fifth form

Chapter 1884 Comparison
The first thing Zhang Xuezhou did after he woke up was to discuss Taoism with Cai Ma. The two of them talked for most of the day before stopping.

Zhang Xuezhou was very satisfied, while Cai Ma's throat was a little hoarse but full of satisfaction.

There are very few newcomers in the Kunlun Holy Land. Cai Ma was previously the youngest cultivator in the Holy Land. But after Zhang Xuezhou entered the Holy Land, she became the second youngest. She was finally able to switch from listening to others’ teachings and scolding to passing them on.

Whenever Zhang Xuezhou practiced slowly, she would scold him a few times so that she could feel the comfort of being superior.

Thinking of his own little thoughts, Cai Ma couldn't help but chuckle secretly.

"What's so funny? After you stop fasting, you won't eat less than me!"

After sitting and discussing, Zhang Xuezhou released the Dust-Bidding Technique to remove the dust and dandruff on his body. After he felt refreshed, he drank water and ate.

After lifting the fasting rule, he ate many times more food than an average person would eat in one sitting.

Looking at Cai Ma who was laughing secretly at the side, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but mutter.

"I won't practice this kind of technique that can make up for the deficiency by eating!"

Cai Ma replied angrily, it was obvious that she really didn't like the Bigu Jue.

Practicing life arts made her weak and look useless, and it only had a deterrent effect against some older practitioners. If she spent time and effort practicing arts that could solve the problem by eating a few bites of food, Cai Ma felt that it would be completely useless.

She felt that Zhang Xuezhou's practice was a misguided path. If Zhang Xuezhou had not been taught by the Emperor and Empress, Cai Ma felt that Zhang Xuezhou's practice had gone completely astray.

It is impossible for a normal practitioner to spend so much time on the Bigu Technique. Even if one practices this technique to the highest level, one will not need to eat for a lifetime, and then one will die and be buried in the ground at the end of his life.

But the Emperor and Empress have their reasons for teaching.

"Come to think of it, I haven't asked you about your level of practice in these evasion techniques yet." Cai Ma thought for a moment and asked, "The Queen specifically told me that I need to know how many orifices you have mastered at the moment!"

“The level is roughly the same,” Zhang Xuezhou replied.

“That’s almost what you should do!”

"My Bigu Technique has 54,38 acupoints, followed by the Poison Avoidance Technique which has 48,672 acupoints, and then the Water Avoidance Technique which has 48,233 acupoints. There are also six other avoidance techniques with similar acupoints, with a difference of only ten to twenty acupoints!"

"This... is this what you are talking about?"

Having joined Zhang Xuezhou decades earlier, Cai Ma still has a sense of superiority.

She felt that she was the eldest sister of the younger generation, even though they were the only two newcomers in Kunlun Holy Land.

But when the number of acupoints reported by Zhang Xuezhou came out, it was a bit too much for her since she had not yet reached the limit of 32,000 acupoints in her practice of the Changsheng Jue.

Cai Ma felt that the avoidance technique that Zhang Xuezhou was practicing was a bit beyond the scope of the program and this was not a normal progress.

In Cai Ma's opinion, she felt that it would be normal for Zhang Xuezhou to master thousands or tens of thousands of acupoints, and the existence of multiple avoidance techniques would make the practice extremely complicated, and it would be difficult to unify the same progress. Only the low-end level could have the same level, and it was almost impossible to push the nine avoidance techniques to the middle and high end.

"So your cultivation has already entered the body transformation stage?"

She reacted belatedly and only then guessed Zhang Xuezhou's level of cultivation.

The art of practicing avoidance is not only related to the acupoints, but also requires a sufficient level of cultivation to be able to open up the acupoints.

This is not just about practicing avoidance techniques, but also requires a sufficient level of practice.

"The level of transformation is as high as the sea, this level is nothing!"

Zhang Xuezhou replied while eating.

If this sentence was said twelve days ago, Cai Ma would have criticized Zhang Xuezhou for being too ambitious and mentioned that the cultivators in the Body Transformation Realm should not be underestimated.

