"It's just as I expected…" the boy said in anguish.
He looked at the purple-robed old man and the young man in white, but the two of them were silent.
Once a person reached their level of cultivation, had lived for an incredibly long time, and had gained an insight towards life and death, they would more or less no longer be that concerned about living and dying.
What they cared about… was their level of cultivation. Perhaps the end of their lives could no longer be changed, but once they reached their particular level of cultivation, their obsession towards the path of cultivation would have long become their greatest desire.
They were no longer living for the sake of living. The state of being alive was simply the most basic need for them to continue training in the path of cultivation, which was the reason they had fallen silent at that moment.
Translator's Note:
1. Phala: A Buddhist term. It means the fruition of enlightenment. There are four fruitions of enlightenment. Obtaining this fruition of enlightenment allows a person a complete liberation from samsara—the cycle of rebirth.
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