Chapter 215: The Sword Book of Years
Li Mi is now in the jurisdiction of the Immortal Seven Swords Mid-Autumn Water Sword Sect, the Elder Sword Sect, in a city called Falling Flower City.
The Sword Sect of the Years is one of the five major sword schools in the Celestial Light Sword Realm, and its highest technique is called the "Sword Book of the Years", and as soon as he hears it, it has something to do with the "Sutra of the Extreme Years of the Universe", and Li Mi is naturally very interested.
Of course, the first thing you do when you come to a new world is to find the Tao Te Ching.
The Tao Te Ching of each world is a new version, which will bring great inspiration to Li Mi and will also reveal the mysteries of Taoism in this world.
Li Mi casually took out a sword and carried it around his waist and wandered through the streets of Luohua City. Almost all of them were adults, no children, no old people, very strange.
Almost everyone, male or female, carries a sword, as if the sword is not just a weapon, but a weapon that must be held.
Soon, next to the avenue, a bookstore called "Guangyin Bookstore", which is three feet high and covers a wide area, is located at the crossroads, and there are many people coming and going.
Li Mi followed the flow of people into it, and saw that all the walls were bookshelves, which were filled with all kinds of books, of which the Sword Book and the Sword Book occupied most of it, and the "Tao Te Ching" was also placed in a very conspicuous position.
Li Mi took out a copy of "Tao Te Ching", flipped through it for a while, and sure enough, a new chapter was born.
I found a "Secret History of the Light of the Universe" and "The Ancient Book of Famous Swords", which respectively told the history of the Sword of Heaven and the deeds of the famous swords of the past dynasties, and the three went to check out together.
"These three books add up to a total of five quarters, and please settle the bill." Dude service with a smile.
Li Mi thought about it and took out a gold leaf and a medium-grade spirit stone.
"I'm sorry, the time bookstore, only the time, Mr. didn't bring the years book?" The man took out a short sword and pointed at Li Mi: "Then you can only take it from the guest's life." ”
Li Mi bowed his head slightly and let go of the protection.
The guy slashed Li Mi slightly with his short sword, and Li Mi's longevity was instantly cut off by five quarters of an hour, that is, 75 minutes.
This guy's Taoism, but during the enlightenment period, he was able to cut Li Mi's longevity, although Li Mi let go of the protection, but the only possibility is that the laws of the Heavenly Light Sword Realm are very special.
Through this simple cut, Li Mi had already realized that in the Celestial Lightsaber Realm, time itself was a currency that could be traded.
The guy was very surprised, and at the moment of cutting, he sensed the extremely thick longevity of this guest, as if it had been thousands of years, or even tens of thousands.
Even if the Seven Great Sword Monarchs have already attained immortality, their natal longevity is only a thousand years, right?
What is the origin of this guest?
However, by the time he came to his senses, the guest had disappeared with three books.
With three books, Li Mi found a beautiful place in Luohua City, a bluestone platform near the river, and an octagonal pavilion.
Open the Tao Te Ching and read it silently.
The Tao Te Ching is still "Tao can be Tao, very Tao; The name is famous, and the name is not very famous. "The beginning, and then the later version, mainly talks about the time method.
In Li Mi's previous life, time is the most equal and precious resource for every life, whether it is a destitute beggar, or a billionaire, whether it is an ant minor, or an emperor or general, time is equal to anyone.
However, in the Celestial Lightsaber Realm, time can be traded, so the life span of the poor can also be grabbed, and the life span of the rich will be extended.
Of course, immortality is not achieved through a simple transaction, and the longevity remains.
The time that a person obtains through trading is called an external life, which is at most three times that of his own life, and the improvement of his life depends entirely on the improvement of the realm.
Moreover, the quality of the natal life of monks in different realms is also different.
Ordinary people have the lowest quality of their lives, and the years they transform into can only be used by the foundation building monks at most; And the power of the immortal realm, the best of it is the years of transforming the monks of the same realm, and the worst is the Yuanying monk.
Moreover, in this process, it is naturally accompanied by great wear and tear, and the life span of ordinary people is ten years, which can be exchanged for one month of time for the foundation building monks.
Therefore, in the world of the Celestial Light Saber, two things are the most important: the Sword of Time and the Book of Years.
The Sword of Time is a tool that can divide the delivery time, and the Book of Years is a tool to store his life outside of his own life.
Of course, the reduction of the life of others must be a voluntary act of the person being cut, but if there is the slightest unwillingness, it cannot be completed.
