"Don't be surprised, it is indeed I, the Temple Spirit!" The Temple Spirit shook his head with a delighted expression. "No, now please call me the Tower Spirit!"
Jiang Yuan: "..."
I don't believe you for a second; you're a wicked old spirit.
"Dianling, what are you doing here?" Yu Tu immediately became familiar with the old acquaintance.
“This is my territory, why can’t I appear here?” the spirit of the palace retorted.
"Aren't you the spirit of the Epang Palace? How come you're here as the tower spirit?" Yu Tu looked puzzled; she really didn't expect the spirit of the palace to appear here.
"Stop!" The spirit of the palace slowly floated down, and said in a sarcastic tone, "I'm wondering why you're here in the territory of the fire element, since you weren't going to complete the water element trial?"
"What water and fire elements? Are you still asleep? Why can't I understand anything?" Yu Tu had already put the loss of his life essence out of his mind.
The spirit of the palace smiled without saying a word, then turned to face the countless flames, opened his arms, and said, "Welcome to the Tower of Lifefire!"
"The Tower of Life Flame!" Jiang Yuan silently memorized the name; this place was most likely the place where the Flame of Life was born.
"The Tower of Lifefire appears on the fifteenth of each month, and each appearance harvests at least ten thousand years of lifespan to maintain the eternal existence of the Flame of Life," the spirit of the palace explained softly.
"Wait, you said the Fire Tower summoned me here just to harvest my lifespan, right?" Yu Tu questioned sharply, not wanting to suffer this loss for nothing.
"Do you feel like you're being taken advantage of?"
Dian Ling looked at Yu Tu with a smile, as if she could see through all of Yu Tu's thoughts.
"Of course!" Yu Tu said with a touch of arrogance. "It's one thing for Xiao Jiang Jiang to trick me, but this Fire Tower is tricking me too. I'm not someone who doesn't have a temper!"
"Actually, you've actually profited!" The spirit of the palace smiled even more broadly and continued, "Since its existence, the Lifefire Tower has absorbed over ninety million years of lifespan, with nearly a million years of lifespan being returned to it. Since its inception, the Flame of Life has adopted a tiered system to strengthen itself. Every time the Lifefire Tower appears, it attracts countless living beings, each of whom will sacrifice several or even several decades of their lifespan to gain a chance to enter the Lifefire Tower and achieve immortality!"
"Immortality?" Jiang Yuan was extremely surprised to hear these two words, because the elixir of immortality was for the purpose of eternal life, and now the Flame of Life actually had such a claim.
"It's fake! In reality, the Flame of Life doesn't offer any chance for immortality. It's just a pie in the sky for the weak, making them rush to sacrifice their lifespan!" The spirit of the palace said, quite speechless.
Having witnessed everything at the Tomb of the Military Lord, it can be said to know everything about this place.
"Who created this Fire Tower of Fate? How could they be so insidious!" Yu Tu muttered under his breath.
"Hey, others can say it's the Fire Tower pit, but you can't!" The spirit of the temple said with a smile and a wave of his hand.
Why?
The spirit of the palace smiled and said, "Because you brought other people's lifespans into the Tower of Lifefire!"
"You mean the flames I stole are essentially other people's lifespans?" Yu Tu was extremely shocked because when the Life Fire Tower took away the flames, it also took away her lifespans, meaning she was reaping what she sowed.
"That's right, your fifty years of lifespan also disappeared in this way! Because that wisp of flame itself is a part of the Flame of Life. As long as a living being that meets the target of the Flame of Life gets a wisp of flame when it gets close to the Flame Tower, and the wisp of flame will take away part of the target's lifespan when it returns to the Flame of Life!" The spirit of the palace pointed to the red and green flame in the tower, its expression extremely intoxicated. Even it was amazed by the wonder of the Flame of Life.
"If this isn't a rip-off, then it is!" Yu Tu was extremely indignant about losing fifty years of her lifespan. This was her precious life; fifty years was enough for her to date countless handsome young men, and now it was being wasted for no reason.
"It seems you don't want the rewards from the Tower of Lifefire!" The spirit of the palace flicked its finger, and a wisp of flame danced lightly at its fingertip.
"award!"
Yu Tu's eyes turned red upon hearing this.
"Don't worry, there's a reason why the Fire of Life Tower has survived to this day! The first reason is to offer a real lure that grants immortality, like you. You return with lifespan, so you have the chance to obtain lifespan!" The spirit pointed at the lustful rabbit, his eyes full of mockery.
"What does that mean?" Yu Tu was completely confused, and the more she listened, the less she understood.
"Do you know about the 1040 Sunshine Project? This Life Fire Tower operates on a similar model. Those alien beasts that contribute their lifespan are like your downlines, only qualified to be exploited. You are lucky, as the one who brought their lifespan to the top of the pyramid, you get a slice of this lifespan cake!" Jiang Yuan criticized the operating model of the Life Fire Tower, never expecting that there would be such a deceptive thing in this kind of place.
"You're quite clever, young man!" Dian Ling said admiringly, glancing at Jiang Yuan.
"You've really gone to great lengths for the Flame of Life, even sucking the blood of all the strange beasts in the entire Tomb of the War Lord!" Jiang Yuan knew the dangers of this method.
"Survival of the fittest. If they weren't greedy, they wouldn't have fallen into the trap!" The spirit of the palace said indifferently, as these strange beasts were dispensable to it.
"So what's my reward?" Yu Tu understood. It turned out that he was the despicable second-in-command of the pyramid scheme!
The spirit of the palace paused, then said with great interest, "Actually, those three super ninth-tier beasts have been coming for several months now, but each time they dare not offer too much lifespan, only sending their underlings to fight. After several times, it was their underlings who actually gained more lifespan. This time, they finally mustered up the courage to come on their own, but they were all killed by Jiang Yuan!"
Jiang Yuan: "..."
"As for your reward!" The spirit of the palace looked at the flames dancing on its fingertips and laughed, "Each time, the Fire Tower will give one percent of the lifespan harvested as a reward, in order to maintain the Fire Tower's lie of immortality!"
"And that is indeed the case. There are far too many strange beasts that have gained hundreds or even thousands of years of lifespan and think they are immortal! But the dangers inside the Tomb of the War Lord are beyond their comprehension. So even if they have immortal lifespan, very few can actually live for more than a thousand years!"
"So how much lifespan was harvested in total this time?" Yu Tu became uneasy at this moment. Everyone wants to live longer. At the very least, she has to make up for the fifty years of lifespan she lost.
"Guess!" Dian Ling said with a fawning expression.
"Brother Dianling, stop keeping me in suspense!" Yu Tu said coquettishly, suppressing the urge to beat up Dianling.
"Alright, I won't tease you anymore! To be honest, the lifespan the Lifefire Tower gained this time was far more than expected, almost a hundred times that of before." The spirit of the palace said this with an incredulous look on its face. It glanced at Jiang Yuan: "You should thank him. This guy killed everyone else, so all the remaining lifespans of the strange beasts were absorbed into the Lifefire Tower!"
"A hundred times, that means at least a million?" Jiang Yuan's expression was solemn; he never expected such a lifespan.
"The specific number is 1.17 million, which means that the lifespan bonus that a small celestial body can receive is 11,700 years!"
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