Chapter 229: Suspicion

"I am not a prodigy or a genius like you. By that time, I realized I have only 500 years left for me to live, so I put aside my research and Soul Forging Cultivation, choosing to cultivate Body Tempering Cultivation."

"500 years later, I reached the Seventh Stage from the Fourth Stage in Body Tempering Cultivation.

"Do you comprehend? I took 500 years to cultivate to the Seventh Stage from the Fourth Stage of Body Cultivation. I had to use all my accumulated resources and sacrifice various things to enter the Martial Master Stage!"

"As a result, it increased my life-span to ten thousand years!" Old Man Garvin's eyes widened as he exclaimed.

"Wait! Sacrifice? Did you lose your family or something like that?" Davis interjected.

"No, at that time, I had no family nor did I have any wives for that matter. By sacrifices, I meant that I had simply lost my property, place, respect as I had to beg everyone for resources... in a sense."