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Chapter 246: Longevity Statue on the Island
At this time, the people who were traveling with Lu Yue started to practice as quickly as possible after discovering that there was no danger. Only Lu Yue looked around with a frown on his face.

Having experienced the ruins of Bigan, he always felt that there was something fishy about it.

With this thought in mind, Lu Yue kept wandering around the area, but he never found anything unusual. As time went by, he began to doubt whether he was too suspicious.

It wasn't long before dark.

Lu Yue suddenly discovered that the lifespan on his wrist did not increase.

Been here for hours.

It's clearly daytime now, how could this happen?

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps behind him.

Looking back, I saw a large group of extraordinary people emerging from the forest.

This group of people included old and young, and their ages were uneven. After seeing Lu Yue and his group, they did not say a word, but just sat cross-legged and practiced on their own.

Judging from his behavior, he had obviously discovered this place earlier than Lu Yue and others.

Just as Lu Yue was thinking about the reason why his lifespan did not increase during the day, a slightly younger extraordinary person among the group of people walked towards Lu Yue and his companions.

"newcomer?"

Seeing this, the extraordinary people beside Lu Yue stood up one after another, looked at the person who had spoken to them warily, and finally nodded slowly in response.

"Give me some food, anything, and I might be able to tell you something about the situation here." The extraordinary man said bluntly.

"My friend, can you let us see the longevity mark on your wrist?" The person traveling with me asked this question, paying full attention and ready to go.

The man was not angry and showed his wrist generously.

【Eighty-four】

The life marks are clearly visible, there are no negative numbers, and there are no traces of smearing.

This is indeed a symbol of longevity!
Several people couldn't wait to put together a few bags of snacks.

In order to fit in, Lu Yue also took out a bag of snail noodles from the medicine box.

This move left several colleagues dumbfounded.

Dude, why do you have snail noodles in your medicine box?
However, the extraordinary person who proposed the deal had his eyes light up and said excitedly: "I have been here for more than a month. Although I am not starving to death, my mouth is almost dry. Snail noodles are good. I like snail noodles..."

Entering the fourth level of the Divine Treasury means that extraordinary people can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to replenish the energy they need. In theory, they do not need to eat, but in reality most people still maintain the eating habits of ordinary people.

After all, there are so many delicious foods in this world, there is no need to treat yourself badly.

After accepting the snacks one by one, the man said, "Did you see that stone statue with a human head? It is a longevity statue. It can protect a certain area. I stayed here for a month, and I didn't lose any lifespan for sixteen hours at night."

"Everyone can prove this, and there are no side effects."

"Of course, if there is any disadvantage, it is that staying around this stone statue during the day will not increase your lifespan, so those of us who enter early will go out during the day to look for opportunities and come back here to practice at night."

When the people around Lu Yue heard this, their breathing suddenly became rapid.

Isn't this the ideal place? ! !
Go out to look for opportunities during the day, and use high concentrations of spiritual energy to practice at night.

But soon, someone noticed something was wrong.

If one stays here for a month, theoretically one's life span should increase by 240 years, but the mark on the other person's wrist shows a life span of 84 years, which is quite a big difference.

Faced with everyone's questions, the man did not answer immediately, but asked: "Since you came here, you must have met the boatman. Did the boatman ask you to write an IOU?"

Everyone nodded in affirmation.

The man continued, "If I were you, I would not throw away or tear up the IOU, because this action would cost you double your life."

Everyone looked puzzled. This IOU was just an ordinary piece of paper and did not contain any supernatural power. Why would they have to pay double?
The man kept silent.

After a few people discussed it, they took out a few boxes of self-heating hot pot to honor each other.

The man didn't hesitate and accepted all the orders.

"You seem to be quite knowledgeable. Let me tell you something. Behind the corpse boatman is a corpse retriever. You know what a corpse retriever is, right? This kind of extraordinary person often deals with rivers, lakes, and ponds."

"Not on land, but more difficult to deal with in water than those water ghosts."

"It is said that the corpse retriever has been here for half a year. However, he was unlucky and landed in the middle of the island. The ratio of night to day time in that place is even more terrifying."

