Before him was a ball of light.
Gu Shen seemed like a fish suspended in the Deep Sea.
It was an unprecedented sensation... his consciousness had been stripped away, existing completely independently in another space.
It was difficult to describe with the word "technology."
It was more like... a miracle.
A great miracle only gods could accomplish had instead been completed by a computer. Gu Shen stretched out his hands, sensing his own "life" on another plane.
Was this... a Transcendent connection?
Ordinary residents of the Five Continents lived in the material world of reality. They had no idea that the Deep Sea also offered a deeper level of Transcendent connection... this place was more like a dream controlled by subjective consciousness.
And the light before him... was the Deep Sea?
Gu Shen reached out to touch the ball of light, but grasped at nothing.
The instant his fingertips made contact, the light scattered like fireflies gathering in the deep night, dispersing at a touch... countless streams of fluorescence flowed backward, forming blurry humanoid shapes that rapidly shifted between tall and short, fat and thin amid the flow of data.
Was the Deep Sea choosing an appearance?
At last, the ball of light settled into the outline of a child.
The child slowly bowed to Gu Shen. "Serial number Z340011240001, welcome to the Deep Water Zone. With the authority granted by your current serial number... only Transcendent Trial testing and the first layer of the Deep Sea are available."
After speaking, the child's image instantly blurred into countless chaotic currents, eventually gathering into a not particularly wide "door" within the floating dreamscape.
Gu Shen carefully observed his surroundings.
Other than the door... there were no other exits. This place was unlike the Deep Sea he had imagined. It seemed that