Chapter 1004: Chapter 1002: Master and Disciple Meet, Dust Tribulation Arises 1
Chapter 1004 Chapter 1002 A Meeting of Master and Disciple, the Dust Tribulation Begins 1 (1/3)
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Wang Ling lay within the Jade Coffin, already able to hear the clamor outside.
Hearing that it was Lin Qi who had arrived.
He was overcome with excitement, dragging his frail, sickly body as he painstakingly crawled out of the Jade Coffin.
He struggled to assume a cross-legged cultivation posture, circulating his spiritual power to make his qi and blood look a little better.
Then he simply leaned against the Jade Coffin, waiting for Lin Qi and the others to enter.
Closer. Closer.
Footsteps came from beyond the door, the familiar soft leather heels.
Wang Ling immediately straightened up, craning his neck in anticipation.
At last, he saw Lin Qi and Fang Yun walking over, one after the other.
He immediately adjusted his robes, and just as when he had first entered Lin Qi’s tutelage all those years ago, he knelt and kowtowed.
“This unworthy disciple Wang Ling pays respects to Master.”
“Quickly, rise. Your health is poor; there is no need for such formalities.”
Lin Qi recognized Wang Ling at a glance.
This nominal disciple of his, after so many years, had aged, his youth gone, thin and emaciated, white-haired, a pitiful sight.
He could not help but feel compassion. He quickly bent down and reached out to help Wang Ling up.
At the same time, his spiritual power circulated, flowing through Wang Ling’s entire body.
He found that Wang Ling was indeed at the end of his oil, his soul decaying.
A Golden Core that should have been round and golden was now shriveled, riddled with holes, like a dehydrated yellow apricot.
So withered and decayed.
Truly beyond the help of medicine, beyond saving.
Unless.
Lin Qi’s expression turned grave, his thoughts churning as he considered how to extend Wang Ling’s life.
Suddenly, he felt a struggle within his hand.
It was Wang Ling, Wang Ling was forcefully breaking free from his hand.
Lin Qi quickly spoke in a warm, gentle voice.
“It is your Master who arrived too late.”
“But rest easy. Your Master has means to extend your life, to let you live out a second life.”
The moment Lin Qi said this, Fang Yun beside him was overjoyed.
“Master truly has a way. Junior Brother, I told you you would not die.”
“If Master has a method, please just give the order, and this disciple will have people prepare it at once.”
Lin Qi nodded, pondered briefly, and was about to first write Wang Ling a nourishing prescription, to first properly nourish Wang Ling’s now nearly decayed and exhausted body.
But Wang Ling had already spoken.
“There is no need.”
“Life and death are fated.”
“I have already lived on borrowed time for ten thousand years. To be able to see Master one last time before I die is already enough to satisfy my heart.”
“But I must not trouble others further.”
“Rather, Master has come from afar, weary from the journey. You should rest well.”
“Senior Brother.”
“You should first settle Master before anything else.”