When the first rays of morning light filtered through the curtains and into the room, Qin Shi's body woke from Deep Sleep as if following a programmed routine.
He opened his eyes and lay still for three minutes, making sure Flesh Activity flowed through his entire body and gradually roused his dormant muscles.
His qi circulated slowly through eighty-one cycles, until his ordinary body felt warm and began to radiate heat.
Only then did Qin Shi exhale a breath of stale air, push himself up with both hands, and get out of bed to wash up.
This was an Old Martial Arts technique he had recently learned: warming up the torso and nourishing the internal organs.
According to Old Liang, it was a "Body Cultivation tip."
Hong Sheng's grandmaster had relied on a tranquil Body Cultivation technique to live well past four hundred, outlasting countless peers and rivals, and seeing his disciples and grand-disciples flourish until the very end.
Old Liang's own master hadn't been so fortunate. He had passed away first, falling in the ring.
In the Great Universe Era, Eastern Xia citizens had an average life expectancy of ninety to a hundred and twenty years—though, of course, this mainly referred to citizens settled in a Metropolitan Area or Central City.
Professionals who entered the supernatural path, such as Martial Artists and mechanics, worked to develop their Life Force, but their lifespans did not increase significantly. They gained perhaps another twenty or thirty years.
Those at Professional Level could probably make it to around two hundred, as long as they avoided intense overexertion. Only by achieving a true evolution of their life level could they hope to break through that limit.
Qin Shi had heard that the super-enterprises and major financial conglomerates far away invested heavily every year in