Chapter 21

The lifespan of ordinary people does not exceed a hundred years. Once a practitioner enters the Cultivation Foundation stage, their bloodline stabilizes, their muscles and bones become strong, and their lifespan increases significantly.

Those who are good at health preservation can even enjoy a lifespan of two hundred years at the Cultivation Foundation stage.

As for the stages above, from Qi Condensation to Foundation Establishment, the increase in lifespan is not as significant.

After all, after reaching the Qi Condensation stage, the physical body and bones are not trained much.

At the Foundation Establishment stage, the lifespan can be extended to three or four hundred years at most.

But as long as one breaks through to the Human Realm, enters the Earth Realm, and reaches the Source Connection stage, the lifespan can be greatly increased.

With the help of the Source Connection power, some can enjoy a lifespan of a thousand years.

Actually, for most practitioners, lifespan is not something that needs to be considered.

As long as one's cultivation progresses, lifespan will not become an obstacle.

If cultivation stagnates and the lifespan shortens, it is a matter beyond remedy.

These were the messages Han Muye obtained from the sword artifacts on the second floor of the Sword Pavilion.

Unfortunately, the sword artifacts contain very little information about cultivation.

Most of the sword artifacts only leave insights about sword cultivation.

"You mean I only have a month left to live?" Han Muye felt a shock in his heart as he looked at the female cultivator.

He knew that the sword qi had entered his chest and abdomen, and his divine soul was injured today.

But how could his lifespan be reduced to just a month?

"Brother, you have practiced a body cultivation technique, so your lifespan should be no less than a hundred years," the female cultivator's gaze swept over Han Muye.

"However, your divine soul is damaged, and," she paused, then whispered, "your meridians have been impacted by sword qi, and the sword qi has been infused into your sea of consciousness and qi sea, constantly damaging your lifespan."

"Saying you have a month left is already being generous."

"If the sword qi in your body is not suppressed, you might not live past seven days."

Just a month, how did it become seven days?

When the female cultivator mentioned that Han Muye had sword qi in his body, the female shop owner named Bai Suzhen's eyes flashed with a keen light.

"Qi Sea?" Han Muye's heart stirred.

Is that illusory space the qi sea?

Vital energy is stored in the lower dantian, qi flows through the heart and chest qi sea, and divine consciousness is condensed at the center of the forehead.

This was the knowledge he obtained from the second floor of the Sword Pavilion, but although Han Muye understood it, he did not fully grasp it.

At this moment, the words of the female cultivator enlightened him.

It turned out that the sword qi was stored in the qi sea.

The female cultivator nodded and softly said, "Brother, you haven't reached the Foundation Establishment stage and haven't opened your qi sea, so it's normal that you didn't know you were injured at the root by the sword qi."

"Then, can my injury be saved?" Han Muye asked in a low voice.

The old ancestor of the Sword Pavilion said his lifespan was short, and the female cultivator in front of him said he was about to die.

Although he didn't believe that the sword qi would harm him, Han Muye still felt uneasy.

"Herbal pills to increase lifespan, or, advancing your body cultivation technique to the ninth level of the Cultivation Foundation stage."

"Or, if the sword qi can be疏导 out, that would also work."

The female cultivator finished speaking and sighed, shaking her head slightly: "Herbal pills to increase lifespan are extremely precious, body cultivation techniques are easy to learn but hard to master, and疏导ing the sword qi would require the intervention of an Elder at the Core Formation stage."

Precious herbal pills naturally require a lot of spirit stones.

Advancing body cultivation techniques to the ninth level of the Cultivation Foundation stage is not easy.

Getting an Elder at the Core Formation stage to疏导 the sword qi is even more impossible.

Han Muye smiled bitterly and turned to leave.

Watching him leave, the female cultivator named Jin Yuan sighed and shook her head: "Well, cultivation is about seeing through life and death."

"I'm leaving. Remember to settle the account for that pill."

After she left, the shop owner's face showed a hint of unusual expression: "In the Nine Profound Sword Sect, those who suffer from sword qi entering their body and damaging their lifespan seem to be only the Sword Pavilion observers?"

"The treasure the sect is looking for is in the Sword Pavilion, right?"

"Perhaps, this is an opportunity."

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In the Sword Pavilion, when Huang Lao Liu saw Han Muye carrying back a pill furnace, his eyes widened.

"What are you doing?"

Han Muye placed the pill furnace on the long table, patted it, and smiled, "Can't you see? I'm going to refine pills."

Refining pills.

Huang Lao Liu looked skeptical.

Refining pills without the cultivation of Qi Condensation, how can one refine pills?

It seems Han Muye knows his lifespan is short and is just causing trouble.

