Longevity was like a god. Longevity was omnipotent.
Fate was Qi, and those with a strong Fate were invincible.
Fang Xingjian flipped to the first page of the Mountain and Sea's Book of the Way. There were two sentences on it, which explained the mysterious relationship between longevity and fate. It seemed to contain an incomparably profound truth.
Fang Xingjian continued to flip through the pages and discovered that the Mountainous Sea's Book of the Way was indeed obscure, abstruse, and extremely profound. In particular, the path of cultivation proposed in it was the complete opposite of the Knight's cultivation philosophy.
In other words, the cultivators of the entire Western Continent valued their lifespan more than power in battle.
The Divine level experts in Miracle World only had a lifespan of 200 years at most. Compared to their endless powers, their lifespan appeared far too small.
On the other hand, the cultivators of the Western Continent focused more on their lifespan. Legend had it that the most powerful among them could even live up to 3,000 years. The so-called omnipotence of longevity referred to the fact that one's lifespan was long enough and had limitless possibilities.
The Mountainous Sea's Book of the Way thoroughly explained the concept of lifespan. Moreover, it was possible to extract the power of lifespan to strengthen oneself, and it was also possible to extract power to increase one's lifespan.
In other words, after cultivating the Mountain and Sea's Book of the Way, one's lifespan and strength could be converted.
For example, if a person had a lifespan of 90 years in the future, he could use these 90 years to strengthen himself, leaving himself only one day of lifespan.
On the second day, he would be able to convert his power into one more day of lifespan. This way, he would always have one day of lifespan, and the remaining lifespan would be stored and converted into his own power, giving him a great power that he had never possessed before.
According to the legends, when this martial art was cultivated to the highest realm, one would be able to transform the power cultivated into an unlimited amount of lifespan. In the end, one would be able to live as long as the heavens and earth, as bright as the sun and moon. When a person had an unlimited lifespan, he would be able to refine an unlimited amount of power.
It could be said that this was a unique martial art that did not belong to any of the Nurturing, Training, Amassing or Killing techniques.
However, the last part of the description was too mysterious and vague. Fang Xingjian did not believe it. What he was interested in now was the result of practicing this martial art.
Thus, Fang Xingjian began the first step of cultivating the Mountainous Sea's Book of the Way, Longevity Observation.
This step was to meditate, meditate, and use a 100% ether synchronization rate to store one's thoughts in silence. Then one would be able to capture information about one's lifespan from the endless ether particles that formed up one's physical body.
The human body continued to enlarge, starting from the muscles and bones, followed by the cells, and then the physical particles. This was also the limit that ordinary second transition experts could reach. If they wanted to progress further, they would have to form the ether particles that formed the physical particles.
Ether particles were both particles and waves. In order to find information about one's lifespan from the ether particles that formed one's body, one would need to have unparalleled talent. This was also the reason why no one in the Wang Clan had managed to successfully cultivate the Mountainous Seas Great Dao Scripture for over a hundred years.
However, this was something that no one in the Wang Clan had been able to do over the past 100 years. Right now, Fang Xingjian, who possessed the world's best sword arts talent and had nine levels of mystical prints, was able to do it easily.
Information about longevity, life, spirit, and qi flowed out of his body. Lines of mysterious scriptures seemed to be floating in the air.
Fang Xingjian felt that his consciousness seemed to be delving deeper into the microscopic world, into the ether particles, following the guidance of the mysterious scriptures in the Mountainous Seas Great Dao. Very soon, he saw a series of numbers: 2 years, 360 days, 14 hours, 25 minutes, and 23 seconds.
The numbers continued to shrink. This was Fang Xingjian's lifespan, which was less than three years. It meant that when this time was up, no matter how strong his physical body was or how strong his will was, he would die.
He did not know the theory behind this, but this was what Fang Xingjian had understood from the ether particles.
'As expected, I really did have five years of lifespan left back then?'
After completing the first step of viewing one's lifespan, Fang Xingjian started to attempt the next step. He wanted to try to see if his strength could be exchanged for his lifespan.
