What is the true meaning of human life?
If life is merely about survival, about living as long as possible, how is that any different from the beasts in the wild, struggling to exist?
Humanity's heroes are great because they found a meaning that transcends survival.
Unfortunately, even heroes cannot always uphold that meaning to the very end.
The more one achieves, the higher one's station, the harder it is to overcome this trial.
After all, once you've seen the wonders this world has to offer, who would be willing to simply depart?
They hinder good from prevailing, resent the ways of the wise and holy, and create all kinds of turmoil, preventing people from cultivating the virtues needed to transcend this world.
It is precisely because of the fear and desire in the human heart that the Celestial Demon finds an opening. It is why the "Elixir of Immortality" was created.
