"Does it matter?"
These five brief words stirred countless memories, fleetingly passing through Chen Yi's mind.
"Welcome back from your retreat, Master! How did it go, Master?"
"...No progress, I'll enter the death retreat again."
"Eighty-one days since you entered, it's already a death retreat. Enough! Master, if you continue like this, you will succumb to madness.
The world is in chaos, let it be. You and I should ascend, what does the sinking of this land have to do with us?"
"But when the nest is overturned, no egg remains unbroken."
"Why must it be you? Are you willing to die just like this? So many attachments left unresolved in this world, you're unwilling to leave that way, and that's why you can't comprehend it; you're already fixated."
"..."
She was silent for a long time then, silent to the point where Chen Yi thought she had nothing more to say.
However, she didn't remain silent.
"Chen Yi, where are you headed?"
"What?"
