Ten Thousand Years is Too Long, I, Li Changsheng, Only Seize the Day!

Douluo Continent, south of the Heaven Dou Empire, Spirit Soul Village.

If one were to judge Spirit Soul Village by its name alone, it would have been a thunderous existence long ago. Even now, it remains quite impressive.

Ten thousand years ago, this was a small village of only three hundred households; today, the population has swelled to over ten thousand. Its name was not originally Spirit Soul, but Holy Soul. According to the recorded Village History, a god emerged from this village ten thousand years ago!

The god's name was Tang San! Legend has it that he inherited the authority of the Sea God.

They say that outstanding people make the land flourish, and Spirit Soul Village is the perfect embodiment of that.

For many years, countless soul masters have sought to cultivate within Spirit Soul Village. Rumor has it that the environment accelerates cultivation, so the vast forests that once surrounded the village were completely cleared away and transformed into housing for people to live and train, giving the place a somewhat utopian feel.

Yet, even though its footprint has surpassed that of many towns, Spirit Soul Village remains a village at its core. Outsiders are merely outsiders, and the core villagers are but a small fraction of the population.

Early morning, the sky was just beginning to brighten, a shade of grey-blue exhaled by the horizon.

Dew dampened the Blue Silver Grass growing in the town's flower stalls. Standing atop a thousand-meter-high hill outside Spirit Soul Village was a majestic figure.

He was not tall, appearing to be five or six years old, yet he wore a white robe that seemed ill-suited for his size.

His fair face was like warm jade, tinged with a hint of rose. His hair was somewhat long, left untied to drift with the wind, and his slightly narrow eyes revealed a peculiar, archaic light.

One detail, however, was quite strange: this thousand-meter-high slope was incredibly smooth, its surface stripped of the natural ruggedness one would expect from a mountain.

There was a reason for this: legend claimed this was where the ancestor Tang San practiced in his youth, and touching the stone would grant one protection. Many soul masters came seeking this fame, and over time, the mountain was polished smooth by countless hands, though it had grown much taller over the passage of time.

The boy had climbed up without any apparent effort, and judging by his appearance, he was clearly not yet a soul master.

He gazed at the blinding sun gradually rising in the distance, sighed, and stroked his smooth chin with the air of an old man. Within his clear, bottomless eyes, a thin film of light seemed to shimmer, with strange things flickering across it.

"To think that I, Li Changsheng, once sat here bragging with Tang San, eating wild rabbits, teasing him, and even defeating him with a sliding tackle—I was a man who feared no god. And now? Damn it! His grandmother's! The man has been a god for ten thousand years! Ten thousand years! And I haven't even awakened a martial soul yet!"

Li Changsheng's anger surged. He flicked the long sleeves of his white robe and roared with a voice full of childishness.

But as the words fell, he collapsed onto the ground, his face twisted into an expression uglier than weeping.

He wanted to grab a blade of grass to chew on, but the entire mountain was barren. The grass that once grew here had long been packaged by successive village chiefs as precious relics and sold off for coin.

Li Changsheng pried a thumb-sized piece of gravel from a crevice and pinched it in his hand. "This piece of rubble is worth one hundred gold soul coins. It's all thanks to me. Hmph, if it weren't for my ideas, you lot in Spirit Soul Village would still be farming. With one thought from Li Changsheng, I could turn this mountain to dust!"

After muttering to himself, he waited with a glimmer of anticipation for the brilliant sun to rise, his expression gradually softening into a state of returning to simplicity.

In truth, he was waiting for an opportunity.

An opportunity sufficient to change the first half of his life.

You could never know how he had spent these past ten thousand years!

His name was Li Changsheng!

His life lived up to his name: eternal life for ten thousand years.

Ten thousand years ago, before Tang San had awakened his martial soul, he had also transmigrated here and maintained a decent relationship with Tang San.

He hadn't spent six years as a slacker; he had awakened a system the moment he arrived, only to spend the next ten thousand years doing nothing!

The reason was that his system was bizarre.

The moment it appeared, it asked him to choose the type of system he wanted.

Systems came in types?

Of course they did!

Selection System!

Sign-in System!

Invincible System!

The sheer variety made one lament that the Douluo Continent had been played to death.

As a modern man, he naturally knew what was most precious.

Lifespan!

No matter how rich you are, if you die, you have nothing! No matter how powerful you are, if you die, you are dead.

And that was the most bizarre part!

He had only thought about it for a moment, but among the countless options, there was actually a Longevity System!

The core functions all aligned with Li Changsheng's expectations:

Take one step, gain one thousand years of lifespan!

Take two steps, gain two thousand years of lifespan!

Stepping on this rock has a chance of causing a ruptured blood vessel; please detour.

Walk one hundred steps, achieve eternal youth!

