Aaron walked out of Shen Le's Cave Mansion with ease and announced to the circle of monks outside, "My beloved disciple went before me, leaving this old man with white hair to send off a younger one... My heart aches so much! I don't want to live... Cough cough... cough cough..."
The clan cultivators below all squeezed a look of sadness onto their faces in unison, but in their minds, they almost simultaneously rolled their eyes, 'You old undead... why don't you just kick the bucket directly?'
'Shen Elder didn't send you, the old undead, away. That must be the biggest regret before his death, right?'
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What happened in the Cave Mansion was only known to Shen Le and Aaron, and of course, it would not be leaked out.
In the outside world, Aaron still maintained his image as a kind and benevolent elder.
After instructing a group of people to handle Shen Le's funeral, Aaron returned to the back mountain to continue ingesting elixirs and cultivating.