He had to live at all costs, even if it meant losing his fleshly body and becoming a block of wood, he desperately clung to life... but not for the sake of living.
A generation's talent lived a meager life only for the death that came this day.
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In her coma, Lin Suqing swallowed the Spiritual Pearl that the great master had placed inside the puppet's chest, which was both his lifetime of cultivation and the essence of his life. Cultivators who lost their Spiritual Pearls were no different from losing their lives. The great master had achieved some success in his cultivation, and if only the Spiritual Pearl was lost while his physical body remained intact, then his life could still be preserved, and at worst, he could start all over again. But this was not the case for him.