Chapter 28

Chapter 28

It was late at night when the girl fell critically ill. Not even the moon could be seen in the sky as the girls mother accompanied her. The girl had already fallen into a deep coma when her heart suddenly started beating irregularly. The girl's mother hurried to find a nurse. When the nurse checked the girl's pupils, she immediately hooked her up to a respirator.

There was a moment when they were all out of the ward: the doctor was rushing over, the mother was anxiously looking around by the door, and the nurse was rushing to the nurses station to call more doctors and prepare the equipment. By the time they looked back in the ward, they saw a giant standing beside the girls bed like a god of death. He was running his hand over the girl's scrawny, cancer-ravaged body.

From lung cancer to bone cancer that had metastasized to her whole body, countless cancerous tissue was being squeezed out of her pores, causing the girl to twitch.

The scene was so horrifying that no one dared to approach for a while. The girls mother was the first to come to her senses, but by the time she rushed over to pull Long Immortal away, the man had already fainted to the ground and lost consciousness.

The girl recovered that very night. When she opened her eyes three days later, her body was extremely weak but she began to feel hungry. All of the follow-up tests showed no traces of cancer. After a month, the girl was discharged from the hospital and fully recovered.

When Long Immortal had fallen to the ground at that time, he ended up breaking his pelvis. During the week that he had cured the girl, he lost his healing ability and couldnt heal his pelvis as quickly as possible. This led to him having a deformity that made it difficult to walk in the future. But during this week, he began to grow taller again and even grew a lot faster than before. According to the doctor who treated him at the time, his joints had expanded rapidly by a centimeter.

The girl didnt know who had saved her, and the doctors werent exactly sure what had happened either. When Long Immortal was discharged and saw the girl again on the street, she was already back to the beauty she had been before. But the instant she saw him, her expression remained fearful and surprised. His love for the girl seemed to have been extinguished that day, so he left quietly.

This brave girl, a symbol representing the universal value of "strength", caused Long Immortal to be filled with despair for the world. He suddenly burst into tears. It was as if he could see through everything in front of and behind the girl. These thingsthe interwoven pain, joy, and desires of the world that seemed to be complicated and colorfulwere, in essence, barren and boring.

At that time, Long Immortal didnt take possession of the girl. He didnt even reveal his heart to her after she abandoned him. Although he suffered, he didnt pity himself. He only felt that everything in the world was worth lamenting.

He later described this as the moment he became enlightened. In other words, if he practiced Buddhism, then this was his satori (1).

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TN Notes:

(1) Satori () is a Japanese Buddhist term for awakening, "comprehension; understanding".

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