[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-treasure-immortal-basin":3,"chapter-the-treasure-immortal-basin-the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-813":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Treasure Immortal Basin",{"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},2355996,4608,"Chapter 813: Burn Lifespan","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-813",813,"\u003Cp>“Use your strength!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hold on, I’m counting on you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I believe in you—this isn’t your true limit; you can definitely climb to fifteenth place!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, Zhu Xuanlun reaching seventeenth place had already surprised Zhu Zhengyan greatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after seeing seventeenth, Zhu Zhengyan was no longer satisfied—he thought fifteenth sounded much better!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xuanlun let out a roar, summoning every ounce of strength he had; his brown-black flames blazed fiercely as he surged upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sixteenth place!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifteenth place!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xuanlun finally reached fifteenth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Phew…” He exhaled, utterly drained at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father!” He gasped for breath: “I can’t go on… I’m going to… leave my name!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xuanlun reached out, ready to carve his name into the stone tablet at the corresponding height.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No!” Above, Zhu Zhengyan roared: “Push higher! I believe in you—you can climb one more level!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xuanlun’s face was pale, his body engulfed in roaring brown-black solar essence fire: “Father… I truly cannot go any higher!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t care!” Zhu Zhengyan said: “No matter what, you must climb higher!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re only five ranks away from the top ten!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Surpass these five, and you’ll be in the top ten!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Climb!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Climb!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xuanlun swallowed five pills in one breath, and the flames on his body burned even more fiercely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He launched several violent surges upward, but all were futile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply couldn’t rise any further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zhengyan!” Jin Gang, the Demon Emperor, watched with pity and said: “Don’t push him further—his performance is already excellent; overexertion will damage his cultivation foundation!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This child Zhu Xuanlun truly has extraordinary talent!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He’s already tried his hardest!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No!” Zhu Zhengyan stared at Zhu Xuanlun: “Don’t listen to their nonsense—they’re just jealous you’re climbing too high!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zhu Xuanlun, listen to me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Right now, immediately…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Burn your lifespan!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Burn your lifespan—climb higher!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re under a thousand years old; burning a little lifespan is perfectly fine!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You still have nine thousand years of lifespan to burn!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you afraid of?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After this contest, you’ll immediately attempt Body Integration—once you reach that realm, you’ll have twenty thousand years of lifespan!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Quickly—burn it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those around him saw Zhu Zhengyan had gone qi-deviated, and no one dared speak further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below, Zhu Xuanlun had no escape—he roared and began using a secret technique to burn his lifespan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lifespan, when deliberately burned, grants immense power, but it is consumed rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hundred years of lifespan vanished in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boom…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the power from burning his lifespan, Zhu Xuanlun surged another hundred zhang upward, finally reaching the fourteenth level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father… I really can’t go on!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Zhu Xuanlun waved his hand and carved his name directly onto the stone tablet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it…” Zhu Zhengyan still cursed: “Didn’t I tell you to burn nine thousand years at once? Why did you only burn eight?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Burn more!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can still go one step further!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xuanlun had already carved his name onto the stone tablet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then his body, frail as a reed, floated gently down from tens of thousands of zhang above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Puh…” As soon as he landed, Zhu Xuanlun spat out a mouthful of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His once jet-black hair had turned snow-white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His previously youthful face was now lined with deep wrinkles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn thing!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Zhu Zhengyan descended from above, showing no joy at his son reaching fourteenth place—only anger at being disobeyed: “Did you ignore everything I told you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why did you leave a thousand years?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You dared to disobey me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You—you—you beast…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Zhengyan raised his hand to strike his son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zhengyan!” Above, the Great Lun Ming Wang suddenly spoke: “I have a question for you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Zhengyan released his son and looked upward: “My Lord, please ask.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Great Lun Ming Wang asked: “I recall you once climbed this Stone Platform Stairway—what rank did you achieve?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Zhengyan’s face lit up: “I left my name at two hundred thirty-second place—second among all prodigies in that year’s Stone Platform Stairway!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two hundred some places sounds like a lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in truth, it’s the cumulative ranking of countless sages across generations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s already impressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Great Lun Ming Wang asked again: “And if you had burned your lifespan back then, how much higher could you have gone?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How many years of lifespan did you burn?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this question, Zhu Zhengyan fell silent, his face dark as soot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmph…” He glared fiercely at his son, then turned and left without another word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Congratulations, Zhu Xuanlun!” Jin Gang, the Demon Emperor, smiled warmly: “You did excellently—fourteenth place is enough to shine through eternity!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Congratulations!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone congratulated Zhu Xuanlun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng pulled out a Sacred Essence Pill and offered it to Zhu Xuanlun: “Top-grade—it restores a thousand years of lifespan. Take it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human cultivators of Void Refinement have only five thousand years of lifespan, but Zhu Xuanlun is a Golden Crow—he possesses ten thousand years at Void Refinement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He now has only one thousand left; if he consumes this Sacred Essence Pill, he gains another thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you,” Zhu Xuanlun accepted the pill but did not eat it, instead gazing at He Pingsheng with deep gratitude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng shook his head and returned to his seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What can you do with a father like that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boy’s fate is simply tragic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Second place, Bai Zhiting!” Jin Gang’s voice rang out again: “Please prepare Bai Zhiting and her Breaker for the Stairway Ascent!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes!” Bai Zhiting stepped forward and bowed to Jin Gang: “Your Majesty, my Breaker is the Grand Elder of my Tianhu Clan, a Mahayana Emperor.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, a large and a small fox began ascending.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Duan Feihong flashed forward, suddenly appearing before He Pingsheng and Wang Dun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both were startled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duan Feihong stared intently at He Pingsheng for two long moments: “You… what a pity.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I came here intending to be your Breaker!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But you’ve lost your eligibility to challenge the Stairway.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng replied coolly: “You flatter yourself—even if I hadn’t lost eligibility, I wouldn’t have chosen you as my Breaker.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1005,"2026-06-21T04:09:01.327Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e5956ba210762980d4e26114387577ace818d68ddc66e2b9cb30202deb405b0a","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-814","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-812",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-treasure-immortal-basin-cover.jpg"]