You He Demon Venerable raised an eyebrow and asked, "Do you know the limit of my lifespan?"
Su Yuan glanced at him. The "Answering Danger with Duty" entry activated, and he imdiately obtained the Demon Venerable's lifespan.
Lifespan: 2,997 Epochs.
Each Epoch equals 6.4 billion Yuan Assembly, which is 8.294 trillion years.
That lifespan is unimaginably long—so long that calling it immortality would not be an exaggeration.
But no matter how long a lifespan is, it will still end soday.
Of course, great beings have many thods to extend their lives, and such limits keep being pushed farther out;
reaching the absolute end of lifespan is not easy.
Su Yuan withdrew his gaze and said calmly, "I did not know, but I can extract your lifespan. As long as you agree, it can be done."
You He Demon Venerable looked at Su Yuan deeply and asked, "How will you calculate the cost?"
"For a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal, ten thousand Yuan Assembly of lifespan can be exchanged for one Ten-Star Coin, which equates to one year of a fourth-tier comprehension (wùxìng) buff!"
"This price is far too steep!" You He Demon Venerable said imdiately. "Reduce it to about one percent!"
Su Yuan shook his head. "Sorry, that's my price. No bargaining. Besides, the Hunyuan lifespan is virtually limitless;
helping a Hunyuan Great being improve comprehension is extrely difficult. This price is not as high as it might seem."
You He Demon Venerable fell into thought.
The other great beings stared at him, curious how much the august You He Demon Venerable would be willing to pay to obtain this so-called instant-enlightennt technique.
A strong sense of urgency filled You He Demon Venerable's heart—an urgency born from the threat of Zhuyuan Great Emperor. He could faintly sense that a life-or-death crisis was looming;
Zhuyuan Great Emperor was closing himself off to forcefully break through toward Hunyuan Taiyi Great Luo Golden Immortal, and from the danger-sense, it seed likely he might succeed.
If that happened, You He would not be able to stand before Zhuyuan Great Emperor—he could only be forced to stubbornly defend the Demonic Realm's perilous strongholds, perhaps even seal himself away. That was not sothing You He wanted.
So in that mont You He Demon Venerable made a massive decision. Lifespan was essentially endless to him—what did a limit matter? If he could break through to a higher realm, any lifespan lost would be made up a hundred- or thousand-fold.
With that thought, You He Demon Venerable said, "I need a six-tier comprehension buff lasting ten thousand years!"
Su Yuan sucked in a cold breath.
That equates to one hundred billion units of rest ti! Fortunately, this fellow possessed far more rest ti than that.
Su Yuan said, "In that case, you need to pay 10 billion Yuan Assembly of lifespan! Do you agree to this trade?"
A transaction request suddenly appeared faintly to You He Demon Venerable: Seven Stars Dao Sovereign will pay for ten thousand years of six-tier comprehension buff in exchange for 10 billion Yuan Assembly of lifespan. Do you agree?
You He hesitated a mont, then confird, "Yes!"
Su Yuan put out his hand and drew forth a special force containing the laws of ti and life from within You He Demon Venerable, rging it into his own body.
You He Demon Venerable clearly felt so of a certain root essence being consud.
He imdiately asured how much of that root essence he had lost and how much remained in his body.
Comparing it with the lost lifespan, he concluded that his remaining lifespan was 2,995 Epochs!
You He Demon Venerable's heart trembled. This was the first ti he realized he actually had a lifespan limit. Although that limit was extraordinarily, extraordinarily remote, it revealed a shocking truth: even a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal had an upper bound to lifespan.
Su Yuan paid no mind to You He's thoughts. He activated the "Work-Rest Balance" entry toward You He Demon Venerable, triggering You He's cultivation state.
At the sa ti he casually extracted an equal amount of rest ti from You He's body as a handling fee.
He was wary of taking too much and being detected by You He, so he only extracted an amount equal to the consud rest ti as the fee—consider it a generous promotional discount.
You He Demon Venerable's mind cleared, his Nascent Soul brightened, and his true spirit beca lucid. His understanding of the You He Great Dao expanded dramatically, improving by a hundredfold over the previous attempts!
"This actually works!" You He laughed heartily. "Can this really last ten thousand years?"
Su Yuan patted his chest. "I swear by my Dao heart: barring other accidents or interruptions, you can maintain this buff for a full ten thousand years. With this state, breaking into Hunyuan Taiyi Great Luo Golden Immortal is not impossible!"
Su Yuan smiled.
Taiyi Sage Lord and the others' faces changed dramatically.
His expression turned extrely ugly. "Seven Stars compatriot, in aiding the Demonic Realm like this you may suffer backlash in the future. Please reconsider the consequences!"
Su Yuan raised an eyebrow. He had asked for a long ti earlier and hadn't seen any of them step forward to try. Now that the Demonic Realm truly benefited, they were suddenly worried?
