Chapter 203 - 175: Flying Artifact
Chen Li mingled with a few familiar Foundation Establishment cultivators and chatted idly.
From time to time, people joined in the conversation voluntarily. Nowadays, Chen Li was no longer the unknown figure he used to be; many came to meet him out of admiration.
One had to say that even now, Chen Li had not gotten to know all of the Returning True Sect’s Foundation Establishment cultivators; every gathering, many were either in closed-door cultivation, traveling abroad, or stationed in marketplaces far and wide.
"Alas, many familiar faces have disappeared!" Xiao Yuan said with a melancholic sigh, "Now the gatherings have become much less lively."
The atmosphere grew somewhat silent.
Chen Li couldn’t help but recall Guo Xingquan, the companion he was closest to:
"Does Fellow Daoist Guo Xingquan have any family?"
"He probably doesn’t. I remember Fellow Daoist Guo is a Loose Cultivator and has always been alone. As for whether he has relatives, it’s not very clear," a middle-aged, long-bearded Foundation Establishment cultivator pondered and said, "Such young Foundation Establishment cultivators still have prospects for their paths; who would think about starting a family."
"Sigh, many can’t even find anyone to claim their pensions, which is why you should have offspring early. Otherwise, when you die, you die in vain. No matter which hill you’re buried on, there’ll be no one to pay homage," another cultivator lamented.
"If you have a no-good descendant, it’s even more troublesome. Sometimes you wish you could just pinch two to death with one hand, as if they were never born."
"Descendants can at least be sent far away if they turn out disappointing, but women are troublesome—when they’re young, they are jealous and sour; as they age, they not only get jealous and sour, but they also become nagging and clueless, detestable to look at, and infuriating just by being seen!"