Chapter 233 - Time Flows On (2/2)

”Good, the Earthly Beginning and Heavenly End Trials will start.” Zhou Xiuhei may have said this calmly, but everyone could see the urgency in his eyes. It was faint but who here wasn't perceptive?

Shi Yan agreed, ”Yes. We'll start it now.” Waving his sleeves, a rift appeared. ”We don't have much time to waste. If you feel odd, then inform us immediately.” He directed to Yan Zaizen before entering the rift.

”Let's go.” Zhou Xiuhei entered. Tao and Bai Lufeng waited for Yan Zaizen's orders. To them, he was still their Young Lord, their leader. Yan Zaizen felt a warmth permeate his heart.

”Go.”

They entered the rift quickly.

Yan Zaizen stood in the hall alone. His emotions were complex. He missed so much. Tao's wedding, Bai Lufeng advancements, and who know how much more? What about his home? How was Lin Feilin? Shin Xuanji? The Yan Clan? Yao Wuhen? Ya...Qinqan?

Three thousand years. Three thousand whole years!

”What happened…?” Pinaka softly asked. Everyone glossed over Yan Zaizen's feelings. After all, what's three thousand years to a Heavenly cultivator minimum one hundred and fifty thousand years of life? It was a blip as one continued getting stronger. To some, it truly was a blink.

But to Yan Zaizen, it felt far more substantial. This was a portion of his life that he couldn't get back or experience. Life that he missed and choices snatched from him.

”I can barely remember much...but...I have the feeling that we're wrong.” Yan Zaizen slowly said.

”Wrong? How?” Pinaka was slightly startled. She understood there were a few things she was ignorant of or misunderstood, so she was open to her mistakes. Just a while ago, she was ignorant of the True Spirit Path despite being born from it.

”I don't think my soul is artificial. I think...it's real, and...I don't think the black hole is a part of my soul.” When he said those words, Pinaka was shocked. Continuing, ”It may be a part of who I am at the core, my very existence. I...just don't know how that's the case.”

”...soul reincarnation?” She offered after some pondering. In soul reincarnation, a person typically retains their soul shell and their core life, but the memories are repressed, not erased. This is done manually by powerful people interfering with the Samsara Cycle. Many, many Heavenly cultivators who reach an extraordinary prowess could do it.

Therefore, people could experience their past lives. Only when they undergo true Samsara, entering hell and being washed thoroughly does it begin anew.

”No.” Shaking his head, he closed his eyes. ”It's more than that. I just...don't know how.” After saying those words, he felt a heavy weight on his heart. He recalled the voice at the end...the voice that said: ”you must,” but was interrupted.

It was soft but powerful.

Then his memories of 'himself' experiencing all those events and doing all those things. Slaughtering an army, ripping out one's own heart, and calmly enjoying the lake view with another 'him'.

When he explained all this to Pinaka, she was silent. Especially when he explained how he no longer felt that internal conflict affecting his mental state. It was like a slight tug had disappeared at the edge of his mind.

”The world is full of mysteries, and we strive to seek them. For now, we just need to continue down our path and search for answers. However, we must still live our own lives, don't lose sight of that.” Pinaka warned. This was something her previous master lived by.

”Time...I will find out what I am! I swear it.” Calmly swearing an oath, he strode through the spatial rift.

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