The Lord of Void and Real-Chapter 370 - 366 Significant Reduction in Lifespan (2nd

Chapter 370: Chapter 366: Significant Reduction in Lifespan (2nd Update)

Chapter 370: Chapter 366: Significant Reduction in Lifespan (2nd Update)

Usually, Shen Luo would awaken from the Dreamland after completing some special tasks, such as killing demons in the mountain village, eradicating ghosts in ancient temples, or saving people in the Longevity Village. Although there was no particular standard, most of the time he would wake up after completing certain tasks.

However, this time in the Treasure Pagoda, he had not yet completed the task mentioned by the Armored Heavenly General – defeating thirty-six Heavenly Soldiers, when he suddenly lost consciousness and was transported back to reality.

The feeling was like abruptly waking up in the middle of a dream.

He lay in bed, meditating for a moment, but could not make sense of it.

“Never mind, I’ll think about it after I get up,” Shen Luo thought. Unable to figure out what was going on, he decided to get up and start cultivating.

However, as he tried to lift his arm, he found it as heavy as lead. Accompanied by this heaviness, there was a sharp pain all over his body and an intense feeling of fatigue.

Surprised, Shen Luo forcefully sat up, ignoring the discomfort all over his body. His vision suddenly became blurry, objects in the room began to twist, and curtains in front of him swayed as if alive. Everything began to spin, leaving him feeling dizzy.

He had no strength to resist and laid back down. His head heavily hit the jade pillow.

His body trembled as if straining through a sieve, his mind became muddled, and he couldn’t think at all. He only felt a familiar sensation climbing up to his heart. It felt as though a bottomless pit had opened up inside him, ruthlessly devouring his life force.

The intense pain shattered his consciousness bit by bit, leaving him twisted in agony but unable to make a sound. Although it was early morning, the light gradually dimmed as if a black curtain was gradually enclosing him.

Darkness fell before his eyes again, and he fell into another unconscious sleep.

…

After an unknown period, Shen Luo’s eyelashes trembled a bit, and he finally woke up again.

“Father…”

The moment he opened his eyes, he saw a middle-aged man sitting next to him with a look of concern.

“Luo’er, what’s wrong with you?” Shen Yuange asked anxiously.

“I made a mistake during cultivation, but it’s nothing serious,” Shen Luo replied hesitantly after opening his mouth.

“In the morning, you didn’t come out for meals. I thought you might be busy cultivating, but you didn’t appear even in the afternoon. I was worried, so I came in. Only to find you lying on the bed, looking pale. No matter how much I called you, you didn’t wake up. You looked just like when you were first invaded by the Yin Sha, sigh…” Shen Yuange recounted, and he couldn’t help sighing, thinking back to those times.

“It’s just a backlash of the cultivation technique, it’s nothing. After a bit of meditation and adjustment, I’ll be fine,” Shen Luo smiled and struggled to sit up.

Even though he tried to sound casual, he already understood what was happening.

The feeling of his life force being devoured was not unfamiliar to him. He experienced it once when he returned from the Dreamland for the second time. The current situation was exactly the same as back then, if not worse.

“Father, could you prepare some medicinal herbs for me? I would like to take a herbal bath later,” Shen Luo said as he got off the bed, walked slowly to the table, took the brush, and started to write on the Xuan paper.

The prescription for the herbal bath was from the Bai Family. Although it contained many precious medicinal ingredients, there were no Spiritual Medicine and Immortal Herbs. It wasn’t difficult for the Shen Family, who ran their own pharmacy, to gather the ingredients.

“Alright, wait for me, I will get it prepared. Second Mother has already asked the kitchen to prepare your meal. It will be delivered to you in a while,” Shen Yuange agreed promptly and left the room.

Shen Luo didn’t have much of an appetite at first and wanted to refuse, but he ended up nodding anyway.

After Shen Yuange left, Shen Luo cast a glance towards the door, seeing that outside the sky had already darkened, approaching dusk.

He walked to the bedside, sat down again, and looking at the jade pillow on the bed, a wave of complex emotions emerged in his heart.

Most of his opportunities were born from this jade pillow, but he had twice exhausted his lifespan all because of it. He truly didn’t know whether to love or hate it?

However, reflecting on the few times he traveled through the dream, Shen Luo gradually clarified one thing. The drain on his life was not directly caused by the jade pillow, but seemed related to his experiences of death in the dreams.

When Shen Luo first entered the Mountain Village in his dream, he had died and was brought back to life. Though he returned with no physical injuries, he experienced intense pain. During his second dream, when he fought with the Demon Wolf, he also died and was resurrected. After waking up, his lifespan was nearly exhausted.

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This time, within that Treasure Pagoda, he had died and come back to life more than a hundred times. The damage to his body’s qi and foundation was unimaginable, which resulted in more than two hundred years of his lifespan being consumed in reality.

The reason he abruptly woke up from the dream this time was probably mainly because his lifespan was nearly exhausted, already unable to support him to continue traversing the dream.

After pondering for a long time, Shen Luo positioned his hands in a meditation pose and started to examine his internal condition.

After a moment, he slowly opened his eyes. His Dantian and meridians appeared normal, but his vitality was massively depleted, and his life energy was significantly drained.

Referencing his previous condition, Shen Luo estimated that he had at most two or three years left.

This great dream had once again brought him back to the situation a few years ago when his life was hanging by a thread.

He had originally planned to quickly boost his cultivation leveraging the insights gathered from the dream, to rescue his betrothed from Mount Putuo. Now, it seemed that this couldn’t be achieved in a short time.

At night, Shen Luo soaked in the medicinal barrel, silently running the Nameless Cultivation Technique to speed up the absorption of the medicine’s power.

He still remembered that Master Luo once told him that to survive, besides improving his cultivation and continually extending his lifespan limit, he had to look for spiritual medicine and immortal herbs to maintain and extend his life.

Normally, a monk who has reached the Grain Avoidance Stage can extend their lifespan by about two hundred years. But to gain more lifespan, one needs to advance to the Soul Condensation Stage.

Shen Luo at present just stepped into the Early Stage of Grain Avoidance. The Soul Condensation Stage—the next major realm—is too far away. Considering his qualifications and cultivation speed, he wasn’t confident in reaching the next stage in the next two or three decades, let alone just two or three years.

In other words, his current situation is worse than before.

“Since ordinary methods won’t work, I must look for some shortcuts.” Shen Luo exhaled a long breath, and his spirit noticeably improved.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered that Master Luo once told him that besides quickly improving his cultivation level, if he wanted to extend his lifespan, he could only rely on immortal herbs.

Back then, Shen Luo not only hadn’t seen any immortal herbs, he wasn’t even aware of their existence.

Now it was different. While on Mount Fangcun, he read the “Immortal Divine Herb”. He was very familiar with the world’s “plants”, “insects and beasts”, “minerals”, and other categories of spirit medicine and immortal herbs.

However, as he learned about these spiritual medicines, Shen Luo also clearly understood their value. Each one was worth a lot of money and they were treasures that could be met by luck but not sought after.

Even if he was lucky enough to encounter them, he did not have sufficient immortal jade to purchase them.

Thinking of this, Shen Luo couldn’t help but feel a bit disheartened, considering whether to return to Jianye and seek help from the Bai Family.

But just then, a thought flashed through his mind, reminding him of something.