Even Mu Wan was generous, sending him high-quality pills last time and a pill furnace this time.

"This pill furnace isn't cheap..."

Muttering, Huang Lao Liu looked at Han Muye's pale face.

Indeed, a fair-skinned person is popular.

"By the way, a teaching assistant from the outer sect named Lin Shen came to look for you this afternoon."

Looking at Han Muye, Huang Lao Liu's face was strange: "He said your insight is extraordinary, and it's a waste for you to be a Sword Pavilion observer."

Han Muye's face stiffened.

That Lin coach from the outer sect?

He's really quite honest.

"I told you to find him tomorrow." Huang Lao Liu glanced at Han Muye and whispered, "If you can really leave the Sword Pavilion, then go."

Leave the Sword Pavilion?

Han Muye turned to look at the sword artifacts on the shelves.

If he leaves here, will he live longer?

But with his ninth-grade talent, where can he go?

Shaking his head, he carried the pill furnace into the meditation room.

Rather than leaving, he might as well find a way to live longer himself.

Herbal pills to increase lifespan.

Advancing body cultivation techniques to the ninth level of the Cultivation Foundation stage.

An Elder at the Core Formation stage to疏导 the sword qi.

Seven days.

"I not only want to survive, but I want to live a long time."

Han Muye took a deep breath and took out a package of spiritual herbs for refining Cloud Qi Pills, placing them one by one.

He lightly pressed his palm on the pill furnace, and the image of the furnace casting appeared.

But at this moment, what he needed was not the understanding of the casting method.

In the qi sea, a thread of fiery sword qi split off from the fiery sword intent, passed through the meridians, and emerged from his palm.

"Buzz—"

A fiery red glow instantly enveloped the pill furnace.

Refining pills with sword qi!

If this scene were seen by a pill refinement practitioner, they would probably curse him as a madman.

Pill refinement is a meticulous and gentle process; how can such a sharp force as sword qi be used to refine pills?

If a proper sword cultivator saw someone using fire-based sword qi to refine pills, they would probably be furious.

We, sword cultivators, should kill and conquer the world.

Using sword qi to refine pills, get lost!

But Han Muye did it.

The fierce sword qi transformed into a soft, warm flame.

The sword qi enveloped the pill furnace, and heat began to radiate.

Without hesitation, he put various spiritual herbs into the pill furnace.

The pill furnace rotated, the fragrance of the herbs escaped, but was wrapped and pressed back into the pill furnace by the fiery red sword qi.

The sword qi penetrated the bronze walls of the pill furnace, stirring inside.

All the medicinal power formed a vortex and then condensed into a cloud of qi.

Han Muye took out the Cloud Qi Pill worth thirty spirit stones, scraped off a layer with his fingernail, and flicked it into the pill furnace.

This was the catalyst he thought of!

Sure enough, as soon as the layer of Cloud Qi Pill powder entered the pill furnace, the medicinal power in the furnace had something to attach to, continuously rotating and forming five bright small spheres.

The fiery red sword qi swirled, scooping out the five clear, pea-sized pills.

The pills were done.

With his full-level insight, Han Muye's technique for refining Cloud Qi Pills was already very proficient.

But this furnace produced five pills.

Isn't it true that one furnace can only produce a maximum of three pills?

Moreover, these pills seem different from Cloud Qi Pills?

Looking at the bright, jade-like pills in his palm, Han Muye hesitated.

The appearance of these pills is much better than the Cloud Qi Pill in his hand.

Could this be a high-quality pill?

After a moment of contemplation, he put the Cloud Qi Pill with a scraped layer into his mouth.

The pill was damaged, and if not consumed, the medicinal power would gradually dissipate.

The pill tasted sweet, and a faint cloud of qi seemed to float in his mouth, then traveled through his body's meridians.

The meridians originally burned by the fire-based sword qi were as if washed by clear water, feeling very comfortable.

Regardless of the other effects of the Cloud Qi Pill, just the smoothing of the body's meridians made Han Muye feel that the thirty spirit stones were worth it.

At this moment, he also felt the drawbacks of his ninth-grade talent.

A pill for the Qi Condensation stage traveled through his meridians a few times, and the medicinal power dissipated.

His body seemed to directly absorb the medicinal power, not giving it a chance to gather and settle.

Without accumulation and sedimentation, how can one cultivate?

No wonder a ninth-grade talent can never reach the Foundation Establishment stage.

After the medicinal power of the Cloud Qi Pill dissipated, Han Muye did not hesitate to take another pill he had refined and put it in his mouth.

He didn't take the pill for cultivation.

He just wanted to feel the difference between the pills he refined and those refined by others.

The pill entered his mouth, and the cloud of qi dispersed.

Han Muye suddenly trembled, his eyes wide open!