"He became a negative person, signed a living contract, owed a lot of life, and finally fled to the outer periphery and stayed in that miasma area."

"That's also the only way to get to the location of the statue of longevity."

“So he made a rule.”

"What rules?" Everyone's expressions turned serious.

"Any extraordinary person who seeks the protection of Shouxiang can only take his ship. Every person who comes in will be charged one year of his life span. Of course... there is no charge for leaving."

"Are you thinking that you can go out during the day and come back at night, gaining eight years of life a day? Even if you give up one year of life, you can still gain seven years for free. Isn't this a good deal?"

The man snorted coldly, and then continued, "That damn corpse retriever would make up all kinds of excuses to collect fees every night."

"The fees for using the statue, the fees for breathing the ruins, the fees for maintaining the swamp, the fees for cleaning up the pollution in the swamp, the fees for maintaining the wooden boat, the wages for the boatman, and even the breakfast, lunch, dinner, and overtime pay for the boatman..."

"Damn it, how can a dead person eat!!!"

"The statue of longevity is not his. It is a public resource of the ruins. He uses the miasma on the road to control it and charges for it. In the past month, each of us has to pay five or six years of our lifespan every day as the price."

Everyone gasped.

what is this?
Isn't this like the sheep in the sheepfold, being milked every day?

"Don't you want to kill that corpse retriever?" Someone finally couldn't help but interrupt and ask. After all, this group of people all looked like they were at the fifth level of the Divine Realm.

This is not the real world. No one will know if you kill someone.

When the man heard this, he shook his head helplessly.

"This place is surrounded by the Black Water Swamp. That's where the corpse retrievers excel. You have no idea how terrifying it is when the corpse retrievers occupy a favorable geographical position."

"We also call that miasma a poison circle. We don't know how the corpse collectors did it. Even we dare not stay there for too long. I have personally seen a transcendent of the fifth level of the Divine Hidden Heaven enter it, and then his whole body was festering and he died."

"The more people die, the stronger the poison circle becomes!"

"Some powerful people did appear here in the past, but they left for the central region after their lifespans were extended to a hundred years, looking for greater opportunities."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's expressions became extremely solemn.

If you think about it carefully, this problem seems to have no solution.

This black water swamp is simply their Achilles' heel. Even if they are unwilling to go out, eight years of their lifespan will be deducted every day they stay outside. Finding those rare treasures depends entirely on luck, and they cannot last for more than a few days.

After weighing the pros and cons, most people have no choice but to accept this arrangement.

After all, when going out during the day, a supernatural person can add eight years to his lifespan every day, and when he comes back at night, at most five or six years will be taken away, so he can still make a net profit of two or three years a day, which is better than most.

This is the conspiracy of the corpse collector!!!
At this time, Lu Yue, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked, "If we take away the longevity statue and leave this black water swamp, the corpse fishermen will lose their greatest geographical advantage and won't be able to do anything to you, right?"

The man put down the snacks in his hand and looked at Lu Yue.

"No one can move that thing." "Is it heavy?" someone asked curiously.

"You have seen the movie, so you should know about Thor's hammer. Only qualified people can take it away. Also, I heard from some old people who came here earlier than us that the stone statue still hides some secrets..."

Having said that, the few people who had just tore up the IOU remembered that they would be held accountable by the corpse retriever in the evening, so they also turned their attention to the longevity statue.

"Can we go try it?"

The man ate snacks and responded, "It's up to you."

So, a group of people slowly stepped forward, each took up their stance, and tried one by one.

However, Lu Yue keenly noticed that although the old men around him seemed to be meditating and practicing, their eyes were involuntarily cast towards the stone statue, and there seemed to be a faint playful smile on their faces.

At this moment, a scream came from the stone statue in the distance.

"Damn, this stone statue with a human head is eating away my lifespan!!!"

Seeing this, the old people in the distance burst into laughter.

Apparently, seeing the miserable looks of these newcomers who overestimated their own abilities and tried to move the statues into their bags but ended up having their lifespans sucked away became one of their few pleasures.

In the end, everyone in the group tried it, but found that not only could they not move it, but they also had one year of their lifespans deducted, so they immediately retreated.

