A year or two, maybe. Three at the most. I know that's longer to a mortal than it is to me, but it won't be your entire life.

[ he says it with confidence, although truthfully hua cheng can't know for sure. he's just estimating based on how long it took them to gain the power and intelligence necessary to defeat white no-face. surely whatever creature has them trapped here can't be that many orders of magnitude stronger than jun wu, because if it was, there would be no need to keep them here and farm them for energy. ]

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