Yu Xiu said, "Elder Zhang is right. Times have changed. The fact that our Gale Sect never produced a Heavenly Being in the past doesn't mean we can't produce one in the future."
"The game offers considerable opportunities. If we can seize them, rapid progress is no empty promise.
"Sadly, I'm already old, and I no longer have much energy to spare. Otherwise, given another hundred years, perhaps even I could escape the shadow of my dwindling lifespan."
By the end, regret showed on Yu Xiu's face.
The game had come too late. Had it appeared a hundred years earlier, he could have entered it to seek opportunities too.
As for now...
With only a few decades of life remaining, he could only sit here in stillness. Otherwise, every movement he made might hasten the loss of his remaining years.
Perhaps this was what it meant to have one foot in the grave.
Still.
Yu Xiu did not have many regrets.
Having reached his stage in life, he had come to accept many things.
Birth, aging, illness, and death were nothing out of the ordinary.
His only lingering concern was the Gale Sect as it stood now.
Having led the Gale Sect for thousands of years, Yu Xiu could not bear to see the sect into which he had poured so much effort crumble after his death.
After a long while.
Elder Liu sighed. "I was rash. Since the Sect Master has already decided, I have nothing more to say. We'll follow your wishes in this matter!"
He also understood that acting out of anger would accomplish nothing.
Reluctant as he was to admit it, the Gale Sect's decline was an undeniable fact.
If war truly broke out, they might not be a match for the Array Sect Martial Arts