To Become a Worthy Patriarch, I Have to Spend My Lifespan

Name: To Become a Worthy Patriarch, I Have to Spend My Lifespan
Author: I Really Want to Read a Book

为了做好老祖我只能氪命

by I Really Want to Read a Book (好想看本啊)

Status: Completed
Length: 617k Words
Genre: Eastern Fantasy
Subgenre: Fantasy High-Concept
Updated: 6mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

When others transmigrate into the world of cultivation, they either have extraordinary talent or a System that gives them a huge advantage. Bai Lan, on the other hand, became a mighty Divine Transformation ancestor who had been in seclusion for three thousand years. The only problem was that he was a hollow shell, with no spiritual power and a ruined spiritual root.

To make matters worse, his golden finger, the [Damage-Reflection System], burns a whole month of his lifespan every time he activates it! And he has only three months left to live.

So the cultivation world takes a sudden turn:

The sect thinks its ancestor has awakened and eagerly prepares to conquer the world. Bai Lan looks calm on the outside, but is panicking inside: “Don’t fight! If I so much as lift a finger, I’ll lose years off my life!”

When his enemies come to test him, he can only go all out with his acting skills. With his “bump-into-me” secret technique (Please, just hit me once?) and an inscrutable poker face, he barely manages to maintain his image as a big shot.

After finally getting his hands on some immortality-extending fruit, he finds that the third one only adds “one Kun year” to his life. The alchemist girl he happens to save is connected to a faint legend about restoring spiritual roots…

Now, with only two years left to live and his spiritual root still utterly dormant, Bai Lan grips his copy of the "Desperate Survival Manual":

Acting skills: MAX.

Shamelessness: MAX.

Actual combat power: zero.

Remaining lifespan: counting down.

Ahead lies the relentless pursuit of an undying Void Refinement monster, and an ancient forbidden land so deadly that even Divine Transformation cultivators have only a slim chance of survival.

Bai Lan: “I could admit defeat and go back now. I’d still have two years to scrape by. But…”

He grins and presses the option that burns his life away.

“This paper tiger is going to the Dragon’s Pool itself to pull off one more bump-into-me!”

This is a desperate journey through the cultivation world, where lifespan is the stake and every gamble is an outrageous bluff or an all-in.

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