Having successfully begun cultivating the [Empty Boat, Self-Erasure] method, Li Shun slowly opened his eyes.
Judging by the time, it had already passed the point when the Lifespan-Seizing Shadow descended during the previous two Reflections, yet it had not appeared again this time.
"Looks like this tribulation-avoiding method really works." Li Shun was delighted.
He first carefully examined his current condition.
"I don't feel anything particularly unusual. It's just that, without realizing it, my state of mind has improved greatly."
"There are no worries. Even when I think of the tribulations ahead, I feel little fear or sorrow, only calm indifference."
"What can the tribulation force of Heaven and Earth do to me?"
Li Shun looked at Li Qing, who was still standing guard beside him. "Little Dumpling, see if I've changed in any way!"
Li Qing observed him seriously for a long while before saying hesitantly, "I can't quite put it into words. The feeling you give off is strange. You don't seem like a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old youth at all. More like..."
Li Qing pondered for a long time before finally finding the right words. "That's right. You're more like those old folks one sees everywhere in town, squatting around idly, lazy and peaceful."
"Then that's exactly right! This is the effect of the secret method Elder Wei taught me. Its purpose is to evade the attacks of Heaven's Lifespan Demand's shadow."
Li Qing was puzzled. "An attack from Heaven's Lifespan Demand's shadow? Brother, didn't you just begin cultivating the Twelve Longevity Method? Why would you need to worry about that?"
Li Shun sighed and said helplessly in a low voice, "Because your brother borrowed two hundred years of lifespan from Heaven and has been regarded as an aberration by Imperial Tomb Heaven. Without a method to avert