Werther glanced at the shattered Vitality Crystals in his hand and tossed them all into his mouth.
Crunch, crunch. Werther chewed up the Vitality Crystals and swallowed them.
A surge of pure life force appeared inside him. After circulating through his body, it was drawn away by a powerful pull.
That pull came from the Black Ring.
Once the Black Ring devoured the life force, Werther's expression changed. Something strange was happening to his body.
Warmth spread through him, as though it were nourishing his body.
Werther closed his eyes and focused. He soon discovered the reason.
Vitality Crystals contained not only life force, but another extraordinary kind of energy.
This energy was colorless and intangible, making it extremely hard to detect. It was also mixed into the life force and would not emerge unless all the life force was drawn out.
And its effect was to nourish the body, extending a person's lifespan.
With his keen senses, Werther could feel the wondrous changes taking place inside him.
The special energy in that Vitality Crystal could add less than a month to his life, but it had extended his lifespan.
Werther finally understood why the Celestial Dragons prized Vitality Crystals so highly.
Those Celestial Dragons who feared death must have found a way to extract the life force from Vitality Crystals.
But Werther did not care much about extending his life.
He had no interest even in Luo's Eternal Youth Surgery, let alone a method that added so little time.
Wasn't the joy of living in using a finite life to explore a world of endless wonders?
Living forever would be no blessing. It would be a torment, the cruelest torment in the world.
One would watch familiar faces die one after another and the world change without end, while