Chapter 111
Ji Xian rose slowly to his feet, extending a hand to help Xia Lihua up along the way. With their bodies and faces nearly touching, they silently stared into each other’s eyes for a moment before breaking out into sweet smiles. Never had their goals been so clear. Though it seemed like such a simple thing, how many people can say they knew exactly what their heart yearned for and the path to achieve it?
“So have you decided?” Ji Xian asked calmly, despite already knowing the answer. “Will you continue with Body Cultivation?”
“Yes,” she nodded, resolutely. “I know you had high hopes for me to cultivate both True and Astral Essence but that isn’t what I want or need.”
She recalled, “In these past few days, while I cultivate, you have been assisting me in sensing and grasping a strand of True Essence— something that I never thought was possible. After all, I’m not a blessed. I can’t feel or see them. Yet, not only did you allow me to do that, I also absorbed it and have it sat next to my internal world.”
Xia Lihua’s face turned more and more incredulous as she spoke of her experience. If the world knew what Ji Xian had done, just how many people would hunt him down to acquire this knowledge? Just what kind of catastrophe would befall him to snatch his secrets? What he’d done may seem simple, but he may very well be the first person in history to have done it. Ji Xian had broken a belief that a vast majority of cultivators thought to be impossible, and he had done so while still being in the Lower World, no less.
Feeling overwhelmed, Xia Lihua’s breathing subconsciously quickened as she looked at him worryingly— not because she was afraid for his safety but because she didn’t know what kind of monster he might become one day when the limits of heaven no longer bind him. Would he be a scourge of a blessing?
Xia Lihua wondered before inwardly shaking her head.
Ji Xian is neither a saint nor a devil. He is like he always is— indifferent, and as long as I am beside him, he will never become the person I have to worry about.
This was something she truly believed. Despite having these concerns pop up in her head every so often, she knew they were baseless. Ji Xian may have occasionally done questionable acts but it was never to the extent people imagined. He had restraints and reasons. In actuality, it was usually his inaction that bothered her the most.