His words rang out like a stone shattering the sky.
Ren Changsheng had lived nearly three hundred years. His inner discipline ran deep, and he had all but seen through life and death. Yet when he heard that Pan Long had a way to extend his life a little longer, his expression changed, his breathing quickened, and his usual air of an immortal sage deserted him.
He did not answer at once. First, he took several deep breaths to calm himself. Only when he had fully recovered did he ask, "What miraculous medicine or remedy could possibly extend my life?"
The effects of different Lifespan-Extending Spirit Medicines overlapped rather than added together. If two people took medicines that extended life by ten and twenty years respectively, they would gain thirty years between them. But if one person took both in succession, he would gain only twenty.
In the Nine Provinces World, the strongest life-extending substances existed only in legend. No one had ever seen them, so they might as well not exist.
Among Spirit Medicines that actually existed, could be found, and could be taken by people, the longest extension was roughly sixty years.
A Great Grandmaster who had reached Unity of Heaven and Man generally lived no longer than four sixty-year cycles, or two hundred and forty years. Ren Changsheng cultivated Daoist School methods and was skilled at preserving his health, so he could probably live another ten or twenty years. He had also taken a Spirit Medicine that extended life by sixty years. In theory, then, he should be able to live to three hundred and twenty. That was the absolute limit. He could not possibly live longer.
In truth, he would not live even that long. He had spent his life ranging across the world and had