"I already heard about your matter from Xiaoqin this morning. Take this Jade Scroll, it contains the Dharma thod for transforming the Innate Dao Body fragnts.
"However, since our circumstances differ, this thod is only a fragnt for you. To freely transform, you might need to comprehend and deduce it for so ti."
Shi Xiu's situation is different from Zhang Ze's. Only half of his head is the Innate Dao Body, which is sowhat different from Zhang Ze's fully petrified state.
Of course, the Dharma thod remains the sa; it's just a matter of drawing inferences.
Transform the Big Head the sa way you transform the Small Head.
Zhang Ze calculated for a mont, then decided to comnce learning on the spot, as he would take flight in ten days. Missing the opportunity might an waiting until next year to go out.
He had no interest in continuing this seclusion.
However, Shi Xiu misunderstood his intention, reaching out to grasp Zhang Ze's wrist.
"Before you leave, I have sothing important to tell you."
"Hmm, go ahead," Zhang Ze replied, flipping through a booklet swiftly, reading and listening simultaneously.
Shi Xiu coughed lightly and spoke in a low tone, "My essence is damaged, my foundation destroyed. Even if I leave, I would be a useless person, ending a lonely life in nothingness doesn't appeal to . While my broken body still has so warmth, still able to ignite a spark, I should do sothing useful.
"If you, my junior brother, comprehend this thod alone, achieving it in ten years would be considered fast, so I've decided to pass this Dharma on to you now.
"Obtaining my essence, your cultivation will be twice as effective with half the effort, greatly benefiting your future. Attaining this thod early and leading our fellow disciples out of this place is of utmost importance.
"I ask you, my junior brother, not to refuse."
Saying this, Shi Xiu intended to point at his own Spirit Platform to transmit the Dharma to Zhang Ze.
Unexpectedly, this ti, his hand was instead grasped by Zhang Ze.
"No need to trouble yourself; I already know it."
Shi Xiu looked up, seeing Zhang Ze had already transford back from a Stone Man to a human appearance.
Spiritual Qi swirled around him, pure and true, with a hint of perfection. His cultivation had progressed significantly, directly crossing the Nascent Soul threshold and riding on the Divinity Transformation threshold.
When he was almost taken down by Emperor Xiaojing, Zhang Ze had an epiphany. He had understanding but lacked the Dharma thod, unable to discern the pathway and had no space to apply it.
Now, having obtained Shi Xiu's thod of reversing the Dao Body, it ca naturally and seamlessly to him, as simple as breathing.
Returning to the original state, it was as if it was ant to be.
Interestingly, since reaching the Golden Core stage, Zhang Ze had not formally cultivated immortality. Every breakthrough seed to have him riding the threshold, stuck at the middle.
He wasn't included in Golden Core etings, Nascent Soul etings, or Divinity Transformation etings either...
"You... aren't." Shi Xiu looked at Zhang Ze and didn't know what to say for a mont.
At the sa ti, his feelings were even more complicated: joy, envy, puzzled, ashad... various emotions mingled, like spilled paint blending into one, mixing together and dispersing in his heart.
Soon realizing his earlier emotional speech and last words seed sowhat clownish.
"You... you already know, very well, then go. I need to rest now." Saying so, he tried to pull his wrist from Zhang Ze's grasp.
But Zhang Ze didn't let go and bluntly stated, "Don't seek death, senior brother."
Zhang Ze could see the deathly intent in Shi Xiu's heart.
Senior Brother Shi was a proud person; rather than dragging on a feeble existence, he would prefer finding a deserted place to die. Clinging to life wasn't in his life's options.
"I..."
Shi Xiu tried to speak but was again interrupted by Zhang Ze.
"No one can keep a secret; this matter has already spread, your reputation is long gone," Zhang Ze seed to have a foreseeing ability, knowing what Shi Xiu intended to say.
"Senior Sister Xiaoxue, Monk Mingzhi, Wude Taoist..." Zhang Ze recited one na after another; there were those close to Tribulation Crossing, those in the Refining Void stage, and the lowest were Divinity Transformation cultivators, all peers from the Six Sects and friends with Shi Xiu.
"All these seniors have now arrived in Chang State. They have long known about you being sched against and having your body hollowed out, even..."
Zhang Ze glanced at the corner of the room where a black stone, with all information erased, remained labeled only as "Black Stone," and continued to speak.
"The information that awakened you was provided by them. They... told many things about your past, like wearing won's clothes...
"Of course, I will keep it confidential, ensuring not to tell anyone about it."
Zhang Ze cheerfully assured with a smile.
Looking at Zhang Ze's smiling face, Shi Xiu could only smile bitterly, "I really don't know if you're persuading or forcing to die, they... sigh..."
Zhang Ze continued with a smile, "Of course, it's to wish you a good life. Now isn't the ti for waves to wet your shoes; the road ahead is long, how can you lie down here?"
"Hopeless, utterly disgraced, what's there to live for?" Shi Xiu still withdrew his wrist from Zhang Ze's hand, lowering his head, slouching a bit more.
Zhang Ze, "My junior brother is no fool, don't try to deceive . This isn't truly what's in Senior Brother Shi's heart.
"If I'm not mistaken, you can accept being injured, you can accept being ridiculed by Senior Sister Xiaoxue, but what you cannot accept is your path being halted here, unable to proceed further, right?"
Zhang Ze spoke straightforwardly.
Upon hearing this, Shi Xiu looked up at the newly reborn, energetic Zhang Ze, his eyes dimming a bit more.
The path was right before him, yet it wasn't his...
"That's right," Shi Xiu sighed heavily.
"Then what if I say I can heal your wounds, allowing you to retrace the path, senior brother, would you still want to die?" Zhang Ze asked.
"You..." Shi Xiu unconsciously sat up straight, staring blankly at Zhang Ze.
He understood his own condition clearly—it could be described as a lamp running out of oil, and even if his master got involved, it couldn't completely restore him.
He didn't understand how Zhang Ze, despite his monstrous talent, was, after all, just a half-step Divinity Transformation cultivator stuck at the threshold.
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