"Disciple... understands."
Xiang Xuan accepted the order. After hesitating for a moment, he added:
"Patriarch, your injuries...
Are they truly beyond treatment?
This disciple has heard that the Extraterrestrial Taiyuan Ancient Star possesses a supreme secret art capable of repairing the Immortal Platform. Perhaps..."
Before he could finish, Chi Xuan waved her hand and interrupted him.
"My injuries cannot be healed by ordinary means. I have also heard the rumors concerning the Taiyuan Ancient Star, but they would be of no help...
You need not concern yourself with this."
As she spoke, Chi Xuan looked at the Xiang Family descendant before her. Back then, she had personally ordered that he be settled and treated well. Though his talent was mediocre, his temperament was resolute.
Several more decades had passed. Without the steady accumulation of cultivation resources,
he had only barely reached the peak of Immortal Platform First Heaven, with just a hair's breadth separating him from the Immortal Second Realm.
Such progress might have been acceptable in the outside world,
but within Tianxuan Holy Land, it still appeared "mediocre."
Yet after all these years of tempering, certain "traits" within him had begun to show faint signs of emerging.
"Xiang Xuan."
Lost in thought, Chi Xuan suddenly spoke.
"This disciple is here."
"You have been in Tianxuan for nearly a century, have you not?"
Chi Xuan regarded him calmly.
"Yes. It has been more than eighty years since this disciple entered the sect."
Xiang Xuan answered respectfully.
"More than eighty years..."
Chi Xuan repeated softly, a trace of reminiscence flashing through her eyes.
"Have you ever considered leaving Tianxuan and seeing the outside world? Perhaps those Xiang Family members who vanished without a trace back then did not truly perish?"
Xiang Xuan was stunned upon hearing this, but then he bowed.