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Chapter 18: Kryptonian requires skills

The white dot floating in Feng Xue's sea of ​​consciousness glowed with light. In an instant, it changed from an illusion caused by dazzlement to a real ball of light.

With the input of vital energy, the light on the light spot gradually became saturated and overflowed. It was not dazzling or scorching, but as light and thin as moonlight, slowly enveloping and floating, illuminating the empty sea of ​​consciousness.

Faintly, Feng Xue seemed to feel a sense of touch, as if the light in his sea of ​​consciousness had temperature, but that temperature was so subtle, seeming to be there and not there, just like water close to body temperature, seemingly different, but unable to tell whether it was hot or cold.

Just as he was constantly absorbing vital energy, a strong feeling of hunger surged into his heart, his state of meditation was shattered, and Feng Xue's consciousness popped out of his sea of ​​​​consciousness again.

Feng Xue, who was still immersed in the fresh feeling a second ago, felt dizzy and immediately had a bad premonition in his heart. The over-the-shoulder perspective expanded again, and he saw the numbers above his head again -

3282.

"Boiled!"

Feng Xue was quite sensitive to the numbers above his head and noticed the two missing days at a glance. Even though the time difference between the two worlds was not so precise and it was already past midnight, he should still have 3283 days to live, not 3282.

"Another shortened life!"

Feng Xue couldn't help but groan in his heart. He didn't care about the quick results brought by locking [Refining Essence into Qi], and locked his life span again. Only then did he feel relieved.

"This Xuan Xiu thing really does shorten your lifespan! No wonder that senior brother only has twenty years left to live at such a young age!"

Although he was muttering to himself, Feng Xue could clearly feel that there seemed to be something extra in his mind at this moment.

The amount is small, and the movements are not very directed, a bit like walking on stilts. Although it is obviously an extension of the limbs, it is not that controlled.

"Is this... mana?"

Feng Xue was very curious about the power that he had obtained by burning two days of his life, but it was impossible for him to set up an altar in the inn, so he could only close his eyes again and continue to try to refine his vital energy.

In fact, he still had a little worry in his heart, because he was not sure whether this kind of practice that would shorten his life would be successful in the confrontation with [Destiny] but would not shorten his life, or whether it would not be possible to practice because it could not shorten his life.

If it was the former, Feng Xue would undoubtedly have gotten a huge cheat, but if it was the latter, no matter how good it was, Feng Xue would have no choice but to give up the mysterious cultivation of this world and try the so-called warrior path.

Of course, if it was difficult to practice martial arts, he could just travel through time again - he had already asked the waiter before, and he knew that there were trains in this world, but the nearest station was in a city about a hundred miles away from the county seat.

Well, when it comes to trains, at least we don’t have to worry about whether they weigh a hundred tons or not.

With this thought in mind, Feng Xue ate two energy bars and began to calm down again. His uneasy mood made it difficult for him to enter the state, but with the little bit of spiritual light escaping in his sea of ​​consciousness, he finally started a new round of refining essence into qi.

Strands of air rolled out from his limbs and bones, gathered together, and spread towards his sea of ​​consciousness, but when Feng Xue took a closer look, he found something strange.

If the feeling of practicing Qi before was like controlling a faucet, adjusting the amount of water smoothly, then now, there is a feeling of discontinuity. It is either dripping out drop by drop like a leak, or jumping out in clumps. There is no sense of continuity and smoothness at all.

This sense of conflict once again brought Feng Xue out of his state, but he did not enter it immediately. Instead, he started thinking.

"Break means that the middle section is 'unavailable,' but why is it unavailable?"

Feng Xue took out a pen and paper, drew a progress bar, and began to ponder. "Refining Essence into Qi, as the name suggests, is the conversion of matter into energy. The hunger I felt earlier was probably due to this, while the shortened lifespan is due to the depletion of stored energy in the body, which then begins to squeeze cells, consuming fat and muscle. Hmm, it feels a bit like 'self-cannibalism.' When someone starves to this degree, even if they are later revived, the damage done to their body will be difficult to make up for, so shortened lifespan is quite natural."

