"Senior Brother Cheng, your blood and vital energy seem weak. Could it be...?"
Lü Luo's expression shifted slightly at those words, and he looked to the side. Cheng Tiankun stroked his white beard and shook his head gently.
Cheng Tiankun let out a long sigh. "Ah, I entered the Nascent Soul stage long ago, and an injury a hundred years ago damaged my foundation. It's only natural that my blood and vital energy are lacking. Unless some opportunity allows me to break through to a higher realm, I'm afraid I have barely a hundred years left."
"Senior Brother Cheng..."
"Just as I thought."
Hearing this, Lu Shang took a moderately sized spirit fruit from his waist and presented it to Lü Luo and Cheng Tiankun.
"Junior Brother, what is this?" The two exchanged a glance. Neither had ever seen it before.
"This is a Longevity Fruit. I obtained it in a secret realm," Lu Shang briefly explained.
"A Longevity Fruit? Could it be a spirit fruit that increases one's lifespan, just as its name suggests?" Cheng Tiankun asked.
"Yes. Eating and refining it does indeed increase your lifespan, though only by fifty years or so. And only the first fruit works; refining more afterward will hardly have any effect."
Cheng Tiankun waved his hands repeatedly in refusal. "No, no, I couldn't! Anything that increases lifespan must be rare even across the entire Human Realm. How could you simply give it to a dying man like me? Junior Brother Lu, serving as our Falling Cloud Sect's third supreme elder with your middle Nascent Soul cultivation already does you an injustice. Giving away such a precious Longevity Fruit on top of that simply won't do!"
"Well..."
Lü Luo found himself in a difficult position. On one hand, he knew Cheng Tiankun's current