"Why would you do this?"
Jiang Chongguang had never imagined that Li Shun would sacrifice his own lifespan to break the seal before them.
"Stop!" A glaring streak of white had appeared in Li Shun's ink-black hair, and Jiang Chongguang could not hide the urgency in his voice.
Li Shun slowly shook his head, his expression resolute. "I belong to the tomb-guarding clan of East Mountain Town. If the Imperial Tomb is destroyed, there's no way I'll survive either. We have to get out and report this at once!"
"You fool! So what if the Imperial Tomb burns? We can always rebel!"
Li Shun only smiled. Ignoring him, he continued to drive his own life force into breaking the seal.
In the blink of an eye, almost all of his two hundred years of remaining life had been consumed. Only ten years remained when the stubborn seal finally crumbled.
Having squandered so much life force in such a short time, Li Shun changed at once from a seventeen-year-old boy into a weather-beaten man of about thirty.
His hair had gone almost entirely gray.
So my earlier premonition came true.
The Jun Family's cultivation method accelerates the burning of life force to a terrifying degree. It might as well have been made to consume Life Qi. The speed of that depletion is staggering.
If I hadn't had two hundred years of life to draw on, along with that unusual wisp of violet-blue life force protecting me, I might not even have broken this seal today!
While Li Shun considered this, Jiang Chongguang grabbed him and raced toward the cave mouth like a gale.
The entire mountain shuddered violently. No longer stable, it shed enormous boulders that crashed down around them.
But Jiang Chongguang trusted his tough hide and neither dodged nor