Seeing that Lu Yue didn't move, he said, "Why don't you try?"

Lu Yue shook his head and said, "I am not strong enough, so I won't join in the fun."

"Try it, it will only cost you one year of your life."

"Maybe you are the son of luck."

"Young man, you are extraordinary. I am very optimistic about you."

The old man in the distance kept encouraging him with a joking smile on his face.

Lu Yue thought about it, then nodded, walked forward, rubbed his hands together, put his palms close to the stone statue of the human head, concentrated his energy into his dantian, and took a deep breath.

Ho!
At this moment, the stone statue trembled slightly.

At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on Lu Yue.

There is doubt, shock, and disbelief...

However, no matter how Lu Yue's face turned red or how he changed his postures, the stone statue did not move at all, as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion.

"It's too heavy to move."

"One year of life was also deducted."

Lu Yue dusted off his hands and gave up helplessly.

The people around then withdrew their gazes. It was normal that it couldn't be moved. If it could be moved, it would be weird. They had been here for so long and had never seen anyone be able to move this thing.

After giving up, Lu Yue followed the crowd and returned to his original place, sitting cross-legged, pretending to be practicing, but his eyes kept glancing at the stone statue of a human head, and a sentence suddenly emerged in his mind.

Some people appear unable to lift Thor's hammer.

But he had secretly practiced a set of smooth combos.

Not long after the farce, the sky gradually darkened. The night was like an ink painting, gradually covering everything and casting a mysterious and strange veil on the island.

At night, the buff of reduced lifespan begins to come.

The surroundings were extremely quiet, like a dead cemetery.

The old men continued to practice as usual, trying to make a breakthrough in their cultivation. Then they would be qualified to negotiate with the corpse-retrievers. Then they would prepare to leave the periphery after their lifespan had increased to a certain amount, and head to the central area to look for greater opportunities.

The newcomers who entered the longevity statue area for the first time were anxiously waiting for time to pass. After all, seeing is believing.

Even after an hour had passed, the lifespan had not decreased.

Several people breathed a sigh of relief.

He began to practice intensively.

An hour passed... Two hours passed...

In the Blackwater Swamp area, a wooden boat slowly approached the shore.

A dead boatman stood up and walked towards the shore.

The originally calm water surface now began to emit bursts of fishy smells, and the miasma in the distance seemed to be controlled by someone, slowly spreading towards the shore.

"he came."

An old man who was practicing said.

The others also withdrew from their practice and looked into the distance in unison.

Even those extraordinary people who had just entered the state of cultivation began to look at him.

Under the dark night, a figure slowly approached from the forest.

It's the corpse boatman.

But then, the old people noticed that there was a foul and disgusting miasma behind the boatman, and some people's faces changed drastically: "Corpse collector, what do you mean by this?!"

"We keep our promise every night and pay our lifespans, why are you raising the miasma today?!!"

No one in the miasma answered, except for the pale-faced boatman, who turned stiffly, glanced at everyone, and said mechanically, "The time has come, it's time to die."

"The rules have changed today. Everyone must pay 80% of their remaining lifespan."

As soon as these words were spoken, all the old men's faces turned pale.

In the past, they were charged only 70% of their daily lifespan. Although it was quite harsh, it accumulated over time. In a month, each person could save up 60 to 70 years of lifespan.

And now, they are asked to hand over 80% of their remaining lifespan.

This is not milking the sheep, this is directly slaughtering the sheep! ! !

"The rule here has always been to pay 70% to 80% of the lifespan you gain every day. Corpse collector, what you did today is a bit against the rules."

"Aren't you afraid that we will join forces and fight to the death?!"

An old man stepped forward, his tone filled with unmistakable threat.

They have been practicing here for a month, and in just a few days they will be able to break through to the sixth level of the Shenzang realm. By then the situation will be very different.

"Today is my birthday, you should give me gifts."

Several elderly people were so angry that they almost vomited blood.

Do you really think you are Empress Dowager Cixi? !

When you celebrate your birthday, ask them to pay the bill.

Died early in the morning, okay? !

(End of this chapter)