Chapter 00227: The Longevity Sutra (Silver Alliance Shangguan Yulin Bonus Chapter 4)
# The Longevity Sutra (Silver Alliance Shangguan Yulin Bonus Chapter 4)
Chapter 227
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 227: The Longevity Sutra (Silver Alliance Shangguan Yulin Bonus Chapter 4)
It didn’t matter.
Lan Xiaobu was now at the sixth stage of the Soul Tempering Technique.
As long as the soul attacks weren’t overwhelmingly powerful, he could endure them.
If he couldn’t hold on, he could simply withdraw his divine sense.
In just one hour, Lan Xiaobu’s divine sense expanded from a range of one hundred meters to five hundred meters.
As his soul grew more solid, his divine sense continued to increase.
When his divine sense reached a thousand meters, he discovered two Nine-Leaf Transcendence Flowers.
The Nine-Leaf Transcendence Flower had nine leaves, with purple petals and green leaves, making it incredibly beautiful.
These flowers seemed to float in the void, without roots or stems, just nine leaves supporting a single flower.
The flower drifted through the white mist at a leisurely pace, but when Lan Xiaobu’s divine sense touched it, the flower’s speed increased.
Lan Xiaobu quickly moved forward, took out a jade box, and stored one of the Nine-Leaf Transcendence Flowers.
By the time he went to collect the second flower, it had already disappeared.
Lan Xiaobu didn’t mind.
This place was an absolute treasure trove for him.
While he tempered his soul and sea of consciousness, he also searched for more Nine-Leaf Transcendence Flowers.
Additionally, he continued to refine his new cultivation technique.
The area was shrouded in gray mist, but the immortal spiritual energy was incredibly dense.
It was no wonder that such a treasure as the Nine-Leaf Transcendence Flower could appear here.
The new technique had to be adaptable to any environment.
Lan Xiaobu knew this wasn’t easy, but he was determined to make it work.
He firmly believed that relying solely on the Cosmic Dimension Matrix wouldn’t elevate him to the pinnacle of the universe.
If that were the case, the first person to obtain the Cosmic Dimension Matrix would have already achieved that.
Thus, Lan Xiaobu decided to treat the Cosmic Dimension Matrix as a supplementary tool.
His main cultivation technique would determine how far he could grow, and he couldn’t rely entirely on the Cosmic Dimension Matrix.
He continued to refine his new technique, cycling it through his meridians over and over.
When he failed, he consumed Five Spirit Liquid and tried again.
This was something only he could do.
As a body cultivator at the third stage of the Immortal Body Realm, he had already tempered his meridians.
Each time the new technique tore his meridians, they would heal stronger thanks to the Five Spirit Liquid and the Undying Technique.
At first, the new technique, derived from the Great Desolation Art, could only complete one cycle before issues arose.
Either the immortal spiritual energy would go astray, or his meridians would tear.
Then he managed two cycles, then three…
As Lan Xiaobu delved deeper into refining his new technique, he even forgot about searching for the Nine-Leaf Transcendence Flowers.
Several times, he passed by them without collecting them.
When the new technique could complete nine cycles, Lan Xiaobu stopped.
Floating before him was another Nine-Leaf Transcendence Flower.
He took out a jade box and stored the flower.
Suddenly, a thought struck him: why did the Nine-Leaf Transcendence Flower slip away when he tried to lock onto it with his divine sense, yet appeared before him when he wasn’t actively searching for it?
Some things, when pursued too eagerly, remain out of reach.
The Nine-Leaf Transcendence Flower was like that.
Wasn’t his new technique the same? He had once understood the principle of following the natural Dao, so why had he become so fixated on forcing progress?
With this realization, Lan Xiaobu stopped worrying about his surroundings.
He tried to let his technique absorb the immortal spiritual energy naturally, integrating with the environment without worrying about whether his meridians would tear again.
Previously, Lan Xiaobu had based his new technique on the Great Desolation Art’s core principles: “The universe is formless, a grain of millet contains a thousand worlds; the Great Dao has no inside or outside, a single thought can create the heavens…”
Now, he decided to abandon these principles.
Since this was a technique tailored to him, why should it conform to the formlessness of the universe? He didn’t even need to reference the Great Desolation Art.
Every person is a treasure trove.
He didn’t need to create a technique suitable for everyone; he only needed one that worked for him.
As soon as Lan Xiaobu had this thought, the Cosmic Dimension Matrix began to rotate, releasing pure, primordial chaos energy.
Lan Xiaobu was startled but quickly understood.
The Cosmic Dimension Matrix was helping him perfect his technique.
The Matrix was a cosmic companion, existing even before the heavens and earth.
It contained the most profound chaos energy, which Lan Xiaobu, with his current cultivation level, couldn’t access.
