Chapter 560: Chapter 551: Master Xiaoyao’s Whereabouts
Thinking thus.
Ding Ling glanced at Li Canghai and suddenly said:
"Senior, are you Li Canghai?"
This question was asked so unexpectedly.
Li Canghai, already somewhat unsettled by Ding Ling’s overt actions, was taken aback by such a direct question, showing clear astonishment on her face!
But she was remarkable and quickly regained her composure, clasped her hands together, and said:
"Amitabha Buddha. The old monk cannot understand what Your Majesty is saying. I originally have no name. It is not Li Canghai."
"Senior, does your master Master Xiaoyao not know where you are nowadays?"
"Your Majesty, I do not understand what you are saying."
After recovering her calmness, Li Canghai’s face resumed its serene and tranquil state:
"Your Majesty, our sparring is now over. Let us part ways here."
After saying this.
She turned and walked away.
"Senior, are you aware that Wuya Zi is already dead?"
Upon hearing Ding Ling’s words.
Li Canghai’s body visibly trembled for a moment but soon returned to normal. She merely sighed deeply, seemingly aware that she had revealed herself several times and feared it was impossible to deceive Ding Ling any longer. She turned back to look at Ding Ling:
"Your Majesty, how did you come to know of my true identity?"
Under the clear glow of the crescent moon, Li Canghai’s face remained full of wrinkles, but her originally murky eyes now shone brightly, resembling the bright moon in the sky, dazzlingly beautiful.
She was still dressed in a blue robe, but somehow her physique seemed to have completely transformed, becoming graceful and charming!
"...!"
Ding Ling was momentarily lost, then woke up and said:
"I am an alien. What’s strange about knowing?"
The contrast between the Sweeping Monk’s previous and current aura, gaze, and figure was too great.
It was a 180-degree unbelievable transformation.
Even Ding Ling, who had seen countless beauties, was momentarily dumbfounded by her sudden change.
"This isn’t right."
Li Canghai shook her head and said:
"There are too many aliens coming to Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts. Many often come to the Scripture Pavilion on the pretext of finding me, but no one calls me Li Canghai. I’ve never heard anyone discuss this name. Why is it only you who knows?"
"I am special."
"..."
Li Canghai was taken aback, pondering, and indeed it made sense.
Ding Ling was truly extraordinary.
Whether in martial arts cultivation, talent, disposition, status, or power, he was unmatched by other aliens.
The combined strength of all the aliens in this world was likely not enough to rival Ding Ling alone!
Not only was he special, but legendary!
Thinking thus.
Li Canghai reconciled, saying:
"It seems Your Majesty’s source of information is beyond my imagination. I am impressed."
She no longer referred to herself as the old monk.
Ding Ling seized the chance to ask:
"Do you know where your esteemed master is?"
"I do not know either."
Li Canghai shook her head with a look of melancholy:
"Master is cultivating the ’Eternal Youth Technique.’ This martial art is supreme and extremely difficult to learn. Neither my senior sister, senior brother, nor I could master it.
Master divided this martial art into three parts, namely Small Faceless Skill, North Nether Divine Skill, Eight Desolates and Six Harmonies, Only I Am Supreme.
All three martial arts can be considered parts of the ’Eternal Youth Technique’; in some sense, they all can be called the ’Eternal Youth Technique.’ Upon great success, they all grant eternal youth. The Eight Desolates and Six Harmonies, Only I Am Supreme grants perpetual youth more evidently, but it is also the most challenging to train..."
Li Canghai did not conceal anything from Ding Ling and slowly recounted some tales about Master Xiaoyao.
Master Xiaoyao sought across the Jiuzhou World, finding several extremely talented disciples for Wuya Zi, but none could inherit the strongest ultimate skill, the ’Eternal Youth Technique.’
She had to select some essence from this supreme skill and turn it into a single martial art, doing so thrice, resulting in three divine skills like the North Nether Divine Skill.
Upon hearing this, Ding Ling couldn’t help but be moved.
He thought to himself:
"Now that all three divine skills have reached great perfection in me, doesn’t that mean that with the right opportunity, I could smoothly cultivate the ’Eternal Youth Technique’?"
But where is that opportunity?
Ding Ling continued listening to Li Canghai.
Li Canghai, Wu Xingyun, and Li Qiushui were three women who spent most of their time together with Wuya Zi.
The four had different personalities.
But the attraction between men and women.
Over time, it naturally led to some love and enmity.
Li Canghai’s temperament was as calm as water, not fond of competing, and chose to withdraw voluntarily.
But no matter where she retreated.
Wuya Zi could always find her.
Li Canghai didn’t want her older sister Li Qiushui to know and subsequently ruin their relationship, so she used disguise skill, makeup skill, and bone shrinking skill to hide in the Shaolin Scripture Pavilion.
There she remained.
For forty-two years.
At first, she ventured outside a few times, knowing that Wuya Zi and the others had a daughter and were living well, she gave up the notion of going out altogether, staying at Shaolin Temple, preparing to spend her days in solitude.
During this period, out of boredom, she learned the Seventy-Two Shaolin Temple Skills and other divine skill secret manuals.
Due to her extraordinary talent, before she knew it, each divine skill was mastered by her, and her cultivation astonishingly reached the middle tier grandmaster level.
Approaching high tier grandmaster level was within her reach.
As for her master Xiaoyao?
After teaching all,
he drifted away.
Saying he went to seek the Immortal Dao.
And from then, never returned!
...
After listening to Li Canghai’s account, Ding Ling mentioned he had learned the three techniques: North Nether Divine Skill, Small Faceless Skill, and Eight Desolates and Six Harmonies, Only I Am Supreme.
Li Canghai was startled and amazed, asking Ding Ling to demonstrate.
Ding Ling performed according to her wish for a while.
Li Canghai, greatly moved, murmured:
"If the master was still here and saw someone could, at a young age, consecutively train these three divine skills to a state of great perfection, he would surely be excited and ecstatic beyond measure."
She gazed deeply at Ding Ling and said:
"Before leaving, the master said that if any of us learned the three divine skills, we should go to Dali Eternal Spring Valley. There, we would naturally find the opportunity for these three techniques to merge."
"Thank you."
Ding Ling did not expect Li Canghai to see through his thoughts so easily, and he promptly expressed his gratitude solemnly.
Li Canghai waved her hand, saying:
"Your Majesty is the esteemed one, this world is all yours. Yet you treat me with such respect, and I merely disclosed some unimportant information."
She sighed deeply:
"Moreover, if the master knew that Your Majesty could cultivate all three divine skills, he would indeed have you visit Dali Eternal Spring Valley immediately. I merely did what little should be done."
Li Canghai was so considerate and magnanimous.
Ding Ling admired it:
"Senior, do you know what you plan to do next?"
"I do not know either."
Li Canghai felt at a loss:
"Now that my identity has been revealed by you, there is really no need for me to stay at Shaolin Temple."
