After hearing Wumingzi’s account, Ling Chen felt a complex swirl of emotions, his heart heavy with a thousand feelings. The story of Yuyu’s experiences over these years was an epic, both magnificent and arduous, and every word struck a deep chord within him. He could almost see that once-lively, adorable little girl locking herself away in her home for that half-year, shedding countless tears in secret.
The final sentence from Wumingzi, "She has been searching for you the entire time, without a single pause," brought a wave of guilt and heartache so overwhelming it nearly drowned Ling Chen. She was a child he had raised with his own hands... He had been both brother and father to her. He had walked away into the River of Time, leaving her to endure a million years of longing and loneliness. Though he didn't know what had happened after she fled to the Dark Land, he knew without needing to ask that the three hundred thousand years leading up to her becoming a Universe Lord must have been filled with immense suffering and hardship.
He had tried to summon Yuyu to Taoyuan Island, but Xiaodian had said it was impossible. Because Yuyu, like him, had embarked on the Road of Freedom, unbound by anything. That path was suspected to have been created by beings from the Fifth Dimension; even Xiaodian could not surpass it in terms of dimensionality.
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