Out in the wilderness.
The night lay deep as water. A bright moon rose in the west, slowly slid across the heavens, then gradually sank toward the east.
As the moon sank eastward, the sky grew brighter.
Far away in the eastern sky, a streak of fish-belly white appeared.
Just then.
Inside the dim cavern.
It's here!
Jiang Ning, who sat cross-legged like a statue, suddenly felt his heart jolt.
He sensed a sudden transformation within his Spirit Platform.
The Primordial Chaos Egg, wrapped in dense profound yin-yang light and slowly revolving, abruptly stopped turning.
Then an indescribable throbbing came from the deepest reaches of the Dao embryo.
It was as though a deity asleep for countless ages had opened its eyes, or the first heartbeat had sounded at the dawn of chaos.
Deep and immense, it carried the boundless power to bring all things into being.
Thump-
Thump-
Thump-
Every heartbeat, every pulse, made the blood and qi throughout his body resonate.
His blood surged like a great river bursting its banks, his bones hummed like clashing gold and jade, his organs shook, and all his meridians trembled.
His entire body quivered slightly with this heartbeat that arose from the very source of his soul.
Inside the cavern, golden light and purple qi spilled uncontrollably from his pores, weaving together and bathing the stone walls in shimmering colors.
The surface of the underground river beneath him rippled in fine concentric circles under that invisible rhythm.
Within the sea of consciousness in his Spirit Platform, wind and clouds were already surging.
The profound yin-yang light that had wrapped the Dao embryo suddenly blazed to its utmost intensity.
Black and white light whirled madly, colliding and merging into a vast, rapidly spinning vortex of light.
At its center, fine, cobweb-like cracks