Chapter 502 - Desperation (1/2)
Once… twice… ten times…
Yuan watched the life or death fight between the young man and his opponent countless times.
'Just what am I looking for?'
Although Yuan didn't know what he was supposed to be looking at, he eventually just started focusing on the young man that had similar facial features as him.
After watching the young man countless times, Yuan noticed something hidden deep within the young man's eyes.
There was a certain light— a feeling of desperation, and this feeling only grew stronger the longer he was on the stage.
The desperation reached its peak when he was about to be killed.
That was when the young man suddenly experienced his breakthrough into Spirit Master.
”Are you telling me that I am not desperate enough?” Yuan spoke out loud.
Whoosh!
The handsome man returned with a smile on his face.
”That's precisely why. You are not desperate. If not for your condition, you would've not made it to Spirit Warrior, much less Spirit Master.”
”Your world is quite peaceful compared to the cultivation world. Although there are some conflicts within the world, it usually doesn't affect you.”
Yuan frowned and said, ”Even if you say that, how am I supposed to become desperate? I can't feel what I don't feel.”
”Then perhaps this will help you.”
The handsome man waved his sleeves, giving him another scenario.
However, it wasn't of the life or death battle.
Instead, it was the scene of a family being slaughtered in broad daylight.
Yuan's eyes widened with shock as he witnessed a mother and her daughter— alongside thousands of pedestrians getting slaughtered mercilessly in the streets.
Although Yuan didn't recognize any of these people, tears began flowing from his eyes when he saw the woman and her daughter getting killed.
”Mother! Sister!”
A familiar voice suddenly resounded, causing Yuan to turn around.
Standing behind him was the same young man from the life or death battle, but he looked much younger… and weaker.
This young man was crying just like he was, but there was nothing he could do as he watched the murderer slaughter everyone there until a cultivator finally intervened to stop the madness.
Once the killer was apprehended, the young man walked to the corpses of the woman and the little girl.
He knelt on the ground with tears still flowing down his face and hugged their lifeless bodies until he was forced to let them go because the people had to clean the bodies off the streets.
Once their corpses were taken away, the young man stood up and turned to look at Yuan with a profound feeling of desperation in his gaze.
”This is my first experience with desperation. When will you experience your first? When your family dies before your eyes? When your loved ones are taken right before your very eyes? Or when you're betrayed by someone you trusted with your life?”
Yuan frowned and said, ”I don't want to experience any of that.”
”Of course you don't. Who would want to experience such misfortune?”