Chapter 1084 Three Flowers Gather on the Crown

【Name: Three Flowers Gather on the Crown Divine Skill】
【Skill Card Attribute: Passive Skill, Permanently Mastered】
【Skill Category: General】
【Effect: Increases the recovery speed of Survival Value, Stamina Value, and Spiritual Energy Value by 50%】
【Learning Condition: None. This skill card cannot be traded after being picked up.】
【Note: The Flower of Man refines essence into Qi; the Flower of Earth refines Qi into spirit; the Flower of Heaven refines spirit into nothingness. When the Three Flowers Gather on the Crown, there is no fear, no resentment, no clinging, and no attachment, only constant clarity and wakefulness. Those who achieve great success in this divine skill will shed their mortal form and return to the realm of nothingness.】

After Bei Ling obtained this item, she saw that it could not be traded, so she learned it without hesitation. The secret manual in her hand turned into white light again and disappeared. A second later, it became a set of data in her menu.

There is no doubt about the power and practicality of this skill. It is believed that more than 95% of players will not hesitate to let it occupy a place in the twelve skill slots. The remaining 5% are extreme cases, such as one or more players having a set of interrelated skill combinations in the later stages of the game, making it impossible for them to free up skill slots for passive skills.

Except for the above situation, this skill can basically be used by any player until they reach the maximum level without changing it, and it will continue to be used after reaching the maximum level.

In addition, because the non-explicit attribute of "recovery speed" varies according to the player's level, specialization tendency, and the upper limit of various values, 【Three Flowers Gather on the Crown Divine Skill】 has not set any learning conditions.

Bei Ling was very happy to get this skill. From falling into the underground cave to now, she finally gained something. It was not in vain that she and Xiao Tan spent so much time just now and suffered so much.

After browsing the skill description, she turned to look at Xiao Tan, thinking: Your 【Heaven and Earth Reversal Divine Art】 shouldn't be too weak either. You must be overjoyed now.

But unexpectedly, there was a look of bewilderment on Xiao Tan's face.

He is not the kind of person who doesn't show his emotions and is good at acting, so his expression has already explained a lot...

【Name: Heaven and Earth Reversal Divine Art】
【Skill Card Attribute: Active Skill, Permanently Mastered】
【Skill Category: Fighting】
【Effect: Heaven and earth are reversed, Qiankun is inverted. (No cooldown time)】
【Consumption: 2% of the upper limit of Stamina Value】
【Learning Condition: Fighting Specialization B, Spiritual Arts Specialization C, Level 30 or above. This skill card cannot be traded after being picked up.】
【Note: Martial arts practitioners seek to improve their own cultivation realm and to master the techniques of fighting and defending against enemies. This art takes a different approach, using profound Taoist methods to reverse the nature of human interaction with the outside world, creating a unique and unparalleled divine skill.】

Xiao Tan neither understood what the skill effect meant, nor did he meet the learning conditions, so he had to curl his lips and temporarily put the skill card into his bag.

"What's wrong?" Bei Ling said with an evil smile, "Could it be written on it, 'If you want to practice this divine skill...'?"

"If you want to practice this divine skill, first reach level thirty," Xiao Tan replied.

"Oh, so you can't learn it," Bei Ling said with a smile.

"The three secret manuals have now been given away, and my days in this world are coming to an end," the stone said. "My master is still waiting for me in the Upper Realm, goodbye..."

"Wait!" Bei Ling quickly shouted, "Can you answer a few more questions for us?"

"What? Do you want me to personally guide you in your kung fu?" the stone asked impatiently. "You mortals are really more stupid than the last generation. I don't even have hands or feet. Even if I'm willing to teach you with words, what's the difference between that and you learning directly from the secret manual? Can't you read?"

"We want to ask, who is your master? What are you? Why are you here? And why did you give the secret manuals to strangers like us?" Xiao Tan asked all the questions he could think of in one breath.

Bei Ling also added, "Also, if it's convenient, it's best to tell us how this underground cave was formed. Is the Cang Ling Town above really haunted? And what kind of person was the one who came to take the Taixu Wuxiang Great Art?"

That stone was indeed a character who said "mortals" at every turn and dared to say that the other party was "stupid." After listening to the two players' series of questions, it actually remembered every one of them and began to answer them in a very organized manner, "My master's name is Zuo Dao, known to the world as 'The Heterodox Immortal'.

I don't know how many years ago... I can't count the days anymore. In short, at that time, I was just a stone on the Northern Mountain of Cang Ling Town.

One year, the villagers killed a little girl named Ling Er. After her death, she turned into a vengeful ghost and occupied the Cang Ling Temple. The entire mountain was frightened by her resentment, and I was also infected by her demonic aura and became a demon stone.

