Water met sky, the river of stars hung upside down, and all around lay a hazy emptiness.
Ribbons of clear radiance poured down, winding around Jiang Yi before flowing into the brilliant halo behind his head. He looked every bit an immortal! "Lead becomes the fire of life; mercury refines the light of nature. Nature and life unite, returning to the innate... so that was how it worked."
Jiang Yi inspected his hundred bones inwardly. After Sun True Lead and Taiyin True Mercury merged, they had become a pale, insubstantial flame three fingers wide, with a jet-black pellet hidden at its heart.
This great medicine formed from lead and mercury rose and fell. Upon reaching the Origin Gate, it became a moon phase; upon sinking into the Inner Manor, it became a sun wheel. Through these alternating cycles, it steadily advanced his cultivation.
"Lead and mercury have formed the medicine of longevity. Congratulations on gaining two hundred years of life, Dao Child."
True Lord Lu's voice drifted over, distant and ethereal.
Qi Refining cultivators had yet to escape the limits of mortal lifespans. Even at the twelfth level, it was exceedingly difficult to live beyond three hundred years.
Only by shedding their form and refining their substance, perfecting both nature and life, and successfully ascending to the Flying Ascension Foundation Establishment Realm could they gain five hundred years of life.
Afterward, they would nurture the blessing of five lifetimes. Each reincarnation would strip away another hundred years of lifespan, progressively decreasing it.
This Dao Child Jiang was still in the Qi Refining realm, yet he had already condensed true lead and true mercury, gathered five great medicines, and gained two hundred years of life outright.
His vitality brimmed, his potential had grown greatly, and his prospects of future Foundation Establishment