Ink Disciple Competes to Modify Mechanical Beasts, Grandmaster's Stubborn Mouth Hides a Smitten Heart

[Current Total Remaining Lifespan: 870,000 years]

"Eight hundred seventy thousand years... My lifespan is still far too little."

Zhao Cheng stood against the railing atop Wu'an City, his robes whipped by the howling wind, yet he seemed utterly unaware of it, his mind focused solely on the system interface.

Looking at that string of numbers, he frowned slightly. His fingertips unconsciously brushed over the city wall's bricks, and an imperceptible gravity flashed in his eyes.

His gaze swept over the "Lifespan Comprehension" section of the system, lingering on the virtual screen for a moment.

Even low-tier techniques such as Scattering Beans into Soldiers and Three Heads and Six Arms required a million years of lifespan to exchange for comprehension.

As for a supreme immortal art like the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, it required as much as eight million years of lifespan.

"I'm currently at the Spirit Transformation stage. My foundation is extraordinarily solid, and both my laws and soul power are worlds apart from those of others at the same realm. Though I've never encountered an immortal, I might still be able to fight one."

Zhao Cheng pondered inwardly. He now stood firmly at the Spirit Transformation stage; as long as he continued tempering his Primordial Spirit, ascending through tribulation to become an immortal would be as natural as water flowing into a channel, with no bottlenecks in sight.

But the problem was that, after becoming an immortal, without a top-tier cultivation technique to support him, his subsequent cultivation would only grow slower and slower. He might even become stuck at a certain realm, unable to advance an inch.

Even if he used lifespan to deduce the Heavenly Star Constellation True Technique to the level of an immortal art, it would likely cost no less than eight million years—and