Chapter 197 - 190: Hard to Stay Indifferent When the Heart is Preoccupied
Ten years pass in a blink of an eye. To outsiders, a decade might seem long, but for cultivators, it is merely a moment gone by, hardly noticed with a mere closing and opening of eyes, perhaps even surpassing ten years.
However, people now would rather a decade felt as long as a millennium, since it heralds the calamity of Yuan, like a terrifying nightmare lying in wait over those 129,600 years.
Wukong had been in Reincarnation for ten years, experiencing a reincarnation each day, which means, considering leap years, he had lived through three thousand six hundred fifty-two cycles, lived three thousand six hundred fifty-two lives. What a fearsome number is that? And in each life, he was conscious, enduring severe mental struggle, spending each day in ceaseless searching. If it were an ordinary person, they would have likely given up long ago.
For someone with even slightly less mental strength, they might have already collapsed, either surrendering to escape Reincarnation early or during a desperate moment lost their true self, endlessly cycling through Reincarnation. Fortunately, Wukong’s determination to retrieve Xuan Ming’s heart was strong enough. In these ten years, across three thousand six hundred fifty-two lives, he had found four other True Spirits of Xuan Ming, successfully awakening them, with only the last one remaining.
"Come out, I have unified five True Spirits already, I can control this final True Spirit myself," the sky revealed a six-colored great wheel, from which Xuan Ming slowly emerged.
Wukong gazed at her for a long time, then suddenly smiled, "Really won’t let me finish this task?"
Over these ten years, he had felt weary, but had never considered giving up; his heart was indeed too tired, tormented every day.
Xuan Ming sighed, "You have been through three thousand six hundred fifty-two lifetimes, a full ten years! You have already done enough, I have seen it. I will not trouble you with this last True Spirit, else it will waste another two years of yours."
Wukong responded, "Spending another two years for you is worth it."
Xuan Ming smiled, "No need. I will summon that True Spirit, and all will be accomplished."
Wukong nodded, Xuan Ming flicked her finger, and from that six-colored great wheel, a True Spirit emerged, which Xuan Ming inhaled into herself, becoming one.