Chapter 177: Don't Try to Persuade Me
Chapter 177 Don't Advise Me
"This is a forbidden book of our sect. Our founder divided it into three parts to prevent disciples from stealing the martial arts from the Longevity Scripture. By incorporating the Longevity Scripture's techniques into the Silver Dragon Jade Belt for Sinan, you will only harm him!" Meng Huizhou pleaded earnestly.
The junior brother, however, said earnestly, "Senior brother, the patriarch has already divided the Longevity Scripture into three parts. This is a fragment of the Longevity Scripture. Even if you practice all of them, you won't truly learn all the techniques of the Longevity Scripture. Isn't this the best way to make the most of the fragment of the Longevity Scripture?"
Meng Huizhou looked at the person in front of him in surprise; he was clearly somewhat possessed.
Being overly attached to anything is a form of obsession.
Once you've tasted the benefits of this one-third fragment of the "Longevity Classic," you'll be hopelessly addicted.
Meng Huizhou soberly realized that this one-third of the "Longevity Classic" was only the beginning, far from the end...
Meng Huizhou said in a deep voice: "If cultivating the fragment of the Longevity Scripture is the best way to make the most of it, then why did the Patriarch designate this one-third fragment as a forbidden book for the sect?"
The junior apprentice was clearly stunned.
This shows that he clearly knew the truth, and it wasn't a momentary impulse or a moment of confusion that prevented him from thinking things through.
It was done after weighing the pros and cons...
It is the result of careful consideration.
This thought filled Meng Huizhou with guilt.
Over the past few years, whenever he inquired about this matter, his junior brother would give evasive answers, and he would become more assertive, perhaps because he had already seen through the clues.
Or perhaps, he should have agreed to pass the leadership of the sect to his master instead of his junior brother.
Where desire is not found, thorns will not grow.
If I had possessed that one-third fragment of the "Longevity Classic" back then, perhaps things wouldn't be like this today.
“Senior brother, the incomplete scroll is dead, and so are the sect's rules, but people are alive.” The junior brother said sincerely, “Senior brother, have you ever thought that with our talents, we are already among the best in the martial arts world today, but even if we spend our entire lives cultivating, we can only cultivate one of them: the Silver Dragon Jade Belt or the Ninefold True Qi? Over the years, I have gradually come to understand the mysteries of the Longevity Scripture. The Longevity Scripture not only cleanses the marrow, but also continuously…”
The junior brother paused, seemingly unwilling to explain further, and went straight to the point: "Senior brother, wouldn't it be good if this incomplete scroll of the 'Longevity Scripture' could allow both of us to cultivate the Silver Dragon Jade Belt and the Ninefold True Qi at the same time?"
The junior brother's eyes were filled with desire.
Meng Huizhou looked at him with heartache and said in a deep voice, "Junior brother, you have already gone mad! This is only a fragment of the 'Longevity Scripture,' how could you know..."
Before he could finish speaking, the other person interrupted him directly: "Then go find other fragments!"
He was stunned.
Go find other fragments...
He suddenly realized that the fact that he could say this meant that the thought had been generated in his mind a thousand times before he could finally utter it.
Meng Huizhou was overwhelmed with a mixture of surprise, disappointment, sadness, and annoyance!
The other person continued: "Senior brother, you haven't seen how exquisite this 'Longevity Scripture' is. The founder must be a martial arts genius who appears only once in a hundred years, or even two years ago! I don't know how to describe it to you. When you open it, you can't help but keep reading. Even if you only have this third of the incomplete scroll, you will repeatedly explore it. It is extremely exquisite!"
Meng Huizhou took a deep breath: "Give me the 'Longevity Classic'."
The other person was initially delighted: "Senior brother, you've figured it out?"
Meng Huizhou did not respond.
The other party became visibly wary again: "What do you want?"
Meng Huizhou said resolutely, "I will destroy this tattered scroll."
The other party was clearly furious: "This is a treasure of our sect! If you destroy it, how will you face our ancestors in the future?"
