The circular platform, covered in countless immortal talismans, passed through the tower's main containment area and continued descending toward the cavern at the bottom of the tower. The cavern was incredibly deep, giving one the illusion that it reached all the way to the planet's core.
Around the platform, streams of light occasionally flashed through the depths of the rough, primitive stone walls. Bright, fleeting arcs of electricity leaped between the jagged stalactites. The farther down they went, the more numerous these streams and arcs became, until they formed continuous "rivers" beneath the earth.
Those light-forged "rivers" flowed out of the rocks and crisscrossed through the air. Their radiance brightened and dimmed, swelling and shrinking like pulsing veins, like the rise and fall of breathing.
Yu Sheng stared in amazement at the magnificent, dreamlike scenery.
The flow and pulsation of the rivers of light were utterly silent, yet he always felt that he could hear those "rivers" conveying some kind of "voice" to him. He watched them, watched the light flickering in his vision, as if he were hearing a thump, thump... like a heartbeat.
Deep, slow, gentle—the heart deep within the planet beat on. That tender heartbeat seemed to be whispering to Yu Sheng, softly telling him—
"It's very healthy."
Yu Sheng suddenly broke the silence and muttered as if talking to himself.
Eileen, sitting on his shoulder, heard him. The little doll looked confused. "Huh? What's very healthy?"
"This planet." Yu Sheng smiled. For some reason, he felt a little happy. A faint sense of delight and pleasure spread from the depths of his heart. It was somewhat like how he had felt the first time he returned to the purified Nightfall Valley and saw the little grass sprouting from the soil. He simply sat cross-legged at the