Although the Grandmaster had been ruthless, he was indeed guiding Adam in the Great Zhou Heavenly Wish-Fulfilling Method.
After a round... of study, Adam's understanding of this great divine art, which expounded the mysteries of all things that "exist," had deepened considerably.
The next day, Adam stayed in his little courtyard with dark circles around his eyes, but he heard his junior brothers on the mountain saying that Wukong had not left his room that day either.
Thinking about it, that made sense. After just learning an Immortal Method for longevity, anyone's first reaction would surely be to devote themselves to cultivation, right?
There were no calendars in the mountains; when the cold ended, one did not know the year. Days of cultivation on Fangcun Mountain always passed so quickly.
Adam tempered his body every day and occasionally meditated upon Zen. When Wukong came to visit him with peaches again in the second year, Adam suddenly realized that an entire year had passed.
"Man's life between Heaven and Earth is like a fleeting white horse passing through a crack, gone in an instant..."
Adam murmured as he looked at the peach in his hand.
As soon as the words left his mouth, the peach slipped from Adam's grasp and fell to the ground. Wukong was just about to reach out and catch it when he discovered that the peach's descent had suddenly sped up.
Wukong:?
Before Wukong could react, the peach that had hit the ground rotted and shriveled in the blink of an eye. A tender sprout pierced through its ruined skin and swiftly grew into a small sapling.
Adam's eyes refocused. He looked silently at the peach blossoms filling the tree before him.
"I heard the Grandmaster say that there is a divine art in this world called