Later, I became her subordinate and hunted down the villagers who entered the mountain, as well as the monks and Taoists they invited. This went on for many years. In Cang Ling Town, the murderers who killed Ling Er and their families were all dead; none of the exorcists who went up the mountain survived. But Ling Er was still full of resentment and continued to kill.

Until one day, my master passed through Cang Ling Town. After inquiring about the whole story from the villagers, he went up the mountain to investigate and met me. He took the bell that Ling Er used to tie me and went to the Ling Zhong Realm, but he actually came back. He was the first person to see Ling Er's ghost and come back alive.

My master said that Ling Er was not an ordinary person, so the ghost she transformed into after being wronged was extremely powerful. Although the murderers of that year were all dead, the so-called ancestors committed sins that would affect their descendants. Cang Ling Town was already doomed to die, and no amount of lives would be enough to fill this village.

The villagers and the officials all believed my master's words. Therefore, under his arrangement, all the people in the village moved out, and the government sealed off the roads again, and the town was abandoned.

My master stayed alone in the town and spent months using magical tools and spells to go deep underground and open up several underground caves. This was to change the root veins and feng shui of the town, and he renamed this place 'Cang Ling', hoping to use this method to resolve the calamity here in the future.

After doing these things, my master left.

After many years, my master came to the town again and brought me down from the mountain. My master told me that he was a visitor from another world, traveling outside of reincarnation. Now in this world, he could not stay any longer and would soon ascend to the Upper Realm Immortal Land.

However, my master had collected many treasures over the years. It was useless to take them to the Upper Realm, and it was not safe to leave them in the world, so he hid these things in this underground cave and asked me to guard them.

In the days before his departure, my master transformed my spiritual wisdom and roots, and carefully taught me the methods of cultivation, allowing me to concentrate on meditation in this cave, and told me... that all things outside the body can be given to those who are destined. Except for the three secret manuals, which could not be given to the same person, and must be personally guarded by me, other things can be taken by anyone who enters the cave."

The stone said a lot in one breath, and it was quite clear, but Xiao Tan and Bei Ling digested the information to different degrees. One had a bewildered expression, and the other was thinking intently.

The stone continued, "Now that my cultivation has been completed and my master's instructions have been fulfilled, it can be said that the opportunity has arrived. Don't delay my ascension any longer." It paused for a moment, "As for the Taixu Wuxiang Great Art, I gave it to a person named Lin Chang." Its eyes looked to the side, "But it wasn't given in this stone room. His entrance was different from yours, and he went to different places."

"Lin Chang?" Xiao Tan and Bei Ling repeated in unison.

"Yes, Lin Chang. Is this name strange?" the stone asked.

"When did you give him the secret manual?" Bei Ling asked immediately, "And... how did he get out? How big is this underground cave?"

"That Lin Chang was much easier to serve than you," the stone replied. "He found another stone room. At that time, I had just come out of the wall, and he was so scared that his face turned pale. As soon as I spoke to him, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed." The stone's tone seemed a little amused when it said this, "I asked him which one he wanted, but he didn't say anything, just kept begging for mercy, so I just gave him one at random. After he got the secret manual, he flipped through a few pages and laughed like crazy. After laughing for a while, he muttered to himself, 'I must get out'." Since he said so, I used magic to send him out."

"You can use magic to send people out?" Xiao Tan's eyebrows lit up, thinking he had found a one-way transmission method, "Then the two of us..."

"You go out by yourselves. I'm about to ascend, and performing the act of sending people will delay me." The stone actually said such an irresponsible thing, and then immediately said, "Okay, I've said everything you asked. There are several entrances and exits to the cave. As for the size... if you keep walking, you can walk all over it in at most a day and a night. So... I'll take my leave first, goodbye forever."

After saying these words, the stone shrank back into the wall, and the cracks on the wall rippled again like waves, and after a few seconds, they returned to their original state.

"Hey!" Xiao Tan shouted at the wall, "You've already said so much, would it kill you to delay a little longer!"

Bei Ling ignored Xiao Tan and just crossed her arms in front of her chest, lowered her head and remained silent, lost in thought.

"The Heterodox Immortal it mentioned, is that the person who left the words at the entrance of the village..." Bei Ling murmured, "That Ling Er is undoubtedly the ghost in the main quest [Enter the Ling Zhong Realm and find Ling Er's soul]. According to this stone, this Ling Er is very strong and definitely a Boss-level existence. Could it be... that the real Boss of this script is her? And the duel storyline is just a side quest, and the haunting is the real main quest?" Thinking of this, she opened the game menu and glanced at the quest bar. Their side quest [Find the Yin and Yang stone slabs and open the stone door] had just been checked off. But the main quest was still there, which meant that Feng Bujue and Si Yu had not yet come into contact with that Ling Er.