Chapter 218: A new goal.
"You have had a hard time." Lee said with a sad shake of his head.
"It’s not like I’ve got anything to hide." Xiao Lian shrugged in return.
"I wouldn’t even try if I had." Lee said, "But I think it’s great she’s so ... feisty."
"I’ll show you feisty!" Qin Yujian stormed in, but it was hilarious to see how the lady that looked in her late fifties or early sixties was pouting like a teenager. Clearly Lee’s arrival has aroused some long forgotten memories even for her.
"Are you going to punish me like Ling Xiaotao did back then?" Lee said with a wide grin, "By the way, how’s she doing?"
"Sigh ... she couldn’t merge her consciousness with her spark ..." Qin Yujian said, "After hearing your story, my best guess is that she’s been long reincarnated."
She seemed to be sad and not, as if conflicted with herself, and only now Lee realized that these two monsters had probably buried hundreds of friends and loved ones during the past centuries. Everyone was cultivating to become as strong as possible, but the longevity that was considered a substantial bonus actually carried a tragic downside.
And the friends in sect were only a part of it. Surely the couple had children, grandchildren, and grand-grandchildren who didn’t even ignite their sparks, to not speaking of becoming elemental lords.
Lee was living his short lives, feeling emotionally empty without Lisa, but what about them? He had no clue what it meant to have a child, to not speak of loosing one. All this time he had been focused on himself and no one else seemed to matter, but there were amazing people in the world who kept going despite the pain they felt. And not a year or a decade – they carried the burden for centuries while continuously improving themselves.