2: Chapter 2 A Twist of Fate

Thinking of this, Pei Qingyun's expression gradually became firm.

Since there was no other choice, he was not an indecisive person.

Before long, Pei Qingyun walked out of the ancestral house.

Just as he was planning to go out, a translucent panel appeared in the Void Realm.

[Name: Pei Qingyun]

[Lifespan: Three months]

[Cultivation: Early stage of Five Viscera Realm]

[Cultivation Technique: Pei Family Evergreen Art Major Achievement (yellow-grade peak)]

[family luck: 500 (Note: family luck can be restored, naturally recovering 5 points every day. If family luck falls below 80% of the total, unpredictable disasters will occur.)]

Seeing the attribute panel appear, Pei Qingyun was first stunned, then overjoyed.

"Holy... this couldn't be the Golden Finger brought by my Transmigration."

Back when he was receiving the memories, Pei Qingyun had already called out for his Golden Finger.

Unfortunately.

At that time, there was no reaction at all.

This caused his mood to plummet to rock bottom.

Fortunately, heaven had not treated him poorly.

The appearance of the attribute panel gave him the possibility of changing his fate against the heavens.

It could be said that things had taken a turn for the better.

After the excitement passed, Pei Qingyun began to think about the panel's functions.

In his perception, the blood and Qi of this body were declining, but its vitality was still strong. It was many times stronger than his ordinary self in his previous life.

He estimated that under natural conditions, living for a few more years shouldn't be a problem.

But the panel showed he only had three months to live. Presumably, it was because a Martial Artist's life was still very different from an ordinary person's.

"I only have three months of Lifespan left. It seems I need to find a way to increase it."

In the Great Jing Dynasty, practicing martial arts can extend one's life. However, that is limited to Martial Artists at or above the Five Viscera Realm; those below the Five Viscera Realm don't have this privilege.

Even so, the Lifespan extension from the Five Viscera Realm isn't much, only about ten years.

But if one breaks through from the Five Viscera Realm to the Six Viscera Realm, another twenty years can be added on top of that.

But this is only in theory. Martial Artists naturally cannot avoid combat, and not even one in a hundred can live until a natural death.

Additionally.

Besides extending life through Realm Breakthroughs, some Heaven And Earth Treasures and Spirit Pills or miraculous medicines can also appropriately extend life.

But these things were not something a small Pei Family of Wuyang County could obtain.

From this perspective, his normal paths to increasing his Lifespan were all blocked.

He could obtain neither Heaven And Earth Treasures nor Spirit Pills and miraculous medicines.

As for relying on Realm Breakthroughs to extend his life, that was even more impossible. He was only at the early stage of the Five Viscera Realm, far from the Six Viscera Realm.

Not to mention, his blood and Qi were declining at this time; it was already difficult enough to maintain his current strength.

Thus, Pei Qingyun turned his gaze back to the attribute panel.

Thoughts racing in his mind, Pei Qingyun considered various possibilities.

He lightly moved his finger and tapped on the Lifespan column of the attribute panel.

In the next second, a red plus sign appeared on the Lifespan column of the attribute panel.

At the same time, a transparent window popped up in the upper right corner of the attribute panel.

[To increase Lifespan by one day, 5 points of family luck must be consumed. Does the host wish to proceed?]

[Yes!]

[No!]

[...]

Pei Qingyun did not follow the prompt but fell into deep thought.

"Five points of family luck can extend my life by one day. And the recovery rate of family luck is five points per day. Theoretically, as long as the family luck doesn't decline, I only need to add a bit of Lifespan every day to live forever."

But he quickly dismissed this idea.

family luck was easy to understand; it was related to many aspects such as a Family's strength, prosperity, and influence.

Once a Family declines, the family luck is very likely to drop.

At that time, whether family luck could still recover five points a day would be a big question mark.

Besides, all of this was theoretical after all.

Although a three-month Lifespan wasn't much, it still left him some room for maneuvering.

