Before Ye Liang could think further, Old man Chen Baojun suddenly yanked his head out of Hinata's lap.
"If I'm not mistaken," he said, "you should be the original owner of this body. Now tell me, how did you do it?"
Ye Liang blinked in surprise.
Damn!
What does this old bastard want now?
"You're not going to refuse giving my body back, right?"
Suddenly he realized something.
There were only three people present in the room—old man Chen, Hinata, and himself.
Hinata couldn't beat the old man. If the old man had ill intentions, there was a chance Ye Liang might die here today!
"Grandpa Chen, please give Master back to me!" Hinata reached out trying to grab him!
Exactly as expected!
Puff!
Hinata was shoved back to the floor.
"Little girl, don't cause trouble! I'm just really interested in such mysterious things." Chen Baojun turned his gaze back to Ye Liang. "Don't pretend. You've already spoken before, why so quiet now?"
"Well... what exactly do you want me to say?"
Ye Liang suddenly felt like he was at another's mercy.
What if...
He tried bluffing?
"Dear old sir, actually I'm the Creator God sent down from heaven..."
"You were dismembered for lying, didn't you remember?" Chen Baojun suddenly interrupted harshly.
His eyes narrowed like he'd seen right through Ye Liang, silently warning him not to try any tricks.
Ye Liang momentarily found himself unable to speak.
Chen Baojun continued, "I suppose you may have some unspeakable hardship. I won't force you. Just tell me the method behind this secret technique, and I'll return your body."
His expression looked genuinely sincere, then patted Ye Liang's body, showing a gesture of compromise.
Ye Liang's face darkened.
Compromise my ass!
That old bastard clearly was threatening him!
That slap on his chest said it all: "If you don't hand over the secret of immortality today, don't even dream of getting your body back!"
In Ye Liang's mind, Chen Baojun's meaning became twisted! Looks like he had no choice but to play along.
"Fine, I can teach you. But this martial art isn't that easy to learn. I can't guarantee whether you'll master it or not!"
"Great, then we have a deal!"
Soon after,
Chen Baojun laid out a sleeping mat inside the house. He placed Ye Liang's head gently on it, then shooed Hinata away carelessly.
This was Ye Liang's condition.
He wanted no distractions while passing on the teachings.
"Listen closely. [The Great Dao gives birth to all things, opening the nine orifices; these nine orifices are originally hidden within...]" Ye Liang began explaining.
The more Chen Baojun listened, the more furrowed his brows grew.
A killing intent kept surfacing in his mind!
Ye Liang was lying!
At Chen Baojun's age, one could practically say he'd become devilishly cunning with experience. He could sense deception even with eyes closed.
But!
Chen never made a move!
"This guy is clearly lying, yet why does the technique he speaks sound so genuine? There are meanings here I barely managed to grasp in my later years!"
"Could it possibly be another supreme form of Martial Arts!" Excited, Chen immediately sat cross-legged, carefully memorizing every word Ye Liang spoke.
Before long,
Ye Liang finally finished reciting the entire manual of [Nine Yin Manual] from start to finish.
What a smooth-talking con artist!
"If it weren't for the Immortal Sovereign of Eternity's suspicion over secretly passing on techniques, do you really think I'd bother lying like this!"
His immortality technique was personally taught by the Immortal Sovereign of Eternity—who was actually a cultivator!
Ye Liang hadn't cultivated anything himself. But from his past-life experience watching novels, he knew that among cultivators, secretly transmitting cultivation methods was strictly forbidden. It was an ironclad rule!
He could only randomly recite parts of the [Nine Yin Manual], hoping to bluff his way through.
Chen Baojun was still meditating, his face tense, brows furrowing and unfurling, both eyes tightly shut for hours already.
Ye Liang had nearly dozed off.
"What the hell? Why isn't this old man done yet? Did he suffer a spiritual backlash and pass out?" He wasn't sure whether those TV dramas back then were just making things up. Still, he'd once used this method to teach Might Guy.
And the latter had grasped its profound essence.
"If you fail, blame your own talent—not my instructions!" Ye Liang grumbled with a hint of mock indignance.
A while later,
a faint wisp of purple smoke began rising from Chen Baojun's head.
It rose like smoke from an old hearth, curling straight up into the air without resistance, even piercing through the roof.
"No way... Could he have actually suffered a backlash!?" Ye Liang stared in shock at the scene unfolding before him.
Suddenly!
Chen Baojun's eyes shot open, emitting a sharp gleam that passed right over Ye Liang's head. Then he let out a thunderous roar, unleashing surging waves of energy that brushed past Ye Liang's face.
"I've succeeded!"
Chen Baojun cried out joyously.
"Succeeded at what? What the heck is going on?"
Before Ye Liang could make sense of it, Chen Baojun dropped to his knees before him: "Master, your kindness knows no bounds! For you to casually share such an exquisite Taijutsu technique with me—it truly leaves me awestruck!"
He gently positioned Ye Liang's head next to the rest of his body, ready to perform the restoration.
"I shall now fulfill my promise and restore your body. I'm just not exactly sure how to stitch your body together."
"Just place my head on top."
"It seems like Chen Baojun must've grasped some profound secret from the [Nine Yin Manual]—otherwise there's no way he'd be so cooperative!" Ye Liang mused inwardly.
"Understood, Master Ye." Chen Baojun lifted Ye Liang's head.
Just as he was about to reattach Ye Liang's body, a sudden explosion rang out from outside as a massive thunder-fire bomb was hurled inside!
"Who goes there!"
Startled, Chen Baojun kicked the incoming explosive back out the window, simultaneously clutching Ye Liang's head and leaping out from the other side of the house.
"What happened!?"
Hinata had been dozing off outside when the commotion jolted her awake.
A group of figures was approaching them rapidly.
"Hinata! You defied orders and rescued this spy's head yourself. Have you ever considered what kind of position this would place your Hyuga clan in?"
Leading the group was none other than Danzo Shimura!
The Third and several high-ranking members of Konoha stood with him.
"What the hell! You old bastard! I never once wished harm on Konoha in my life, yet you can't stop scheming against me! When I come back, you're the first one I'm taking down!"
Ye Liang cursed furiously.
Upon hearing this, Chen Baojun tucked Ye Liang's head at his waist.
Annoying!
Hinata stepped forward to block them again!
She had already chosen Ye Liang. There was no way she'd ever regret that decision now.
Moreover!
Now that she saw the chance to revive her master, how could she possibly give up?
"Grandpa Chen, I'll hold them off here. Please revive my master as soon as possible! Thank you!" She drew a fistful of shuriken and lunged at them.
The elders of Konoha exchanged uneasy glances.
Danzo glanced at Hiruzen, slowly pulling bandages from within the book.
"Hiruzen, did you hear that? Hinata seems to believe Ye Liang can be revived?"
"Yes, it sounds like that." Hiruzen nodded, his gaze fixed on the head hanging at Chen Baojun's waist.
Earlier, although Ye Liang had shouted at Danzo from a distance, he had still caught it.
"So I didn't just imagine it?"
Shaking his head slightly, Hiruzen called out, "Master Chen! Are you really going to side with this enemy of Konoha?"
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