Covering the Sky: I am the King of Men, and I rule over the rise and fall of all heavens.

Chapter 30 Gathering the Prerequisites for Living a Fourth Life
For the Supreme Beings of the Forbidden Zone, Jiang Bai's generosity and his constant trading with the Supreme Beings of the Samsara Sea were a gesture of goodwill, an attempt to join them.

In the past, similar situations have occurred. Newly enlightened emperors considered themselves unparalleled and looked down on everyone, especially the supreme beings of forbidden zones. They would say things like, "You are all trash. Watch me show you how I can become an immortal on the spot."

But when the second life comes to old age, it's like an old brother asking for a new place to live.

Therefore, in their eyes, Jiang Bai's behavior meant that he had already sensed that he was about to fail and wanted them to move to another place and make room for him.

In theory, restricted areas warmly welcome newcomers, as this signifies an increase in the area's strength, allowing residents to band together for mutual support and greater safety.

Especially someone like Jiang Bai, who is making great strides on the path to immortality and possesses formidable combat power, should be recruited.

However, Jiang Bai is too special.

First, Jiang Bai has too many enemies.

Secondly, they, along with the other forbidden zones, had been plotting to eliminate Jiang Bai.

"No accepting, only trading." A calm voice echoed in the Sea of ​​Reincarnation.

“Clean up his resources and research findings, then hunt him down and take back what we gave him.”

The main theme is "Never forget your original intention, and fight crime against crime."

"Agree."

"Agree."

………….

Other supreme beings also expressed their opinions and followed suit.

As the Supreme Being of the Reincarnation Sea Forbidden Zone made up his mind, Jiang Bai received many transaction requests.

Everyone was drawn by Jiang Bai's research findings on the path to immortality.

Jiang Bai also sold his research results to multiple entities, trading with other forbidden zones to obtain the longevity path research results he wanted.

After all, Jiang Bai's restrictions on making friends are not limited to the Samsara Sea family; he also interacts with other families.

The most significant manifestation of this is the research on the second generation. Jiang Bai traded out more than twenty copies, and each Supreme Being in the forbidden zone had a different understanding of it.

There are "understandings of the Great Dao," "understandings of life," "the reasons of physical constitution," "one's own beliefs," and so on; none of them are the same.

With these different insights and his own research, Jiang Bai embarked on a new round of research on "living a second life".

Standing on the shoulders of giants, Jiang Bai has developed his own understanding of "living a second life" after thousands of years of persistent research.

This understanding differs from that of all those who are supreme in the forbidden zones.

Jiang Bai even overturned some of his previous research findings.

Jiang Bai's latest understanding of "living a second life" is "the cruel reality of physical constitution".

After carefully comparing everyone's experiences, Jiang Bai concluded that the best person is the one who can survive in a state of "half-life, half-death" for the longest time.

It has little to do with mindset, willpower, or beliefs.

Or to put it another way, for those who meet the standard of living a second life, mindset, will, and beliefs are not problems.

Take the Great Emperor, for example. People who reach this level have all fought their way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood. How could they possibly have a problem with their will and beliefs?

The reason for this theory is that Jiang Bai discovered, while summarizing the research experience of everyone, that the states of those who have entered their second life are basically different.

Some were critically injured and on the verge of death, opening their powers in a daze; some had their origins depleted, with only a last bit of essence left to sustain them; and some, like the Celestial Venerable of Annihilation in the past, had reached the end of their lifespan.

Ultimately, they all entered that half-dead state under specific circumstances.

This raised a question for Jiang Bai: many people enter this half-life, half-death state, so why don't they live out their second life?

To this end, Jiang Bai went to observe a group of people in similar situations to investigate why the others did not live a second life.

After thousands of years of extensive experiments, research, and comparisons, Jiang Bai finally brought back those who had lived a second life and were previously dismissed, and compared them again.

