[After doing all this, your lifespan could finally no longer sustain the Power of the Seven Luminaries.]
[Your projections across the entire world vanished at the same time.]
[With a head full of white hair, weathered and withered by age, you fell freely from the sky, plummeting toward the ground.]
[The wind howled past your ears.]
[Blue sky and white clouds filled your vision.]
[The earth was at your back.]
[It was over...]
[Five simulations, five lives.]
[This time had been the longest, the richest in experiences, and the one in which you had crossed paths with the most people.]
[Counting the gains you had accumulated along the way, you felt that you had come out well ahead.]
[Was it... over?]
[Li Lingyue burst out of the ground and caught you as you fell from the sky.]
["Chen-lang!"]
[Seeing how utterly aged you had become, Li Lingyue's eyes filled with tears.]
["Don't be sad... Lingyue, be a good Dao Protector... the Human World still has a long road ahead..."]
["How could you leave before me?! Hold on, I'll find a way to extend your life!"]
[You gave a bitter smile.]
[Your lifespan was gone, and you had taken out a Lifespan Loan before. You still had to repay it afterward.]
[Even if Li Lingyue could keep you alive a while longer, when repayment came due, if you could not pay it back, death would still be the only road ahead.]
[Just as you were about to pass away, someone arrived at your side.]
["Third brother-in-law?"]
[Shen Qingshan hurried over from the Star Domain and said anxiously.]
["The ancestor said he left you a great gift. Quickly, use this method to claim it!"]
[Shen Qingshan passed you a Heart Method and had you circulate it.]
[You struggled to rise, sat cross-legged,