Wang Wei did not hesitate to walk on this endless path. The first thing he noticed was his vision was useless, and he was not only referring to his [Existence Sight]. All his normal and extraordinary senses were useless as he only saw an endless darkness and a bit of light that was barely enough to show the path.
"Is Ti useless here?" Wang Wei talked to himself. "No, useless, but stretched out and distorted. A single second in this place might feel like billions of Yuan Epochs."
Wang Wei walked forward, talking to himself to distract his mind. Although he did not mind the solitude, this approach was an excellent way to ensure his mind remained sharp for the duration of this Ti Washing Tribulation. However, Wang Wei soon noticed an anomaly.
"My mory is eroding," Wang Wei muttered. His mories were not disappearing but fading; in other words, their effects on his personality and being were slowly being stripped away. "If I let it happen, my personality will forever change into Heaven knows what."
Now he knew the problem, Wang Wei set out to solve them. Instead of talking to himself, he started reviewing his mories from his ti on Earth to his reincarnation; he did not miss a single mory, even indulging himself in the happier and more exciting ones. This thod proved effective as Wang Wei quelled the fading, but that was only for a mont.
The interesting thing about ti is it can change anything. After indulging in his mories over and over, Wang Wei soon felt the process was aningless. It did not matter how many tis he relived his sexy ti with his wife after doing it more than a million tis; the process inevitably beca boring and a chore.
"It's fine if it's a chore. I can just consider it like a job back on Earth," Wang Wei muttered. He repeated this tedious task over and over without an end. It did not matter whether billions, trillions, or quintillions of yuan epochs had passed; he reviewed his mories and preserved his personality, ambitions, love, and everything else he held dear.
Before this test, Wang Wei could have proudly said his mind was harder than steel, and he had long conquered the negative emotions known as loneliness; he could even push himself and said he did so with the Pagoda Trial. However, this tribulation showed an even more horrifying level: loneliness with boringness.
It was difficult to describe the pain of repeating the sa task without stopping for infinity. At many points, he felt he was just a robot whose sole purpose was to repeat these tasks. He almost believed his free will and agency were non-existent, and his sole purpose in this world was to do this task. Such a thought induced trendous fear in a man who pursued absolute freedom.
The good news is he survived and held on to his humanity. He preserved his mories, personality, and all his dreams and ambitions. Additionally, there was an additional benefit: he had learned a new form of torture. In the future, when he ets powerful Inextinguishable Paragons who do an excellent job protecting their tiline, he'll torture them with his own version of this tribulation to break their willpower.
Wang Wei continued walking forward; he had long lost hope of seeing the light at the end of this path. He could not distract himself from his task, and he had to prevent the task from consuming him. With all these things on his plate, he abandoned looking ahead to see if he was close to the exit.
Luckily, he did since this tribulation had just started. When Ti failed to erode his mories, it did not give up. Instead, it targeted sothing else — his emotions. One of Wang Wei's core personality is his love for his sect and all its people. He considered them his people and thus had so level of affection for everyone — including the lowest of maids.
The tribulation started with these people. When reviewing his mories, Wang Wei had subtly beco indifferent to these people, and he did not even notice it. In his mind, these people beco nothing but aids, and their importance to him or the world in general was so small that it made them insignificant. He convinced himself it was more than enough that he rembered their faces and nas.
Once he beca indifferent to these "minor individuals," Ti beca bolder and more potent, targeting the people he already hated or indifferent to — like his grandfather, Yu Yong. Then, without knowing it, Wang Wei no longer cared about his enemies that did not have a great impact on his life or that he respected.
The next target was people he loved but mostly respected because they were his elders. There has always been a seniority and power dynamic between him and these people, forming a barrier that prevented Wang Wei from forming deep bonds with them. These people included Origin One, Sword One, and his forr Dao Protector Yan Chen.
Wang Wei's view on these people slowly changed to appreciation and care for their years of dedication to the sect and the protection they provided to his growth to being indifferent to their presence. In his mind, they were people of different worlds. He would never et these people again in his life, and even if they did, the difference between them would be so vast that it was impossible to have any aningful relationship, so it was pointless to be attached to their existence.
Wang Wei was in a weird situation. His eyes indicated he was reminiscing deeply about his past and everything he's experienced. Simultaneously, his eyes showed no affection for these mories. On the contrary, his eyes beco colder with each passing mont.
The next thing he lost was not his enemies/competitors, with whom he had a slight friendship developed out of respect. No, the next target were people whom he respected trendously as elders and had a deep bond with; to be precise, he lost his feelings for Ancestor Wucheng.
Wang Wei was walking aimlessly like a zombie, reviewing the ti when Wucheng sacrificed his life to protect him. However, he felt nothing, except maybe Wucheng was doing his job as a Dao Protector. His sacrifice guaranteed the sect an era of prosperity, unlike anything the lower dinsion had ever seen.
Wang Wei was about to move on when he paused. "Sothing is wrong," he said in a hoarse voice; he sounded as if he had spent too long not talking and no longer knew how. He reviewed the mory again, but he could tell what was wrong; he was far too gone and could not tell.
However, Wang Wei did not give up and chose to listen to his intuition. Since Wucheng was the source of this anomaly, he chose to review all the mories associated with him. And out of pure logic, he realized what was wrong.
'He is supposed to be my favorite ancestor, but I don't feel anything for him," Wang Wei muttered. "Now that I think about it, I also don't feel much about the other ancestors. These people have been instruntal to my success, but how I feel about them seems ungrateful beyond words could describe.'
That's when it dawned on him — he was losing his emotions. Wang Wei did not hesitate to sit down and enter a deep ditative state, reviewing his mories for the umpteenth ti, focusing on the emotions associated. He was imdiately scared of how cold and indifferent he had beco. The worst part was the loud voice in the back of his mind telling him it was alright if he remained like that.
'If I can lose my feelings for Ancestor Wucheng, I can lose the ones for my mother, father, and even Wu Hong,' Wang Wei thought to quiet the damn voice. 'Plus, how dare a re tribulation dictate how I feel? How dare it try to mold into sothing I'm not?'
Wang Wei's rebellious nature derived from his obsession to be free was instantly aroused, quieting all doubts or suggestive murmurs in his mind. He focuses intently, slowly regaining all his lost emotions and even intensifying so. Although Wang Wei did not cultivate Six Emotions Seven Desire Dao, he had the Soul Dao, which also involved Emotion Manipulation.
When Wang Wei opened his eyes, he imdiately discovered the surroundings were brighter than before. Additionally, he saw an illusory door in the distance, presumably the exit. He calmly walked toward it while remaining on guard.
He had read countless records about the Ti Washing Tribulation, and he knew much. Most people will face a similar tribulation to what he did, with minor variations. However, things will beco different once the exit shows up. This part of the test has more room for variations, and it's when the unexpected could occur.
'I hope nothing too bad,' Wang Wei thought. He had reached the point in his life where he must expect the unexpected; he expects things to go wrong. So, he can only hope whatever is coming is not too bad.
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