Chapter 223: The Plight of the Desperate
"You were cursed to be young?", Xing was surprised. Isn’t immortality considered a blessing? Why is he being cursed with that?
Then she realised that he was cursed to see the deaths of his nine generations and so after his ninth generation of descendant dies, he’d die too.
What a weird curse!
"So which generation am I?", Xing asked clenching her fists. She cannot go through another death of a loved one right now.
"Tenth", he replied calmly and Xing was perplexed.
"Apparently after my ninth generation that is your mother died, I’ve started to age like normal. Till then I didn’t die even after I pushed a sword through my heart. I tried hard to die but didn’t! ", he smiled and showed her the various markings in his chest made with sword, " Bet I can die now if I want... ", he chuckled.
Xing’s heart skipped a beat seeing those scars. He had really tried to kill himself several times but he didn’t die!
Xing could understand why immortality is a curse. Everyone he knew would die, everything around him will change and he’ll be the only one standing alone. The thrill of the human life is the uncertainty, not knowing when your life would end and still trying to achieve what you want to achieve before that time comes.
She now realised the one who was crying in her dream bitterly in that cave must be him.
For someone like him who had lost his love and who wants to just follow her to the underworld, living alone is the biggest punishment there is!