Chapter 1746 - 1743: Farewell

Chapter 1746: Chapter 1743: Farewell

Yang Fei stopped walking.

He heard Yang Hao’s voice: "How can that be? If we’re going, the whole family should go. Our family should be together, peaceful and harmonious. If I go alone and leave you and Mom here, how could I cultivate with an easy mind?"

"It’s not like you’d be going there all by yourself. Wenwen has been cultivating over there for years, Mom has always been thinking about her, you can just go over and see her. Besides, our Dongzi and Qing Chan both have talent—aren’t you planning to take them too?"

Dongzi and Qing Chan were the son and daughter born to Yang Hao and Huang Qiaoqiao. By now Yang Dong was already over thirty, and Yang Qingchan was twenty-eight. The brother and sister both had pretty good Martial Arts talent, and with their continuous intake of Genetic Liquid Medicine, they had awakened their Spirit Root Talent for Cultivation a few years ago.

Although their Spirit Root Talent wasn’t innate, since they were starting at this age, it would be considered a bit late in the Cultivation World.

But on Earth, starting Cultivation in your thirties, or even not stepping onto the path until forty or fifty, with the large-scale push from the Spiritual Energy Revival, cultivation speed still wasn’t slow, and the future was still boundless.

Of course, compared to those cultivators who were born with Spirit Roots, there were still some shortcomings; their upper limit in cultivation might end up a bit lower.

Yet for ordinary people, being able to cultivate at all, and even succeeding in Foundation Establishment, gaining three hundred years of lifespan, was already a huge windfall.

"Of course I’m taking Dongzi and Qing Chan. But I also want to take you and Mom. Our whole family has to be together, otherwise I won’t go either." Yang Hao said firmly.

Silence settled inside the wooden building.

Yang Fei stood outside, and for a moment he really didn’t know whether he should go in.

After a while, he heard Huang Qiaoqiao say faintly: "What would I go there for? You’re still young, your body is strong, and as your Cultivation Realm improves, you still have many good years ahead of you in the Cultivation World. But me... I’m just a mortal. If not for the Beauty Pill Big Brother gave me back then, no matter how I took care of myself, by now I’d already be a yellow-faced old woman. Leaving everything else aside, even just in recent years when we’ve shared a bed, I can feel that you’re still full of energy, but this body of mine can’t stand you tossing me about for too long. I know you hold back for my sake every time, but... but that’s not what I want. I just want you to live well. When you go to the Southern Domain Cultivation World in the future, find another... no, find a few female cultivators to become your Dao companions. That way, you’ll have someone to accompany you on the Immortal Road, and you won’t be lonely."

"What are you talking about? We’re husband and wife—how could I, Yang Hao, turn heartless and abandon you?" Yang Hao scolded.

"It’s not that you’re abandoning me, it’s that fate is like this. In the end we’re different—immortal and mortal apart." Huang Qiaoqiao sobbed, "And... and besides, Mom already said it. She’s just a mortal; being able to see you and Wenwen cultivate and live long, and now Dongzi and Qing Chan can cultivate too—she’s happy in her heart. As for herself, she said she wants to stay on Earth, go back to Huang Family Village in Huangyang County, and be buried together with Dad. That way, once she goes down to the underworld she can find him. She wants to personally tell Dad how you’re all doing, so that Dad can be at ease in the underworld."

There was another long silence inside the room.

Yang Fei stood outside, his steps heavy, his eyes faintly sore.

He spread out his Divine Sense and soon detected Second Aunt busying herself in a vegetable garden a few li behind the wooden building. In a flash, he appeared behind her.

Second Aunt’s hair was streaked with white as she squatted in the dirt, tending the vegetables she had planted with her own hands.

An eighty-six-year-old old woman, but she only looked like she was in her sixties.

And her body was still sturdy, her spirit extremely good, her ears and eyes sharp. As if sensing something, she turned her head and glanced back. Seeing it was Yang Fei, she smiled and got to her feet. "When did you get here?"

