Chapter 49: I Want to Sell My Lifespan!

"See, I told you it wasn’t a fridge."

The genes of the Old Zhang family weren’t bad; both the siblings were quite handsome.

Although Zhang Xiaoxi’s features weren’t as stunning as Chen Nuanyu’s, she was still finely beautiful with naturally great bone structure,

at this moment lying lazily on the sofa, with her barefoot raised and swinging.

Zhang Fuqi gave her foot a slap:

"You blacklisted people pretty fast, huh?"

Zhang Xiaoxi spoke in a teasing tone:

"Oh my, little brother’s grown up, starting to be fierce with his sister, boohoo....."

Zhang Fusheng felt a twinge in his liver.

"Where’s Uncle and Aunt?"

"Oh, my dad was summoned by the Public Security Bureau, and mom went with him. I stayed to entertain you." Zhang Xiaoxi languidly got up, starting to unwrap the huge package that looked like a fridge.

"Summoned?"

Zhang Fusheng was startled:

"What happened?"

"Nothing much, a small fire broke out in my dad’s factory at night, got put out before the fire brigade arrived, but they’re still doing routine inquiries."

She perked up instantly while unpacking:

"估计要明早才回来了,你也知道,龙舟市治安严格,条例又长又臭...当当!快看我的新宝贝!"

Zhang Fusheng looked at the large package she opened; inside wasn’t a fridge, but something... like a large mainframe?

"What’s this?" he asked curiously.

"A third-generation high-speed computer, given free by the Source Point Research Institute."

Zhang Xiaoxi said proudly:

"I’m one of only three people in our city qualified to enter the institute, but Dragon Boat City only has one spot. My skills are better, just a bit inexperienced. If I grab a first prize in the provincial competition this time, it’ll be enough."

Zhang Fusheng, aware of the prestige:

"Source Point Research Institute? What do they do?"

"You don’t know? Country bumpkin!"

Zhang Xiaoxi looked disdainful:

"They study Different Dimensions. They have the biggest supercomputer in our Golden Province, with loads of funding approved by the authorities. Once you become a formal researcher, I hear there are countless privileges and benefits..."

Zhang Fusheng’s eyebrows twitched.

Different Dimensions?

He recalled what Huang Qiuxian had mentioned, that the Western Sect’s Flesh Plague came from the Thirty-Six Layers of Heaven Dimension.

"What’s a Different Dimension?"

Zhang Fusheng asked without embarrassment:

"Why do you need computers for the study?"

"I’m not in yet, how would I know!" Zhang Xiaoxi said indignantly: "Regarding computers, they calculate dimensional parameters, you fool."

She touched the fridge-like computer like a treasure:

"Of course, there’s also analysis of the Spiritual World, helping to construct world models... Don’t ask me, I don’t even understand the Spiritual World."

Zhang Fusheng’s interest grew stronger.

Spiritual World.

Zhang Xiaoxi might not know what it is, but he was well aware, the Divine Realm.

So, this Source Point Research Institute studies things like the Divine Realm and ’Thirty-Six Layers of Heaven Dimension’?

That’s something incredible...

Looks like Sister Xixi is going to soar high.

But, helping to construct Spiritual World models, or Divine Realm models, how does that work?

Aren’t these freely changeable according to one’s mind?

Hmm, better ask my master later.

While Zhang Fusheng’s mind spun with thoughts, Zhang Xiaoxi had already dragged her big treasure into her room.

"I’m off to do research, do not disturb. Your room’s all set up, lovely sister personally made your bed all fragrant and soft, no need to thank me, see you tomorrow!"

"This mischievous girl."

Zhang Fusheng shook his head in resignation, walked into the kitchen, lit the stove, first cooked some Star Beast meat, consumed about one-fifth of it.

The last dimness of the Contract dissipated, cooling down.

"The effect weakened again; I wonder if Dragon Boat City has new types of Star Beast meat."

Zhang Fusheng frowned,

he’d need quite a few transactions coming up.

Chen Nuanyu and her mother, Huang Qiuxian, and finding a suitable recruit in Dragon Boat City, all needed ’transactions’.

