Eternal Life, with a Brick from the Start

I’m Chen Changsheng. I’ve lived so long, I’ve forgotten my own name.

After awakening ten thousand years later, I went to buy a sesame flatbread on the street in Qingshi Town. The vendor asked for three coins.

I checked my pockets and found only an ancient token.

The cultivator guarding the city sneered, “Get lost, old man, if you can’t pay!”

I tossed him the token. He caught it, took one look, and turned deathly pale.

The bronze mirror inside the pawnshop began to tremble. The storyteller in the teahouse dropped his clapper in shock.

An alarm rang through the imperial city’s Hall of Offerings: “Forbidden entity detected!”

All I cared about was which inn I’d stay at tonight.