The bottom of the well was an abyss, and falling from its mouth meant descending into that abyss.
Chang Nian felt the air currents moving. The current rising from below seemed intent on swallowing her whole, yet another current swept down from above as though trying to scoop her up.
The fall was brief, yet it felt endless.
She had no idea how many times her body struck the walls of the well. Supernatural power completely ate away at her exhausted body, burrowing in through her pores.
Even Chang Nian's heart throbbed unnaturally, as though the truth of The End was never hers to uncover, and this fall was a catastrophe she could not possibly endure.
"Pff..."
Her fall ended in something soft, as though she had plunged into a thick pile of hay or been buried in a cloud.
Only when she opened her eyes did she discover that she was completely buried in heaps of severely decomposed flesh.
Blackened, yellowing chunks of meat and all manner of filthy human tissue were piled high. Mosquitoes, flies, and maggots were regular visitors here, crawling and burrowing everywhere.
After her free fall, Chang Nian had become a brick embedded in this mass of rotten flesh. Only her face remained exposed, staring at the filthy, foul maggots and breathing air that should have been putrid.
Yet strangely, although the rotten flesh and scraps had attracted swarms of mosquitoes and flies, they gave off none of the odors that repulsed the living.
It was as though the living could not sense this filth at all. If Chang Nian had not seen the scene with her own eyes, she would truly have thought she was lying in a soft pile of hay.
"Sister Nian... you're down here, right...?"
Hong Fu's voice reached her through