"What's the meaning of life?" Lu Feiming asked.
"It's different for everyone. There's no point asking me," Xu Yuan said.
"Tell me your dream, then. I'll use it for reference," Lu Feiming said.
"Feeling the sea breeze at a beachside bar, lying on a lounge chair with a bottle of ice-cold beer in my hand."
"What's so great about that?"
"The fact that there's nothing great about it is what makes it great."
"...You could do that right now."
"No. Right now, I have to study, work, earn money to support my family, and keep pushing my cultivation higher. Only when I've taken care of everything can I go feel the sea breeze."
"Why?" Lu Feiming found it hard to understand.
"Because he has a sense of responsibility. He can't let certain people down," Jiang Xueyao said with a smile.
Xu Yuan's words struck a chord with her.
Sometimes, she wanted to lay down all her responsibilities too. She wanted to stop dealing with matters at home and stop exhausting herself over the rise and fall of the entire Lineage.
But she couldn't.
Lu Feiming's expression grew much more animated. He even smiled.
"I get it."
"What do you get?" Xu Yuan asked.
"You both have things you want to do, but you stop yourselves from fulfilling your dreams for reasons that don't even exist," Lu Feiming said.
"You could put it that way," Xu Yuan said.
"Thank you, Xu Yuan. You really are my good brother. Now I understand completely... See you later."
Lu Feiming vanished in a flash.
"?" Jiang Xueyao stared.
"What?" Xu Yuan asked, sipping his juice.
"He didn't fly. There was no teleportation ripple or remote mystic art summoning him. How did he disappear?" Jiang Xueyao asked.
"He's a little unusual. He comes from the