His current urgent matter was not his Lifespan, but the decline of his blood and Qi.

If he didn't solve the problem of blood and Qi decline, it would surely become his fatal weakness during the Evil-Suppressing Guard operation in three days.

Once high-intensity combat occurred, it would inevitably lead to further decline of his body.

By then, a three-month Lifespan might not actually last three months.

Since he was putting Lifespan aside for now,

Then could he change something else?

Increasing his cultivation might be a solution.

If he could break through to the mid stage of the Five Viscera Realm and further strengthen his blood and Qi, then the decline could be temporarily resolved.

Thinking of this, Pei Qingyun tapped his finger on the cultivation column.

The reaction was the same as before, and a translucent window popped up in the upper right corner.

"To increase to the mid stage of the Five Viscera Realm, 110 points of family luck must be consumed. Does the host wish to proceed?"

[Yes!]

[No!]

Immediately, Pei Qingyun wanted to tap it.

But seeing the red warning on the family luck column, the desire in his heart was instantly extinguished.

If family luck falls below 80%, unpredictable disasters will occur.

The prompts on the attribute panel wouldn't be without reason; Pei Qingyun didn't dare to gamble.

In other words, his maximum maneuvering room was one hundred points of family luck, and it would require a twenty-day recovery period.

Since he couldn't move his cultivation for now, Pei Qingyun could only turn his attention to his Cultivation Technique.

[Pei Family Evergreen Art!]

This technique was exclusive to the Pei Clan, created by the first-generation ancestor of the Pei Clan, Pei Yuanji, based on the Pei Clan Bloodline as an Earth-Grade Cultivation Technique.

It was just that a long time had passed, and parts of the technique were lost.

This caused the grade of the Pei Family Evergreen Art to fall from Earth-Grade to yellow-grade peak.

Even so, the quality of the Pei Family Evergreen Art was more than a notch higher than the techniques of the Wang and Li families.

Especially the Blood-Activating trait inherent to the technique, which allowed Pei Clan Martial Artists to maintain their blood and Qi Peak for much longer than the Martial Artists of the other two families.

This was also the fundamental reason why Pei Qingyun's blood and Qi only began to decline in his eighties.

If it weren't for the frequent battles in recent years, he could have even delayed the decline of his blood and Qi for a few more years.

Taking a deep breath, Pei Qingyun extended his finger once more.

[To increase the Pei Family Evergreen Art to Perfection, 80 points of family luck must be consumed. Does the host wish to proceed?]

[Yes!]

[No!]

"It can be increased; it only takes 80 points of family luck, which is still twenty points away from the limit." Seeing the change on the attribute panel, a faint smile unconsciously appeared on Pei Qingyun's lips.

Fortunately, this path wasn't blocked. He could accept this result.

Otherwise, he would have to find another way.

What would happen then would be hard to say.

Or even worse, he would have to resort to taking risks.

"Whatever, I'll increase the Evergreen Art first. As long as the Evergreen Art reaches Perfection, the problem of blood and Qi decline can be completely solved." Thinking of this, Pei Qingyun tapped on the attribute panel.

In the next second, countless memories flooded into his mind, and his eyes reflected countless images.

At this moment, his consciousness seemed to be pulled into a mysterious space.

Scenes of cultivating the Pei Family Evergreen Art flashed through his mind one after another.

One day, two days, three days...

One year, two years, three years...

...

Time flew by, though he knew not how much.

Under the wash of memories, Pei Qingyun seemed to have forgotten the existence of time.

But in fact, all of this happened in just an instant.

When Pei Qingyun came back to his senses, a heavy aura suddenly erupted, and his eyes were tinged with the vicissitudes of time.

"Ten years... it takes ten years to go from Major Achievement to Perfection in the Evergreen Art," Pei Qingyun murmured.

Given his own Aptitude, he probably wouldn't have been able to practice the Evergreen Art to Perfection even until death.