These two magic weapons with miraculous skills are very common under the action of the world laws of the Heavenly Lightsaber Realm, and even ordinary enlightened monks can hold and use them.
It is also thanks to the laws of the world that almost all the superior swordsmanship in the world of the light sword is related to time, including the Tao Te Ching.
The way of time, from simple to difficult, is divided into three levels: change, determination and reversal.
The so-called change is to speed up or slow down the flow of time; The so-called certainty means that time stops, and only I can do it; The so-called reverse is to turn back time.
The time swordsmanship of the Celestial Light Sword Realm is basically at a changing level, and only the Seven Swords of Immortality may have come into contact with a certain level.
As for the reverse, I think it can only be performed when it reaches the realm of immortals.
Moreover, the scope of influence of the way of time is very small, basically between square inches, so it is reflected in the way of the sword.
If you want to pause or even reverse the time of large-scale changes, then I am afraid that only Da Luo or even a higher realm can do it.
Through the "Tao Te Ching", Li Mi has a certain understanding of the way of time swords, but if he wants to complete the "Sutra of the Extreme Years", it is the fastest and best way to meet friends with swords, discuss swords with the seven swords of immortality, and get the inheritance of the five major sword schools.
"The Secret History of the Light of the Universe" tells the history of the Sword of the Heavens, which has a history to be examined, only three thousand years.
Among the Seven Swords of Immortality, there is even a "living fossil" who survived from the primordial era.
It seems that the humans of the Celestial Lightsaber Realm have grown directly from the "earth" and evolved directly into the tribal era.
In the entire realm, there is no other intelligent life except the human race.
But outside the Celestial Lightsaber Realm, there is an endless sea of blood, and the blood demons are invading all the time, and the war has lasted for three thousand years and has never subsided.
Because of this, whenever a human child is born, it will cut its original life with the sword of time and ripen quickly under the condition of providing adequate nutrition.
Although mentally may be only a few years old, the appearance is already an adult.
In the same way, as long as the external life in the book of years is not used up, you can keep your life alive, and when a person shows old age, it basically means that the limit has arrived.
Time, in the Celestial Light Sword Realm, has become the highest currency that surpasses gold, silver and spirit stones.
The Years Book Company is the publisher of the Years Book and the Years Sword, and it is also a subsidiary of the Years Sword Sect.
"Ancient Spectrum of Famous Swords" tells the famous swordsmen from ancient times to the present, among which the main part of the space is naturally the Seven Swords of Immortality.
There are five major sword sects in the entire Celestial Light Sword Realm, all of which have Immortal Sword Monarchs in charge, among which the Time Sword Sect and the Instant Shadow Sword Sect both have two Immortal Sword Monarchs, and their status is still above the other three factions.
The living fossil that lived from 3,000 years ago to the present, the oldest sword monarch in recorded history, the Sword Monarch of the Years, is the founding ancestor of the Sword Sect of the Years, the master of the Sword Monarch of Qiushui, and is now sitting on the front line to resist the invasion of the Blood Demon.
The affairs of the faction are in charge of their own Qiushui sword.
Qiushui Sword is the last of the Seven Swords of Immortality, and he has achieved the Immortal Fruit Rank for less than a hundred years.
Li Mi is now in the Falling Flower City, the jurisdiction of the Time Sword Sect, and he is naturally very interested in the Time Book and the Time Sword.
For a long time, Li Mi's fighting method has been very simple and rude to smash people with magic weapons, Taiji Tu must be done, and Fantian Yin will be smashed directly.
It's not that Li Mi is not good at fighting, but when there is a magic weapon available, why use magic or martial arts?
Waste of time.
In his own Dao method, Li Mi's most commonly used method is also the summoning of Tianzun in the "Divine Heaven Immeasurable Creation Sutra", which is also very useful when facing demons.
Among the kendo, Li Mi has learned only Tai Chi swordsmanship.
Although the Taiji Sword is only a method of entering the Dao, when Li Mi realized the Dao Taiji Sword, the scene it showed was definitely a battle at the level of immortals, which shows that the Taiji Sword Technique is not just a sword technique that does not enter the stream, and its upper limit is extremely high.
Li Mi decided to use the Tai Chi swordsmanship to give birth to seven swords in a lifetime, and then comprehend the "Sutra of the Extreme Years".
Just when Li Mi was reading books in the court and learning about the new world, the five-moment natal life belonging to Li Mi had been reported by the Years Book Bureau layer by layer and sent to the hands of Yan Qingzhou, the seventh elder of the Years Sword Sect.
