New Water Cup

Wenren Sheng closed his eyes and carefully sensed that melody.

First, his consciousness followed the melody and sank into the mysterious world.

A cloud of mist appeared before his eyes once more, faintly visible, shifting between illusion and reality.

Looking deeper, he saw galaxies endlessly spinning and moving.

Vast and ethereal, his mind wandered along with the melody.

Then he tried to immerse his body in this world along with the melody as well.

His organs, his cells, every molecule that formed those cells, every atom, every quark...

All tried to merge into the mysterious world.

All tried to break free from the material world.

If he merged completely, would he die? The instant that thought arose, the mysterious melody was cut off.

Wenren Sheng opened his eyes and sighed.

He had failed.

Sure enough, the Etherealization Art was the hardest Defense System skill to learn.

It required one to defy existing knowledge and resist humanity's fear of "nothingness."

Its greatest hurdle was neither technical nor academic, but psychological.

Those born into the material world always found it difficult to understand the concept of nothingness.

This was especially true for Wenren Sheng. He had grown up in two material worlds.

The belief that matter determined consciousness, that matter came first and consciousness second, that death meant total extinction—these ideas had sunk deep into his bones and taken firm root.

In this regard, those Disaster Anomaly Lords surpassed him a hundredfold.

Those creatures had been born in the mysterious world from the very beginning.

They had emerged from nothingness from the very beginning.

They did not fear death as humans did. They feared only one thing—lacking sufficient strength and being doomed to remain miserable students for the rest of their lives.

When they died and were reborn, they were simply born