Chapter 1022: Simply a Gift Question!

"Fellow Daoist, just let me go, don't follow me anymore. Our Great Generous Association couldn't possibly accept you!"

Wang Qiannian looked miserable, completely entangled by Xu Que.

"Brother Wang, it's not that I must join your Great Generous Association, but I've asked you questions, so you should at least answer a few. Otherwise, I'll lose a lot of face!" Xu Que said with a smile.

Wang Qiannian's eyelids jumped on the spot, almost wanting to jump up and hammer Xu Que to death.

You lose face?

Big brother, you are the one holding a dagger to my throat right now! Who is losing face?

If it weren't for the rules of this place, as a dignified Human Immortal Realm cultivator, how could he be so aggrieved!

"Fine, fine, I'm afraid of you. It's truly bad luck. Say it, what do you want to ask?"

Wang Qiannian simply stopped and looked at Xu Que: "But ask if you must, put this dagger away first. If it weren't for the fact that killing here requires paying a year of lifespan, I would have definitely finished you off!"

"Oh? Killing here requires paying a year of lifespan? Haha, are you guys very short on lifespan? I am quite well-off, I estimate I still have several thousand years of lifespan, enough to kill to my heart's content!" Xu Que said happily.

Wang Qiannian sneered instantly: "Fellow Daoist, you are wrong. From the moment you descended to this place, you only have one year of lifespan left, so I advise you to put this dagger away, otherwise it looks very ridiculous!"

"Me? Only one year of lifespan left?" Xu Que was stunned instantly.

Following that, he quickly summoned the system interface and checked his lifespan through the Ancient Life and Death Wheel, instantly dumbfounded!

His original two thousand years of lifespan had really become one year!

"Holy crap, what is the situation?" Xu Que exclaimed instantly, unable to believe it.

"Fellow Daoist, be calm. The reason this realm was abandoned is that a ruthless person once fought with others in this area. Her Dao Rhyme could steal the vitality of others. Even after a long period of time, the Dao Rhyme still remains in this place, and it even changed the heaven and earth rules of this area, causing today's situation."

Wang Qiannian sighed and shook his head: "Sigh, it's my bad luck to have accidentally fallen into this place. Now I have to rack my brains every day to find ways to extend my lifespan. Whoever dares to stop is equivalent to walking a dead end!"

Xu Que looked shocked. A ruthless person fought with others, and the remaining Dao Rhyme could still change the heaven and earth rules?

Holy crap, just how powerful must that strength be?

The key was that this lifespan stealing was too inexplicable. It was stolen silently, and if it weren't for Wang Qiannian's reminder, he would have likely died in a muddle in a year!

Wait, no, why is this scene so familiar?

That Xuan Yuan Wanrong also seemed to have stolen his lifespan silently. Could it be...

Suddenly, Xu Que remembered what happened under the Buried Immortal Valley, his heart shocked. He suddenly looked at Wang Qiannian and asked: "What is that ruthless person's name?"

Wang Qiannian was startled and shook his head: "How would I know that ruthless person's name? This matter has been passed down since ancient times, and who the hell cares who that ruthless person is now? Fellow Daoist, I advise you to hurry up and think of a way to survive. For example, go to the streets and find those women, make them pregnant, and you can obtain a thumb-sized Vitality Rice, which can extend your lifespan by a month!"

"Ah? Why is that?" Xu Que was stunned again.

He had wanted to ask about this for a long time. Why did women turn around and give things to male cultivators after having sex with them?

"The rules of this place are just so strange. Any cultivator who descends to this place, no matter how powerful their strength, will directly have their lifespan reduced to one year, and this one year of lifespan cannot be stolen by others. Only the subsequent increased lifespan can be snatched or used for trading! Of course, the most peculiar thing is that babies newly born in this place can actually possess 16 years of lifespan, and these 16 years of lifespan can even be extracted!" Wang Qiannian said.

"What?" Xu Que widened his eyes instantly, his heart shocked.

Newly born babies possess 16 years of lifespan, and these lifespans can even be extracted to extend the lifespan of others.

Just based on this point, isn't the situation obvious enough?

Those women dressed in fancy clothes standing on the street are actually trying to have sex with male cultivators, get pregnant, and then treat the child as a tool for their own lifespan extension, discarding them after use, and even trading the lifespans of these children!

Such cruel and ruthless means, they actually manage to do it?

Xu Que instantly felt it was somewhat unacceptable. After all, although he was ruthless in his actions, he still retained a bottom line.

"Fellow Daoist, you don't need to be so surprised. There are quite a few people who oppose this practice, but most people, in order to survive, can only resort to this!" Wang Qiannian looked at Xu Que's expression and shook his head with a bitter smile.

When he first arrived in this place and heard about such things, he was also unable to accept it.

But now, he had long since become accustomed and numb. For these practices, he had already accepted them from the bottom of his heart!

The world is just so realistic and cruel. Even if a tiger doesn't eat its own cubs, human hearts and greed are even more poisonous than tigers!

"Could it be that you guys survive by relying on those newly born babies?" Xu Que asked coldly.

He himself, although ruthless in his actions, always retained a bottom line.

But if this group of people didn't even spare babies, then they simply had no bottom line, which was truly nauseating!

Previously, Xu Que thought he had arrived in a beautiful new world, but now, he felt that this place was truly a sewer, and not even as good as a sewer!

"Of course not!" At this time, Wang Qiannian replied: "Those female cultivators can't get pregnant every time, and they can only give birth to one baby a year. Plus, the number of male cultivators in this place is extremely huge, so even if a hundred babies are born every year, it's impossible to satisfy the lifespan extension needs of so many cultivators! Therefore, the vast majority of our lifespan comes from Vitality Rice!"

"Vitality Rice? What is that?" Xu Que's expression eased slightly.

Wang Qiannian replied: "In this place, there is a spirit object that grows underground, known as Vitality Rice. The size of the rice varies. Thumb-sized Vitality Rice is the most common and can extend lifespan by one month, but we can't harvest this thing at all; only Vitality Ants can get it. So whether it's our Great Generous Association, or the Great Atmosphere Alliance and the Heavenly Alliance, etc., what everyone does every day is search for the nests of Vitality Ants, dig out the nests, and steal their Vitality Rice!"

Digging Vitality Ant nests and stealing Vitality Rice?

Xu Que was shocked, stunned: "So... you guys are digging holes every day?"

"Not bad! Don't think this matter is very simple. Not to mention how difficult Vitality Ants are to deal with, once a Vitality Ant Queen appears, it's destined to be a catastrophe with countless casualties, because their Queen is an existence comparable to a Human Immortal Realm expert. Of course, the most difficult part is that their nests are buried extremely deep, very difficult to find, and incomparably sturdy. If you don't have Human Immortal Realm cultivation, it's impossible to find them, let alone dig them out."

Wang Qiannian said this and sighed: "So, this digging is also a technical job. You only have Half-Immortal Realm strength, so it's impossible to do it. This is also the reason why we are unwilling to accept you into the association!"

Xu Que heard this and instantly became unhappy!

Digging is a technical job, I understand!

But why say that it's impossible for this King of Acting Cool to do it?

This King of Acting Cool even knows how to rob tombs; seeking dragons and exploring acupoints is just a basic skill, okay?

A mere digging job like this is simply a gift question!

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