Chapter 1251

"It is a bit like the 'Dao De Jing', but it is completely different."

Su Xuan looked at those oracle bone characters on the Longevity Art and commented thus.

There were over seven thousand oracle bone characters on the Longevity Art, but only over three thousand had been deciphered, less than half. It was also because the majority had not been deciphered that those who read the Longevity Art had completely different understandings, thus leaving behind many annotations. It must be said that those who were fortunate enough to obtain the Longevity Art and leave annotations for it were not ordinary figures. Although these annotations deviated from the original true meaning of the Longevity Art, every word was a pearl of wisdom, and there were other mysteries within. If these annotations were slightly organized, they would not fail to be another classic of the Daoist school.

It was a pity that these were only annotations about the Dao, not martial arts theory. If one were to cultivate the Longevity Art according to these annotations, because it deviated from the original intent of the Longevity Art, problems would inevitably arise.

Although Su Xuan had stayed in two Qin Dynasties and served as the Sect Master of the Yin-Yang School, reading many classics from the ancient era and having some research into ancient characters like oracle bone script, he was still unable to completely interpret the over seven thousand oracle bone characters on the Longevity Art.

Of course, he was still somewhat better than those who had deciphered the Longevity Art, recognizing approximately over five thousand characters.

Over five thousand characters basically accounted for the majority of these characters.

These characters were less a method of cultivation for the Longevity Art and more a general outline left by Guang Chengzi, a thesis on the theory of longevity.

Its general meaning was.