Who created Life Abyss was a mystery in the Upper Realm.
The formation inside had a magical function—consuming the formation eye’s lifespan with a chance to advance martial artists to lower-tier Truth-Seeking Realm.
Jun Changxiao rushed over upon learning about it.
However, Hua Meigui voluntarily walked in to serve as the formation eye.
“What does it mean to be a virtuous wife? This is it!” Even the system was moved, even wanting to take the opportunity to scold Dog Egg a few times.
“Can your lifespan be more than mine?”
Jun Changxiao said with a stern face, “Get out here quickly.”
Dog Egg dared to come here and consume lifespan because he was very young, and breaking through realms was easier than for ordinary people. So he was willing to squander it freely.
If it were Liu Sinan or Gongsun Hou, they’d definitely chicken out. After all, they’d lived too long. This lifetime they had no hope of entering the Third Step. If they squandered it, they might drop dead immediately.
“I want to help you share some troubles.”
Hua Meigui didn’t know Jun Changxiao was constrained by the epic quest, but she could see he longed for the sect to become stronger. So she was willing to sacrifice her life to fulfill his wishes.
No need to glorify this as great.
In her view, this was just what a wife should do.
Moreover, didn’t Gongsun Ruoli also consume a thousand years of lifespan to help her advance?
“It’s not needed.”
Jun Changxiao said, “I can handle it myself.”
“The formation is already activated. Better hurry and have them enter.” Hua Meigui said.
“……”
Seeing her insistence, after experiencing tens of thousands of words of internal struggle, Jun Changxiao finally spoke, “Enter!”
“Yes.”
Li Qingyang and others stepped into the flowing light formation.
“Buzz! Buzz!”
As all ten core disciples entered Life Abyss, wisps of strange attributes emerged from Hua Meigui positioned at the formation eye, then merged into the entire formation system.
This was lifespan.
Losing one wisp equaled losing one day.
……
Inside.
Lu Qianqian and Li Qingyang and others were mentally shocked.
After the formation received the lifespan empowerment, it transformed from ethereal nothingness into a cosmic starry sky, gradually manifesting vast heaven and earth attributes and laws of heaven and earth, like scattered stars, like wandering spirits.
“So magical!”
Su Xiaomo raised her hand. Just touching the attributes and laws, they uncontrollably drilled into her sea of consciousness. Her martial path instantly improved subtly.
The martial arts facilities Jun Changxiao provided before were very powerful, but the martial knowledge visible everywhere and easily obtainable within Life Abyss was obviously even more formidable.
The items in the system mall weren’t created from nothing. They came from different worlds, different universes. So this fully proved—in the great thousand worlds, all manner of strange things exist!
“Cultivate!”
Lu Qianqian sat down cross-legged.
Li Qingyang and others withdrew their shock and entered meditative states one after another.
Life Abyss contained extremely complete martial knowledge and profound meanings. They just needed to absorb and contain them. Whether they could break through to Truth-Seeking Realm also depended on themselves and their opportunities.
……
Outside.
Jun Changxiao sat on a rock, his eyes never leaving Hua Meigui who was inside the formation eye.
He appeared calm on the surface, but inside he was panicking like a dog.
“Buzz!”
“Buzz!”
Wisps of lifespan flew out from Hua Meigui’s body, then merged into the formation, replenishing the ten disciples with heaven and earth attributes and laws, truly burning herself to warm others.
Ten days.
Fifty days…
The ten core disciples inside Life Abyss seemed to transform into meditating old monks, madly absorbing the internal martial power. Their realms also climbed steadily.
As the price.
Hua Meigui had to pay ten times the lifespan.
So, positioned at the formation eye for half a year, her black hair gradually turned white, her tender skin gradually aged.
Lifespan was the foundation of a martial artist’s existence, because if one didn’t live long enough, how could one comprehend higher profound martial realms? And if severe consumption occurred, one would naturally experience the side effect of appearance aging.
“Damn it!”
