I Want to Sell My Lifespan!

"See? I told you it wasn't a refrigerator."

Old Zhang's family had good genes; both the brother and sister were handsome.

Although Zhang Xiaoxi's features weren't as refined as Chen Nuanyu's, she was still delicate and pretty, with excellent bone structure.

She was currently lounging on the sofa, her bare feet propped up and swinging.

Zhang Fusheng playfully slapped her foot:

"You blocked him pretty fast, didn't you?"

Zhang Xiaoxi replied in a saccharine tone:

"Oh my, my little brother is growing up and starting to scold his sister, sob."

Zhang Fusheng's liver ached.

"Where are Uncle and Aunt?"

"Oh, my dad was summoned by the Public Security Bureau, and Mom went with him. I'm staying here to entertain you." Zhang Xiaoxi lazily got up and started unpacking the oversized package that resembled a refrigerator.

"Summoned?"

Zhang Fusheng was stunned:

"What happened?"

"Nothing much, just a small thing. My dad's factory suddenly caught fire last night. A small fire, extinguished before the fire department even arrived, but they still need to ask some routine questions."

While unpacking, Zhang Xiaoxi suddenly became energetic:

"They'll probably be back tomorrow morning. You know how strict Longzhou City is with its regulations, they're so long and annoying! Come see my new treasure!"

Zhang Fusheng looked at the oversized package she had opened. It wasn't a refrigerator, but something that looked like a large mainframe computer.

"What is this?" he asked curiously.

"A Third Generation High-Speed Computer, sent for free by the Source Origin Research Institute."

Zhang Xiaoxi said proudly, "I'm one of only three people in our city qualified to enter the institute. Longzhou City only gets one spot, though. My skills are better than the other two, but my experience is a bit lacking. If I win first place in the provincial competition again, I'll have enough."

Zhang Fusheng didn't quite understand but was impressed: "Source Origin Research Institute? What do they do?"

"You don't even know? What a country bumpkin!"

Zhang Xiaoxi said with disdain, "They research alternate dimensions. They have the largest supercomputer in our Golden Province, and the official funding is massive. If you become a formal researcher, I heard there are tons of benefits and privileges."

Zhang Fusheng's eyes flickered.

Alternate dimensions?

He remembered what Huang Qiuxian had said. The West Cult's Flesh and Blood Plague originated from the Thirty-Six Heavens Dimension.

"What are alternate dimensions?"

Zhang Fusheng humbly asked, "Why do you need a computer to research them?"

"I haven't been inside yet, how would I know!" Zhang Xiaoxi retorted righteously. "As for the computer, it's for calculating dimensional parameters, you idiot."

She caressed the refrigerator-like computer as if it were a precious treasure. "Of course, it's also for analyzing the spiritual world and helping to construct world models. Don't ask me, I don't even know what the spiritual world is."

Zhang Fusheng's interest grew even stronger.

Spiritual world.

Zhang Xiaoxi didn't know what it was, but he understood it very well. Spiritual Realm.

So, that Source Origin Research Institute was researching the Spiritual Realm and things like the 'Thirty-Six Heavens Dimension'?

That was quite significant.

It seemed Sister Xixi was about to soar to the heavens.

But, helping to construct models of the spiritual world, or the Spiritual Realm, what was that about?

Didn't that thing change freely with consciousness?

Hmm, I'll have to ask Master about it later.

While Zhang Fusheng was lost in thought, Zhang Xiaoxi was already dragging her big treasure into her room.

"I'm going to do research, do not disturb. I've tidied up the room for you. Your beautiful sister personally made your bed soft and fragrant. No need to thank me, see you tomorrow!"

"That mischievous girl."

Zhang Fusheng shook his head helplessly, walked into the kitchen, and started cooking. He first pan-fried the one or two pieces of Star Beast Meat and swallowed about a fifth of it.

The last trace of dimness on the Pact was dispelled, and it had finished cooling down.

"The effect has weakened a bit more. I wonder if there's a new type of Star Beast Meat in Longzhou City."

Zhang Fusheng frowned.

He probably had quite a few transactions coming up.

Chen Nuanyu and her mother, Huang Qiuxian, and finding a suitable person to recruit in Longzhou City would all require 'transactions'.

