Forging Dragon Tendon into a Treasure, Accidentally Refining a Pellet: The Rope Pellet Emerges, and a Fight with the Commandery Princess!
Li Xian secretly slipped back to the Body-Nourishing Tower. It was quiet and secluded; all the maids and servants had gone to fight the fire. He went up to the third floor, picked up a teapot, and took a long swig straight from its spout before settling into a mahogany recliner on the terrace. His fingers tapped lightly against the armrest. Though the Heavenly Secret Lotus was false, "Weightened Fate" was real. Seven or eight parts of Tao Xiangrong's short lifespan had been remedied. The remaining one or two were no longer pressing.
Tao Xiangrong originally had the [Celestial Maiden Physiognomy], beautiful but short-lived, like a heavenly maiden who hurried through the mortal world, cast only a few glances at it, then drifted back to heaven. Her lifespan had been only forty years. After her fate was altered and its weight increased, she could live as long as an ordinary person, reaching a hundred years. With martial cultivation on top of that, she could extend it further. Only, the gains would be smaller, falling several measures short of those enjoyed by ordinary martial artists.
It was like taking an immortal pellet. An ordinary martial artist might gain twenty years, while Tao Xiangrong would gain only seven or eight. A Third Realm martial artist could live for two hundred and eighty years, but Tao Xiangrong could reach only a hundred and fifty or sixty.
Still, her short-lived physiognomy had changed, and the coming decades were now free of worry. Heaven and earth were vast, containing countless things. Even without the Heavenly Secret Lotus, there must be other divine treasures capable of weighing down and strengthening her fate. Why worry that it could not be changed again? At this thought, Li Xian's worries diminished greatly, leaving him with pure joy.
He gazed