Chapter 278 -140: The Earthly Grass and Woods Desire Longevity, The Luo Family’s Grace Ends in This Calamity (Extra Chapter for Monthly Tickets)_3 Chapter 278 -140: The Earthly Grass and Woods Desire Longevity, The Luo Family’s Grace Ends in This Calamity (Extra Chapter for Monthly Tickets)_3 But now, with his mind entangled as if in a web, he waved his sleeve, closed the door, and moved toward Xu Wei.
Gazing at the slender beauty wrapped gently in a robe of yellow silk, her delicate body seeming weak against the slightest wind.
The flower of youth fades easily, and beauty quick to pass.
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He seemed to be getting a taste of it earlier than expected.
If you asked him how he felt at the moment, he could only say that it was unbearable, very complicated.
Maybe it would feel less heavy if Xu Wei just died of old age a hundred years later, and he was the one to toast her farewell.
The cruelty of immortality had already mentally prepared him for everything.
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Unlike the seven wives and concubines of the mortal world, it was when he was sixty-seven years old that he boldly took concubines, and the seven wives were mostly a combination of interests and family ties.
Fifteen years of companionship mattered little; it’s easy to share wealth but hard to share hardship.
But Xu Wei was the first woman who treated him well when he had no place to stay after he entered the Cultivation World.
Originally, they would never have developed as far as they had, but gradually in their mutual hardship at the bottom, they found that inexpressible delicate affection, yet they never crossed the final boundary of their relationship.
Until the time at Luo Family Market, this girl, who had been waiting for so long, said she wanted to give him her best treasure to remember her most beautiful self.
However, he only left a declaration after the fact, “I cannot give any promise to her,” but she remained unwavering.
Even Chen Dengming, who saw himself as the worst of the worst, felt tender and protective towards a girl like her.
Such girls were hard to come by not only in his world before he crossed over, but also in the Nanxun Kingdom.
“Elder Brother Chen, you shouldn’t feel sad; this thing is my fault…”
Seeing Chen Dengming’s complicated feelings, Xu Wei shook her head with a smile, her gaze still as familiar and bright as yesterday’s.
Chen Dengming was shocked.
He had never imagined a person’s eyes could reveal so much complicated and unspeakable emotion in a fleeting glance.
Among these emotions were reluctance, greed, stubbornness, and a deep helplessness.
Helplessness at being of low cultivation talent, helplessness at the pursuit of immortal longevity, and so many more that were a common person’s usual despair.
Chen Dengming, as an observer, had never deeply understood these.
Because he didn’t have to worry about lifespan or progress in cultivating, but at this moment, he empathized with Xu Wei.
In just an instant, he felt as though he was seeing the life of a loose cultivator like Xu Wei, who had low talent, striving to cultivate like a humble creature in the mortal world.
Like her blessing to him before, “May the immortals enjoy eternal life like the sun and the moon, while the mortal world, flora, and fauna experience cycles of decay and bloom.
I only wish for you to receive the warm embrace of a peach blossoms’ spring, and for Elder Brother Chen to revisit Luo Mountain City.”
If a humble creature in the mortal world desires to pursue immortality like the sun and the moon, to travel with the fairies, and embrace the eternal moon, they have to pay a stubborn price for it.
Almost at the moment when Chen Dengming came to understand this, he instantly noticed something wrong from Xu Wei’s eyes.
“Xu Wei!”
Chen Dengming’s eyes sparkled with lightning, his long hair fluttered, and a great suction force instantly emanated from him.
The surrounding air seemed to collapse into a deep pool.
Xu Wei’s delicate body instantly rose, and the spiritual energy that had invaded her heart was slowed down by the suction.
“Elder Brother Chen…”
A glint crossed Xu Wei’s eyes as the spiritual energy of her Sixth Level of Qi Cultivation exploded.
“Wait!”
Chen Dengming shouted, grabbing Xu Wei’s shoulder.
But in the next instant, his eyes bulged.
At this moment, he truly experienced the stubbornness and strength that this fragile woman had ingrained in her bones.
Even though she seemed as lowly as a creature of the mortal world, she also held the surprising tenacity of flora.
She had already planted spiritual energy near her heart, ready to sever her life essence when he barged into the room.
Even if he was quick to realize something was wrong, it was already too late.
He could only rapidly perform the Skill of Transforming Decrepitude into Glory and inject her with vitality.
However, Xu Wei clenched his hand, her body relaxed as if she had achieved complete tranquility and relief.
In a way that one would comfort a child, she said, “Elder Brother Chen, don’t blame them.
Miss Luo is really! very good.
Actually, you two are truly! a good match…”
Chen Dengming only felt that the flame in his chest was burning to its fullest.
Xu Wei’s heart was shattered, knowing that her life was at stake, she desperately sought death.
Even if the Skill of Transforming Decrepitude into Glory could repair her heart, it couldn’t save a person whose soul was dead and lifespan ended.
The irony was that the Life-Shortening Cultivation Enhancement Skill had brought him here, sacrificing many people in the process.
The one who created this skill also died violently as a result, and now even Xu Wei died a violent death because of it.
He had plenty of lifespan to lose, while Xu Wei died due to a lack of lifespan.
Could this be considered retribution?
As he gazed at Xu Wei’s completely dimmed eyes, his mind was in chaos, and suddenly a bold idea flashed through his mind.
Without time to think it through, he instantly calmed his spirit, reaching a state of Profound Quietude, and suddenly his soul was free from his physical body.
He sensed a faint shadow clinging to Xu Wei’s delicate body, about to dissipate.
This shadow was at a loss and constantly dissolving.
Perhaps, it wouldn’t be long before it completely vanished.
Without hesitation, Chen Dengming summoned another empty Soul Attracting Banner.
Whoo, whoo——
The room was suddenly filled with a cold wind.
He wrapped the banner around him, and with a flash of black light, he instantly drew Xu Wei’s weak and about to disperse spirit-god into the banner.
“Fellow Daoist, you…
you drew her spirit into the Soul Attracting Banner…
Even if you refine her into a Soul Ghost and evokes spiritual wisdom in her, she has only a short lifespan.
Even in the state of a Soul Ghost, she won’t be able to exist for long…”
The Mini Array Spirit, who had been silent and dared not to speak all this while in the Soul House, couldn’t help but remind him now.