Tieshu Weng and the group bowed towards Li Qiye before leaving. Shen Xiaoshan stole another glance at this moment. This was a man she thought was below her; this turned out to be anything but. He was at a height that she would never be able to reach for a lifetime and she could only watch in the distance.
She understood how lucky she was to be able to wait on him earlier. Even if she wanted to now, she wasn’t qualified to do so. The ones who wanted to be his servants would make a very long line and she wouldn’t be a forerunner in terms of qualification.
All kind of emotions ran in her mind and words weren’t enough to describe them. Perhaps later on in her life, she would still remember the happy memories that this man had brought to her.
“Young n.o.ble, will I be able to see you again?” Shen Xiaoshan summed up all of her emotions and thoughts with this one line. It represented hope in her mind.
Li Qiye sighed in his mind but still slowly answered: “The grand dao is endless and many years are still to come. We will meet again if it is meant to be. I’m sure that day will come.”
“I understand, I’ll try my best.” She took a deep breath and nodded with determination.
Her answer wasn’t only for him to hear but also herself. This was the end for the two of them. She needed to work hard to become powerful in order to meet him again. Power was necessary to be his companion. Otherwise, she would only be an ant, unable to scale the height.
“I believe you.” Li Qiye nodded and showed his support.
Shen Xiaoshan gripped her fists after seeing this and said: “I understand.”
She left immediately, not wanting to cry or for him to see her tears. However, she didn’t even make it to the door before turning around and gave him a tight hug using courage she didn’t even know she had.
Tears finally overflowed as she grabbed his shoulders. This might be the last time for her.
Li Qiye gently sighed and patted her soft hair: “Go, you will need to continue forward on this long path.”
“See you, Young n.o.ble.” She mustered even more audacity to kiss him on the lips before leaving against her will.
Li Qiye shook his head after her departure. He could take goodbyes easier than most due to his own experience. Each time this happened, a part of his heart would grow numb.
He stayed at the clan for several days and focused on training outside of thinking about the item from the outer realm.
In this second, he was sitting on his bed to absorb primordial and chaos energies. They were surging within his fate palaces as if an animated new world was being born.
“Rumble!” His chaos energy was rampaging like thousands of stallions. They turned into a maelstrom to gestate his grand dao and true fate.
He had more than 700 units of chaos energy at this moment to go from Dao Ant to Dao Insect.
Cultivation didn’t overly matter to him but nevertheless, this was a necessary procedure regardless of his other abilities. He had no way of going from Dao Dust all the way to Grand Emperor.
Of course, he had methods to accelerate his cultivation speed but the early logic applied. One must do this one step at a time to become an unprecedented existence. Each step must be firm and polished a thousand times in order to go even further. Only by bravely facing one’s demon and inevitable disasters would one be able to gain the necessary perseverance.
Li Qiye could rise from Dao Dust to Grand Emperor in one or two years, but this absurd boost in cultivation would leave behind fatal flaws. There was no way of becoming a perfect emperor in this manner.
This was indeed he truth. Many geniuses in history had frightening cultivation speed but more often than not, they fell down on the path. On the other hand, average cultivators who took their time polis.h.i.+ng themselves were able to ascend to the throne.