This pure primordial chaos energy was far superior to the tainted chaos energy that had seeped from the Great Desolation Universe’s cracks.
With just a few wisps of this energy, Lan Xiaobu felt his cultivation level surging.
Previously, his progress had been stalled, but now, with this pure chaos energy, his mind became clearer than ever.
Things that had been muddled before now made perfect sense.
His technique ignored environmental factors but couldn’t ignore the laws of heaven and earth.
What if, during the cycling of his technique, he aligned with the natural laws instead of trying to alter them?
Lan Xiaobu had an epiphany.
The cycling of his new technique flowed naturally, integrating seamlessly with the surrounding environment.
He no longer needed to worry about external factors or his own limitations.
The second cycle, the third cycle… The dense immortal spiritual energy enveloped Lan Xiaobu, rapidly absorbed and converted into cultivation power.
Earth Immortal third layer, Earth Immortal fourth layer…
In a short time, Lan Xiaobu broke through to the Earth Immortal seventh layer.
Walking through the mist, feeling the continuous operation of his new technique, Lan Xiaobu clenched his fists in excitement.
Even if he couldn’t find a time array, he could now cultivate while studying array formations.
This technique, which harmonized with the natural world, was exactly what he needed.
His new technique had started from the Great Desolation Art but was now entirely different.
It couldn’t be called the Great Desolation Art anymore.
But what should he name it?
The Formless Technique? No, that was too generic.
The New Great Desolation Art? Too plain.
Lan Xiaobu sighed.
He had finally created his own technique, but now he was stuck on naming it.
The new technique should reflect his purpose in life, not just be a random name.
He had worked so hard to improve his strength and even founded the Great Desolation Immortal Sect.
What was it all for?
Lan Xiaobu stood deep in the misty Divine Essence Valley, lost in thought.
Initially, he had fought to prevent Earth from being enslaved.
After achieving that, he fought for himself—to live longer and more comfortably.
But whether in the technological universe, Yuan Continent, or the Nine Heavens, the strong and powerful often disregarded the lives of others.
Even sages were no exception.
The Five Realms Immortal World had been reunited, but how many innocent lives had been lost in the process? The Pengyue Immortal Artifact Sect alone had lost nine out of ten members.
How many more sects like that existed across the five universes? This was the cruelty of heaven and earth.
“Heaven and earth are not benevolent; they treat all things as straw dogs. Sages are not benevolent; they treat the people as straw dogs.”
Lan Xiaobu simply wanted to live happily, without seeing the place he called home filled with indifference and disregard for others’ lives.
Of course, living longer would be even better.
Now, his new technique wouldn’t be affected by changes in the environment or interference from the laws of heaven and earth.
“The reason heaven and earth can endure is because they do not exist for themselves, thus they can last forever.”
His new technique wouldn’t fail due to external changes because it existed as long as he did.
As long as Lan Xiaobu lived, this technique would function.
In other words, no one else could cultivate this technique.
If Lan Xiaobu were to perish, the technique would vanish with him.
Thus, the new technique could be called the Longevity Sutra.
Lan Xiaobu exhaled deeply.
He knew that countless cultivation techniques in the immortal world were named “Longevity Sutra.” Almost every sect had one.
It was perhaps the most overused name in both the cultivation and immortal realms.
But his Longevity Sutra was different.
Other Longevity Sutras promised immortality and extended lifespans to those who cultivated them.
His Longevity Sutra meant that as long as he, Lan Xiaobu, existed, the technique would endure.
After switching to the Longevity Sutra, Lan Xiaobu felt a surge of joy.
However, just as he had finalized the Longevity Sutra, a series of thunderous roars echoed from the gray skies above the Divine Essence Valley.
Bolts of lightning rained down, striking Lan Xiaobu repeatedly.
Lan Xiaobu was shocked.
He was only at the Earth Immortal seventh layer.
What kind of tribulation was this? To advance to the True Immortal Realm, he would need to reach the Earth Immortal ninth layer first.
The lightning carried with it the aura of the Great Dao, tearing through Lan Xiaobu’s flesh and shattering his bones.
Even his third-stage Immortal Body couldn’t withstand the lightning infused with the Great Dao’s essence.
Lan Xiaobu quickly realized that this wasn’t his personal tribulation but a tribulation caused by the birth of the Longevity Sutra.
To be honest, he had never heard of a cultivation technique triggering a tribulation upon its creation.
When the Tai Chuan Technique had first appeared, there had been no tribulation.
Fortunately, this was only a minor nine-lightning tribulation.
After being battered and bruised, the dense Great Dao aura mixed with the immortal spiritual energy of the Divine Essence Valley propelled Lan Xiaobu from the Earth Immortal seventh layer to the Earth Immortal ninth layer.
Just as he finished enduring the Longevity Sutra’s tribulation, the True Immortal Tribulation began.
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