Long-Lived

Long-Lived is a xuanhuan web novel by Yuezhongyin, an Lv.5 author on China Literature's Yuewen Group. It began serialization on Qidian on January 5, 2019, and concluded on January 7, 2020, totaling about 3.3628 million Chinese characters across 1,092 chapters of main text. The story is set in a high-martial-arts world. The protagonist, Lei Dao, at the age of eighteen, crosses into another world with a strange ability and becomes the third young master of the Lei family, arriving with tuberculosis and, according to the book's setting, only one year, three months, and six days to live. His ability can display his own remaining lifespan and the status of the martial arts he has learned, and can even instantly raise the level of a martial art at the cost of consuming lifespan—lifespan becomes the most direct and most expensive chip in his hands. To survive, Lei Dao becomes a disciple of Zhang Qinglong, head of the Lei household guards, starting with the Child's Skill and successively trading lifespan for hard-body arts such as the Golden Bell Shield, Iron Shirt, and the Thirteen Guardians' Horizontal Training, merging several martial arts into a stronger Golden Body Skill, breaking through the limits of the human body from the peak of external arts and climbing upward through the martial arts system against powerful enemies. The story's climactic finale is the so-called "Epoch Cataclysm"; after uncovering the truth of the crisis, Lei Dao reaches the end, and the main text concludes with Chapter 1092: Everyone Is Safe! The core appeal of the work is the "burn lifespan for martial power" setup: it appears to be a shortcut by burning lifespan, but in fact compresses long years of arduous training into an extremely short time, creating a high-density leveling rhythm and combat thrill. This is a web-serialized work and has not yet been officially published in print.