The reason he called it impossible to repay was that this act had filled the one remaining gap in his Mortal World Heart Refinement: having no descendants!
As for that whatever-it-was formation drawing away his fortune through backlash, once his strength returned, he could simply sever it and be done!
Why would he need ten years?
But the problem would then become that he was simply accepting favors from the other party!
Yes, accepting favors from his godson!
His godson's fortune filled the heavens, constantly strengthening his own fortune along with it.
Did that mean that in this lifetime... he would owe them more and more?
Yet he could neither refuse nor resist it. Even if he wanted none of it, he had no choice!
With his godson's status established and heaven and earth as witnesses, the boy was effectively a continuation of his own life and bloodline.
For that fortune to nourish him in return was only natural and entirely proper!
But the crux of the problem now was that he had already owed them in his previous life, owed them again in this life, and would keep owing them for the rest of his life.
That amounted to accepting their favors while constantly opposing them and fighting them?!
How could he bear it!
Flood Great Shaman felt that his skin was not that thick yet.
Ten years would be enough for him to adapt to this state, and even cultivate to greater strength. Then he absolutely had to repay all of this, and afterward find a way to sever this karmic bond!
Otherwise...
He would feel uncomfortable even going out to fight. His conscience would trouble him!
At his level, how could favors and karma be so easily accepted? So easily severed?
And these were critical factors that