Yang Fei quickly said, "Just now. These past few years I’ve been helping Yanyang and Yun Shu improve their Realm, and haven’t been able to come visit you. Now that I see Second Aunt in such good health, I can be at ease."

Li Guiju smiled slightly. "For an old woman like me to live to this age is already the blessing of the Bodhisattva—I’m very content. The air here is good, and my body is still fairly tough. You young people have a wider world you need to go out and explore, so don’t keep worrying about me. Go focus on your own affairs."

Yang Fei felt a twinge of unease, but still said, "If Yang Hao and Yang Dong and Yang Qingchan cultivate diligently, they’ll have no problem reaching Core Formation in the future and enjoying a five-hundred-year lifespan. Staying on Earth to cultivate is fine, but there aren’t many elixirs for Breaking the Realm here. Once I leave, I don’t know when I’ll be able to come back, and they might miss their best opportunity to break through. So if they go to the Shang Qing Sect to cultivate, things will be better for them."

Li Guiju nodded again and again. "Yes, the young ones’ own future is the most important."

She looked at Yang Fei. Seeing the guilty look on his face, she smiled and said, "Yang Fei, it’s because of you that our Yang family has what it has today. Now you can take your younger brothers and sisters, and the Yang juniors, to go off to a vaster world and make something greater of yourselves. Your parents and Second Uncle can rest easy in their graves. As for this old woman, I don’t have many years left anyway, so it doesn’t matter. It’s just hard on Qiaoqiao. She’s bitter in her heart."

Yang Fei fell silent.

Even with boundless ability, he still couldn’t lead Huang Qiaoqiao onto the path of Cultivation.

Without Spirit Root Talent, the fact that Huang Qiaoqiao could practice Martial Arts and study the Taoist Breathing Technique to extend her years already put her ahead of the vast majority of people. As for wanting immortal life through Cultivation, that could only remain a fantasy.

Li Guiju paused, then went on: "But our Yang Hao hasn’t really failed her. As husband and wife, he’s treated her very well—that’s enough. Now that the seas have turned to mulberry fields and the era is different, since there’s a divide between immortal and mortal, this day was bound to come sooner or later. Why force it? Qiaoqiao told me she doesn’t want Yang Hao to see her looking old. I heard that when someone who has taken a Beauty Pill dies, their looks age rapidly. Is that right?"

Yang Fei nodded. "Yes."

Li Guiju said, "Then there you have it. Since Qiaoqiao doesn’t want Yang Hao to see the way she looks when she dies, Yang Hao has to fulfill her wish. As a mortal who cannot cultivate, in this life she hasn’t suffered hardship following Yang Hao, and she’s given birth to a pair of children who can cultivate—that’s already complete."

Yang Fei knew this was what Huang Qiaoqiao truly felt in her heart.

Though she couldn’t bear to leave her husband and children, she’d lived most of her life and had seen through a lot, and was able to let go.

Li Guiju said, "Yang Fei, can Second Aunt ask a favor of you?"

Yang Fei quickly said, "Second Aunt, please say it."

"I want to be buried together with your Second Uncle. Can you take Yang Hao back to our hometown once and move your Second Uncle’s grave here? I think the scenery and the air here are both wonderful. I’ve enjoyed them for decades, and I should let your Second Uncle enjoy them too. When I die, I’ll be buried together with him. That way it’ll be convenient for you all when you come back to pay respects."

Yang Fei nodded. "All right."

Three days later, he and Yang Hao brought Second Uncle’s ashes back from their old home in Huangyang County and chose a feng shui treasure spot, reburied them on Peak White Jade City.

"Brother, ten years from now, no matter whether I’ve succeeded in Foundation Establishment or not, I’ll come back once. I’ll accompany Mom on her last journey." On the way to the Southern Domain, Yang Hao said to Yang Fei.

Yang Fei patted his shoulder. "You’re already at the Qi Refining Eighth Stage now. In ten years you should be able to reach Foundation Establishment. Don’t worry—by then I’ll come back with you as well."

Yang Dong and Yang Qingchan stood at the rear of the Spirit Ship, filled with anticipation and dreams for the cultivation life that awaited them in the great world of the Southern Domain.