Rebirth in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong-Chapter 720 - 721: Incomplete Memories (4th update!)

In the blink of an eye, a year had passed since Sun Wukong entered the River of Oblivion. Yama Heavenly Son had been guarding the lookout platform the entire time, without leaving for a single moment.

"Has Wukong found the memories of the Golden Cicada Child yet? It’s already been a year. If this drags on, Tang Seng and his disciples will soon reach Western Heaven Spiritual Mountain!"

Yama Heavenly Son opened his eyes and gazed upon the Blood God Stone, his brows slightly furrowed. The purpose of Sun Wukong obtaining the memories of the Golden Cicada Child was to make Jiang Liuer recall his past life so he could foresee the measures that the likes of Tathagata Buddha would take to snatch the Heavenly Dao Merit and Destiny from them. If they couldn’t obtain the memories before Jiang Liuer and the others reached Spiritual Mountain, it would be pointless to retrieve them later, and they would also miss the crucial hour!

"Thump, thump thump!"

Suddenly, a knocking sound emanated from the Blood God Stone. Yama Heavenly Son’s eyes suddenly widened, and he stood up abruptly from the ground. It had to be Sun Wukong! Sun Wukong must be coming out!

Yama Heavenly Son and Sun Wukong had an agreement long ago, that whenever Sun Wukong wished to leave the River of Oblivion, he would strike the seal at the other side of the entrance using the method Yama Heavenly Son had taught him. By doing so, Yama Heavenly Son would move the Blood God Stone and break the seal to let him out.

Apart from Sun Wukong, no one in the River of Oblivion should know how to knock in that manner. It had to be Sun Wukong coming out!

Without any hesitation, Yama Heavenly Son immediately infused two Dharma Decrees into the Blood God Stone. The stone began to shake violently, and the next moment it shrank rapidly, flying towards Yama Heavenly Son, who caught it in his hand. His figure then soared into the sky, dodging the water from the Oblivion Sea that gushed from the entrance.

Whoosh!

A figure flew out from the entrance of the River of Oblivion—it was Sun Wukong!

The moment he flew out, Sun Wukong immediately turned around and threw the Samsara Stone he held towards the entrance. As soon as the stone left his hand, it grew rapidly in size and precisely sealed the gap, stopping any water from the Oblivion Sea from leaking out.

The entrance of the River of Oblivion was resealed.

"How did it go, Wukong? Did you find the memories of the Golden Cicada Child?"

Yama Heavenly Son flew to Sun Wukong and asked.

"I found them!"

Sun Wukong nodded, but there was a strange expression on his face, a mixture of joy and sorrow, which made Yama Heavenly Son feel an abrupt concern, "What’s wrong? Was there an unexpected problem?"

"Indeed, there was an unexpected problem!"

Sun Wukong smiled bitterly, nodding as he said, "I did find the memories of that life of the Golden Cicada Child, but they have become somewhat fragmented!"

"Fragmented? What happened?"

Yama Heavenly Son was somewhat puzzled, how could the past life memories that reside in the Sea of Oblivion appear fragmented?

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"Devouring memories? There are such creatures in the Sea of Oblivion? How come I never noticed them before?"

Yama Heavenly Son’s mouth fell open in surprise, for it was he who had discovered the Oblivion Space and had transferred the Sea of Oblivion into it.

In the past, the Netherworld, although it was the place where the souls of all beings from the Three Realms continued to exist after death, had its Reincarnation Law in disarray, with ninety percent of the souls unable to reincarnate. They could only choose to devour each other to cultivate in the Nether Ghost Path and become part of the Netherworld Ghost Tribe, or completely disperse into the cosmos.

Later, during the great war between the Witch-Demons, too many souls from the Three Realms had died or been injured, and the Netherworld could not accommodate so many souls. Many souls lingered in the World of the Living, causing an imbalance between yin and yang. Houtu, moved by this scene, transformed into the Six Paths of Reincarnation to restore the Netherworld’s Reincarnation Law to the right path. Yama Heavenly Son went even further to materialize the Six Paths of Reincarnation, creating the Six Paths of Reincarnation Realms.

At that time, the Sea of Oblivion essentially occupied half of the entire Netherworld. After countless souls were obliterated, all their memories filled the Sea of Oblivion, which was greatly harmful to the ghostly bodies of the Netherworld Ghost Tribe. Contact with the waters of the Sea of Oblivion would cause them to corrode into ash.

After discovering the Oblivion Space, Yama Heavenly Son used his great mana to channel the waters of the Sea of Oblivion into that space, and sealed the entrance and exit of the space with the Three-Life Stone. Next to the Three-Life Stone, he constructed the Platform of Homeland Gazing. Those who have passed away could, before their reincarnation, look upon their own past and present memories within the Oblivion Space through the Three-Life Stone, thus fulfilling their last wishes.

Apart from the gap sealed by the Three-Life Stone, the River of Oblivion is the only passageway between the Netherworld and the Sea of Oblivion. However, only memory orbs could enter the Sea of Oblivion through the River of Oblivion, not even soul bodies, let alone physical bodies.

People undergoing reincarnation have to drink the soup of oblivion at the Naihe Bridge, forget the memories of this life, and then they can go on to reincarnate. Those forgotten memories are actually entering the River of Oblivion, turning into memory orbs, and ultimately flowing into the Sea of Oblivion within the Oblivion Space.

Yama Heavenly Son gradually became aware of the issue that only ten lifetimes of memories could be preserved within the Oblivion Space, but he did not know the reason why. After hearing Sun Wukong’s detailed explanation, he finally understood, it was because of the existence of those strange fish that memories beyond ten lifetimes disappeared from the Sea of Oblivion.

"This is actually a good thing!"

After pondering for a moment, Yama Heavenly Son nodded and said, "The reason why the waters of the Sea of Oblivion are so corrosive is that they have preserved too many memories. With these large fish around, the memories in the Sea of Oblivion will not endlessly increase from lifetime to lifetime, always maintaining a certain quantity."

"That’s true, but some of the memories from Golden Cicada Child’s lifetime have already been digested and absorbed by the large fish, and it’s uncertain whether the remaining part is of any use..."

Wukong sighed and continued, he had killed hundreds of those large fish in the Sea of Oblivion just to find the memories of the Golden Cicada Child’s lifetime, but once he found them, he saw that the memories were already incomplete, with nearly half of them absorbed. It was uncertain whether the remaining half contained any memories that Jiang Liu’er could use, or if it had any method for Jiang Liu’er to gain the Merit and Destiny from the Buddhist Sect, that was hard to say!

"Let it be, I have done all that I can; we can only do our humanly best and leave the rest to fate. We will find out if it’s useful once Jiang Liu’er absorbs these memories!"

Fretting wouldn’t solve anything, and Wukong quickly adjusted his mindset, "I will first deliver the Blood God Stone back to the Nether River elder, and then quickly return to the World of the Living."

"Wukong, once the scripture-seeking journey ends and the Heavenly Dao Merit and Destiny descends, your Flower-Fruit Mountain Demon Cult and the Western Heavenly Buddhist Sect will have a complete falling out, and there may be a series of bloody battles! If you need help, just give a word, and I’ll be there straight away!"