fifth form

Chapter 1882: Life Technique
Zhang Xuezhou has connections with many bigwigs, but his connections are not obvious to the public.

If you are not someone in this circle, outsiders don’t even know who Zhang Xuezhou is close to.

It seems that Zhang Xuezhou has connections with many people in Xijing City, but his interest connection with many people is not obvious. Only Song Fengying and Li Yingbo have an inseparable connection on Alliance Plan No. 9.

Many people didn't even know that he was Song Fengying's son.

For example, Zhao Tianhua obviously had no idea about his relationship with Song Fengying.

Of course, this is also because in Zhao Tianhua's eyes, there was no such person as Zhang Xuezhou, so how could he care who Zhang Xuezhou's parents were? And Song Fengying, a live broadcast host, was not taken seriously by top authorities.

Their identities seemed to maintain close ties with top figures, but no one would agree with this connection when Zhang Xuezhou had not yet joined the committee to form a vested interest relationship.

Under such circumstances, it was not a matter of course that Zuo Quan wanted to win over Zhang Xuezhou, but rather a relatively normal thing to do.

"The mysteries of the magic are truly limitless. Zuo Quan is much more powerful than me who can only curse others with my blood and essence!"

Zhang Xuezhou felt that he was only at the beginning of his study of martial arts, and his application of the technique was not as good as Zuo Quan's.

But he didn't study it for too long.

After closing his eyes, Zhang Xuezhou could only let go of his own situation and then switched worlds to return to Chang'an City.

The first thing Zhang Xuezhou did after returning to Chang'an City was to contact Cai Ma.

In the past, he had never paid any attention to the life-saving techniques that Cai Ma practiced. After all, his physical condition was not suitable for living a long life. The existence of the extraterritorial demons meant that he had to struggle in his limited life. Practicing the life-saving techniques would not bring him any actual benefits.

However, after the Changkonglu drug test incident and the need to trade R33 catalyst with Qimeng Haig, Zhang Xuezhou believed that there was a high necessity for him to practice numerology to judge the efficacy of drugs.

He did not seek to have a very strong divination technique. As long as he could determine the efficacy of the life-extending medicine, the practice of this divination technique should be very shallow.

Moreover, he had heard some surprise in Cai Ma's previous tone and thought that his lack of practice in the art of fate was somewhat strange.

"Shi Niang!"

When Zhang Xuezhou was about to open his eyes, he heard Rong Li chattering with Cai Ma.

Compared to the Yourong family's fear of cultivators, Rong Li is undoubtedly braver.

During the twelve days that Zhang Xuezhou was away, Cai Ma, who lived in Zhang's house, obviously had a basic familiarity with everyone, and everyone also had relatively smooth communication with Cai Ma.

"You are now fifty-four years old. If nothing unexpected happens, you will have no problem living to seventy. But after seventy, your health will deteriorate year by year, and you may die at any time!"

"Living to the age of seventy is a long life. Aunt Rong feels relieved by what Shi Niang said. I will make you a homemade dish tonight. I guarantee that the food you eat will not smell of pork at all!"

"Aunt Rong's cooking skills are really good, much better than Grandpa Jin's barbecue skills!"

"Barbecuing cannot remove the fishy smell. The ingredients needed are very high-quality. Our local fragrant wood seeds are especially suitable for removing the smell of smoked meat. It's a pity that there are no spices for sale in Chang'an City!"

"I know a shop that sells spices. I wonder if that material is used as medicine..."

Cai Ma stopped talking only when he saw Zhang Xuezhou wake up and open his eyes.

Cai Ma's perception ability is indeed a bit poor, and he needs visual observation to know things.

This messy conversation came to an end only when Zhang Xuezhou woke up.

"It depends on fate?" Zhang Xuezhou said.

"What kind of fate is this? Why do I feel like you're less than thirty years old at one moment, nearly sixty at another, and over a thousand years old at another moment?"

Zhang Xuezhou's awakening brought Cai Ma back to her senses quickly. She grabbed Zhang Xuezhou's right hand, and her fingers, like tender onions, kept measuring Zhang Xuezhou's arm.

"Strange, I'm back to 27 years old. How can my fortune keep changing?"

Cai Ma gestured repeatedly and even drew a line on Zhang Xuezhou's palm with his fingernails.

"Your life line is weird, as if there is a dead end. It looks like you will die early and suddenly," Cai Ma said without hesitation.

