When the morning mist of the Dragon Locking Well was torn into shredded silk by the sunlight, Ye Fan's back remained as straight as a spear. Sitting cross-legged on the Blue Stone Slab, the Jiuxiao Huanpei in his palm grew slightly warm, resonating with the four wisps of light within his Inner World, rolling through his meridians like four miniature suns.
"In my past life, I always thought longevity was a solitary journey of cutting ties with the mortal world," he closed his eyes, his eyelashes casting fine shadows beneath them. "Only now do I understand that the Inner World only truly finds its foundation when it can hold the people you care about."
The moment this thought surged through his Sea of Consciousness, the Inner World trembled violently. Within the boundless void of its territory, the clouds churned like boiling water, revealing a mass of chaotic energy hidden in the deepest recesses—that was the Dao Essence left over from his fall in the previous life, nurtured for ten years by the Unity of Heaven and Man talent, now glowing with starlike brilliance.
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