Jiang Bai finally discovered the reason: it was their constitution. Some people have good constitutions, and as their lifespan increases, they accumulate some essence within their bodies, similar to the immortal essence within an emperor.

These essences can be understood as highly condensed products of one's own vital energy, and using them can bring one to a peak state.

Just like when Ye Fan was surrounded in his second life, he used up the immortal essence in his body to forcefully boost his peak combat power.

Jiang Taixu did the same thing after recovering some of his energy in the Divine City, using a portion of the life-saving essence he had gathered in Purple Mountain.

The better a person's constitution, the longer their lifespan and the more essence they accumulate within their body; for an emperor, this means the more immortal essence they accumulate.

Most cultivators enter a state of being half-alive and half-dead when their lifespan is nearing its end. At this time, what is burned is their essence, and what the Great Emperor burns is the immortal essence of longevity.

This period is the crucial moment for living out a second life.

If you have enough talent, you can survive; if you don't, you will surely die.

But if you can comprehend life and death after entering this state, how could your talent be insufficient?

Most people who lack talent simply die; they have no chance to comprehend life and death in this state.

Therefore, Jiang Bai believes that the key to the "living a second life" method lies in one's constitution, this innate thing.

The better one's constitution, the longer one lives, the more essence is generated within the body, and the more one can persevere in the state between life and death, gaining more insight and a greater chance of living a second life.

"So, I'm having such bad luck right now, could it be that I used up all my luck on getting the Human King Body?"

Although the Human King Physique is not an exceptionally strong physique, it does allow Jiang Bai to live longer than the average human emperor.

"Fortunately, my third incarnation was in the form of a chaotic body, which allowed me to live longer and accumulate more immortal essence."

"Otherwise, I estimate I would die from not having enough time to comprehend it."

Therefore, what we are born with is really important.

As for the immortal essence that Jiang Bai created by gathering the essence of all living beings with the power of faith, that thing can only be used to prolong life, and its effect is not very good.

The immortal essence created by harnessing the essence of all living beings is essentially the same as the stuff that the Supreme Being collected during the Dark Turmoil.

However, after being condensed, Jiang Bai's faith in the divine self, refined into the essence of immortality, will have a better effect than directly absorbing blood energy.

However, the effect was ultimately not high enough. Just like when Jiang Bai used it last time, the estimated dose was to restore him to his peak, but it did not reach that level. In the end, he only achieved it by transforming into a chaotic body and undergoing a complete metamorphosis in one go.

As for why the immortal essence condensed from the origin of all living beings wouldn't work, Jiang Bai believed the reason was that the "level of life" was different.

Below the Sage is the Sage, below the Quasi-Emperor is the Quasi-Emperor, and between the Quasi-Emperor and the Great Emperor—each level represents a different stage of life.

The immortal essence accumulated from the origin of all living beings can never compare to the immortal essence condensed within the Great Emperor's body.

Quantitative change can never lead to qualitative change.

This is also why the Supreme Being of the Forbidden Zone always thinks about hunting down the Emperor.

Killing one is worth more than killing billions of others.

"However, as things stand, I have already met all the prerequisites for living out my fourth life."

According to Jiang Bai's calculations, the immortal essence within his body will definitely be able to accumulate successfully by the time he reaches old age, and he also has no shortage of faith and comprehension.

"All that's missing is the time for it to come; my lifespan is nearing its end."

"But what should we do next?"

Jiang Bai smiled.

In this life, as a being of the Chaos Body, his lifespan was estimated to be around 27,000 to 28,000 years. Now, he is only 16,000 years old, so his lifespan is quite ample.

"Why don't we try to promote all paths and help the universe recover?"

Perhaps it was because Jiang Bai lived too long that this universe began to wither after he reached the age of ten thousand in his third life. The Great Dao as a whole declined, and the essence of heaven and earth continued to weaken. No quasi-emperors had been born for six thousand years.

(End of this chapter)