Chen Ye let out a long breath and steadied his mind again.
Gradually, he noticed what made this spatial rift different.
Earlier, when the Real World and the Lesser Grotto-Heaven established a passage, their spaces overlapped, turning this interstitial space into the only buffer between them.
Spiritual substance from the True Spirit Realm poured through the cracks.
Wave after wave, so dense it almost took physical form, crashed against his body like a rising tide.
The spiritual energy was far denser than anything he had felt while cultivating outside Ten-Thousand-Fathom City.
At that moment, Chen Ye felt as though he had sunk into an ocean of spiritual energy, an indescribable pleasure suffusing his entire body.
"Such dense spiritual energy..."
Chen Ye realized that an opportunity like this came only once in a thousand years.
He might as well cultivate right here and push his cultivation another step higher.
With that thought, Chen Ye hesitated no longer.
He summoned the Pawn System directly.
A translucent panel unfolded before his eyes.
Rows of numbers appeared clearly upon it.
[Name: Chen Ye] [Realm: Xiantian Realm] [Remaining lifespan: 100 years]
The terror of that Heavenly Demon's aura had already exceeded the limits of martial cultivation in this world.
His current cultivation was nowhere near enough to confront the Heavenly Demon about to descend.
He needed to advance further.
He stared at the lifespan figure. It was enough!
"Pawn ninety-nine years of lifespan!"
With a thought, Chen Ye chose to pawn them outright.
[Deducting 99 years of lifespan. Providing 99 years of cultivation.]
The numbers on the panel abruptly shifted.
A profound, boundless power surged into his body like a flood bursting through a dam.
Chen Ye grunted, feeling as though molten lava were scouring every meridian in his body.
The