Plus the time for cultivation, physical cultivation time.

Three Refinements is too weak.

"Three parts strength to beat, seven parts strength to kill..."

Zhang Fusheng muttered to himself:

"With the Spirit Divine Realm as my trump card, I can reveal appropriately in other areas."

Entering his room and closing the door, Zhang Fusheng stood in the Flower Picking Stance, silently operating the Great Sun Scripture.

The three paths of cultivation: the Contemplation Technique trains the spirit, the Breathing Technique is for drawing in the Mysterious Factor, but the Main Cultivation Technique is the true method for cultivating.

That’s also why, without a Main Cultivation Technique, one can only reach the First Refinement with just Breathing and Contemplation two methods at most.

In between one breath and another,

under the interference of Zhang Fusheng’s spiritual will, countless Mysterious Factors were captured and streamed into his body with his breathing, circulating through the route of the Great Sun Scripture,

his current body, flawless and free from impurity, might not compare to special constitutions, but among average people, he’s a real genius.

One complete circulation, two...

After six hours and twenty-four circulations, a bottleneck began to loosen.

"At this rate, within a month, at most a month, I will break the shackles of the flesh, let the Mysterious Factor merge in, and step into the Fourth Refinement."

"However..."

The spiritual will traveled within again, bound those Mysterious Factors, forcibly breaking the shackles throughout his muscles, forcibly merging them!

Silently.

Fourth Refinement, accomplished.

This time, he gained a thousand pounds of strength instantly,

"Each Refinement into the Flesh yields a thousand pounds of strength, slowly refining it can yield another thousand; thus, Three Refinements totals six thousand pounds of strength..."

Zhang Fusheng felt the over four thousand pounds of strength within him and exhaled a breath of clear energy.

His face lit up with a smile:

"With a stronger spirit, cultivation becomes much more efficient, especially during a Realm Breakthrough."

"The shackles and barriers that would originally require a lot of time to grind away, I can now forcibly break through with my spiritual will!"

Zhang Fusheng clenched his fist, his whole body’s muscles rippling like waves, and his energy coursing through his veins.

"Hmm?"

He looked inward and noticed that after entering the Fourth Refinement, the light red energy within carried a faint gold glow.

"Interesting, is it because of the Great Sun Illuminates the Seventy-Two Great Snow Mountains Scripture?"

"Unfortunately, I don’t know how long it will take to nurture my Dead Man’s Bone; if it takes years, that really would be..."

Zhang Fusheng finished his cultivation, gently shook his head in sigh, but suddenly a thought occurred to him.

"I can’t purchase the progress for Dead Man’s Bone, but I can buy and sell... basic time on a human body."

"Or rather, lifespan."

His eyes flickered,

Lifespan is essentially manifested on the body; as time passes, the body gradually deteriorates, nearing its limit, until it completely exhausts.

"If I buy a hundred years of remaining lifespan from an ordinary person, would he die young and strong, or... age a hundred years, aging to death?"

"Logically, it’s the latter."

"Then buying lifespan doesn’t necessarily make me younger; the minimum age is 0, but there’s no upper limit."

"Buying lifespan should slow down the decay of the body and soul, or perhaps transfer the decay away."

Zhang Fusheng listened to the slow, steady breathing from the room next door, lifted the curtain, and gazed at the crescent moon in the sky.

"Then, what if I sell or give away my lifespan?"

"If it meant aging, my body would undergo the natural changes of ten or twenty years in an instant..."

"Would the Dead Man’s Bone nourish immediately then?"

"After all, the state of generating Bone Light has already been achieved, and the birth of Dead Man’s Bone is the gradual change in my body."

Zhang Fusheng licked his lips, bursting with excitement:

"Many things aren’t solely obtainable by buying, selling works too!"

"Diseases and injuries can be sold, so can my time!"

He paced back and forth. If the hypothesis proved true and selling lifespan could indeed accelerate Dead Man’s Bone, buying back the lifespan wouldn’t make it disappear...

It would be worth a try.

Worst case, just some loss of Star Beast meat.

"I want to sell my lifespan!"