[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-secret-buyer":3,"chapter-secret-buyer-secret-buyer-chapter-49":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Secret Buyer",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1758948,2324,"Chapter 49: I Want to Sell My Lifespan!","secret-buyer-chapter-49",49,"\u003Cp>\"See, I told you it wasn’t a fridge.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The genes of the Old Zhang family weren’t bad; both the siblings were quite handsome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Zhang Xiaoxi’s features weren’t as stunning as Chen Nuanyu’s, she was still finely beautiful with naturally great bone structure,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>at this moment lying lazily on the sofa, with her barefoot raised and swinging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fuqi gave her foot a slap:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You blacklisted people pretty fast, huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Xiaoxi spoke in a teasing tone:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh my, little brother’s grown up, starting to be fierce with his sister, boohoo.....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng felt a twinge in his liver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where’s Uncle and Aunt?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, my dad was summoned by the Public Security Bureau, and mom went with him. I stayed to entertain you.\" Zhang Xiaoxi languidly got up, starting to unwrap the huge package that looked like a fridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Summoned?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng was startled:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What happened?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nothing much, a small fire broke out in my dad’s factory at night, got put out before the fire brigade arrived, but they’re still doing routine inquiries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She perked up instantly while unpacking:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"估计要明早才回来了,你也知道,龙舟市治安严格,条例又长又臭...当当!快看我的新宝贝!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng looked at the large package she opened; inside wasn’t a fridge, but something... like a large mainframe?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s this?\" he asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A third-generation high-speed computer, given free by the Source Point Research Institute.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Xiaoxi said proudly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m one of only three people in our city qualified to enter the institute, but Dragon Boat City only has one spot. My skills are better, just a bit inexperienced. If I grab a first prize in the provincial competition this time, it’ll be enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng, aware of the prestige:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Source Point Research Institute? What do they do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You don’t know? Country bumpkin!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Xiaoxi looked disdainful:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They study Different Dimensions. They have the biggest supercomputer in our Golden Province, with loads of funding approved by the authorities. Once you become a formal researcher, I hear there are countless privileges and benefits...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng’s eyebrows twitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Different Dimensions?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He recalled what Huang Qiuxian had mentioned, that the Western Sect’s Flesh Plague came from the Thirty-Six Layers of Heaven Dimension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s a Different Dimension?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng asked without embarrassment:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why do you need computers for the study?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m not in yet, how would I know!\" Zhang Xiaoxi said indignantly: \"Regarding computers, they calculate dimensional parameters, you fool.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She touched the fridge-like computer like a treasure:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, there’s also analysis of the Spiritual World, helping to construct world models... Don’t ask me, I don’t even understand the Spiritual World.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng’s interest grew stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spiritual World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Xiaoxi might not know what it is, but he was well aware, the Divine Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, this Source Point Research Institute studies things like the Divine Realm and ’Thirty-Six Layers of Heaven Dimension’?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s something incredible...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looks like Sister Xixi is going to soar high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, helping to construct Spiritual World models, or Divine Realm models, how does that work?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aren’t these freely changeable according to one’s mind?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm, better ask my master later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Zhang Fusheng’s mind spun with thoughts, Zhang Xiaoxi had already dragged her big treasure into her room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m off to do research, do not disturb. Your room’s all set up, lovely sister personally made your bed all fragrant and soft, no need to thank me, see you tomorrow!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This mischievous girl.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng shook his head in resignation, walked into the kitchen, lit the stove, first cooked some Star Beast meat, consumed about one-fifth of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last dimness of the Contract dissipated, cooling down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The effect weakened again; I wonder if Dragon Boat City has new types of Star Beast meat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng frowned,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he’d need quite a few transactions coming up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Nuanyu and her mother, Huang Qiuxian, and finding a suitable recruit in Dragon Boat City, all needed ’transactions’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus the time for cultivation, physical cultivation time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three Refinements is too weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Three parts strength to beat, seven parts strength to kill...