"[Ding! Congratulations, you have cleared the instance—Annual Rings.]"
System prompt sound rang beside Chu Huai Xu's ear.
The symmetrical world beneath the ice lake was filled with contradictions.
Withered trees and new sprouts, youth and white hair.
Death and new life seemed to have been mixed together and displayed at once.
Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang began to welcome "death" at that moment.
Their consciousnesses sank into brief chaos, as though all vitality had vanished and they had truly lost their lives.
The entire world began to turn upside down!
The symmetrical world beneath the ice lake began flipping upward.
The world above the ice lake, meanwhile, gradually shattered as it flipped downward.
As everything beneath the ice lake returned to its proper order, the withered trees that had sprouted new buds rapidly became lush and leafy.
The white hair of the two young men and women vanished just as quickly, turning back into black hair.
"Thump—thump—!"
Their suspended hearts began beating again, faster and more powerfully with every beat!
A few breaths later, Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang abruptly opened their eyes at the same time!
The first thing they did was gasp for breath, as though they had been deprived of oxygen for a long time.
They exchanged a glance, both feeling the strange sensation of having survived a disaster.
It was as though they had just walked through the gates of hell.
At that moment, Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang's appearances had returned to normal.
Yet for some reason, as they looked at each other's youthful faces, their minds still conjured every detail of the other gradually growing old. In a sense, they had lived a "brief lifetime" within the Secret Realm.
Chu Huai Xu's Character Panel had gained 1 point of Comprehension as