Lin Su slowly raised his head. "As one hour passed, more than twenty years passed within the pool's reflection. Then over a single night, the moon shone for four and a half hours, making exactly one hundred years! And one month? Three thousand years! This Ancestor Wang happened to have a lifespan of three thousand years as well. His three thousand years of life were condensed into the rising and setting of the moon over a single month..."
"What is it?" Sun Zhen did not understand. Of course she knew Ancestor Wang had lived three thousand years, and of course she knew that fully observing the Reincarnation Eyeball required a month. But she did not understand why Lin Su was highlighting these numbers.
A mysterious light gleamed in Lin Su's eyes. "Perhaps your Reincarnation Sect has gotten it all wrong!"
"What is wrong?"
"That legendary eyeball may not be this pool."
"Then what is it?"
Lin Su slowly lifted a finger and pointed at the sliver of crescent moon in the sky.
Sun Zhen's entire body shook. "The moon... is the eyeball?"
"Have you heard a saying that is both romantic and mysterious?" Lin Su said. "In a person's life, close your eyes and open them, and a day has passed. Close your eyes and never open them again, and an entire lifetime has passed."
Sun Zhen murmured, "Close your eyes and never open them again, and a lifetime has passed... what does that have to do with the moon?"
"When the new moon first emerged, Ancestor Wang began growing from an ignorant child. When the moon was full, his cultivation stood at its zenith. As the moon declined from fullness, it perfectly corresponded to the great tribulation of his life. When the moon wiped away its final trace of