Su Mu took the book and discovered it was made of stone, much heavier than a regular book, weighing nearly a thousand kilograms.

Sitting cross-legged, he placed the Stone Book in front of him and blew away the dust on its surface, finding only a few shallow marks that resembled claw marks or sword scars, with no words engraved on it.

Opening the first page, he was greeted by a few ancient characters, written in a very peculiar script that Su Mu was seeing for the first time and did not recognize.

However, he could analyze that these characters formed the name of a Cultivation Technique.

Turning to the second page, he saw densely packed, fine characters, identical to those on the first page, none of which he could recognize!

Despite not recognizing the characters, as his gaze fell upon each one, he felt like he was glimpsing the origin and directly observing the essence of the Great Dao.

This was a feeling Su Mu had never experienced before.

Therefore, he immediately judged that this was without a doubt an extremely advanced Cultivation Technique, far stronger than any he had seen or practiced before.

But.... here came the problem.

He didn't recognize the characters at all. How was he supposed to cultivate?

When he cultivated the Nine Secrets and God-Striking Treasure Technique, the process started very simply, but at least he could recognize the words.

.....

At this moment, Nannan, who was standing nearby, noticed her father's furrowed brow and came over too.

She began to carefully examine the characters and, after a while, started reading them aloud.

Seeing Nannan read the words aloud, Su Mu was taken aback and asked in astonishment, "Nannan, do you recognize these characters?"

In response, Nannan shook her head and said, "Some of them I know, some I don't, but... I can read them."

Upon hearing this, Su Mu furrowed his brow slightly.

And then he continued to ask, "Have you seen these characters in any books?"

Since Su Mu found Nannan by the river when she was only a month old, she had been living by his side and had little contact with the outside world, though Nannan liked reading various strange ancient texts.

These ancient texts were collected by Su Mu over the years as travel fees or lottery winnings, amounting to tens of thousands of volumes.

Thus, Su Mu instinctively thought Nannan had learned the ancient script from these books, which would be quite normal given her extraordinary talent.

However, Nannan shook her head and said, "No, I don't know how I recognize them either."

Nannan herself couldn't explain why she knew these characters, but she inexplicably recognized them at first sight.

After hearing this, Su Mu remained silent for a long while.

Similar incidents had occurred before; last time, Nannan recognized a Bodhi Tree at a glance and said she had seen it somewhere before.

This time, the same thing happened; she could read the ancient script he didn't understand.

This made Su Mu begin to ponder Nannan's background....

Who were her biological parents?

Why did they abandon her?

Nannan, with no ailments, had from an early age displayed an unparalleled cultivation talent that even he couldn't match, exceptionally beautiful, adorable, and smart, never giving him any cause for concern.

Such a child would be a cherished gem in any family, and if born into a prestigious family, they would be the hope of the entire family.

...

"Do you recognize these characters?"

Su Mu pointed to the few large characters on the first page and asked Nannan.

After looking for a while, Nannan picked up a wooden stick from the ground and wrote in the common script.

"Nine-Life Immortal King Acupoint"

Staring at these five characters, Su Mu's pupils contracted; it seemed the name of this Cultivation Technique was "Nine-Life Immortal King Acupoint."

When it mentioned "Immortal King," could it be an Immortal King Cultivation Technique?

Su Mu himself had encountered a bottleneck and, despite his hard efforts, couldn't break through the barrier to reach the Immortal King Realm.

Later, he consulted ancient texts on the matter, from which he learned that the Immortal King is a supreme realm attainable not by effort, nor even by talent, but by a special opportunity, that is, fortune.

Without that miraculous event, without that fortune, even if immensely gifted, one would find it difficult to step into the Immortal King Realm.

Having now come across this Immortal King method, could it be his opportunity?

"Daddy, could you give this to me for a moment?"

Nannan, perceiving her father's thoughts, picked up the Stone Book, then with a wave of her hand, a brush appeared: "Daddy, wait a moment."

Soon, Nannan began to write and draw on the Stone Book with the brush.

An hour later, Nannan wiped the sweat from her forehead and handed the Stone Book to Su Mu.

After receiving it and thumbing through the pages, Su Mu found that Nannan had annotated about half of the text with characters he could understand.

"Daddy, I recognize about half of the characters, but as for the remaining half... I don't really know them, just finding some familiar but uncertain."

"Fearing it might affect your cultivation, I didn't annotate those."

Nannan, being very clever, could instantly tell that her father intended to cultivate the technique from the Stone Book, so she did her best to translate and annotate it.

At a young age, she was very meticulous, knowing that cultivation must be pursued without mistakes to avoid disastrous consequences.

Thus, she only translated the characters she was entirely sure about, refraining from translating the uncertain ones.

"It's okay, I'll research the rest myself; this is already impressive."

Su Mu reached out his finger, playfully tapped Nannan's nose, and said with a smile, "Go to sleep now."

After his words, Nannan obediently climbed into her willow cot and drifted into a deep sleep.

Su Mu couldn't fall asleep, nor did he intend to; the night was his time for cultivation, and he couldn't waste it on sleep.

Staring at the half-translated Stone Book Cultivation Technique in front of him, he read for two hours, barely understanding a bit.

If his deductions were correct, this "Nine-Life Immortal King Acupoint" seemed to be a unique breakthrough technique for achieving the Immortal King Realm.

It required nine successive breakthroughs, each more perfect than the last, to forge the most perfect "Nine Lives Immortal King Body."

Since he could only understand half, Su Mu could only half-read, half-deduce...

Su Mu had to rely on his understanding of the Cultivation Technique to fill in the blanks, guess, and deduce the parts that were unclear.

He himself wasn't sure if he was cultivating correctly...

Would he end up going astray...

......

In the following several days, every night, Su Mu devoted himself tirelessly to studying the technique overnight.

As he synthesized and began to cultivate, he didn't notice anything wrong; it seemed his deductions were correct??

Nevertheless, Su Mu always felt that the direction of his completion seemed to deviate toward a certain path.

At this point, Su Mu turned to the last page.

He found that the last paragraph on the final page was separated by a series of ellipses.

From the tone, it seemed like a passage left by someone, not part of the main body of the Cultivation Technique.

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