Muttering, Feng Xue divided the progress bar into three sections——

"So, the trickle of energy is probably the part that converts food energy into vital energy. It has nothing to do with lifespan, so it's not a problem. The large amount of vital energy at the end extracts a large amount of energy in one go, causing a large number of cells to become depleted and die. Because of the lock, this life-shortening effect is blocked. So while the cells don't die, the vital energy extracted instantly can't be swallowed back. As for the middle part, because the extraction process is continuous and slowly damages the cells, it's blocked from the first damage, and subsequent vital energy naturally can't come out."

It was not difficult for Feng Xue to understand this, because he had made many attempts on the life lock before.

For example, if you buy a rooster, lock in its lifespan, and then bleed it, when will you stop?

The answer depends on how the bloodletting is done.

If you chop off a chicken's head with a knife, the knife will not cause any harm, but if you just make a cut, the chicken will still bleed, but the bleeding will suddenly stop when the unlocked chicken in the control group starts to lose its lifespan.

This is also why Feng Xue said that the golden finger can only protect against death but not injuries.

"So, the focus of my practice of this method is different from that of other cultivators. If normal cultivators need to make the process as peaceful, slow and smooth as possible to reduce single injuries and ensure that cells can heal themselves, then what I want to focus on is the total amount of vital energy that can be extracted in an instant."

If we have to make an analogy, a regular cultivator would dig a canal by the river and let some water flow out slowly, while Feng Xue would use a big bucket to draw water out bucket by bucket.

Although it seems to be much more troublesome, compared to the monks who have to worry about not affecting the flow of the river, Feng Xue can unscrupulously increase the size of the bucket until the bucket is equal to the flow.

After making a feasible plan, Feng Xue closed his eyes again and began to calm down again. However, the little white snake who was waiting for the night to fall completely by the window was no longer calm.

Before the long-awaited moonlight had even fallen, a surge of vital energy began to surge in the room. Although it was only the dissipated part that the soul could not fully absorb, the frequency of this surge was unpredictable. Almost every one or two seconds, a wave of vital energy would spread out, and before it dissipated, new vital energy would overflow.

Feeling the surge of vital energy that was almost thick enough to interfere with his ability to sense the moonlight, the little white snake sighed and said viciously:

"Beat, beat, beat! I'd better beat you to death!"

　The priority of the lifespan locked by the gold finger and the lifespan consumed, that is, questions such as "should the spell that burns life be cast without burning life or should it not be cast at all?", including the issues of releasing skills with lifespan, practicing, or simply getting injured, can basically be explained by the effect and cost in the K language.

　　First of all, the protagonist's life lock can be understood as an effect of [life will not change, and the effect of changing life will be invalid]. Note that the effect is invalid rather than the activation is invalid, that is, it is activated, but has no effect, rather than preventing the activation.

　　Then let’s discuss the situation of shortening lifespan.

　　For example, beheading is a typical "death by beheading", because if the beheading is successful, the lifespan will inevitably return to zero (not including the abnormal species), so the activation is invalid and the whole effect is exempted, similar to how ants ignore fire, they are chopped but not hurt.

　　Then there is the consumption of one's own lifespan, which can be divided into two situations: the shortened lifespan is the cost and the result is the effect, and the result is the cost and the shortened lifespan is the effect.

　　Lifespan is a cost, that is, xxx is activated at the cost of consuming lifespan. This is because lifespan cannot be reduced, cost payment fails, activation conditions are not met, and the entire thing cannot be activated. For example, cursing the target at the cost of one's own life will result in lifespan not being reduced, but the curse cannot be activated.

　　The effect is cost, that is, after xxx is activated, the lifespan will decrease. For example, after the Eight Gates of Dunjia is used up, the lifespan will return to zero. At this time, the Eight Gates of Dunjia can be activated, but the lifespan will not decrease (but may become disabled).

　　
　
(End of this chapter)