Seeing his own people retreat without hesitation and abandon him, the captured divine messenger looked desperate and regretted his actions, wishing he hadn't jumped here.
He clearly wanted to stand up for the High Priest, but now, he's probably on his last breath.
The residents eager to join Ye Tianxuan couldn't wait, shouting, "I'm strong, I'll go first!"
"I'm usually busy earning more lifespan, which has somehow made me incredibly muscular. I'm also quite strong, so I'll be in line at the back!"
"What a coincidence! Me too. We're busy working in the wind and rain. Who doesn't have enough stamina?"
One by one, everyone rushed forward, slapping the messenger who had been cursing and swearing indiscriminately across the face. Each slap was louder than the last, as if the louder the slap, the more respect they showed to God Ye. Everyone was putting in a lot of effort.
The hesitant residents, watching from a distance, were terrified.
The messengers of the City of Longevity, whether it was when the God of Longevity was in power or when the High Priest was in power, have always been superior to the residents. They are all people who work for the god. They are the ones who slap others and give them attitude. When have they ever been slapped like this, especially in public?
After that farce, what was slapped now was not just the messenger of the gods, but someone who publicly challenged the high priest's authority.
The neutral residents were trembling with fear. They still wanted a peaceful life. The current crisis in the City of Longevity did not threaten them, the middle-level residents who still had a lot of lifespan left. They just watched and watched the group of people who were about to die celebrate. After choosing the new god, they were all radiant and had no trace of the frustration they had felt when they knelt in front of the main city.
While the crowd below was making a ruckus by slapping him, Ye Tianxuan didn't sit idle. He grabbed a familiar person and began to inquire about the basic structure of Changsheng City's operation.
The current operating method of Changsheng City is unknown.
The currency is lifespan, but the only person in the entire City of Longevity who can trade lifespan is the High Priest. However, the High Priest cannot trade lifespan for so many people in the City of Longevity every day; he would be exhausted.
Therefore, based on the existing lifespan detection instruments, the high priest used his power to modify some instruments to temporarily trade and store lifespans, conducting a large transaction once a week, but this transaction involved the use of power on all machines.
"Do you see this?" The resident held up a blue wristband. "When the gods descended, they gave some instruments the power to turn objects into detectors, and these objects were also instruments to remind individuals that their lifespan was running out. The original intention was good, but after the gods disappeared, these objects became tools for temporarily trading lifespan."
"Residents can exchange goods for the instruments, which can be exchanged for the currency we originally used, and then use the currency to trade lifespans in the main city."
After the residents explained, Ye Tianxuan pondered it carefully and then understood, "For example, if I register an item on the device and then consume my lifespan to obtain a large amount of currency, you can use this currency to trade for the lifespan you can actually use in the main city."
"And the lifespan I store on the device will be collected by the High Priest once a week, and then transferred to the device in the main city, where the residents can continue to redeem it themselves?"
The other person nodded, then took out a small gold coin from their pocket. "This was our original currency. Now, its value represents lifespan. However, in the main city, you need more than fifty of these instruments to exchange for lifespan, so those who don't have enough can't exchange for lifespan and can only wait to die."
Ye Tianxuan nodded thoughtfully, "No wonder someone knelt in front of the main city begging for lifespan before. So that's what they were begging for. If you collect fifty of them, you can exchange them for a little more time to continue living."
"Yes…" The residents nodded, but in reality, they couldn't beg for anything; no one would trade their life for another.
"Alright, let's set a small goal first." Ye Tianxuan, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, slowly raised his finger, "to exchange all the lifespans stored in all the instruments in Changsheng City right now."
"Huh?" The resident who was explaining to Ye Tianxuan was taken aback. "People in Changsheng City trade lifespans every day. If you exchange them all... what about the others?"
Ye Tianxuan narrowed his eyes slightly, "Others can only come to me for help, or to the High Priest."
The residents of Changsheng City ran out of lifespans to exchange for, and they became anxious, so they had no choice but to plead with the High Priest.
The High Priest changed the exchange rate from once a week to once a day. Even though she kept extracting lifespans that Ye Tianxuan had traded to the machine and providing them to the residents of Changsheng City, as long as Ye Tianxuan sent people to extract lifespans quickly enough, the residents of Changsheng City still couldn't exchange them.
For a day or two, they could comfort themselves, but for a week or two, watching their lifespans dwindle and holding a large pile of gold coins that they couldn't exchange for actual lifespans, they would become anxious, even more anxious than those who were about to die.
The residents opposite were stunned for a while before suddenly realizing what was happening. "Although it is the high priest who trades lifespans, what provides lifespans to the residents are the instruments left behind by the gods. When the instruments are controlled, they can no longer trade lifespans, and even praying to the high priest is useless. So they can only come and kneel before you, right?"
Ye Tianxuan nodded, and only he, with his current infinite lifespan, could afford to squander his wealth in this way.
He exchanged his lifespan for a small mountain of gold, and then exchanged all the lifespan stored in the main city's instruments. He could give it to anyone, but he couldn't give it to the High Priest's people.
"As expected, only a god could do this. With my pitiful lifespan, let alone exchanging it all, it wouldn't even be enough to fill a crack." The person opposite shook his head, marveling at the god's decisiveness. There really is someone who can talk about consuming lifespan without batting an eye.
That calm and unhurried attitude was like that of a true god, completely unconcerned about the lifespan he was losing.
"Alright, now that the decision has been made, let's get started!" Ye Tianxuan stood up, dusted himself off, raised the megaphone, and turned to shout to the people below, "Alright, the ceremony is over. Those who wish to choose, follow me now. Next, it will be time for God's grace!"
The people who were still slapping Ye Tianxuan were stunned. They looked up and stared at Ye Tianxuan with bright eyes. They cheered and looked forward to Ye Tianxuan walking down the steps. They crowded around him and left from the front of the main city.
After the brief farce and chaos, only the residents who still believed in the high priest and the messenger with a red and swollen face were left looking at each other in bewilderment.
Most of the residents of Changsheng City remained, and only those facing death would resolutely choose Ye Tianxuan, all of which was within the High Priest's expectations.
The young, innocent girl stood atop the high city wall, watching the figure being escorted away, glancing out of the corner of her eye at the remaining people.
"As expected, there are more people who will not abandon the God of Immortality. I want to see what kind of trouble you can cause in the City of Immortality with those dying people."