The old woman told Ding Yushan and his wife that in her earlier years, she had suffered hidden injuries while traveling outside, which made her unsuited to fighting others anymore. Later, she spent almost all her wealth before finally opening this small shop in "Star Flame City."
She had simply wanted to walk the path of a long-lived cultivator and let her Great Dao continue, but those hidden injuries had never healed. She had long since swallowed many of the healing Pills she knew of that treated such symptoms.
That included the Pills Ding Yushan and his wife had brought her; she had taken them long ago. So in the future, they absolutely must not waste spirit stones again. Her hidden injuries had long since settled into her Nascent Soul and were already beyond curing.
Because of that, her cultivation had stagnated as well. In the years afterward, being able to keep her realm from falling was already a blessing as vast as the heavens. Now that her body was worsening day by day, it was because the lifespan limit of her Void Refinement Realm was constantly drawing near.
This was no longer something medicinal Pills could change. This was the Great Dao cultivators had to walk. Only, her Dao was no longer infinite; it was a road with an end.
As the old woman said these things, she looked at Ding Yushan and his wife, as well as Ding Shuying, whose face was wet with tears. The expression on her face also grew softer and softer, like an aged elder in the family nearing the end of her years.
As for the old woman's condition, Ding Yushan and his wife ultimately had no solution. Every Pill they could think of using, she said she had already used long ago.