"Ha ha ha ha ha!"
Ren Li had exhausted all the magic power in his body just to drag someone back from the brink of death for a brief moment. After Shi Lei truly died, he broke into an ecstatic, roaring laugh, drenched in sweat and pale-faced.
That unrestrained, wild laughter frightened the several people who had been about to help support him. They immediately backed away again and again.
What kind of fit is he throwing?
"I understand! I understand!"
Du En turned his head and saw that, before Ren Li could even catch his breath, he was already stumbling toward a spot in the wasteland, where he sat cross-legged and began excitedly pursuing enlightenment.
Du En immediately became thoughtful. He could roughly guess what the man had realized.
So he did not dwell on it, turning instead to Shi Lei's dying request.
In fact, in the Shack District outside the city, and throughout the inner and outer areas of this border city, low-level cultivators were not forbidden from falling in love, becoming partners, and raising children together.
However, even if a woman became pregnant, she still had to work.
After all, they were cultivators. Even if they were only in the Early Qi Refining stage, as long as they used magic power to keep the fetus stable, they did not have to fear a miscarriage.
Then, once the expectant mother reached her due date, she would be forcibly taken away and placed under centralized management.
As soon as a child was born, it would be sent to a designated location based on whether it possessed a spiritual root, the quality of that root, and other such factors, where it would be raised collectively.
Throughout this process, neither parent had the slightest say. They were not even allowed to