"Hey."
After Li Tianming came out, Shi Yan was standing at the door, looking out at the gray mountains.
"Senior Shi, please sit."
Li Tianming knew that the rest of her life would be very lonely.
That feeling was indeed hard to bear.
But he could not sympathize with her.
They belonged to different camps and served different masters. If not for his status as a disciple of the Heavenly Palace, once they clashed, she would not have spared him either.
When an enemy was defeated and revealed such sorrow, feeling sympathy for them was meaningless.
Still, Li Tianming would respect her.
"Have you been feeling better lately?"
Li Tianming asked.
Ever since she returned from outside, she had been undergoing emergency treatment.
Now, it seemed she had escaped the gates of hell.
"I'm all right. I can't die, but I can't truly live either."
Shi Yan smiled bitterly.
After losing her halo, every smile and frown of hers made her seem more like an ordinary woman.
Seeing Li Tianming purse his lips, she smiled and said, "I didn't come here to seek your sympathy. That would be meaningless. I've had my days in the sun out in the world; I can accept whatever ending comes. To someone my age, failure and death aren't all that frightening. No one can win for a lifetime."
"I came here today mainly to bid you farewell. I'm returning to the Divine Sword Sect to retire. From now on, I'll live among mountains and rivers, raise fish and shrimp, and withdraw from the world. Perhaps that will be another kind of ease. Another way of living."
She could not restore her lifebound beasts.
Because the corpses of her lifebound beasts had all been destroyed by Li Wushuang.
"Senior Shi has seen through life. Devoting