He returned to his own side hall.
Long Aoyu sat cross-legged on the meditation cushion, drew a deep breath, and closed his eyes.
"Come on, let me see just how good these system rewards are."
Long Aoyu first opened the description for Heaven-Prison Finger.
[Heaven-Prison Finger: Condenses Soul Power into a single finger, sealing the space around the target to form an invisible cage that imprisons the opponent. The seal's strength increases with the user's cultivation.]
"A control-type Soul Skill..."
Long Aoyu studied Heaven-Prison Finger's description thoughtfully.
The next moment.
The cultivation essentials of Heaven-Prison Finger, its Soul Power circulation routes, and its techniques for using spatial power were all branded into his mind.
Long Aoyu raised his right hand and gathered Soul Power at the tip of his index finger.
Dark golden light flowed out, and the air before his fingertip warped slightly, forming a faint, transparent cage.
The Self-Created Soul Skill rewarded by the system required no time to learn.
"Not bad. With my current cultivation, Heaven-Prison Finger can trap even a Soul Saint."
Satisfied, Long Aoyu withdrew his hand and examined the third reward-Immortality.
[Immortality: Greatly enhances the recovery and defensive abilities of the Martial Soul and physical body, allowing severed limbs to regrow. When on the verge of death, the immortality origin can be activated once to forcibly preserve the last breath of life.]
"Immortality. What powerful Immortality!"
Long Aoyu's pupils contracted slightly.
Self-healing powerful enough to regrow severed limbs would be an enormous help to him!
Not only could he trade injury for injury with enemies in battle, but he could also temper his body to its limits without any reservations during cultivation.
The immortality origin was even more outrageous!
Forcibly preserving his last breath on the verge of death was practically equivalent to gaining a second life.
Stubbornly refusing to die-wasn't that underhanded?
After reading the description, Long Aoyu released his Body Martial Soul without hesitation.
[Ding!] [Immortal trait enhancement commencing!]
The next moment, a faint golden sheen spread over Long Aoyu's entire body, the usual response when he activated his Body Martial Soul.
But this time was different-
A rich golden light surged from deep within Long Aoyu's body, enveloping him in a dense halo.
The golden light seeped into his skin, muscles, bones, and meridians. Every inch of flesh was being suffused and transformed by that power, and a profoundly mysterious change was taking place.
Long Aoyu could clearly feel his vitality growing more vigorous.
The vitality of his flesh increased at a rate invisible to the naked eye, his instinctive ability to heal wounds was strengthened, and his defenses climbed steadily.
After lingering for a while, the golden light slowly receded.
But that power of "Immortality" had already remained within his body for good!
"That feels so good."
Long Aoyu opened his eyes and clenched his fists, sensing the peculiar power within him-the immortal trait had fused with his Body Martial Soul and become part of his body.
Long Aoyu settled back onto the meditation cushion and directed his consciousness toward the "Sect Shop" on the system panel.
A screen of light unfurled, its dazzling array of entries making his eyes swim.
Long Aoyu browsed rapidly-Soul Tools, pills, rare spirit medicines, natural treasures, and even Soul Bones and secret arts.
His gaze paused on a list of Soul Bones.
Every Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone was priced at over fifty thousand contribution points!
The cheapest among them was a hundred-thousand-year left arm bone that cost fifty-two thousand points. With his current wealth of twenty thousand points, he could not afford it at all.
Although he could afford Soul Bones below a hundred thousand years, he did not want them.
Long Aoyu had a bit of a compulsive streak-
Every one of the six Soul Bones throughout his body had to be at least a hundred thousand years old, and none could be a trash Soul Bone with an ordinary bloodline.
Long Aoyu continued scrolling, and his gaze soon locked onto a treasure-gold of life!
Exchange price: 20,000 contribution points.
[Gold of life, an intensely concentrated, pure life essence, a supreme treasure of heaven and earth. Can comprehensively reshape flesh, bones, and meridians, nourish the soul, and expand the Sea of Consciousness; greatly extend lifespan, temper the flesh-and-blood essence of the Body Martial Soul, and accelerate the Body Martial Soul's second awakening.]
Long Aoyu's eyes grew brighter and brighter.
The effects of gold of life far exceeded his imagination-every single one addressed a core need of his current cultivation.
Strengthening his body would bring benefits without harm.
And although his Sea of Consciousness had been expanded by the starry heavenly origin fruit, it was nowhere near its limit. Gold of life could give it another push.
More importantly, it could temper the flesh-and-blood essence of his Body Martial Soul and accelerate its second awakening!
This meant that his next step, "Life-and-Death Body Tempering," would proceed more smoothly with the aid of gold of life.
"Still, some effects of gold of life overlap with the immortal trait..."
As he was thinking, Long Aoyu's gaze swept over a line of small print at the bottom of the description-
[Note: Gold of life and the immortal trait complement one another. Absorbing gold of life after acquiring the immortal trait can produce unimaginable benefits.]
"You're the one!"
Upon reading this, Long Aoyu decisively chose to exchange for it.
[Exchange successful. 20,000 contribution points deducted. Remaining contribution points: 500. Gold of life has been deposited in the system storage and may be withdrawn at any time.]
Long Aoyu took the gold of life out of the system storage.
A small piece of unusual metal floated above his palm, a gentle emerald sheen flowing over it as it radiated an aura of life so dense it was almost tangible!
"Such powerful life energy!"
Long Aoyu guided this lump of gold of life toward his dantian, slowly merging it into his body.
The instant the gold of life entered his body, a vast torrent of life erupted within him, suffusing every inch of his flesh.
Life energy spread along his meridians into every limb and bone, comprehensively reshaping his body!
At the same time.
The energy of the gold of life surged toward his eyes and brain, and his Sea of Consciousness expanded rapidly.
An extremely faint golden light arose deep within his eyes. Vast life energy gathered, bringing about an earth-shaking transformation in both eyes.
Unlike Huo Yuhao,
When Huo Yuhao absorbed gold of life, a vertical eye grew between his brows.
Both of Long Aotian's eyes, however, transformed into Eyes of Life. With a thought, he could see through illusions, gaze directly at souls, and launch Spiritual Attacks, along with many other wondrous uses.
In the deepest reaches of his body-
The life energy also formed a wondrous resonance with the immortal trait.
The immortality origin grew even more substantial.
His already formidable self-healing ability improved further-not only could he regrow severed limbs, but he could now rapidly recover even from injuries to his soul!
Two hours later.
Only then did the vast energy of the gold of life fully merge into his body.
Long Aoyu slowly opened his eyes, and the extremely faint golden light deep within them flashed and vanished.
"Even if my head fell off now, I wouldn't die immediately, would I?"
Long Aoyu lowered his head to look at his palms. A gentle sheen flowed over his skin, and the vitality contained within his flesh had risen by more than one level compared to before.
The gold of life had reshaped his flesh, bones, and meridians, while his Sea of Consciousness had expanded nearly threefold!
"And the immortal trait actually evolved!"
[Immortal trait sublimation: Activating the immortality origin is no longer limited in number, but every activation after the first will reduce lifespan (lifespan can be restored through specific resources).]
The immortality origin was no longer limited to a single activation, greatly strengthening his life-saving trump card.
Now,
He really had become someone who stubbornly refused to die.
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