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[How does he go about asking this...? Well, he might as well go all in, right? Though politely. Always politely.]

Excuse me, I have a question for any and all of us who have experienced immortality.

Were you always immortal? If not, what was it like for you to first taste immortality? I understand the condition isn't a given in Ellipsa, but it does hold true in my world. My Master was immortal and now I wish I had asked her about it thoroughly.

[Cultivation is unique (particularly of the type he and Xue Yang practiced) and poor Xingchen is trying to adjust.]

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Oh I was created immortal. It isn't full immortality but I have had it since I sprung forth into existence.

Though seems Ellipsa makes mortals of us all. What a concept!

I'm not immortal but I am thinking about becoming immortal.

In my world you can with magic peaches from the celestial realm. And other ways. Monkey King is like ten ways immortal or something like that.

We are mortal here, that is true, however our deaths are temporary. Is that not a type of immortality?

Do you know much about mortals?

I don't know if peaches would be adequate in my world. We must cultivate to immortality and that is precisely what Xue Yang and I did.

It's a different feeling, I admit.

[Gentlebreeze...? Odd, why does that sound so familiar?]

I was born immortal. I technically have a way to "die", but it requires a specific process only authorities of my world can perform. Not to mention we have no idea what really happens to us so we aren't even sure we can call it dying.

How did you cultivate it? Through like enlightenment? Like Buddha?

I suppose. Though it is closer to reincarnation, is it not? Depends on how one defines immortality.

I know a lot about their worst traits. Though I have also been shown even the worst souls can have good inside them.

Mortals are complicated.

It depends, too, on how one treats their passing and eventual return. Reincarnation is meant to teach - if no lesson is learned, is it still reincarnation?

Yes, they are. I don't believe there are any beyond redemption, but they must want it.

No. We were taught a technique that required great sacrifice.

Kind of felt like I was stepping out from under a boulder hanging over my head, honestly. In my sect, you can't become a peak lord without ascending to immortality first, and there was a lot depending on my doing so.

But otherwise? It didn't feel all that different? I think forming my core felt like a bigger impact.

[Well it should.]

Can the process be circumvented? If you return in the same condition you left, it is not a true death.

Oh.

...Being immortal kinda comes with a sacrifice too, doesn't it? When you make friends with people, you know you'll lose them one day. Same with the people you already know and love. Like your family.

My core has been formed for a long time. I don't quite recall a time when I was without it. I know others have more difficulty in that area.

[He can only presume he had strong Cultivator parents.]

I never foresaw myself gaining immortality. Of course I work towards it because it requires the best from me. All I ever wanted was to help people.

I mean, doesn't that depend on how the person dies? Like what they learn about themselves, or the people they care about.

True. Redemption isn't something you stumble into on accident. It is a road you have to want to walk. But you don't have to walk it alone.

I must say farewell to most, but because of our sacrifice, I will always have the company of one. My heart is at ease knowing I will never be alone.

Those that I put to rest will either wait for me elsewhere or reincarnate into the world.

Partially. The rest is a matter of the head and heart. Two people can see a death in very different lights.

I believe that too. I am happy to accompany anyone who is prepared for that journey.

And that one is enough?

Very true.

I am as well now. One of the perks of immortality. You have the time to walk that path with those people.

Forgive me for asking, but has immortality been difficult for you? I can understand mourning for each soul lost. I suspect I will do that too.

To continue forward, to help my world in the way I once envisioned, yes.

Not really, no. Being immortal since my creation, I never knew mortality. Well, somewhat. I do miss one person I cared very much about. Though the soul is immortal and so my wife and the others I care about still exist. For the most part.

That sounds super sweet~

You lost your wife?

I'm so sorry.

He is very precious to me.

Thank you. ...It's been seven years since I've seen her. I miss her. So very much.

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