Luo Chen Emerged from Seclusion

Inside the quiet Cultivation Room.

Luo Chen sat cross-legged after a quick wash, his gaze sharp as a torch. A Jade Slip floated above and before him.

Characters poured out one after another like a waterfall.

Looking at the words he knew well enough to recite backward, Luo Chen finally made his choice after years of hesitation.

"A five-colored core is the mark of Core Formation with all Five Elements Spirit Roots."

"Though the green of the Wood Element dominates, the Fire Element spiritual energy I cultivate alongside it accounts for twenty percent."

"If I weighed longevity, breaking through, and ease of learning, I should keep the Wood Element as my foundation and choose the Flourishing Green One Heart Art."

"But longevity is not immortality. Before I can live as long as heaven and earth, more years mean nothing if I lack the strength to survive!"

It had to be said.

After the Wither Bloom Fire devoured his vitality and sent the upper limit of Luo Chen's lifespan plummeting,

his understanding of lifespan had grown clearer and more sober.

Especially after he successfully formed his core, his lifespan limit had leaped from two hundred years to four hundred.

Vitality surged through him. Even his formerly gray-white hair had turned ninety percent back to a healthy black.

That let Luo Chen view lifespan more clearly.

However high that limit might be, without a powerful Protective Dao Art, surviving safely to that age in this cruel Cultivation World would be difficult.

Better to grow stronger within the years he could reasonably expect to live. That was surely the wiser choice.

He wanted not only a long life, but one no one could take from him!

"I've refined the Wither Bloom Fire and carry Source True Fire within me, but I hardly make