The Lingxu Sacred Land was located on an ancient battlefield in the east of the "Great Departure Land". It would take at least several decades for Aiden Li to get there from his current location.
Taicang City was an extremely small place, but the Lingxu Sacred Land was different. Under its jurisdiction, there were billions of people. It was truly a powerful force.
Aiden Li had no cultivation level and couldn't fly through the air. Taicang City was very remote and was a long way from the Lingxu Sacred Land.
"Master, you can take the teleportation array. The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands are vast, and there are teleportation arrays everywhere, with different distances. It's much better than traveling alone." Seraphina told Aiden Li.
Aiden Li frowned and said, "But I don't have spiritual sources to pay for it."
Using the teleportation array required spiritual sources. Spiritual sources were the basic currency in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. Cultivators used them for cultivation, and ordinary people used them for trading.
Aiden Li was penniless now!
The only high-grade spirit vein had been used to repair the Time Hall.
"I still have two pocket watches. Let's take one out for trading." Aiden Li thought for a while, took out a blood-red pocket watch, let the pocket watch remember what he wanted to trade, and then threw it out.
Boom!
The pocket watch disappeared into the void, and Aiden Li watched silently.
Seraphina said, "As long as the master recovers the debt from the Lingxu Sacred Land, the current dilemma can be solved."
Ding!
In less than three seconds, the pocket watch sent a message that it had found a new trading target.
...
In the "Great Departure Land", in a cave abounding in spiritual energy, a beautiful woman with white hair looked despairingly at the blood-red setting sun outside the cave.
"I once amazed the years!"
"I was invincible for three thousand years!"
"I had an immortal heart, but it was tainted by the mortal world!"
"I was breaking through to become an immortal. Due to a speck of dust in my heart, I suffered a backlash!"
"My time is running out!!!"
The beautiful woman with white hair was very reluctant.
Her beautiful eyes were full of arrogance. Although she was a woman, she never thought she was weaker than anyone.
Three thousand years ago, geniuses, peerless figures, and ancient great demons were all trampled under her feet.
She was invincible in the mortal world.
She had countless admirers, but none of them could move her heart.
"My only belief in this life is to ascend to the Nine Heavens, cross the Immortal Realm, and become the first woman who stands out through the ages!"
The woman with white hair coughed up blood. Even though she was seriously injured, the fire in her heart never went out.
She had defeated countless enemies and come this far. How could she be willing to die here?
"If I can survive this calamity, I will make up for the regrets in my heart and then 冲击仙道 again, letting the immortals in the Nine Heavens know my terror!" The woman with white hair was still proud.
But her time was really running out.
After the failure of the breakthrough, the five decays of heaven and man befell her. Her originally black hair turned white in an instant.
And her vitality was also rapidly draining away.
The five decays of heaven and man were gradually devouring her life.
Her vision gradually became blurred.
"In the years to come, will the world still remember that a girl named Aqing once amazed this era?" Miss Aqing slowly closed her eyes. She was powerless to change her fate.
At the moment when her life was about to end, Aqing saw a blood-red light.
Under the blood-red light was an exquisite pocket watch.
Aqing didn't know why, but she summoned some strength, grasped the pocket watch, and then squeezed it hard.
She had a feeling in her heart that grasping this pocket watch was grasping hope.
Boom!
But the next second, under the impact of the five decays of heaven and man, Aqing still closed her eyes.
...
Aqing opened her eyes and was surprised to find that she was still alive.
In front of her was a table. Behind the table sat a tall and straight man.
The man had an indescribable temperament, as profound as an abyss and as vast as the sea. He wore a dark-golden mask, and his face couldn't be seen clearly.
Beside the man stood a woman of breathtaking beauty.
Aqing was a woman herself, but she had to admit that this woman was truly beautiful.
It was as if she was a woman shaped by the Heavenly Dao. All the beauty in the world was embodied in this woman.
Aqing admired in her heart and asked aloud, "Where is this?"
"The Heaven and Earth Bank!" Aiden Li said calmly.
"The Heaven and Earth Bank? Who are you?" Aqing frowned. She had never heard of this place.
"The Heaven and Earth Bank. Everything in the world can be traded here. What do you want to trade?" Aiden Li asked.
Aqing's eyes lit up and she said, "I want to trade for lifespan. Is that okay?"
Now, Aqing was really in desperate need of lifespan.
Under the five decays of heaven and man, if it weren't for the pocket watch of the Heaven and Earth Bank, Miss Aqing would be dead by now.
"Yes, but what price can you pay?" Aiden Li asked.
Miss Aqing was stunned for a moment. What could she pay?
"What do you need?" Miss Aqing asked Aiden Li.
Aiden Li said calmly, "Then spiritual sources. How much spiritual sources is a hundred years of lifespan worth?"
Miss Aqing lowered her head and thought for a while, then said, "I'll give you one million divine spiritual sources."
The muscles on Aiden Li's face under the mask twitched. He was really shocked in his heart.
The lowest level of spiritual sources was the low-grade spiritual source stones, then the medium-grade ones, the high-grade ones, and the top-grade ones.
After that were the sacred spiritual sources and the divine spiritual sources.
One divine spiritual source was equivalent to a low-grade spirit vein.
One million divine spiritual sources. What a huge amount!
One hundred divine spiritual sources were equivalent to a high-grade spirit vein.
One million was simply a huge sum of money.
Aiden Li was silent for three seconds and then nodded, "Okay."
Seraphina immediately took out the contract and said, "Please check and sign if there's no problem."
Miss Aqing carefully examined it. The contract was very simple.
One million divine spiritual sources in exchange for one hundred years of lifespan.
After reading it, Aqing said, "I don't have one million divine spiritual sources on me right now."
Aiden Li didn't get angry. He just watched Aqing silently.
"But give me one day, and I'll bring one million divine spiritual sources." Aqing said firmly.
Aiden Li thought for a while and said, "Okay, but you need to pay a deposit."
"I only have a thousand divine spiritual sources on me. Let them be the deposit." Miss Aqing handed Aiden Li a storage jade bracelet.
Seraphina reached out to take it, checked it, and nodded to Aiden Li.
Aiden Li said with satisfaction, "Sign the contract. Once you sign it, I'll give you a hundred years of lifespan."
Aqing signed it decisively.
Aiden Li admired Aqing's decisiveness. He stood up and walked to Aqing. His slender fingers were placed on top of Aqing's head.
Miss Aqing with white hair, Miss Aqing with peerless beauty, and Miss Aqing with extraordinary cultivation was actually nervous at this moment.
She felt that all of this was extremely unreal. But on the verge of life and death, she still chose to accept and believe.
But when it really came to this moment, Aqing was still a bit uneasy.
If it was fake, if it was a deception, then she would really die.
But when Aiden Li began to input a hundred years of lifespan, Aqing felt that her physical condition improved rapidly.
The five decays of heaven and man were being driven away by Aiden Li.
Her white hair was also recovering, changing from white back to black.
A peerless beauty was regaining her radiance.
Aqing stared blankly at all of this.
Was the master of the Heaven and Earth Bank an immortal?
He could actually drive back the five decays of heaven and man of an immortal.
It was truly incredible!