"How could this happen...?"
Blood streamed from True Lord Qingtian's eyes. Under wave after wave of backlash from the heavenly secrets, he had not only lost nearly a hundred years of lifespan, but had also been blinded.
This blindness could not be cured. It was blindness at the level of his divine soul.
Of course, as a True Lord, he primarily used his divine sense to survey his surroundings, so losing his sight did not affect him too greatly.
True Lord Qingtian's face was bloodless. He had entered the Nascent Soul Realm at two hundred and eighty and become a Divination Grandmaster at four hundred and twenty.
He was now seven hundred and ten.
True Lord Qingtian had consumed numerous lifespan-extending treasures. His natural lifespan should have reached one thousand two hundred and forty years.
However, as a Divination Grandmaster, he had inevitably invested some of his lifespan in past divinations. In particular, over the recent decades, his efforts to oppose the Great Cosmos Immortal Dynasty had cost him lifespan far more frequently than before.
Before divining your fate, True Lord Qingtian should have had around three hundred years left to live.
Yet the karmic secrets you bore far exceeded his expectations. Performing fourth-tier lower-grade divination on a nascent soul middle stage True Lord already demanded a small sacrifice of lifespan. On top of that, you had far too many hidden cards. Apart from your alchemy skills, you had actually concealed three other fourth-tier skills...
Fourth-tier skills? Even a Nascent Soul True Lord needed to devote tremendous effort, coupled with talent, to have any hope of mastering one... Yet you had mastered four fourth-tier skills at once?
Moreover, the greater part of the backlash True Lord Qingtian suffered came from your identity as a participant in the Nether Realm Trial.