[Year 18,843,517. This time, in order to fully recover—or rather, to completely cure the lingering pain in your divine soul—even with the aid of your many methods, including the Life Dao Patterns, it still took more than three hundred years. Since obtaining the Life Dao Patterns, this was the first time your healing efficiency had been so low.]
[Fortunately, no permanent damage had been caused in the end. The Life Dao Patterns were powerful enough to remain remarkably effective against lingering pain and strange itching. Once your divine soul had mostly recovered, you did not pay attention to the insights that continued to arise from glimpsing the incomplete Evolution of All Things within the River of Time. Instead, you conducted all manner of tests, attempting to determine how your consciousness had directly come into contact with that river.]
[An uncontrollable ability could give rise to countless accidents. If you did not even know its activation conditions, it could cause you enormous trouble in future battles; it was not impossible that it might even cost you your life. Just as before, after learning Yu Yantong's secret—if you had been in the middle of fighting her, and had needed to expend tremendous effort merely to suppress the pain in your divine soul and mind—your combat strength would undoubtedly have been greatly reduced. After all, quite a few of your current Supernatural Powers and Techniques required intense mental focus or consumed Mental Energy.]
[Though you had also collected some precious treasures capable of temporarily restoring Heart Power, now that even the Life Dao Patterns had found healing so difficult, treasures of that grade would be of extremely limited use even if they worked. You could not place your hopes on such things solving the problem completely. Otherwise, if a similar incident occurred while