Like a clear light, floating in the palm of Yan Qingzhou, Yan Qingzhou lightly tasted, as if smelling the fragrance of the best famous tea: "Its quality is pure, its longevity, such as the great day of the Chen, vigorous, all things are competing, its realm, when it is at the pole of the Yuan Infant, only one step away from the immortal fruit, its life is strong, and it is still above the Seven Swords of Immortality, as far as ten thousand years, such a special swordsman, the only possibility is - visitors from other worlds, people from outside the territory!" ”
"What? Someone from outside the territory? Could it be the Bloodfiend disguise? The shopkeeper of the bookstore next to him was shocked.
"Hey, don't worry about Jing'an, this person has a strong foundation and is extraordinary, his qi is pure and peaceful, he must be a righteous monk, not a demon, my Heavenly Light Sword Realm is adrift in the endless void, it is rare to meet strangers, this person is still in the Falling Flower City? Please come and see us! Yan Qingzhou was very excited: "Please come to this person, I will meet him, if he is a person from outside the territory, if there is something extraordinary, you can report to Senior Brother Qiushui!" ”
The Years Sword Sect was launched, and soon found Li Mi, who was not deliberately hidden.
"This distinguished guest, dare to ask the honorable name?" Wang Jing'an had a warm spring breeze on his face: "I am the chief shopkeeper of the Years and Years Bookstore, and the three books that the distinguished guests buy in my store only take five moments of mortal time, and the five moments of time paid by the distinguished guests are the extreme of the Yuan Infant, and they are also of great use in the Immortal Sword Monarch, and their value is enough to be equivalent to the life of ordinary people for three hundred years!" ”
"Poor Dao Taiji, the king's shopkeeper, the difference between the life limit of a mortal and the life limit of a monk is so huge?" Li Mi put away the three books and asked with a smile.
"Of course, the primordial infant's extreme natal life is enough to make up for the outer life of the Immortal Sword Monarch, and it is almost the most precious currency in the entire Celestial Light Sword Realm, second only to the natal life of the Immortal Fruit Position. And the mortal life is available everywhere, and the book bureau can be called for millions of years at will, and these external lives are more important to the enlightened monks, even if the foundation building swordsman, they are not willing to use the mortal foreign life, it is too inferior. Wang Jing'an had already determined that this Tai Chi Taoist was a visitor from a foreign land, and he had a Taoism second only to the Seven Swords of Immortality, so he introduced it sincerely and enthusiastically.
In the Celestial Lightsaber Realm, time is also currency, and the value of mortal time and powerful time is very different.
This is also in line with objective laws, and it also leads to a huge difference in life expectancy.
Among ordinary people, the poor and destitute are like pigs being raised, fattened at a very fast rate, and then they get married, have children, and raise offspring, and the countless needs of life force them to constantly sell their lives, and their lifespan is basically only about 20 years.
It's not that the rich still have a heart of compassion, but that the natal life can only be reduced by two-thirds at most, and it can't be more.
When a destitute person dies in an instant after 20 years of life, the intergenerational inheritance interval between the two generations is only a short five years.
Rich people, even if they can't cultivate, have a life of more than 60 years, an external life of more than 180 years, and can live for more than 200 years, which is ten times different from the extremely poor people, and is hardly a species.
Among the monks, the same is true, casual cultivators or small sect monks are restricted everywhere, whether it is the exercise resources, most of them need to pay for their lives, even if they win the bet and earn back their lives in the future, they are only three times the size of their lives at most, and if their lives are cut ruthlessly, no matter how many lives they have, it is useless.
With such a peculiar world and such a unique civilization, it is no wonder that swordsmen have been cultivated, who are not afraid of life and death, dare to fight for their lives on the edge of the sword, and pursue their own momentary beauty.
The true inheritance carefully cultivated by the great sects harvests the original life of the monks of the same realm or a lower realm, and turns it into their own external life, and the lifespan is much higher than that of casual cultivation.
"I also ask the Tai Chi Taoist to return to the Years Book Store with me, and the Book Company will deliver you the equivalent years and give you a local time book for free." The shopkeeper Wang invited.
Li Mi could naturally see the existence of the Years Sword Sect behind the Years Bookstore, but this was the same purpose as him, so he happily went to the appointment.
In the bookstore, the shopkeeper Wang took out a carefully prepared prefecture-level time book, which is equivalent to a high-quality magic weapon, enough to hold the years of the Yuanying monk for a long time.
Generally, it is used by the infant monk to carry his own external life.
