One Planet for Everyone: Starting to Build a Cultivation Civilization

At the 680th, [-]th step, the woman came back, and instead of calling Ke An, she stood under the Dengxiantai and watched him silently for a long, long time.

It was Ke An who inadvertently turned his head to see her. When her eyes met, the woman lowered her head like a frightened rabbit and covered her face with her hands.

"You are..."

Ke An felt strange, and was about to ask, but suddenly found that the woman standing in front of him was no longer as youthful as she used to be—she was already old, too old to straighten her back.

As if feeling Ke An's gaze, two lines of dirty tears slowly slid down the woman's old face.

"Senior, I'm already old, my eyes are so old, my face is full of wrinkles... My lifespan is at the end of my life, and I'm not far from death. I just want to see you again before I die, but it's a pity that I don't have the chance to see you go. The journey is over..." the woman said sadly.

After the woman finished speaking, she sighed, and limped out of the sect gate—her life was running out, and it was time to dig a grave for herself.

But before the woman could take a few steps, Ke An suddenly stopped her and stopped.

"Don't you want to see me finish this journey? Then stay, and it's not too late for you to leave after I finish this journey." Ke An said.

"But senior, I already..."

"What has happened cannot be changed, but what has not happened may never happen."

"Stay here, the road is not as long as you think."

The woman was silent for a long time, then nodded lightly, but she kept her back to Ke An and never looked back.

Ke An felt strange and asked her why she turned her back to him and why she didn't turn her head back. She didn't speak, but just smiled softly.

The woman found a rock and sat down, and chatted with Ke An, from the time when they were ignorant children to when they met for the first time, and from when they parted to when they saw each other again.

Ke An did not shy away from it, and opened up his heart, talking about his short teenage years and what he saw, heard, and felt after climbing this step.

Before he knew it, Ke An had already reached the 320th step. The two confide in each other, talked about everything, and became close friends.

What makes Ke An feel sad is that the woman's back is getting more and more bent, and it is getting more and more difficult to speak. After talking for a long time, she will be so tired that she will be out of breath, and sometimes she will fall asleep while chatting with him. It takes a long time wake up.

The woman had expected this for a long time, her heart was still open-minded, and she often had a smile on her face, but Ke An was heartbroken like a knife, her pace quickened, and she was walking quickly under tremendous pressure. She wanted to finish the journey quickly, but she was walking I collapsed from exhaustion at the 830th, [-]th step, and it took three days before I opened my eyes.

The road must be walked slowly, there is no rush, no hurry.

This is what Ke An once said, but now he is doing the exact opposite.

After waking up, Ke An flew forward without hesitation, but when he took the first step, he was shocked by the woman's shouts, and the legs he stepped out retracted again.

"Senior, enough is enough..."

Muddy tears dripped down the woman's face, but a touching smile burst out.

However, Ke An could only see tears dripping down the ground, but he couldn't see this warm smile like a spring breeze, because until now, the woman still turned her back to him without turning her head.

"Wait a little longer, I'll be able to..."

Ke An's words stopped abruptly because he heard the ticking sound of tears hitting the ground.

The voice pierced Ke An's heart like a knife, making it difficult for him to breathe.

"Senior, enough is enough." The woman said in a weak voice.

Ke An looked at the endless road ahead, closed his eyes, remained silent for a long time, and finally nodded with difficulty.

He stopped, sat on this step, and looked at the woman quietly, just like the woman looked at him quietly back then.

It's just that the woman can see him moving forward, but he can't see the woman's face sitting quietly.

"Can't... let me take a look at you?" Ke An asked.

The woman smiled slightly and said, "Didn't you already see it? Thousands of years ago."

"But in this way, I will only remember what you looked like thousands of years ago, but I don't know what you are now..."

As Ke An was talking, his voice stopped abruptly - he already understood.

"Senior, please bear with my willfulness, this is my... only request..." The woman's eyes turned red as she spoke, but she could no longer shed tears.

How much she wanted to turn around and take another look at the people behind her, but she didn't want them to see her current appearance even more.

Ke An's nose was sore, and tears filled his eyes, but before they could fall out, he forcefully stuffed them back.

How much he wanted to rush over and hug her, but he could only stand on the steps where he couldn't see the way forward or retreat, unable to move an inch.

He stood there, staring at the woman for a long, long time, until a ray of cold wind caressed his cheeks, bringing his thoughts back to reality.

Winter is here, the sky is frosty, the snow is flying, and everything is silent.

The woman still lowered her head, with her back to Ke An, but her body shrunk even tighter.

"Don't let me see you, then at least tell me your name." Ke An said.

Ke An's voice split the cold wind and reached the woman's ears, but she didn't respond for a long time.

Ke An panicked, he called the woman anxiously, tried every means to wake her up, but all failed.

With a plop, Ke An knelt on the steps, his mind went blank, and his tears could no longer hold back, wetting his cheeks and melting the snow on the ground.

Suddenly, the woman moved, tremblingly raised her old and withered hand, trying to grab something, but what fell on her hand was only the cold and ruthless snowflake.

"Senior...Senior...where are you? I can't see you..."

The woman's voice, as thin as a mosquito's, reached Ke An's ears. He bounced off the ground like an electric shock, and mustered up all his strength to shout, "I'm here, I'm right behind you!"

Ke An didn't know whether the woman heard what he said, but heard the woman say something intermittently.

"It's a pity, in the end... I still couldn't see... the senior walked this distance..."

Hearing this sentence, Ke An's face turned pale instantly, and he shouted: "It's not the end yet! Just wait a little longer, it will be fine in a while, be sure to wait for me, and don't fall asleep!"

Ke An rushed forward like crazy, one step at five steps, abruptly carrying more and more terrifying coercion to the eighth thousand and eighty-five steps.

This kind of crazy behavior made his body on the verge of collapse several times, almost disintegrated on the spot, but there was no trace of fear on his face, not even the slightest hesitation, he only knew that he had to keep moving forward without stopping. Slow, can't stop.