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng muttered to himself:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"With the Spirit Divine Realm as my trump card, I can reveal appropriately in other areas.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entering his room and closing the door, Zhang Fusheng stood in the Flower Picking Stance, silently operating the Great Sun Scripture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three paths of cultivation: the Contemplation Technique trains the spirit, the Breathing Technique is for drawing in the Mysterious Factor, but the Main Cultivation Technique is the true method for cultivating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s also why, without a Main Cultivation Technique, one can only reach the First Refinement with just Breathing and Contemplation two methods at most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In between one breath and another,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>under the interference of Zhang Fusheng’s spiritual will, countless Mysterious Factors were captured and streamed into his body with his breathing, circulating through the route of the Great Sun Scripture,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his current body, flawless and free from impurity, might not compare to special constitutions, but among average people, he’s a real genius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One complete circulation, two...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After six hours and twenty-four circulations, a bottleneck began to loosen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At this rate, within a month, at most a month, I will break the shackles of the flesh, let the Mysterious Factor merge in, and step into the Fourth Refinement.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spiritual will traveled within again, bound those Mysterious Factors, forcibly breaking the shackles throughout his muscles, forcibly merging them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fourth Refinement, accomplished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he gained a thousand pounds of strength instantly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Each Refinement into the Flesh yields a thousand pounds of strength, slowly refining it can yield another thousand; thus, Three Refinements totals six thousand pounds of strength...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng felt the over four thousand pounds of strength within him and exhaled a breath of clear energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face lit up with a smile:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"With a stronger spirit, cultivation becomes much more efficient, especially during a Realm Breakthrough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The shackles and barriers that would originally require a lot of time to grind away, I can now forcibly break through with my spiritual will!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng clenched his fist, his whole body’s muscles rippling like waves, and his energy coursing through his veins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked inward and noticed that after entering the Fourth Refinement, the light red energy within carried a faint gold glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Interesting, is it because of the Great Sun Illuminates the Seventy-Two Great Snow Mountains Scripture?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unfortunately, I don’t know how long it will take to nurture my Dead Man’s Bone; if it takes years, that really would be...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng finished his cultivation, gently shook his head in sigh, but suddenly a thought occurred to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can’t purchase the progress for Dead Man’s Bone, but I can buy and sell... basic time on a human body.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or rather, lifespan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes flickered,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lifespan is essentially manifested on the body; as time passes, the body gradually deteriorates, nearing its limit, until it completely exhausts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I buy a hundred years of remaining lifespan from an ordinary person, would he die young and strong, or... age a hundred years, aging to death?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Logically, it’s the latter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then buying lifespan doesn’t necessarily make me younger; the minimum age is 0, but there’s no upper limit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Buying lifespan should slow down the decay of the body and soul, or perhaps transfer the decay away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng listened to the slow, steady breathing from the room next door, lifted the curtain, and gazed at the crescent moon in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then, what if I sell or give away my lifespan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it meant aging, my body would undergo the natural changes of ten or twenty years in an instant...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Would the Dead Man’s Bone nourish immediately then?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all, the state of generating Bone Light has already been achieved, and the birth of Dead Man’s Bone is the gradual change in my body.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng licked his lips, bursting with excitement:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Many things aren’t solely obtainable by buying, selling works too!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Diseases and injuries can be sold, so can my time!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He paced back and forth. If the hypothesis proved true and selling lifespan could indeed accelerate Dead Man’s Bone, buying back the lifespan wouldn’t make it disappear...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would be worth a try.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worst case, just some loss of Star Beast meat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want to sell my lifespan!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1361,"2026-06-08T09:33:25.074Z",1,"novelbin.me","a644b59471e3e19e219597b569fc935261364061de7fb0e39f50a755e481d069","secret-buyer-chapter-50","secret-buyer-chapter-48",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsecret-buyer-cover.jpg"]