Book 1: Chapter 3: Each Year Is The Last Year To Live (1/2)

After getting what he wanted, Bai Qiuran left the main peak of Qingming Mountain with great joy and returned to the Seven Stars Peak where he lived.

However, during the period when Bai Qiuran left, there seemed to be uninvited guests in the courtyard. When he came to the gate, Bai Qiuran felt an unpleasant cold and gloomy atmosphere emanating from his courtyard.

He stopped for a moment, then opened the gate without fear, walked into his bedroom, and saw the uninvited guest standing in front of his bed.

“It really is you, Xue Ling.”

Looking at the young man wearing a white robe and blue complexion, Bai Qiuran sighed.

“Why do you come here?”

“Bai Qiuran.”

The young man named Xue Ling looked at him with an emotionless face.

“Your life is coming to an end.”

Bai Qiuran’s face cooled down, and the two looked at each other in silence.

After a moment, he scratched his white hair a little irritably, and replied:

“Well, how does this day come again so quick… Alright, I know, you can go back.”

But Xue Ling did not leave, instead stayed in place and continued:

“It’s been over three thousand years, you should give up.”

“Give up what?”

Bai Qiuran insisted:

“Cultivators should persevere their brave and keep enterprising! Although you are a Soul Taker of the Underworld, how do you keep thinking of persuading people to give up their lives?”

That’s right, Xue Ling was one of the Soul Takers who was responsible for restraining the soul of the dead and bringing them to the Underworld.

As a ghost who brought death to the human world and maintains the order of the heavens and the earth, unless Xue Ling himself was willing, living beings could not see him, including cultivators who have set foot on the path of immortality.

In the whole Qingming Sword Sect, except for Bai Qiuran who was dying and the Great Elder who was about to pass the Heavenly Tribulation, even Jue Yunzi couldn’t feel Xue Ling’s existence.

As a Soul Taker, Xue Ling and Bai Qiuran could be regarded as old acquaintances. Although Bai Qiuran has unrivaled strength, could even kill a thunder beat with a sword, but he was still a cultivator during the Qi Refining stage.

Cultivators in the Qi Refining stage, no matter how strong, always had many insurmountable obstacles, and lifespan was one of the most important ones.

A cultivator in the Qi Refining stage could live for a maximum of three or four hundred years. At this age, if he couldn’t successfully, then his physical body would be dead and his soul would be detained. Soul Taker would come to take their soul and send to the wheel of reincarnation.

However, Bai Qiuran was one of the most distinctive. First, the endless Qi in his body guaranteed that his physical body was stronger than the physical body of an ordinary Immortal, and would never decay. Second, he had the Heavenly level of Wood Spiritual Root, which not only increase his speed of cultivating, but also ensured that the body fully absorbs the medicine, and could use the pill with an unlimited number of uses.

Among the pills, there was one called Longevity Pill. Every time a cultivator consumed one, he or she could increase the lifetime by five years. However, because of its medicinal properties, the number of uses was limited, so it’s generally used by those who are about to run out of lifespan to make a final struggle.

But Bai Qiuran did not have this restriction, so he relied on Longevity Pill to extend his lifespan to 1000 years.