Ascended to the Immortal Realm, Only to Be Hit with a Lifespan Tax

Lu Jing was the youngest cultivator in the Tribulation Transcendence stage on the Xuantian Continent. In less than a thousand years, he had ascended to immortality. He was just about to meet up with his master, Xuan Qingzi, and the other elders of the Xuantian Sect, but discovered that he was trapped inside Ascension Pool No. 8966. An old man controlled the formation before him and forcibly drained twenty thousand years of his lifespan. Lu Jing discovered that his master had already reached the Upper Realm, while he himself had almost no lifespan left after being swindled out of so much. If his senior brother Ling Zhanxu hadn’t transferred some of his lifespan to him, he would already have been an immortal corpse. Ordinary mortals lived no more than a hundred years, while cultivators at the Tribulation Transcendence stage could live at most ten thousand. Even after ascending to immortality, an immortal had a lifespan of only thirty thousand years. Countless mortals and even immortals were turned into crops and harvested by powerful beings. Lu Jing discovered that there was a flaw in his cultivation: the karma of the past, present, and future. His lifespan in the past had been forcibly taken, leaving him with almost none in the present...