A single character difference, a world of difference.
The Sword Ancestor heard the underlying meaning in the young man's words.
It was silent for a long time, slowly raised a hand, and held a snowflake drifting down from the sky, a faint sadness in its expression.
The snowflake melted in the palm, spreading into droplets of water, soon evaporating again in the cold wind.
"Snow changes continuously from condensing to melting."
Only then did the Sword Ancestor look up, expressionless, as if stating an eternal truth:
"Young friend, so it is with people."
"Life, from its beginning to its end, in the cycle of reincarnation, is never unchanging."
Jin Ren also stretched out his hand and caught a snowflake.
His palm was cold, and the snowflake lay quietly in his hand without melting into water:
"But old man, snow is snow because it has no spiritual intelligence; whether it changes depends on changes in the environment's temperature, not itself."
