As the sun rose and the moon set, the days went by.
Ever since Bai Yang had comprehended the first character of the Dao Scripture's True God Chapter, he had become much faster at understanding the characters that followed. The first had taken him six days, and the second had taken six days as well. Starting with the third, each additional character took him less time to comprehend.
The third took five and a half days, the fourth five days, and the fifth only four and a half.
However, by the sixth character, he seemed to have entered a steady period. Every character from the sixth through the twentieth took four days. After the twentieth, he accelerated again, and the time needed to comprehend each character shrank rapidly: four days, then three, then two, then one...
From the day Bai Yang began studying the Dao Scripture's characters, three hui passed before he knew it. From then on, he no longer comprehended just one character a day; he began to understand several each day.
Three hui was neither especially long nor especially short. Converted to Earth time, it was about nine months!
Though the time was long, immersed in comprehending the Dao Scripture, Bai Yang hardly felt its passage.
Nor did he devote all his attention to the Dao Scripture during this period, shutting himself away from the world. Whenever he grew tired, he would stop and return to Gourd Valley to spend time with Qing He and the others.
The days went by, and Xiao Lan's belly grew round. Now she was so heavily pregnant that she needed someone to support her even when she walked.
It was worth noting that pregnancy in this world did not last ten hui. Women gave birth sometime between three and four hui, which