could make some resources along the way.

The "Ze Shui Yang Sheng Jue" has seven levels. Levels one to three are the three realms of Foundation Building, levels four to six are the three realms of Core Formation, and the final seventh level is the early stage of Nascent Soul.

This technique disappeared at the early Nascent Soul stage. It's unclear whether the creator didn't have time to create a subsequent technique or whether the version Li Ping had was incomplete.

However, Li Ping didn't care about this; the Nascent Soul stage was far too far away for him.

Moreover, due to the scarcity of high-level spiritual materials in the cultivation world today, he may find himself unable to cultivate the Nourishing Life Technique once he reaches the Core Formation stage, and will have to change his cultivation method.

Sitting cross-legged, Li Ping began to slowly circulate the first level of the "Ze Shui Yang Sheng Jue" technique, transforming the magical power within his body into the power of the health preservation technique.

It is worth mentioning that although Li Ping cultivated the metal-based basic cultivation technique "Golden Sword Technique" during his Qi Refining stage, basic cultivation techniques were originally intended to lay the foundation for low-level cultivators. The creators considered the issue of cultivators switching to other cultivation techniques later on when they created the techniques, and most of them made corresponding modifications to the basic cultivation techniques.

Therefore, Li Ping's conversion from basic metal-based cultivation techniques to advanced water-based cultivation techniques will not have any impact whatsoever.

Of course, converting between different types of mana will definitely take more time than converting between mana of the same type.

However, the transfer between high-level cultivation techniques can only be done within the same attribute technique. If you want to switch to a different attribute technique, the only option is to dissipate your cultivation and start over.

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The next morning, Li Ping, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, opened his eyes. As he opened and closed his eyes, two sharp glints flashed across them.

Feeling the changes in the magical power within his dantian, Li Ping smiled and said, "After a hard night, I've finally converted a trace of magical power. At this rate, it will only take me about a month to convert all my magical power into the Nourishing Life Technique's magical power."

Straightening his clothes, Li Ping stood up: "The spiritual vein in this cave is only of the first-grade high quality. It's not enough for me to cultivate high-level techniques. I have to rent a cave of the second grade or higher in the inner city."

A moment later, the courtyard gate creaked open, and Li Ping walked out.

He had originally planned to go directly to the inner city to choose a cave dwelling, but suddenly seemed to remember something, turned around, and walked towards Gu Musheng's general store.

Now that he knew the Wang family's affair was actually a scam, he naturally had to warn Gu Musheng to prevent him from being deceived as well.

Although when he paid the spirit stones, he had been induced by the Wang family to swear a vow of Dao heart that "he would not reveal or report the matter of choosing cultivation methods."

However, Gu Musheng already knew about this matter, and even Li Ping learned about it from him, so discussing this matter with him would not violate the oath of Dao Xin.

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Early in the morning, Gu Musheng's general store was empty, with no customers.

As soon as Li Ping walked in, he gestured for Gu Musheng to close the shop door first.

Gu Musheng smiled knowingly, quickly closed the shop door as instructed, and walked excitedly to Li Ping's side, asking, "Brother, have you found a suitable cultivation technique?"

Li Ping didn't speak, but instead gestured for Gu Musheng to sit down.

After Gu Musheng sat down, Li Ping said solemnly, "After hearing your news yesterday, I went back and thought about it carefully. I still believe that sneaking into the Immortal City's Secret Technique Pavilion to select cultivation techniques is not only extremely risky, but such sneaky behavior is not the act of a gentleman."

He looked at Gu Musheng: "So, last night I didn't go through your channels to choose a cultivation technique!"

Upon hearing this, Gu Musheng was somewhat surprised: "Big brother, you didn't go?"

Seeing the change in Gu Musheng's expression, Li Ping couldn't help but blush.

There are two main reasons why he doesn't tell the truth.

Firstly, being cheated is a very shameful thing, so Li Ping was too embarrassed to tell Gu Musheng about it. If his third brother knew that he had been cheated because of greed, it would really damage his dignity as the eldest brother.

Although he didn't actually suffer any loss in this matter, he actually took the opportunity to choose a suitable cultivation method.

But since only he knew about this, other insiders believed that Li Ping had been deceived.

Therefore, he couldn't directly tell Gu Musheng that it was a scam and tell him not to go. Instead, he had to exaggerate the risks and explain the unethical aspects, reminding Gu Musheng not to steal chickens.

As long as he doesn't go, he won't be scammed.

Secondly, Gu Musheng told him this with the intention of helping his elder brother buy the cultivation technique at a low price. If he directly said that this was a scam, Gu Musheng might misunderstand and think he was accusing him, thus damaging the brotherly relationship.

Thinking of this, Li Ping nodded without changing his expression: "Not only am I not going, but I also hope you won't go."

"Oh, I see." Gu Musheng suddenly realized, and then he smiled and agreed, "Don't worry, big brother. I'm only at the seventh level of Qi Refining now. I don't know how long it will take to reach the ninth level of Qi Refining. How could I possibly spend 100 spirit stones to choose a cultivation method?"

Actually, there was one more thing Gu Musheng didn't say.

That is, if he really manages to establish his foundation one day in the future, he will directly choose to join the Immortal City as a guest elder. In this way, he can obtain cultivation techniques and cave dwellings for free.

However, since his elder brother was recently rejected by the Immortal City, saying these words might displease him, so he cannot say them.

Seeing that Gu Musheng readily agreed, Li Ping nodded in satisfaction: "That's good."