Wu Shimo left.
Gao Lin drank alone.
But what he drank was not a beverage provided by the restaurant. He had brewed it himself.
Like the cigarettes he often smoked, the liquor had been infused with various medicinal materials.
The tobacco and liquor were Gao Lin's secret remedies for clinging to life.
After drinking a few mouthfuls of medicinal liquor, his face took on an unusually healthy flush.
The old man let out a long breath.
Then he looked at the medicine in the box.
Gao Lin sighed.
He could feel that he did not have much time left.
That was the sorrow of the Profound Comprehension Realm.
Once one entered the Profound Comprehension Realm, one's senses became a hundred or a thousand times sharper than before.
Otherwise, how could one achieve resonance between heaven and man?
This also meant that those in the Profound Comprehension Realm had precise control over their own condition.
Gao Lin could feel that even though he cultivated every day and smoked and drank without fail,
Even so,
his body was still like a black hole. No matter how much was put into it, it could never be filled.
Moreover, his vitality was constantly ebbing away.
It was a sign that his lifespan was nearing its end.
Nothing humanly possible could change that.
Everything he did was merely to delay the arrival of that moment.
As far as he knew,
the only way for humans to break through the limits of their lifespan was to advance to a higher realm beyond the Profound Comprehension Realm.
But how easy was that?
Cultivating in the Profound Comprehension Realm took an extraordinarily long time.
On top of that, cultivation methods were extremely hard to find.
Entering the Profound Comprehension Realm was already a rare achievement. Advancing another step