Yuan Jingxu said, "I'm grateful, of course I'm grateful. That's why I haven't let down the conditions the Immortal Sage created for my family, and why I succeeded in bringing the Yuan family to the heights it has reached today. Most importantly, I haven't let down this name. I will replace the Immortal Sage and become this world's new Immortal Sage, and I believe I'm not far from leaving this place. Second Brother, I know you don't understand, but human desire cannot be restrained."
"Sixty years ago, if the Immortal Sage hadn't come, I would probably have lived with Father in some alley, eaten ordinary food, and gone to school when I was old enough. Perhaps I would have worked hard at cultivation and become a cultivator, but with my family's means, at best I might have joined some merchant house after turning thirty and become a bookkeeper, or perhaps a bodyguard for some wealthy household."
"That Yuan Jingxu might occasionally have lamented his bad luck, but he would never have harbored the ambition to escape a world that could not contain him. The Immortal Sage is an immortal, a sage; he would never consider the thoughts of an ant. Father wasn't his friend. He was merely a spray of foam in a memory. When the Immortal Sage happened to remember him, he would return to look at that spray of foam; when he forgot, he would let it sink beneath the river of his memories."
"And now, after sixty years, the Immortal Sage has remembered that spray of foam. If he remembers it again only after another sixty years, it will surely have vanished by then. Second Brother, you can't expect a butterfly not to yearn for the sky just because it once had no wings."
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