Chapter 436: 436

Lan was a Deity, he could understand Xue Wei's thoughts just by looking at his face, but he said nothing to comfort him .

The conjecture that Xue Wei had reached was indeed correct . If he posed a threat to the world, Lan would instantly eradicate him .

But right now, he was not a danger, but instead the hope for the entire world, so he would give him plenty of support .

He also understood the danger of keeping Xue Wei alive, but danger and opportunity went hand in hand, and as a deity, he understood that if one wanted to have good results, they also had to take risks .

He had been stuck in this world for so many years, but this was the first time that a ray of hope had been born . This ray of hope could bring life to the entire world; it might even make it possible for Lan to go back to living as he wished .

Lan sighed . It had been many years since he had last thought about her, but whenever he saw Xue Wei, he felt as if some of her heritage had returned .

She was never fortunate enough to become a Holy Daughter, nor did she have the fortune to be able to cultivate .

She was a mere mortal, her body was frail, and her lifespan short .

Her name was Li Zhiqing . She was a mixed breed between a human and a Primordial Beast . It was from before the time when it was impossible to breed between the races, it was from when mixed races were everywhere, but things were different back then .

Some of the mixed breed descendants were known as devils because of their outstanding ability to cultivate . They were real geniuses, the sons and daughters of heaven, the favored children of fate .

Unfortunately, this was only true for some of the descendants; others were completely useless . Their ability to cultivate was gone; they could only live through life as ordinary people, live out their lives as mortals, and be abandoned by their family .

When Lan first came to this world, he descended near a small cottage that was placed next to a large lake .

This cottage was already very old and seemed as if it would collapse at any moment, but a sweet melodious voice had resounded from within, attracting Lan's attention .

Lan went to the cottage, only to find a very average woman sitting behind the house, looking at the lake with a tranquil smile on her face . She was merely fifteen years old, but Lan could not sense the slightest fluctuation of Qi in her body, her body did not have the ability to absorb energy, neither did she have a beast core . She was completely crippled .

Lan was amazed by her smile . Although she was unable to cultivate, although she was all alone in the middle of nowhere, she seemed happy .

Her peaceful appearance was a stark contrast to what Lan was used to . She was enjoying every single second of her life . Knowing that life was short, she did not suffer any sadness from knowing that she could not pursue the highest apex of cultivation, nor did she wallow in self-pity .

Li Zhiqing was abandoned by her family when she was five years old . She had been left in the big dark forest all alone, and everyone had a.s.sumed that she would die .

However, she had found this tranquil place . This lake, where no magical beasts dared venture close to, soon became her home . Here she could capture mortal fish, pick fruit and berries, and grow a few crops .

Life was hard, but fulfilling, and she had gained an inner peace through these ten years she had been alone in the forests .

When Lan saw her very average face, his heart trembled . This peace was what he had always been searching for, an inner peace that could make him happy .

But now he had found it in the presence of a young woman who was not even a fraction of his own age . Li Zhiqing was fifteen years old at this time, but Lan was many, many times older . He was already a Deity and he knew that his lifespan was limitless .

Hence, he decided to accompany this woman and learn from her . Day in and day out, the two lived side by side in the small cottage, and as the seasons changed, love sprouted in the air .

Lan was devastated, but unable to change his emotions . He knew that this young woman would not retain her youth forever as he would; she would grow older one day, her hair will turn while, and her skin would be full of wrinkles .

But even so, he did not despise her . He stayed by her side, never leaving from the moment he first laid eyes on her until the day she no longer could withstand the pa.s.sage of time .

It was but a blink of the eye in Lan's lifespan, but for her, it was her entire life .

The two had shared many things throughout the years, and Lan was grievously injured by the moment in which she finally closed her eyes with satisfaction, never to open them again .

While she wished she could be with him for a longer time, she was already immensely satisfied to have been able to spend her life beside the man she loved .

After losing Li Zhiqing, Lan felt as if his entire world had collapsed . He felt as if someone had stabbed his heart and kept twisting the knife around in the wound . The pain he felt was many times more extreme than anything he had ever experienced before .

He felt a heart wrenching pain . The tears flowed freely from his eyes as he held the elderly woman in his arms, but he never found her disgusting or unappealing . She was always the most beautiful woman in all the worlds in his eyes . She was the only woman whom he truly loved .