Aaron strolled out of Shen Le's cave abode and announced to the ring of cultivators outside, "My beloved disciple departed before this old man, leaving me, white-haired, to send off one with black hair... My heart aches deeply... I am so grief-stricken I no longer wish to live... Cough, cough... Cough, cough..."
The clan cultivators below all forced looks of sorrow onto their faces, yet nearly rolled their eyes in unison. Why don't you, you old fossil, just keel over and die?
Elder Shen's greatest regret before his death must have been failing to send you, you old fossil, on your way first, right?
Only Shen Le and Aaron knew what had happened within the cave abode just now, so naturally, it would not leak out.
To the outside world, Aaron still maintained his image as a benevolent elder quite well.
After directing a group of people to handle Shen Le's funeral arrangements, Aaron returned to the back mountain and continued consuming pills in cultivation.
At the same time, he began considering when he ought to die.
After all, Patriarch Fang was already over six hundred years old. Ordinary Core Formation cultivators did not live nearly as long as he had!
It was about time Song Zhong formed his core and came to see him off.
Now that Shen Le has been sent on his way... once Song Zhong forms his core, he can take over the Medicine King Sect with perfect justification... So long as Bai Caiwei doesn't return, no one can compete with him!
No, wait... If Caiwei doesn't form her nascent soul, she'll probably die of old age, won't she?
*Or rather, Dongwen Ying's chances of returning after forming her core to fight for the sect master's position are several times greater than Bai Caiwei's chances