Meng Huizhou said in a deep voice: "You should be thinking about how you will face the patriarch in the future, since you have been secretly practicing forbidden books!"
The two were clearly at odds, but were locked in a stalemate.
We've been fellow disciples for years, growing up together since childhood; we shouldn't have to come to the point of fighting each other.
Moreover, my junior brother still retains some rationality...
Finally, the junior brother closed his eyes and said in a deep voice, "Alright, I will give you the fragment of the Longevity Scripture."
That night, together we burned the third of the 'Longevity Scripture' fragment. The flames gradually devoured the ancient book, leaving only ashes in the charcoal stove. I thought, this matter is finally over, and my junior brother's inner demons should also be over... But I should have known better. He treasured this 'Longevity Scripture' fragment so much, how could he easily burn it in front of me?"
At this point, Meng Huizhou couldn't help but shake his head: "He had already made a copy."
"He had long anticipated that the truth would come out, and he had also anticipated that I would make him burn that tattered scroll, so he had already made a backup. That tattered scroll was burned for me to see..."
Hearing this, Bai Cen and Wang Sumo couldn't help but sigh.
If Master Bai Cen were still alive, his martial arts skills would probably be no less than those of the top ten martial arts masters.
But some things are far more attractive to those who have reached the pinnacle of their skills than to ordinary martial arts heroes.
Once you've experienced it, you can't stop.
"Then, what happened next?" Bai Cen swallowed softly.
His master had passed away many years ago, but he was too young then to know what had happened. He still wanted to know what had happened afterward. Was his master's death also related to the fragments of the "Longevity Sutra"...?
Meng Huizhou looked at him and said, "For a period of time after that, your master did seem to have returned to the right track. He was no longer obsessed with the techniques in the incomplete scrolls, but instead returned to the way he used to be, teaching you and Sinan the Silver Dragon Jade Belt. Since he returned to the way he used to be, your shaky Silver Dragon Jade Belt was like a thorn in your senior brother's eye, and also in your master's eye."
“It is clear that your senior brother’s talent far surpasses yours, but the moves you can use with ease are something he can never break through. And his attempt to incorporate the Longevity Scripture into his techniques was also stopped by your master.”
“Besides the Silver Dragon Jade Belt, when I was teaching you the Ninefold True Qi, you were able to reach the second level, although you struggled and made only a tiny progress each day. But your senior brother has been stuck at the first level. Once he enters the second level of the Ninefold True Qi and begins to condense his Qi, his true qi will dissipate.”
“At first, your senior brother would go to your master and me to ask what had happened and why he was not allowed to continue practicing the previous techniques. Your master also told him that those were forbidden books of the sect and should not have been used in the first place. He had broken the sect’s rules. Now that the forbidden books had been burned, the techniques in the forbidden books would no longer be used.”
“Your senior brother became unusually dejected from that time on. He didn’t care much about you to begin with, and he became even more indifferent later. In particular, when he saw your silver dragon jade belt suddenly go from swaying to something else, as if it had been enlightened for a moment, a flash of silver light appeared, a dragon soared into the sky, and the jade belt tore through the surroundings. At that moment, not only your senior brother, but also my master and I were stunned.”
"You may not remember it anymore. Your master made you try again and again, but you never succeeded. Xiaobai, that was the complete form of the Silver Dragon Jade Belt recorded in the sect's techniques. That was also the highest level. Although you were young at the time and the dragon was trembling most of the time, in that instant, you achieved what only the ancestor could do, and for more than a hundred years afterward, no one in the sect could achieve the Silver Dragon Jade Belt."
From that moment on, many things underwent subtle changes.
Meng Huizhou was initially happy for Bai Xiaocen.
But gradually, worry outweighed joy...
After Bai Cen accidentally produced the Silver Dragon Jade Belt, Si Nan began to show great interest in it. As for his junior brother, he had seen him secretly practicing the Silver Dragon Jade Belt on the back mountain several times in the middle of the night, but he could never replicate Bai Cen's performance from a few days ago.