Seeing this, Jun Changxiao rushed in immediately.
Don’t think he was quite the steel straight man—he understood appearance was very important to women.
“Switch with me!”
Jun Changxiao pulled Hua Meigui out in one move.
Don’t blame him for being a bit rough. After all, this method was obviously the most direct and effective.
“Buzz!”
“Buzz!”
Just as Jun Changxiao stood in the formation eye, he immediately felt the blood in his body seemed to burn, then some special thing was drawn out.
“This is lifespan.” The system said.
“Can you calculate how much lifespan I have now?”
“Roughly twenty to thirty thousand years.”
“Good.”
Jun Changxiao said, “Then let’s sacrifice until only a hundred years remain!”
This lifespan just corresponded with the time stipulated by the main quest. If he couldn’t complete it, he’d die anyway. Better to use it all to fulfill the disciples.
“Whoosh!”
“Whoosh!”
Wisps of lifespan were absorbed. The process wasn’t painful, but seeing Hua Meigui’s aged appearance outside, Jun Changxiao’s heart felt like it was being stabbed hard with a knife.
Making a woman who looked to be in her prime suddenly age to look fifty or sixty—he deeply regretted he should have come himself.
“It’s fine.”
The system said, “You’ll also age. Then you’ll be an old married couple.”
……
Strangely enough, after Jun Changxiao replaced Hua Meigui, the heaven and earth attributes and laws existing inside Life Abyss became stronger than before. This made Li Qingyang focus even more on cultivation.
Because they were too absorbed, they forgot about time.
“Whoosh!”
One day, vast imposing aura surged around Lu Qianqian as she smoothly advanced from peak Pill Condensation Realm to lower-tier Truth-Seeking Realm.
Li Qingyang and Su Xiaomo and others followed close behind, advancing to Truth-Seeking Realm one after another.
“Breakthrough!”
“Incredible!”
“The martial arts facilities in the sect aren’t this magical!”
“Let’s go out!”
After breaking through to Truth-Seeking Realm, they couldn’t contain the heaven and earth attributes and laws, so they could only leave Life Abyss. But walking out and seeing Hua Meigui’s aged appearance, they stood frozen in place one by one.
“Mas… Master’s Wife?”
If not judging from the clothing, Li Qingyang and Su Xiaomo would probably have difficulty recognizing her.
Hua Meigui said, “You should be more concerned about the Sect Master.”
Li Qingyang and others clearly remembered Master’s Wife serving as the formation eye. Now with her aged appearance standing at the entrance, that meant the Sect Master had replaced her. So they hurriedly looked toward the formation eye area, but saw nothing.
“This Venerable One is here.”
Suddenly, a voice came.
Everyone hurriedly looked down to see a child about three to five years old standing before them. Because the clothes were too large, it looked like being wrapped in a bedsheet.
Big eyes, watery.
Not only was he cute, he also resembled Jun Changxiao.
“What the hell!”
Su Xiaomo blurted out in shock, “Is this the Sect Master and Master’s Wife’s son? We were inside cultivating for three to five years?”
“Bang—”
“Thud!”
Sidekick flew out, spectacular landing.
The young child maintained his punching posture, angrily saying, “I’m your Sect Master!”
“……”
Everyone’s mouths twitched.
The Sect Master’s wife’s appearance aged, the Sect Master became young again—could this be the side effect of consuming lifespan?
“Let’s go!”
“Back to the sect!”
……
That day.
The Eternal Sect exploded.
The Sect Master who’d left a year ago returned, actually transformed into a child!
And there was the Sect Master’s wife—clearly a devastatingly beautiful woman, yet her appearance had aged.
“System!”
After changing into fitting clothes, the young Jun Changxiao jumped onto a chair and asked, “Is there a way to restore that woman’s appearance?”
“Your wife’s problem isn’t big. One Beauty Pill can solve it.” The system said. “However, the host’s body shrunk to child form, I’m afraid… puhahaha…”
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