The numerous leaderboards in the Nine Heavens were created by a certain high-ranking official within the Destiny Association. They utilized the Heavenly Dao to capture the auras of all living beings, thereby compiling these lists.
Within the Nine Heavens, unless one possessed a constitution that concealed heavenly secrets like the Void Immortal Physique, as long as one had not ascended to immortality, their aura would be recorded by the Heavenly Dao and subsequently appear on various rankings.
Evidently, the Saint-Tier Peerless Lifespan-Extension Pill that Jiang Che had refined was something even the Heavenly Dao had never seen before, much less named. However, the Heavenly Dao could still sense the boundless vitality contained within it.
One hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred years!
The moment this pill appeared, it caused the entire Nine Heavens to tremble almost instantly.
What was the most scarce thing in the entire Nine Heavens?
Lifespan!!!
This was especially true for those whose strength had reached the Immortal realm. The Three Thousand Great Daos of the Nine Heavens meant there were three thousand Great Dao Origins, yet there weren't even three thousand Immortals in the Nine Heavens.
Everyone walked a different path. Many ascended to immortality through unorthodox means, traversing niche paths. Take Bai Tianwu's Dance Immortal Great Dao, for example; in the entire Nine Heavens over a million years, she was the only existence to achieve immortality through the Dao of Dance.
Logically speaking, those Immortals on niche paths had very few competitors and should have had a high probability of gaining the recognition of their Great Dao Origins.
However, the reality was quite the contrary!
Since the ancient Heavenly Court era, hadn't there been hundreds of thousands of Immortals who had emerged?
Even the Immortal History of the Nine Heavens recorded that over millions of years of the Immortal Calendar, a few hundred Immortal Emperors had been born. Yet, almost all of these Immortal Emperors had perished from old age. If even existences like Immortal Emperors found it difficult to gain the recognition of a Great Dao Origin, what more needed to be said about other Immortals?
Therefore, among all the cultivators in the Nine Heavens today, there was an almost fanatical pursuit of lifespan!
And at this moment, the effects of the number one immortal pill that had just refreshed on the Nine Heavens Immortal Pill Ranking... caused everyone to tremble in shock.
......
"What??? It increases lifespan by one epoch? A peerless lifespan-extension pill has actually been refined?"
"Who is it! Who refined this pill? A peerless lifespan-extension pill... an undiminished increase of one hundred and twenty thousand years of lifespan. This... this taboo immortal pill has actually been brought into the world!"
"My lifespan is running out. This peerless lifespan-extension pill is my most crucial opportunity to break through to Immortal Emperor. If I obtain this immortal pill... I will definitely be able to step into the Immortal Emperor realm!"
"Who exactly refined this immortal pill? Was it the Pill Immortal Lord from the Heavenly Origin Pill Sect? Or someone else..."
"Hehe, anyone who dares to refine such a taboo immortal pill will perish, even Immortals! Have you forgotten the fate of that Pill God in the Destiny Association? Refining such a taboo immortal pill... even the Destiny Association won't be able to protect him!"
Very quickly, the Nine Heavens descended into chaos.
There were countless cultivators in the Nine Heavens whose lifespans were on the verge of exhaustion. They had already consumed every imaginable panacea and elixir capable of extending their lives. Aside from longevity substances or a breakthrough in cultivation, there were no other methods left to increase their lifespans.
But now... the appearance of this peerless lifespan-extension pill was no less impactful than a nuclear bomb detonating in a small pond.
Even those ancient Immortal Venerables who had been lying dormant in the Nine Heavens for an unknown number of years began to awaken one after another, their eyes revealing undisguised greed.
The Nine Heavens consisted of tens of millions of state domains. How vast was its territorial expanse?
In each heavenly domain, an Immortal Physique would be born every ten thousand years. Over a span of a hundred thousand years... how many peerless geniuses would emerge? As long as someone with an Immortal Physique did not die prematurely... they were almost guaranteed to ascend to immortality, and their immortal rank would not be low. What about the disciples and heirs nurtured by the various immortal sects and aristocratic families?
According to statistics, the number of new Immortals appearing in the Nine Heavens every ten thousand years hovered around a hundred. Despite many dying of old age or falling in battle, there were still numerous Immortals clinging to life... waiting for that illusory golden age when the Immortal Realm would descend!
But now, a peerless lifespan-extension pill made it impossible for them to remain calm any longer.
...
"Creak creak~~~"
Deep beneath the crust of the earth in a certain abyss, a withered, stark-white hand resembling tree bark slowly thrust out from a low grave mound.
Following that, a humanoid creature resembling a zombie puppet crawled out of the grave.
Its facial features had completely weathered away, leaving only a thin layer of human skin stretched tightly over a blackened skull. The corners of its mouth slowly split open, forming a terrifying and hideous smile as billowing thick fog began to spread.
Endless black smoke poured out, and ghostly howls echoed from within the dark fog, causing one's soul to tremble in fear.
"Jiejiejie—"
"It is the scent of a taboo! It is the power of a taboo... The one who refines a taboo immortal pill must die!"
The withered old man had already pulled the upper half of his body out of the tomb. Endless runes materialized beneath him, forming what appeared to be a grand teleportation array that was slowly awakening.
"Siphoning the fortune of heaven and earth, using Yin, Yang, and the Five Elements to create longevity substances out of thin air. Taboo power... damn them!"
With every breath the old man took, it seemed as though he could stir up a tide of darkness.
The withered old man continued to crawl outward. As if suddenly realizing something, he raised his hand and pinched his fingers to divine. "Someone capable of violating a taboo wouldn't be a nameless nobody. But even if you are an Immortal Emperor, an Emperor shall fall today!"
The old man pinched his fingers in calculation, preparing to divine the location of the person who refined the pill.
But in the very next second, his entire body jolted as if struck by lightning!
"How... how is this possible? How is this possible? What... what is this?" The withered old man's eyes widened in horror—though, of course, his shriveled body had long since lost organs like eyeballs.
"I... I think I'd better head back to the underworld," the old man mumbled, trembling violently as he buried the half of his body he had just pulled out back into the dirt.
"My old eyes must be playing tricks on me, seeing a taboo existence refining a taboo immortal pill..."
It was too terrifying out here; he'd be better off obediently returning to the underworld.
...
"How about it? Do any of you need this immortal pill?"
Jiang Che raised his hand and tossed the immortal pill into the air, causing the surrounding Immortals of the Jiang family to watch with immense envy. Although they already had peerless lifespan-extension pills to eat, consuming one of those pills only extended their lifespans by a single month, and they tasted absolutely awful.
"Ahem, Jiang Che, you've already treated our Jiang family exceptionally well. We old fogeys should have died a long time ago... This immortal pill isn't of much use to us. We can just eat a few more of the ordinary peerless lifespan-extension pills, and the effect will be the same," an Immortal declined with a smile.
"Alright!" Jiang Che nodded. "Since the Immortal Ancestors don't want it, how about I just put this pill up for auction?"
Jiang Che grinned.
"Auction?!!!" the old men of the Jiang family exclaimed in astonishment.
They had never imagined Jiang Che would be so audacious.
Right now, countless billions of people from the myriad races across the entire Nine Heavens were searching for this very pill. Just moments ago, they had all sensed countless intense threads of karma sweeping past them. That was the work of many powerful cultivators performing divinations, attempting to deduce the location and information of the pill.
They even felt the divinatory souls of many Immortal Lords and even Immortal Venerables. If the Jiang family's clan-protecting immortal array hadn't obscured the heavenly secrets, they feared that...
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
