Yu Ningsui fell silent at once. She turned around and looked at me for a long while before asking, "Her heart has died? What does that mean?"
"It means she has accepted her fate." I shrugged.
"Because of her aptitude? Or something else..." Yu Ningsui's sorrow was written all over her face.
"Anyway, she just doesn't want to live anymore. It's not hard to understand. Like when the end of one's lifespan draws near, when one realizes their aptitude will never reach a certain threshold, and there are pearls and jade before them besides—who wouldn't have their Dao heart collapse under that endless torment with no end in sight?" I smiled freely.
"I understand. Before I met Big Brother Xia, I had felt that way too. When I was ten, I already knew roughly when I would truly enter the Spirit Opening Realm. Later, it really came true. As time passed, as my years of cultivation and Dao attainment increased, it all seemed as though I could see the end at a glance. For a time, I thought I would have no hope of entering the Core Embrace Realm by a hundred and would simply die of old age... Back then, I felt that entering the inner sect in this life was nothing but a wild dream. So after Master entered the Tower Ascension stage, she could no longer advance an inch. With her lifespan running out, she feels exactly as I did back then, right?" Yu Ningsui let out a faint sigh.
I nodded in tacit agreement. "It's not as though there's no solution. If you're stuck at a bottleneck, go seek opportunities. If you can't find any, then die outside. At least you've already defied the heavens. But now, look at your master."
"So by remaining in the