Li Mi finally chose to exchange the foreign life of the ordinary Yuan Infant Monk for five hours and tried to use it.
Sure enough, as the prefecture-level years book came into play, Li Mi's own longevity stopped, but the external life in the prefecture-level years book was in play.
However, the environment around Li Mi began to become trance-like, a little unreal, and could not fully carry Li Mi's power, at most he could only use the level of the early Yuan Infant.
If you want to maintain this illusion, it is equivalent to becoming an ordinary Yuan Infant Monk, of course, when you encounter danger, you can instantly switch back to your original life according to your will, and the consumption of your outer life will be stopped at the same time.
It is very convenient, and at the same time, it also adds a lot of longevity to the monks.
For example, the Seven Swords of Immortality also have a lot of time to socialize and deal with mundane affairs, which can be replaced by external orders.
Self-enlightenment, cultivation of secret methods, or peak duels, naturally have to use their own life.
It's still very useful.
It's just that the people of the Celestial Light Sword Realm have far less life than the monks of the same realm in the Divine Continent Realm.
For example, the Jindan monk has a lifespan of 800 in the Shenzhou realm, and the Yuanying monk has a lifespan of 3,000.
But in the Celestial Light Sword Realm, Monk Jindan only had a three-hundred-year life, and Yuanying Monk only had a five-hundred-year life.
Accompanied by the shopkeeper of Wang Da, Li Mi played in the Falling Flower City for three days and truly experienced the joy of all beings in the world of the Heavenly Light Sword.
As for the battle of the Yuanying monks, the two sides each gambled their lives for ten years to adjudicate a public case between the two sects; There was an auction hosted by the Years Book Company and attended by the monks of Jindan Zhuji, which saw the true value of the currency of the years; There are destitute people like pigs being raised, ripening in ignorance, growing up in misery, and ending in regret.
Three days later, Wang Jing'an finally couldn't help it, in his opinion, this Tai Chi Taoist actually used the precious "Yuan Infant Extreme" to visit Luohua City, isn't it a waste of time?
No sane monk can tolerate such waste!
Even if it is just exchanging the original life of the extreme of the Yuan Infant for the external life of the ordinary Yuan Baby, there is a gap of 8-10 times!
But in fact, for Li Mi, these three days are by no means waste, but enlightenment.
Feel the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of all beings in the world of the Heavenly Light Sword at close range, as well as the delivery of the Sword of the Years and the Book of the Years again and again, and the trading changes of Shouyuan's life, which is the real comprehension of the way of time!
The harvest in just three days was far greater than the enlightenment obtained in the previous three years in the Eight Views Palace.
After all, a special realm like the Heavenly Lightsaber Realm was extremely rare even among the Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms.
The law of time, which even ordinary people can access, is worthy of a piece of dragon scales that fell off the candle dragon's body, which is too special.
Every reduction in the natal life has a potential invisible wear and tear for the monk, which is equivalent to the cutting of the Dao fruit.
When the natal life is cut too much, no matter how much you earn the outer life, you can't make up for it.
This is also why in the Celestial Light Sword Realm, the true inheritance of the real great faction, I am afraid that his life has not been cut once in his life.
"Hehe, thank you Mr. Wang for accompanying me for three days, I think the people behind the scenes have been waiting for a long time, right? Please also ask Mr. to introduce the poor road! After basically understanding the faces of all beings in the Zhou Guangjian Realm, Li Mi finally spoke.
Wang Jing'an was overjoyed, and hurriedly led Li Mi out of Luohua City and went to the Years Sword Sect located on Yuheng Mountain not far away.
The Sword Sect of the Years is the oldest and most famous sword sect in the Celestial Light Sword Realm, with tens of thousands of disciples, all of whom practice the Sword Book of Years.
Eighty percent of them are outer disciples, that is, monks who have to fight for their own lives at every turn, except for a very small number of lucky people and great perseverance and wisdom who can stand out and ascend to the inner gate, the vast majority of outer disciples are equivalent to high-quality pigs raised by the Sword Sect of the years, which can only be short-lived and fall like meteors.
It has contributed high-quality enlightenment years, foundation building years and even Jindan years for the disciples in the door to turn into external lives.
There are also more than 1,000 inner disciples, their cultivation has a basic guarantee, the natal life is reduced by up to two percent, and the outer life can barely guarantee three times the supply of the natal life, which can be regarded as the backbone of the Sword Sect of the Years.
Finally, there are more than 100 true disciples, their original lives are rarely reduced, and their external lives are all provided by the sect.