Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

"Huff..."

In Taiping Prefecture, Pingxi State, within the secret room, this elder with white hair and aged face took a deep breath, gradually calming the restlessness in his heart before muttering, "There must be a way out when the carriage arrives at the mountain, there is still at least one year left before the contest for the Unique King begins."

"No need to rush..."

"No need to rush..."

"There must be an opportunity."

He now regretted it so much that he was turning green, but there was nothing he could do about it, as those in the Body Integration Realm inherently had lifespans of about ten thousand years, not to mention that he had the entry "Life is as thin as paper."

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'Entry Name': Life is as thin as paper.

'Entry Level': Green.

'Entry Effect': Every month, you may throw a token; if the token lands face up, you gain one year of life and your spell's power doubles, and vice versa.

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During that period, under the effect of the entry "Fairy's First Night," he almost gained an additional two years of life every month, and under the effect of the Free Agency entry, any random entry effect would double, whether amplifying or weakening.

During that time, his lifespan soared tremendously.

He even purposefully learned an extreme mental method of Void Refining that consumed lifespan but could significantly speed up his cultivation, given that he had enough lifespan to spare. Twelve times a year, each time adding two years of life, meant he could increase his lifespan by twenty-four years annually.

In a hundred years, that's two thousand four hundred years of lifespan—almost an eternal engine.

However, this entry was not an active one; it did not possess any physical tokens. Every month when the time came, a token would pop out from his Dantian, and then he could choose to throw it. If he chose not to throw it, then after waiting for a few moments, the token would automatically be thrown.

In other words,

This entry was completely passive, and most of the entries that randomly affect combat ability were passive.

And over the years, about one-third of the time it amplified his life, and two-thirds of the time it shortened it. Because he had unlimited lifespan in earlier years, he had been somewhat reckless, which led to his lifespan now being somewhat insufficient.

He had just over 3000 years of life left.

And that mental method which used to consume lifespan, he had replaced it, as he could afford it before, but now he couldn't afford it at all.

"Alas."

Inside the secret room,

The elder with white hair and aged face sighed helplessly and once again sat in his chair with a frown, pondering over a solution, contemplating how he could surrender the throne of Pingxi without losing his life. This had become the most pressing issue for him to figure out recently.

Research time was short.

Only one year.

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Meanwhile, in Xuantian State—

As time quickly passed by, over 120 days had elapsed since the entire Chao Tian Sect entered seclusion. Eventually, on this day, Chen Qiu, who had been cultivating with his eyes closed and seated cross-legged on the Xuantian Throne for a long time, once again opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of stale air.

"Huff."

Chen Qiu exhaled lightly, looking towards the Cultivation panel hovering over the Dantian.

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'Cultivation': Void Refining fifth layer (0.2%).

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Cultivation had finally made another breakthrough, advancing from the fourth to the fifth layer of Void Refining, the time spent was slightly longer than that from the third to the fourth layer, and the amount of Spirit Stones used was slightly more as well.

At this moment, the surging and richness of his spiritual energy, including the pressure and strength of his body, had all improved to some extent, and his combat power had increased significantly.

Magic Practitioners do not cultivate physical strength.

Not like Body Cultivation.

But with the advancement of Cultivation, even if he did not practice physical strength, during breakthroughs and undergoing Heavenly Tribulation, his body's strength would still increase a bit—though not by much, it was still an increase.

If his current self, with the fifth layer of Void Refining Cultivation, were to fight against his own first layer self without using any special means, the victor would definitely be himself. Of course, the victory wouldn't be by a wide margin, since the combat power from the first to the fifth layer of Void Refining had increased, but it wasn't an overwhelming difference.

With this breakthrough,

He had accumulated enough for three "three choices" entry opportunities, which could perfectly combine into one Supreme Entry "three choices" opportunity.

Without hesitation,

He took a deep breath and activated the Divine Hand entry, and activated "A thread of earth pride," The Divine Hand entry would ensure that the entries that came up in "three choices" were closely related to what he was thinking in his heart.

And what he thought of... was still Cultivation speed!

Combat power? He was already strong enough!

He had plenty of combat power enhancement methods, and even if he increased his combat power now, without breaking through to Unification, without a Unification Killing Move, his combat power couldn't undergo a qualitative change. At his level of Cultivation Realm, the fastest way to increase combat power is to improve his pace of cultivation; the combat power at each Great Realm was an overwhelming advantage.

Then, once he breaks through the Unification Realm with the twelfth-grade "External Incarnation" and masters the twelfth-grade "Unification Killing Move," he could once again reach the point where entering the Unification Realm meant unrivalled strength in unification—that's the path he should be following!

At this time, trying to increase the power of the Thunder Summoning Technique would be entirely putting the cart before the horse.

As for defense, his defense was indeed his weak point, but most of the time, he wouldn't even have the opportunity to defend. As long as he has sufficient combat power, there simply wouldn't be a chance to defend. Compared to cultivating speed, defense isn't a high priority.

After confirming what he wanted in his heart,

He then looked towards the panel hovering above the Dantian.