But Zhang Xuezhou himself was at the Transformation Stage, which left Cai Ma speechless. She thought for a few seconds, and then thought about her own life skills that were not very impressive. She felt that she was once again trampled on by the lowest level of Kunlun Holy Land. Even Zhang Xuezhou, the last son of the Holy Land to enter Kunlun, was better than her.

This made Cai Ma extremely depressed. After getting the information, he became like an eggplant hit by frost. He wilted and became speechless.

She counted on her fingers, thinking about the 34,522 longevity orifices she had opened up in her 36 years of cultivation. She also gritted her teeth as she thought about the 54,338 orifices Zhang Xuezhou had opened up in his five years of practice, and then the other eight avoidance techniques, totaling about 390,000 orifices.

The more Cai Ma calculated, the more uncomfortable he felt.

She couldn't figure out how to practice this. Even if Cai Ma was given hundreds or thousands of years of life, Cai Ma felt that it would take her at least four hundred years to reach Zhang Xuezhou's level.

Not to mention practicing, it would take her a long time to remember these acupoints clearly and not get confused.

This comparison of five years being equal to four hundred years of practice deeply hurt Cai Ma's heart. For the first time, she even doubted whether she would really have an advantage after practicing life arts to a sufficient level.

If Zhang Xuezhou can practice at this speed for ten years, does that mean she will need seven or eight hundred years to catch up?

"Everyone in the Holy Land praises me as a genius, but I am not a genius at all!"

For a moment, Cai Ma felt that practicing Buddhism had lost its meaning.

The long life span will give her enough tolerance, but the aptitude for cultivation will create a huge gap.

Cai Ma thought about how she would come out of seclusion after practicing for hundreds of years, and then face an era in which she would be completely out of date. In that era, perhaps more geniuses who were more outstanding than Zhang Xuezhou would emerge.

The strength she has gained through hundreds of years of practice may be something that some future geniuses can achieve in just a few years.

Cai Ma shuddered at the thought of so many young geniuses treating her like an old witch and beating her up at will.

"How long will it take you to practice the Art of Immortality?"

Cai Ma thought for a long time before he whispered to Zhang Xuezhou a question that would provide the most intuitive comparison.

"It depends on how long it takes me to prepare all the medicines," Zhang Xuezhou said. "It's not difficult to practice the Changsheng Jue, but it's difficult to prepare the medicines. I don't think it will be easy to get all these herbs!"

"Isn't it difficult?" Cai Ma asked blankly, "If I give you enough medicine for cultivation, how long will it take you to cultivate?"

"It will take at least ten days or half a month to fully push it to 36,000 acupoints," Zhang Xuezhou replied.

"Ten days and a half a month..."

Cai Ma thought about Zhang Xuezhou's time and his own hard training in the Kunlun Holy Land.

She couldn't believe Zhang Xuezhou's speed of practice, and it was hard for her to imagine how he could practice.

"What if the Holy Son is just bragging? If I believe his words, wouldn't that ruin my faith?"

Cai Ma thought about it over and over again, and found it hard to accept what Zhang Xuezhou said.

She felt that she could not believe Zhang Xuezhou's casual reply, but if it was true, she needed to observe how Zhang Xuezhou practiced, and perhaps she could learn the corresponding learning methods to make herself less clumsy.

In the past, the emperor and the empress told Cai Ma to pay attention to Zhang Xuezhou's practice progress, but now, Cai Ma feels that this is not only due to the emperor and the empress's instructions, but she also needs to keep an eye on Zhang Xuezhou's practice for her own sake.

Cai Ma felt that his originally bright sky had become dark.

When she walked out of the kitchen to relax with a confused mind, she saw an old Taoist with a white beard striding in.

"Dongfang Shuo, Master Li... why is there such a young female cultivator here? A cultivator of life? It's bad luck!"

The old Taoist priest with a white beard walked in, looked at Cai Ma several times, sniffed him, and inevitably took a step back, as if he was afraid of Cai Ma like a snake or a scorpion.

(End of this chapter)