In the blink of an eye, half a month slipped away quietly like water.
Lin Fan had poured nearly all his heart and energy into those stacks of yellowed scrolls.
From dawn to dusk each day, he sat at his desk and wrote without pause. Simply by copying the texts, he could gain two or three hundred years of lifespan. As the days accumulated, he had already amassed more than four thousand years of lifespan on his panel.
Yet as he watched that ever-growing number, Lin Fan's brow furrowed slightly, and a faint sense of dissatisfaction stirred within him.
He set down the ink-laden brush in his hand and gazed calmly out the window. "At this rate, copying them one book at a time, it will probably take months or even longer to amass enough lifespan to withstand every hardship. Time waits for no one..."
Suddenly, inspiration struck him. He murmured, "What if those Paper Figure Talismans could copy them in my stead and still earn lifespan? What would that be like?"
At the thought, a trace of regret appeared on his face. Back when he had first acquired this miraculous panel, he had tried using Paper Figure Talismans to assist with copying. The Talisman Paper transformed into human forms, their brushes and ink moving in unison. They looked no different from real people, yet the result had been disappointing—the panel had barely reacted at all.
"If it worked..." Lin Fan shook his head and did not dwell on it further. With his current Void Shattering Realm cultivation, mass-producing hundreds or even thousands of Paper Figure Talismans would be effortless. If it truly worked, the lifespan he gained each day would be vast beyond measure—an inexhaustible supply.
He picked up his brush again, lightly scraping away the remaining ink by