Chapter 254: The Lost Decade
Each time Li Fan emerged from a session of secluded cultivation, he would glance at Return to Truth’s status panel, calculating the passage of time based on his biological age.
Anchor Year 1 corresponded to age twenty, and so on.
During his twelfth lifetime, he had frequently checked Return to Truth’s panel.
Yet when the time abruptly leaped from Anchor Year 29 to Anchor Year 39, Li Fan had failed to detect even the slightest anomaly.
Even when retrospectively examining the experiences of his twelfth lifetime, he remained oblivious to those ten years that had vanished from his existence.
Part of this blindness stemmed from cognitive fixedness.
After all, in most people’s understanding, time flowed continuously and indivisibly.
How could it be Anchor Year 29 one moment, and suddenly Anchor Year 39 the next?
But there was another, more critical reason: something seemed to have warped his perception, making him unconsciously overlook this discrepancy.
As the saying goes, "Once you get used to strangeness, it no longer seems strange."
What exactly had happened?
Who had stolen his time?