Treating Him Like a Fool

"You were a dignified Innate, yet setting aside the fact that you couldn't save a person on their last legs, you couldn't even help a young girl?"

"Senior, you cannot comprehend how terrifying our wars are." Chen Kongyu looked grave. He did not refute your words about "abandoning her once again," instead saying, "I am merely a newly advanced Innate. I must kill at least dozens of those in the same realm before I can obtain a single Spirit Awakening Fruit."

"Her Talent Aptitude is ordinary. She cannot sense primordial energy on her own, so she needs at least seven or eight—perhaps even ten—Spirit Awakening Fruits before she can advance to Innate and stand beside me."

"Even if you revive Ling'er and restore her youth, I still cannot afford to support her. In the end, we would still walk toward tragedy."

Yun Shou pointed at him strangely. "Didn't you say before that you were an Innate who stood high above all others? And it is not as though you cannot keep cultivating. Once your strength rises, wouldn't the difficulty decrease?"

Chen Kongyu gritted his teeth and told the truth. "But if I support her martial cultivation and make her an Innate martial artist like me, it will certainly delay my own Martial Path. It may even get me killed in some accident!"

He said, "Senior, you do not wish to see the tragedy you saved repeat itself again, do you? Why not see this good deed through to the end? While reviving Ling'er, give her outstanding martial Talent Aptitude as well. Then, as husband and wife, we can grow together. That would count as a fine tale."

Yun Shou was so angered by that moral blackmail that he laughed.

The Simulator had only revealed that he was a mentally deranged