Of course, that's not the point today. What Huo Sining is concerned about now is not how old that Green Feng Line Snake is, but what to do with this woman, Saiji.
After all, she came here today with the intention to send Saiji back to her hometown to find her people. But now, things have gone awry. Not only has she failed to locate Saiji's hometown, she has learned the news that her people were annihilated. To Saiji, a woman who already lost her brother, this news is like a bolt from the blue.
Even Huo Sining, an outsider, feels compassion for Saiji's rough fate. Just reaching adulthood, she was captured by Ge Hong to serve as the focal point for his cultivation, witnessed her brother's brutal murder, was imprisoned for over sixteen hundred years in that deep pool, barely rescued to return home, only to find everything changed, with her people gone.
Such a series of blows, if one's mental resilience were slightly weaker, might prove unbearable, leading one to wish for death.
