Chapter 568: The Method to Restore Dao Rhymes

Heaven Mending Technique?

Xu Que was immediately moved!

From what he knew in his past life, the Heaven Mending Technique was a method that could make up for regrets—to put it plainly, it could give a person one chance to turn back!

But could such a method really exist? Even the System Mall didn't sell it, which clearly meant this dharma spell's level had to be extremely high—at the very least, not something he could get involved with at his current stage.

Besides, if the Heavenly Machine Pavilion had this kind of method, wouldn't they have been invincible long ago?

Xu Que suddenly cleared his head, his solemnity returning. Whether or not the Heavenly Machine Pavilion possessed the Heaven Mending Technique, he couldn't pin his hopes too high.

"I really didn't guess wrong—your origins are very mysterious, and you've even heard of the Heaven Mending Technique, so you must understand the wonders of this method!" Han Ying seemed to have read something from the change in Xu Que's expression, and spoke again through Sound Transmission.

"To tell you the truth, I don't understand any Heaven Mending Technique. I just saw it mentioned in some books—maybe it's not the same method as the one you're talking about!" Xu Que shook his head.

Even if the so-called Heaven Mending Technique truly existed, and even if it was the very Heaven Mending Technique he knew, it still couldn't help him make up for his Dao Rhymes.

The Heaven Mending Technique could give a person one chance to turn back, but that window of time was extremely brief.

To give an example—say you accidentally got injured right now. Use the Heaven Mending Technique once, and you'd immediately return to your state before the injury, avoiding it altogether!

Of course, it might even be that at the very instant of death, casting the Heaven Mending Technique could also avert one death.

That is the chance to turn back!

But lacking Dao Rhymes was a mistake made right from the very start. Could the Heaven Mending Technique turn back something that far gone? The odds were surely slim!

"Let me put it this way—actually, I don't understand what the Heaven Mending Technique is either. Perhaps no one in the entire Kingdom does. But when my Master was young, he caught a fleeting glimpse of it—just one glance at the Heaven Mending Technique—and what he saw in that single glance alone is what built his strength today!" Han Ying spoke again, her gaze fixed carefully on Xu Que, as if trying to read more from his expression.

But this time, Xu Que was surprisingly calm. He shook his head and said, "I don't understand what the Heaven Mending Technique is either, but I'm certain that even if there were a complete Heaven Mending Technique, it definitely couldn't help me!"

"No, I'm certain there's a way to let you possess Dao Rhymes again!" This time, Han Ying spoke with absolute conviction.

Xu Que froze for a moment, his eyebrows lifting: "Tell me, let's hear it!"

Han Ying smiled and transmitted: "The premise is, you come with me to the Heavenly Machine Pavilion and tell us exactly what Heaven Mending Technique you know!"

"Just that? That's simple! I can tell you right now, but there's no need to make a special trip to your Heavenly Machine Pavilion!" Xu Que shrugged his shoulders, somewhat puzzled.

"No, you have to say it in person before my Master. Only then can we know whether you're lying to us!" Han Ying said with a faint smile.

After a day of getting to know him, she already understood that with Xu Que, one simply couldn't tell truth from falsehood in what he said.

Unless he said it before her Master, there was no way to know how much was true and how much was false!

Besides, her reason for wanting Xu Que to go to the Heavenly Machine Pavilion wasn't entirely for the Heaven Mending Technique. The real reason was to have her Master act and divine Xu Que's origins—only then might they know where exactly all these dharma spells on him came from!

"Oh, not going!"

Yet without a second thought, Xu Que directly refused Han Ying and immediately turned to leave!

What a joke—go to the Heavenly Machine Pavilion? Just because you say so? Does this King of Acting Cool still need his face or not?

Moreover, from Han Ying's words, he also understood that the Heaven Mending Technique he knew was definitely not the same one the Heavenly Mechanism Old Man had seen!

The Heaven Mending Technique he understood was about making up for regrets, while the Heavenly Mechanism Old Man had only glanced at it once and gained such a wondrous Divination Art—the two simply weren't the same thing.

"Don't you want to restore your Dao Rhymes?" Han Ying said, caught off guard.

She hadn't expected Xu Que to refuse so bluntly. An ordinary person, upon learning there was a way to restore Dao Rhymes, would seek it out at any cost. But this Lad refused outright, refusing to play by common sense.

"I want to restore them, but I know the so-called method you speak of definitely isn't reliable, and I don't want to go to your Heavenly Machine Pavilion either!" Xu Que finished transmitting, and headed straight down toward the lower levels of the Bronze Ancient Hall.

Liu Jingning had long said that no one in this world had ever successfully restored Dao Rhymes—not because they lacked the ability, but because there simply was no method. If the Heavenly Machine Pavilion truly had one, the world would have known long ago.

Wait—if the Heavenly Machine Pavilion truly had such a method, how would this Han Ying dare speak of it? Wasn't she afraid he would leak it and bring chaos to the Heavenly Machine Pavilion?

Therefore, pies falling from the sky are not to be believed!

……

Watching Xu Que head toward the lower levels of the Ancient Hall, Han Ying's brow furrowed slightly. She said nothing more, because the method she spoke of truly was unreliable—no one could succeed!

"What just happened? Someone actually dared to look for you?" Liu Jingning walked beside Xu Que. She had long noticed he had been transmitting with someone just now and asked in confusion.

Xu Que smiled and told Liu Jingning everything he had just transmitted with Han Ying.

Liu Jingning froze upon hearing it, her expression strange: "You're wrong—the Heavenly Machine Pavilion really does have a way to restore Dao Rhymes!"

