My thoughts were simple right now. For a moment, I'd even forgotten my own limitations and could only wonder what Ye Qing would choose.
Putting myself in his shoes, I'd probably choose to become a spirit.
Immortality and power had been common pursuits of humanity for thousands of years. On a smaller scale, wasn't the development of medicine and technology all about living longer and better? On a larger scale, emperors who took drugs in pursuit of immortality represented another extreme.
Of course, in anime and other works, cultural differences meant that characters from other countries who sought immortality would become villains who stopped at nothing. Here, it was just a way to show diversity. The protagonist could pursue immortality and cultivate as an immortal, and so could the villain. The difference was simply that "a gentleman loves wealth but acquires it through proper means."
I couldn't help thinking about it more deeply.
A spirit in the form of a demon was definitely out of the question. It kept itself alive by setting traps and killing people. Besides, "demons" had already entered dusk. This might be the only demon left in the world.
There was a good chance of becoming a spirit in some other form.
Every spirit I'd seen so far seemed to have killed indiscriminately. Even if I gave them the benefit of the doubt, they still killed without batting an eye, killing anyone who displeased them. But if it were Ye Qing, perhaps he could find a way to solve that problem. Or maybe... Ye Qing simply didn't care about it.
I wanted to see Ye Qing and find the answer in his expression. Then I remembered that he'd used some method to erase his and Greenleaf's existence. I still hadn't seen his face. There was no