"There are no family members, no friends, no lovers, no descendants... Aside from lifespans stretching beyond ten thousand years and power mighty enough to transform heaven and earth, they have nothing at all!"
Lin Bai took a deep breath and summed up Old Wen's words. His gaze gradually grew solemn.
"People like that really are terrifying!"
With only a slight thought, he felt a deep fear of them.
A person who had no attachments whatsoever in this world—no concerns for family, no bonds with friends, no worries of any kind... Yet such a person possessed power that could reach the heavens and shake the earth!
People like that absolutely could not be provoked.
Who knew when they might drag you down to the Netherworld with them? After all, they had no great attachment to this world.
Precisely because of this, after watching their family and friends die one after another over their long lifespans, these "Great Mystic Art Users" eventually developed problems with their minds.
They gradually began to disregard everything. As Old Wen put it... they had gone mad.
And Elder Shen Yuan's current condition was "half-mad."
Elder Shen Yuan had been cultivating for nearly ten thousand years, and almost all his family and friends had already perished.
Even his direct descendants had already passed beyond five generations. Although they still shared his blood, the familial affection had long since vanished.
His descendants respected him mostly because they wanted to obtain benefits, protection, and resources from him.
Although he was still a martial artist of the Shen Family and its Supreme Elder, he was actually already in a half-mad state.
Old Wen continued explaining, "That's also why, whether in the Devil Realm or the Spirit Realm, once martial artists break through to the Supreme Dao Fruit Realm, they either