Su Shi'er wanted to ask, but when the words reached his lips, he had no idea how to begin.
"Fellow Daoist Su... do you find it impossible to fully understand? Do you think someone like this should not exist?"
Seeing the doubt in Su Shi'er's heart, Su Taiping smiled and asked again.
Su Shi'er simply nodded. "I do indeed have such doubts!"
"If one were merely giving everything for others, that would not be so hard to understand.
"It is only that my path of cultivation is unusual. To reach where I am today, I relied on the aspirations of many ordinary people.
"Born bearing the wishes of countless people, I should naturally exhaust myself in running about for them.
"This... is the grand vow I made after achieving success, and it is also my path to immortality.
"If my thoughts cannot flow freely, then no matter how many opportunities I encounter, my cultivation and strength cannot improve by even the slightest bit."
Su Taiping continued speaking.
He gave Su Shi'er a simple explanation, but he did not mention the deeper reasons behind it.
In the past, he had existed only as a faint wisp of consciousness within the Heaven Scroll painting.
He had naturally been bound to the Su Shi'er before him by countless threads, yet after Su Shi'er abandoned the cultivation of the Heaven Scroll Secret Law, he had been destined never to improve in the slightest.
As time passed, even his consciousness would have completely scattered between heaven and earth.
However, Nangong Yi had overseen the Hundred Treasures Pavilion at the time. After spending many years with him, she had already grown emotionally dependent on him.
Once she learned of his true circumstances, she ran about everywhere and eventually, with the power of Bai Zhang Market, found