Chapter 539 (2/2)

At the first tier, when one was at the first transition, one’s lifespan could be interchangeable with the proficiency of one’s techniques.

At the second tier, when one was at the second transition, one’s lifespan could be interchangeable with specialty seeds, physical particles, and the the toughness of one’s body.

At the third tier, after the cultivator had attained the Divine level, one’s lifespan could be directly converted to the power of martial will. It was a pity that this tier of the Mountainous Sea’s Book of the Way had already been lost by the people from the Wang Clan. Even if Fang Xingjian wished to cultivate it after attaining the Divine level, he would not be able to do it.

This meant that right now, Fang Xingjian could make conversions between his skill mastery, specialty seeds, physical particles, level of body’s toughness, and his lifespan.

Out of all these, skill mastery was the one thing which Fang Xingjian cared about the least. It was also the first thing which he chose.

An immensely boundless aura enveloped him, and at the next moment, he felt the information in his consciousness concerning the Ether Divine Art start to burn up.

As the information went up in flames, the numbers on his Stats Window concerning the Ether Divine Art dropped abruptly, changing from level 12 to level 11.

However, when Fang Xingjian looked at his lifespan, there were no increments at all. He frowned and continued in his attempts to convert, sensing his mastery of the Ether Divine Arts plunge at a rapid rate with its level reducing ceaselessly.

Anyway, with his current mastery in sword arts, the Ether Divine Arts was already something he could do without. Therefore, he decided to convert all of his mastery in the Ether Divine Arts into his lifespan.

Boom! A loud explosion seemed to come from the void space, and Fang Xingjian felt that everything in his mind concerning the Ether Divine Arts had completely burned up and disappeared. The Ether Divine Arts no longer existed as a skill on his Stats Window either.

However, when Fang Xingjian looked toward his lifespan yet again, there was still no increment to it at all.

Fang Xingjian exhaled, feeling bitter. As expected, the person who had taken away his lifespan back then had not been a simple character. The method listed in the Mountainous Sea’s Book of the Way to increase one’s lifespan was not effective at all.

Fang Xingjian shook his head and started to experiment the next step, converting his lifespan into power.

He had already attained perfection in the area of physical particles, while mastery of skills was the thing he needed the least at the moment. Furthermore, his body’s toughness had already reached level 29, which was the maximum a Conferred Knight could reach.

This meant that the only thing he could convert his lifespan into was specialty seeds.

However, it was a pity that, according to the records in the Book of the Way, in order to instantly condense a complete specialty seed at the price of one’s lifespan, it would take over one month’s worth of the person’s lifespan. It was really not worth it.

All in all, Fang Xingjian was left with less than three years of his life left. He would die just from condensing several tens of specialty seeds.

‘But something is better than nothing. I’ll just give it a brief attempt. At the very least, it’ll give me another option in critical situations.’

By this time, Fang Xingjian was already feeling disappointed in the Mountainous Sea’s Book of the Way. It was a good martial technique, but it was a pity that this martial technique was useless for him.

At the next moment, Fang Xingjian started to circulate the Mountainous Sea’s Book of the Way. A profound aura of lifespan, time, degeneration, and new life spreaded throughout his entire body. Then he felt as if something was being drawn from void space, gathering in his body, and starting to help him condense specialty seeds.

However, Fang Xingjian stopped just after having condensed one-thousandth of a specialty seed. He was only trying it out, not really planning to use his lifespan to exchange for power.

However, at the next moment, Fang Xingjian’s eyes opened abruptly. Three-feet of sword light burst forth from his eyes which were filled with disbelief.

‘To think that my lifespan has not reduced in the least?’

What he first felt was not pleasant surprise. Rather, he was dumbstruck with amazement.

This was as if someone had spoken softly next to his ears, “The agreement is for you to die, and it’s for you to die three years later. It won’t do to have an additional second more or less.”

At this moment, Fang Xingjian suddenly understood that the matter concerning his lifespan was no longer something that was just about lifespan and life. Instead, it had been escalated to the degree of the cause and effect of events in his life.