"What?" Xu Que was instantly dumbfounded.

Could it be that he tried to act cool only to get trampled by the poem "Grass"—outsmarting himself?

"That doesn't add up. Didn't you just say there was no method at all?" he said, stunned.

Liu Jingning smiled: "That's because the so-called method of the Heavenly Machine Pavilion happens to be something I also know, and that method simply cannot succeed. It's nothing more than a fantasy—no different from having no method at all!"

"Phew, that's a relief!" Xu Que let out a breath.

"That's not good news! How can you look relieved?" Liu Jingning said, surprised.

"At least it proves I didn't outsmart myself. Come on, tell me—what's the Heavenly Machine Pavilion's method?" Xu Que asked with keen interest.

Liu Jingning was silent for a moment, then shook her head: "The so-called method simply cannot hold up. Back then, someone went to the Heavenly Machine Pavilion to seek the Heavenly Mechanism Old Man's method for restoring Dao Rhymes, but the Heavenly Machine Pavilion shut their doors and refused to see him, because there simply was no method! Yet that person knelt outside the Heavenly Machine Pavilion for Forty-Nine Days, adamantly refusing to leave. That night, the Heavenly Mechanism Old Man, drunk, joked that unless one self-crippled one's cultivation, returned to being a Mortal, and comprehended the Great Dao, there might be a chance of success. He called it Break and Then Establish!"

"Self-cripple cultivation, Break and Then Establish?" Xu Que was startled. It seemed this method might actually work!

As if sensing the eager gleam in Xu Que's eyes, Liu Jingning immediately said, "Little Lad, don't do anything rash! There's only one way to self-cripple cultivation—destroy your dantian. When that happens, your Spirit Root will inevitably be destroyed along with it, and you'll never have hope of cultivating again in this life! And don't forget—you're now Public Enemy Number One in the Eastern Wasteland, with countless people watching you. If you self-cripple your cultivation, no one can protect you!"

"I know!" Xu Que nodded, but his heart could no longer be restrained!

Self-crippling cultivation would ruin the Spirit Root?

Others indeed needed to worry about this, but he didn't!

Back then, his entire Spirit Root had been ripped out, hadn't it? And the System still made up for it. So what was there to fear in doing it once more?

But there was one thing Liu Jingning had said that was absolutely right!

He really was having a hard time getting by in the Eastern Wasteland right now. If he self-crippled his cultivation, it would be no different from suicide. Even if he had more Divine Movement Escape Talismans, he wouldn't have his current speed to ignite them.

"Little Lad, you can't really be considering that method, can you?" Liu Jingning stared at Xu Que, frowning as she asked.

She wasn't worried about anyone else, but Xu Que—this Lad never acted according to common sense. She truly feared Xu Que might do something reckless and go try that method!

"Of course not. How could I possibly do something so brain-dead?" Xu Que said, speechless.

At least until he was sure he could safely re-cultivate, he definitely couldn't self-cripple his cultivation!

Liu Jingning gave an awkward chuckle, the meaning self-evident—other people definitely wouldn't do something like this, but you just might.

Xu Que couldn't be bothered to say more, his figure once again sweeping toward the high sky, preparing to try whether he could enter the Ancient Hall.

Yet the situation still hadn't changed—although the Ancient Hall's entrance had already vanished, he still passed right through it, completely unable to touch the Ancient Hall's existence.

"Sigh! Kid, please accept my condolences!" Er Gouzi sighed, extending a dog paw and patting Xu Que's back to comfort him.

Xu Que sensed something was off, suddenly turning around to look, and immediately got annoyed!

Where was Er Gouzi comforting him? He was damn well using his paw to wipe off bloodstains on his clothes!

These bloodstains even came from some part of Dong Genji's body!

"Damn it, you're asking for a beating!" Xu Que immediately grabbed at Er Gouzi, ready to give him a vicious thrashing.

"Damn, good intentions get no reward, this Divine Venerable was consoling you!" Er Gouzi got scared and turned to run.

"Consoling your sister!" Xu Que cursed angrily, but he didn't have the mood to keep messing around with Er Gouzi.

He stopped outside the Bronze Ancient Hall, looking at the Ancient Hall, feeling inexpressible emotions in his heart.

Clearly Jiang Hongyan was right inside, within reach, yet more distant than the ends of the earth—visible but untouchable!

"Does this really mean I can only wait until I become a Level Two Immortal Array Master before I can come back to save you?" Xu Que muttered to himself.

Over these past few years, he had been running around trying to resurrect Xiao Rou, searching everywhere for Tai Chu Five Spirit Grasses. After much difficulty he had gathered three plants, but two more had been taken away by Duan Jiude.

Precisely because of this, he had come running to the Eastern Wasteland.

But now Duan Jiude hadn't even been found, Xiao Rou still couldn't be resurrected, and Jiang Hongyan had once again gone far away.

This made Xu Que feel a tremendous sense of defeat—becoming an Immortal Formation Master would probably take even longer than resurrecting Xiao Rou!

"Sigh!"

He let out a breath, preparing to leave.

But when his gaze swept over the Void Refining Stage experts present, he suddenly thought of something.

"Right, there's still a Mysterious Gift Pack!" Xu Que's eyes suddenly lit up.

He had previously successfully killed the first Void Refining Stage expert and obtained a Mysterious Gift Pack, but hadn't had the chance to open it yet.

And now, with no other options, he thought of this gift pack, as if seeing hope.

Because this Mysterious Gift Pack might possibly bring him what he needed!

But this required luck!

However, what he now lacked the least was luck!