Chapter 564: Chapter 555: Stone Monument Image
Beside the deep pool stood a stone monument.
A large section of the stone monument was missing.
This missing piece was square-shaped, almost like a missing volume from a secret manual.
"This stone monument should contain what Master referred to as the ’Eternal Youth Technique’."
Li Canghai glanced at it thoughtfully and said to Ding Ling:
"Try channeling your three strands of Great Perfection Qi into this stone monument."
Ding Ling followed suit.
Clang! Clang!
As the three strands of Great Perfection Qi were continuously infused, the stone monument began to tremble with a clang, and faintly emitted beams of five-colored light. Within the light, a shadowy figure could be seen ’extracting’ a stone-bound secret manual from the monument.
The figure’s face was indistinct, yet his posture was graceful and elegant. At merely a glance, Li Canghai exclaimed, "Master!"
Could it possibly be Master Xiaoyao?
Ding Ling was moved.
How long ago was this?!
That the stone monument could automatically display itself upon receiving three strands of Qi!
How is this any different from a magical treasure in a Xianxia myth that has ’automatic memory playback’ capabilities?
Ding Ling fixed his gaze intently upon the image in the void.
The figure, upon extracting the stone-bound secret manual, began to peruse it.
The manual was three inches thick.
Every page was fashioned from thin stone slices.
Fragile as it seemed.
Yet apparently extremely durable and light, as the figure casually flipped through the pages.
He read very attentively and slowly.
As a result.
Ding Ling could clearly see the writing upon the stone-bound secret manual; it was indeed the Eternal Youth Technique.
This secret manual manifested in such a form.
Ding Ling instantly realized that the opportunity lay here!
He did not dare to relax or lose focus, and watched the image without blinking.
Li Canghai was also watching, her serene and calm face now brimming with excitement and joy. She reached out several times to touch the figure’s clothing in the void, but it was as futile as trying to catch the moon in water or fishing for wood, only adding joy tinged with poignant regret and melancholy.
She seemed to have an impeccable memory as well.
With Master Xiaoyao continuously flipping through the stone-bound secret manual, she also memorized the Eternal Youth Technique.
After finishing the manual.
She truly comprehended why Master Xiaoyao did not give them this manual for cultivation—entry-level required Grandmaster Cultivation, along with extraordinary comprehension, imagination, intuition, etc.
Any minor deficiency in understanding could hinder learning this Divine Skill.
Her expression stirred with emotion.
After Ding Ling finished reading the content of the secret manual.
In a mere instant.
[Eternal Youth Technique Full Level]
Upon reaching full level in this cultivation technique.
The Small Faceless Skill, North Nether True Qi, and the True Qi and Vigorous Qi of Eight Desolates and Six Harmonies, Only I Am Supreme all merged in Ding Ling’s Dantian.
Causing North Nether True Water to transform visibly into ’Longevity True Water’.
This True Water possessed all the advantages of these three Divine Skills.
Capable of Absorption, Transformation, Storage, imitating martial arts worldwide, and granting eternal youth!
The original Pure Yang Venerable Qi.
Also transformed at this moment into Longevity Venerable True Qi.
This Qi contained an essence of longevity.
Cycling repeatedly in Ding Ling’s organs and Dantian, making him feel at that instant, his lifespan increased by at least two hundred years!
Showing the power of this Longevity Venerable Qi.
Just this single strand being so formidable, how much more could he live with several strands, a millennia, ten thousand years?
"Truly worthy of the Eternal Youth Technique."
Ding Ling silently praised, yet became more certain of one thing—that Master Xiaoyao probably hasn’t passed away!
In the void image, he saw Master Xiaoyao bent over to fetch ’a scoop of water’ from the adjacent deep pool to drink.
After drinking.
Suddenly, Master Xiaoyao’s visage cleared up instantly.
Appearing with snow-white hair and youthful face, his appearance was handsome, clearly an elderly man, but after consuming this water, his white hair instantly turned black.
His skin became noticeably rosy and fair.
The decayed aura surrounding him vanished quickly, replaced by vitality and exuberance.
"This, this is?!"
Li Canghai was shocked.
Involuntarily, she looked towards the side of the deep pool, only to see its spring water bubbling up, seeming to be a pond of lively spring water.
"The Fountain of Youth?!"
Ding Ling was moved, and couldn’t help but exclaim.
"Who would have thought such a Divine Object exists in this world."
Li Canghai, however, did not rush to drink from the Fountain of Youth, instead continued watching the images in the void.
Master Xiaoyao, after drinking from the Fountain of Youth, also seemed rather shaken. After adjusting, he extracted a piece of bark from a tree by the deep pool, tried eating a bite, and upon doing so, not only did his aura become more mystical, but the vitality of his presence intensified!
He was delighted, took a second bite but found it had no effect, so he ceased eating, instead excavated another piece of bark, and floated away.
Clang! Clang!
The stone monument trembled.
The image began to slowly dim, and seeing this, Ding Ling pondered, then infused more True Qi of the Eternal Youth Technique into the stone monument.
Boom!
Receiving True Qi with quality, power, and level far surpassing the three strands of Qi, the stone monument trembled more violently, with reverberating sounds.
Beams of five-colored light shot out from all directions in the void.
Each beam contained an image.
Some were images of Master Xiaoyao.
Others were of different individuals.
Ding Ling unexpectedly saw an image where Master Xiaoyao returned.
This time, two others accompanied him.
One was tall, mighty, and overbearing, but a nine-foot tall fierce man, his eyes opening and closing with piercing brilliance, very formidable;
The other possessed regal demeanor, bearing three similarities to Duan Yu, but exuded a more commanding presence, standing there with a face expressionless yet innately dignified;
These two followed Master Xiaoyao into the valley, where they excavated the stone monument, discovering a Celestial Ladder leading to an unknown destination.
This Celestial Ladder seemed buried beneath the stone monument.
As the stone monument was extracted, the Celestial Ladder activated, piercing through the sky, and after exchanging a glance, the three of them proceeded up the Celestial Ladder, never to return.
"Who are those three?"
Ding Ling watched in secret amazement.
For he was quite familiar with this Celestial Ladder.
Every time he shattered the void, he beheld such similar ladders, and did not expect that a Valley of Eternal Spring contained one!
But where exactly did this Celestial Ladder lead?
Ding Ling continued watching other images.
Sure enough.
They belonged to those two individuals.
The two also came here sequentially after Master Xiaoyao, but without his fortuitous encounter. Despite drinking the water and eating bark, while vitality lengthened considerably, it seemed difficult to attain longevity effects.
The two left a line of words upon the Immortal Tree.
Ding Ling carefully examined the writing.
