"Ugh... my head hurts..."
As his consciousness emerged from chaos into clarity, Lu Li struggled to open his eyes and looked around, trying to determine where he was.
Yet everything before him was a drifting, milky white, with nothing else in sight.
Upon closer inspection, Lu Li realized that the things rolling about like seaweed seemed to be countless fine threads.
He could find neither their beginnings nor their ends. They simply swayed through the space in segments, as if they would continue for thousands upon thousands of years.
"Where... am I?!"
It was the first question that sprang into his mind after he regained the ability to think.
Lu Li instinctively reached out his hands to examine himself while searching his mind for memories that might explain his current predicament.
But the sight that met his eyes left him frozen for a long while, unable to react--
The hands before him were not human hands, but clumps of translucent threads!
"My... my body is gone?"
Lu Li stood there dumbfounded, muttering to himself.
Then, an abnormal sensation suddenly surged through his already throbbing head!
It was as though someone were violently hammering red-hot nails into his skull, the pain nearly making him pass out!
Yet for some reason—whether because of his current unusual state or some other unknown factor—
Lu Li did not lose consciousness again.
Instead, after enduring the pain for some time, he gradually recalled memories that felt both unfamiliar and familiar.
"...Before I passed out, I think I was in the God Realm, observing Black Star's trial?"
"Right... I saw Li Yun punch Black Star half a li away..."
"And then, I met the gaze of Li Yun, that prospective Demon King..."
"He seemed able to see me?"
"Wait, I was just a bystander watching the