After hearing Wu Li's words, Lu Mingyu stood there in a daze.
For he could vaguely sense the pressure First Senior Brother carried.
After an unknown amount of time, Lu Mingyu softly said, "So, First Senior Brother, have you been striving toward this goal all along?"
Hearing this, Wu Li smiled. "Not exactly."
"What I have been busy with is not only for Teacher, but also for myself."
"If I can uncover the secret of immortality, then perhaps the people I know will not die."
"And once there is a second secret of immortality in this world, Teacher will no longer be in so much danger."
Looking at Wu Li's smile, Lu Mingyu pursed his lips and said,
"Senior Brother, immortality is but flowers reflected in a mirror and the moon in water. Invincibility beneath the heavens is even more a dream bubble, an illusory phantom."
"Do you know how much pressure you must bear to keep moving forward for these two things?"
Faced with Lu Mingyu's words, Wu Li looked at him calmly and said,
"From the very beginning, I knew what I would have to face."
"And precisely because I knew, during a certain period in the past, I once thought of using death to put an end to all this."
"Perhaps if I died, I would no longer be troubled by these things."
"But Scholar told me that if I died, there would be no one left to continue opening a path ahead for Teacher."
"Back then, Teacher brought me out of the Ten Thousand Mountains, and it was Teacher who helped me bear the Mandate of Heaven."
"The achievements I, Wu Li, have today were almost entirely given to me by Teacher."
"Since that is so, I have no reason not to shield Teacher from all