"Hmph, those who commit too much evil bring about their own destruction!
Yuan Tiangang, blindly imposing your will is no proper path in the end."
With that, she lowered her head and resumed studying medicine. Finding no amusement in this, Yuan Tiangang disappeared from the Library Pavilion.
Li Wan'er continued living in seclusion in different corners of the world, while one emperor after another succeeded to the throne.
At first, she still entertained thoughts of supporting them and setting things right. But as time passed and her life stretched on, she gradually learned to let everything go.
Ten years revealed the passing of spring and autumn; a hundred bore witness to birth, aging, sickness, and death. A thousand years inspired sighs over the rise and fall of dynasties; ten thousand revealed the shifting of the stars.
Moreover, after she broke through to the Xiantian Realm, time still left its marks on her, but far more slowly.
One after another, the people she had once known passed away. Gradually, she grew numb.
She began to understand Yuan Tiangang's twisted sense of amusement. Without anything to strive for, living too long really could drive someone mad if their willpower was weak.
At a hundred and fifty, she looked like an ordinary woman of around sixty.
Fortunately, at that age, the qi among her essence, qi, and spirit advanced further and condensed into liquid, allowing her to progress to the late Xiantian Realm.
Her appearance grew youthful again, leaving her looking like a woman in her forties.
At two hundred and forty, a subtle change occurred in her spirit. She had no cultivation method for this aspect and could only temper her spirit through time. It had taken over two hundred years for this elusive change to arrive.
By then, the people of