Chapter 2: The Descent
Consciousness flickered but for an instant.
Chen Yi's mind was groggy as he felt his soul plummeting.
It was a strange sensation.
First, he walked atop the water's surface, then, as if responding to a call, he immersed himself into the water and traveled from the world he knew to another.
Chen Yi barely opened his eyes, staring around at pitch darkness, seeing nothing.
The water seemed to separate two worlds; the world he left had light, while the world he was entering was one of Chaos and pitch darkness, where all things known to man had not yet been born.
From all directions, endless and viscous darkness surrounded Chen Yi.
Chen Yi's limbs were submerged in the pitch darkness.
Darkness, still boundless and pitch, devoid of even the slightest emotion, an absolute, rational darkness.
Not even the word "Abyss" sufficed to compare with it.
A darkness without any impurity, as if thick black holes were everywhere, deep and profound, somber and sullen, without wind, without stir, nothing but silent and lonely death.