"I know."
Ye Tianxuan maintained his unwavering smile, appearing gentle and polite. "But I believe you have the value to live, you can live, so I don't want you to die."
The person dressed in white frowned and angrily rebuked, "And who are you? What are you? How dare you disobey the orders of the High Priest of Changsheng City?"
"What is the High Priest of Changsheng City anyway?" Ye Tianxuan retorted without hesitation and with force. "Does having a little divine power mean you can easily crush someone else's hope of living?"
The smile on Ye Tianxuan's face gradually disappeared, and a silent rage raged in his blue eyes. "I think she is the one who doesn't deserve to live."
The sentence stood out clearly in the surrounding silence, causing some to be taken aback, some to laugh, and some to panic.
The high priest did not treat them as human beings, nor did he value their lives. This was common knowledge in the City of Longevity, but no one had ever expressed it so clearly in front of everyone.
The person in white twisted their face, "How dare you disrespect the High Priest!"
Ye Tianxuan smiled calmly, "The rules of the City of Immortality don't say that you can't be disrespectful to the High Priest, do they?"
"you!"
Before the people on the other side could find any reason to arrest this rambling man, a familiar figure suddenly appeared from the other side, pointing directly at Ye Tianxuan and shouting, "I know him! He's sick and won't live much longer! I request that his lifespan be checked immediately, and those who need to be taken away should be taken away right away!"
The person speaking was the man who had clashed with Ye Tianxuan earlier and then knelt there. At this moment, he was jumping up and down as if he had caught Ye Tianxuan in some way, and he was trying to wink at the person in white.
Both of them disliked Ye Tianxuan and hit it off immediately. Even if Ye Tianxuan was found to have a lot of life left in the test later, he could very well be beaten into a dead man and taken away by someone who was currently furious.
Those around him shook their heads silently, thinking that although the young man was a bit clumsy and spoke too directly, he had a good heart. It was just a pity that he had been kicked while he was down, and he probably wouldn't survive.
"Test? Sure." Ye Tianxuan nodded casually, took out a cigarette case from his pocket, and lit a cigarette without any haste.
The light, wispy smoke rose slowly, and under the gray sky, his eyes were incredibly clear and bright. "Let's do the test in front of everyone. No matter how much lifespan is detected, I will go to the main city with you. I want to see the High Priest."
The person in white opposite him sneered. No one knew what he was thinking. Based on what he had just said, entering the main city and seeing the high priest was a dead end for him. Yet he was still eagerly courting death.
"Tested, no problem!" The other person confidently turned around and shouted to his companion, "Bring over the crystal ball that tests lifespan! Let him die a quick death!"
The other party made no attempt to conceal their killing intent towards Ye Tianxuan, but Ye Tianxuan simply smiled faintly, appearing completely calm and collected.
This feeling of being ostracized reminded him of the days many years ago when he was running a small town and facing those troublesome players. It felt familiar, nostalgic, and his hands were itching to play.
The person who had been promised a share of lifespan by Ye Tianxuan was still somewhat worried. "Maybe we should just forget about it. Don't worry about me. Quickly apologize to them and don't get involved. It could really lead to someone's death."
Before Ye Tianxuan could reply, the person who was being punished by kneeling on the other side immediately jumped up and down, "It's too late to apologize now. Even if some people are kneeling and kowtowing right now, this matter cannot be let go like this."
Ye Tianxuan looked up at the person with a smile and beckoned with his finger, "Come here."
The man was startled, his mind suddenly fogging up again. He leaned forward and asked, "What is it?"
The moment the question left his mouth, a slap landed squarely on his face, instantly snapping him back to reality. His eyes widened as he clutched his burning, stinging cheek, completely stunned by the blow.
"I don't like you talking, so shut up. If you utter another word, I'll slap you once, until you're willing to shut up for me." Ye Tianxuan smiled faintly, a cigarette between his fingers, and stared at the other person with gentle politeness, as if slapping someone hard just now wasn't something he had done.
The man, who was dizzy from the beating, was incredulous. He opened his mouth tremblingly to try to refute, but before he could even open his mouth, another slap came flying at him, catching him completely off guard.
"Sorry, I was too fast." Ye Tianxuan calmly touched his reddened palm. "I'll be more careful next time and wait for you to speak before hitting you."
The people around were stunned, completely unaware that the seemingly weak person was incredibly swift and skilled in combat, leaving everyone bewildered by the blows. Most importantly, why didn't the person being attacked fight back?!
Amidst the swirling smoke, Ye Tianxuan smoked while staring at the person, slowly exhaling a puff of smoke, with fine, shimmering purple light spreading out with the smoke.
The man who had gritted his teeth to pieces wasn't unwilling to fight back; he simply couldn't. For some reason, he had absolutely no intention of attacking this person. He truly hated them, but he also genuinely didn't want to fight back.
The person in white standing to the side didn't notice anything amiss; they were just staring at the pale, handsome man with displeasure, lest he run away.
After a moment of silence, hurried footsteps broke through the crowd and squeezed to the side of a few people.
Ye Tianxuan looked up and saw that they had brought over a large crystal ball. Each crystal ball seemed to have been artificially modified. At the front was a small device with incomprehensible runes carved on it. The runes spread and circled around the entire crystal ball, making it look ancient and old.
"A single drop of blood will tell you your lifespan." The man in white sneered as he took out a knife, then grabbed the man Ye Tianxuan had been desperately protecting, cut his finger, and shoved him into the instrument.
The red blood quickly disappeared into the vessel, and then an image slowly emerged from the crystal ball: two or three small water droplets swimming in the darkness.
"See that? His lifespan is almost over; he won't live much longer." The man in white said arrogantly. "It's a waste for someone like him to live."
Then he quickly pressed his finger into the instrument, and the blood disappeared rapidly again, but this time the scene that appeared in the crystal ball was different.
In the darkness, instead of tiny water droplets swimming, a volume of water, like a tank full, churned within the crystal ball.
Wow... I can live a long time...
"No wonder they work for the main city, they live such long lives."
"Sigh, unlike us..."
A murmur arose from the crowd, the meaning of which was quite clear: the volume of water Ye Tianxuan was seeing was equivalent to the remaining lifespan of each person, and this person's lifespan was already considered relatively long in the City of Longevity.
"This thing is much more convenient than the divination in Bliss City," Ye Tianxuan said with a cigarette in his mouth. He didn't react much to the astonishment of the people around him. He simply raised his hand, bit his fingertip, and as the blood beaded out, pressed it into the device.
The blood vanished instantly into the vessel, and the previously plain carved runes suddenly lit up for some reason. Then, a rushing, surging sound of water came from the crystal ball.
Everyone held their breath and stared intently at the image appearing on the crystal ball; it was black, but only black.
No?
That's impossible; this person is clearly still alive.
But why can't we see it?
This strange phenomenon aroused the curiosity of the onlookers, who gathered around the crystal ball to observe it, and the crowd grew larger and larger.
Ye Tianxuan pondered, could it be because he had died once and his true lifespan had actually been exhausted, which was why the crystal ball appeared empty?
So how do you use this as an excuse to intimidate people?
He was deep in thought, organizing his plans, when suddenly a scream came from the side.
"No! Something's not right!! It's not empty! His lifespan isn't empty at all!"
"This is the crystal ball implying that the boundary of his lifespan is infinite, and that the crystal ball cannot even show how long his lifespan actually is!"
"Don't you recognize this scene?! Who showed us this last time?! Have you all forgotten?!"
The bewildered crowd suddenly brightened up, and surprise appeared on each of their faces.
They remember! It was a god! The god of immortality!