Chapter 27

If it were an ordinary Wheel and Sea cultivator, daring to discuss immortals and ask about the Dao would be seeking their own death.

Because they hadn't even seen an immortal, how could they practice their own immortal Dao?

Lin Xian was different; he hadn't eaten pork, but he had seen pigs run.

In an era where the immortal path was not open and even the Human Dao Supremes were blind, he had mastered the immortal secrets of the Shrouding the Heavens universe.

Although he hadn't attained the status of a Red Dust Immortal, nor had he achieved the True Immortal Dao Fruit, he knew how to become an immortal and how to attain longevity.

Using the ultimate immortal secret known to one universe to verify the unknown secret of longevity in another.

Extracting the similarities and common truths to transform them into his own Dao.

This was what Lin Xian wanted to do.

In fact, he had already verified something with the Origin of Qi, activating the Innate Qi within Xu Xiang's body.

But this was far from enough.

On the road to verifying longevity, the Eight Miraculous Skills were tools. With only the Origin of Qi as a tool, the speed of comprehending the Great Dao was destined to be slow.

Thus, he came to see Feng Zhenghao, to see Spirit-Restraining and General-Sending.

The birth of the Eight Miraculous Skills originated from the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Heaven-Reaching Valley, the legendary Daoist temple of True Person Ziyang, who attained immortality and refined the Jin Dan.

Wugensheng led eight sworn brothers into it, and thus the Eight Miraculous Skills were born.

It was just that these eight people ultimately failed to become immortals.

The Eight Miraculous Skills were only near-immortal; they were immortal skills, but not the immortals themselves.

Practicing immortality with this was like blind men touching an elephant.

Eight blind men touching an elephant—some touched the head, some the feet, some the ears—all thinking they had obtained the immortal secret, when in reality, they were blinded by a single leaf and could not see Mount Taishan.

Now, Lin Xian, with full vision, was going to collect the puzzle pieces and restore the true body of this elephant.

"Come, let me witness Spirit-Restraining and General-Sending." A trace of inquiry appeared in Lin Xian's eyes.

Feng Zhenghao nodded and said solemnly: "This technique was created by our ancestors and passed down through generations. Today, my Feng family has received great kindness from you, Senior, and we specially gift this technique. However, the process of passing it on is not convenient for outsiders to know."

"Oh, I'll go outside and keep watch." Feng Baobao nodded and walked out the door nonchalantly, guarding the two.

"Good character." A trace of surprise appeared in Feng Zhenghao's eyes. People in the world all pursued the power of the Eight Miraculous Skills; this little girl could actually remain completely unmoved.

"Everyone has their own path. In the eyes of some heavenly beings, the Eight Miraculous Skills are not that important." Lin Xian shook his head and smiled, then looked at Feng Zhenghao: "Let us ordinary mortals discuss the Eight Miraculous Skills."

"Ordinary mortals..." Feng Zhenghao's mouth twitched. If Lin Xian were an ordinary mortal, then there wouldn't be any serious people in the entire extraordinary world; they would all be babies.

"Senior is a True Person; you are too modest." Casting aside the last trace of distracting thoughts, Feng Zhenghao took a deep breath and began to perform the technique, his expression solemn: "Senior, you are a practitioner; you should know that being complete in both nature and life is the complete form of life. Even if a spiritual body existing in a spiritual state is powerful, it is conceptually a defective product."

"The user of Spirit-Restraining finds the unknown weakness of the spirit and uses this weakness to make the spirit unconditionally obey them."

"I don't know how the other Eight Miraculous Skills are passed down, but the inheritance of our Spirit-Restraining and General-Sending is a bit strange. Please, Senior, do not mind."

As he spoke, Feng Zhenghao turned and bowed to the black energy behind him, saying loudly: "Unworthy descendant Feng Zhenghao specially requests ancestor Feng Tianyang to pass on the Dao."

