"Cultivator Zhu Lihan, former Head of the state's Talisman Department, ascended on the thirteenth day of the second month of the Jia-Chen year, at the age of two hundred and ninety-eight..."
"In accordance with his final wishes to have his body returned to his roots, he will soon be brought back to Han Chi County."
Zhao Lin's heart stirred as he read the obituary.
The obituary was brief, but it revealed a great deal.
The term "ascended" originally meant to become an immortal, but it's used as a euphemism for a cultivator's death.
To have died at two hundred and ninety-eight, with the phrasing indicating a long and full life, meant he was certainly a Late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.
The lifespan of a Late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator is around three hundred years, so living to two hundred and ninety-eight was indeed a ripe old age.
