[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-guarding-the-river-of-time":3,"chapter-guarding-the-river-of-time-guarding-the-river-of-time-chapter-167":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Guarding the River of Time",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},303042,569,"Chapter 167 - 161: The Nine Lives Immortal King Aperture, The Mystery of Nannan’s Origins","guarding-the-river-of-time-chapter-167",167,"\u003Cp>Su Mu took the book and discovered it was made of stone, much heavier than a regular book, weighing nearly a thousand kilograms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting cross-legged, he placed the Stone Book in front of him and blew away the dust on its surface, finding only a few shallow marks that resembled claw marks or sword scars, with no words engraved on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opening the first page, he was greeted by a few ancient characters, written in a very peculiar script that Su Mu was seeing for the first time and did not recognize.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he could analyze that these characters formed the name of a Cultivation Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turning to the second page, he saw densely packed, fine characters, identical to those on the first page, none of which he could recognize!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite not recognizing the characters, as his gaze fell upon each one, he felt like he was glimpsing the origin and directly observing the essence of the Great Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a feeling Su Mu had never experienced before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, he immediately judged that this was without a doubt an extremely advanced Cultivation Technique, far stronger than any he had seen or practiced before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But.... here came the problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t recognize the characters at all. How was he supposed to cultivate?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he cultivated the Nine Secrets and God-Striking Treasure Technique, the process started very simply, but at least he could recognize the words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Nannan, who was standing nearby, noticed her father’s furrowed brow and came over too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She began to carefully examine the characters and, after a while, started reading them aloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Nannan read the words aloud, Su Mu was taken aback and asked in astonishment, \"Nannan, do you recognize these characters?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In response, Nannan shook her head and said, \"Some of them I know, some I don’t, but... I can read them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, Su Mu furrowed his brow slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then he continued to ask, \"Have you seen these characters in any books?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Su Mu found Nannan by the river when she was only a month old, she had been living by his side and had little contact with the outside world, though Nannan liked reading various strange ancient texts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These ancient texts were collected by Su Mu over the years as travel fees or lottery winnings, amounting to tens of thousands of volumes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Su Mu instinctively thought Nannan had learned the ancient script from these books, which would be quite normal given her extraordinary talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Nannan shook her head and said, \"No, I don’t know how I recognize them either.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nannan herself couldn’t explain why she knew these characters, but she inexplicably recognized them at first sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing this, Su Mu remained silent for a long while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similar incidents had occurred before; last time, Nannan recognized a Bodhi Tree at a glance and said she had seen it somewhere before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the same thing happened; she could read the ancient script he didn’t understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Su Mu begin to ponder Nannan’s background....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who were her biological parents?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why did they abandon her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nannan, with no ailments, had from an early age displayed an unparalleled cultivation talent that even he couldn’t match, exceptionally beautiful, adorable, and smart, never giving him any cause for concern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a child would be a cherished gem in any family, and if born into a prestigious family, they would be the hope of the entire family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you recognize these characters?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Mu pointed to the few large characters on the first page and asked Nannan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After looking for a while, Nannan picked up a wooden stick from the ground and wrote in the common script.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nine-Life Immortal King Acupoint\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staring at these five characters, Su Mu’s pupils contracted; it seemed the name of this Cultivation Technique was \"Nine-Life Immortal King Acupoint.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When it mentioned \"Immortal King,\" could it be an Immortal King Cultivation Technique?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Mu himself had encountered a bottleneck and, despite his hard efforts, couldn’t break through the barrier to reach the Immortal King Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, he consulted ancient texts on the matter, from which he learned that the Immortal King is a supreme realm attainable not by effort, nor even by talent, but by a special opportunity, that is, fortune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without that miraculous event, without that fortune, even if immensely gifted, one would find it difficult to step into the Immortal King Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having now come across this Immortal King method, could it be his opportunity?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Daddy, could you give this to me for a moment?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nannan, perceiving her father’s thoughts, picked up the Stone Book, then with a wave of her hand, a brush appeared: \"Daddy, wait a moment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Nannan began to write and draw on the Stone Book with the brush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An hour later, Nannan wiped the sweat from her forehead and handed the Stone Book to Su Mu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After receiving it and thumbing through the pages, Su Mu found that Nannan had annotated about half of the text with characters he could understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Daddy, I recognize about half of the characters, but as for the remaining half... I don’t really know them, just finding some familiar but uncertain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fearing it might affect your cultivation, I didn’t annotate those.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nannan, being very clever, could instantly tell that her father intended to cultivate the technique from the Stone Book, so she did her best to translate and annotate it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a young age, she was very meticulous, knowing that cultivation must be pursued without mistakes to avoid disastrous consequences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, she only translated the characters she was entirely sure about, refraining from translating the uncertain ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s okay, I’ll research the rest myself; this is already impressive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Mu reached out his finger, playfully tapped Nannan’s nose, and said with a smile, \"Go to sleep now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After his words, Nannan obediently climbed into her willow cot and drifted into a deep sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Mu couldn’t fall asleep, nor did he intend to; the night was his time for cultivation, and he couldn’t waste it on sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staring at the half-translated Stone Book Cultivation Technique in front of him, he read for two hours, barely understanding a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If his deductions were correct, this \"Nine-Life Immortal King Acupoint\" seemed to be a unique breakthrough technique for achieving the Immortal King Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It required nine successive breakthroughs, each more perfect than the last, to forge the most perfect \"Nine Lives Immortal King Body.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since he could only understand half, Su Mu could only half-read, half-deduce...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Mu had to rely on his understanding of the Cultivation Technique to fill in the blanks, guess, and deduce the parts that were unclear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He himself wasn’t sure if he was cultivating correctly...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would he end up going astray...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>......\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the following several days, every night, Su Mu devoted himself tirelessly to studying the technique overnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he synthesized and began to cultivate, he didn’t notice anything wrong; it seemed his deductions were correct??\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nevertheless, Su Mu always felt that the direction of his completion seemed to deviate toward a certain path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, Su Mu turned to the last page.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found that the last paragraph on the final page was separated by a series of ellipses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the tone, it seemed like a passage left by someone, not part of the main body of the Cultivation Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>",1233,"2026-05-29T18:57:15.942Z","2026-06-01T04:30:00.195Z",1,"novelbin.me","28987a0a78b60fe0e1ff29676b2b3c332243a19ff1804dbfc8c72b6277484e9a","guarding-the-river-of-time-chapter-168","guarding-the-river-of-time-chapter-166",583,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fguarding-the-river-of-time-cover.jpg"]