983 Changes, Adapt, and Grow
Lin Fan rushed into her arms, embracing her tightly. Only a moment had passed for him; one second, he was dead, and the other, he was revived. However, death felt like an eternity for Lin Fan. So, he wanted to find comfort in the familiarity.
As he held her into his arms, that familiarity soothed his soul, at least for a moment. He soon realized something was different about her???she was now three inches taller than he remembered.
"A lot has happened since I've been gone, huh?" asked Lin Fan.
"You have no idea," replied Xu Shi with a deep sigh.
"Why don't you catch me up? How was your final battle?
How did you defeat Wang Wei and kill that bitch Su Ya?"
Xu Shi looked at him, and Lin Fan was perplexed by her eyes.
"Things are not as simple as you imagine," continued Xu Shi as she sat him down and served some tea while explaining everything that occurred since his death.
Meanwhile, Lin Fan kept drinking without stopping. He was never a significant fan of tea, but on this occasion, he had no choice but to drink as much as possible.
In the next hour, he learned too many things. He learned about the cause of his death???the Supreme Outlaw Trial.
He learned his greatest enemy???Wang Wei???passed the trial. He learned about Su Ya's fate of sealing herself.
He learned about who died before reaching the final battle, who became crippled, how controversial the Clean-up was, the excitement of the Gu Xuan Trial, the final battle and those two titans' achievements, the arrival of the Heavenly Emperor Era and the current changes of the world.
Lin Fan kept drinking his tea, feeling this was the only soothing thing for him in this world.
"Maybe I shouldn't tell you everything as soon as you return," said Xu Shi.
"No, it's fine. It's better to receive the shock now than later," he replied, exhaling deeply to calm down.
"Well, you're taking the news better than I anticipated."
"After all, I've experienced true death. Such an experience will change anybody," replied Lin Fan calmly.
"I see. So, what do you think?"
Lin Fan took a moment, "I am both glad and sad I could not experience such a generation."
Fighting all these terrifying geniuses is anyone else's dream and nightmare. Lin Fan did not know what he would have eventually accomplished if his death had not untimely taken him. Although Xu Shi's accomplishments are an indication of his potential, it did not mean he could have reached the same height as her.
For example, he would never have left the Myriad Emperor World and proved the Dao elsewhere. His pride and status as the academy's next headmaster would never allow him to make such a decision.
So, could he have broken the barrier between mortal and immortal without heading to the Martial Hegemony World? Lin Fan did not know the answer to this question.
Lin Fan took another moment to reorganize his thoughts and plan for his future. He gazed at his wife, finding her both familiar and foreign.
'She must have figured it out,' he thought before exhaling out loud.
"So, what's next? I mean, for us."
Xu Shi did not immediately give him an answer, "I've been thinking about this for a while. The only way forward for our relationship is for there to be only the two of us."
"You want me to abandon the others?" asked Lin Fan in a frown.
"Our previous dynamic can no longer be the same."
Lin Fan smiled wryly as he knew she was correct. His current wife was a Great Emperor, no, even better; she was an Eternal Emperor???a being that stood at the apex of the food chain; how could she allow her husband to have multiple partners?
If the situation had been reversed and he had been the one who proved the Dao, everything would have been fine. But now, things can no longer go back to the old days.
"Can you give me some more time to think it over?" asked Lin Fan.
"That's fine," nodded Xu Shi. She never expected him to choose so easily. If he did, if he could easily abandon the others, it meant he was no longer the man she knew; one day, he could do the same to her.
"But be prepared that you might not have much time,"
said Xu Shi.
"What does that mean?"
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