"Mm. Then do you know that in all my years in the lower realm, I never took in a single disciple? To tell you the truth, I am an ascetic cultivator devoted wholly to the immortal path. I truly do not wish for any extra ties to distract me."
Hearing Lin Xuan say this, Shangguan Yan's face filled with disappointment. Only after several breaths did she lift her head in dejection.
She bowed. "Senior need say no more. This junior already understands. It was I who indulged in too much wishful thinking..."
After saying that, she kowtowed once, turned, and was about to leave the cultivation cave.
"Wait." Lin Xuan stopped her.
"What other instructions does Senior have?" the woman said faintly.
"You girl, what an impatient temper. When did I ever say I definitely would not take you in?"
"Ah?"
The woman froze, then became wildly delighted and dropped to her knees with a thud. "Yan'er pays respects to Master."
"No hurry. I also did not say I would definitely take you in."
"Then, Master means..."
Shangguan Yan spoke cautiously, her face completely bewildered by Lin Xuan's words.
"When I was in the Human World, my heart was set on one thing and one thing only—how to ascend to the Spirit World. Naturally, I had no time to take disciples. But now it is different..."
These words from Lin Xuan were no lie meant to deceive her. Even after cultivating to Lihe, one's lifespan in the Human World was only two thousand years. With the Human World's harsh conditions, successfully ascending was riddled with difficulties; there was simply no time to waste. But now the situation was naturally different.
Now he was only eight hundred years old. Counting to the fullest, he still had another twelve hundred years before