There was also cultivation time, cultivation time for his physical body.

The Third Refinement was too weak.

"Strike an opponent with three parts of your strength, and kill with seven parts."

Zhang Fusheng muttered to himself.

"The Mental Spiritual Realm will be my trump card. I can reveal other aspects appropriately."

He walked into the room, closed the door, and stood in the Lotus Flower Stance, silently circulating the [Great Sun Scripture].

Of the three cultivation methods, the meditation technique trained the spirit, the Breathing Technique was used to draw in Mysterious Factors, and the main scripture was the true method for cultivation.

This was also why those without a main scripture could only reach the First Refinement at most, relying solely on breathing and meditation.

With each inhale and exhale, Under Zhang Fusheng's mental will, a massive amount of Mysterious Factors were captured and flowed into his body with his breath. They followed the route of the Great Sun Scripture, circulating throughout his body.

His current body was pure and untainted. While it couldn't compare to special physiques, among ordinary people, he was already a true genius.

One cycle, two cycles...

Six hours passed, and twenty-four cycles were completed. The bottleneck had begun to loosen.

"At this rate, within a month, at most a month, I'll be able to break the shackles of the [Flesh] and integrate the Mysterious Factors, entering the Fourth Refinement."

"However."

His mental will once again roamed his body, restraining those Mysterious Factors, forcibly breaking through the shackles present in his muscles, and forcibly merging!

Silently.

The Fourth Refinement was achieved.

This time, it directly added a thousand jin of strength.

"For the Flesh Third Refinement, each refinement grants a thousand jin of strength upon entry. Slow tempering can yield another thousand jin. The three refinements combined grant six thousand jin of strength."

Zhang Fusheng felt the more than four thousand jin of strength within him and exhaled a clear breath.

A smile bloomed on his face.

"With a powerful spirit, cultivation becomes twice as effective, especially when breaking through realms."

"The shackles and barriers that originally required a lot of time to break down bit by bit, I can completely force them open with my mental will!"

Zhang Fusheng clenched his fists, his muscles rippling like waves, and his Blood Essence circulated throughout his body.

"Hm?"

He looked inward and found that after entering the Fourth Refinement, the faint red Blood Essence within him was subtly tinged with a hint of golden light.

"Interesting. Is it because of the Great Sun Illuminating Seventy-Two Great Snow Mountains True Scripture?"

"It's a shame. I don't know how much longer it will take for my Dead Man's Bones to be nurtured. If it's calculated in years, then..."

Zhang Fusheng finished his practice and shook his head with a sigh, but a thought suddenly struck him.

"I can't buy the progress for Dead Man's Bones, but I can buy and sell. The basic time on a person."

"Or rather, lifespan."

His eyes flickered.

Lifespan, in essence, was reflected in the body. As time passed, the body gradually decayed, gradually approached its limit, until complete exhaustion.

"If I buy the remaining hundred years of lifespan from an ordinary person, would they die directly in their prime, or would they age a hundred years and die of old age?"

"Logically, it would be the latter."

"So buying lifespan might not mean becoming younger directly. The minimum age is 0, but there's no upper limit."

"Buying lifespan should be about slowing down the rate of bodily and spiritual decay, or rather, transferring the decay."

Zhang Fusheng listened to Sister Xixi's slow, steady breathing from the next room. He pulled back the curtains and gazed at the crescent moon in the sky.

"Then, if I were to sell, to give away my own lifespan?"

"If it means aging, and my body undergoes ten or twenty years of natural temporal change out of thin air..."

"Would the Dead Man's Bones be nurtured directly?"

"After all, the phenomenon of bone emitting light has already been achieved. The birth of Dead Man's Bones is a slow change in my body."

Zhang Fusheng licked his lips, suddenly excited.

"Many things can be obtained not only by buying, but also by selling!"

"Illnesses and injuries can be sold, and my time can also be sold!"

He paced back and forth. If his guess was correct, selling lifespan could indeed accelerate the nurturing of Dead Man's Bones, while buying back lifespan wouldn't make them disappear.

It was worth a try.

If he tried, at most he'd lose some Star Beast Meat.

"I'm going to sell my lifespan!"