The vast starry sky lay wholly exposed before Ji An's eyes. This was a boundless world, and he was so very small.
The laws of physics from Earth seemed not to apply here. Light traveled in an exceedingly strange manner; the boundary between light and darkness was starkly visible.
It was as though an invisible force controlled everything, forming fixed passageways.
Ji An immediately sensed a feeling unlike being within a world, as if he had shed a thick fur coat. Both his body and Nascent Soul felt utterly relaxed.
But cold swiftly spread over him. The pores of his skin began to contract, yet he could still feel the chill seeping into his body from outside, like cold knives scraping his bones.
He could not help but feel shaken. His body-tempering cultivation had already reached the Ninth Layer Nascent Soul, yet he still could not endure the cold emanating from the starry sky.
His previous world had the concept of absolute zero, a lower limit to temperature. But this world was different. In theory, temperatures could rise infinitely high or fall infinitely low.
Moreover, Ji An found that even his Nascent Soul, which had always withstood cold, could not bear the chill reaching Guanghan Palace. A thin layer of frost formed across the palace's surface.
The Upper Dantian was in poor condition, and the Middle Dantian was no better. A layer of silver silently crept over the surface of the qi-blood inner core.
The Primordial Life Fire in the Lower Dantian flickered. No frost formed here, but the flames had visibly shrunk by a full circle.
The Green Lotus Heart-Burning Fire showed it even more clearly, its flames weakened by half, while the Nether Bone Fire burned considerably brighter.
None of this could be felt before passing through the