Eternal Life Sutra

## Description

A special heritage the Eternal Thearch had left behind, the *Eternal Life Sutra*. It was said that this peerless mystic art could help one recover their consumed lifespan!

Not only could this art increase a cultivator’s battle prowess, but it also had a very powerful use—it could replenish the lifespan a cultivator had lost unnaturally.

What did unnatural loss of lifespan mean? A man supposed to live until 80 years old, and they died when they were 80—this was considered natural death.

However! If a normal early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator was supposed to live until 1,000 years old, they would reach that age as long as they did not make any stupid decision at some point in time. Let’s take for example a cultivator whose talent would only allow them to reach the Golden Core stage. If said cultivator learned a forbidden art to reach the Nascent Soul stage in exchange for 200 years of their life, they could only live until the age of 800.

It could transform the normal Spirit Qi in the air into lifeforce and channel it back to the cultivator. This replenished the lifespan that decreased unnaturally.

However, this mystic art could only recover the lost lifespan, and it could not go beyond the set limit. For example, no matter how hard a Golden Core cultivator that was supposed to live until the age of 1,000 cultivated the art, they would be unable to increase their lifespan beyond 1,000.

## History

The Eternal Thearch was an existence from 100,000 years ago. He was the Black Tortoise race.

Among all the five regions’ Thearchs, Eternal Thearch was definitely the most low-key one. His presence was hardly noticed. When he had officially become a Thearch, he had not told anyone from the five regions. He had not even held a ceremony for himself.

He had randomly picked one of North Sea’s islands and slept for 500 years. That was his way of celebrating. Naturally, all North Sea demons and monsters had been shocked. They had all been prepared to kiss his ass, but he had not shown up in the end!

However, this did not mean that Eternal Thearch was weak. In fact, he was astoundingly powerful.

He possessed the best Black Tortoise bloodline, and no one had a better defense than him. Even the other Thearchs could hardly break through his defense and harm him. He would not be strong if defense was all he had. Otherwise, he would just be a foolish tank.

The Eternal Thearch had powerful attack methods too. His Eternal Sword had struck fear to many, including his era’s Thearchs.

This was because he could perform a mysterious art called Age Nomological. He could decrease the target’s life by sacrificing half of the amount of his own. This meant that if he was to give up 10,000 years of his life, he could burn away 20,000 years of his opponent’s!

After all, the Eternal Thearch was a Black Tortoise! Nothing could compare to the Black Tortoises in terms of how long they could live, not even the Thearchs. Although the Eternal Thearch hardly left North Sea, he would chase another Thearch if he was pissed.

Also, according to ancient records, the Eternal Thearch had realized his life was coming to an end when he was close to 10,000 years old. He had regretted being so impulsive when he was young, wasting many years of his life.

Thus, he had spent a few thousand years in seclusion and created an unbelievable mystic art, the ***Eternal Life Sutra***.