He was a little worried about his junior brother, so he watched from afar. His junior brother practiced on the back mountain all night. Although he did not use the techniques in the incomplete scroll, he became more and more discouraged, gloomy and unwilling to give up as he practiced.
But the tattered scroll had already been burned, and he thought truthfully...
In the following days, his junior brother came to visit him and taught Bai Cen and Si Nan the Ninefold True Qi. He could vaguely sense his junior brother's anticipation for the miraculous scene.
However, internal martial arts techniques are different from external martial arts techniques; they require years of accumulation and gradual development before they can be fully unleashed.
After observing for several days, apart from Bai Cen being able to utter the second level of the Ninefold True Qi, there was nothing more special about Si Nan.
But one night three days later, he went to the back mountain again and saw his junior brother practicing the Silver Dragon Jade Belt. This time, the Silver Dragon Jade Belt was the one he taught him, which contained the moves of a fragmented martial arts manual.
Watching the silver dragon roar out, its power far exceeding that of his junior brother's decades of hard training.
He saw his junior brother scoff lightly.
At that time, a doubt began to grow in his heart—
He and his junior brother grew up together and knew his junior brother's character. His junior brother's mentality changed little by little after he opened the incomplete scroll of the "Longevity Scripture". There were attractive things in it, but there were also things that made people lose their minds and become paranoid and extreme.
Therefore, the reason why the Grandmaster divided the "Longevity Scripture" into three parts and stored them in different places, and listed it as a forbidden book of the sect, may be because the "Longevity Scripture" itself is easy to distort people's mentality, cause them to go astray and lose control.
He felt increasingly uneasy.
Although the sect's forbidden books are all in the hands of the sect leader, the sect still has a large collection of books.
He plunged into the books, searching for any clues.
Finally, in a basket of unremarkable ancestral notes, he discovered letters from long ago, one after another, as well as notes from his patriarch. Only then did he learn the true origin of the "Longevity Classic".
Meng Huizhou took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "So, from the very beginning when the patriarch first wrote the 'Longevity Scripture,' it wasn't written for the purpose of achieving immortality. The reason it's called the 'Longevity Scripture' wasn't because of greed, but because of a beautiful wish."
wish?
Wang Sumo and Bai Cen were surprised.
Meng Huizhou nodded slowly and began to speak: "I wish my friend, who has suffered from a serious illness since childhood and whose doctor has predicted he will not live to adulthood, unable to practice martial arts or perform strenuous activities, and who can only play the zither, read books, and take his medicine on time every day, peace, happiness, and a long life..."
"This 'Longevity Scripture' was painstakingly created by the Grandmaster for this friend he grew up with. From the very beginning, this 'Longevity Scripture' was not a martial arts manual, but rather a manual for an ordinary person, or rather, a patient who is not even an ordinary person, to change his meridians and strengthen his bones through the marrow cleansing method in martial arts manuals, so that he can pick plums in winter and enjoy boating and admiring lotus flowers in summer, no longer confined to his sickbed..."
"Therefore, the techniques in the Longevity Scripture are all unorthodox, involving dramatic shifts in fortune and extreme ups and downs, because it is a book that allows people on their sickbeds to defy fate. In other words, doctors often say that it is like trying to revive a dead horse, requiring strong medicine. Thus, when the Longevity Scripture is used on healthy people, or even martial arts masters, it is like pouring an ant into a vast ocean, making them feel an abundance of internal energy, or even go mad and become possessed."
"In the patriarch's notes, he wrote to a friend that now that he had recovered, he should not continue practicing the Longevity Scripture. The friend, who had grown up with him since childhood, replied with the following: 'I wish to live long, do not try to persuade me.'"
Wang Sumo and Bai Cen were both stunned. They looked at each other and then exchanged a glance. It was He Huai'an.
The Longevity Scripture was written by our Grandmaster for He Huai'an!
[Author's Note]
The truth is out, I'll take a break and continue.
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This chapter will continue to give out red envelopes.
Could you please give me more hands to type? I want to finish writing, but I don't want to skip the plot, sob sob.
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