A sound of ghosts crying and wolves howling rang out, and rolling black smoke filled the entire office. At the end of the smoke, a transparent, ethereal figure floated over slowly.

Whose soul in the world was the most powerful? Excluding those spirits in the Northeast that had lived for thousands of years, it was naturally the founder of Spirit-Restraining and General-Sending, Feng Tianyang.

"Good."

Feng Tianyang's soul stood in place for a long time. Unlike ordinary residual souls without spirit or consciousness, it actually spat out a word slowly. Its eyes seemed to have light, but it was fleeting, and soon it dissipated again.

"Feng Tianyang, what a Feng Tianyang, what a Heaven-Nurtured!"

Lin Xian witnessed this scene and was shocked, unable to help but praise: "The geniuses of this world are truly like crucian carp crossing the river; heroes emerge in succession."

Transcending in the yin, the divine image unclear, the ghost pass has no surname, the three mountains have no name. Although not reincarnating, it is difficult to return to Penglai; ultimately having nowhere to return, stopping only at reincarnation and entering a house.

One spirit not obscured, this is called a Ghost Immortal!

Feng Tianyang remained silent. A Ghost Immortal is also an immortal; he was still on the road, only having some spiritual response, but unable to communicate normally. All he could do was evolve Spirit-Restraining and General-Sending.

Lin Xian sat cross-legged and calmed his mind to listen to this Eight Miraculous Skill.

Spirit-Restraining and General-Sending, as the name implies, can manipulate souls and turn some of their abilities into one's own use.

A more extreme usage is Spirit-Swallowing, obtaining a small permanent enhancement. However, this method has a drawback: the more spiritual bodies swallowed, the lower the control over oneself, and the personality easily becomes extreme. When the swallowed spiritual bodies reach the limit and the mental personalities conflict, then what is alive is no longer the true self, but a madman fused with multiple spirits.

After the Feng family took down the Wang family, they studied the Wang family's young people represented by Wang Bing and reached a conclusion: Spirit-Swallowing is not advisable.

"Spirit-Swallowing is not advisable. Does Spirit-Restraining and General-Sending really obtain the soul's abilities? Is this function true?"

Lin Xian began to ponder. This skill was already heaven-defying enough for extraordinary beings, but he felt it was not enough.

Because the surface ability of the Origin of Qi is that energy continuously gathers toward the dantian, no deliberate cultivation is needed; it is a must-have skill for lying flat and rotting, fully automatic AFK immortal cultivation.

But delving into its core, one would find that the Origin of Qi can make various wonderful methods and supernatural powers fall apart, turning them into the purest primordial energy.

The Origin of Qi is so profound; Spirit-Restraining and General-Sending should not stop there.

But to make him painstakingly study this miraculous skill, it really takes time.

"Then, I can only use that move."

Pondering, Lin Xian slowly stood up, leaving the cultivation state, which made Feng Zhenghao stunned.

"Senior, is there something wrong?"

Feng Zhenghao asked: "Did something go wrong?"

"Nothing." Lin Xian said leisurely, a smile curling at the corner of his mouth: "It's just that I have already understood Spirit-Restraining and General-Sending; you can stop the technique."

"What, Senior, you have already understood Spirit-Restraining and General-Sending?" Feng Zhenghao gasped. No one knew better than him the difficulty of learning this miraculous skill. He had spent three days and three nights, and Feng Xingtong and the others took even longer.

Lin Xian's understanding, from the time he released Feng Tianyang until now, probably hadn't even taken the time of a stick of incense.

"This is natural."

Lin Xian smiled indifferently, carrying a sense of relaxation, appearing graceful, and said slowly: "People's constitutions are different. With all my insights, with all my wisdom, with all my aptitude, gathered here, it formed a power."

"What power?" Feng Zhenghao asked, shocked and puzzled.

Lin Xian smiled without saying a word, just silently reciting a sentence in his heart.

"Cheat, come!"

(End of chapter)