To Su Yuan, at the Hunyuan Great Luo level there was no strict distinction between immortals and demons—powerful immortal-world practitioners could slaughter trillions out of whim. For Su Yuan, whether immortal realm or demonic realm, as long as he profited it was fine;
he could not police others' actions.
You He Demon Venerable interjected: "I hereby promise that the Demonic Realm will uphold the neutrality of Seven Stars Market. If anyone dares to interfere with the market's operations, I will clear them out one by one! This includes my own faction and other factions!"
His deep pupils fixed on Taiyi Sage Lord.
Taiyi Sage Lord snorted coldly and t You He's gaze, refusing to yield. Both were avatars—who feared whom?
Su Yuan coughed and asked, "Does anyone else require a trade? If not, I'll be leaving. From now on, anyone wanting a comprehension buff must make an appointnt in advance—submit applications to my sect elder, Star Dust Daoist. If I have ti, I will act again."
You He Demon Venerable imdiately addressed the Demonic Realm's great beings: "All of you co and trade. Follow my standard. You must raise your strength quickly;
there will be many battles ahead!"
The Demonic Realm's great beings listened and approached Su Yuan, lining up to apply for trades.
Demonic cultivators were most unruly—generally harder to control than immortal cultivators—but they had one habit: when soone proved stronger, they obeyed. When benefits appeared, they rushed forward without ceremony.
Su Yuan was surprised at the Demonic Realm great beings' decisiveness.
Besides those present, they summoned other great beings from the Demonic Realm.
In the end, forty-seven great beings completed trades with Su Yuan, each trading the sa amount of lifespan as You He Demon Venerable.
As a result, the lifespan Su Yuan obtained reached a staggering 480 billion Yuan Assembly! Totalling 75 Epochs!
The vast root essence of lifespan rged into Su Yuan's body, causing a trendous tamorphosis. Under the infusion of massive life-root essence, his physical body forcibly advanced to the consummate layer of Hunyuan Golden Immortal!
The transformation was so rapid and imnse it shook heaven and earth. Only "Great Being Deanor" and "Hidden Walker" were powerful enough to conceal many of Su Yuan's changes.
The Demonic Realm's great beings had acted, and the Immortal Realm side could no longer remain idle!
Great beings with divination arts could already predict that the Demonic Realm great beings' strength would on average more than double in the future!
Though they could not calculate the cause, the reason now stood plainly before them—no need to divine further.
Thus, they too had to trade with Su Yuan.
Epoch Primordial Dragon hurried over.
Taiyi Sage Lord saw him and secretly transmitted to the Epoch True Dragon: "Old Dragon, is this lifespan matter that Seven Stars Dao Sovereign ntions true?"
Epoch True Dragon replied: "Indeed. This dragon has pondered the Path of Years and once wondered whether Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortals truly are eternal. Through my research this dragon discovered they do have a lifespan limit. But that limit is extrely remote, and the world has many items and thods to extend lifespan, so there's no need to worry too much."
"Can he really trade our lifespans? That's unbelievable!" Taiyi Sage Lord hesitated.
"Perhaps what he comprehends isn't the law of stars but the law of ti," Epoch Primordial Dragon said carefully. "The so-called instant-enlightennt technique I glimpsed had an essence: it is a high-level application of the Ti Dao, consuming so of the ti-based power we originally possess to burst forth in a short period to achieve enlightennt!"
"What? This is energy we already had? Then aren't we losing out big ti?" Taiyi Sage Lord frowned. "Can you induce it?"
Epoch Primordial Dragon shook his head. "If I could induce it, I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't have been stuck in the late Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal stage without any progress!"
In truth, Epoch Primordial Dragon was eager to experience Su Yuan's great technique, because it clearly belonged to the Ti Dao and would be exceptionally useful in his own comprehension of the Path of Years.
Soon Epoch Primordial Dragon sought Su Yuan out and said, "This dragon wishes to trade. I need the six-tier instant-enlightennt effect for one hundred thousand years, trading 100 billion Yuan Assembly of lifespan!"
Su Yuan first scanned Epoch Primordial Dragon, then his eyes widened.
He saw gigantic amounts of rest ti within the dragon—an amount equaling several Epochs!
Indeed, the rest ti reached 5.3 Epochs!
Epoch Primordial Dragon seed to notice Su Yuan's surprise and smiled: "Seven Stars compatriot, this dragon likes to sleep. Especially in places where ti flows faster, I can sleep for long stretches. The power of years allows to beco longer-lived and stronger!"
Su Yuan couldn't help asking, "If I trade and take your lifespan, will you beco stronger because of it?"
Epoch Primordial Dragon paused, then said, "I don't know, but it's worth trying!"
Su Yuan nodded. "All right, let's sign the trade contract."
Man and dragon signed the contract imdiately.
Su Yuan activated the six-tier instant-enlightennt for him, and casually scooped up ten tis the rest ti from the old dragon's body. Damn—the guy was swimming in wealth;
he had to reap a harvest.
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