Borrowing Years to Forge Immortality: I Can Strip the Old Years from All Things

Shen Yan, a dismantling apprentice in Cold Iron City, bears a death contract of three thousand six hundred catties of pure iron. Every day he fights for his life against toxic acid, discarded weapons, and a black scale. His sister relies on half a pill to suppress her cold disease, while his father died in an unclear furnace explosion. Until the ancient dagger fragment left by his father awakens [Knock Years], he can strip undamaged medicinal power from waste pills and borrow past sharpness from broken swords. But the stronger the old years, the harder it is for the weapons and meridians that bear them to endure; the dead ashes left by extracting years are even more evidence for execution in the scrap weapon workshop that pays iron by weight. When the broken sword of a missing law enforcer is sent into the acid pool, Shen Yan must forge a way to live for himself before the furnace fire goes out. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Borrowing Years to Forge Immortality: I Can Strip the Old Years from All Things — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