[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-longevity-through-upgrading-buildings":3,"chapter-longevity-through-upgrading-buildings-longevity-through-upgrading-buildings-chapter-83":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Longevity through Upgrading Buildings",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},544916,794,"Chapter 83 - 82: Ji Yuan’s \"Death\", Ji Yuan Breaks Through [Monthly Ticket Requested]","longevity-through-upgrading-buildings-chapter-83",83,"\u003Cp>Qiu Qianhai seemed to be having a dream, or perhaps it wasn’t a dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was about to be killed by Blind Qin, he suddenly heard a loud shout from outside the house, and immediately after, the entire stone house was overturned by a giant sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Yuan had arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that every time he faced a near-death crisis, Ji Yuan would appear, and every time it was like a divine weapon descending from the heavens before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was during the storm that year or the last time with Old Dog Lin, it was the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You shouldn’t have come!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qiu Qianhai wanted to resist but was powerless to get up, and could only watch as Ji Yuan protected him from behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding his sword in one hand, Ji Yuan said without turning his head, \"Whether I come or not, it’s up to me to decide.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Qiu Qianhai watched as he and Blind Qin engaged in battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flying boat soared, the flying sword swept across, and the sounds of talismans exploding echoed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qiu Qianhai watched as Ji Yuan was knocked down into the Clear Wave Pool; after all, though Ji Yuan was strong, wasn’t Blind Qin equally formidable?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To reach the tenth level of Qi Cultivation here in the Cloud Rain Marsh, how could one’s methods be simple?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing a battle between seventh-level and tenth-level Qi Cultivation, there was no suspense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Qiu Qianhai could only watch as Ji Yuan was repeatedly knocked into the water, yet each time he surged up again to shield him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood spurted from his mouth continuously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In no time, Ji Yuan’s body seemed like that of a fallen leaf in the wind, a lotus wrecked by the rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Courting death!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blind Qin shouted angrily and casually threw out three talismans; in an instant, three giant swords fell from the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A maddening surge of golden light emanated from Ji Yuan’s body, barely warding off the three giant swords, but he couldn’t repel Blind Qin’s flying sword magical artifact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of tiny flying swords swept back and forth, instantly breaking through Ji Yuan’s protective golden light, and all the flying swords pierced into his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the suddenly stiffening form of Ji Yuan, four words surged in Qiu Qianhai’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ten Thousand Swords Piercing the Heart!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hiss—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blind Qin beckoned with his hand, retrieving all the flying swords, which finally merged into one, hovering once more by his side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Yuan lost all signs of life, his body leaning back, eventually falling next to Qiu Qianhai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His chest was a mass of red, with blood oozing from his seven orifices; he was smiling, yet it seemed like he was crying, though his eyes were filled with bitterness and helplessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Old... Old Qiu, I’m sorry.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Yuan desperately forced a smile, \"This time... This time I couldn’t... couldn’t save you...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pff—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Ji Yuan could finish his words, the flying sword slashed down once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qiu Qianhai could only watch wide-eyed as Ji Yuan’s neck was severed by the flying sword, blood gushing out, splattering on the wall, but more so on Qiu Qianhai’s chest and cheeks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The darkest moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qiu Qianhai forgot what he was feeling; he only felt his mind was blank, yet filled with the image of Ji Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Injured and unconscious, he was saved by Ji Yuan; together they killed Liu Lai Zi, excavated Cold Iron Sand under the Clear Wave Pool, broke through at Jingde Square, and finally... Ji Yuan died before him...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A loud \"boom—\" resonated in Qiu Qianhai’s mind, a headache like an explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He let out a muffled groan and passed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gray fog figure looked at the finally unconscious Qiu Qianhai and let out a satisfied laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He seemed to be laughing happily, but his laughter made Blind Qin uneasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Se... Senior.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blind Qin knelt respectfully on the ground and called out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the gray fog figure seemed not to hear him, casually summoning a skeleton from Blind Qin’s storage bag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at his own skeleton, he clicked his tongue and said, \"Something even Golden Core Cultivators would fight over, yet you used it to scare some low-level demons, tsk tsk tsk, serves you right for being useless.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Se...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blind Qin suddenly looked up, only to see the gray fog figure looking down at him, within the gray eyes, two green fires flickered and danced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As their eyes met, Blind Qin turned pale, his body leaned back, and finally, he fell sitting on the ground...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was because, within those green fires, Blind Qin saw a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw an entire city slaughtered, countless bodies piled in various parts of the city, and as the four city walls were built with blood, inside were countless human limbs...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The city walls were actually constructed from human corpses!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at this hellish scene, Blind Qin was so frightened that he lost his composure, and in the end, unable to catch his breath, he just let out a muffled sound... and died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was after all the patriarch of the Qin Family, a tenth-level Qi Cultivator, and still the leader of the Yunyuze Alliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet he was scared to death just like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Useless.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gray fog figure sneered disdainfully at Blind Qin’s corpse, which unexpectedly burst into green flames, turning to ashes in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tsk, it’s still comfortable to rest in one’s own body.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gray fog figure seemed to mutter to himself and walked into the black skeleton into which he fused, and in a moment, all the gray fog was absorbed by the black bones, and he let out a contented sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lifted his left hand and pinched the floating phalange in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This phalange was actually the missing segment of his right index finger; he picked it up and gently placed it back, and instantly the skeleton was whole again, while the green fire in his eye sockets flickered intensely for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good wife, I hope by the time I return, you and my good apprentice are well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black skeleton said, looking around, \"Tsk tsk tsk, what a grand undertaking Shang Court had to gather the geographical luck of Shang Mountain and Starfall River to form this Dragon Nurturing Land.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1062,"2026-05-30T14:25:45.237Z","2026-06-01T04:31:28.039Z",1,"novelbin.me","7bb441008a2597b8e3ac5bb343cf5eee97cde171df6c933115c7a38107208218","longevity-through-upgrading-buildings-chapter-84","longevity-through-upgrading-buildings-chapter-82",816,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flongevity-through-upgrading-buildings-cover.jpg"]