[Look, he makes deductions all the time without any warning whatsoever, but even he's a little taken aback at this one just sort of maybe being correct.]
What, is there paperwork you still need to fill out to become official?
It perhaps explains why I was easily able to see the spectres, as well.
[ how long have you been seventeen xie lian.................. a while............. ]
My body stopped aging when I ascended. I suppose now I would be... [ he tilts his head. ] Twenty five? Twenty six, perhaps. I've lost track, I'm afraid.
[ though, it is sort of nebulous - xie lian's features are delicate, like he's been carved from porcelain - but he doesn't quite look seventeen, either. ]
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[Look, he makes deductions all the time without any warning whatsoever, but even he's a little taken aback at this one just sort of maybe being correct.]
What, is there paperwork you still need to fill out to become official?
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Ah... no. It is just complicated.
[ a beat. ] I ascended when I was seventeen.
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And I assume that's where the question mark comes in. On your poster.
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[ how long have you been seventeen xie lian.................. a while............. ]
My body stopped aging when I ascended. I suppose now I would be... [ he tilts his head. ] Twenty five? Twenty six, perhaps. I've lost track, I'm afraid.
[ though, it is sort of nebulous - xie lian's features are delicate, like he's been carved from porcelain - but he doesn't quite look seventeen, either. ]
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[Somehow, the sound of that...he frowns.]
So technically, you're immortal?
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... ] ...Though, from what Suriel said, that may not be the case in this place.
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[unfortunately being a cryptid is not something to nerf]
I'm assuming your cultivation skills are also defunct.
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That's correct. [ mm. ] I would have had much less trouble with those spectres, were it not.
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