Above The Sky
Chapter 1112: 156: Yisen Gard's Advancement Path (5000)

Chapter 1112: Chapter 156: Yisen Gard’s Advancement Path (5000)

Reborn into a second life. Although it sounds a lot like the fantasy settings in many online novels Ian read in his past life, which even science fiction writers are hesitant to use, it’s not particularly exaggerated because Terra really does have swords, magic, and aether.

Especially things like the longevity magical plant and life-extending treasures, they’re actually not that complicated.

The first time Ian encountered Yisen Gard and his group was due to a longevity magical plant.

This kind of magical plant extends life generally through two methods. The first is by adding a large amount of life essence, essentially increasing one’s health bar, so naturally, the lifespan extends. However, it can’t cure various hidden injuries and wear, so the older one gets, the less effective it becomes.

The second method is by repairing various injuries and omissions, which works wonders for people whose lifespan is reduced due to injuries, but for well-maintained nobles, it has little effect.

These two types of longevity magical plants mostly have a threshold. Consuming too much won’t yield results as both hidden injuries and health bar limits have their maximum.

However, high-level life-extending treasures are different, especially the Fifth Energy Level Artifact ‘Source of Dragon Blood’ Anfa mentioned.

As the highest level, historically, it indeed has been a life-extender for several Fifth Energy Level individuals, the Source of Dragon Blood originates from the enormous vitality left behind after the death of a True Dragon.

It sounds a bit strange — how can there be leftover vitality when a True Dragon is dead?

But this involves the uniqueness of the True Dragon’s life.

As Ian knows, True Dragons are an artificially created species with creators and an expiry date, possessing incredible life vitality. If there were no usage limits, living for eternity would not be surprising, let alone five hundred years.

However, once it reaches the expiration limit, which is five hundred years, even if the True Dragon’s body is extremely healthy, it will still ‘die.’

And because of this, the bodies of True Dragons that die from expiration will accumulate a substantial, extremely pure life essence that can be reused by any life… this essence will rely on ‘Dragon Blood’ to condense into a ‘Source of Dragon Blood’ usable by even a Fifth Energy Level powerhouse.

The Ascender System of the Terra World does not actually extend lifespan.

Magic Potion does provide Ascenders with extraordinary divine power and extra life essence, and advancing in ascension can improve one’s life essence to some extent— for ordinary people, the vitality of merely a Second Energy Level Sublimator would be enough for them to live two to three hundred years effortlessly, and for Third Energy Level, living one or two thousand years lightly.

But, aside from enhancing life essence, ascenders also increased the depletion of life essence.

New sublimation organs and various life spirit energy consumptions make ascenders like oversized high-consumption appliances. Even with better batteries and chargers, the standby time is still about the same as ordinary people due to increased energy consumption.

Even the Fifth Energy Level has not escaped this predicament.

The Third Energy Level is essentially the limit of ‘freely using power’, starting from the Fourth Energy Level, any sublimation entity fighting at full capacity will result in life span depletion.

The Aether True Body constructed of Primal Aether represents each deployment necessitates a high-energy advancer to reduce lifespan by at least ten years.

Of course, theoretically, a Fourth Energy Level Sublimator can have a few thousand years lifespan, but in a world like Terra, how can there be no fighting? Ascenders can’t even reduce consumption of their sublimation organs, needing to be battle-ready at all times, making their lives burn like fire, swiftly reaching an end.

And the Fifth Energy Level is even more terrifying, even if they don’t fight, they will crazily consume their lifespan… like a torch, each Fifth Energy Level Sublimator is a man-made sun, emitting light enough to illuminate the world while ceaselessly burning itself and its soul.

“After all, a Fifth Energy Level powerhouse offers at least the output of a cosmic battleship, but their life essence is still ascended from ‘Humans’… power exceeds essence, like using a trained body to operate powered armor or even tank warships, it certainly reduces lifespan.”

“But the True Dragon is different— True Dragons were initially designed as cosmic super beings, their theoretical lifespan is infinite, the life essence within them pure and vast; even with such extreme Fifth Energy Level design, they can recharge once, allowing them to live a second life.”

“But like a worn-out battery, even when fully charged again, it can’t return to its original form; a degraded battery can’t support a second or even a third recharge… this is why there haven’t been multiple instances of Fifth Energy Level figures living multiple lives with life-extending artifacts.”

At this moment, Ian already understood why all countries are willing to play Canaan Moore’s relic exploration game.

The Source of Dragon Blood, a treasure of this level, indeed can make all forces suppress other thoughts and calmly discuss distribution after retrieving it.

On the Terra Continent, the Third Energy Level is a frequently appearing high-level combat force, the Fourth Energy Level rarely makes a move, and the Fifth Energy Level mostly ‘suppresses situations’, reserved to fully counter those ‘Catastrophes of the Apocalyptic Order’—thus, Fifth Energy Level powerhouses generally don’t express opinions on the continental political landscape nor care about relics and labyrinths, as these hold little significance for them.