Immortal after a Hundred Reincarnations

The latter had been close to the Crown Prince, and thus enjoyed a life of honor and comfort for the rest of her days.

Xu Lei didn’t have much of a reaction to this.

After all, he had seen too many people off over the years.

He simply sighed and burned the note.

There was no need to keep it.

If he kept it, and future generations were to analyze it,

it might damage Shi Yi’s reputation in history.

Who knew if future historians would study the current era?

For instance, some events from when Xu Lei was Wu Tan...

...had already become historical subjects for contemporary scholars.

Take his paintings—they were now considered classic antiques!

Yu Fengying should have remained obscure.

But because of Xu Lei’s paintings, she was now being studied by later generations. Someone had even written a biography of Yu Fengying.

She was held in high esteem by the people of today.

Of course, these accounts made no mention of Yu Fengying’s children making Charitable Giving to Wu Tan.

Xu Lei wasn’t terribly heartbroken over Shi Yi’s death.

But he couldn’t feel happy either.

So he simply buried himself in his Cultivation.

「Three days later.」

Xu Lei suddenly received a piece of news.

Yan’er was about to pass away!

Xu Lei immediately went down the mountain.

By the time he reached Yan’er’s bedside,

she was already on her last breath.

For ten, maybe twenty years,

Yan’er had refused to see Xu Lei.

Only now did they finally meet again.

Yan’er’s hair was now completely white, her face covered in wrinkles.

"Xu Lei... my love... my love... I have to go now."

Gazing at Xu Lei, Yan’er said, "Am I very ugly now?

I’m so old!

But you’re still so young!

I don’t regret being with you!

After I’m gone, you have to take care of yourself.

Find someone else.

Even though I don’t understand Cultivation,

I hope you will succeed in the end."

After finishing her broken sentences, she passed away with a smile.

「Three days passed again in a flash.」

Xu Lei watched as the children and grandchildren finished the funeral rites.

Then he turned and left.

As he walked back to the temple,

Xu Lei felt a pang of sorrow.

’The people I knew in the first half of this life are almost all gone.’

His parents.

The women, one by one.

All gone.

Hui Ming had also achieved Nirvana Ascension.

’I wonder how my older brother and third brother are doing?’ Xu Lei mused. ’But they’ve probably died of old age by now.’

After all, Xu Lei was already eighty-two.

Xu Lei didn’t go back to see them.

There was no need.

The descendants of his older and third brothers...

...wouldn’t recognize him at all anymore.

「A dozen or so minutes later.」

Xu Lei had just returned to the temple,

when he saw a somewhat familiar figure.

It was Zhao Xin’s martial aunt.

Xu Lei had assumed she was coming to take Zhao Xin away.

But he was surprised to see a slight bulge in her belly as she turned.

She was pregnant!

As for who her Dao Companion was?

She didn’t say, and Xu Lei didn’t ask.

He simply congratulated her.

"Martial Aunt!"

Zhao Xin hugged her martial aunt and squealed, "You got pregnant without telling anyone!

You must be a few months along, right?

Who is my martial uncle-in-law?"

"He doesn’t want to show his face."

Zhao Xin’s martial aunt said, "If there’s a chance in the future, I’ll introduce you.

We Cultivators are not like ordinary mortals.

There’s no need to worry about such tedious formalities."

Xu Lei let them talk.

He turned to prepare some food and tea.

「An hour later.」

Zhao Xin left to go cultivate.

Her martial aunt chatted idly with Xu Lei.

Suddenly, she asked Xu Lei if he wanted her to introduce him to a Dao Companion.

After all, given Xu Lei’s current Cultivation and age, it was about time he found a Dao Companion among fellow Cultivators.

If Xu Lei didn’t possess the Phoenix True Flame, he would have had to start considering finding a Dao Companion and having children around this time anyway.

But Xu Lei refused, saying he wasn’t interested at the moment.

After all, he had just bid farewell to Yan’er.

Xu Lei’s heart was still heavy with grief.

He wasn’t in the mood.

「The next day.」

Zhao Xin’s martial aunt was gone.

She had only come to see how Zhao Xin was doing.

Since she was pregnant now, she couldn’t take care of Zhao Xin, so she let her remain at the temple.

Xu Lei didn’t object.

Besides, Zhao Xin was already grown up and perfectly capable of taking care of herself.

Although by the standards of Cultivators, she was still considered a child who hadn’t fully matured.

She couldn’t eat meat, drink alcohol, indulge her desires, or bear children yet.

But she wasn’t like a mortal child, completely dependent on others.

In fact, over the past year, Xu Lei hadn’t really taken care of her much.

It was just that her martial aunt felt more at ease leaving her with Xu Lei.

After all, Xu Lei was one of the few people Hui Ming had trusted.

Not even the Buddha’s Head knew that Zhao Xin and Hui Ming were father and daughter.

But Xu Lei knew. This was a special kind of trust.

"Uncle Hui Chi!"

That day, Zhao Xin came to find Xu Lei again. She asked, "My martial aunt said she wanted to introduce you to a Dao Companion. Why didn’t you agree?"

Xu Lei naturally gave her the same reason as before.

"Not interested?"

Zhao Xin pressed on, "At your age and with your Cultivation level, isn’t this the perfect time to find a Dao Companion?

How can you not be interested?

I know men can have children later in life.

But you can’t put it off for too long, can you?

You don’t have someone you like already, do you?"

"You don’t need to worry about my affairs."

Xu Lei said, "How is your Cultivation homework for today? Are you finished?"

"So you really do have someone you like?"

But Zhao Xin continued, "Who do you like?

I haven’t seen any women around you lately.

You don’t... like Xin’er—like me, do you?"

As she said the last part, her pretty face flushed red with shyness.

Xu Lei froze.

"Did I actually guess right?"

Before Xu Lei could say anything, Zhao Xin continued, "Hah, I knew it.

There are no other women around you.

If you were going to like someone, it would have to be me.

After all, we’ve been together day and night for the past year.

The common folk say that love grows from long association. I suppose there’s some truth to that.

Plus, I’m so pretty and so cute.

My skin is so nice, and my figure is so good.

And I’m so young, beautiful, and considerate!

And you’ve been buried in your harsh Cultivation for so many years!

You probably don’t have much experience dealing with or getting along with women."