The two followed the shattered ground toward the main hall.
The main hall was in an extreme state of ruin. From the outside, no decorations could be seen at all; even the roof above it had collapsed.
Two stone lions stood directly before the hall, but after enduring the ravages of time, they had long since become riddled with holes.
From their appearance alone, one could not tell that they were two stone lions at all.
The great doors before them were utterly ruined, with only half a door remaining. As for where the other half had gone, no one knew.
With a wave of Ye Lin's hand, the remaining broken half-door before them turned directly into ash.
"You two came to visit me, yet the first thing you did was destroy my door. Isn't that rather impolite?"
The moment the two entered, they heard an aged voice.
Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi nearly raised their heads to look forward at the same time.
Before them stood a platform as tall as a person, upon which sat a gaunt old man.
The old man was frail beyond measure, nothing but skin stretched over bones.
Moreover, the aura around him was exceedingly listless, as though he might breathe his last at any moment.
"You are... someone from the Divine Gu Sect?"
Looking at the old man before him, Ye Lin could not help but be moved.
This old man had become like this entirely because his lifespan had run out.
A Golden Immortal faced one tribulation every ten million years, but even so, a Golden Immortal's lifespan was by no means short.
Yet the old man before him looked exactly like someone whose lifespan had been completely exhausted.
Ye Lin had seen many Golden Immortal experts, and had personally witnessed many