Separated Forever, Mortal and Immortal

These things are usually harmless, but when the time comes for Tribulation Transcendence to ascend to immortality, they are highly likely to evolve into inner demons.

He had come this time precisely to thoroughly sever these mundane, worldly attachments.

"You... how did you come back... did you... succeed in your quest for immortality?"

Watching Ye Lin, whose face remained unchanged and whose hair had turned a cascade of silver, the woman instinctively touched the wrinkles on her face and looked at her hands, scarred and calloused from years of farm work.

Decades had passed; she, who was once peerless in her beauty, had grown old, while Ye Lin remained exactly as he was when he left, his appearance not having changed in the slightest.

"I have returned..."

Hearing Ye Lin's words, tears could no longer be held back and streamed down Qingling's face, while Ye Lin took the hands of two young boys and walked slowly toward her.

The two boys' eyes were filled with innocent confusion; clearly, they were currently unable to comprehend such a complex situation.

"Why... why didn't you keep your promise? Why..."

Qingling collapsed against Ye Lin's chest, sobbing loudly. Back then, Ye Lin had resolutely abandoned her to seek the Dao and immortality, and the two had made a pact of ten years.

Within ten years, regardless of whether Ye Lin succeeded in his quest or not, he was to return; exceeding ten years meant that Ye Lin was dead.

The year Ye Lin left, she was in her prime, the most beautiful age of her life, and she had waited bitterly for him for ten years.

Every day and night, she stood by the stone at the village entrance, watching the back of the man who had once walked away.

One year, two years,