...It was an extraordinarily magnificent sight.
Day and night rapidly alternated across the sky, coating it in an eternal gray. The sun sped through the heavens, carving continuous streaks of light across that gray expanse.
Natural phenomena such as wind, rain, thunder, lightning, clouds, and mist appeared in an endless, rapid procession, while the surrounding plants grew wildly and withered yellow like a film played in fast-forward.
Death chased life at an unimaginable speed, only to be pursued by new life in turn. Meanwhile, they stood Outside the World like Creators, silently watching the world undergo the passage of ages.
The sun rose and set; the tides swelled and receded.
With a single glance, the surrounding scenery seemed to have spanned ten thousand years.
They saw a Great Flood that washed away everything, and they saw a towering tree whose branches and leaves reached the sky, stretching all the way to the moon. They saw countless figures appear and vanish beside them, and likewise watched seas turn into mulberry fields before their eyes.
In the end, all the scenery around them disappeared, replaced by countless holy radiances. Light Spots of every color ignited and extinguished as they flew toward them, like meteors flying in reverse.
But before they could admire the wondrous sights around them, an immense yet gentle and irresistible force suddenly struck them. In the next instant, they appeared on a grassy field.
Perhaps it had been an illusion, but when that immense force hit, Bai Zhi vaguely saw a whale as enormous as a planet slowly swimming past before them.
—That unstoppable force seemed to have been transmitted by the whale's tail slapping against them.
...Where did that whale 🐋 come from?
Of course, the whale itself did not really matter, but when he had seen it