Walking could increase his lifespan!

It could stack! It had triggers! It could actively warn him of danger!

Awesome! Li Changsheng was thrilled at that moment. If he hadn't just been born and his body hadn't been so uncoordinated, he would have loved to run a few laps around Spirit Soul Village with his bare bottom exposed.

Later, he learned to walk at three months old, and then he began his longevity!

By the time he was six and it was time to awaken his martial soul, his lifespan had already reached a billion years!

But it was also at six years old, when he went to awaken his martial soul.

He followed Tang San, witnessing Tang San's innate full soul power and his trash martial soul. He grew increasingly expectant of what his own martial soul would be; after all, he could live forever, so if he could just get a slightly stronger martial soul, becoming a god would be a piece of cake.

However, when it was his turn, no martial soul appeared. Instead, the Longevity System popped up a notification:

"The soul master world is too dangerous. The host's martial soul has been removed, and innate full soul power has been stripped."

I...

Li Changsheng was stunned at the time, but he had no choice but to adapt, living in Spirit Soul Village, inheriting the family business, and selling vegetables!

He spent his days slowly passing the time like this, and when he turned eighteen, he used the "Eternal Youth" ability.

He lived.

Tang San became a Great Soul Master.

He lived.

Tang San became a Soul Saint.

He lived.

Tang San became a Titled Douluo.

He lived.

Tang San became a god.

He kept on living, while everyone around him died.

Was this the first half of Li Changsheng's life? Of course not!

About a hundred years after Tang San became a god, because Li Changsheng had been crying and complaining every day about how difficult his transmigration life was—complaining for about a hundred years—his Longevity System suddenly popped up a notification:

"Ten thousand years from now, the host will receive a chance to randomly draw a new system."

Ten thousand years!

Li Changsheng was still a bit speechless at the time. What would Douluo Continent be like in ten thousand years? Would there be a Douluo Continent II? Could he take a look? If he changed systems in ten thousand years, would he be able to awaken a martial soul then?

He didn't know any of this, so he just had to wait and wait, counting the time day by day.

In the blink of an eye, today arrived!

He had been restored to his six-year-old appearance by the Longevity System to prepare for the martial soul awakening!

Some might wonder, since he had lived for so long and still had no martial soul, wasn't anyone surprised?

Actually, no!

It seemed to be the work of the Longevity System, which had altered everyone's perception. In the Li family, he was the ancestor! A respected ancestor, an antique who had survived since the generation of Old Jack!

Feeling the blinding sunlight hitting his body, the heat grew more and more intense.

Li Changsheng, sitting cross-legged on the ground, slowly opened his eyes, his youthful face brimming with excitement.

At the same time, a thunderous sound echoed in his mind.

"Ding-dong, the host's Longevity System has expired. Remaining lifespan: one trillion years. Converted into points for the lottery. Now drawing a new system for the host."

Draw!

These two words represented unpredictability. It might draw a bizarre system for Li Changsheng, but he wasn't afraid—he had lived enough! Living for too long was truly unbearable!

He wanted to become a legend after these ten thousand years! Not the legend who lived the longest, but the most powerful one! He would make his brilliance shine upon the current Douluo Continent!

"Ding, congratulations to the host for your incredible luck. You have drawn the Myriad Worlds Sign-in System."

"Ding, detected that the Douluo Continent plot has diverged and the era has changed drastically. Correcting sign-in locations for the host... Correction complete... Congratulations to the host for your first sign-in. Obtained auxiliary skill: Longevity; Obtained item: Artifact, Night-Startling Divine Spear!"

"Note: Auxiliary skills will be presented in the system directory; please review them yourself. Items will be delivered to the system warehouse in physical form. Seizing Night-Startling Divine Spear... Seizure successful... Delivering... Expected arrival at 6:00 PM. Please check your warehouse."

"Next sign-in location: Spirit Soul Village, Sea God Awakening Hall!"

"Triggered limited-time mission: Before the martial soul awakening, learn the Mysterious Heaven Skill inscribed under the bed in Tang San's former residence. Achieve innate full soul power. Rewards will be issued upon martial soul awakening. A limited reward will be issued upon obtaining the Mysterious Heaven Skill."

"Myriad Worlds Sign-in System!"

Li Changsheng, who had been sitting on the ground, suddenly sprang up and jumped high, his childish face unable to suppress his excitement. Where was the composure of someone who had lived for ten thousand years?

"Truly, 'Morning like blue silk, evening like snow; success or failure, it all ends in emptiness!' From this day forward, for ten thousand years, I, Li Changsheng, shall lead the way!"

Standing on the barren mountain, looking at the surging morning mist rolling in from afar, he flicked his long sleeves. Even with his youthful voice, his dominance was fully revealed!