Although it was generally said that it was a conversion between strength and lifespan, the Mountainous Seas Great Dao Scripture still had a specific reference to strength.
In the entire scripture, the Mountainous Seas Great Dao Scripture was divided into three tiers.
At the first tier, which was the first transition, one's lifespan could be converted with one's proficiency in techniques.
At the second tier, which was the second transition, one's lifespan could be converted with one's specialty seeds, physical particles, and one's body's toughness.
At the third tier, when a cultivator attained the Divine level, one's lifespan could be converted directly into the power of one's martial will. It was a pity that the Mountainous Seas Great Dao Scripture had been lost by the Wang Clan. Even if Fang Xingjian wanted to cultivate after attaining the Divine level, he would not be able to do so.
This meant that Fang Xingjian could now go through the conversion of one's proficiency in techniques, specialty seeds, physical particles, body's toughness, and lifespan.
Out of these, the proficiency in techniques was the thing that Fang Xingjian did not care about the most. It was also the first target that he had chosen.
Therefore, an extremely vast aura encompassed him. At the next moment, he felt that the information regarding the Ether Divine Art in his consciousness had started to burn up.
Accompanied by the burning information, the numbers on the Ether Divine Art's Stats Window jumped abruptly, rising from level 12 to level 11.
However, when Fang Xingjian looked at his lifespan, he realized that there was no increase at all. He frowned and continued the conversion. He felt that the Ether Divine Art's proficiency was decreasing rapidly, and its level continued to drop as well.
Anyway, with his current sword arts cultivation, the Ether Divine Art was no longer essential. Therefore, he decided to convert all the proficiency in the Ether Divine Art into his lifespan.
An explosive rumble seemed to ring out in void space, and Fang Xingjian felt that everything about the Ether Divine Art had been completely incinerated and disappeared from his mind. The Ether Divine Art skill was also completely gone from his Stats Window.
However, when he looked at his lifespan, there was still no increase at all.
Fang Xingjian let out a bitter breath. As expected, the person who had taken away his lifespan back then was not that simple. The Mountainous Rivers of the Way's method of increasing one's lifespan had no effect at all.
Fang Xingjian shook his head and started experimenting with the next step, which was to convert his lifespan into power.
He had already attained perfection in his physical particles, and the proficiency in techniques was something that he needed the least. His body's toughness had already reached level 29, which was the limit that a Conferred Knight could reach.
This meant that the only thing that could be converted from his lifespan was specialty seeds.
It was a pity that, based on what the Book of the Way had said, if one were to use one's lifespan to instantly condense a complete specialty seed, it would require at least one month of one's lifespan. It was really not worth it.
Fang Xingjian was left with less than three years of his lifespan. He would die after condensing several tens of specialty seeds.
'It's still better than nothing. I'll just give it a try. At the critical moment, I'll also have many means to risk my life.'
By this time, Fang Xingjian had already become disappointed with the Mountainous Seas of the Way. It was a good martial art, but it was a pity that it was useless to him.
At the next moment, Fang Xingjian started to circulate the Mountainous Seas of the Way's technique. A profound aura of lifespan, time, decay, and new life spread out from his body. Fang Xingjian felt as if something was being drawn out from void space and condensed in his body, helping him condense specialty seeds.
However, after condensing only 0.1%, Fang Xingjian stopped what he was doing. He was only giving it a try and did not really plan on using his lifespan to exchange for power.
However, at the next moment, Fang Xingjian's eyes opened abruptly, and three feet of sword light burst out. His eyes were filled with disbelief.
'To think that my lifespan didn't decrease?'
This did not bring him a pleasant surprise. Instead, it brought him an inexplicable feeling of astonishment.
It was as if someone had whispered into his ear, 'If I want you to die, I want you to die three years later. Not even one second more or one second less will do.'
At this moment, Fang Xingjian suddenly understood that his lifespan was no longer a matter of his lifespan and his life. Instead, it had risen to the level of karma and karma.
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