The Dao dies but I live on, the spiritual energy dries up but I remain evergreen

Li Changxiao did not enter the cave rashly.

Although the spiritual energy was exhausted, Song Xuan's cultivation was still there. If he got too close, he would definitely be noticed.

He wanted to know what Song Xuan was up to, so he suddenly had an idea and decided to find out through "dream"!

As long as the people inside fall asleep and dream.

Li Changxiao can sneak into dreams and then obtain internal information by manipulating dreams.

Soon, someone had a dream.

It was a woman whose arm was broken and she was bleeding profusely. She was half asleep and half awake when she was dying.

Li Changxiao came into her dream and saw her whole life. The last scene was when Song Xuan was holding a big knife and slashing at her.

Through the dream, Li Changxiao saw the frightened expressions around him and the scene inside the cave.

"Gongquan?" He noticed a spring in the cave.

This spring is called Gongquan and is specially used for washing sacrificial offerings.

Soon, another person came into the dream...

……

Song Xuan returned to his bedroom.

He knelt devoutly towards a black Buddha statue, chanting strange spells.

After a while, he stood up, took out a heart wrapped in oil paper from his arms, and ate it up in big mouthfuls.

"It's so embarrassing."

Sudden.

A voice came from behind.

Song Xuan was stunned, feeling that the voice sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was. He chewed hard a few times and swallowed the chewy myocardium mixed with blood in his mouth.

Then he wiped his mouth and turned slowly.

Saw a swordsman in white.

He immediately became alert, "Practitioner?"

His cultivation in the early stage of transformation had already nourished the power of his soul. With just a thought, he could know every blade of grass and every tree within a radius of several miles.

However, two hundred years after the spiritual energy was exhausted, he had already sealed all of these things tightly inside his body and survived as a mortal.

Therefore, he did not notice Li Changxiao's arrival.

Li Changxiao also realized this through everyone's dreams, so he dared to sneak in boldly.

"Li Changxiao?" Song Xuan quickly recognized Li Changxiao.

He pulled out a big knife from his back, with a vigilant look on his face, "Haha, Li Changxiao, what a coincidence, I didn't expect to see you again after the spiritual energy was exhausted for three hundred years."

"I thought you had died of old age a long time ago."

Song Xuan sneered and spoke.

"Yes, what a coincidence." Li Changxiao nodded and said, "I never thought that Song Xuan, who was once so brilliant, would one day use evil methods to prolong his life."

"You..." Li Changxiao said indifferently: "You are uglier than before."

"What do you know!" Song Xuan's face suddenly turned ferocious, "The Great Dao is dead, I am seeking a new path! I am a pioneer! A genius! A star!"

"A mediocre person like you will only wither and turn into dust in the future, but I will still be the Song Xuan that everyone is looking forward to!"

He waved his sword in front of him and said coldly: "Get lost! You are not welcome in my cave!"

Li Changxiao sneered, "The Heart-Swallowing Longevity Technique, the legendary immortal magic technique, now... a hundred years of life extension, that's already the limit, right? Now, no matter how many hearts you swallow, will your life span change at all?"

This kind of magic skill can indeed achieve the effect of longevity in an era of abundant spiritual energy.

However, everything is based on spiritual energy.

Reiki is the foundation of everything.

The spiritual energy is gone. For this kind of longevity skill, extending lifespan by 100 years is the absolute limit. Although Li Changxiao's cultivation is not high, he is extremely sensitive to lifespan.

Just like he knew from the moment he was born that he was an immortal body of the Great Dream, it was some kind of innate perception.

As if a sore spot had been touched, Song Xuan's expression became more and more crazy, and he burst into tears with his head in his hands.

He couldn't accept it.

With just a few words, Li Changxiao roughly tore off the fig leaf of his self-deception.

What a pioneer there is.

He's just a coward.

Tears rolled down Song Xuan's cheeks.

He burst into tears, crying in front of the person he once looked down upon.

A feeling of despair and helplessness filled the entire space.

It was not until today that he realized how afraid he was of death, watching his life span, which he once thought was endless, diminish day by day.

The feeling of powerlessness, despair and helplessness always filled his heart.

The early stage of spiritual energy depletion.

The leader of Dao Sect once predicted that this spiritual energy depletion would only last for a hundred years.

He believed it.

At a time when everyone stayed indoors and tried their best to save spiritual energy, he went the other way, challenged stronger geniuses, and went to the secret realm to search for treasures...

Consider this a unique opportunity.

A huge amount of spiritual energy was consumed during this period, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth became less and less day by day, so his spiritual energy was never replenished at all.

And a hundred years later.

The spiritual energy did not revive, on the contrary... it became even less, almost less!

Only then did he realize what a wrong decision he had made.

The spiritual energy in the body is insufficient, the spiritual energy outside is exhausted, all things are withering, and life span is rapidly declining...

He lied and ran to seek the master, but the master was in trouble himself. He just left a message saying "May you be lucky" and disappeared.

After that, the rate of lifespan decay continues unabated.

For ordinary people, one year of their life is wasted!

However, because he had a serious lack of spiritual energy in his body, he only had the realm but no spiritual energy to warm it. He could not retain his lifespan, and even his realm was rapidly degenerating.

So...he loses ten years of his life in one year!

In other words, one year of his time is equivalent to ten years for a mortal.

This is why practitioners dare not use spiritual energy.

Aura and realm complement each other to enjoy a corresponding lifespan, otherwise one will quickly degenerate to the level of a mortal.

He was scared, so scared that he couldn't sleep. He thought of his past magic skills, so...he began to use evil methods to prolong his life.

This has been going on for decades.

He lives in this cave every day and makes a living by eating hearts.

until today.

"Why? Why can you, a trash in the Nascent Soul stage, live longer than me? And I can only endure the pain of my lifespan passing away!" Song Xuan roared in pain.

He didn't dare to look Li Changxiao in the eye.

Afraid of seeing the sarcasm in the other person's eyes.

For some reason, he was particularly concerned about Li Changxiao's gaze at this moment.

But there was no sarcasm in Li Changxiao's eyes, only sighs.

"Song Xuan, instead of struggling, it's better to end it here." Li Changxiao sighed.

"You want to kill me?" Song Xuan suddenly laughed. "Yes, you were once like mud and I trampled you under my feet. Now that you see that I am in such a state, you want revenge."

"Li Changxiao, you are such a loser! Always have been."

Song Xuan cursed angrily and became hysterical.

However, the flash of sword light made him speechless.

He used his spiritual energy to resist, but the pitiful amount of spiritual energy was dispersed in an instant.

The sword flashed across his throat.

Song Xuan covered his throat desperately, his hands were stained with blood, and his eyes were filled with endless fear and unwillingness.

Li Changxiao walked forward, patted Song Xuan's shoulder gently, and said lightly: "Yes, I am indeed a waste."

"In terms of cultivation talent, I can't compare to you, and in terms of the master's tradition, I can't compare to you even more."

"But, when all the stars gather, I am here. When all the stars fall, I am still here. Even if the sun and moon change and the sky is full of stars again, I..."

"Still."