I had already reached the bottom of the abyss.
But I couldn't contact Ying Gou.
He did not seem to have come down with me. Or perhaps he had fallen asleep inside my body, likely affected by some sort of technique.
It was still pitch-black here.
It had been the same when Maru and I came before. We had kept walking forward before we saw the light and that sphere.
So I walked forward, continuing onward.
I had no idea how long I walked, but there was not the slightest trace of light.
Panic began to rise in my heart, an inexplicable panic.
I stopped and carefully recalled the process of returning to Guixu this time.
There did not seem to be any problems. Old man Yuan had guided me as before, I had met Mister Return as before, and then I had leaped into the abyss, falling for more than ten minutes just as before.
Nothing had gone wrong, so why did I feel so unsettled?
By all rights, after walking this long, I should have seen light. I should have seen those glowing spheres.
I could only keep moving forward.
At last, I saw a speck of light.
Why was it only a speck? Shouldn't it have been a beam of light? When Time had appeared before, it had been a beam.
Yet now it was just a faint glimmer. The point of light was moving, as though someone were walking ahead of me.
I hurried forward, but after only a few steps, I seemed to trip over something.
I nearly fell flat on my face.
At the same time, I heard a muffled groan. It sounded as though I had tripped over a person.
I quickly crouched down and took out my lighter. As the flame flickered