Time flew by.
In the blink of an eye, Zhou Yang had been stationed at Haoyang Cave for three years.
Over those three years, he had barely left Haoyang Cave. Aside from his daily cultivation, he either studied the artifact-refining inheritance he had received from the Old Clan Leader, Zhou Minghan, or accompanied his mother, Lin Yuting, to mortal cities to experience the lives of ordinary people.
Lin Yuting was only a few years younger than Zhou Xuanhao. After Zhou Xuanhao achieved Foundation Establishment, it had become impossible for the husband and wife to grow old together. Thus, in the final ten or twenty years of her life, she had chosen not to remain beside her husband at White Sand River Oasis, instead coming to Haoyang Cave to accompany Zhou Yang, her only son.
Zhou Yang actually understood his mother Lin Yuting's thoughts very well. He knew that aside from wanting to make up for the twenty or thirty years they had spent apart as mother and son, she also did not want her husband, who had only just entered middle age, to watch her grow old day by day with his own eyes.
It was not as if he had never fantasized about helping Lin Yuting enter the Foundation Establishment Realm as well. Unfortunately, whenever such a fantasy arose, it was shattered by bloody reality.
Leaving aside the fact that Lin Yuting was nearly a hundred years old and only at Qi Refining Layer Eight, her own gentle and fragile will might not even be enough to pass the Divine Sense Trial.
If it had been his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu instead, Zhou Yang would not have worried about this at all.
It was not impossible to change a person's will, but Lin Yuting clearly had no time left