The Naming of the Night
Chapter 707

Placing the Stone at Tengen, Deciding Victory and Defeat, Life and Death

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In this world, most people made efforts to prolong their lives.

Some took injections that cost twelve million per dose to treat illnesses.

Some spent fifty thousand a month on targeted drugs.

Some ate ginseng and cordyceps, drank deer blood.

Lifespan was a topic no one could avoid, because everyone would eventually die.

Life was far too short. People squandered their most precious youth when they understood nothing, squandered their middle age when they gradually began to understand, and only regretted it beyond redemption in old age.

Too many people liked to say that life was but a dream after they grew old.

Yes, life truly was like a grand dream. It passed in the blink of an eye.

Qing Chen looked at the president, who had genuinely felt his youth return. "Mr. Ning, how do you feel?"

The president stared blankly at the back of his hand. Many of its wrinkles had vanished, and even the shortness of breath that usually troubled him had improved considerably. He looked dumbly at Qing Chen, his eyes brimming with tears. "What happened?"

When Qing Chen had placed his palm atop the president's head just now, the president had thought the young man was about to crack open his skull.

Who could have imagined something so miraculous would happen?

"Wipe your tears first," Qing Chen said.

The president hurriedly wiped away his tears with his sleeve.

The president's eyes were not brimming with tears because he was moved. Qing Chen's Knight True Qi was simply too eye-stinging.

Qing Chen smiled. "The Zhunti Method has something called empowerment. Once you receive empowerment, your lifespan can increase by twenty-one years. That True Qi will remain in your body, activating your gradually declining bodily functions and restoring them to a new balance. Also, your cellular telomeres

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