Xu Zhi lowered his head, feeling his life force burn wildly.
His entire body boiled as he rapidly aged. "Good thing I'm still young. Even without cultivating to become an eighth-order god, the total time I've truly spent in the Sand Table is only a few hundred years. Otherwise, I really would have aged to death."
After all, he had already removed the Blood of Eternal Life and replaced it with the Quantum Gene. Now, he could only endure it head-on.
He calculated it and felt that he could withstand it.
Cultivating at the speed of a crazed high-speed train, burning through seven or eight thousand years of lifespan should let him reach the Ninth-Order Road at 100%.
"Seven or eight thousand years... I feel like I'll become an old man in an instant."
He wore an agonized expression, feeling that this was not something ordinary people could play with.
According to his calculations, it should only take a little over a week. Even if it were delayed, two thousand years at most would have been enough to complete the cultivation. Yet this was going to cost him seven or eight thousand years of lifespan?
Could life force really burn that quickly? This was a huge loss.
There was no cost-effectiveness at all.
In truth, lifespan was manageable. After becoming ninth-order, one had a hundred thousand years of life, and seven or eight thousand years old was still very young. What gave Xu Zhi a headache now was the energy expenditure! The Ninth-Order Road was the path of fusing soul and cells.
It did not require energy at all. It was about cultivating and merging one's own body, a technical task involving comprehension of the Great Dao's laws and Soul-Flesh Unity. Only after breaking through to 100% Weak Ninth-Order did