"Can your fortune-telling be used to predict the fortunes of cultivators at the same level?" Zhang Xuezhou asked with great interest. "Yes, but it's a little inaccurate," Cai Ma nodded.

"That's pretty awesome!"

Zhang Xuezhou praised.

As a person who wanted to learn fortune-telling from Cai Ma, Zhang Xuezhou didn't care about Cai Ma's words that sounded like a curse.

When it comes to his own profession, Cai Ma's professional words sound almost inhumane, but this is just a feeling caused by different concepts. For example, Rong Li was quite happy to hear that she could live to seventy years old.

"What's wrong with your body? Why have you been lying down for twelve days?" Cai Ma asked puzzled.

"This is my practice," Zhang Xuezhou said casually, "I need to enter this state to practice the art of fasting. By the way, can you give me a basic introduction to your life-saving technique? I also want to learn a little bit!"

"You finally woke up," Cai Ma said happily, "If you don't have enough talent, you need to live longer to make up for it. Others spend ten years in cultivation to break through the realm, but we can spend fifteen years to catch up. There is no need to be so urgent!"

"Makes sense!"

Zhang Xuezhou nodded.

After a random chat between him and Cai Ma, Zhang Xuezhou quickly got to the point and indicated that he wanted to learn fortune-telling from Cai Ma.

This made Cai Ma very happy, and he felt that it was not too late for Zhang Xuezhou to wake up.

If acquired cultivators like them don't live a few more years, any high realm they reach will be meaningless and it will be difficult for them to have the chance to reach it.

Throughout history, there have been few great monks who have become top monks in the Three Realms after practicing for decades. If we have to cite some exceptions, there are indeed a few or even dozens of them over hundreds or thousands of years, but no one dares to bet that he can become one of those few.

Not to mention becoming a great monk who has left his name throughout the ages, even becoming famous in the county is a difficult task, and becoming a leader among the monks of the same generation in the county, vassal state, dynasty, and three realms is even more difficult.

The pinnacle of most cultivators' lives is the Body Transformation Realm. Only a very few can enter the Divine Power Realm. An extremely rare few can become Self-Only Realm cultivators, and only a handful can reach the True Self Realm.

The reason why the monks stood at the top of the three realms thousands of years ago was not because their talents were so hopeless that later generations could not catch up. The real reason was that these people had long lifespans, enough time to tolerate mistakes and practice, and enough time to collect the necessary resources for practice.

If the monks of the Han Dynasty were given a hundred or even thousands of years to practice, Cai Ma felt that the major holy places would have to replace their people.

The continuous development of later generations has indeed surpassed that of the ancients, but the biggest shortcoming of later generations is lack of time.

Cai Ma felt that Zhang Xuezhou woke up very quickly. After practicing the Bigu Jue for twelve days, he understood the key to practice.

There is a reason why the art of fate is ranked as the most important art in the three realms of cultivation. This is not because of the power of the art of fate, but because the art of fate can bring people a sufficiently long life.

"I said that we should live long, otherwise I will see you as a dying old man in thirty or forty years," Cai Ma said happily.

"You've been practicing for so many years, and you can still live so long?" Zhang Xuezhou asked in surprise.

Cai Ma has a beauty secret and looks like a girl of eighteen or nineteen, but Zhang Xuezhou knows that she has actually been practicing for decades.

From what Cai Ma said, it seems that the other party will be no different from now on in thirty or forty years.

However, Cai Ma's tone did not seem to care as much about thirty or forty years as ordinary people did. Even if he was close to seventy or eighty years old or even a hundred years old in thirty years, Cai Ma could still live longer.

Zhang Xuezhou was amazed at the long life span brought by the art of fortune-telling.

He didn't expect that even out of the spiritual environment of the holy land, Cai Ma could still live a long life.

And this long life span can even maintain a youthful physical condition.

He made a rough comparison of Cai Ma's appearance and age in his mind, and felt that the other party might very likely live two or three hundred years.

"Can you really live another two hundred years or so?" Zhang Xuezhou asked doubtfully.

"How do you know I can live for another two hundred years? Do you also have the talent to practice life magic?"

Cai Ma responded, which made Zhang Xuezhou shudder.

He didn't expect that in the real world, many elderly people were struggling to live longer, while Cai Ma and others directly gained longevity by practicing the art of life.