Whether in his past life on Earth or in this life on Blue Star,
immortality has always been humanity’s ultimate pursuit.
Throughout history, countless princes and generals, ministers and nobles have longed for immortality, chased after deathlessness.
But in the end, dust returns to dust and earth to earth.
Su Yuan, naturally, was no exception; if it were possible, he would want to live forever too.
Hum— the surface of the gray mirror grew hazy again.
Su Yuan stared at the mirror surface intently.
[thod One: Achieve physical immortality by raising the body into the Immortal Realm; this accomplishes narrow-sense immortality]
[thod Two: Raise the will into the Unquenchable Realm; this accomplishes narrow-sense immortality]
[thod Three: rge the soul with the Great Dao; this accomplishes narrow-sense immortality]
...
One line after another of text surfaced.
Su Yuan fell silent.
Clearly, the gray mirror’s thods might actually be real.
But Su Yuan couldn’t do any of them.
Physical immortality?
An undying will?
Soul rging with the Great Dao?
He didn’t even know what those ant.
“How can I achieve immortality?”
“Constraint: Only thods I can perform now.”
Su Yuan looked back at the gray mirror and asked.
Hum— the mirror surface blurred and soon another string of words appeared.
[thod One: Click this link to enter the corresponding webpage, fill out your personal information to register; the next day soone will collect you to participate in a “consciousness transfer” experint. Your consciousness will be transferred into the Blue Star network...transforming into information-life. After a century, the Blue Star network will connect to the macroscopic network of the Human Empire. If your information rges with the macroscopic network’s information matrix, this accomplishes narrow-sense immortality]
[thod Two: Sacrifice ten million humans in blood rituals to summon an extracosmic evil god. Your will will be seized and devoured by the evil god; you and the god will be one and the sa, you within and I within you. This accomplishes narrow-sense immortality]
...
Reading the words erging on the misty mirror surface,
Su Yuan’s mouth twitched slightly.
Compared to the earlier answerless queries,
this ti the gray mirror’s replies were understandable.
And even feasible.
But without thinking, he knew there were huge traps.
thod One would transfer Su Yuan’s consciousness into the Blue Star network, turning him into an information-based lifeform?
Losing his body and the pleasures of reality—what aning would immortality have then?
And finally fusing into a macroscopic information matrix—would he still be himself?
thod Two was even more absurd: summon an extracosmic evil god and be willingly devoured? Whose immortality would that be—the evil god’s or Su Yuan’s?
...
Afterwards,
Su Yuan tried asking about immortality from different angles.
All under the premise of what he could do right now.
But the answers the gray mirror provided either ca with heavy restrictions
or contained massive hidden dangers, requiring Su Yuan to lose his selfhood to achieve them.
“Forget it.”
Su Yuan sighed inwardly.
“Take it slow.”
He composed himself.
After a short pause, he resud questioning the gray mirror.
“I want a cultivation thod or an evolution path that directly leads to immortality.”
“Prerequisite: This thod or path must be best suited to my current state.”
“Prerequisite: This thod or path must be fast in cultivation, with no hidden dangers and no adverse effects on .”
“Prerequisite: This thod or path must have infinite potential; immortality should be only an auxiliary capability.”
...
Su Yuan settled for a second-best plan: a cultivation thod or an evolution path.
From the hundreds of prior queries, he knew civilizations higher than Blue Star existed outside it.
And across the vast cosmos there were individual beings of terrifying power, casually wiping out stars.
To beco such a being—
either be born that way,
or evolve the lifeform through postnatal cultivation.
He had no choice for the forr, so he had to attempt the latter.
Hum— the gray mirror blurred and soon another set of words appeared.
...
“This is too much, stop for now.”
Two hours had passed and the mirror’s output had not ceased; Su Yuan imdiately called it off.
Given the constraints and standards he’d provided, the cultivation thods the mirror produced were too vast to morize.
“With my current mory, I can’t rember all of this.”
“Focus on Level 1 lifeform to Level 10 lifeform first.”
No sooner had Su Yuan said this than the words on the hazy mirror slowed.
Then they began from the start.
The so-called Level 1 to Level 10 lifeforms are the gray mirror’s classification of individual life strength.
It’s also the preliminary life tier classification used by many civilizations across the vast universe.
A top Level 10 lifeform already has the ability to temporarily leave its ho planet and roam the stars and cosmos.
Of course,
Su Yuan was not even a Level 1 lifeform.
To be precise, the vast majority of life on Blue Star today are Level 0 lifeforms—by the standards of true cosmic civilizations, they don’t even count as life.
“Level 0 lifeform to Level 1 lifeform...”
Su Yuan watched as the gray mirror displayed, in detail, the step-by-step procedure for evolving from Level 0 to Level 1.
“According to this thod, I could transform into a Level 1 lifeform in about half a month, but...”
Su Yuan shook his head. “It needs money.”
The essence of life’s transformation and evolution is consuming external materials to supplent oneself.
What are those externals? They must be substances containing abundant, refined energy.
Like a hundred-year-old ginseng? Spirit mushrooms from deep mountains, and so on.
These things cost hundreds of thousands, even millions—far beyond what Su Yuan could afford now.
“Money...”
He looked at the gray mirror.
If this mirror truly knew everything, he wouldn’t be short of money.
“I’ll think about how to ask.”
Su Yuan pondered a bit.
Getting money shouldn’t be hard.
The crucial part is that it must be legal and without hidden dangers.
“Lottery?”
His eyes lit up.
He thought of this sudden-wealth route.
Lottery winnings are what every Xia Country citizen dreams about.
It’s the most legitimate, least risky way to get rich.
After all, lottery winnings are taxed—clean and aboveboard.
“I rember the double-color ball draw is at six tonight?”
Su Yuan took out his phone and logged in to check imdiately.
After confirming, he looked back at the gray mirror and asked:
“For draw number 2025910 of the double-color ball, what are the first-prize winning numbers?”
Su Yuan stared intently at the gray mirror.
The next mont,
the mirror surface blurred and quickly displayed a string of numbers.
[1125312423.....]
“Done.”
Seeing the mirror’s answer, Su Yuan was certain.
He imdiately put all his current savings—all 238 yuan—into the bet.
“By lottery rules, if I win the first prize, the jackpot will exceed ninety-six million. After taxes, I’d still get over fifty million.”
A smile appeared on Su Yuan’s face.
An amount like that most people never see in a lifeti.
“Now just wait.”
He glanced at the ti; there were still more than two hours until the six o’clock draw.
...
“What is the highest lifeform level in Xia Country?”
While waiting, Su Yuan began asking the gray mirror many questions.
[Currently, the strongest lifeform within Xia Country is a Level 4 lifeform]
“What about worldwide? The strongest lifeform in the world is what level?”
Su Yuan asked next.
[Level 4]
The gray mirror continued displaying one line after another of text.
...
Ti passed.
It quickly reached six o’clock.
Su Yuan gathered his thoughts and stared at the double-color ball results page.
At this mont, countless people across Xia Country were also focused on it.
Clack-clack.
As each number was announced,
Su Yuan’s expression shifted from excitent to confusion, suspicion, and then disbelief...
“How is it different from the numbers you gave ?”
He imdiately looked at the nearby gray mirror.
The publicly announced first-prize numbers for the double-color ball
were completely different from what the gray mirror had given.
Hum— the gray mirror’s surface churned and grew hazy, and soon another set of words surfaced.
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