Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Inner Core Skill

However, "Time" was different. Although it still required less time, as a skill that hadn't achieved Breakthrough, the progress was quite fast.

"Time: 9 (98%)"

Time was about to Breakthrough, and if it weren't for the fact that this was knowledge about time, it should have achieved Breakthrough long ago.

"Next, let's Breakthrough Time, and then continue with cultivation."

Inner Core Skill and Ba Duan Jin had made progress, Yijin Scripture had achieved Breakthrough six times; pulling out a little time was no problem at all.

So Wang Sheng entered closed-door cultivation once again.

However, this time the closed-door cultivation didn't take too much time.

A month later, a knowledge-based skill, Time achieved Breakthrough.

"Time: Breakthrough+1 (1%)"

Although it was just one Breakthrough, the improvement it brought was beyond imagination.

First and foremost was an enhanced understanding of time; at the moment of Breakthrough, he felt as if he had control over the river of time, everything within his grasp.

When he came back to his senses, he had acquired more abilities related to time.

Time Acceleration, a new ability, for now, could only affect himself.

Once activated, it could increase the speed of cultivation, but it did require the consumption of lifespan.

But Wang Sheng, with a lifespan of 490,000 years, could well afford it.

As long as he kept cultivating, his lifespan would continue to increase.

With the presence of a progression bar, it was almost impossible for the consumption to keep up with the replenishment.

For Wang Sheng, this ability was incredibly fitting.

"Time Acceleration is fine, but what's most important is the ability for Time-Space Retrospection..."

Wang Sheng's eyes flickered.

He hadn't expected that the Breakthrough in Time would so greatly enhance Time-Space Retrospection.

"Originally, Time-Space Retrospection could affect external objects, reverting many things back to their previous states, though somewhat limited, but now, the situation seems entirely different!"

"I might be able to revive the dead."

Yes, after the Breakthrough, Wang Sheng could rewind the time of dead beings, to bring them back to life.

However, to what extent he could do this, he wasn't very clear.

"Let's try it!"

Within the coverage of the Virtual World, Wang Sheng soon found a life that had died accidentally.

A sparrow, ordinary in its will.

The sparrow crashed into the high walls of the city and perished.

Wang Sheng picked it up.

"Retrospect!"

The power of time was invoked, and the sparrow, whose head had been smashed and which had long since lost the breath of life, gradually recovered.

The massive wound began to slowly heal, shortly returning to its complete form.

Then came the breath of life.

The power of time erupted, and the divine breath of the little sparrow slowly returned.

Before long, as if startled awake, the little sparrow realized it was in someone's hand and frantically flew away.

Wang Sheng didn't stop it, as he was feeling the state of his own being.

"Lifespan decreased, not much, roughly two months."

A few months of time was not much for Wang Sheng.

However, he also knew that reviving life with Time Retrospection came at a cost.

"This must be the backlash from the river of time... after all, this counts as snatching people from its grasp, but what exactly are the costs?"

Wang Sheng continued experimenting.

From creatures as insignificant as ants to beings comparable to the First Realm, he tried to resurrect them all.

"Altogether, it cost me roughly ten years of my lifespan... the individual from the First Realm alone took up seven years, which means the higher the life level, the higher the cost of resurrection, which is predictable."

"But these all had corpses; what if there were no corpses, and I attempted to retrospect the entire environment?"

Wang Sheng began to test once more, finding a dead sparrow, waiting a month, then going to the place where the sparrow had died.

"This is the spot!"

He spread out the power of time, covering the area where the sparrow had died.

Soon thereafter, an imposing breath emerged.

Wang Sheng seemed to see a river, the river passing through the area where he died.

At that moment, he could only see the river's upstream.

Moreover, he could feel familiar breaths - the breath of the little sparrow that hadn't died a month ago.

"That is..."

Upstream in the river appeared a sparrow about to die from an accident.

"That's it!"

Wang Sheng subconsciously reached out, scooping up the little sparrow.

Boom!

The river of time seemed to rage, and Wang Sheng grunted.

The injury wasn't serious, but he noticed his lifespan diminishing.

In the end, his lifespan was reduced by about half a year.

But looking at the fleeing sparrow, Wang Sheng chuckled: "With no physical body, the consumption is greater than with a corpse; perhaps the length of time since death also affects how much of my lifespan gets consumed."

Thus, Wang Sheng carried out more tests.

The duration of death, the timing of resurrection, the difference between accidental death and natural lifespan exhaustion...

Various tests took him a month of time and fifty years of lifespan to finally make clear some aspects of Time Retrospection.

In the end, he summarized several patterns:

1. With a body, the cost in lifespan is less, but the overall impact is marginal.

2. The higher the life grade and realm, the higher the cost to revive; furthermore, any life below the First Realm level is considered a normal being.

3. The longer the duration of death, the higher the cost to revive; currently, ordinary beings without cultivation consume six times more.

4. The best moment for revival is the instant of death; otherwise, the further back you go, the greater the cost.

5. If it's an accidental death, after revival, the remaining lifespan is unchanged; but if it's from natural end of life, after revival, death will occur quickly due to insufficient lifespan. For either cause of death, if the revival isn't at the moment of expiration, the further back in time, the more lifespan will be added.

Five laws of Time Retrospection, deduced by Wang Sheng after over two months of testing.

Regarding resurrection through time retrospection, he now had a clear understanding.

The cost of retrospective resurrection was not small, but compared to the results after reviving, Time Retrospection still seemed very powerful.

Furthermore, as the level of "Time" increased, the cost would decrease, and perhaps eventually there would be no need to consume lifespan.

Of course, at that time, the cost might be injuries.

After all, even the river of time has its pride.

"Such a useful ability can't be used recklessly for now, but I can actually take a trip to the Winged People Planet..."

Since he had promised Hong Ling and now had the means, he could revive her child.

He was eager to truly attempt the resurrection of an intelligent creature!

Meanwhile, Hong Ling, working on Winged People Planet, was suddenly stunned.

Beside her, Huang Yue looked puzzled.

"Hong Ling, what's wrong?"

"True Saint said, because of my outstanding achievements, he will help me revive my child!"

Huang Yue: "!!!!"

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