Clear sword river sect (2)

"No you're not," Yang Qing softly said as he took a seat opposite the elderly man.

The elderly man seemed to be in disbelief as he kept looking around with a dumbfounded expression as he touched his body repetitively. 

He did this to make sure what he was feeling was real, and he wasn't just a ghost unable to move on due to regret and the lingering attachment he had for the sect.

Only when he had sufficiently calmed down and confirmed he was indeed alive, did he have the presence of mind to notice there was another person in the room with him. 

He was also surprised to find out his body felt more vigorous. The grave injuries he had accompanied by discomfort and pain that came from those accumulated injuries, had all disappeared.

His body was pristinely new like he had been reborn again.

"While I may have healed your body, I'm afraid there's not much I can do about the lifespan you've lost by overdrawing your soul essence.