Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 1681 - No Use as a Person, No Yearning in the Heart

When he said that, even Li Qingshan was stunned. Sir, aren’t you rebirthing for the sake of paving a path?

“The likes of us devote ourselves to cultivation, but for what exactly?” The Elder of Heavenly Tomes seemed to be asking them, but he also seemed like he was merely talking to himself. His eyes were clouded.

“To achieve immortality,” Chao Tianjiao answered without hesitation.

“And after that?”

“Then… obviously to do whatever you want!” Chao Tianjiao hesitated. Achieving immortality was already a very distant goal to her. There did not seem to be any reason for her to think about what came after that.

“Except to do what?” The Elder of Heavenly Tomes furrowed his brows as he smiled.

Li Qingshan said, “To be yourself.”

The Elder of Heavenly Tomes clapped his hands and said in praise, “Exactly! No wonder you were chosen, little bro.”

Chao Tianjiao was unconvinced. “What’s so difficult about that?” However, she furrowed her brows slightly and sank into her thoughts.

Li Liehuo shuddered inside and could not help but ask himself how he was supposed to be himself. Along the way, he had spent his entire time constantly fighting beneath Black Cloud city, rising up step by step in the Myriad sect, like he was climbing up a mountain with only one path up. Everything had been very clear to him, such that he almost did not have to make any choices at all.

The Elder of Heavenly Tomes smiled. “Yeah, what’s so difficult about that? My disciple Tianjiao, my disciple Liehuo, you’re both natural-born cultivators, possessing great aspirations and advancing along valiantly. Little bro Li goes even more without saying. However, I am just a wastrel without any proper aspirations.”

“How can you say that, master?” Chao Tianjiao asked. Her master was indeed rather casual, but no one would connect a renowned True Immortal from the heavens with the word “wastrel”.

“The Five Absolutes Immortal?” However, Li Qingshan had vaguely guessed what he meant by “wastrel”.

The Elder of Heavenly Tomes smiled. “That’s right. Actually, apa

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